In the small village of Yunyang in Chongqing, there is a special family surnamed Peng, and the villagers respect his family and even take detours.
Because the Peng family has three "potted dolls", the villagers feel unlucky.
The three sisters of the Peng family often fractured their bones, and when they grew up, all of them had deformed bones, and the villagers called them "porcelain dolls" or "potted dolls".
The mother reluctantly risked conceiving another child, and the fourth daughter born to wan was in good health.
However, in order to support his family, his father accidentally fell and was seriously injured.
The eldest daughter, Peng Yan, was born in 1987, and now her height is only about 70 centimeters and her weight is about 12.5 kilograms.
The second daughter, Peng Jiangqiu, was born in 1990, with a height of about 80 centimeters and a weight of about 25 kilograms.
The third daughter, Peng Jiangdan, born in 1993, is similar in height to the second sister and weighs about 22.5 kilograms.
Their mother, Jiang Yanlan, is no different from other rural women, planting crops every day to supplement the family.
Their father, Peng Boxiang, was a barber in the village who sometimes traveled from place to place.
The income from the haircut is not high, and the couple has no family background, and the family can only barely survive.
So the question is, why did this couple, who had been farming for generations and made a living from their husbands' haircuts, take a huge risk and choose to give birth to a sick child?
Don't they know that their children's diseases are most likely inherited from them?
In fact, as early as the eldest daughter Peng Yan was one year old, the signs of osteogenesis insufficiency had been exposed.
At first, Jiang Yanlan and his wife did not know that their daughter would actually suffer from this disease.
Osteogenesis is underdeveloped, and the genetic probability is almost one in 100,000, which is difficult for even experienced doctors to determine.
Not to mention how they had seen the world at the beginning, and the husband and wife who had stayed in Xiaozhai Village along the Deer Town in Yunyang for half a lifetime.
The small village where Jiang Yanlan lives is about a dozen miles away from the county seat, and every time her daughter is sent to the hospital after a fracture, she has to go to great pains.
The eldest daughter, Peng Yan, suffered her first fracture when she was more than one year old, and the couple regarded this incident as an accident.
Jiang Yanlan believes that he did not supplement calcium in time when she was pregnant, and the nutrition did not keep up after the birth of the child, so she walked and fell on her head.
However, in less than a month, Peng Yan fractured one after another, and the couple realized the seriousness of the situation.
The doctors in the township knew that Peng Yan was a congenital disease brought about by heredity, so they had to break and connect the place where Peng Yan was fractured.
Peng Yan, who has suffered this great sin since childhood, is still just a child who learns to speak, but she has to endure the pain of illness that is different from ordinary people.
As more and more fractures were found on the body, Peng Yan's body slowly became alienated, but Peng Yan's other organs were developing normally.
In the process of Peng Yan's growth, her limbs were like dry branches, but her head was developing normally, and it seemed that the proportions were extremely incongruous.
But for such a sick child with serious physical defects, her mother Jiang Yanlan did not give up on nurturing and took good care of her.
At first, Jiang Yanlan took the illness of her first child as an accident, thinking that she had not raised a good fetus.
When asking around why Peng Yan had this difficult disease, everyone said that it was because the fetus lacked calcium in the mother's body.
The lack of this nutrient has led to the incomplete development of the eldest daughter Peng Yan in the fetus, and her physical condition is different from ordinary people.
Therefore, Jiang Yanlan always felt guilty about her eldest son Peng Yanhuai, believing that it was caused by her lack of peace of mind to raise a fetus.
In order to have a healthy child, Jiang Yanlan became pregnant again when her eldest daughter Peng Yan was two years old.
For this pregnancy, Jiang Yanlan is very concerned, in Xiaozhai Village, she often goes to the county hospital to do color ultrasound.
Jiang Yanlan, who was looking for a relationship around, learned that her second daughter Peng Jiangqiu was developing normally after the obstetric examination, and she was overjoyed for a while.
With the lessons of the eldest daughter, Jiang Yanlan has been careful to install a tire at home, and the family is looking forward to the child falling to the ground.
A few years after the birth of the second daughter Peng Jiangqiu, there was indeed no situation similar to the frequent fractures of the eldest daughter Peng Yan.
Although intermittent fractures have occasionally occurred, the severity of the disease is much easier than Peng Yan's.
By the time he was more than a year old, although Peng Jiangqiu had some stumbles, he was still able to walk normally.
Such a beautiful situation lasted until Peng Jiangqiu was 6 years old.
When the family thought that Peng Yan's encounter would not happen to the next child, fate made a huge joke.
When Peng Jiangqiu was 6 years old, on a dusk near the rain, when the family urged Peng Jiangqiu to hurry home, an accident occurred.
Peng Jiangqiu, 6, suddenly ran a few steps at a rapid pace, and accidentally fell and fell on a muddy country road.
At first, the family didn't care much, and it was common for children to stumble.
Grandpa saw his granddaughter lying on the ground and unable to stand up, and frightened, he hurried over to check what was wrong with Peng Jiangqiu.
Since then, the second daughter Peng Jiangqiu, like the eldest son Peng Yan, has stagnated in the development of her body at the age of 6.
Three years after Peng Jiangqiu was born, when the family thought that the disease would no longer envelop them, their mother Jiang Yanlan became pregnant again.
This pregnancy, Jiang Yanlan successfully gave birth to her third daughter Peng Jiangdan.
The situation of the third daughter Peng Jiangdan is similar to that of the eldest sister Peng Yan, who is prone to fractures from an early age, osteogenesis is underdeveloped, and there are many diseases and disasters.
All three daughters have this symptom, and her mother, Jiang Yanlan, is extremely reluctant to accept that this is a problem caused by her own genetics.
So why risk giving birth to a fourth daughter after knowing from the doctor that it was a genetic problem in his own family?
At that time, in order to support a family of four, her husband Peng Boxiang had already gotten up early and was busy every day in the dark.
His wife, Jiang Yanlan, was pregnant again at this time, and she was hesitant to risk giving birth to this child again.
Just when Jiang Yanlan was still thinking about whether to end her pregnancy, her husband Peng Boxiang suddenly had an accident.
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It turned out that with three sick children who often fractured their bones, the medical expenses were not a small expense, and it was extremely difficult to support three daughters.
Peng Boxiang, who has no family background, has some meager income from haircuts in the village, but for the heavy family burden, it is obviously impossible to make ends meet.
Most of the villagers who cut their hair in the village are convenient and can't make much money.
Therefore, when the business is not good, Peng Boxiang needs to do some manual work in nearby villages, towns and counties to supplement his family.
As a hairdresser, Peng Boxiang does not have a fixed place to cut his hair, and he occasionally returns home when he is away.
Just when Peng Boxiang was out to save money for others to repair the house, he accidentally fell from the third floor.
Although Peng Boxiang saved his life, he fell into a serious concussion and his internal organs were damaged to varying degrees.
After abdominal surgery at the county hospital, Peng Boxiang rested at home for a while before his body slowly healed.
In order to operate on her husband Peng Boxiang, the family almost exhausted all their savings.
And after Peng Boxiang recovered from serious injuries, the fall brought him permanent sequelae.
Peng Boxiang can no longer engage in complicated manual labor, and some heavy work in daily life must rely on the help of outsiders.
His maximum load-bearing limit is three bricks, which can only last for 5 minutes, otherwise it will cause serious damage.
After the top pillar of the family fell, the Life of the Peng family deteriorated.
Faced with such a situation, the family pinned their hopes on Jiang Yanlan's fourth daughter, who had not yet been born.
The family desperately needs a normal workforce to take care of a whole bunch of affairs in the housekeeper.
Of course, Jiang Yanlan also thought that this child, like his three sisters, would be born with osteogenic hypoplasia.
But for the Peng family at that time, one more osteogenic and underdeveloped child would eventually have one more mouth to eat, and how bad could the situation be?
Now that the family is surrounded by walls, giving birth to this child will not get worse.
But if it is a healthy child, the situation is completely different, and Jiang Yanlan can go out to work and maintain the family's livelihood.
In a rural family that lacked labor at that time, if it did not have children, the end of the family could be imagined.
So with one in ten thousand hopes, Jiang Yanlan hoped that heaven would be able to take care of her once this time.
The three sisters are also very concerned about the children in the belly of their mother Jiang Yanlan, and they do not want their tragedy to be staged again.
With a feeling of anxiety, Jiang Yanlan's fourth daughter was born.
This time, the family finally got what they wanted, and the fourth daughter was a healthy baby girl with no genetic disease.
When the fourth daughter was one year old, her arm suddenly dislocated one day, and the family seemed to be in great trouble.
The three sisters and Jiang Yanlan were both scared to death, worried that the child had the same symptoms as the three sisters.
Not far from their home, there is a Guanyin temple in Xiaozhai Village, and the three sisters eat the remaining popsicles as lucky sticks.
Write words of blessing and prayer on it, hoping that Guanyin across the window sill can protect their sister.
After surviving this illness without any danger, the fourth sister in the family grew up slowly without illness or disaster.
So, what about the fate of the family after giving birth to a healthy baby girl?
When the eldest sister Peng Yan recalled that she had to fracture her bones once a month on average for more than twenty years, she shed bitter tears.
Peng Yan also said that every month she could clearly hear the sound of a broken bone in one of her bodies.
Although the voice was very slight, it really happened to her, and the pain of tearing her heart and lungs could only be endured silently.
Their bones are like twist flowers or porcelain, and if they are not careful, they will break, so they will be called "porcelain dolls".
Although Yunyang is in the south, it is in a small village in a remote mountainous area, and the temperature occasionally drops below zero in winter, and sometimes frosts in the morning and evening.
In the face of such weather, the three sisters could not even cover a thick quilt.
Because the quilt cover is thick, it is easy to compress the bone, resulting in fractures or dislocations.
And they can't turn over when they sleep, and the subconscious action will break the fragile bones.
If they are asleep and do not pay attention, they will be awakened by the pain of fractures and will not be able to sleep all night.
After the fracture, in the face of the pain of the drill heart, they do not dare to cry loudly, because crying will also cause fractures.
So they face the pain, and only cry little by little, so that they can barely vent.
Every day after getting up, the quilt folding also needs to be done by the three sisters.
The weight of a quilt is already the limit for them.
The fourth sister was about three years old, and she was able to help her mother Jiang Yanlan take care of her three sisters.
The four sisters would comb their hair, bring tea and water, take a bath and wash their clothes, and feed them.
When the fourth sister is a little older and has the ability to take care of herself, she can still hold her sisters and walk around.
Unlike other children's childhoods, the fourth sister has been helping the family since she can remember, helping to take care of the three sisters.
And she never complained, thinking that if she could do more, her mother would not be so tired.
Jiang Yanlan waited until she no longer needed herself at home, and when the fourth daughter could help Peng Boxiang handle the housework, she went to the county seat.
In Yunyang County, Jiang Yanlan worked as a nanny, helping to take care of children at her employer's home.
The mother gave up four children in need of care and came to someone else's home to make ends meet.
Jiang Yanlan works outside the home, on the one hand, to earn living expenses for the family, on the other hand, to be able to earn the tuition of her fourth daughter.
The three sisters who were bone-forming and underdeveloped could not enter the school at the same age as the four sisters.
In the eyes of the three sisters, the four sisters are all the hopes of their family, carrying all the dreams of the three sisters.
When the three sisters are at home, they will also teach themselves Chinese characters, and they will carefully read word by word in front of the subtitles under the TV screen.
They did not give up on themselves because of their fate, and even after years of suffering, they were still optimistic.
Although they could not receive a formal education in school, the three sisters were not sad, and they found it interesting to learn Chinese characters on TV.
In 2014, the Peng family's cousin gave the three sisters a mobile phone, which gave the three sisters new hope for their lives.
The three sisters just started to download some apps through their mobile phones, and each successful download can earn 1 cent.
Or they can play as a companion in some simple card game, and they can earn 3 yuan per hour.
Later, they found that they could obtain traffic by applying for an account, and then transferred the traffic account to netizens at a low price.
In this way, this seemingly inconspicuous few dollars or even a few cents carries the dreams of the three people.
After two years of savings, they finally saved enough money to buy a computer.
After purchasing the computer, the three sisters can know what is happening in the outside world without leaving home.
And through the Internet, they also found out that the disease they suffered from was called "osteogenesis hypoplasia".
They also learned that the condition is not unique to them, and that there are many similar cases in the country.
In 2020, the Three Sisters also asked the news media for help by sending emails.
Later, they also appeared on TV shows such as "Departure to Happiness" and "When Happiness Comes Knocking".
The Yunyang County government has also paid attention to the current situation of the three sisters in Xiaozhai Village, and gives the three sisters a subsidy of more than 1,000 yuan every month.
And in today's hot era of short video platforms, the three sisters also supplement their families through live streaming with goods.
They registered an account on Kuaishou, named "Meixiang Cold Go", and most of the things they sold were local twist flowers and peach cakes in Yunyang, which were local specialties of Yunyang County.
For the questions of various fans on the Internet, the three sisters are also very patient to answer.
When asked if they wanted to marry in the future, the three sisters all gave a negative answer, and they all said that they did not want to drag others down.
The three sisters, who only want to live quietly, are not willing to disclose the names of their four sisters on the live broadcast platform.
They want to protect their sisters and rely on their own efforts to supplement the family.
At the same time, volunteers are also in action, and in the Spring Festival of 2022, the volunteer army came to the door again and sent them New Year blessings and some daily necessities and food.
The volunteers learned that the online fans of the three sisters of the Peng family have now reached hundreds of thousands, and the monthly live broadcast income has been about 5,000 yuan, generally in cooperation with food companies in townships and counties.
These companies often give them bonuses and condolences, and life at home is much better than before.
The three sisters of the Peng family also said that some well-wishers had previously bought their cross-stitch works for 30,000 yuan, and also said that they would sponsor them to open an online store.
Between the words, they are full of expectations for the future.
Life cannot be predicted, the end cannot be changed, life is a whip, and every day is spurred.
I sincerely wish that the life of the Peng family can get better and better!
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