In the 2010 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the host Dong Qing was almost in tears when introducing a middle-aged female model, and his words were almost choked up, and after introducing the deeds of this moral model, the scene was also a warm applause.
This female model is not amazing, dressed simply, her speech is simple, and her expression is even a little cramped.
What exactly did she do to make the well-informed host cry on the spot? Can more than a billion viewers across the country admire her so much?
In fact, she was just a nanny, a twin sister and mother. Her name is also very common, her name is Li Zeying.
Her fate with her twin sisters came from a day more than thirty years ago.
The encounter of fate: the sister from the mountain and the abandoned sisters
One afternoon, Zhuo Zunqin, a nurse at the hospital, went to work in the ward as usual, passing through the corridor and being attracted by a cotton wrapper that appeared under the chair.
Opening the package, Zhuo Zunqin was surprised, and a newborn baby girl lay there quietly, and the child was not in a very good state. Apparently, this is an abandoned baby who was abandoned because of illness.
In the face of the poor child who was tragically abandoned at birth, Zhuo Zunqin, who had been married for many years, was heartbroken, and at this time, a colleague rushed over with another baby girl who had been picked up not far away.
The two children looked exactly like each other, and used the same packages and straps, which was obviously a pair of twin sisters who had been abandoned at the same time.
Two weeks later, the abandoned baby has recovered its health after treatment, and after several twists and turns, the two children are adopted by the kind Zhuo Zunqin and her husband, the husband and wife are busy with work, and the children always have to be taken care of.
Li Zeying appeared, she was the nanny hired by Zhuo Qin and his wife to take care of the twins, how could she know when she was a teenager, this encounter changed her life.
Li Zeying was born in the remote and poor countryside of Guizhou, his parents were the most ordinary farmers, following the rules, honestly doing their duty, doing the work of cutting food in the field, and living a life of stretching.
Li Zeying, the fifth child in the family, dropped out of elementary school and went home to work as a farmer. In addition to helping her parents do farm work, she also had to take care of her younger siblings at home, several of whom grew up on her back, and she had a simple love for children.
Life is difficult, but the family is harmonious, honest parents have subtly affected Li Zeying.
"We have no culture in the mountains, but we must treat people with sincerity." Mom, no matter how much money you can earn, she wants you to be honest and worthy of your conscience. ”
It is precisely because of the influence of his parents in childhood and the experience of taking care of his sister since childhood, Li Zeying, who first arrived at the Zhuo family, is a good nanny.
She is industrious, capable, not afraid of hardship, not calculating, and is wholeheartedly devoted to her two children. Zhuo Zunqin and his wife are very busy at work, often not at home, it is Li Zeying who is taking care of the family, and even the two children are brought up by Li Zeying.
Life is comfortable and peaceful, time is very fast, and in the blink of an eye, a few years have passed, Li Zeying and the twins have been in love with their own sisters.
A big choice in life: don't be afraid, your mother is not there and your sister
Flat ground storm.
In 1997, Zhuo Zunqin's husband was laid off, and soon after, the husband and wife divorced. The failure of the marriage dealt a heavy blow to Zhuo Zunqin, and she soon became addicted to playing mahjong. No intention of working, let alone taking care of children?
The two children did not know what was happening at home, but they always habitually surrounded Li Zeying, because they knew that the nanny sister was the most trustworthy person and would definitely protect them.
The change of Zhuo Zunqin's family has left Li Zeying without a salary for several months, but she does not plan to leave the Zhuo family, Aunt Zhuo is very kind to her, she cannot walk away at the most difficult time in this family, the two sisters need her.
But just when she did not abandon, Zhuo Zunqin ran away from home, and Li Zeying, who heard the news, was like a thunderbolt, and her first reaction was to find someone, but after a few days, she could not find Zhuo Zunqin, nor could she find relatives and friends who could take in the twins.
The harsh reality is in front of us, 20-year-old Li Zeying must make a major life choice: give up the child and leave easily? Or carry two children who have nothing to do with themselves on their shoulders.
She's only 20 years old, she hasn't found a boyfriend yet, she's going to get married and have her own kids... There are too many good reasons to choose the former, but there is only one choice for the latter, that is, the words of "honesty" that my mother told me when I first walked out of the mountain.
Li Zeying, who only had primary school knowledge, did not think too many tall words, she took the twins who were crying and looking for their mother into her arms, wiped away the tears on their faces, and said to the two children word by word:
"Mother is gone, and sister, don't be afraid, sister will never leave you."
It's a simple sentence and a solemn promise made by a 20-year-old nanny sister to her 4-year-old sisters.
Li Zeying said this, and in fact did the same.
She took her twins to rent a simple house of 20 square meters in the suburbs, found a domestic job of her own, and began to work alone to raise the twins.
The hardships of life can be imagined
The income from domestic work is only 300 yuan a month, and only 100 yuan is left with living expenses after rent. Li Zeying can eat leftovers picked up from the market every meal, but the two children are growing up, and she can't let the children eat as badly as she does.
So Li Zeying found a job as a waiter in the bar, working two jobs a day, leaving work at two o'clock in the morning, walking for an hour home, and getting up at five o'clock in the morning to do housekeeping.
This intense work lasted for two years. She was tired, but she never regretted it, watching the twins grow taller day by day, circling her sweetly calling "sister", Li Zeying felt very satisfied, and all the hard work she paid was worth it.
In 2000, with the enthusiastic help of the workers, the twins became new students of Guiwu Primary School, and after the school learned of the twins' situation, they waived the children's fees. Li Zeying thanked the well-wishers, but insisted on refusing financial help from others. She said:
"Life is difficult, and since I chose to do this, I will definitely bring up my two children with my own efforts."
Warm home: Have a pair of arms and shoulder the responsibility with you
Li Zeying had a hard time relaxing a little from the pressure of raising a child alone, but she had to face another problem in life---- marriage.
In her hometown, the 22-year-old girl has long been married or even a mother, but Li Zeying does not even have a man around.
It is not that there is no suitable person to like, in reality, which man can accept her "marrying her sister" condition? Who else would insist like her on the back of two unrelated "burdens"?
Because of these practical reasons, Li Zeying has suffered several failures in love, and she is a little discouraged. Feeling her low mood, the sensible twins blamed themselves because they dragged their sister down from getting married. But Li Zeying said to them:
"Even if your sister doesn't marry for the rest of her life, she won't leave you behind, and my sister will always accompany you."
Heaven is very fair, and good people have good rewards after all. Just when Li Zeying had no hope for her love life, her "destined person" Shanshan came.
Liu Yi, a young man who also works in the hotel, fell in love with this kind and down-to-earth good girl, and the most rare thing is that when he learned about Li Zeying and the twins, Liu Yi was not scared away.
After serious consideration, Liu Yi proposed to Li Zeying, and he was willing to start a family with her and shoulder the burden of raising twins together.
The honest and honest Liu Yi is not good at talking, let alone coaxing people, but he has a kind heart, and this is what Li Zeying wants most. Two ordinary young people are achieving great love in the world with a little bit of ordinaryness.
In the New Year of 2003, Li Zeying and Liu Yi got married, and after ten years, the twins once again had a complete home. After marriage, the little couple wanted to work hard together, like swallows building a nest to add bricks and tiles to this small family.
The twins are very well-behaved and sensible, always trying their best to help with housework, both of them are excellent students in school, often praised by teachers, and do not have to worry about Li Zeying at all.
At the end of the year, the daughters of Li Zeying and Liu Yi were born and named Jiaxi. The twins are extremely fond of the baby, often Li Zeying left delicious food for the twins, turned his head and was taken by the twins to Jiaxi, and then Liu Yi went to buy a copy for the twins.
The family of five lived a plain and fulfilling life, with less meat in the bowl, but more laughter in the house.
There is no beginning, and there is an end. It is not difficult to do good for a while, but it is too difficult to do good in a lifetime. People with simple hearts and persistent personalities are more likely to do good things for a long time, and to achieve a beginning and an end.
Fast forward to 2009, Li Zeying was selected as a national model of honesty and trustworthiness, and the next year he was selected as a national moral model and invited to participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, so there was the opening scene.
The Tao is the world, and the virtue is thousands of miles. Overnight, Li Zeying's touching deeds spread throughout the country, and various honors poured in. But for Li Zeying, everything has not changed, she is still the simple girl who came out of the mountains, and she still remembers her mother's advice to "be honest".
She refused the financial assistance of many enthusiastic people, and only when faced with the adoption opportunity with good conditions, Li Zeying was moved, because the adopter planned for the child to study abroad, which Li Zeying could not give to the child.
But this rare opportunity was resolutely rejected by the twins, because they were reluctant to leave the nanny sister and this warm home.
The return of love: it is a sister, but also a mother
In 2012, the twin sisters were admitted to the university at the same time and became college students, and Li Zeying cried with joy. Raising twins alone for 14 years, Li Zeying's promise to the child was still in his ears, but people were already full of vicissitudes.
She has fulfilled her promise with 14 years of hardship and no regrets, and she is not ashamed.
On May 14, 2017, Mother's Day, Li Zeying received two messages in a row, which were Mother's Day greetings from her twin sisters:
"You are our biological mother, you care for our growth with great love, and cultivate us to become talents." You are the best mom in the world! ”
Li Zeying, who has been a mother for many years, read the message, as if for the first time in her life, she was called a mother by a child, excited and in tears.
She is the nanny sister of the twins and the mother who raised them.
It doesn't matter what you call it, what matters is that this great love that has lasted for many years has finally traveled through a long time, walked through countless human tragedies and joys, deeply rooted in the hearts of twins and more people, and bloomed a beautiful flower of human nature