In 2000, a boy was born in a poor village in the Dabie Mountains, which is the second child of the Wang family, and his father was very happy to hold this newborn boy, and named him Wang Chengcai, hoping that he would become a pillar and shine on the lintel when he grew up.
Wang Chengcai has an older sister named Wang Qian, and this year, Wang Qian was four years old. The arrival of the younger brother added infinite joy to the family, but at that time, the whole family did not think that this boy who looked healthy and strong was actually a cerebral palsy patient, and he could not honor his ancestors, but brought more hardships and hardships to the already poor family.
Worse
For her sister Wang Qian, childhood is always inseparable from the word poverty, and the village where Wang Qian was born is geographically remote and very isolated.
Her father was in his thirties, still playing with bare sticks, because the family was poor, he could not marry his daughter-in-law at all, and her grandmother went around helping her father to kiss, but how could an ordinary girl be willing to marry into the mountains and suffer?
At this time, there was also a girl in the same village who could not marry out, and this girl was mentally handicapped and was not normal from birth. In desperation, the two families discussed and decided to let Wang Qian's father, a bare stick who could not marry a daughter-in-law, marry this stupid girl who was also difficult to marry, and a somewhat bitter marriage was completed.
A year after marriage, Wang Qian was born, she was a healthy child, and did not inherit the mother's intellectual defects, clever and clever, so that the father looked very happy, but the father was not happy for long.
Despite his poverty, the father still has a strong patriarchal mentality in his bones, and after holding his daughter happily for a while, the father is worried again, because he does not have a son, and in the father's heart, only the son can support the family business.
Therefore, in Wang Qian's memory, her father was very cold to herself and loved to answer, while her mother did not know anything, and she did not even know that the little girl in front of her was her own daughter.
The only person who was slightly better for Wang Qian in the family was the elderly grandmother, but the grandmother was not in good health, and before her brother was born, the grandmother died, and Wang Qian became more lonely, and she knew that at this time her mother was pregnant again. She hoped that this was a younger brother, because it would make her father happier and better for herself and her mother.
Pregnant in October, once in childbirth, finally, Wang Qian's mother gave birth to a boy, and her father's face finally had joy.
But the arrival of a new life means that the family's economic pressure is greater, the father has no stable source of income, the main job is to go up the mountain to cut moso bamboo, and then sell it to the town, from morning to night, so the family's affairs can only be handed over to wang Qian, who is only four years old, to take care of.
On the one hand, she had to take care of her mother with intellectual disabilities, and on the other hand, she had to take care of her brother who had just been born, she was only four years old, and she had already lived like an adult, at that time Wang Qian looked forward to her brother growing up quickly, because her father often told her that as long as her brother grew up, everything in the family would be fine.
But just when his younger brother Wang Chengcai was five months old, disaster struck again. That day, Wang Qian hugged her brother and coaxed him to sleep, but the child did not sleep, wow wow crying, Wang Qian did not understand, did not know what happened, and thought that her brother was hungry, so she went to cook him rice paste.
However, when Wang Qian took the rice paste to feed her brother, she found that her brother's throat was crying and dumb. As soon as she touched it, she found that her brother did not know when he had a high fever, his whole body was so hot that she was frightened, and even forgot to wear his shoes, so she quickly went out and knocked on the neighbor's door, asked them to help, and sent her brother to the hospital.
With the help of several neighbors, Wang Chengcai was taken to the hospital, and at the same time, his father was called back from the mountains.
After a check-up, the doctor told them a very heavy news, fever is not a big problem, but the doctor accidentally found that the child inherited the mother's mental retardation, he is not a healthy child, is a child with cerebral palsy.
When my father heard this news, it was as if he had been struck by lightning, and he suddenly fell to the ground, muttering in his mouth: "It's over, it's over..."
That year, Wang Qian's father was no longer young, and he was afraid that it would be difficult for him to have a third child. Therefore, Wang Qian's father's first reaction was to ruin his family and also to cure his son's illness.
But the doctor told him that if he wanted to cure the disease, he would need a sky-high medical fee, not to mention their poor family, even the middle class in the city might not be able to afford such a price.
When the father heard this, he was even more devastated, and he desperately begged the doctor to think of a way, but the child's mental retardation was innate, and the doctor had nothing to do. Moreover, even if Wang Qian's father really went home to smash pots and sell iron, the hope of being able to cure this disease was very slim, and after listening to the doctor's words, Wang Qian's father was very helpless and had to return home with two children.
After returning home, her father did not say a word, Wang Qian was frightened, and did not dare to get closer, she could only hold her brother and sit on the edge of the bed, Wang Qian did not know what her brother inherited an intellectual disability meant to their family, only that from then on, her father was more reticent.
In the past, although his father did not like Wang Qian, he liked his brother very much, and he had to hug Wang Chengcai even when he was tired when he returned home, but now, his father seemed to be invisible to the two children, and he went out to work silently every day and came home very late.
Her father's mood was very desperate, Wang Qian's heart was actually very depressed, she was just a young child, how could she solve the problem in front of her? She could only try to follow her father as much as possible, not to provoke him to be angry, and to continue to take care of her mother and brother as before.
It wasn't until she was six years old that Wang Qian finally became a little happier, because this year, her father decided to send her to the primary school in the village. Originally, Wang Qian had no hope of going to school, because with their family's conditions, they could only afford to provide for one student, and if the younger brother was a child with normal intelligence, the younger brother must be the younger brother.
But apparently, the younger brother was hopeless now, so the father thought about it and decided to let his mentally normal daughter go to school.
Going to school is The happiest thing for Wang Qian, although after going to school, Wang Qian's life is even busier, because even if she becomes a primary school student, her mother and brother are still waiting for her to take care of her.
So she had to get up in the early hours of the morning every day to make food for her mother and brother, and then she hurried from the mountain road to the school with her school bag on her back, spending two hours a day on the road alone.
In the schools in the town, the children's families are actually not rich, but because they are far away, most of their parents will give them a few dollars so that they can come back in the car so that they will not suffer on the road.
But Wang Qian looked at her classmates sitting in the car, only daring to envy, her family, there is no extra money, Wang Qian knows that she can come to school, it is already a blessing in misfortune.
In school, Wang Qian is the hardest student, every exam can be the top three in the class, the teacher is distressed about this girl, but also likes, encourage her to study well, in the future as long as she goes to college, everything is easy to say.
Wang Qian was also looking forward to being able to enter a good university, so she studied harder, but after she finished junior high school, her father and some relatives at home called her and solemnly told her: I hope she can go to a vocational college.
Pillars of the home
Wang Qian was splashed with cold water on the head, with her grades can be admitted to key high schools, why go to vocational colleges? But everyone persuaded her word by word, because now her family is poor, and she urgently needs someone to come out and earn money, and her father's body can't support it for long, and in the future, when her father is old, the burden of this family will eventually fall on Wang Qian's shoulders.
And at that time, the father had concerns in his heart, he was afraid that his daughter went to a university in a big city, and he would not want to go home to take care of his brother in the future, so he would rather his daughter attend a vocational high school in the local area.
What her father thought in her heart, Wang Qian knew, but looking at the family's four walls of home, thinking about the experience of her family, she knew that this responsibility she had to shoulder, so she forcibly held back tears and nodded her head, giving up the opportunity to study in key high schools.
Under the advice of relatives, Wang Qian came to a vocational school in Hefei, although it was only a secondary school, the atmosphere in the school was not bad, and the classmates and Wang Qian got along very happily.
Sometimes looking at the carefree life of the students, Wang Qian will be envious in the eyes, on the weekend, the classmates can go out to play, but Wang Qian never dares to play, she found herself three or four part-time jobs, from morning to night, while taking care of academics, on the one hand, but also constantly send money to the family.
The younger brother grew up day by day, and the cost was much larger than the day, and what was worse was that when Wang Qian was studying in the second grade of secondary school, her father was bedridden because of lumbar spine problems, and after the doctor's examination, he made a diagnosis, saying that his father could no longer engage in high-intensity physical work in the future.
That is to say, the family originally only had two economic resources, father and Wang Qian, and now the father has also fallen, and the whole family can only rely on Wang Qian to support herself, which was Wang Qian's most desperate period of time, she is even an underage student, how to support the family's food, clothing, and housing?
She hid in the toilet of the dormitory building and cried several times, when she was most desperate, she even hid a fruit knife in the drawer, thinking that if it really didn't work, it would be a hundred, but every time she had suicidal thoughts, she couldn't help but think of her mother and brother at home, after all, it was a relative, she had taken care of people for more than ten years, how could she say that she abandoned it?
So Wang Qian still gritted her teeth and endured, she found more part-time jobs for herself, she was eager to even compress the time to sleep, during that time, she did not even dare to think about what the future would be, she could only think that staying up for a day was a day, earning enough money for a day, and their family could live for a while.
After graduation, Wang Qian came to a clothing store to do sales, she is smart and diligent, so she quickly turned from an intern to a regular, and even the basic salary commission can earn more than five thousand yuan every month, which is a huge amount of money for Wang Qian, who has been poor for twenty years, and she now has a stable salary, and the situation of the whole family is much better.
His father could not work, Wang Qian let him take care of his mother and brother at home, on the one hand, he did sales in the clothing store, and then went to set up a stall at night, although the days were still tight, but in any case, compared to the days when he ate and did not eat in the past, it was already heaven.
At that time, Wang Qian was very happy in her heart, she felt that God was finally a little better for herself, thinking that as long as she did a good job, one day she would be able to bring the whole family out of the quagmire.
But no matter how strong Wang Qian was, she would never be able to overcome her brother's natural physical defects.
In 2017, Wang Qian was working overtime in the store, and suddenly received a call from her father, who said that her brother Wang Chengcai had fainted at home again, and her father was overwhelmed, so Wang Qian hurried home to take a look.
Wang Qian was anxious as soon as she heard it, because of cerebral palsy, her brother's physical condition has been unstable, and she has fainted several times before, which brings not only intellectual disability, but also makes Wang Chengcai's life in danger at any time.
It was precisely because she was worried about this problem that Wang Qian was so desperate to save money, even if something happened to her brother one day, she didn't even have an emergency money in her hand. Moreover, every weekend, Wang Qian rushed home to check on her brother's condition, but even if she was so careful and caring, there was still an accident.
When Wang Qian hurried home, her brother was already lying on the bed, unconscious.
Wang Qian was in a hurry and wanted to find someone to borrow a car and take her brother to the hospital in the city, but at that time it was already dark, the mountain road was not easy to walk, and no one dared to go.
Wang Qian had no choice but to grit her teeth and carry her brother up, and then tied her brother to her back with a rope, and then she took her brother one foot deep and one foot shallow to walk through the mountain road for more than ten miles, which finally stopped a taxi.
However, after sending people to the hospital, as soon as the doctor saw Wang Chengcai's situation, he shook his head at Wang Qian and said to Wang Qian: It is better to give up, Wang Chengcai's situation is very difficult to cure!
To tell the truth, with Wang Chengcai's illness, it is already a miracle of miracles that he can live to this age. But even if the doctor desperately rescued Wang Chengcai this time, his condition would only get worse and worse every day.
Many patients have come to this step, the family has long given up, even the doctors have said so, Wang Qian's heart has fallen into a long entanglement.
In her brother's current situation, even if she gave up immediately, no one would say anything about her, after all, over the years, as a sister, she really had a heart and lungs for her brother, and she was completely benevolent and righteous.
But looking at her brother who was dying on the hospital bed, Wang Qian felt reluctant to do so, that in the end it was her relatives, and even letting her brother live was the life goal that Wang Qian had been supporting for all these years. Therefore, Wang Qian could not say the two words of abandonment no matter what.
In the end, she still cried and begged the doctor to save her brother, the doctor was helpless, had to promise Wang Qian to try her best, fortunately, after a few days of rescue in the hospital, Wang Qian's brother finally woke up, but the brother was seriously ill this time, and Wang Qian's savings over the past few years were spent clean.
Wang Qian did not think much about money, the money can be earned again, but the situation of the younger brother really makes Wang Qian worried, if the younger brother faints again, he really can't be saved, the mother does not understand anything, although the father is at home to take care of the younger brother, but in fact, many times the father is not at all concerned about this kind of thing.
Wang Qian thought about it and felt that she should still take her brother and parents to her side, and only then could she be relieved to see it with her own eyes. So after her brother was discharged from the hospital, Wang Qian rented a slightly larger house and took the family to the city.
Wang Qian originally thought that the family had arrived in the city, and if there was any emergency situation, she could handle it, and no matter how her father was, she could always take care of her wife and children. But after receiving the city, her father became more of a treasurer, and his father said to Wang Qian: She is old and has no way to take care of people, and since she has taken over her mother and brother, it should be her responsibility.
Never give up
When Wang Qian, who always had a good temper, heard her father's words, she really couldn't help but feel aggrieved in her heart and quarreled with her father a few times. But the quarrel could not solve the problem at all, and the father did not enter the oil and salt.
Every day when Wang Qian returned home at noon, all she saw was a scene of chaos in the home, sometimes her mother and brother were full of excrement, and her father did not deal with it.
Wang Qian was helpless, or she still had to take over this job of taking care of people, every morning at four or five o'clock, Wang Qian had to get up to make meals for her mother and brother, and she only had an hour and a half to rest at noon, but she also had to rush home, otherwise she didn't know what chaos was going to make at home.
When she returned in the evening, Wang Qian was exhausted, but she had to wait for her mother and brother to sleep first before she could sleep.
And the father saw that his daughter could take care of his wife and son, but he wanted to hide from the purity, so he found a reason to say that he wanted to go back to his hometown to recuperate, and since then, in addition to asking for money, he rarely came to the city, Wang Qian was helpless, but he could only face the reality.
Her brother grew up day by day, according to age, his brother was already an adult, but his intelligence was still like a three-year-old child, he could only say a few simple words, and he could only reluctantly recognize Wang Qian as his sister.
Most of the time, the younger brother behaved very disobediently, when he was angry, he would throw things around the house, and when his temper came up, he refused to eat, and Wang Qian had to coax him over and over again.
Once, a colleague went to Wang Qian's house to get something, saw Wang Qian tirelessly coaxing her brother to eat, and felt that her life was too bitter, so he advised her in private shortly after that, so she might as well send her brother to a place like a welfare home.
In this way, although she still has to spend a lot of money every month, at least she can relax herself.
In fact, this idea Wang Qian is not untouched, as early as when she graduated, some classmates advised her, with her brother's situation, it is better to find a place to foster, she can not take care of her brother like this for a lifetime.
But children with cerebral palsy are difficult to take care of, not only intellectual defects, but also sometimes the younger brother will make a big fuss, the emotions are out of control, Wang Qian can't hold him, as a sister, Wang Qian is sometimes in despair, not to mention strangers?
So although this idea came up several times, in the end Wang Qian still felt that she could not do this, and her brother was also her own brother no matter what, and she had taken care of him for so many years, so she would continue to take care of him.
Wang Qian's brother's condition did not improve much, and sometimes in the middle of the night his brother would make trouble, and once, at night, Wang Qian fell asleep, and the younger brother somehow opened the door by himself, almost ran out, and ran away.
This matter made Wang Qian's heart palpitate, during the day she can take care of her brother, neighbors can also help take care of it, but at night everyone is asleep, who can take care of it?
Wang Qian thought about it, merged her bedroom with her brother, and every night, she held her brother to sleep, just like when she was a child, perhaps with the company of her sister, her brother was at ease, so she rarely made trouble at night.
When Wang Qian was idle, he had to keep an eye on his brother, he was like a child, sometimes he was depressed, sitting stupidly, sometimes he was extra excited, only a few times, he would behave normally, quietly follow his sister, watching her sister do things. Over the years, Wang Qian has been accustomed to such a day, she is a sister, but in fact more like "mother".
Over the years, someone has also introduced Wang Qian to a partner and asked her to go on a blind date. After all, she is still young, born in 96, she is only 26 years old, not to mention that she looks good, people are also practical, although the family is difficult, but if you really want to find a partner, you can always find it.
But Wang Qian refused the offer, and when the reporter came to interview her, she said: Her family is already very difficult, there is no need to drag another person.
In 26 years of life, Wang Qian has almost never experienced a happy and relaxed life, but even in a desperate situation, Wang Qian still strives to find hope, and at the head of her bed is placed a thick pile of materials, which are the teaching aids of the teacher's qualification certificate.
Wang Qian's dream since she was a child is to be a teacher, because when she was young, she had to walk a long mountain road to go to school, so she always hoped that there would be a primary school in the village, and if there was a primary school in the village, she hoped that she could be a teacher in the primary school. However, because of the burden of her family, she never had the courage to chase her dreams.
However, she still did not give up, or worked hard to pass the teacher's qualification certificate. She told reporters that she would take care of her brother and mother for a lifetime, and if one day her relatives were gone, she would drop everything she had in the city, go back to the village, and be a teacher seriously.
Although his brother's mental disability is difficult to recover, there are also some gratifying changes, such as now he can walk on his own and does not need his sister to help, although it is only a small change, but in Wang Qian's heart, this is already a rare happy event in the family.
Perhaps under Wang Qian's efforts, one day life will become better, and heaven will also take care of this poor and strong girl.