"I don't want my kids anymore"
"Don't throw it, I'll come right away"
This is one of 100 children adopted by Tong Fokker.
In 2019, the number of Chinese workers miscarriages reached 9.762 million, an increase of 22,000 cases over 2018, and the number of abortions worldwide reached 50 million.
Such a huge number is actually true.
If you don't have any concept of these numbers, in other words:
Almost every second an innocent child dies.
What is even more tragic is that their parents did not want them to come to this world to see, but a 54-year-old ordinary migrant worker in Vietnam raised more than 100 children, not only that, but also personally erected a monument for 20,000 babies, and his dearest wife regarded him as a "madman".
01
This migrant worker, named Tong Fook, is a native of Nha Trang, Vietnam, and he was once just an ordinary migrant worker, and the reason why he became the father of more than 100 children was because his wife was pregnant and had a maternity check.
One day in 2001, Tong's wife found out she was pregnant, it was their first child, and from that day on, Tong Falk was going to be a father.
Unexpectedly, when he came to the hospital to accompany his wife for a maternity examination, Tong Fuke noticed other pregnant women. The women went to another room after the obstetric examination, but the strange thing was that these people did not look like they were pregnant after they came out, and they did not see the child.
After a long time, Tong Falk learned that the room was the place for these women to have abortions, and the aborted babies would be burned like medical waste.
What Tong Fuke could not accept was that once on the way home from the obstetric examination with his wife, he found a dead fetus, which was thrown under the tree by his parents, and the passers-by next to him did not seem to see it.
Faced with this scene, Tong Falk was shocked.
Even if the child's parents did not like him, even if he did not have the right to live, was there not even a place to put the body?
They were once a living being, but now they are discarded like garbage.
I can't help but think, how can there be so many cruel people? Unable to accept it, Tong Falk decided to take the child home.
Although the baby came to this world for a very short time, Tong Fuke was very gentle with him, and also gave him a bath very intimately, and then found a cemetery and buried the child.
"Sleep, child, there will be no pain in heaven"
02
Before that, Tong Fuke was just a most ordinary construction worker, he usually only took some repair houses in the village, plastered cement to support his family, never asked for great wealth, never asked for anything extravagant.
Before his wife became pregnant, his greatest wish was to take care of his little family, and after having children, he was willing to give more, only to wish that their mother and son would be safe, but now he decided to do something for these poor children.
Since then, Tong Fuke has been at the hospital gate whenever he has the opportunity, and after discovering that a pregnant woman has come to perform abortions, he will constantly beg the doctor to let him take the children who have passed away.
At first, the hospital felt very strange about this person's request, afraid that he would do something bad with these babies, but after a long period of understanding, it was found that Tong Falk was not a bad person.
Doctors have also asked Tong Falk, why do you do this? And what do you want to do with these babies?
And Tong Fuke's answer to him was:
I just want to bury them in a home, they are orphans, not sinners, and they are not garbage.
These words deeply touched the doctors, who seemed to be the most ordinary middle-aged man, but had such a great idea. After observing for a while, it was decided to hand over the fetus to him.
After follow-up observation, it was found that Tong Fuke had been silently keeping his promise and personally made a tombstone for each departing fetus.
Since then, there seems to be an unspoken agreement between the hospital and Tong Fuke, every day after work, Tong Fuke will come to the hospital door, waiting for the doctor's call, to take away the fetus that died today.
One day, two days, one month, three months, one year...
As time passed day by day, Tong Fuke still insisted silently, and more and more tombstones he personally built.
In 2004, Tong Fuke used the money his family saved to buy a vacant land in front of the mountain in Nha Trang and decided to bury more unfortunately deceased fetuses here.
The children did not yet have names, and some of them were not even humanoid, but Tong Fuke had arranged their serial numbers and dates to commemorate them.
But such a good deed, persistence also takes time and money.
The major hospitals know that More and more babies have been sent after Tong Fuke's good deeds, but Tong Fuke is just an ordinary migrant worker, and the money saved over the years has been used up, so how can the next life continue?
Will those children continue to find their own little home?
03
At first, Tong Fuke's kindness made his wife very moved, but for a long time, her wife thought he was "crazy".
Not only the wife, but also the whole village felt that Tong Fuke was a strange person:
"How much money can you earn as a migrant worker?" Is it hard to expect you to save the world? ”
In the face of everyone's doubts, Tong Fuke never argued anything, he only replied with a sentence of "I don't want to give up this wish".
Maybe in the eyes of everyone, he is very crazy and stupid, doing things that no one else will do.
But despite this, Tong Falk insisted, he gave each child a name, and built a "small family" for them.
Although he did not have extra money, Tong Fuke's handiwork was very good, and the tombstones of each fetus were built by himself with wood he found.
Gradually, Tong Fuke became a topic of conversation in the nearby village, and his incident was also known to more people, and it also attracted a group of caring people, more and more people applied to volunteer to provide him with materials, flowers, and candles.
Looking at this dense tombstone, I believe that no one can leave plainly.
These children also had the opportunity to grow up, but they were forced to leave before they had fully entered the world.
Before that, none of them had ever imagined that every day so many little lives were leaving.
04
And Tong Fuke not only personally buried a lot of babies, but also changed the minds of many parents.
When he was burying his 247th child, he was contacted by a schoolgirl.
"Hello, is it Mr. Tong Falk?" Did you bury my child yesterday? ”
According to the agreement, Tong Fuke took the student to her child's grave.
Looking at this female student, stroking the name on the tombstone with her slender fingers, the look of regret and helplessness made Tong Fuke have other ideas.
If it's just burying these children, how can he save lives?
He needed to do more, so Tong Falk decided to do more for the children, even to provide a chance to "live".
Let those parents who have given up on their children come here to see, maybe this place can touch them and make them change their decisions.
And after several years of acts of kindness, Tong Falk found that many parents gave up their children, most of them because they were poor, thinking that they could not raise their children well, so they had to give up.
Since they gave up on their children, why can't they raise them yourself?
After consulting with his wife, Tong Falk decided to take the children home.
Tong Fuke did not want to truly put these children under his own name, but wanted to help their parents take care of them. I hope that when parents have better conditions and life, they can come back and take their children and live well with their children.
Sure enough, with the help of Tong Fuke's persuasion, many young mothers were willing to choose to keep these children.
One, two, three...
More and more children are helping to take care of, raising 10 children at the same time at the busiest time.
Due to the increasing number of children, Tong Falk could not recognize them, so he named all the boys "Vinh", which means honor, and the girls "Tam", which means heart.
In addition, the name of each child is followed by the name of the mother, in order to wait for the mother to come and pick up the children to come home.
But the reality is always cruel, these years are some parents to send their children home, but few will take the children away, more and more children, he can only take the children in a small room, read and play together.
05
But Tong Fuke's economic conditions were really limited, and his meager salary could not support this huge family.
In the face of so many children to raise, Tong Fuke has never given up, because in front of his children, he is just an ordinary father.
He often told himself that no matter how difficult it was, he had to hold on, and he could save one by one.
Over the next 20 years, Tong Fuke raised his children and built three oversized cemeteries, which already had more than 20,000 small graves.
In addition to taking care of the children who are alive, he regularly takes the children to clean these small cemeteries.
Because those lost lives should not be forgotten.
Over time, Tong Falk's deeds spread more and more, and more and more visitors came to the family, including poor workers, women abandoned by their husbands, and even many young girls who could not think of it.
Whenever this happened, Tong Fuke would invite them to walk around the cemetery, looking at the small tombstones that spread over the mountains, and no one could leave the place calmly.
Under the pieces of tombstones, they were once a living little life, but now they can only lie here forever.
It is also such a move that has changed the hearts of many young mothers.
At the same time, more caring people were touched by Tong Fuke's behavior, sent a lot of things that the children needed, and some people were willing to come to their homes to help more than 100 children do what they could.
Looking at the supplies and books that kept coming in front of him, Tong Fuke shed tears happily.
Tong Fuke has never given up for so many years, and he has never regretted it, he hopes that all children can grow up healthy and healthy, and those children who are buried hope that someone will always remember them.
More than 20 years have passed, and the children he adopted and cared for have slowly grown up, and his body has gradually weakened due to age.
Now he rarely builds cemeteries for those babies, and rarely takes children, but gives these to the younger generation, hoping that these children will also be able to persist in these unrequited efforts.
One of Tong's biggest wishes is to lose his job, because that means no babies need to be buried.
So even when he leaves, there will be no regrets.