Henan Daily rural edition reporter Qin Mingfang correspondent Wang Zhankun Hao Xueru
Guo Yongwei is a native of Zhaozhuang Village, Rengu Town, Tangyin County. In 2006, 24-year-old Guo Yongwei was injured in an accident while working, resulting in high paraplegia. When the illness was still torturing him, his wife, who had been married for half a year, left him, and the blows of life came one after another, which once made him lose confidence in life and want to find a place to hide.
But in the end, he was born strong and did not become depressed. "I'm not willing to lie in bed doing nothing, I have to find something to do, and I must not let my life be wasted." 」 Guo Yongwei read "How Steel is Made" brought by his neighbor, read it over and over more than a dozen times, and he found the strength of struggle and hope in the protagonist Paul Kochagin. Then he read "Notre Dame de Paris" and "Les Misérables" and other famous books. "In the process of reading, I had the desire to express myself, and I wanted to write my own books, encouraging myself and inspiring others." Guo Yongwei said.
Guo Yongwei only has a primary school education level, and writing books is not easy for him. He didn't have enough knowledge, he didn't have the writing skills, and sometimes he couldn't write a word for days.
On July 19, Guo Yongwei told reporters in a calm tone: "It took 4 years from the beginning of writing to the completion of the manuscript. You can only write when lying on your side, but in order to prevent long bedsores, you can't lie on your side for a long time, and you can't stand the cervical spine for a long time. ”
Watching him lie on his side on the bed, "scratching" the words on his mobile phone with an inflexible finger holding a pen shaft wrapped in copper wire, you can imagine how many difficulties these 180,000 words have to overcome to write. "This pen is his homemade. At first, the writing he wrote was very unusual, and after a while his hands began to tremble and he could not write. Later, he got a pen holder to point at the mobile phone, and the pen was clipped in the seam of his fingers, although slow, but it was written..." Guo Yongwei's mother, Niu Baoqin, said bitterly.
180,000 words, the words are sweat, the words are painstaking efforts, and the words are Guo Yongwei's cry to fight against bad luck. In the four seasons of the year, only in winter, Guo Yongwei's body can write, in spring and autumn he needs exercise and rehabilitation, and the humidity in summer makes his mind groggy, and he is in a comatose state for two or three months.
When he had the inspiration, Guo Yongwei wrote it into his mobile phone with a copper wire pen, like writing a text message. At that time, the memory of the mobile phone was very limited, and he then had to copy it into the notebook. The process of copying is also the process of revision, and after the modification is completed, he will use both hands to hold the bamboo pole and slowly knock the manuscript into the computer little by little. "The bamboo poles my son uses are polished." Niu Baoqin said with tears in her eyes. Guo Yongwei's manuscripts have accumulated a thick pile and are collected by his mother in a cardboard box.
Guo Yongwei's family is a poor household with a record of lika. In 2016, Fu Baoan, director of the Rengu Town Civil Affairs Office, came to his house to help, found that his bedside was placed on the homework book of primary school students, which was densely packed with words, and after reading a paragraph, he knew that Guo Yongwei was writing a novel. Guo Yongwei's strong will and the words in the novel deeply touched Fu Baoan. Since then, Guo Yongwei's deeds have been recited in the town and he has been called "Inspirational Brother" by his neighbors.
The first manuscript, Guo Yongwei, wrote 100,000 words and took almost two years. "When I revised, I found that there were many places where these 100,000 words were not well written, so I overturned the manuscript and started writing again." Guo Yongwei, who strives for excellence, focused on reading and carefully studying writing methods, and spent two more years to expand the first draft of 100,000 words to 180,000 words.
In 2018, Guo Yongwei's novel "Escape" was published on a small scale. When he got the book he wrote, Guo Yongwei was much calmer. In his words, the name of the book "Escape" is not really to flee, but to warn yourself that you cannot be a fugitive of fate and live strongly.
Guo Yongwei has been rated by the town, county and city as the town's "self-improvement model", "Yuexiang model Tangyin model", "moving Anyang • 2018 poverty alleviation annual person". In 2020, he was named a model of self-improvement in the province.
In 2020, with the help and assistance of the party's poverty alleviation policy, the whole family of 3 successfully achieved poverty alleviation at the end of the year, with a per capita net income of 7100 yuan. In the future life, Guo Yongwei is full of confidence: "The party's poverty alleviation policy has lifted our whole family out of poverty, I want to continue to read, continue to create, so that my life will not leave regrets, and I will not be left behind on the road of moderate prosperity." ”
(Editor: Lao Qin)