Because he participated in the rescue of a light female passenger by the river late at night, these days, the 45-year-old Yang Qi "caught fire", several newspapers and television stations reported the matter, but Yang Qi was not happy at all, and he was still troubled by a false complaint without evidence.
Yang Qi is a taxi driver at Wuhan Huachang Taxi Co., Ltd. At 00:21 on April 7, a woman in a pink sweatshirt on the side of the road reached out to stop the car.
"By the river at the gate." The female passenger never spoke again. It was raining lightly, and Yang Qi found that the passenger did not have an umbrella or an umbrella. Through the rearview mirror, he saw the other party leaning back on the back seat, his eyes looking desolate and hollow, as if he had a heavy heart.
Yang Qi was a little uneasy. He tried to talk to the woman for a few words, but the other party did not talk. Approaching the destination, Yang Qi asked where to go to the riverside. The woman said, let's go to the Yangtze River Bridge.
A turn, the car arrived, the meter showed 32 yuan, the woman took out a 100 yuan bill, did not wait for Yang Qi to find change, the other party dropped a sentence "no need to look", opened the door and got off the car.
After driving a taxi for 6 years, so much change, Yang Qi is still the first time to encounter. Thinking of the series of abnormal actions of the woman from the car, he felt more and more that something was wrong. Yang Qi got out of the car and shouted, "Wait a minute, are you okay?" What happened? The woman said, "Thank you, thank you!" No more. He didn't turn his head back, dragging his legs and walking toward the river step by step.
The rain was still falling, Yang Qi asked a few more questions, and the other party still did not answer. She was not fast and wobbly. An ominous premonition struck: Is this man looking for a short-sightedness?
Yang Qi became alert, and he quietly crossed the road behind the woman while searching around to see if anyone could help. It happened that an armed police officer guarding the bridge patrolling at night passed by, and Yang Qi called the other side down.
Yang Qi dialed 110 while chasing the woman with the armed police fighters. Two young men fishing next to them also noticed an anomaly and rushed to the scene. The phone had not yet hung up, the woman had already descended into the river, and Yang Qi shouted "Don't do stupid things."
On a rainy night, the wind and waves on the river surface are also great. Seeing that she was already two or three meters away from the shore, "If there is another big wave coming, it will be over." The four of them couldn't swim, so they grabbed their fishing rods and reached out to her, working together to "pull" her to the shore little by little. When she was a little closer to the shore, Yang Qi and everyone went down into the water again, the river water was very cold, and soon it did not pass his calf, and everyone worked together to pull the woman to the shore.
The woman choked on the water, some breathless, the armed police soldiers helped her pat her back, spit out the river water; Yang Qi asked her where she was, what happened, the woman cried and coughed, only said "life is better than death", other unwilling to say more.
At this time, the police and ambulance arrived. The woman was taken to an ambulance, and Yang Qi exchanged phone numbers with the police.
Yang Qi has been working the night shift, going to work at 4:30 p.m. every day and leaving at 3 a.m. the next day. On this day, he came home from work, lying in bed and unable to sleep, "always thinking about how she was doing after she arrived at the hospital, why she should do stupid things."
The next morning, he called the police twice and learned that the woman was unharmed under observation at the hospital and had been discharged herself. He worried about the female passenger, "Last year, after experiencing the epidemic, so the difficulties have survived, and everyone should cherish life more." He hoped that she would "turn a corner in her heart."
When he participated in the rescue, he took several small videos and later uploaded them to the video social platform. Some netizens questioned why he still took a video to save people. Yang Qi said: "The passenger came to the river in my car, and I wanted to save her, but I was afraid of being misunderstood." ”
Afterwards, he reported the rescue to the company. The company believes that he did it right and was an example for other drivers.
In fact, a week before the rescue, Yang Qi just experienced a complaint. Deng Hongbo, field manager of the sixth branch of Huachang Rental Company, introduced that the Wuhan mayor's hotline transferred complaints from citizens, saying that Yang Qi was driving and smoking and insulting passengers. The company took the relevant time period monitoring and did not find the above situation. Deng Hongbo repeatedly contacted the complainant to further verify, but the other party never answered the phone.
"It's a bit embarrassing." Mentioning this, Yang Qi smiled and spoke in a faint tone. He said that if he encounters someone who takes his own life again, he will still stand up, "but when helping others, you must also protect yourself."
He always remembered lu Xun's "visitor" that he had read when he was a child, "People should not be too indifferent to each other." A life may disappear before our eyes, and we cannot watch it. He mentioned that during the epidemic, medical staff from all over the country came to support Wuhan, so many ordinary people donated vegetables and materials, "everyone helps each other, and the difficulties will always pass."
The news of Yang Qi's rescue was reported by the media, and the eldest daughter Lulu saw the news and knew that her father had saved people. She praised her father's enthusiasm and "didn't surprise me."
Lulu said that her father is a veteran and a party member; since she can remember, her father has loved to help people: the old man who lives alone next door has a problem with the wireless network, and he knows that it will be repaired; during the epidemic, the family is in honghu hometown, and dad has been volunteering in the community for a whole month, going out before 8 o'clock every morning and coming home at 10 o'clock at night.
Colleagues also praised him. "Yang Qi has always been like this, warm-hearted and fast-hearted, with a kind heart." Deng Hongbo remembers that in the Spring Festival of 2020, Yang Qi, who was far away in Honghu Lake, called for the first time to register and asked to return to Wuhan as a volunteer to participate in the delivery of medical care or epidemic prevention materials. Considering that the city was locked down, he politely refused Yang Qi's kindness, and later, Yang Qi volunteered in his hometown.
Life goes on as usual. These days, Yang Qi has always been worried, is the situation of the rescued female passenger still good? There is also 68 yuan more than the fare, but I can't find her.
China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Zhu Juanjuan Source: China Youth Daily ( 2021-04-19 06 edition)
Source: China Youth Daily