Zhu Ling's farewell ceremony was scheduled for 12 noon on December 24, which is a relatively warm time of the day. And the day she left coincided with the winter solstice, the longest night in the Northern Hemisphere.
We recorded a few moments when family and friends said goodbye to Zhu Ling — the father pressed his forehead against hers with a smile on his face, and the mother wore a sweater and plastic slippers as she watched her daughter go away on a cold night.
We will continue to pay attention to Zhu Ling's case. Like all netizens who pay attention to Zhu Ling's case, we hope to see the truth one day to comfort Zhu Ling's short life.
At Zhu Ling's farewell ceremony, our editorial department collectively sent a wreath and couplets to Zhu Ling:
"Zhu Yan is in a catastrophe, which is suffocating, and the mystery of the year is recalled;
The talented woman is fragrant, and the world laments, and the fate of this life is difficult to peace."
Goodbye, Zhu Ling, you have fought the most difficult battle in your life.
Wentu丨Gao Min
Editor丨Sydney King
The tubes were removed from Zhu Ling's body one by one, and the last one to be removed was the one that connected the neck and the ventilator. Her trachea has not been closed since the incision in 2011, so she has not spoken again, and the wound has been inflamed for a long time. This is the first time that Tsinghua student Zhao Ting (pseudonym) has seen this tube leave Zhu Ling's body, "I feel that she has finally been free at that moment and does not have to work hard." ”
The farewell ceremony was scheduled for 12 noon on December 24 at Babaoshan. Zhu Ling's father, Wu Chengzhi, explained that he couldn't get on the schedule earlier, so he had to set it at 12 o'clock, "It's also good, it's winter, and it's quite warm at 12 o'clock." ”
It was a small send-off for more than 80 people. When sending the invitation, in order to send Zhu Ling on his last journey smoothly and calmly, Zhu Ling's family specially added, "Please don't spread this news to the outside world."
The family is a portrait of Zhu Lingxuan
The mourning music chose "Guangling San" - in 1994, Zhu Ling played this piece at the Beijing Concert Hall. At that time, she had been poisoned. The posthumous portrait is a photograph of people in their 20s. On the restored black-and-white photo, Zhu Ling, who has short hair, grins toothily. Originally, there were two alternatives, and the other was a profile photo with longer hair. In the end, everyone chose the short hair, because she was "smiling happily and full of youthful vitality" in the photo. Zhao Ting felt, "This one is more like her now, the flesh on her face will be put away when she laughs, and her cheekbones will bulge high." ”
A final farewell
Although preparations had been made for a long time, the final goodbye came suddenly.
Early in the morning of December 22, Zhao Ting received a call from the nurse, "I said last night that it might not work, it should be the next day or two." ”
At noon on December 21, Zhu Ling had various conditions - acidosis, high pressure was so low that it could not go up to seventy or eighty, the carbon dioxide content in his body exceeded the standard, blood could not be drawn, and his face turned from red to red and black...... The doctor began to talk to the family, "I guess it will be soon, probably within 20-48 hours".
On the afternoon of the 22nd, relatives and friends rushed to the hospital one after another, ready to say their final goodbyes. It was the winter solstice, and Zhu Ling's parents greeted everyone to eat dumplings first, which was Zhu Ling's favorite fennel filling.
The situation was really tense after eight or nine o'clock that night. First, his mother, Zhu Mingxin, ran out of the back room, anxiously saying that the oximeter on his finger could not be measured. "It's okay, I'll find out in a moment. "Wu Chengzhi, who has always been optimistic, is the backbone of everyone. Zhao Ting and the nurse rubbed Zhu Ling's hand together, and after rubbing it hotter, a number appeared on the oximeter.
At about half past nine, the high pressure suddenly dropped to more than 40, and the doctors and nurses rushed to push a needle and rise somewhat. The doctor said that everyone was ready to talk to her, and left the ward to the relatives.
When it was close to 11 o'clock, when the people who were urged by the old man to rest were called back to Zhu Ling's ward, she had already left calmly, and the hospital recorded the time at 22:59. A straight line appeared on the display of the device, and the doctor removed the tube from her.
Zhu Ling in the ward (source: public account "Zhu Ling, we are together")
Zhu Mingxin took off the gauze covering Zhu Ling's eyes and mouth, helped her wipe her face clean, and then carefully cleaned the recent bedsores with gauze, and scrubbed her body and clothes. Since she was plugged into a ventilator in September, Zhu Ling has not worn clothes, "in fact, I feel undignified, and I am always worried that she is cold." This time, everyone dressed her in new pink and blue clothes from head to toe, which were flat and had no wrinkles at all, and they also wore a blue beanie, which was warm and beautiful.
Wu Chengzhi walked in, looked at Zhu Ling who was dressed with a smile, said "It's not bad", then lowered his head and pasted Zhu Ling's forehead with his forehead, with a smile on his face. Everyone present held their breath and watched as the father and daughter pressed their foreheads together. He'd done this kind of intimacy before. In the view of Xu Bai, a volunteer of Hualin Rescue Foundation, this is a father's farewell to his daughter.
Later, Wu Chengzhi told Zhao Ting that his blood pressure had not been high that day and he was not uncomfortable, but when he went back to the room to rest, he suddenly felt uncomfortable for a moment, and then the nurse came in and said, "The order is not good." The old man felt "sensitive", Zhao Ting said, maybe this is his daughter greeting him and saying, Dad, I'm leaving.
Throughout the night, it seemed that there was only Zhu Ling in Zhu Mingxin's world, who followed her and looked at her all the time. Zhao Ting remembered that at about 10 o'clock in the evening, Zhu Mingxin was lying on the small bed next to Zhu Ling, and everyone persuaded her to lie down. "No, I can't see if I'm lying down. The old man said. Zhao Ting realized that she had to watch her daughter all the way to feel at ease.
At about 1 o'clock in the morning on the 23rd, the car from the funeral home came to pick up Zhu Ling, and Zhu Mingxin, who was originally in the room, suddenly appeared next to the coffin, stretched out two hands to hold Zhu Ling's cheeks, and looked at it quietly for a while. Xu Bai noticed that her hands were trembling slightly.
In 2023, Zhu Ling will bask in the sun outdoors in the nursing home
On the longest dark night of the year, she stood at the door wearing a blue sweater, without saying a word or shedding a tear, watching the coffin be carried onto the car. Zhao Ting took off her down jacket and wrapped it around her. "Is it cold in the car?" Zhu Mingxin suddenly asked. Only then did everyone find out that she was still wearing plastic slippers, but they only thought about whether their daughter would be cold in the car.
At around two o'clock in the morning, Zhu Ling was sent to the Babaoshan Funeral Home. Zhu Mingxin, who had been sleeping in the small bed next to Zhu Ling, moved to Wu Chengzhi's ward, and the two old men spent the first night after Zhu Ling left.
"Zhu Ling finished her battle"
"The hospital didn't give up until the end, and neither did we. On December 23, Wu Chengzhi's voice sounded more tired and hoarse on the phone. Since Zhu Ling was critically ill last time, he has spoken less, and when he doesn't speak, he often closes his eyes.
In the last few days, her family and friends have been trying to find a way to cure her brain tumor, hoping that she will wake up. But on the other hand, Zhu Ling, who was in a deep coma, was in constant condition at any time. The most recent situation began around 20 December. She had a sudden stomach hemorrhage, and doctors stopped the nutrient solution delivered through the stomach tube, after which indicators began to show abnormalities.
In fact, since Zhu Ling fell into a severe coma due to a brain tumor attack on November 18, he "may leave at any time". "Her body was in tatters in every way, and she couldn't predict where a crisis would suddenly arise. Zhang Lili, a Tsinghua alumnus of Zhu Ling, said.
Before that, she had been bedridden and on a ventilator since the end of September due to a lung infection caused by a cold. Before 2013, she had to be notified of her next critical illness almost every year due to a lung infection, and she was always beaten back to the same place as soon as her body improved.
Zhu Ling's family of three is at home
Zhu Mingxin has always felt sorry for his daughter. Especially since September, she saw Zhu Ling lying on the bed and couldn't move, letting everyone toss and turn, but she was still happy, she always felt that her daughter was too sensible, and she felt sorry for this kind of sensible, "Although everyone is taking care of Ling Ling, in fact, she can't move and hurts, and she is suffering."
Because of this, Zhao Ting felt that in the end, in the arms of family and friends, Zhu Ling broke free from the shackles of various pipes, broke away from the body of the sojourner, and jumped out in stride, like dancing ballet, and freely went to the new life to spread joy. "I have fought the good fight, I have finished my race, I have kept the faith. Zhao Ting said, "Zhu Ling really finished all the battles she fought, and she is such a tenacious warrior." ”
"Let the history go down"
Everyone has never forgotten Zhu Ling.
After "Zhu Ling, Life Fifty" was released, some people who had crossed paths with Zhu Ling took the initiative to find it and wanted to talk about Zhu Ling in their memory.
Zhu Ling is playing the guqin
Among them was Li Pengpeng, Zhu Ling's early guqin teacher. Zhu Ling started learning guqin with her for three or four years since she was 16 years old. In her eyes, this student will have short hair, be simple and kind, ask a word, and be not very sensitive to human feelings, but he is very serious and makes rapid progress. In the early 90s of last century, very few people knew about the guqin, and Li Pengpeng felt that a 16-year-old girl was willing to spend time every week to Xi, and she also learned well, which was rare in itself.
There is also Chen Jiehao, Zhu Ling's classmate in Huiwen Middle School, who has been at the same table with Zhu Ling for a year. Zhu Ling in his memory, short haired, cheerful, would lie on the desk after class and joke with his classmates, talking about Jin Yong's novels that everyone was obsessed with back then.
He also remembered that in the summer of his third year of junior high school, when the final exam was approaching, the teacher called Zhu Ling out of class. When she came back, she didn't say a word, lowered her head and put away her things, and left, with obvious traces of crying on her face.
Later, everyone learned that it was her sister who had an accident. When Zhu Ling came back, he was silent for a while, and changed his name from "Zhu Lingling" to "Zhu Ling". The classmates speculated privately about the reason, and there is a saying that this is to be the same as my sister Wu Jin's strokes, which are all 11 strokes. Chen Jiehao remembers that Zhu Ling planted a small osmanthus sapling under the statue of Peng Xuefeng on the north side of the school's main building, which later grew to a height of half a meter.
The next time he heard news from Zhu Ling, it was after she was poisoned. Around 1999, Chen Jiehao inquired about Zhu Ling's family's residence in Fangzhuang and went to visit him once, when Zhu Ling's intelligence had been affected, and he could speak some words, but his voice was very small, basically inaudible, and he needed to rely on his parents to translate, and his vision also became blurry, not to say that a brown teddy bear was yellow.
After Zhu Ling became critically ill in November 2023, Chen Jiehao reposted relevant videos and articles in the circle of friends, and the forwarding phrase was, "It looks like Huang Rong, and it looks like Wang Jingwen." Wang Jingwen's cover with a tape is simply the Zhu Ling in my memory. ”
Chen Jiehao said that Zhu Ling had been his dream for a long time until the dream was shattered.
Zhu Linghe was a middle school classmate
In a previous interview, Zhu Mingxin told us, "She (referring to Zhu Ling) is here, and we can take care of her, which means that all the sustenance of life is here." This family of three has always been evaluated by the outside world as a solid "iron triangle", and now the side belonging to Zhu Ling has been taken away.
Friends try to take her place as the side and help the old man regain balance. Almost every time he called, Zhang Lili would talk about his concerns about the two elderly people, who he said wanted to stay in a nursing home after Zhu Ling left, and that the foundation's volunteers would visit them four times a month. Zhao Ting said, "We are always a family, and we will not be separated because we leave alone." ”
The two elderly men are in their eighties. "Zhu Ling has been working for nearly 30 years, and he has not waited for the legal truth of the thallium poisoning case, nor has he waited for an apology. But I felt like I could wait (apologize). Zhang Lili said.
Before Zhu Ling's 50th birthday, he said, "As long as Zhu Ling is alive, we can still wish her a happy birthday every year, which is very meaningful." Now that Zhu Ling is gone, he feels, "Those who are still alive cannot be forgotten." Not only for Zhu Ling, but also for himself and future generations. ”
The official account of "Zhu Ling We Are Together" managed by Zhang Lili posted the news of Zhu Ling's death on December 23, and posted dozens of "grief and anger" in a row. He decided that in the future, Zhu Ling's birthday and death date would continue to be recorded every year, "There is no evidence, and there is no legal way, so we can only let history completely record this matter." ”
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