Preface
In 1998, a catastrophic flood swept across the country, raging relentlessly. In the ravages of this natural disaster, a 6-year-old girl is in the limelight. Holding on to a large tree, she endured nine hours of rough seas to become a miracle survivor of the flood.
Today, the girl who fought against nature in the flood is an adult and proud of her work. This deeply touching story is both a testimony of strength and miracles, as well as a symphony of time and courage.
At that moment, death passed by
In September 1998, Jiang Shan lived with her grandmother and mother in a small mountain village in Jiayu County, Hubei Province. This early autumn, the village was covered with dark clouds, and it rained heavily for several days. The villagers are worried about the harvest of the crops, and 6-year-old Jiang Shan is still unaware of the height of the sky, and every day she snuggles up in front of the dilapidated small TV set to watch dramas and taste the food made by her grandmother.
On a normal evening, a sudden news broke the peace - a large number of villagers were trapped in many embankments in Hubei. Grandma Jiang Shan immediately realized that the danger was imminent, grabbed Jiang Shan and fled outside the house. Before they could step out of the house, the raging flood water had quickly overflowed the courtyard. "Grandma, save me!" Jiang Shan shouted in horror, but the flood swept away the pair of grandchildren in an instant. Grandma desperately protected Jiang Shan, and in the darkness, she recognized the figure of a poplar tree in front of her. This is Jiang Shan's only hope for salvation.
"Shanshan, remember grandma's words, hold on to the tree and don't let go, you have to live no matter what!" Grandma threw Jiang Shan to the canopy with all her might, and then she was swept away by the surging tide and left Jiang Shan's world forever.
"Grandma—" Jiang Shan stretched out her hand and watched as Grandma disappeared into the thick darkness. It was then that she realized the scarcity of her life, tears mixed with a foul flood across her cheeks. She climbed the tree with all her might, looking for any possible fulcrum in the treetops. The pitch-black canopy became the only reliance in this life-and-death struggle.
For 9 hours, Jiang Shan struggled with the flood, despair, and death in the trees. The canopy was getting lower and lower, the water level was rising, her fingers could no longer hold the rough bark, and exhaustion and despair swept through her body. After losing her mother and grandmother, the tree became her last hope. She prayed, even for a small miracle......
New hope arrives at dawn
At dawn the next day, the armed police rescue team searched and rescued the trapped people in the disaster area. When the captain Wang Minghua drove the lifeboat past Jiang Shan's location, he saw a human figure hidden in the canopy of trees in the distance. He immediately identified it as a little girl, her weakened body on the verge of collapse, but still clinging to the branches.
Wang Minghua judged that the girl might lose consciousness and fall into the torrent at any time, and immediately drove a boat close to rescue her. However, the canopy of Jiang Shan's tree was already in deep floodwaters, and the life-saving equipment on Wang Minghua's boat could not reach such a high position. Seeing that the girl couldn't support it and wanted to let go and fall, Wang Minghua didn't dare to delay, and directly drove the lifeboat into the wave, approaching the poplar tree, and then jumped up vigorously, and finally hugged the girl.
"Uncle, save me......" Jiang Shan was on the verge of collapse, but she still desperately stretched out her hand to Wang Minghua, like grasping the last straw. "Don't worry, girl, uncle is here!" Wang Minghua hugged Jiang Shan tightly in his arms and turned around to return to the lifeboat. At this point, after 9 hours of hesitating on the edge of life and death, Jiang Shan finally saw her new life again.
When Jiang Shan finally returned to the lifeboat, her collapsed body finally collapsed and fell asleep. Wang Minghua hugged the thin girl in his arms, and a strange feeling rose in his heart. He began to imagine that if he was even one step late, would this little girl disappear in the boundless darkness......?
Struggle to grow and repay kindness
Jiang Shan lost her mother and grandmother in the flood, and her father survived when he went out to work. She had to rely on the aid station to get by, and the caring people sponsored her schooling. Wang Minghua hugged the rescued Jiang Shan and sent her to the local welfare home. He didn't expect that this passing encounter would achieve a girl's extraordinary life later.
Before 2005, Jiang Shan studied in Beijing. In 2009, Jiang Shan was admitted to the Railway Police Officers College as she wished, majoring in investigation, and realized her childhood dream of being a policeman. However, on this mixed day, Jiang Shan's father died of illness, and she lost the last relatives in this world.
In addition to grief, Jiang Shan put all her efforts into studying Xi. She knew that without Wang Minghua's rescue, she would have been unable to stand on today's sunny campus. She must keep this kindness in her heart and repay it in her own way.
After graduating in 2014, Jiang Shan got her wish and became a railway public security policeman. In 2015, she got married and had children, and she worked diligently at work, always with gratitude to her life-saving benefactor. She hopes that she can grow into an excellent police officer and help more people in trouble.
In 2021, the program team invited Jiang Shan to talk about her experience. Unexpectedly, the life-saving benefactor Wang Minghua also appeared on the show again! I haven't seen him for many years, Wang Minghua is already white-haired, but Jiang Shan can vaguely recognize his face. The two looked at each other and smiled, tears welling up in their eyes. At that moment, time and space were staggered, and Jiang Shan seemed to have returned to 1998, when the flood was raging, and she heard the shouts of her grandmother and Wang Minghua in her ears: "You want to live!"
The moment they met again, Jiang Shan burst into tears. She stood up and saluted Wang Minghua, and then hugged her tightly, as if she had regained her long-lost relatives. 25 years have passed, and she can finally say to Wang Minghua without guilt: "The grace of saving lives, Jiang Shan remembers it, and I will definitely work hard to repay it!"
Fighting today, the righteousness is boundless
Today's Jiang Shan is already an excellent policeman who has experienced a hundred battles. In the face of the new crown epidemic that swept Wuhan, she once again took the initiative to support the front line. In this battle against the epidemic, she traveled to various isolation points to ensure the safety of front-line medical staff and maintain the basic needs of residents in the epidemic area. Watching and helping each other, this is her original intention to join the armed police, and it is also the best reward for her benefactor Wang Minghua.
From the 6-year-old girl who tenaciously survived in her life, to the railway policeman who is now willing to dedicate, Jiang Shan has gone through an extraordinary road of growth in the past 25 years. She transcends the mercy of life and death, and also remembers the grace of saving lives. Now she is using her own way to repay the warmth of the world and protect the safety of the people behind her.
epilogue
This is Jiang Shan, and she is also an ordinary person who has been silently dedicated. In each of our lives, there will be a role like Wang Minghua - giving hope in the darkest moments and saving faith in the most desperate moments. When you and I are in trouble, they are always the first to step up. So, remember Jiang Shan, remember Wang Minghua; Please cherish this warmth and pass on this great love! In this extraordinary story, every ordinary person may achieve extraordinary miracles.