Preamble:
In 2008, Shi Yekuan, a veteran military doctor who lived in Shandong, suddenly ran away from home with his family's 600,000 savings and was never heard from, and Shi Yekuan was gone for 9 years, and he never returned home in nine years.
Even his family didn't know what he was doing this for, and it wasn't until a phone call in 2017 that the truth was finally revealed to Shi Yekuan's family......
The wife and daughter of the desperate phone call were shocked
One day in February 2017, a woman from Shandong suddenly received a strange call from Sichuan.
On the other end of the phone, she anxiously asked if the woman was Shi Yekuan's child, and when she heard the words "Shi Yekuan", the woman immediately trembled, and then said yes with a slight choked voice.
After getting the confirmed results, the caller said in a heavy manner that Shi Yekuan was suffering from cancer and hoped that the woman could come to Sichuan to see him for the last time.
After the woman got the news, she didn't stop at all, and immediately rushed to Sichuan with her mother, and on the way the woman prayed in her heart over and over again that this was a prank, but it backfired.
According to the address left by the caller, the woman and her mother finally saw the familiar and unfamiliar face again, the father Shi Yekuan, who had disappeared for nine years.
In the woman's impression, her father was in high spirits when he left nine years ago, but now he has been tormented by illness, and the dramatic reunion has made the atmosphere in the ward a little miserable.
Even though her father hadn't been home for nine years, the woman and her mother didn't show the slightest complaint, but did their best to take care of the terminally ill Shi Yekuan.
However, as time went on, the woman found that her father was often visited in the ward, including local government workers, which made the woman wonder what her father had experienced in the past nine years.
With this doubt, the woman took advantage of her father's absence to ask, but Shi Yekuan kept silent in the face of her daughter's inquiry.
Although the woman who saw this situation was very anxious, she looked at her father, who was suffering from the disease, and did not continue to ask.
However, the doubts in the woman's heart did not subside, on the contrary, a steady stream of social donations made Shi Yekuan's experience in the past nine years more mysterious.
So after some time, the woman asked her father again about the experience of the past nine years, and this time the father did not avoid talking about it, but said that he wanted to donate his body to the country after his death. After all the formalities are completed, the family will be informed of their experience in the past nine years.
In this regard, although the woman hopes that her father can follow the family and return to her roots, she only wants to serve the country when she thinks that her father was a veteran military doctor. Even if you try to persuade yourself, I'm afraid it won't help.
So he agreed to his father's idea, and the next day, accompanied by his daughter, Shi Yekuan found the hospital to discuss matters related to body donation, and signed his name on the body donation book.
After returning to the ward, Shi Yekuan looked apologetically at his wife and daughter who he hadn't seen for nine years, and told his story about his experience in the past nine years......
In 2008, I believe that the people of the whole country will never forget the year, on May 12, Wenchuan, Sichuan Province broke out of the eight-magnitude earthquake, and the whole country immediately made every effort to help Wenchuan.
Reports on the Wenchuan disaster were broadcast on television over and over again, and Shi Yekuan, who lived far away in Shandong, naturally learned the news.
Due to the severity of the disaster in Wenchuan, many rescuers and materials are extremely short, so Shi Yekuan remembered that he had been a military doctor in the army before, and he might be able to give a little help to the affected people. So Shi Yekuan decided to go to Sichuan.
Shi then contacted the local government and hoped to follow the rescue force to Sichuan.
After learning that Shi Yekuan was a military doctor, the local government quickly approved Shi Yekuan's request.
So Shi Yekuan quickly began to pack his bags and prepare to go, and in order to give more help to the people affected by the disaster in Sichuan, Shi Yekuan also took away all the 600,000 savings at home.
On May 13, Shi Yekuan hurriedly embarked on the journey to Sichuan with the rescue force.
It's just that due to the urgency of time, Shi Yekuan did not inform his family of his whereabouts in time. When Shi Yekuan's wife and daughter found out that Shi Yekuan's family property was missing, it was already too late.
In order to determine Shi Yekuan's whereabouts, his wife and daughter called Shi Yekuan like crazy, but Shi Yekuan's phone has always been unanswered.
However, although Shi Yekuan did not tell his wife and daughter where he went, his wife and daughter seemed to know something when they watched the Sichuan disaster broadcast on TV at that time.
So he stopped calling Shi Yekuan's phone, but silently prayed for Shi Yekuan, and a few days later, Shi Yekuan's phone finally came back. But Shi Yekuan's words briefly made his wife and daughter despair.
It was a few days after Shi Yekuan entered the disaster area to rescue, Shi Yekuan took advantage of the time to call his family to report his safety, and said that he wanted to stay in Sichuan to help the disaster area rebuild.
After speaking, he hung up the phone and threw himself into the rescue work again, but the wife and daughter on the other end of the phone had not reacted, and there was only a burst of busy sound when they arrived.
In order to persuade Shi Yekuan to go home as soon as possible, his wife called back over and over again, but Shi Yekuan, who was immersed in the rescue work, had no time to take care of it.
Gradually, Shi Yekuan's wife gave up, he understood that her husband cared about the country, and since he had made this decision, he would not change, so he accepted the reality.
Since then, there are only two things in the wife's heart, one is to take care of the family, and the other is to look forward to her husband coming home as soon as possible, but Shi Yekuan has broken his wife's expectations again and again.
After the Sichuan disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction came to an end, it was already three years after Shi Yekuan left his hometown, and Shi Yekuan's family had always hoped that he could return home as soon as possible.
However, Shi Yekuan refused again and again on the grounds that post-disaster reconstruction needed manpower, until three years later, Shi Yekuan's wife learned that Sichuan's post-disaster reconstruction had come to an end, so she dialed Shi Yekuan's phone again.
At that time, Shi Yekuan was also preparing to leave the disaster area where he had struggled for three years, but he did not follow his wife's advice to return to his hometown, but chose to stay in Sichuan, and even quarreled with his wife for this.
In the end, his wife chose to give in, and it was this time that a trace of hope in his wife's heart finally disappeared, and Shi Yekuan came to the point where he found a job as a security guard to continue his life.
During this period, many people asked Shi Yekuan why he didn't go home, but Shi Yekuan's answer was surprising.
It turned out that in Shi Yekuan's heart, the earthquake had brought too much trauma to the people of Sichuan, not only physically but also psychologically, and he had seen too many lives and deaths in the rescue process.
Countless people have changed their lives because of this disaster, so he plans to stay and use his modest efforts to help as many people in Sichuan as possible to come out of their pain.
During this period, Shi Yekuan used all the 600,000 family properties he brought to the local post-disaster reconstruction and helping the affected people, and even the income from his own security guards was also used in these aspects.
After learning that Shi Yekuan was working in Sichuan, his parents had ordered Shi Yekuan to hurry home more than once, but Shi Yekuan was unmoved.
Even his wife begged hard to let him have a meal for the New Year, Shi Yekuan still refused ruthlessly, and it was not until 2017 that this distant family reunion finally became a reality, but this reality was cruel.
At the beginning of 2017, Shi Yekuan collapsed at work many times due to overwork, and at first Shi Yekuan just thought that he was too tired, but the worsening situation made him have to come to the hospital for examination.
The results of the examination are that Shi Yekuan is suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer, and it is very likely that he does not have much time, but even so, Shi Yekuan refuses to be hospitalized, and he still wants to earn more money and help the people of Sichuan.
If it weren't for the doctor's obstruction, I'm afraid he would have insisted on returning to work, and after Shi Yekuan was hospitalized, the hospital contacted his family as soon as possible, so the scene at the beginning of the story happened.
After talking about the nine-year experience, Shi Yekuan had already burst into tears, and his daughter was also deeply shocked by her father's actions, and she was moved by her father's behavior of saving the affected people in Sichuan at the expense of his family.
After learning that Shi Yekuan was seriously ill and admitted to the hospital, the people of Sichuan who had been helped by Shi Yekuan helped one after another, so there was a steady stream of social funds to enter the hospital to maintain Shi Yekuan's treatment.
In addition, because of Shi Yekuan's contribution to Sichuan, the local government has also visited Shi Yekuan many times, and also awarded Shi Yekuan honorary certificates and medals.
However, Shi Yekuan was not interested in these at all, he only thought about what else he could help the country after his death, so he also thought of donating his body.
Although his daughter finally agreed to his idea, she did not give up, and always hoped that the hospital could save her father, but God did not fulfill her wish.
At four o'clock in the afternoon of February 25, 2017, Shi Yekuan's condition deteriorated, and he finally passed away after rescue failed.
After Shi Yekuan's death, his cornea was successfully transplanted to others, and his body was also sent to Chengdu University School of Medicine for medical research.
The short reunion made Shi Yekuan's wife and daughter very sad, but they did not blame Shi Yekuan, because in their hearts and even in the hearts of the people of the whole country, Shi Yekuan's figure is so tall.
Epilogue:
"He didn't feel sorry for anyone, but only for his family" This is the evaluation of Shi Yekuan by many people later, and it also proves from the side that "loyalty and filial piety cannot be both since ancient times".
Shi Yekuan's spirit of not hesitating to put down his family for the sake of the country is worthy of the respect of all of us, and he has also saved countless Sichuan people, which is enough to be called a hero and pay tribute to the hero.
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