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Looking back on the past, the years spent by the Yang Songshi family in Shanxi were indeed full of twists and turns and hardships. However, after countless trials and challenges, they finally ushered in a change in fate. Now, Yang Songshi sits alone by the window of his new home, staring at the four carefree children playing in the courtyard, his eyes full of satisfaction and happiness.
However, even with such a good life, he still can't forget those troubled years. Recalling the past, there is always an indescribable emotion welling up in my heart.
Looking back on that period of burning passion, in the 1990s, Yang Songshi, who was only in his twenties, went to Shanxi alone from his hometown of Heze, Shandong Province with a passionate heart, and started his own road of struggle. At that time, although he had been working hard in his hometown for many years, he had never been able to find a stable and well-paid job.
Therefore, he resolutely chose to go to Shanxi, which is known as the "sea of coal", to find his own opportunities.
Shanxi's unique geological conditions and abundant coal resources have attracted many young people to come to dig gold. Yang Songshi firmly believes that as long as he pays hard work, he will be able to reap fruitful results in this hot land.
However, when he first arrived, he did not expect that survival would be far more difficult than he imagined.
The long period of inaction forced Yang Songshi to let go of his original dream and make a living by scavenging. Although his income is meager, for him alone, it is enough to support his basic living needs.
In the following 30 years, Yang Songshi never wavered in his determination to change careers. He settled in Shanxi, and although his life was embarrassing, he never had the idea of returning to his hometown. Perhaps it is precisely because of the momentum and vision for the future when he was young that he firmly sticks to this place and never gives up.
In this predicament, Yang Songshi, who has entered middle age, began to sprout the desire to start a family and establish a career. However, in the face of a destitute waste picker, what parent is willing to entrust his daughter to him? Yang Song ran around, but was repeatedly rejected and treated indifferently by the local villagers.
Just when Yang Song's affairs were almost in despair, a kind matchmaker finally matched him. The matchmaker introduced him to a local woman named Li Runling, who has a mild intellectual disability and is still single in her thirties. Because of this "defect", no one wanted to marry her, causing her to be homeless and wandering.
However, for Yang Songshi, being able to marry a wife is already the greatest luck for a poor man like him.
Yang Song was not half shy or repulsed, and he recognized and accepted the fact of marriage with Li Runling in an extremely cheerful mood. In his deep vision, building a warm home and having children of his own has become the noblest ideal in life, and whether his wife has a physical disability has become insignificant in his opinion.
So, Yang Songshi took his newlywed wife Li Runling, who has physical and mental health disabilities, to start their new life journey. In a humble shantytown, Janssong has collected all sorts of waste from his scavenging over the years, and this is where the couple will put down roots.
The living environment is difficult and full of filth. But for them who have been adrift for a long time, being able to find a stable place to live is enough to offset all loneliness. They hugged each other tightly, supported each other, and embarked on the long road of married life in the most innocent and simple way.
Soon after, Yang Songshi and Li Runling ushered in their first love crystallization - the birth of their eldest daughter Yang Yuanyuan. The advent of a new life has undoubtedly injected unprecedented vitality and hope into this originally poor family. However, in this joy, there are also endless troubles.
At the moment when the eldest daughter Yang Yuanyuan was born, Yang Songshi and Li Runling seemed to have found the value they had never had in their lives. Therefore, in the following years, they welcomed three lovely children one after another - Yang Tiantian, Yang Manman and Yang Simu.
This small family, which originally consisted of only two people, gradually grew and became a happy family of six. The arrival of the children has undoubtedly brought endless joy to the family, but at the same time, it has also brought a lot of troubles. It is particularly noteworthy that none of the four children were born in a regular hospital, let alone go through formal household registration procedures.
As a migrant worker, Yang Songshi has not been able to move his household registration to Shanxi. And Li Runling, who is intellectually disabled, has long lost contact with her family. Under such a predicament, the four children were destined to be unable to obtain local household registration status, and became "black households" from the day they were born.
Yang Songshi himself also frankly said that the four children were "delivered" by him. After years of practice and hands-on experience, he has accumulated a wealth of experience in this field. However, it is undeniable that there are significant safety risks associated with this approach, which is alarmingly high compared to the environment of a hospital birth.
However, perhaps because of the favor of fate, the four children all came to the world safely and healthily, which is undoubtedly the greatest gospel in Yang Songshi's life.
With the birth of children one after another, the life of the Yang family became more and more stretched. Due to his limited education, Yang Songshi is unable to do any technical work, and he can only make a living by picking up scraps. The intellectual disability of his wife Li Runling has made it more difficult for her to live independently, and taking care of her has become a new responsibility on Yang Song's shoulders.
In the face of such a difficult living situation, the four children showed amazing well-behaved and sensible. Whether it is Yang Yuanyuan, or Yang Tiantian, Yang Manman, and Yang Simu, they have never vented their dissatisfaction with their parents, but have understood and comforted their parents in a way unique to children.
Especially commendable is Yang Tiantian. Every time she witnessed her father's swollen leg scars, she couldn't help but look at her at the age of 8 with sympathy and distress. Yang Tiantian would use her dusty little hands to gently caress her father's swollen thighs, choked up and said, "My father's legs are so painful, I feel extremely heartache in my eyes." ”
An 8-year-old girl who should be carefree and playful has to worry about her family's illness and livelihood all the time. Seeing his daughter's thoughtful behavior, Yang Songshi had mixed feelings in his heart. How he longed to be a dutiful father and create a peaceful and harmonious living environment for his family.
Surprisingly, despite the difficult situation, the special situation of this family quickly attracted widespread attention from all walks of life. Many enthusiastic people have reached out to help them solve many urgent needs such as life and medical care.
What is even more gratifying is that the government has also actively intervened, paving a smooth path for Yang Songshi and his family to return to normal life. In 2015, the four children who had never had a hukou finally obtained legal hukou status, and since then they have gotten rid of the embarrassing situation of "black households".
At the same time, the government has also issued a disability certificate for Li Runling, an intellectually disabled mother, and included her in the scope of the subsistence allowance, so that she can receive a certain amount of monthly allowance. With the support and funding of these policies, the Yang family can finally unload the burden on their hearts and start a new chapter in their lives.
Since then, the living conditions of the Janssons have changed dramatically: they have successfully moved out of their dilapidated and filthy shacks to a new, spacious and bright bungalow, starting a new, orderly and clean life.
The most ecstatic thing is that the four dearest children are fortunate to have the opportunity to receive a quality education, and they step by step into the sacred temple of the school.
For this family, who had struggled with poverty and hardship for a long time, this was undoubtedly the greatest blessing that God had given them. Whenever he saw the carefree and laughing scenes of the children on campus, Yang Songshi's heart was full of gratitude for fate and deep respect for the selfless assistance from all walks of life.
Today, Yang Songshi's family has lived and worked in peace and contentment, and their lives have gradually entered a normal track. However, at dinner time, watching the children sit around the table, Jansson couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Those years spent in the garbage heap may not have left a deep impression on the young children, but for Yang Song, it was extremely difficult and painful, and almost swallowed up all his hopes.
Without the unwavering support and encouragement of his family, he would have been mired in a predicament from which he would not be able to extricate himself.
Yang Yuanyuan, Yang Tiantian, Yang Manman, Yang Simu, these four children are the proudest existence of Yang Songshi. Although they were born and raised in extremely harsh environments, they showed that they were well-behaved and sensible from an early age.
In particular, Yang Yuanyuan, as the eldest daughter in the family, has taken on the responsibility of taking care of her younger siblings since she was 11 years old. When his father was unable to go out to work due to injury, Yang Yuanyuan became half the sky of the family.
She toils through the garbage heap every day to scavenge for plastic cardboard in exchange for a meager income to make ends meet. Household farm work is a daily routine for her, and she even works in the fields herself in order to keep her younger siblings fed.
Today, Yang Yuanyuan is excellent in his studies and is working tirelessly on campus. Every time he saw his daughter's gentle and demure figure, Yang Songshi's heart swelled with endless joy and pride.
He hopes that one day, his daughter will be able to change her fate with the power of knowledge and realize the beautiful life that their family has longed for. And Yang Tiantian, Yang Manman and Yang Siman are also thriving in the school, and their future will definitely be full of sunshine and bright future.