The employer ran away, leaving twin daughters, and the nanny turned into an adoptive mother?
This happened in 1999, when the owner of a family left a note and left no news, entrusting the adopted twin daughters to the nanny Li Zeying.
Now that 25 years have passed, has Li Zeying raised the sisters? How are they doing now?
Came to Zhuo's house
Li Zeying was born in a rural family in Huishui County, Guizhou, and her parents were hardworking and kind, and they made a living from farming.
In 1993, 16-year-old Li Zeying came to Guiyang with a friend to work and make a living. As a newcomer, she just hopes to find a decent job here and make good money to repay her parents for their nurturing kindness.
Li Zeying's first job was as a hotel waiter, with a meager salary and a poor environment, and she was often abused and deducted from her wages when she went to work.
Later, she met a kind old lady, Grandma Zhao. Grandma Zhao used to work as a housekeeper in Shanghai, and after retiring, she opened a housekeeping company in Guiyang, specializing in training nannies, confinement ladies and other housekeeping staff.
Because Li Zeying is hardworking and capable, Grandma Zhao took a fancy to this country girl at a glance, not only trained her to be a nanny for free, but also often taught some work experience in person.
Under the careful guidance of Grandma Zhao, Li Zeying soon became the "gold medal nanny" of the housekeeping company. She is gentle and considerate, diligent and conscientious, and is highly regarded by employers.
One autumn day in 1994, a couple came to Grandma Zhao's company to find a suitable nanny. That couple is Zhuo Zunqin and her husband, they have a pair of lovely twin daughters, and they are worried about taking care of the children.
In the end, Zhuo Zunqin took a fancy to Li Zeying, and the two sides quickly signed a contract. In this way, Li Zeying became the nanny of the Zhuo family and began to take care of the twin sisters.
Later, Li Zeying discovered that the twins were not Zhuo Zunqin's biological daughters, but abandoned babies adopted at the hospital where she worked.
It was a cold night, and there was a faint cry on Shahe Road on the streets of Guiyang. Passers-by hurriedly checked, and found two small babies wrapped in tattered sheets under a bench on the side of the road.
The two children were purple and dying. The person who picked them up immediately took the child to the hospital. With the full help of medical staff, the children were finally freed from the danger of their lives.
After the child was revived, new problems arose. They were two abandoned babies, unclaimed. At this time, Zhuo Zunqin, who works as a nurse in this hospital, stood up and expressed her willingness to adopt the two children.
Zhuo Zunqin named them "Huanhuan" and "Xinxin", hoping that they could live a happy life.
But as a nurse, Zhuo Zunqin has a busy job, and her husband is a businessman who has no time to take care of the children. So Li Zeying came to this home.
"Nanny" becomes "adoptive mother"
After coming to the Zhuo family, Li Zeying dutifully took care of the two sisters. Huanhuan and Xinxin are going to treat Li Zeying as their own mother, and the family is happy and warm.
But this happiness did not last long. Zhuo Zunqin's husband's investment project failed, and he lost all his money at once, and he owed a large amount of usury.
In order not to drag down his wife and children, Zhuo Zunqin's husband was determined to bear it alone, so he divorced Zhuo Zunqin under the pretext of "marital discord".
Zhuo Zunqin didn't know anything about it, thinking that her husband was empathetic and didn't fall in love. Feeling too sad, she simply gave up her work and life completely, and spent time in a mahjong parlor all day long.
An originally happy little family was shattered in this way.
September 14, 1999 was originally Huanhuan and Shin Shin's 6th birthday. Li Zeying prepared a small cake for the sisters. As in previous years, she is looking forward to reuniting with Zhuo Zunqin's family on this warm day.
However, by midnight, Zhuo Zunqin still did not come back. Li Zeying was so anxious that she dialed Zhuo Zunqin's phone, but no one answered.
Just when she was about to call the police, she found a note left by Zhuo Zunqin: "Zeying, Auntie is sorry for you, I hope you can treat Huanhuan and Xinxin well." ”
Li Zeying realized that Zhuo Zunqin had completely entrusted her two sisters to her. A 22-year-old girl will have to shoulder the burden of raising two children alone from now on.
Without Zhuo Zunqin's supply, Li Zeying and the sisters' lives fell into an embarrassment. Because they had no money to pay the rent, the landlord evicted them from the rented house, and Li Zeying had to take the sisters around to find a place to stay.
They were displaced and forced to pick up trash along the streets for a living. The sisters were often so hungry that they wept. Listening to Huanhuan and Xinxin's cries, Li Zeying was extremely distressed, but there was nothing she could do.
Li Zeying, who really couldn't find a livelihood, could only take the sisters back to their hometown to ask their parents for help.
Relatives and friends in the small village couldn't help but point at her when they saw her with her two little girls, saying that having children out of wedlock was bad enough, and she actually had to raise children picked up by others.
The father was ashamed, and although the mother understood Li Zeying, she didn't have much to help her, so she could only give them some meager travel expenses.
Li Zeying had no choice but to return to the city again. In order to support the sisters, Li Zeying found two jobs, working in a restaurant during the day and moving bricks and tiles at a construction site at night.
In order to save money, she even picks up vegetable leaves on the street to satisfy her hunger. Once, a group of homeless men saw her do this and abused her from head to toe.
Later, Li Zeying met her husband Liu Yi. This kind-hearted man didn't care that Li Zeying was carrying two "drag oil bottles" and insisted on marrying Li Zeying.
In 2002, their biological daughter was born. All of a sudden, the burden on the family became heavier. But Li Zeying and Liu Yi still insisted on raising the two sisters, Huan Huan and Xinxin.
In addition to the problem of livelihood, the sisters' studies have also become Li Zeying's heart disease.
Going to school is the only hope for children to change their fate, but the school requires thousands of yuan in tuition and miscellaneous fees, and Li Zeying only earned a few hundred yuan after working for a few months.
She went to the principal several times to plead, and although the principal waived the tuition, she still had to pay the miscellaneous fee of 200 yuan per semester.
Fortunately, Li Zeying's colleagues are all kind people, and after learning the reason why she worked hard to raise her sisters, they donated money one after another.
In this way, they scraped together 200 yuan in tuition and fees, so that the sisters could enroll on schedule. Since then, Li Zeying has devoted all her energy to work and taking care of the sisters' study and life.
Great love touches the world
As the days passed, the story of Li Zeying and the sisters was known by the neighbors, and finally it was reported by the media, and more people paid attention to this matter.
Some caring people took the initiative to donate rice, flour, oil and salt, others sent books and stationery, and some hospitals sent doctors to give them free physical examinations.
When Li Zeying received everyone's love, tears burst out of her eyes, and she was so moved that she couldn't speak.
And when someone wanted to subsidize them in cash, Li Zeying refused.
"No matter how difficult it is, I have to raise my sisters with my own hands, and I must never accept cash donations for fear of being criticized," she said. ”
In this way, with the help of all walks of life, the lives of Li Zeying and the sisters are finally on the right track. They have enjoyed the subsistence allowance and received a quota for low-rent housing allocated by the government, and have since had a place to live.
With the help of the community, Li Zeying also found a job as a cleaner in a hotel, and although the income is not high, it is enough to maintain the basic living expenses of the family.
In 2009, Li Zeying won the honorary title of "National Model of Honesty and Trustworthiness" because of her noble character of "honesty and trustworthiness, dedication and friendship".
Even at the Spring Festival Gala in 2010, CCTV specially invited her to tell the touching story of her raising sisters to the national audience.
Even the Steering Committee for the Construction of Spiritual Civilization funded Li Zeying with a prize of 170,000 yuan, of which 85,000 yuan was earmarked to support the sisters' university education.
Seeing the influx of honors and awards, Li Zeying just smiled and said to the sisters:
"This is the country's commendation to us, and you should repay the society with your knowledge. But no matter how successful we are in the future, we must always remember all those who have helped us. ”
Happily, the Huanhuan Xinxin sisters have kept their teachings in mind, and under the careful cultivation of the school, their academic performance has been rising.
More than ten years have passed in the blink of an eye. One of the sisters was admitted to Chengdu Business College, and the other was admitted to Hebei Medical University.
After graduating from university, the sisters entered the society and worked hard separately. Her sister Huanhuan stayed in Chengdu to work in a company, while her younger sister Xinxin worked in a hospital.
Although they are in a different place, the sisters still think about Li Zeying all the time, and they will return to Guiyang to reunite with her every holiday.
Sometimes, they will also take the initiative to bring some daily necessities to Li Zeying and use their own salaries to support Li Zeying's family.
The author thinks
Li Zeying used 25 years of years and indomitable will to overcome many difficulties, raise this pair of sisters with no relatives and no reason, and realize her life's promise.
She also used practical actions to interpret the beautiful character of "honesty and trustworthiness". This great love and great kindness moved the whole society, and he deserved to be the most lovable person of our time.
Information sources:
1. Xinhua Daily Telegraph Wang Chengcheng "Working Sister Adopts Employer Abandoned Daughter, 12 Years Without Abandonment"
2. Colorful Guizhou Network "Revisiting the "Nanny Mother" Li Zeying, the abandoned twins back then, are now both going to college"