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A rural girl with a congenital cardiovascular malformation suffered from a recurrence of the disease 18 years later

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A rural girl with a congenital cardiovascular malformation suffered from a recurrence of the disease 18 years later

After Liu Fucheng's death, only Jin Xia (left) and Liu Shuai lived in the old house in Hongqi Village (Southern People Weekly reporter Da Shi/Photo)

After giving birth to her daughter, Yu Jinxia's life seems to have become more difficult, the family that was barely able to make ends meet has become in debt, and she has one more person who needs to be taken care of, but she has never regretted it, "What do you regret after giving birth?" ”

"I always feel like my daughter is okay. My daughter is in front of me, and I feel that my mother and daughter are companions. ”

Sick Woman

After becoming pregnant again, Yu Jinxia hesitated whether to give birth or not, she was 39 years old that year, which is considered an advanced maternal age. She and her husband Liu Fucheng already have a son, and in the era of strict family planning, they never thought of having a second child, and the family was in difficulty and could not afford to raise it. But what if it's a girl? Yu Jinxia thought that she was not willing to have an abortion. On the 23rd day of the first month of 2005, she gave birth to her daughter, who was 17 years old apart from her son Liu Feng.

This child has been extremely fragile since birth, with a thin body, delicate arms and legs, a big head, always sick, and when he has a cold, he is more seriously ill than other children. Yu Jinxia remembered that the child cried all the time, "But even if she cries, she can't help it." When she was more than a month old, the town's health center found that the child had congenital heart disease, and the health center could not give an answer, so the couple began to take her around for medical treatment.

Liu Fucheng's family lives in a village called "Hongqi", located in Gujiazi Town, Lishu County, Siping City, Jilin Province. In Jinxia's impression, her hometown has always been poor, "How can you ever have money!" For as long as I can remember, there hasn't been a time when this place has gotten better. "Siping City is on the edge of Jilin Province, next to Liaoning, and Gujiazi Town is on the edge of Siping City, about 70 kilometers from the town to Siping City, and about 120 kilometers to Changchun City. In order to see a doctor for her daughter, Yu Jinxia, who had hardly been out of town, followed her husband around.

The diagnosis from the First Hospital of Jilin University was that the child had truncus arteriosus - a rare fatal cardiovascular malformation, in which the original truncus arteriosus was not separated into an aorta and pulmonary artery, but straddled the two ventricles in the form of a common truncus arteriosus, which means that the oxygen supply to all parts of the body is reduced, and the heart is under greater operating pressure. The disease has a high mortality rate and is difficult to operate, and even hospitals in Changchun are unable to treat it. Until the end of 2005, Liu Fucheng and his wife took their children to the General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region (now known as the "General Hospital of the Northern Theater", hereinafter referred to as the current name), the best hospital for cardiovascular surgery in the three northeastern provinces.

Yu Jinxia felt unprecedented despair, in the village, poverty is a withered atmosphere, people have land and cannot starve to death, but in the hospital, poverty is embodied in IOUs and arrears notices, and the urgency of the illness makes people have nowhere to escape. Thinking back to that scene many years later, Yu Jinxia's tone was still flustered, "Who has so much money?" Who can afford it? ”

Liu Fucheng contracted his family's 8 "mu" of land (the local custom refers to 1,000 square meters as "mu") to others in exchange for 8,000 yuan. borrowed from relatives and friends, scraped together more than 60,000 yuan, and in one of Liu Fucheng's notebooks, there were a total of 53 loan records.

But the money is still far from enough, "more than 60,000 yuan is gone in a few days." On January 11, 2006, Zhu Hongyu, then director of cardiac surgery at the Northern Theater General Hospital, operated on the child, after which he was transferred to the ICU. A doctor surnamed Han explained that although the operation was successful, the pressure in his lungs was high and he could not breathe on his own. In the custody room, the child's medical expenses are about 2,000 yuan a day, and Liu Fucheng's family's annual income from farming is only three or four thousand yuan.

Liu Fucheng pinned his last hope on asking for help. On January 14, 2006, he read the news of the richest man in Chinese mainland in the newspaper and summoned up the courage to write to him. In the letter, he repeatedly wrote, "Please", "I heard that a TV station in Shenyang reported on a sick girl, and when she was in the most difficult time, a good person donated 100,000 yuan. How I wish there was such a kind person to save my child......"

A farmer's letter to the richest man was undoubtedly a whimsical move, but Liu Fucheng was very serious about replying to the letter. Four days after the letter was sent, he found that the information was wrong, and sent a corrected letter, "The bank card number left in the first letter is wrong, and I am afraid that people will not receive the money for me, so I quickly wrote the second letter." ”

Until January 20, 2006, Liu Fucheng did not receive a reply, but his daughter's name had been written down on the blackboard of the hospital to report the arrears, and she was probably about to stop taking the medicine. Liu Fucheng was desperate, and asked for help from the newspaper where he saw the news of the richest man. What happened later was beyond his expectations: they reported on the incident, "Farmers Ask Rich Men for Help to Save Their Daughters", which was later reported by several media outlets, with several wealthy people and local entrepreneurs donating money one after another, the hospital waived the remaining medical bills, and the daughter was discharged from the ICU after 78 days.

On the day she came out of the ICU, Yu Jinxia hugged her daughter and didn't let go, while Liu Fucheng held a toy windmill and laughed on the side, "Baby, take a look!" Liu Fucheng originally named his daughter Liu Jiaxin, a popular name in Hong Kong and Taiwan. When he was in the hospital, someone suggested that he change his name to a boy so that he could make a living, so he took the word "handsome" and his daughter changed her name to Liu Shuai.

A rural girl with a congenital cardiovascular malformation suffered from a recurrence of the disease 18 years later

Yu Jinxia held a photo of Liu Fucheng. The photo was originally only a few inches, and she specially took it to enlarge and frame it (Southern People Weekly reporter Da Shi/Picture)

Debt

Liu Fucheng was a smart man, because the income from farming was too low, he taught himself to become a mason, and often went to the labor market to find work. He was also a hard-working man, his father died when he was 8 years old, leaving his mother, three older brothers, an older sister and a younger sister at home. When others reached the prime of life, his mother was sick in bed, his daughter was born with a disease, and the burden of the family was on him.

After returning from the hospital, Liu Fucheng had a harder time. He went to the person who contracted the land and asked for the land back, promised to pay back the land, and went out to work while farming. Every household in Hongqi Village grows corn, and there are endless corn fields on both sides of the road outside the village. Yu Jinxia remembers, "One 'mu' of land can produce 2,000 catties of corn kernels, and if the money for seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides is removed, their family's annual income from 8 'mu' of land is only three or four thousand yuan." Because the purchase price of soybeans was higher, when Liu Feng was 20 years old — Yu Jinxia remembered that he used the age of a child instead of a year — Liu Fucheng planted soybeans instead, and in order to prevent the ripe pods from exploding in the sun, he had to harvest them every day before the sun rose.

"He wanted to pay back the money he borrowed." His son Liu Feng said, "There is not a single person in a thousand people who is as tired as my father." I got up at two o'clock in the morning to cut beans in the field, came back at 4 o'clock to eat a bite of food and went to work on the construction site in the town, ate at 11 o'clock at noon, drove a tricycle back and forth in the town to pull people, and went back to work in the afternoon. Who can stand it until the sun goes down and don't go home to eat and sleep? ”

At that time, I would earn about seventy or eighty yuan a day as a bricklayer in Gujiazi Town, and there was almost no work for half of the year when it was snowing and frozen, and there was no factory in the town where I could work. Liu Fucheng wanted to go to the construction site in the south, but he couldn't get out, "My sister is still young, and my grandmother is over eighty, how can he, the pillar, run away?" I can't get back to anything at home. Liu Feng said.

In April 2008, Liu Fucheng asked Feng Xiang, a newspaper reporter who had reported on his deeds, to thank a Shenyang company that donated 20,000 yuan to him two years ago, "Zhongcheng Construction Group" (renamed "Wanzhong Construction Group" in 2018, hereinafter referred to as "Wanzhong"). Liu Fucheng took two bottles of wine and a few catties of fruit to meet Chairman Zhang Liyan for the first time in the Wanzhong office, and they left each other's contact information. A few years later, Liu Fucheng led a few fellow villagers to Zhang Liyan, wanting to work in Wanzhong, and recommended one of his classmates to manage the project. After the interview, Zhang Liyan felt that it was feasible and established a branch in Siping City, and let Liu Fucheng's classmates be managers. In 2015, he gave the electrician work package of the branch to Liu Fucheng.

That year, Liu Fucheng took Liu Feng to work in Wanzhong, and according to Zhang Liyan, he "earned a lot", paid off most of his debts, and took out a loan to buy a car worth 70,000 yuan so that he could go to a farther place to pick up work. However, Liu Fucheng died suddenly in this year, and Liu Shuai, who was only more than 9 years old at the time, had a vague impression of that day, "I was in the third grade, and I took the exam immediately, and my father was fine when I went to school in the morning." After school, I took the school bus to the entrance of the village, and my uncle's sister came to pick me up and told me, 'Your dad has an accident'. I came home and saw my mom crying, and I cried along. ”

The last thing Liu Fucheng did to his death was to "support the orphan". Zhang Liyan said that on the day of Liu Fucheng's funeral, Liu Feng handed him a letter in which Liu Fucheng asked him to help take care of the child, and he still does not understand when the letter was written.

A rural girl with a congenital cardiovascular malformation suffered from a recurrence of the disease 18 years later

Zhang Liyan, chairman of Wanzhong Construction Group, and his idol Guan Gong (Southern People Weekly reporter Da Shi/Picture)

alive

Liu Shuai doesn't remember much of her father, but she is sure that "he is very good to me". When he was in the second grade of primary school, Liu Shuai wanted to buy a 20 yuan pencil case, made of cardboard with a Barbie doll pattern printed on it, "Others will definitely think that this thing is not practical at all, and it will break in two days." I told him I wanted to buy it, and he just changed it for me, and I was so happy. ”

The family was in debt because of his illness, which Liu Shuai only knew when he grew up. When she was a child, she never heard Liu Fucheng talk about it, and she didn't even hear about her illness, but she could feel that she was different from ordinary children, "Shortness of breath, when I was fighting, others were fine, and I couldn't breathe." "Parents would also call the school teacher in advance so that she would not have to attend physical education class.

Liu Shuai also did not feel the pressure of expectations, sometimes Liu Fucheng would say that he hoped that she could be admitted to a university, but he would not force her to study hard. She said she had never seen her father lose his temper with her. Yu Jinxia has no expectations for Liu Shuai, "She has a problem, it's good to barely feed her, just live well." ”

Yu Jinxia has never let Liu Shuai do housework, Liu Shuai's clothes are all washed by her, "Her father is gone, I raise my daughter by myself, I am always reluctant to let her do it." "She thinks Liu Shuai is also very well-behaved, she takes the school bus to and from school, goes home with the key, and waits in the house for her to come back from odd jobs." She doesn't invite disasters or cause trouble, and I don't feel tired, and our mother has dealt with it all these years, and it's okay. ”

When Liu Fucheng died, Liu Feng was 27 years old, had just been married for a few years, had a 3-year-old child, the family lived in the town, and only Yu Jinxia and Liu Shuai were left in the old houses in the village. Yu Jinxia couldn't farm the land alone, so she contracted out the land and did odd jobs to earn her family, most of the time helping other people's families do farm work, with an hourly wage of 8 to 10 yuan.

The mother and daughter don't spend much money living in the village, the old house has a front yard and a back yard, Yu Jinxia grows corn in the front yard and vegetables in the back yard. Every spring, Yu Jinxia uses the previous year's tomato seeds to grow seedlings in a foam box. By the end of April, when the ice in the permafrost has melted, the grown persimmon seedlings are transplanted into the ground. In the summer, the tomatoes are harvested and the cabbage is sown, ready for the winter stockpile. The backyard can also raise livestock, one year Yu Jinxia raised chickens, Liu Shuai was miserable, "every day before dawn under the window." Yu Jinxia has never raised it since.

After the first snowfall, the snow is piled up layer by layer, and it does not melt throughout the winter, and you have to shovel snow every day to get out. Yu Jinxia picked up straw in other people's cornfields in advance, bundled them solidly, piled them up in the backyard shacks, and used the collected straw as fuel for burning the kang in winter and cooking all year round.

There are usually only old people left in the village, and there are almost no Liu Shuai's peers. She didn't have many friends since she was a child, she liked to stay at home, and Yu Jinxia didn't go out often, so on many long and dim winter afternoons, the mother and daughter guarded a warm kang in the house together.

Academically, Liu Shuai, who had no burden, had mediocre grades, and went to a vocational school to study nursing before finishing his third year of junior high school. She didn't like the school and felt that her physical fitness could not adapt to school life. In the summer of 2021, Liu Shuai, who had been in school for a year, decided to drop out. But these did not make Liu Shuai feel depressed, she had more troubles, she was not satisfied with her appearance, and began to follow online tutorials to teach herself makeup; She was also dissatisfied with her weight, she ate whole grains, boiled vegetables, drank black coffee, and only ate one meal a day, but her weight did not change much, so she had to give up losing weight.

Liu Shuai is also looking for a livelihood. After the Spring Festival in 2022, she followed a relative to work in an electronics factory in Dongguan, Guangdong, and was busy on the assembly line for nearly 12 hours a day, all month long, with a salary of more than 5,000 yuan. Liu Shuai didn't get enough sleep every day, and it was so hot that she couldn't sleep in a rented house without air conditioning, and she left the factory after three months of work.

At the end of 2023, Liu Shuai found his favorite profession, makeup artist. She studied with a makeup artist in Changchun, and was supposed to finish classes in January 2024 and go to work with her master in a travel photography studio in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, in February. But once again, the family's fortunes took a turn for the worse. When the class was about to end, Liu Shuai caught a cold, and after dragging the sick body to finish the class, the condition evolved into a life and death crisis.

A rural girl with a congenital cardiovascular malformation suffered from a recurrence of the disease 18 years later

On March 18, 2024, Liu Feng asked the doctor about Liu Shuai's review at the Northern Theater General Hospital (Southern People Weekly reporter Da Shi/Photo)

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Liu Shuai, who was sick, felt that her heart was beating very slowly, and on the fourth day of her stay in the town's hospital, she fainted directly. Yu Jinxia saw that her body was convulsive after she fainted, and hurriedly sent her to the hospital in Siping City with Liu Feng, and the examination found that her heart was wrong again. The city hospital could not treat them, and the doctor urged them to transfer to the hospital quickly, "This person's heart will stop when he says it will stop, and if it can't beat back, this person will be gone." ”

"I have to go to Shenyang," Yu Jinxia and Liu Feng combined, and they immediately contacted an ambulance to send Liu Shuai to the General Hospital of the Northern Theater. After settling into the emergency ward, the question of money came to mind. The cost of the ambulance from Siping to Shenyang was 3,000 yuan, and the 10,000 yuan recharged at the time of emergency admission was only more than 200 yuan that day, which was used for examinations, medicines, heart monitoring, oxygen concentrators and other instruments, and Liu Feng remembered that a box of medicine cost 1,600 yuan.

Liu Shuai was diagnosed with acute heart failure, with massive and moderate regurgitation of blood from her mitral and tricuspid valves, respectively, and severe aortic regurgitation. The doctor gave two plans, one is to install an artificial valve, and the other is to install a pacemaker, and told Liu Shuai that the cost of these two items is at least 250,000 yuan.

Liu Feng and Yu Jinxia couldn't afford the high medical bills, and they didn't know where to raise money. The situation 18 years ago reappeared, and the Liu family thought again of the reporter who had helped them.

On January 21, 2024, Feng Xiang received a call from Yu Jinxia, and after knowing Liu Shuai's condition, he transferred 5,000 yuan to their family. At the same time, he instructed Liu Feng to go through the procedures for the referral of medical insurance to other places, taught him to post on the online fundraising platform, and suggested that he also write down the fact that Liu Shuai got sick 18 years ago and received help from well-wishers.

Although Feng Xiang knew that the matter of "asking for help from the rich" was the biggest controversy of Liu Shuai's family, and it was also questioned as a moral kidnapping in conspiracy with the media, "if you don't do this, the child can't be saved, who can say that you don't do it and let the child die?" ”

After the fundraising post was published, more than 20,000 yuan was raised. The Liu Yonghao Foundation also paid attention to the matter and contacted Liu Feng. 18 years ago, Oriental Hope Group (a private enterprise founded by Liu Yonghao and his brothers) donated 5,000 yuan to Liu Fucheng. After confirming the illness and the donation 18 years ago, the person in charge of the Liu Yonghao Foundation said to Liu Feng, "The chairman remembers you. This time, the Liu Yonghao Foundation will also donate.

Miss

On the first day of emergency check-in in the hospital, Liu Shuai was lying in the intensive care unit, and Yu Jinxia watched the night while standing outside the door. She remembered that it was the same 18 years ago, standing outside the guardianship every day and watching, Liu Shuai fell asleep and moved her feet, which could make her happy for a long time. That experience made Yu Jinxia overtired, so much so that she always felt that she was "not good at braining". This time, after Liu Shuai was transferred from the emergency department to the cardiac surgery ward, she still stayed by Liu Shuai's bedside almost every inch.

"We stayed in the hospital for 34 days, went up on the evening of January 22, and came back on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month (February 25), which was the coldest period in our northeast, and the year was also spent in the hospital." Yu Jinxia recalled the days of hospitalization, "Liu Shuai slept on the hospital bed, there was a stool next to the bed, and it was a small bed when it was pulled out, and I slept there." She can't go to the ground, drink water, go to the toilet, hang up the bottle, what's the matter, and she can't leave me for a while. ”

Liu Shuai had a total of three surgeries, and she also had two temporary pacemakers installed before the pacemaker was installed. Her condition was so severe that her heart blood supply was insufficient, and she fainted when she moved, so she could only lie on the hospital bed, and she needed surgery to install a temporary pacemaker before each examination. At the first examination, her white blood cells were more than twice the normal range, and she was given medication for a period of time to lower the value; The second test was normal, and she had a formal operation.

Every time after surgery, Liu Shuai had to lie motionless on the bed for 24 hours, waiting for the wound to recover, Yu Jinxia looked distressed, "The child suffered, I cried that night after installing the permanent pacemaker, there was no night and half a night, and if it hurts, I have to use a salt bag to press the knife edge for 6 hours." I said that she didn't listen either, she still cried, and when she cried enough, she fell asleep, and woke up and said it still hurts. ”

Another surgery to install an artificial valve, Yu Jinxia decided not to do it. The doctor showed her Liu Shuai's chest X-ray, the aorta and the pulmonary artery look very different, the pulmonary artery is as small as a capillary, "The doctor said that he couldn't stitch it up after surgery, why should it be done?" I didn't do it with my son, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to get off the operating table, so I got a pacemaker and lived as many years as I wanted. ”

In late March, Liu Feng went to the hospital to get the settlement bill and went back to Lishu County to go through the medical insurance reimbursement procedures. When Liu Shuai was born in 2005, the new type of rural cooperative medical care had not yet been popularized in Lishu County, and a report from a working conference on the pilot work of the new rural cooperative medical system in Jilin Province that year showed that the county would not be piloted until 2006. In 2011, Siping City reported its work results to the Jilin Provincial Medical Reform Office, and the participation rate of NCMS has reached 98.9%. In 2021, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Improving the Medical Insurance and Assistance System for Serious and Serious Diseases", proposing to further reduce the burden of medical expenses on people in difficulty and patients with serious illnesses through medical insurance for serious and serious diseases.

After Liu Shuai went to primary school, Yu Jinxia began to enroll her in NCMS every year. This time, Liu Shuai's medical expenses in the General Hospital of the Northern Theater totaled more than 90,000 yuan, and the basic medical insurance reimbursed 31,900 yuan, and Liu Shuai's family belonged to the scope of medical insurance assistance for serious diseases, and could also be reimbursed for the second time through serious illness insurance, with a reimbursement amount of 21,900 yuan, and the final self-payment part was less than 40,000 yuan.

Looking back on the experience of raising money for treatment, Feng Xiang was full of emotion, "It's like friends who fought together 18 years ago got together and fought a battle again." ”

Zhang Liyan feels that people have feelings when they know each other, "After so many years, I just remember it anyway." When Liu Shuai was in vocational school, he had people call to communicate with counselors and planned to pay for the next two years. Liu Shuai dropped out of school to work, and he went to visit him once with 5,000 yuan. On the night of Liu Shuai's visit to Shenyang this time, Zhang Liyan hurriedly asked someone to send 20,000 yuan, "Don't delay her inspection." ”

As he said this, Zhang Liyan sat in his office, with a chicly colored portrait of Guan Gong hanging at the door, and he said, "Guan Gong is my idol." ”

Zhang Liyan had been working on a construction project around a village in Liaohe, and when he learned that there was a family in the village, both husband and wife were suffering from uremia, their daughter had a language barrier, and their house had been washed down by heavy rain, so he donated 10,000 yuan to the family. The little girl of this family came to the project base to express her gratitude, Zhang Liyan listened to her vague pronunciation with great difficulty, and directly paid someone to help them build a new house, "Four tiled houses and courtyards, and the door bricks have been completed, the best house in their village." ”

A rural girl with a congenital cardiovascular malformation suffered from a recurrence of the disease 18 years later

Yu Jinxia cultivates tomato seedlings with foam boxes (Southern People Weekly reporter Big Food/Picture)

future

After Liu Shuai was discharged from the hospital and went home, Liu Feng told her that she must lose weight, "The pressure on the heart is too great." "Losing weight is a difficult thing for Liu Shuai, she has never lost weight since she was a child. Liu Feng guessed that this might be related to the fact that she used too many drugs in the hospital when she was a child, and she didn't dare to use diet pills again. Liu Shuai couldn't exercise either, and after falling ill this time, his physical strength was even weaker, and he would pant up and down the stairs. Liu Feng pinched the meat on Liu Shuai's face and sighed, "Eat less and eat more fruits." ”

The age difference between the brother and sister is too great, and the two don't spend much time together. 10 days before Liu Shuai was born, Liu Feng just went to Shandong to work, and the first time the two met was when Liu Shuai went to Siping to see a doctor. A few years later, Liu Feng established his own family, and the first daughter was born, followed by a second daughter, and he was busy supporting the family. But the relationship between the brother and sister has always been very good, "No matter what happens, every time I go home, I will rub her face like this." "Liu Feng is used to buying three servings of snacks, two daughters, Liu Shuai's," she treats as the eldest child in the family. ”

After settling down with his family, Liu Feng went to Daqing, Heilongjiang to find a job, and he was also going to Guangxi to transport second-hand cars with friends, no matter what, he couldn't stay at home anymore, he needed to make money. "At least I can make money by doing my best. But in your hometown, you can only rely on God, let you have a bumper harvest this year, you will earn more, this year there is a drought and waterlogging, there is no money to spend. Young people have to go out to work. ”

Only Yu Jinxia and Liu Shuai are left in the village, and Liu Shuai has to recuperate at home for at least half a year, and he has to go to Shenyang regularly for re-examination. Most of the time at home, they each looked at their mobile phones and stayed in their respective rooms - Yu Jinxia has been a little behind her ears in recent years, and her voice is turned on to the maximum when she brushes short videos, Liu Shuai is not happy, and Yu Jinxia goes back to her room.

Yu Jinxia will also worry in her heart, how should Liu Shuai find a partner? "It's hard work, it's impossible for her to have children, who can approve of it under normal circumstances?" Liu Shuai can't always stay at home, "What's the point of staying?" I thought that she could do whatever she could, at least go out to exercise, and earn as much as she could. She didn't mind raising Liu Shuai, "But what if we have that day?" ”

Since the birth of her daughter, Yu Jinxia has had too many things to worry about, but she has never regretted giving birth to Liu Shuai. She grew up in a patriarchal family, and she was not allowed to study if she wanted to, and she is still illiterate. When Liu Shuai was born, she thought to herself, "My daughters are all the same." ”

Liu Shuai plans to go to Xishuangbanna as originally planned after recovering. But Yu Jinxia was not used to the days when Liu Shuai left home, "I'm used to being with my daughter." My girl didn't leave me, except for school. After Liu Shuai went to work in Dongguan Electronics Factory, Yu Jinxia followed her fellow villagers to find a job in an aluminum factory in Tianjin. She also wanted to be in the same place as Liu Shuai, but the factory in Dongguan did not recruit older workers, and Liu Shuai was even less likely to adapt to the heavy labor of the aluminum factory.

After resigning, Liu Shuai went directly to Tianjin to live with Yu Jinxia. They built a big bed with two single beds in the factory's board room, and when Yu Jinxia went to work, Liu Shuai stayed alone in the board room. After another three months, Yu Jinxia also quit her job and left by train with Liu Shuai. She is illiterate, no one has ever gone out, and she needs Liu Shuai to lead her home.

Resources:

"Poor Father Writes Letter to Six Richest Men in China for Seeking Medical Treatment for His Daughter" (Huashang Morning Post, January 23, 2006)

"Poor Father Writes Letter to Rich Man to Save Daughter Continued: The Richest Man Responds and Expresses Willingness to Donate" (Huashang Morning Post, January 24, 2006)

"Farmers Ask the Rich for Help to Save Their Daughters: Daughters Have Not Been Taken Off Their Ventilators" (CCTV, "Common Concern", February 15, 2006)

Southern People Weekly reporter Nie Yangxin

Editor-in-charge: Chen Yafeng

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