Suffering from vasculitis since childhood, resulting in a first-class disability, no fingers and toes, 32-year-old Peng Jiang, a young man from Chengcheng, Shaanxi Province, learned to embroider cross-stitch, not only embroidered the "Qingming Riverside Map", but also rode 200,000 kilometers throughout most of China for many years, and broadcast live in the "RV" every day.
Peng Jiang is embroidering cross-stitch Photo: Qiang Jun
On the morning of May 16, a reporter from Huashang Daily Gale News made a special trip to the second group of Pengjiahe Village, Jiaodao Town, Chengcheng County, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, and met Peng Jiang. He said that he wants to sell the food in his hometown Chengcheng through e-commerce, and wants to share his story with more people, so as to bring the courage to life to friends who encounter adversity.
sicken
I lost my fingers and toes, and I couldn't think about it for a while
Pengjiang dropped out of primary school before finishing school, because he suffered from vasculitis at that time, and his hands and feet kept blistering and began to fester, and when he was 16 or 7 years old, his fingers and toes fell off by themselves.
Soon after he fell ill, Peng Jiang had extreme thoughts, "When I was a child, I lived with my grandparents, and I remember that it was summer, and at night I lay in bed and thought wildly, feeling that my friends around me were far away from me, so I found a bottle of pesticide at home to drink." Fortunately, the bottle of pesticide has expired for a long time, and there is nothing wrong with people. Peng Jiang said that later his grandmother found out and sent him to the hospital for gastric lavage, and since then he has never thought of giving up his life. ”
Affected by vasculitis, Peng Jiang had his left foot amputated once, "My current prosthesis is mechanical, one is 20 pounds, and I can't run at all when I wear it." If you want to have a good prosthesis in the future, you will have to have another amputation, and I hope to use an advanced prosthesis in the future, which is good and lightweight. ”
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I don't want to be a burden to my family, so I have met a lot of well-wishers when I wander away from home
Dropping out of school and getting sick, Peng Jiang began to wander in Chengcheng County at a young age. In retrospect, "It was the hardest time. Peng Jiang said that Chengcheng County is not big, everyone knew him at the time, and knew that it was a nearby baby, not a liar, so they were all good to him.
There was an experience that made Peng Jiang can't help but raise his voice when he talks about it now, "I was on the road with a board cart and sat on the road from 6 o'clock in the morning for a day, and one day it was very hot at noon, and I sat there and took a nap." At about three o'clock in the afternoon, the box in front of him was taken away, and the income of one day in it was two or three hundred yuan. I didn't know how to use crutches at that time, and I walked by crawling. Sitting there crying, an aunt passing by came to ask me what was wrong, I told me about the situation, and the aunt gave me 200 yuan. ”
Peng Jiang still remembers the process of leaving home at that time. The first time was in March 2012, when I didn't want to be a burden on my family, I wanted to go to a place where no one was and disappear from my home. "My family went to work in the fields, caught me, and didn't make it." Two months later, Peng Jiang made an appointment with a friend to run away from home on May 3, 2012 to wander, "At that time, my mother had already gone to Xi'an to work, and my friend pulled me to the county seat, and I told my grandmother that I would not go home at night and take a cool place outside." Peng Jiang later heard from his grandmother that his grandfather had been looking for him all night.
On the first night of running away from home, Peng Jiang slipped to a hospital with a cardboard box and secretly nested for one night, earning 323 yuan on the first day of wandering and begging. Later, the hospital found out that he was not allowed to stay, "I suffered a big crime on the night I left the hospital, and as soon as I left the hospital door, it rained heavily, so I crawled in the rain and climbed into the corridor of a unit building to sit for the night." ”
Later, he heard from passers-by that there was an "ATM" room to shelter from the wind and rain, "At that time, I didn't know what an ATM was, but then I found it, and I stayed there, went to sleep at night, and left before going to work at the bank." Peng Jiang said that he didn't want to go home at that time, because going home was a burden on the family, and he didn't want to cause trouble to the family.
In the process of wandering, well-wishers gave quilts, and caring people also gave them to meals. The kind-hearted eldest sister gave dumplings, and the passing students gave steamed buns, which made Peng Jiang feel warm in his heart.
Self-improvement
Set up a stall to learn to do cross-stitch, and practice embroidery with your mouth for a year
Slowly, Peng Jiang realized that begging was not the life he wanted. In 2014, he used the income he had saved for two years to buy an electric tricycle, with a shed, and began to run "bouncing", pulling people to run for 2 yuan a trip, "This is no longer accepting handouts from others, I am earning money by my own labor." ”
Peng Jiang said that after running for a year, he started setting up a stall in 2015 and 2016. The first time he bought the goods, Peng Jiang climbed on the bus and went to Xi'an Rehabilitation Road to buy goods, selling children's hairpins and bows, "Since then, you can buy goods by calling Rehabilitation Road, and now I don't sell those." ”
In the process of setting up the stall, Peng Jiang saw other women who were setting up the stall embroidering cross-stitch, so he studied and began to embroider. Mainly rely on the mouth to hold the needle, just at the beginning of the mouth piercing the hand, "the hand is so broken that I can't see it, the cross-stitch needle is still round." At that time, I couldn't stand embroidering for four or five hours a day, but now I can embroider for more than ten hours a day at most. ”
Peng Jiang said that when he heard someone say that cross-stitch can make money, he followed it and learned it, but when he embroidered it, he realized: "Oh, this is too laborious to make money!" ”
Mr. Peng said he had sold five or six of his works. "It used to cost 3,000 yuan per meter, but now the price is almost the same. Last year, I sold a "Welcome Pine", which is the highest price, more than 10,000 yuan. ”
In the old house of Pengjiang, there are still a few pieces in stock, "Peacock Picture" is nearly 3 meters long, "Qingming Riverside Picture" is 2 meters long, these are relatively large works, "Qingming Riverside Picture embroidered for more than two years, these I don't plan to sell these now, I want to keep a few short videos for use." The new work is embroidered and another one is sold. ”
While chatting with reporters, Peng Jiang's cross-stitch did not stop. Although he has no fingers, he cooperates with his hand and mouth, and his speed is even sharper than that of a normal person who is able-bodied.
"I've been proficient for so many years, and it took me almost a year to practice. Although I have a physical disability, I don't admit defeat in my heart, as long as I work hard, I can do what ordinary people can do. Peng Jiang demonstrated, two hands can still write.
A few years ago, Peng Jiang also bought an embroidery machine, which can embroider hundreds of pairs of insoles a day. "Then business was bad, so the machine was bought. I've always set up a stall selling insoles, and I still have five or six hundred pairs in stock. ”
wandering
The three-wheeled motorcycle was changed to an "RV", and it was ridden all over China
Since 2017, Peng Jiang has had a little friend - his "RV", he rides the RV wherever he goes, and there are beds and lights in the RV.
Peng Jiang driving his "RV" Photo: Qiang Jun
"We have a friend in the same city who lost his arms when he was a child with an electric shock, so he changed his own motorcycle and drove it with his feet. Inspired by him, I retrofitted my three-wheeled motorcycle to a container and converted it into an RV. Peng Jiang said that at that time, he found a welder, told him his idea, changed it in a week, and found a carpenter to install the inside of the box.
Since then, driving a small RV, "I have traveled to most of China, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Beijing, Shanghai, Sichuan, Shanxi, Shandong, and Northeast China." "It's been a third three-wheeler now." "Now I set up a stall, in addition to cross-stitch and insoles, I will also sell small water guns and small toys in summer.
"I especially wanted to go to Tibet, I tried to go once, but I didn't succeed halfway, and I couldn't stand it when I got to Qinghai." Peng Jiang said that he has been wandering everywhere over the years, and the outside world is completely different from what he imagined, and each place has its own customs, and he likes the northeast and northwest the most, "I like to go to these places the most when I wander." The people here are very straightforward and kind-hearted. ”
He said that these years have been relatively smooth, the car will be overhauled every year, "agricultural vehicles can not get on the highway, just go on the provincial road, up to 600 kilometers a day, the first day to set off, the next day to Beijing." In half a month, you can ride to the northernmost part of the Northeast, the junction of Russia. ”
target
I want to do e-commerce every day, and I hope that my experience can encourage others
Peng Jiang now has two plans. The first is to do e-commerce. In the past two years, Peng Jiang has participated in public welfare e-commerce training, and last winter he came into contact with live broadcasting, broadcasting live in RVs every day, starting at nine o'clock in the evening and broadcasting at one or two o'clock in the morning. "Wherever you go, you go. I also tried to start broadcasting earlier, or other time slots, but no one watched it, and the traffic was fast by 9 o'clock in the evening. ”
In addition to live broadcasts, Peng Jiang would shoot videos and materials in the afternoon, and his friends helped him cut the materials into videos and post them on his Douyin account. The biggest goal in his heart is to make food, agricultural and sideline products, and sell Chengcheng's water basin mutton through e-commerce, production and marketing.
Peng Jiang's second plan is to go into the public welfare team to help others. "I've been in the rain, so I want to hold an umbrella for someone else." Peng Jiang said that in real life, he has seen other disabled friends to give speeches and inspirational stories, bringing hope to other people's lives, and now he sees some able-bodied people complaining about life, Peng Jiang bluntly said that he doesn't like this, "Life is no matter what, you have to work hard, rely on your own struggle or a down-to-earth and happy life, do your best is the most important thing." ”
Peng Jiang is trying to do his own live broadcast e-commerce Photo: Qiang Jun
"I'm very grateful for my current life, there are very few negative emotions now, and Murakami has given all the help he should give. Last year, the director of a nursing home came to me and left me a house, and with their help, I spent the winter in the nursing home. Peng Jiang said that he occasionally went back to the old house in the summer, and the resettlement support project in the old house village was relocated, and there was no one for a long time.
In the small courtyard of Pengjiang's old house, a reporter from Huashang Daily Gale News saw that the entrance was full of green onions, cucumbers, eggplants, beans, etc., "This was planted with an uncle a few days ago, and the door of the house is Pengjiahe, and I come back every few days to water it." ”
family
On Mother's Day, I will send red envelopes to my mother, "I am very happy to be able to support myself"
Peng Jiang's parents now live in Xi'an, and when his father helped people in his early years, a tractor problem caused a car accident that caused a third-degree disability. Now that his mother works odd jobs in a restaurant, Peng Jiang contacts his family every three to five days, and his father always tells him to ride slowly. "My mom was very nice to me and called me often. She goes back to Chengcheng every half a month and brings me food. I always communicate with my family about what I think, and my family is very supportive. ”
On May 16, the family mentioned that Peng Jiang's current situation was very relieved, and although he was physically disabled, he was able to support himself. "I don't know how to buy gifts, so I sent a red envelope to my mother on Mother's Day, 1,000 yuan, so that my mother could buy something." Peng Jiang said that if there is something unsatisfactory, he will not mention it to his family, he will mediate by himself, and it will be fine in the past, "I don't want to be a burden to my family." ”
Fostering
The care center for the disabled provides accommodation for Pengjiang to enable the disabled to become self-reliant
Zhang Ning is the director of the Chengcheng County Hetong Elderly Apartment and the head of the Chengcheng County Disabled Persons Care Service Center, and is currently operating the disabled care program, including residential and home-based care.
"Peng Jiang's story touched many people, and many people in the local area knew that it was a very poor young man. Last year, someone introduced me to him at a condolence event. Zhang Ning said that when he went to see Peng Jiang, he lived with his grandmother, and he asked Peng Jiang to live in the care center at that time, "He likes to do live broadcasts, and I also want to help him make Douyin live broadcasts." ”
"In the past, this center only took care of the disabled and gave them food and shelter, but now I think that some of them are still young and can teach them to do some suitable handicrafts and so on, so I want them to do what they can, have their own income, be self-reliant, and reduce the burden on their families." Zhang Ning said that Peng Jiang is a good example of self-improvement and self-reliance, the young man is very optimistic, very positive, and indomitable, "Although he is physically disabled, he does not admit defeat." ”
Huashang Daily Gale News reporter She Xin Editor Li Zhi
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