Serialized by Liu Ling's old article in the old newspaper: reportage

*"Life and Love" was published in full in Guizhou Daily on April 2, 1994, and I re-serialized the excerpt. Salute to life!

A young female worker

I don't know Liao Hong, but I read the "proposal" and called on the majority of league members and young people to extend a hand of friendship and help our young friend Liao Hong. She was an ordinary female worker who was only 24 years old and unfortunately suffered from cancer.

About 10 days ago, Liao Hong was escorted by her husband and younger brother to the obstetrics department of Guiyang Railway Hospital. She's about to become a mother. As a woman, motherhood is a vocation. It is not difficult to imagine the mood of this ordinary young woman, who is looking forward with hope to the most exciting moment. How her husband, brother, and co-workers blessed her. Unfortunately, Liao Hong fell. In fact, even if she didn't fall, a huge and ruthless shadow had already enveloped her young life, but no one had noticed it yet. In fact, the tragedy had happened quietly a long time ago, and Liao Hong's superficially intact body was being brutally devoured by cancer cells. She had been in pain and stuffy, but she mistakenly thought it was just a normal pregnancy reaction. Even if these details are not ignored, there are more regrets and more comforts, can "not very developed" medicine really save her strong and fragile life?

A short, thin woman was lying on a pristine white operating table. Before Liao Hong underwent a caesarean section, she and her loved ones were still in the dark about the impending disaster. With her mother's nature, she thought about the future of her children; Liao Hong wants to say to the child, this is the season when spring is coming, the flowers in the streets and alleys are about to bloom, happy doll, you came at the right time. I don't know why, Liao Hong especially misses the days of pregnancy in October, which are slow, difficult, and sweet. The child kicks, rolls over, and even practices boxing in the mother's belly. Presumably, this is also the complicated mood that most women who are about to become mothers have! The result of the examination was stillborn, a large amount of accidental bleeding when it should not have been bleeding, and the blood that spurted out even sprinkled the doctors and nurses all over their faces. Soon after, he was diagnosed with liver cancer.

Medicine is a science that is never satisfying. The fight against cancer is still far away, and it is almost always taking our precious human lives. Liao Hong is too young after all. Not to mention that in her short twenty-four years of life, she had suffered many times more than her peers, and from the appearance alone, she was not at all conspicuous, like a small grass that grew casually in a field, by the railway, or on a hillside. But the vitality is so tenacious, so tenacious that you even feel that death has nothing to do with her.

When Liao Hong was a child, she lived with her mother in a small train station called Tianlong, which was in extremely poor conditions, and she died when she had measles. Mother carried her to Guiyang, and the people were already dying. Mom sat on the edge of the hospital bed, didn't dare to close her eyes for three days and three nights, everyone thought that Xiao Liao Hong was dead, but she defeated death. On the fourth day, she opened her closed eyes and saw the sunlight on the windowpane again. There is an old Chinese saying: If you don't die in a big disaster, you will have a blessing. It stands to reason that Liao Hong's life should be smooth. In fact, bad luck always inadvertently knocks on the doors and windows of the weak. At that time, my father didn't care about the family, my mother was running a sports car in the passenger section, and my younger brother was only a few years old. She studied in a primary school five kilometers away from home, and calculated the days when her mother ran home in a sports car, Liao Hong ran home after school, always tidying up the house, and then going to pick up her mother on the platform. She took her brother's hand and waited in a fixed position each time. When my mother got off the train, she always gave the good food to her brother and her. Liao Hong could see that her mother was getting thinner and thinner every time. In 1988, my mother fell ill with liver cancer. Xiao Liao Hong stayed by the bedside and never left, feeding her mother food and water. One day, the mother woke up from her slumber, grabbed her daughter's little hand, and said to her: "No matter how difficult it will be in the future, Liao Hong, don't leave your two younger brothers behind!" At that time, Liao Hong didn't expect her mother to die at all. Mom died. Since then, Liao Hong, who is only eighteen years old, has taken on the burden of the family. One day, my father came back from outside drunken and left after rummaging through the cabinets, and heard that he had gone to Chengdu to marry a woman, and he was never heard from again. Thousands of miles away, and there was no exact address, Liao Hong also broke off the idea of looking for it. Originally, Liao Hong was about to graduate from high school, and Ba Xinba wanted to take the university entrance examination, but he had to drop out in order to pull his two younger brothers. recruited workers on the railway, and she went to the exam and was admitted. The eldest brother was also admitted to the work examination at the age of seventeen, and he could breathe a sigh of relief when he saw it, but the hemp rope was broken, and the eldest brother worked for a month, and his foot was pressed by the train.

One blow after another, Liao Hong couldn't bear it, and hid in the quilt alone and cried to death. But wiping away her tears, she bravely faced tomorrow. She takes care of her younger brothers to eat and sleep every day, washes their clothes until they turn white, and quickly mends them when they are broken. She didn't want to tell outsiders to say, you see, these children who have no father and no mother are really pitiful. Mom is dead. Now my sister is my mother. Whenever Liao Hong sat alone under the lamp in the dead of night, remembering the joy when her mother was there, she suddenly found that tears blurred her eyes.

She and her husband Xiao Li met in the staff single dormitory. My husband would often lie down on the side of the bed and say, "Wait for me to watch our son practice boxing." She would also caress his hairy chestnut head, and her eyes were full of affection. Mom died early, and Dad was so irresponsible and left, and now her husband is her dearest. Xiao Li is an honest man, and when he was in love, Liao Hong said to him: I have two younger brothers, and I am still young, I can't leave them alone. Xiao Li said: It's your younger brother, that is, my younger brother, and they will live with us after they get married. Look, how lively their family of four is! After having a home, Liao Hong also had something to rely on, and wanted to make up for the lost learning, participate in the adult self-study college entrance examination, and was elected as the 38 Red Flag Bearer twice, and became a pacesetter in the technical assessment. Liao Hong is a particularly strong person in the end. Now, doctors say she has only three months left to live. I prayed for her, hoping it was a misdiagnosis. Otherwise, you're too cruel, God. The reality is so cruel.

After learning of her sister's true condition, Liao Hong's two younger brothers hugged and cried outside the ward door. They have always regarded their sister as their mother. They don't want to, and can't lose, their mom again. Liao Hong's leaders and workers came to visit the hospital. She said, "The doll is dead." Everyone pale to persuade her: nothing! Liao Hong, you are still young, everything can start again. Liao Hong, you have to be strong and get through! Faith can sometimes defeat the disease, it's fate.

Sometimes we always complain that we are not as good as others, think of Liao Hong. What a young life! I often think that the very existence of life is happiness. Maybe it's really right, stay in the green mountains, and you're not afraid of running out of firewood. In an interview, I mentioned to Liao Hong's husband Xiao Li about asking for help from the society, and he and his wife are ordinary people who have been unknown and don't want to start a teacher now. But the tragedy of Liao Hong's fate still deeply shocked my heart.

Because of Liao Hong, the world once had an extra ray of sunshine. With the existence of an older sister like Liao Hong, there is a lot of warmth, tenderness and truth in the hearts of younger brothers. Because of Liao Hong's surroundings, when facing bad luck, we will increase our bravery and confidence in fighting. I saw a life lying quietly on the hospital bed that was never willing to give in. Oh, my young, kind, and never-flinching friend Liao Hong, people who love life all over the world pray for you and sincerely wish you a speedy recovery!