"Thank you for coming to visit us from afar, with your help and care, our family can see hope." Listening to this thank you coming from not far away, as soon as I turned back, I saw Chen Xiankui on crutches and kept waving at us, while moving his body towards us with difficulty. In the drizzle, he ignored the cold rain that wet his face, just to catch up with us and say a word of thanks. This father's slow and clumsy actions made all of us present moved. And his story is far more touching than that.
01. Physical accident disability They struggle bravely
Chen Xiankui and his wife in Xinmin Town, Fengjie County, are both disabled.
When Chen Xiankui was 8 months old, his parents were busy with farm work, there was no time to take care of him, let his brother who was only three or four years old take care of him, and as a result, when he was roasting the fire, he accidentally rolled in the fire and was burned, resulting in a disability of the lower limbs, a mutilated finger of the left hand, a first-degree disability of the limbs, and then walked without crutches. When Chen Xiankui's wife was 9 years old, she fell from a height and fell, causing a chiropractic lateral bend and becoming a second-degree disability of her limbs, and she could only live on her back.
Although physically disabled, they did not give up on themselves, and the husband and wife firmly aimed to fight a world with their own hands. After several turns, the couple took a fancy to the skillful craft of curtain making. The husband and wife humbly studied and mastered this craft of survival.
Since then, they have used two sewing machines to sew a happy life for a family of five, and they have laid down a small façade of their own on the street, and arranged a warm residence for the family upstairs.
"Although we are disabled, we can barely work, earn a little more, and the children's lives are a little better, as long as they want to study, I will definitely support it." Speaking of dedication to the child, Chen Xiankui's eyes were full of determination.
02. Raising three children They are proud and proud
Compared with his curtain skills, Chen Xiankui is most proud of his three favorite children, the eldest daughter Chen Chunyan is currently studying at Zhejiang University, the second daughter Chen Junling is currently studying at Chongqing City Science and Technology College, and the younger son is currently in the second year of high school at Fengjie Middle School. The three sisters and brothers have a dazzling report card from childhood to adulthood, all of which are "other people's children" in the eyes of everyone.
"The two of us adults have no culture since childhood, only a few days of schooling, the children can have today's results, it is their own efforts." For Chen Xiankui, who is not rich, the pressure of raising three children can be imagined, but he still does his best, as long as it is for the sake of his children's learning, he never gives up.
In 2017, the eldest daughter was admitted to zhejiang university with an excellent score of 639 points in the Russian language major, and after going to college, because of her excellent results, she was sent to Russia to study for half a year in 2019. The second daughter also relied on her own efforts to be admitted to college. Now the eyes of the whole family are focused on the younger brother again, hoping that he can be like the two sisters, the title of the gold list.
03. Life encounters difficulties Social assistance to solve the crisis
Now the child is Chen Xiankui's biggest expectation, his biggest wish is to let the three children successfully complete their studies, but this simple wish has now become a difficult problem for him.
Originally relying on the husband and wife's craftsmanship to barely maintain a dull life, the past two years have become stretched.
With the transfer of the population of the town to the city, the demand for curtains is declining, and in recent years, under the impact of e-commerce, the business in the store is becoming more and more difficult. This year's sudden epidemic has made the store not open for several months, and the family's life has become difficult to maintain.
Everyone is born ordinary, but because of different circumstances, they go to a completely different life journey. In their stories, we see the tenacity and hard work of this family, who are not afraid of the tribulations of fate and have composed immortal chapters in ordinary lives.