The cinema presents flowers, certificates of honor and thank-you letters to Liu Xueke (left) and Shen Lu (right).
Letters of thanks written for the girls by the trapped people who had been helped by the "ferry girl"
On September 1, this newspaper published a search for "7.20" to guide the girl
On September 2, this newspaper published an invitation to frontline workers who had taken shelter from the rain in theaters and fought against floods to watch the film for free.
□ photo courtesy of Hou Bingyuwen, a reporter of Dahe News
On the first day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a reporter from Dahe News got good news from the love cinema that took in thousands of people in the torrential rains of Zhengzhou on July 20 - the "ferry girl" that the cinema had been looking for on the night of the rainstorm was finally found, and it was two "00" girls. The two girls led hundreds of strangers trapped near the cinema to the cinema on a rainy night to take shelter and rest their feet, and were affectionately called "ferry girls" by netizens.
Cinema: "My wish has finally come true"
In the reporter's previous interview, Yang Zhen, marketing director of the Oscar Huadan store of Zhengzhou Oriental Jiahe Cinema, mentioned this "ferry girl" more than once. On the afternoon of the 7.20 rainstorm, when Yang Zhen was preparing to take the subway home, he was told that the subway was out of service. While waiting at the subway station, Yang Zhen saw many people trapped in the subway station with nowhere to go. When he returned to the theater, he sent out a message in various fan groups that the theater could provide a resting place. On the night of the 7.20th rainstorm, people who received news kept going to the theater to take shelter and rest. During this period, Yang Zhen has been hearing from the people who came to say that they are talking about a girl, it is this girl, who has been walking around the subway station and the cinema, bringing the news that the trapped people can go to the theater to rest, and braving the heavy rain to lead the way to the downstairs of the cinema for everyone.
After learning about this girl's actions, Yang Zhen secretly thought in his heart that he must see this girl and thank her well. After the rainstorm, Yang Zhen continued to look for this "ferry girl" through the media such as the Big River Newspaper, and also prepared a bouquet of flowers on the theater seat to wait.
On the evening of September 19, Yang Zhen received a strange phone call, and the voice of a girl who could not cry came from the other end of the phone. The girl then said that it was she and another girl who led a hundred strangers to the cinema on a rainy night. Knowing that the "ferry girl" was found, Yang Zhen was very excited, and immediately invited the two girls to come to the theater the next day.
On September 20, two "ferry girls" went to the cinema as promised, and Yang Zhen, who had been looking for them, "met head-to-head". "I can count on finding you, thank you for braved the heavy rain that night to guide everyone, many people are very worried about you." After speaking, Yang Zhen sent flowers to the two girls that had been prepared. Among the flowers, there are also notes written by the theater and the caring people who have been helped: "That day, you waded into the water to help so many people, I would like to ask you to come back, still in that hall, this time do not avoid the rain, just watch a movie in a down-to-earth manner." "You, who have a good heart, were brave and determined, helped many people on that rainy night, and led us to find a place to live in the flood. Thank you, the most beautiful Zhengzhou girl! ”
"I was really excited, very excited, and the heart that had been worrying about it relaxed, and the wish was finally fulfilled." Yang Zhen told the Reporter of the Great River News in this way.
"Ferry Girl": Just did a trivial thing
The reporter learned that the two girls are named Shen Lu and Liu Xueke, who are still college students, Shen Lu is a sophomore at Henan Light Industry Vocational College, and Liu Xueke is a junior student at the Yellow River Institute of Science and Technology, both of whom are "00" post-00s. When the rainstorm occurred, they happened to be working part-time in the mall near the movie theater, and when they went downstairs to buy something, they saw many trapped people in the nearby supermarket and the building. "There were a lot of people in the supermarket who bought things, and when we talked to them, we realized that many of them were foreigners, and there was no place to go this night." Shen Lu told reporters. Subsequently, she and Liu Xueke returned to the store to rest, until one o'clock in the morning, Shen Lu saw the news that the theater could be rested by others, and then she and Liu Xueke immediately hit it off, decided to go downstairs to the supermarket and building, and told the trapped people the news.
When the trapped people learned that there was finally a place to rest, they immediately left for the movie theater. But then another conundrum arises: the trapped people don't know the road. In order to help the trapped people to go to the cinema as soon as possible to rest, Shen Lu and Liu Xueke braved the heavy rain and went back and forth between supermarkets, buildings and subway stations one foot deep and one foot shallow, to guide people.
"Still scared. At that time, the rain was relatively heavy and the water was quite deep, so the two of us held hands and moved little by little. Shen Lu told reporters that on the way, she also accidentally stepped on a large pit, when "I was scared to death, thinking that the sewer that was washed off the manhole cover was about to fall."
Even though they were very scared, Shen Lu and Liu Xueke still went back and forth several times, sending hundreds of strangers downstairs to the theater. It wasn't until after 4 a.m. that the two returned to the part-time shop, by which time their clothes had been drenched and blown dry by the air-conditioned warm wind.
When they knew that all of Zhengzhou were looking for them, how did the two girls feel? "We were very excited. The news of looking for someone was seen by a friend and forwarded to us, at first we did not believe that we were looking for us, and then we watched it many times to be sure that it was us. Shen Lu said that the moment she saw the news, the tears came out, and she couldn't believe that anyone remembered this incident. ”
In addition to flowers, Yang Zhen's theater also presented two girls with honorary certificates, hired them to become honorary employees of the theater, and gave them two cinema membership cards, which can be watched for free unlimited times.
"In fact, watching movies is secondary to us, and we feel like we're just doing a small thing that a new-age college student should do." This movie card represents more of an honor. Shen Lu and Liu Xueke told reporters that they will treasure the movie card well, and use this to motivate themselves to continue to help the people around them in life in the future.