"Thank you, thank you old irons, thank you, thank you for your attention."
Liu Guocheng, 43, has never said "thank you" so many times in a day as yesterday. In the 1.5-hour Kuaishou live broadcast room, he faced the fans who poured into the live broadcast room and repeated "thank you" over and over again.
He was so excited.
Just 4 hours before he started the live broadcast, the Tencent News WeChat plug-in, which delivered hundreds of millions of people every day, pushed the story of their family.
This 2-minute report by the new Beijing News video shows the plight of their family: the younger brother suffers from leukemia, the mother does not say goodbye, the 6-year-old daughter runs the housework but suffers from "severe henoch-scholastic purpura", and the father is in debt to take care of them...
Subsequently, Sina Micro Public Welfare and Tencent Public Welfare launched public welfare donation projects. Originally, the family was unlucky. But now, countless netizens have seen their stories and reached out to help when they are exhausted.
Because they were "seen," their predicament began to change. And all this must start from the father Liu Guocheng recorded and shared the family's life on Kuaishou.
survive
Liu Limei, 6 years old this year, lives in Pingshang Group 9, Xinshi Town, Leiyang City, Hunan Province.
Age-inappropriate first-class knife work and plating skills have given her 300,000 followers on Kuaishou in less than a year (Kuaishou nickname: look up?). Dawn, Kuaishou id: 971779854).
In her hand, a handful of celery can be turned into a beautiful skirt; a few carrots can be placed into a gorgeous peony; cucumbers with onions can be placed as "lotus pond moon color"; bitter melons with tomatoes can be arranged as "spring colors in the garden"; dragon fruit with kiwi fruit is a beautiful "sunflower"... In the world of vegetables, melons and fruits, Liu Limei shows the natural aura and innocence fantasy of a child.
Fish fried tofu, radish fried meat, leek scrambled eggs... Liu Limei took a spoon about the length of her arm and worked hard to stir-fry it on the low, simple coal stove. At the age when other children sang and danced and enjoyed their childhood, she had long been accustomed to the sudden rise of fire and the smoke on the stove, and used her weak shoulders to help her father support the family.
Liu Guocheng said that he did not want to cultivate the child's knife skills, "I want her to learn to survive."
destiny
Liu Guocheng is 43 years old this year, because of his family's poverty, he only found a partner at the age of 36, and then had a son and a daughter. At the beginning of a happy life, a succession of changes caught him off guard.
When his son Liu Gongzheng was more than 1 year old, he was diagnosed with "epilepsy" and needed long-term treatment. On New Year's Day 2018, he was diagnosed with "acute lymphoblastic leukemia". Even more unfortunately, the wife chose not to say goodbye after learning that her son was seriously ill, and has not been heard from since that day.
Therefore, her daughter Liu Limei dropped out of school due to her brother's illness and temporarily fostered herself in a relative's house. Liu Guocheng and the old mother have been caring for their sick son in the hospital, and the family's financial resources have been almost cut off. The family's savings have long been exhausted, the relatives and friends around him have long been borrowed, the debt is heavy, and there is really no way out, Liu Guocheng also borrowed 10,000 yuan of usurious loans.
Wave after wave of unevenness, when the son's later treatment fees had not yet landed, the daughter Liu Limei, who was 5 years old at the time, was diagnosed with "severe allergic purpura" and stomach disease. In the face of this huge change, Liu Guocheng almost collapsed. But he had to be strong, the children had lost their mothers, they could not lose their fathers again.
In order to reduce her father's burden, Liu Limei took up the burden of life, took care of her brother and was responsible for three meals a day. Her skilled knife work was honed in life, which was also an important lesson taught to her by her father: survival.
"Dawn"
After nearly a year of sending a video of his daughter's knife work to record the children's lives, Liu Guocheng's difficult family finally ushered in the dawn like his Kuaishou name.
On June 25, the video released the report "6-year-old female baby knife worker is superb and popular Father: Forced by the special life of the family", which attracted attention on the Internet. Under the report, the highest netizen comment was: "Some children have just learned to eat well, and some children have learned how to cook!" ”
On June 27, the report appeared on Tencent News's WeChat plugin. Tens of millions of netizens paid attention to this well-behaved and sensible girl. People not only encouraged her with warm words, but also consulted in the comments on how to help her.
Tencent News netizens who heard the news "occupied" Liu Guocheng's Kuaishou comment area. In just one day, he gained 100,000 followers.
Some enthusiastic netizens want to donate a set of knives suitable for children; some netizens want to send several sets of clothes to two children; and some people see their former self from Liu Limei's body, "simple and rude" and want to donate money to her.
On June 27, Sina Micro Charity and Tencent Charity successively launched a public welfare donation project. In less than 24 hours, the two projects have received 210,000 and 130,000 donations respectively.
On June 28, the Official Micro of the People's Daily, which has more than 90 million followers, also released the Weibo of "The Reason Behind the 6-Year-Old Girl's Chopping Cauliflower Pattern Plating makes People Tearful". Netizens have encouraged her to "grow up well."
On the afternoon of June 28, the reporter contacted Liu Guocheng, who said that he had been "shivering.". He's been busy these days. Many leaders at all levels in towns and villages and neighbors around them have come to their homes with gifts to offer condolences, and many media have come to interview them. "Thank you very much, thank you to the media, thank you to the caring people."
Everything is changing. Liu Limei, who originally dropped out of school at home, will also go to kindergarten to continue to attend the kindergarten.
At present, Liu Guocheng's family lives in a broken house, often visited by rats and snakes.
"When I have money, I'll change my brother's house, a house without rats." Liu Limei, 6, said.