Five years ago, five years had passed since we were investigating how a sick and dead pork had flowed into the table, and the camera and I had gone deep into an underground slaughterhouse, but the thrilling scenes of that time still seemed to be happening right in front of us.
As soon as we entered this slaughterhouse, we did not expect that there was a big wolf dog in it, and the dog began to bark when it saw the raw person, and a dozen illegal traders immediately found us, and they took the knife to kill the pig and the big iron hook hanging the pork, and rushed to us. It was the craziest five-hundred-meter sprint of my life, the kind of sprint that I tried my best, the kind of running that came from the bottom of my heart, let me know that this was the escape.
When we got to safety, the camera turned on his DV, and as soon as I looked, there was a very panicked picture in the slaughterhouse, and he also took a picture of someone chasing us with a knife. It turned out that he actually raised the DV of this camera above his head, and then turned it upside down, running and running for his life while filming the people chasing us with knives behind him. In fact, everyone thinks that this posture is quite ridiculous, why? When you were doing the 100-meter sprint, your arm couldn't be shaken off, so he looked particularly funny, but at that moment we were all very scared.
As a journalist, this colleague of mine did his part. Because as a watchman of the public interest, his camera is his eyes, and when ming's dangling pig-killing knife rushes towards him, which one person is not afraid, but he does not close his eyes.
Four years ago, I met a food industry whistleblower who I still can't mention the specific news event. He is a quality inspector in the quality supervision department of a well-known food enterprise, and he has seen many times on the production line that the production department puts expired raw materials on the production line for direct use. He went to his superiors and his supervisor about it, and his supervisor told him four words: Don't cause trouble. He was helpless and didn't know what to do. However, he still recorded the batch of illegal additions and the time of illegal additions to his own small book, and then called the TV station to break the news.
The first time I met him, I told him, I said if what you say is true, we will make this matter public after investigation, we will not say who you are, but the other party may also guess, are you ready for this? He said that the night he actually saw me, he couldn't sleep, he couldn't sleep, he had to fall asleep, and suddenly he had a dream, and he dreamed that a group of people ran to the school where his daughter was studying and kidnapped his daughter, and he woke up at once. He thought about it, hesitated, and finally came to see me.
After more than half a year of investigation, we have made public this food safety incident that seriously endangers public safety, the relevant enterprises have been shut down, and the relevant responsible persons have been arrested for criminal punishment. But he lost his job and received a phone call threat, and I saw him for the second time and asked him: "Things are getting so big now, are you afraid or not?" He looked at me, his eyes revealing a sense of uneasiness, but said, "Afraid, but not regretful." ”
As a food safety gatekeeper, he has done his duty, his records are always true, even his work is almost impossible to keep, he is helpless, but his pen does not stop.
Three years ago, I started squatting and shooting the medical documentary "The Human World". While squatting at Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai to shoot, I met a patient who was a patient with Marfan syndrome in cardiac surgery. This kind of patient is commonly known as Spider-Man, because his aorta will expand at any time, just like a plastic bag, you have been pulling all the time, one day this aorta is particularly brittle, it will crack, it will bleed to death, many hospitals will not accept such patients, why? Because there are not many ways to do with medicine now. The doctor called Ma Fan syndrome "trouble syndrome", but Zhao Qiang, director of the department of cardiac surgery at Ruijin Hospital, accepted it, and he said to me: "How can I tell him, I let him go home and wait for death?" If his aorta was broken one day out of nowhere, was there a way to replace the aorta throughout his body, and I replaced it with artificial blood vessels. ”
It was a 16-hour super-large-scale vascular major surgery, I stood in the operating room and watched, 16 hours, Zhao Qiang and his team little by little replaced the aorta of the person's whole body with artificial blood vessels. This operation turned out to be the end. Just as we were getting ready to celebrate, the next day, the patient passed away because of the postoperative complications of kidney failure.
Not long after, Ruijin Hospital came to another patient with Marfan syndrome, and at this time Zhao Qiang's team had a lot of different opinions, and many people were saying, "Now there are TV reporters filming here, if we fail again, it will really be messed up." "It is possible to take advantage of Zhao Qiang's reputation as a doctor for decades, will Zhao Qiang not know?" He was actually not unsafe, but he still took the patient down, replaced her aorta with artificial blood vessels, and he said to me: "I went down with this knife, I know too much what it means, but I still can't say it, do I let her go home and wait for death?" ”
As a doctor, Zhao Qiang fulfilled his responsibility, that is, no matter what kind of difficulties occurred, he always had to find a way for the patient, even at the risk of being discredited, but his scalpel did not stop.
The topic of today's conversation is responsibility. We sometimes wonder what a socially responsible person should be? Be brave, determined, and fearless.
In the years I have been a journalist, I have met these people, but they are just the opposite, they are in the moment of deciding to take responsibility, they are afraid, panicked, worried about sorrow, they live far less easily than others, and even very painful.
Therefore, the word "responsibility" has no sweet and beautiful side, it is only as cold as a rock, but even so, these people still tremble and choose a more difficult path for themselves.
Once on this road, in addition to the difficulty of moving forward, in fact, sometimes, there will be unexpected gains.
The whistleblower mentioned above, who lost his well-paid job, is now working as a property manager in a residential area in Shanghai, responsible for security work. One day he was watching TV in the monitoring room and saw a news story, the TV news is that China's food safety law is being revised, food safety experts said that the food safety incident he broke the news, the revision of china's food safety law, has played a great role in promoting. He was alone in the monitoring room, and the tears came down.
Zhao Qiang is also doing surgery at Ruijin Hospital, and his WeChat signature reads: Be happy every day, and his happiness refers to opening the patient's heart. It was precisely because of his surgery that the patient with Marfan syndrome just mentioned survived. One day, Zhao Qiang was sitting in the outpatient clinic of Ruijin Hospital, and suddenly this patient hung up an expert number of his four or five hundred yuan, queued for more than two hours, and then saw him, and Said to Zhao Qiang: In fact, today is not to see the doctor, or passed by Ruijin Hospital, suddenly remembered that today is his outpatient clinic, I want to meet him in person, and then say to him, I have been very good lately, thank you. He was busy all morning Zhao Qiang, in the batch of cases, changed cases, and then he heard this, suddenly did not know how to answer, tears came down.
Liang Qichao once said that life needs to understand the suffering of responsibility in order to understand the joy of responsibility. I think that only after taking on the burden of responsibility can you have a personal understanding of such a big vernacular.
As a journalist, I sometimes feel very lucky, because I can see different industries, see different people, when faced with the threshold of life, what kind of choices they make, because they have no way to avoid themselves, no way to be indifferent inside.
From those who have a sense of social responsibility, the most valuable point I can appreciate is that they recognize the mud of reality, and they also experience the infinite darkness that people's hearts can release, and they can also release the infinite light, after experiencing setbacks, failures, worries, and fears, they still do not avoid the heavy responsibility on their bodies, and they carry the faith they have accumulated at the beginning of life in their hearts, as the most precious treasure, and go all the way.
I'm shooting TV, and I often have images in my head.
One of the images that I often come up with is that this group of people is such a group of people:
They were walking at night with torches in their hands, their bodies red and hot, but they still couldn't penetrate the darkness in front of them, so they had to go forward in fear.
I walked behind them with many people, and all I saw was the raging fire.
Thank you.
• end •