10 years ago, 12-year-old Qin Mengyao was still in elementary school, she stood in front of Uncle Da's bed and said, "Uncle! It's okay, Grandma grandpa is gone, you and me, I will learn to take care of you! ”
10 years later, Qin Mengyao, who was already a third-year university student, left tanba village in Longxing Township, Wudu District, Longnan City, with his uncle to Lanzhou, where he had been studying and living for three years.
In Lanzhou in early December, temperatures had fallen below freezing. In the bungalow area of Dianzi Street in Donggang Town, Chengguan District, which is off the main road, this cold hut of eight or nine square meters is an old and a small home. Uncle Qinfeng was paraplegic and had been bedridden for 20 years. Niece Qin Mengyao, since the death of her grandmother and grandfather, has taken care of her uncle for 10 years without leaving...
The little girl's ten years of "careful calculation"
Qin Mengyao studied logistics management in the Department of Business Administration of Changqing College of Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics, and on the morning of December 7, Qin Mengyao, who was already a junior, trotted out of the campus and returned to her "home" not far from the school. Because of the early end of class, Qin Mengyao wanted to add a dish in addition to sauerkraut noodles at lunch and fry a shredded potato.
The hut had no heating or coal stove, and although a well-wisher had given them an air conditioner not long ago, it could not be turned on often. Because the average cost of the family can not exceed 70 yuan a day, otherwise there will be no money to buy medicine for the uncle who is paraplegic.
Although Qin Feng, who was lying motionless on the bed, rarely went out, his clothes under and off his body were clean and tidy, and even the collar of his shirt was washed clean. When Qin Mengyao's rapid footsteps came from outside the house, Qin Feng moved his gaze from the ceiling of the hut to the door.
"Bo, I'm back, early after class today, let's fry a potato silk ha at noon!" "The girl is back! Sit for a while and take a break! I'm not hungry yet! "Hmm!"
He said so, but Qin Mengyao still did not sit down to rest, put down the book, and began to prepare lunch.
"It wouldn't be expensive to eat from the cafeteria, would it?" "A box lunch is 8 yuan for one person, and a meal for two people will cost 16 yuan..." "We Wudu people love to eat sauerkraut noodles, sauerkraut is what I buy online, it can be much cheaper!" And the following strip is convenient and saves time! ”
While sharply cutting potato shreds, Qin Mengyao told the Lanzhou Morning Post handheld Lanzhou reporter that he did not learn mathematics very well, but what he thought about most every day was to calculate accounts, calculate time, and calculate expenses. It takes 6 minutes to walk quickly from school to the rental house, and it cannot take more than 1 hour to eat lunch, otherwise the afternoon class will be late. Flat rent, water and electricity, food expenses can not exceed 70 yuan per day, otherwise the uncle medicine money is not enough, every two hours at night to turn over the uncle, otherwise it is easy to grow pressure sores, as well as fixed points to take medicine, regular change of clothes...
Qin Mengyao, who is not very good at mathematics, has been "meticulously calculating" like this for a full 10 years, from primary school to university.
Grandparents are gone, and I am
"I used to be an English teacher in a middle school, and then I resigned and went to the sea to do business and pour medicinal herbs. Once, while transporting goods in an escort car, there was a car accident. Five years later, his wife left home and never came back..." Qin Feng told the Lanzhou Morning Post palm Lanzhou reporter that by the time he woke up in his hospital bed, he was already paraplegic, unable to move from neck down, incontinent. When his parents took him home, the doctor said he would have to be accompanied for the rest of his life. For the first 10 years, his elderly parents stayed with him and took good care of him until his death.
"I was 12 years old, and my grandmother and grandfather were gone. Because my family is not well-off, my father needs to work outside the home for a long time, my mother is not in good health, and I have a younger sister and a younger brother to take care of, so only I can take care of my uncle! Taking over uncle's words, Qin Mengyao told reporters that since she remembered, uncle had been lying on the bed. Although the uncle could not move, he was very good to her. On the learning problems, uncle can always explain them to her one by one. Until high school, in fact, uncle had been living with her family, her mother would prepare their meals, and every night she would accompany uncle like grandparents.
Looking around the cabin, a double bed, a writing desk, a simple electromagnetic stovetop, and a folding wheelchair standing in the corner, this is all the possessions of the two of them. Although the sun was shining outside the window, the cabin without heating facilities was cold, and the reporter's feet felt frozen after sitting for a while.
Speaking, Qin Mengyao had already prepared lunch. Qin Mengyao clipped out the shredded potatoes, covered the sauerkraut noodles in the bowl, and brought them to Qin Feng.
"Bo! dine! ”
Trying to raise his head, Qin Feng brought his mouth as close to the edge of the bowl as possible. Every time Qin Mengyao fed uncle a bite, he would quickly wipe the soup water stuck to the corner of his mouth with a towel.
Tough decision: Carry your uncle to school
"It's not easy for me to live, but it's even harder to die!" Our family is in the village, there is no high school, if you want to go to high school, you have to go to the county thirty kilometers away. That year, when Mengyao was about to take the middle school entrance examination, in order to take care of me, she actually chose to drop out of school! After eating, looking at his niece who was eating by the bedside, Qin Feng told reporters that in the three years of junior high school, Mengyao often ran home in order to take care of him in class, help him turn over, feed medicine, and give him defecation. For three years, Mengyao tirelessly ran between home and school, helping him turn over and get up at night every night. But even so, Mengyao's academic performance is still excellent.
When Mengyao, who was about to graduate from junior high school, dropped out of school in order to take care of him, Qin Feng suddenly realized that he could no longer live like this, could not drag his niece down, and could not ruin his niece's future. He thought about suicide, but after several efforts, he discovered a cruel fact that he did not even have the ability to commit suicide... Because at that time, except for the slightest movement of his head, the rest of his body could not move at all.
During the period when Qin Mengyao dropped out of school, Qin Feng kept telling his niece to study, to go to high school, and to go to college. But Mengyao was always reluctant to leave him, because she knew that if she left, Uncle Da would soon go with her grandparents.
In the end, Qin Mengyao made a difficult decision: carrying his uncle to high school.
Because she already knew Qin Mengyao's situation, the junior high school she had originally attended handled the re-study procedures for her. The following year, Qin Mengyao was admitted to the county high school with the second overall score of the high school. As she said, on the day of registration, she carried her uncle to the county town, stayed in a simple rental house, and began her education.
Those who are enthusiastic are supporting them
In the past three years, Qin Mengyao has survived the increasing burden of study and the heavy housework of taking care of her uncle. On the day the college entrance examination results were announced, Qin Mengyao's results were not ideal.
"At that time, I had only two choices for my score, either to choose a junior college with lower tuition or to enroll in three colleges with more expensive tuition. Because the tuition and living expenses of the previous high school were all donated by school reductions, government support and caring people, I thought, I can't increase their burden anymore, just choose a college with lower tuition! Later, longnan local people who had been helping her before, came to her and said that since she could go to undergraduate, since it was possible to get a better education, she should go, and everyone could help her with tuition and living expenses. For three consecutive days, under the strong persuasion of everyone, she and her uncle finally decided to go to Lanzhou to study.
"I thought at the time, Mengyao lost too much happiness in order to take care of me, traveling, watching movies, watching TV, those are all distant luxuries, we will not say." She didn't even get the slightest bit of joy at the sports day when she was in school! Qin Feng told reporters that in the three years of junior high school and three years of high school, whenever the school held a sports meeting, Mengyao had to hurry home, wash his clothes, cook, and then make up for the courses that had fallen before.
Last year, when MengYao was a sophomore, he proposed to let his niece push him out of the house to see the scenery of Lanzhou and let the children grow up and see. Because since arriving in Lanzhou, Mengyao has been running between the classroom and her home, and has never shopped. So with the help of his enthusiastic neighbors, he was carried out of the courtyard in a wheelchair. For the first time, the father and daughter went out shopping together.
On that day, Qin Mengyao had been using a wheelchair to push uncle from Dianzi Street to Reader Avenue. Along the way, the father and daughter talked and laughed.
No matter where you go, you have to take your uncle with you
"I am very grateful to those enthusiastic people who helped me, without their help, our family would not be able to support now!" Qin Mengyao told reporters that now the two can get about 2500 yuan in donations from various caring organizations and individuals every month, and the daily living expenses are enough. Now, what the two fear is getting sick. Qin Feng was paralyzed and unable to move, so there were problems with the entire body function, especially there was no resistance, he had to take cold medicine every day, if there was a slight accident of other problems, the cost of going to the hospital would not be one or two thousand.
In Qin Mengyao's room, there was a stack of pill boxes on the desk, and she had to buy cold medicine every three days, and she had to spend more than sixty yuan at a time. Two days ago, because of the power outage in the house, the air conditioner could not be used, Qin Feng was frozen at home for a day, and immediately became seriously ill, and it just so happened that Mengyao also had a cold, looking at the little face white, it was so uncomfortable that even the eyes could not be opened by the niece, and in the middle of the night, he had to turn himself over again and again, Qin Feng felt particularly guilty.
The most rare thing in the world is the long-term companionship and care that does not abandon and does not give up, without complaint or regret. From the age of 12 to 22, ten years of time, more than 3600 days and nights, Qin Mengyao gave Uncle Da the courage to live, and Uncle Qin also made Qin Mengyao firm in his determination to continue further education, and they have become each other's spiritual pillars.
Qin Mengyao said: When she graduated from college, she would take her uncle to find a job, and no matter what step she took in the future, she would take her uncle.
Life is hard, but please believe enough!
Wen 丨 Lanzhou Morning News/ Pocket Lanzhou reporter Xia Miao, Tu 丨 Lanzhou Morning News / Pocket Lanzhou reporter Zhao Xinyuan
Source | Lanzhou Morning Post