Chapter 3 Chapter 2 Children, Walking from the Mother's "Cross"

An Jinpeng is so lucky!He was a gold medalist representing Chinese high school students in the 38th International Mathematical Olympiad held in Argentina, and he was a freshman in 1997 who was directly admitted by Peking University, the "No. 1 highest university in China" without examination.After he received the "admission notice" from Peking University that day, the first person he showed to him was his mother. "Mom, look, I can finally go to university! And it's Peking University!" The son was overjoyed. While wiping tears, my mother looked at the bronzing letter of admission with trembling hands.She looked at it for a long time, and then said to her son confidently: "Xiaopeng, mom knows you will be admitted to Peking University! This time, mom will accompany you to Beijing and send you to the university!"

On September 5th, An Jinpeng got up early, because in an hour he would leave his home and report to Beijing.He found that the dilapidated farmhouse where he had lived for more than ten years was already billowing with smoke, and his limping mother was busy up and down in front of the dark pot. "Come and eat, Mom has cooked the noodles for you." My mother quickly brought out a bowl of hot egg noodles as usual. The son picked up the bowl and couldn't eat it no matter what.He knew that the noodles in this bowl were exchanged by his mother for five eggs from a neighbor yesterday, and that his mother's lame leg was sprained the day before yesterday when she pushed a cart of vegetables to the market in order to raise more tuition fees for him.Thinking of this, An Jinpeng suddenly felt that the chopsticks in his hand were as heavy as a thousand catties.He put down the bowl, walked up to his mother, knelt down, stroked his mother's foot that was swollen bigger than a steamed bun, and asked with a sob, "Mom, does your leg hurt?"

The mother helped her son up, gently wiped away tears for him, and shook her head: "It doesn't hurt. Mom sees that you finally got into college today, and my heart is sweeter than honey. Really..." "Mom—" The son couldn't bear it anymore, and his crying alarmed the neighbors. An Jinpeng, who lives in Dayoudai Village, Wuqing County, Tianjin, is indeed the luckiest student among the more than 50 million middle school students in China. A mother who is greater than Mount Tai has consistently built bridges and paved the way for him on his way to pursue his "university dream"——

Like all children from poor farmers, An Jinpeng has been accompanied by suffering since the day he was born.When he was a child, he knew that his parents were in debt for treating his grandparents who had bronchial asthma and hemiplegia. When I went to school at the age of 7, my mother borrowed a few dollars for the tuition from other people's homes.But Xiao Jinpeng found that since he went to school, his mother never liked to sit by his side and watch him do his homework.Later he understood that because the pencil end that he often used in his hand was tied to a small stick with a thin thread was picked up by his classmates throwing it on the ground, and the exercise book was erased with an eraser and used again and again. Old books... Mother didn't want to see these, and it made her even sadder.But fortunately, the mother also has happy moments, because every time the school takes exams, her son is always the first in the class.The smart little Jinpeng has completed the mathematics, physics and chemistry courses in high school when he was in junior high school. In May 1994, in the junior high school physics competition held in Tianjin, Xiao Jinpeng was the only rural child who entered the top three among the students from the five counties in the suburbs of the city, and was admitted by Tianjin No. 1 Middle School.When he ran home ecstatically to announce the good news, he never expected that his family members would not be happy at all, but instead shrouded in a layer of gloom.It turned out that grandma had just passed away, and grandpa, who had been sick for a long time, was dying immediately. The foreign debt of more than 10,000 yuan was like a mountain, overwhelming the whole family.The sensible little Jinpeng went back to his hut silently, but he couldn't help the pain in his heart, tears flowed for a whole day.

In the evening, Xiao Jinpeng listened to the quarrel between his father and mother in the outer room in the back room.It turned out that the mother wanted to sell the family's pregnant donkey so that Xiao Jinpeng could go to Tianjin No. 1 Middle School, but the father disagreed.It was this louder quarrel that the long-sick grandfather heard. The old man knew that his grandson was helpless because of his burden. He felt that living in the world would be a shackle that the whole family could not shake off, so he chose a dead end ... When he woke up the next day, Xiao Jinpeng cried to death when he learned that his grandfather had left him forever.He understands that all of this has something to do with his going to school.When he was lying on his grandfather's cold body, he really wanted to tell his father and mother that I would not read this book, but he didn't have the courage—he was too eager to study, and too eager to go to college in the future.

After burying the grandfather, the debt-ridden family owed thousands of dollars more.Two days later, Xiao Jinpeng and his father found that the little donkey at home was missing.My father guessed right away, so he asked my mother with a livid face, "Did you really sell the donkey? In the future, you will push the crops and sell the grain with your hands and carry it on your shoulders? This donkey is only a few hundred yuan, and it can afford it." Does Jinpeng study for one semester or two semesters?" The mother cried that day, and she almost yelled to answer her father: "What's wrong with my baby going to school? He is the only one in our county to be admitted to Shangyi Middle School. We can't let the poor family delay the baby's future! I understand. I, even if I push him with my hands and carry it on my shoulders for the rest of my life, I still want him to go to school and college..."

Holding the 600 yuan in exchange for a donkey, Jinpeng really wanted to kneel down and kowtow to his mother.He vowed to study hard, go to middle school well, go to university, and repay the kindness of his parents. Autumn is here, and Jinpeng went home to get his winter clothes. As soon as he entered the door, he was stunned: "Dad, why is your face so yellow? You have lost a lot of weight..." The father on the sickbed smiled wryly and ignored his son's words.The son who can understand English was startled when he saw the instructions on the medicine bottle on the table: Dad was taking medicines to inhibit cancer cells!He found his mother and quietly asked what was going on.The mother told her son with a distressed face that after Jinpeng went to Tianjin to study, his father started to have blood in his stools, which got worse day by day.My mother borrowed 6,000 yuan in a hurry, and went to Tianjin and Beijing to check with my father. Finally, it was diagnosed as intestinal polyps. The doctor said that an operation should be performed as soon as possible, but my father refused to borrow money from other people's family. "The doctor said that the disease would be more difficult to cure without surgery. I thought I would borrow money for your father's medical treatment. Don't tell your father about this. He is poor and afraid, and he will spend the whole night when he mentions money." Couldn't sleep all night."

When Jinpeng helped his mother work in the field that day, a neighbor told him that his mother had to see a doctor for his father by herself, and no one helped her plant the land. She went to threshing, and she couldn’t afford to hire someone to use a thresher, so she had to cook one piece and cut one piece, and then pull it home on a flat car. In the evening, she spread a plastic sheet in her yard, moved a big stone, and used it Grab a lot of straw with both hands and beat it on the stone to remove every grain of straw.For the entire several acres of land, his mother would kneel down to cut and lay down to take off... Jinpeng flew home and hugged his mother who was mending his clothes, crying loudly, "Mom, I will never do it again." Going to school, I want to help you work at home..."

The mother turned her head, stared at her son with tears in her eyes, and shook her head firmly: "Good boy, mom can stand it. If you study hard at school, get good grades, and go to college, mom will have strength, understand ?" Jin Peng nodded, he knew how much his mother valued his son's ability to go to college in the future!He also understands that for a rural child, especially a poor one, the greatest hope lies in being admitted to university.The son's future is a hundred times, a thousand times more important than her own life in the mother's mind!Jinpeng understands that only by studying hard can he be worthy of his mother, and there is no other way.

He went back to school.Due to the heavy debts of the family, An Jinpeng's living expenses are only 60 to 80 yuan per month. How can he live in a big city with such a small amount of money?But he knew that for these tens of yuan, his mother saved every penny and saved every penny, and sent him all the cash money the whole family could save. I can eat pickled vegetables mixed with soup at home to get by.The mother knew that it was not easy for her son to live in the city and he was growing up, so she had to walk more than ten miles every month to wholesale 20 catties of instant noodle scraps and send them to Jinpeng.Every time she delivered instant noodle scraps, the mother went to a printing factory 6 miles away to ask for a pack of waste paper for her son to use for drafting calculations.In addition, there is a clipper that Jinpeng is familiar with in the mother's cloth bag, which is specially used for cutting hair for her son.The mother said to her son: "You are studying in the city now, and you look decent when you go out. But our family has no money to let you go to the barber shop, so Mom comes to cut your hair once a month. If you save money, you can buy more." A steamed bun or something to fill your stomach. Ah, did you hear that?"

Jinpeng nodded, unable to say anything. At school, Jinpeng was the only student who couldn't afford even vegetarian dishes in the cafeteria. Steamed buns, instant noodle residue and pickles were his three meals a day.When the waste draft paper brought by his mother ran out, he went to pick up the waste paper that was not printed on one side inside and outside the school; he had never used a bar of soap since he was in middle school, and he went to the cafeteria to buy some soda for washing clothes... However Such a difficult study life has never made An Jinpeng feel inferior, because whenever the suffering overwhelms him, he thinks of his mother.It was his mother who gave him strength, gave him wisdom, and gave him all the meaning of life.And he is worthy of his mother's sea-like love, and has become an outstanding student. An Jinpeng finally walked into the university gate with a smile.That's because behind him was the incomparably bright sunshine of his mother shining... Gao Jie, who lives in the famous Liuyin Street in Beijing, became a college student in September 1998.I know what happened to her was purely accidental.That day I was working on my manuscript shirtless. My wife said that a child of a colleague in her work unit had a classmate who was from a very poor family. He was admitted to university this year, but the 3,500 yuan tuition fee was a headache for the whole family. "what happened?" "No money." My wife said. Seeing that I had nothing to say, Madam said, "I have an idea, do you think it will work?" "What idea?" "Aren't you writing a book about poor students? Write this poor child named Gao Jie in it, so that people can help her after reading the book? Or..." Madam didn't finish her sentence, she just looked around I.I immediately understood, because if she hadn't known that I had sponsored several poor college students along the way to write about poor students, my wife would have said, "Let's help this child", but she didn't say it now.The reason is clear to me: our family's economy has also been in crisis recently. "Okay then, I'll interview that girl tomorrow to see how she is." I did an unplanned interview.The next day I arrived at the Liuyin Street where the President of the Republic once lived, only two stops away from my home.Gao Jie's home is in the alley of the Copper and Iron Factory on Liuyin Street.At that time, I had an indescribable feeling in my heart, that is, I couldn't believe that on such a very famous capital street, there would be a girl who was desperate because she couldn't pay the tuition fees for college! Yet it is true. The situation of Gao Jie's family is much more pitiful than I imagined.The home she had lived in for nineteen years was only nine square meters in size.In addition to a bed, there can only be one cabinet.There is no stove in the house, and cooking can only be done in a small temporary place outside.The hospitable Gao Jie's parents hurriedly let me sit, but in fact I could only sit on the only bed in their family. "I'm really sorry, I can only let you sit on the bed." Gao Jie's father, who has bad legs and feet, said apologetically, while Gao Jie's sick mother could only retreat from the house to the door—because there was no more room in the hut. space. "Can you tell me about your schooling?" I turned around and asked the pretty Gao Jie girl.I can clearly see that the child first smiled shyly, and then two bean-like teardrops fell on his face... The photographer who accompanied me to the interview took this scene of Gao Jie, and then Gao Jie's flashing The photos of tears became the cover art of a book and appeared in countless media in the land of China.This is something. "Look at you child, what kind of writer is talking to you!" The father said to his daughter in dissatisfaction, and then apologized to me, and then sighed, "This child has a hard life and was born in the wrong birth... " At this time, I have somewhat seen the source of the poverty of Gao Jie's family.It turned out that her father was a disabled person, and this is not the main thing, the main thing is the mother who stood outside the door and kept smiling but didn't speak. "I'm sick... I've always been sick, and I've dragged down the family and the child." The mother said, no longer smiling, but kept wiping away her tears. I turned to look at Gao Jie again.The girl is already in tears... What a poor family! "Gao Jie, anyway, you are not far from my house. Can I invite you to my house some other day, and then we can have a good chat?" I knew that I couldn't finish the interview on this day, so I said. Gao Jie nodded and wiped away tears. This is a child who has suffered too much.And a girl her age, especially a girl living in the capital Beijing, should be a baby lying in the arms of her parents every day!But Gao Jie didn't seem to have it in her memory. Maybe my suggestion is right. When Gao Jie talked to me alone, she burst into tears as soon as she opened her mouth.She really wanted to cry in front of her parents that day, but she held back because she didn't want to hurt her parents.She said her parents were different from the parents of other children.When Gao Jie's father married her mother, his legs were disabled, and it was because of his father's disability that he married a sick mother.Gao Jie's father is usually very strong and straightforward, but his disabled legs are doomed to a life of misfortune: he can't do anything hard.In Gao Jie's eyes, his father is still a standard man. Although he has bad legs and feet, his father is always unambiguous about the heavy work at home.However, men are men after all, if there is no complete woman in a family, life will be tilted... Gao Jie's mother suffered from asthma and later developed emphysema.As far as Gao Jie could remember, her mother had to go to the hospital almost every month.Therefore, Gao Jie seldom had a smiling face when she was a child. Girls always like to put a smile on their faces, but Gao Jie can't. Mom went to the hospital because of an illness, and it was even more impossible for her to have a smiling face.Later, Gao Jie went to school, but from the first day of school, Gao Jie was called out by the teacher by name, why do you keep distracted in class, kid?How did the teacher know that little Gao Jie had too many things on her mind. During class, she sometimes wondered whether her mother at home was having asthma again, or whether her mother in the hospital was getting an injection again.When she was in elementary school, Gao Jie didn't and didn't know how to tell her teachers and classmates about her family's affairs, but she just thought that every family might be like this.When she came home from get out of class that day, her father told her that her mother was hospitalized again. That night, her father took her to the hospital and gave her a meal.When she came home from school the next day, Gao Jie saw that her father, who had bad legs and feet, looked exhausted, so she said to her father, "Dad, after you wrap the dumplings, I'll send them to mom." "You?" Dad's eyes widened. "Yes. I'll give it to Mom." Xiao Gaojie nodded confidently at her father. "Are you really good? Dad is on duty tonight. It would be great if you could deliver it for me, but you can't, you're too young, and you'll have to take several stops!" My father shook his head, sighed, and just wrapped the dumplings on hand, talking to himself "It will be fine when you grow up..." Xiao Gaojie saw it in her eyes, and she thought in her heart that she must make it for her father to see today.When Dad cooked and served the dumplings, put them aside and went to do other things, Xiao Gaojie picked up the lunch box, left a note for Dad, and left the house... "Xiaojie, why did you deliver the food? Where's your dad?" On the sickbed, the mother who was on the needle saw her daughter, who was only a little over seven years old, walk into the ward with a lunch box, exclaimed and stretched out Pulling her daughter to her side with one hand, she asked. "Dad didn't come, I came alone. Hurry up and eat, the dumplings are still hot, Mom!" Xiao Gaojie opened the lunch box in a mannered manner, and excitedly put her face on the hot dumplings . The mother held her daughter in her arms with tears in her eyes: "You child, you are not allowed to come to such a far place alone in the future. Did you hear that?" "No! Mom, I want to come, I want to bring you food!" Unexpectedly, Xiao Gaojie stood up straight from her mother's arms and said loudly, as if making a solemn promise. "How sensible is this child! You know how old you are, and you know how much you love her mother!" "No, it's a few stops from Liuyin Street to Peking University Hospital here. You said that if our children don't know where to go!" People in the same ward as my mother praised Xiao Gaojie. When Xiao Gaojie was seven years old, when she heard others praise her so much, her innocent and childish heart was filled with pride.She felt how great she was, and she felt that she could begin to take responsibility for her sick mother from now on!So in the next few years, Xiao Gaojie regarded going to the hospital to deliver meals for her mother as a sacred and extremely great responsibility.Therefore, no matter how far the hospital is from home, no matter whether it is rainy night or dark day, she, Xiao Gaojie, will never turn back, without the slightest timidity, and never have the slightest time to cry out.Especially when she stepped into her mother's ward, the adults around her always praised her for being smart and sensible, and her pride always filled her heart... But then Gao Jie grew up, and gradually when she delivered meals to her mother to the hospital again and again, she found that she was not as proud as before. She saw other people's children coming home from school every day either to play together or to stay together Do homework; but she can't, she has to rush to the hospital without a minute's delay to serve her mother's excrement, urine, tea and food.She began to feel that she was very pitiful, so pitiful that no one looked down on her, because those girls her age were either Miss Jiao, who was cared for by their parents, or "little gods" who wanted to have whatever they wanted.And this is not the main thing, the main thing is that she can't go to school normally.Since Gao Jie delivered meals to her mother for the first time, and cooked for her mother herself, she took the initiative to take over the housework that should not be done by men in the family.My mother is sick, and my mother's illness needs careful and dedicated care.Don't look at Xiao Gaojie who doesn't talk much at ordinary times, but she is careful in her heart.However, the development of all this was too disproportionate to her age, and she was only eight or nine years old at that time.Children from poor families are like this, everything starts early.Gao Jie remembers that on her first day of school, a cloud was cast over her heart: the night before that morning, the sick mother specially sewed a scarf for her daughter in order to let her daughter go to school happily. That night, the mother kept sewing for her daughter while panting. At that time, Xiao Gaojie was thinking about being able to wear new clothes to school, but forgot about her mother's illness. She slept sweetly in her mother's arms Have a good night and head off to school happily in the morning.At noon, when she excitedly took back the new book for her mother to take a look at, she found that the door of the house was locked... "Mom, mom—" Xiao Gaojie yelled for a long time, but no one answered.She cried, very sadly.Later, a neighbor told her that shortly after Xiao Gaojie went to school, her mother began to suffer from severe asthma. Her father and a neighbor rushed Gao Jie's mother to the hospital.Xiao Gaojie's hot heart suddenly turned cold.When she returned to school in the afternoon, seeing the happy faces of her friends, Xiao Gaojie couldn't help but burst into tears... This is the memory of Gao Jie's first day at school.And in the future, such painful memories will never be counted. When Xiao Gaojie was in junior high school, the school's exams were as frequent as wars.Gao Jie, who was always at the top of the class in grades, plummeted because she kept her mother in bed several times in a row.It's the final exam, and Gao Jie vows to regain her ranking.During that time, she worked very hard. When her mother woke up in the middle of the night and saw that her daughter was still doing homework under the lamp, she gently brought a bowl of sugar water—this was one of the best maternal loves that Gao Jie could get since she was a child.Looking at her mother coughing and panting, she buried herself in her studies again with tears in her eyes.Gao Jie felt a strong desire: I must study hard, and the first thing I will do after I grow up and earn a lot of money is to find the best hospital for my mother to cure her illness!That night, Gao Jie didn't fall asleep until after one o'clock in the morning.In the early morning, when she was still asleep, she was suddenly woken up by her father: "Xiaojie, get up and help, your mother is out of breath again! Hurry up!" Gao Jie jumped up from the bed with a "chuckle", The first thing she saw was her mother's pale face, her chest heaving violently like a blower...it was a terrifying sight.Gao Jie hurriedly helped her father put on clothes for her mother and carried her onto the small tricycle. "I'm going, close the door, and go to school after getting some food in the morning!" My father turned back and ordered while pedaling hard to go straight to the direction of the hospital. In the cold wind, Gao Jie stood there upright, as if she didn't hear anything, all she pretended was her mother's pale face and her panting chest... That day, Gao Jie's grades passed the test. It was a mess, not only failed to realize his wish, but also dropped a few places. She was discouraged.There is no way to be discouraged, my mother will gasp again at some point, and each gasp seems to be more serious than the last one.Not to mention the delivery of meals in the hospital, just being in bed is enough.It is always inconvenient for men to come in and out of the women's ward, so my father always asks Gao Jie to accompany her in the hospital more often.Although the mother is sick, she has been thinking of her daughter as much as possible. Usually, her family members are not required to accompany her during the day, but Gao Jie must go to bed for her mother at night. She is worried that something will happen.Don't look at the uncomplicated accompanying bed, it's a hard job.You can neither sleep well nor move around freely.Gao Jie is studying, and her homework will never be reduced because of her accompanying her in bed.Helpless, she regards being in bed as a good time to do homework.Gao Jie's mother is an ordinary worker, she can only live in the most common and crowded ward, the noise in the ward can be imagined, but Gao Jie is used to it, as long as her mother doesn't call her, Gao Jie can lie on the edge of her mother's bed to do homework Just an hour or two.Gao Jie is also a filial daughter. Her mother advised her to go to bed early, but she always let her go to bed first.She closed her eyes only when she saw her sick mother fast asleep... "Ah, it's not good, I'm going to be late again!" There were so many such things, Gao Jie often screamed suddenly when she was accompanying her in bed.Because she was so sleepy, she often woke up and found that it was too close to the time for class, so she panicked and hurriedly helped her mother finish the things that should be done, and rushed to school.In her seat in the classroom, her heart was still pounding, and Gao Jie could not feel calm until the second or third period. It was a real ordeal.Once Gao Jie was doing push-ups in physical education class. As she was doing them, Gao Jie felt her arms go limp like noodles.She wanted to stand up and stop doing it, but she just couldn't.Later, she closed her eyes unknowingly, and when she woke up, she found that her body was very warm, um, who's clothes covered me? "Ah, classmates, Gao Jie is awake, she is awake!" At this time, she saw the whole class running towards her together, no matter if they were boys or girls, everyone asked this and that like relatives, and urged them in every possible way. If Gao Jie was too sleepy, she would sleep for a while, and some students even said: "Gao Jie, you are too busy, how about we take turns to go to the hospital for you and accompany your mother to bed?" Gao Jie's tears immediately flowed down like a river breaking through. This is a girl whose life has had too many tears for her to shed. Once, her mother started to suffer from shortness of breath again, and her father was not at home at work. Xiao Gaojie was very anxious, but she couldn't use her bicycle to carry her mother to the hospital.The three-wheeled bike at home is specially used for her mother to go to the hospital, but Gao Jie doesn't know how to ride it.what to do?Mother's illness cannot be delayed!Confused, Gao Jie pushed the tricycle out, then helped her mother onto the back seat with great difficulty, and stepped on the stirrups and headed straight for the hospital.This is Gao Jie's first time pedaling three rounds, and her palms are sweating from tension.On the way to Jishuitan Hospital, on the side of a downhill hurdle, Gao Jie watched helplessly as the car and her sick mother rolled over on the side of the road because she couldn't brake.Xiao Gaojie laughed at first, but when she woke up, she couldn't help crying when she saw her mother and car collapsed there.The kind-hearted people passing by helped Gao Jie up her mother and the tricycle.At that time, until a few hours after her mother stayed in the hospital and got the needles, Gao Jie was still sobbing. Finally, she walked out of the ward alone, hiding in a place where no one could see and crying... These were not the things that made Gao Jie most uncomfortable.What she feels most uncomfortable is that due to her mother's long-term illness, everything in the family that can be turned into cash is gone.Originally, the mother who retired from illness early only received more than 200 yuan a month, and the father worked as a temporary worker, and his salary was not fixed. Except for food, all the money that the family could save would be saved for the next time when Gao Jie’s mother was hospitalized. .Most girls love to eat snacks, and Gao Jie actually likes them too, but she can't, she even uses up every piece of draft paper used in school until it can no longer be used.Students often see that Gao Jie can't change into one or two sets of clothes throughout the winter.Gao Jie told me that until now, the clothes on her body were all given by her sisters from relatives, and she basically never bought any decent clothes for her own family.But Gao Jie loves reading.Once, her grandfather and some relatives gave her dozens of lucky money during the Spring Festival. Gao Jie carefully kept it for more than half a year. She had two plans. One was to buy a bottle of canned pear water for her mother when she needed it, and the other was to buy a book. dictionary.Later, she really spent the tens of dollars on these two things, and she was not even willing to eat a popsicle. After graduating from junior high school, her parents discussed with her, saying that our family is not well off, so you can just go to a technical secondary school and start working early in the future.This time Gao Jie couldn't figure it out, she answered her parents with tears, because what Gao Jie thought was that she would go to college in the future. Since this is the path she chose, Gao Jie felt that she should contribute more to her poor parents.However, this seemingly unchangeable family situation has always plunged Gao Jie into extreme pain.At noon that day, Gao Jie came back from school and rushed to the hospital to deliver the meal she had cooked to her mother's bedside.Gao Jie was in a hurry, she knew that her mother cared about her, and she was afraid of delaying her study and growth.Gao Jie said to her mother with tears in her eyes: "If you don't eat, I won't leave, never leave!" The mother started to turn her back on her daughter and ignored her. After a while, the mother thought that the child had left, so she turned her head and saw Gao Jie Standing aside with tears all over her face, those teardrops as big as peas wet a large piece of her front skirt. "Xiaojie, my poor child..." The mother couldn't help but put her arms around her daughter.The mother and daughter cried together in the ward.That was an unforgettable scene in Gao Jie's life. She deeply understood that all mothers in the world love their children. Even though her mother was sick and in bed, she still had deep love and hope for her in her heart.As Gao Jie grows up, she knows how to do something for her mother and father, because in this handicapped family, she is the only one who is the most complete person.She knows that in today's society, sick mothers and disabled fathers are inevitably discriminated against. As a daughter, she will never allow such things that make her parents sad to happen, so she begins to assume that a girl should not be burdened. thing.Mother's work unit is a small business, and the benefits are not very good. Naturally, an old patient like Gao Jie's mother is a very heavy burden on the work unit.But Gao Jie's family had no other way to go, so every time her mother was hospitalized, she had to go to her work unit first to ask her grandpa to sue her grandma for a check.Doing anything is easy, but asking for money is the hardest.After the father asked for money but failed, he handed over the task to his daughter Gao Jie.Go ahead then, for mother's disease.What Gao Jie didn't expect was that it would be so difficult to ask for money.People said, it’s not that they don’t pay, but that the efficiency of the unit is not good, and there are so many working people to support, “If I treat your mother, I can’t let the people who go to work every day get their wages back, you know?” The factory manager's words make sense.As for Gao Jie, she said: "Uncle, I know this, but my mother was hospitalized because she was very ill. Please help me save her, okay..." Gao Jie didn't say anything more, she only had tears . Alas, for the poor boy's sake, here!The factory manager was at a loss, tore off the check, and couldn't bear to look at the teary girl again. Thank you, thank you uncle.Gao Jie seemed to remove the stone from her heart all at once.She went home as soon as possible to deliver the check to her father, and at the same time helped her mother pack the hospital things.But when he turned around, he saw his father sitting there silently in a daze.What's the matter dad? You see, this money is not enough to pay the hospital deposit! Gao Jie took the check and looked at it, no, it was only 1,000 yuan.Gao Jie's heart suddenly turned cold. The nine-square-meter hut became silent again, only the mother on the bedside was coughing from time to time, and the coughing got worse.Every cough of the mother was like knocking on the daughter's heart, "Mom, let's just go to the hospital. I will go to the school to collect donations for you tomorrow, ah. Let's go!" Gao Jie said to her mother and father. The next day, many of Gao Jie's classmates and teachers really gave Gao Jie money.Gao Jie cried again... Gao Jie in front of me seemed to be unable to control herself, her tears made me unable to look at her, because I felt that my eyes had already blurred... I know what happened to Gao Jie later. She was admitted to a university in July 1998. Originally, she could have been admitted to a key university, but because of the stressful stage of the college entrance examination, her mother was hospitalized many times, which greatly affected Gao Jie's review.But Gao Jie didn't regret it. She said that her mother's illness was the most important thing, although my going to college was also extremely important.When the admission notice came out, Gao Jie's family was really in a difficult situation for a while. The tuition fee of more than 3,500 yuan was really astronomical for Gao Jie's family who were already destitute.But Gao Jie did not give up the opportunity. She borrowed money everywhere, and even used her holidays to leave early and return home late to work... She said that no matter how hard or poor, I will never give up going to college. This is what I want to do most in my life. Once again, I found that Gao Jie, who kept crying, was actually a very tenacious girl. (After it was published in "Chinese Writer" magazine, Gao Jie, as the "cover character", immediately became a figure who attracted the attention of many media. Many people successively extended a helping hand to this poor girl, including Tibetan border guards. , There are bosses in the Special Economic Zone and ordinary people. They gave Gao Jie incomparable warmth with their love. One day, Gao Jie ran to my house and told me excitedly that she can basically solve the difficulties in her studies and life now. My mother’s illness has also improved a lot. This is the first time I saw Gao Jie’s face full of bright smiles. She is beautiful when she smiles, like all the happy girls in the world...)