When each of us stands at the fork in the road of life, we will feel confused and at a loss, because we don't know whether there is an insurmountable mountain ahead or an endless Wang Yang waiting for us.
But for Liang Xun, who was only fourteen years old seven years ago, there was only one sincere but unattainable wish before him-to live.
Seven years ago, the variety show Metamorphosis produced by Hunan Satellite TV recorded the story of such a little boy. He has lived alone in the mountains since he was eight years old. The only relative in his family who can accompany him is a pig.
He only has 500 yuan's living expenses for a year, but his meager funds enable the little boy to spend the whole spring, summer, autumn and winter. He lived like this for six years.
This little boy is the hero of our article, Liang Xun. Liang Xun was only 14 years old when he filmed the deformation meter program. Although he is short in stature under the camera, he always blinks a pair of bright and thorough eyes.
In order to record Liang Xun's real life at that time, the camera spent his boring and busy day with the little boy every day.
Every morning, Liang Xun carries a bamboo basket and a bucket, and goes to a well several kilometers away to draw water. Then he walked home trembling with a bamboo basket that even adults couldn't lift.
At that time, it was winter when the program was filmed, with heavy snow and the temperature once reached MINUS 6 degrees. However, no matter what the external environment is, Liang Xun will live. He had no choice but to go out to fetch water alone against the cold wind.
On the way back, because it was freezing, young Liang Xun staggered on the snow with a heavy bamboo basket on his back. He accidentally fell down and was almost covered with snowflakes. But he didn't ask the people around him for help. He just struggled to get up as usual and continued to walk home with a bamboo basket on his back.
After returning home, Liang Xun quickly put the bamboo basket on the ground, poured his hard-earned water into the water tank, took a ladle and poured it into the pot, and then poured the corn that had already been prepared. After some skillful operation, a bowl of hot corn rice was officially cooked. With a little pickled cabbage, this is Liang Xun's best meal of the day.
The fog in the hotel gradually covered Liang Xun's eyes, making us unable to see what he looked like at that time. But in the camera, he is holding a big bowl of rice and swallowing it. He seems to be complaining about the injustice of fate, and seems to be struggling in desperation.
What happened to this 14 year old boy? For what reason, he wants to live alone in the mountains for six years? Where is his future?
Qingyang Town, Guizhou Province, Yunnan Province, is surrounded by green hills, and a wisp of smoke from the depths of lush mountains indicates the humanistic atmosphere here.
Liang Xun's hometown is in a small village in Qingyang Town, Guizhou Province. At that time, the ancestors gave this village a beautiful name-Duliang Village. I hope this village can get rid of poverty by the hardworking hands of farmers.
It's just a pity that this village has poor land and poor geological conditions, so there is no choice but to grow some corn and potatoes. In order to survive, everyone in the village who has the ability to work goes out to work to make a living, and Liang Xun's parents are no exception.
There are four brothers and sisters in Liang Xun's family, of which Liang Xun is the youngest. My brother and sister are now studying in the town and living on campus.
Liang Xun's parents had to go out to work in order to support the expensive tuition at home. When they left, Liang Xun, who was only eight years old, stayed at home alone for almost ten months a year.
At first, Liang Xun was afraid. He looked at the empty room and cried almost every night. He didn't dare to sleep, so he had to wrap his weak body in a thin quilt, trying to draw some warmth and strength.
But we can't help it. The miserable life urges us to grow up quickly. Gradually, Liang Xun found a way to overcome his fear and began to sing.
So whenever night falls, Liang Xun's tender singing can always be heard in the small room with weak light. His articulation is not very clear, but the feelings contained in his songs are very rich, and his immature voice seems to sing the vicissitudes that should not have happened at this age.
Accompanied by singing, Liang Xun grew up gradually. He is used to living alone all the year round without much complaint.
At school age, Liang Xun gets up early every day, takes food for the whole day and walks to the school several kilometers away. After a day's study, he went home alone in the afterglow of the sunset, singing while walking, collecting some firewood and lighting a fire at home.
Looking at Liang Xun's weak body active in the field path through the lens, I always feel that the tip of my nose is sour, as if fate is extremely unfair to him, but there is nothing I can do.
In Liang Xun's words, he is not alone, and he has another partner of his own-piggy. This is the only concern left by parents to Liang Xun. "Dad always tells me to take good care of the pigs. When the pigs grow up, they can sell them and have the ability to pay my tuition."
Liang Xun listens to his father every day and takes care of the pig wholeheartedly. Trying to move a large pot of pig food was an arduous task for Liang Xun, who was not tall at that time, but he did not give up.
Drag, hug, pull, push, no matter what method, he will send the pig food to the pig's mouth, because as long as he works hard, he will not let people down.
The pig in the house is eating the lunch prepared by Liang Xun, and the weak Liang Xun is sitting at the door in the warm sun.
He said that at this time, all he could think of was his parents, his mother's warm arms and his father's strong arms. Close your eyes and bathe in the sunshine, as if the family were reunited in a dream. He is no longer fighting alone. He has strength and happiness behind him.
Liang Xun's father said the most to Liang Xun, that is, bitter before sweet. At that time, Liang Xun didn't know what was bitter and what was sweet, and he didn't know why it was bitter first and then sweet, not bitter first and then sweet. But he didn't refute his father's words, just nodded vigorously.
Whenever his parents take time to go home to see him, Liang Xun dances happily like a child. He threw himself into his parents' arms and hugged them hard, silently telling the hardships of a person's life.
But sometimes, when his father summoned up the courage to tell Liang Xun that they were leaving tomorrow, the child who had just soaked in the happy honey pot was dragged out by the cruel reality and fell to the ground.
He is really having a hard time, but he can't say anything. Huge eyes immediately filled with tears, drop by drop fell into the rice bowl.
Salty, really salty, Liang Xun likes this bowl of corn rice very much, so I can't eat it today. Parents looked at Liang Xun crying, very helpless. If a big family wants to survive, it has to spend money to survive. In order to survive, they had to go out to work, leaving Liang Xun to look after things at home alone.
Before dawn, Liang Xun's parents packed their bags, left home and went to the construction site to live a hard life.
They didn't notice that Liang Xun had woken up. He couldn't bear to see his parents leave. He had to face the wall alone and bite the quilt tightly with his teeth to avoid crying. Liang Xun had to live alone again.
When the program group of "Deformation Gauge" told Liang Xun that he was going to live in a family in a big city for a week, Liang Xun, who had never seen the scenery outside, was very happy. This is the first time that Liang Xun said a lot to the camera.
Curious, he kept asking the program staff if the city outside was beautiful. Is it big? What kind of scenery is it? His big eyes are no longer helpless and lonely, but a glimmer of light shines.
Before going to the big city, Liang Xun asked the program group to take himself to the town to visit his sister who was studying. Because my sister loved Liang Xun since she was a child, he wanted to go to town to see how her life was.
When brother and sister meet, it makes people cry. Liang Xun saw her sister's figure far away and immediately jumped into her arms. Even facing the sun, she will look at her sister's cheek with dazzling light to confirm whether her life is happy or not.
When he left, Liang Xun struggled to take out many one-dollar bills from his pocket and pieced them together into 20 yuan. He forced it into his sister's hand and told her that she must be better to herself, live a better life and be happy.
When Liang Xun got on the bus, her sister threw the 20 yuan out of the window. She told Liang Xun that she was doing well and didn't have to worry. She also told Liang Xun to be obedient and clever in big cities, and left him 20 yuan in case he had any useful money.
In this way, I looked at my sister's figure and listened to her advice. Liang Xun came to this exchange family. He saw his new parents and a younger brother as soon as he got off the plane.
At first, Liang Xun was timid, but with the warm hospitality of his new parents, he gradually let go of himself and opened his heart.
He told his new parents about his childhood behavior. The tragic experience made the new parents burst into tears. The new mother even held Liang Xun in her arms and stroked the little boy's head bit by bit.
This hug seems to have a mother's breath, and gradually Liang Xun's heart is surrounded by warmth.
Once, my new parents and younger brother took Liang Xun to the market. Liang Xun was stunned by the lively scene. He looks around, as if he is full of novelty about everything and likes every cute gadget.
Suddenly turned around, Liang Xun got lost, and his parents were very anxious. They looked around for fear that something would happen to the children from that mountain village.
Finally, they found Liang Xun in front of a toy stall. He didn't have time to respond to the concern of his new parents, but walked up to his little brother bit by bit and put the doll in his hand.
When I opened it, it turned out to be the Monkey King. My brother is very happy. He kept jumping around with the Monkey King in his arms. Finally, he jumped on his conscience and said "thank you, brother" sweetly.
It turned out that Liang Xun always felt guilty after being warmly treated by his new family. He didn't know how to repay them, so he caught a glimpse of the Monkey King just before passing the toy stall. He thought his new brother would like it very much, so he took out 20 yuan he had accumulated for many years and bought this gift for his new brother.
He did his best to repay the only warmth; Grit your teeth and don't want to bow to the tragic fate. At the end of the exchange life, Liang Xun suddenly fell ill. He kept vomiting and couldn't eat. He just kept screaming about his stomachache. The new mother was very anxious, so she quickly drove with Liang Xun to the hospital for examination.
After careful examination, the doctor said that there was nothing serious, just because Liang Xun was malnourished in his early years and his stomach was shrinking. In order to take good care of Liang Xun these days, the new mother gave Liang eggs and a glass of milk every morning, but at that time, Liang Xun's stomach could not absorb the nutrition brought by eggs well.
It's just an ordinary egg, which brings Liang Xun not nutrients that make him thrive, but a ruthless burden. The new mother was very distressed to learn about Liang Xun's physical condition. She really can't imagine what happened to this child who is only 14 years old. Without personal experience, she can't feel the same. The new mother hugged Liang Xun and cried helplessly.
Finally, when leaving the hospital, the kind doctor gave Liang Xun a sum of money. At first, Liang Xun tried every means to avoid it, but the doctor's next sentence made Liang Xun accept the goodwill from a stranger.
The doctor clenched Liang Xun's hand and said, "Don't refuse my kindness. Take this money and go home and study hard. Only by desperately arming your mind with knowledge can you get out of the depths of the mountains smoothly. "
After Liang Xun heard the doctor's enthusiastic exhortation, he did not shirk it, but took a step back and bowed deeply. The 90-degree bend includes Liang Xun's heartfelt thanks.
In this way, Liang Xun returned to the depths of the mountains with the warmth given him by many people in big cities, and promised to study hard, and he will definitely walk out of the mountains and create a better future in the future.
After the program, Liang Xun disappeared from people's sight. Many people are very concerned about Liang Xun's later life and always want to help him more.
Fortunately, someone found Liang Xun's account online, and through words, Liang Xun built a bridge of communication with these people who care about themselves.
During the exchange, we learned that Liang Xun dropped out of school in the first grade of junior high school because earth-shaking changes have taken place in his family in recent years.
My brother and sister-in-law died unexpectedly, and my father was in poor health. Coupled with Liang Xun's physical problems, Liang Xun had to drop out of school and go out to work to subsidize his family, just like his parents.
Now Liang Xun works in Foxconn every day, works as a coolie and cashier in the shop at night, and chats with netizens who care about him when he has time.
Although life is not as beautiful as young Liang Xun expected, it is also very fulfilling. "I used to expect my parents to go home, and now my parents expect me to go home."
Now Liang Xun is no longer struggling alone. Behind him are his parents waiting for him at home, and behind him are a group of netizens who care about and support him.
Liang Xun said he was very happy! Who says it must be a rainbow after a heavy rain, or it may be another storm? But it doesn't matter, as long as you resist the relentless destruction of this storm, you are a hero!