By reporter Meng Yang / Text Bian Shipeng / Photo Actually, before getting married, Wang Jin was also under a lot of pressure. Since Zhu Xiaohong had a leg disability, many of his friends around him advised him: "You are a healthy person, why do you want to marry her?" Zhu Xiaohong herself also doubted: "Can the Wang Jin in front of me give me happiness?" But without hesitation, Wang Jin took her to get the marriage certificate, "If we are going to live together, let's live well. I will be good to you for a lifetime."
When the reporter mentioned the word "childhood sweethearts", Zhu Xiaohong felt a little shy and refused to admit it stubbornly, "Back then at school, I only knew him, we were just familiar with each other, how could we know about dating at such a young age?" In 1997, after finishing junior high school, Wang Jin went to Shenzhen to work. In 2003, when he returned home, someone introduced him to Zhu Xiaohong for a blind date, and they quickly fell in love.
She vowed to be her husband's eyes. Weibo recommendation | Today's Weibo hotspot In 2003, after getting married, Wang Jin and Zhu Xiaohong went to work in the south. That year, they had a boy. Two years later, they had a daughter. After the birth of their daughter, due to the high cost of living in the south, Zhu Xiaohong returned home to farm while Wang Jin continued to work outside. Although life was not rich, since getting married, the two had never quarreled, and the family lived happily. However, fate played a cruel joke on this family, as Wang Jin, who was originally healthy, was diagnosed last year with a serious illness.
The disease shattered the happy small family
Yesterday afternoon, when the reporter saw them at the Montcheng County Hospital, the 30-year-old Wang Jin was slowly walking out of the ward supported by a nurse, then curled up in the back of his own tricycle motorcycle. After just finishing dialysis, he was very weak, with occasional pain in his body. His wife Zhu Xiaohong carefully covered him with a cotton quilt, making sure every corner was tightly wrapped. "Dear, we're going home," she gently touched her husband's face and rode the tricycle towards home.
People near the Montcheng County Hospital in Anhui Province have seen a young woman limping but with a determined gaze almost every two or three days in the past half year. She was either selling her skewers, bargaining in a wholesale shop, or riding a tricycle motorcycle carrying a haggard young man coming and going hurriedly. Her name is Zhu Xiaohong, and the one behind on the motorcycle is her husband Wang Jin suffering from uremia. Zhu Xiaohong came from more than thirty miles away rural area to the city to trade all for her husband's dialysis.
From the Montcheng County Hospital to the home in Hou Zhu Village, Banqiao Town, there are more than thirty miles. Due to the patient in the back, Zhu Xiaohong rode very slowly. After more than an hour ride home, she parked the car in the yard and helped her husband off the car into the house. Seeing Zhu Xiaohong's leg disability, the reporter quickly offered to help, but Zhu Xiaohong smiled and declined, "No need, no need, I can handle it alone, it's always like this."
Due to long-term toxin effects, Wang Jin's vision is now very poor. He regretfully told the reporter, "I'm now just an open-eyed blind man, I can only see blurry shadows, I can't even tell if it's a man or a woman." The optimistic Zhu Xiahong kept comforting him on the side, "Isn't there a song called 'You Are My Eyes'? From now on and in the future, I am not only your wife, but also your eyes."
After a brief shock and sorrow, Zhu Xiaohong did not panic, she immediately arranged for her husband to be hospitalized for treatment, "We must invite the best doctor, use the best medicine." In the following months, although more than 80,000 yuan was spent, Wang Jin's condition did not improve much. Due to the difficulty in paying high medical expenses, in June of that year, under Wang Jin's insistence, they discharged from the hospital and returned home.
A hard-luck person met a heartfelt lover
On Valentine's Day last February 14th, Wang Jin's sister held a wedding for her child, and the couple went together to congratulate her. Just after sitting down and drinking a few cups of celebratory wine, Wang Jin suddenly fainted unconscious. The villagers quickly took him to the Second People's Hospital of Montcheng County, and unexpectedly, he remained unconscious for three whole days. The county hospital suggested transferring him to a larger hospital in Bengbu. Soon, the Huaiwei Hospital in Bengbu issued a diagnosis: uremia!
Wang Jin is a hard-luck child, abandoned by his biological parents just three days after birth, and both of his adoptive parents passed away when he was only six years old; Wang Jin is also a lucky child, raised by relatives after his adoptive parents' death, they even supported him through school, and it was during junior high school that he met his current wife, Zhu Xiaohong, who was then a classmate.
Zhu Xiaohong said that before her husband got sick, the family's main source of income relied on his work, but after Wang Jin fell ill, the burden fell entirely on her shoulders. For her, the top priority now is earning money to treat her husband. Nowadays, she not only manages several acres of land at home, but also learned to make sugar-coated haws to sell on the streets of the county town, and at the same time, she wholesales some small commodities from the county town to sell back in the village. Zhu Xiaohong told the reporter that now she just feels that her energy is not enough, "It's really hard, but no matter how hard or tired I am, I will keep going."
That night, the usually gentle Wang Jin scolded Zhu Xiaohong for the first time in many years: "Since it's a terminal illness anyway, we won't treat it anymore, you take the children and remarry quickly!" Hearing this, Zhu Xiaohong burst into tears and knelt down to her husband: "In this life, I am yours alive, and I am yours dead. If you feel sorry for me, cooperate with the treatment well, I will find ways to solve the money problem." Hearing this, Wang Jin couldn't say a word, and the two hugged and cried together.
Every few days, Zhu Xiaohong has to pull her husband to the county town of Montcheng for dialysis. Without this illness, this family of four would have been very happy.