Electrical title: A 60-year-old single man in Hubei raises an abandoned infant for two years; the child calls him "Mommy," Science Fiction. A destitute single man picked up an abandoned baby by the roadside two years ago. For these two years, this man has been both "father" and "mother," carefully nurturing the little boy's growth. They depend on each other, portraying genuine human emotions amidst their impoverished life. He is Zhao Xianxiang, a farmer from Group One, Lianghui Village, Bayang Town, Lichuan City, Hubei Province.
This single man comes from a poor family. Zhao Xianxiang, who is 60 years old this year, is a simple and honest farmer. Since he was young, he has been frail and sickly, without much education or any special skills. After growing up, he still made a living farming at home. Due to his family's poverty, he never married.
Zhao Xianxiang's home is extremely simple. The house is built with stone blocks, with broken and battered walls. His mother was critically ill one early morning while I was dreaming. His house, covered with broken tiles, appears open-air when you look up inside, with stars visible through the holes. The roof is riddled with holes. There isn't even a proper stove in his home; the cooking tools are merely the past "fire pit" and that pitch-black "cauldron." Despite his family's poverty, he does not have the bad habit of laziness, often helping villagers with farm work and odd jobs. In everyone's eyes, he is a warm-hearted person.
Kind-heartedness leads to adopting an abandoned infant. On a cold winter morning in 2009, heavy snow fell, making it abnormally cold. Zhao Xianxiang still went to work in the fields as usual. At noon, carrying a load on his shoulders, he struggled to walk home. The cries of a baby, "wawa," made him stop. He put down the load on his shoulder and followed the sound. What he saw shocked him: a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, its little face frozen purple in the icy storm, with only weak cries echoing in the cold valley.
Whose child is this? Zhao Xianxiang called out in all directions but received no response, eventually confirming that the baby was an orphan abandoned by its parents. Without hesitation, Zhao Xianxiang took off his own clothes, wrapped the child in them, and rushed home. Upon returning home, he warmed the child by the fire and found formula to feed him. He also gave the child a name, Zhao Anyue. "This child has a big fate; I didn’t expect myself to have the ability to raise him, it’s a miracle," Zhao Xianxiang said reflectively.
Through hardships, he refuses to abandon the child. After bringing the child home, many people advised Zhao Xianxiang to give up adopting him. But Zhao Xianxiang firmly and resolutely said, "No matter whose child it is, he is still a life. As long as I am alive one day, I will take care of him one day, letting him grow up into an adult."
For more than two years, despite his weak health, Zhao Xianxiang has taken care of the child every day, whether working the land or cooking. He acts as both father and mother, feeding the child, washing his clothes, giving him baths, and comforting him to sleep. Now the child is already two years old, healthy and well-behaved. "Mommy..." During the interview, the child kept calling Zhao Xianxiang like this, and Zhao Xianxiang would often hold the child lovingly and kiss him. "As long as I am still able-bodied, I will take care of him and try my best to let him go to school in the future," Zhao Xianxiang said firmly and hopefully. (End)