On a stormy night, a flood crept up on the villagers in their sleep. As the catastrophe approached, a 19-year-old boy, however, ran through the storm. Extraordinary courage and wisdom, he wants to save the lives of the villagers. After the disaster, their homes were lost, and the university acceptance letter brought them the hope of changing their fate, or the despair of lamenting the unfairness of fate?
In the summer of 2006, a number of typhoons triggered by the floods, to China's southern provinces caused a huge disaster, in which Hunan Province is one of the hardest-hit areas of the floods. In Zixing City, a disaster area in Hunan Province, Shen Rencheng, a student who went to college this year, once saved the lives of 11 families in his village with his extraordinary courage before the flood came. But when he faced the reality that his family had suffered a major loss, a serious problem in front of him, what else can he take to college? Informed of this news, the reporter decided to go to visit Shen Rencheng.
Shen Rencheng's home in Zixing City, Huangcao Town, Huangjia Village, Shenjia group, to get there must cross the vast Dongjiang Lake, the transportation is extremely inconvenient. Due to the mudslide the other day led to many collapsed mountains, both sides of the green mountains have been scarred, winding mountain road everywhere is the remains of the flood, from the top of the mountain sliding down the mountain rocks and soil used to pave the already narrow mountain road, now they are cleaned up to the side of the road. Although the flood has receded, but everything in front of me, let the reporter y feel the disaster came to the time of that a thrilling car traveled for nearly an hour and then could not go forward, in the mud on the mountain road after nearly an hour, the reporter finally saw Shen Rencheng.
Shen Rencheng's home has been destroyed by the flood, after the flood, he and his brother have been living in his grandmother's house, although his grandmother's house was also affected by the impact of the flood, but fortunately there is no big problem, but the back of the house of a cave-in point or let the grandchildren three heart palpitations.
At 11 o'clock on the 16th, he was lying down in the house when suddenly there was a noise and the stone rolled to the wall. Then all the mud has come down, four or five people picked two days to clean up.
Shen Rencheng also told reporters that the special geographic environment of the mountainous areas make the flood come fast and go fast, the grandmother's house after the collapse of this flood has actually basically receded, just because of the amount of water contained in the soil of the mountain has reached a saturated state, coupled with the previous day's flooding of the scouring, so even if the flood receded, but there is still a lot of places in the risk of landslides. Looking at the scene in front of me, listening to Ren Cheng's story, the reporter could not help but be surprised, the retreat of the flood is still so powerful, then, in its surging to the mouth will be what a scene?
Ren Cheng's home is about a kilometer away from his grandmother's home in a small depression, at the request of the reporter, Ren Cheng brothers took the reporter to their own home.
The former home into a piece of rubble
The ruins in front of this is the Shen Rencheng family lived for decades home. It was a night in mid-July, when the rain was pouring down in the quiet mountain village, and the people who had worked hard all day slept, not realizing that the danger had crept up on them, and that the floods were coming.
Shen Renxing, Shen Rencheng's older brother, was asleep at the time and dreamed that his home was flooded, so he turned around, touched his hand to the side of the bed, and touched the water, and he was so shocked that he jumped up immediately, with his clothes on, and hurried to the other room to tell his brother to get up.
Being woken up by his brother, Ren Cheng was also surprised, the two brothers think, it must be too much rain in the past two days too fast, not far from the door of the river may be brought down by the mountain rocks and debris blocked, the water will be overflowing the river into the door. So, the two brothers copied the tools, in the pouring rain rushed to the river to dredge the river.
Beginning they thought dredged, and then realized that other places are also blocked, the water level is getting higher and higher, slowly rose to the thighs, people can not stand to stand, staggering, hand tools are washed away, some large wood, large stones also rushed down, to the feet of the smash.
The river is rising higher and higher, and the speed is very fast, the eye is going to overflow, the brothers realized that things are not good, and rushed back to report. The older brother, In-sung, rushed home to call his grandmother at the bottom of the hill, while the younger brother, In-sung, shouted from a clearing in the center of the village to be able to wake up the townspeople who were still asleep as soon as possible, but the sound of the wind, the rain, and the sound of the running water mingled together and overshadowed In-sung's shouts, and In-sung had to knock on the doors of the houses from house to house in the pouring rain.
Eleven families were finally woken up, and In-sung, who knew the water and terrain, guided everyone to a safer home.
It was relatively higher ground, and no water had entered the house. Because the water was blocked from above, the water went all the way to the front, and there was no water over here.
Just as everyone was doing a head count, they realized one person was missing. A few of the younger ones came out, shouted everywhere, and finally found it.
Finding the last villager, In-sung and everyone thought they could breathe a sigh of relief, but just then, In-sung realized that the corners of the walls of the house they were in were slowly getting wet, which made In-sung alert once again, because almost all the houses in the village are made of loess, which is easy to soften when it comes into contact with water, and when the walls are soft, the house is in danger of collapsing, so In-sung immediately guided everyone to start moving to another house to move, but just at this time, behind them came a loud bang. The house collapsed.
Watching their homes collapse under the impact of the floodwaters, people's hearts are getting heavier and heavier. Some old men sobbed uncontrollably at the sight of the house collapsing, and many women's buried their heads and cried there.
That night, in less than two hours, Shen Rencheng is in the Huangjia Village Shenjia group of 11 families, 9 families of the house failed to withstand the impact of the downpour of flash floods collapsed. But fortunately, because of accurate judgment, everyone chose to take refuge in the house survived, the whole group of 27 people because of the transfer in time are safe from danger.
Because they were busy dredging the river and informing the surrounding neighbors, before the house collapsed, the two brothers were not able to snatch a thing from the house, although the brothers are very sad, but the simple they said again and again, as long as people live, there is hope, washed out fields can be planted again, the house can be rebuilt again.
Leaving the home of the brothers has been a broken wall, the reporter returned to the brothers' grandmother's home. At this time, the reporter also said to see Ren Cheng has been stored in the heart of the question, that is, where their parents, but let the reporter unexpected is that this topic but let Ren Cheng's grandmother tears.
Shen Rencheng's grandmother, Deng Tingxiang, said his two grandsons are so poor, bitter, wearing clothes are given by others. Now there is no place to live.
What makes the three grandchildren in tears. Behind the flood-hit home, there is also a lot of sadness and happiness hidden in the family's past.
The parents of the Rincheng brothers are farmers in Huangjia Village, planting ginger and chestnuts is the family's main source of income, and sometimes the father will also work part-time as a logger in the mountains to subsidize the family, a family of four, although the life is not generous, but the days are also calm and happy.
Ren Cheng brothers age difference of one year, in order for them to be able to take care of each other, their mother let them in the same year of school, in 2002, the two brothers at the same time to participate in the secondary school exams, the results of some of the better Ren Cheng Zixing City, the only one of the provincial key high school in the Zixing City Secondary School, and the results of some of the poorer brother failed to get into the list. Considering the economic situation of the family, In Cheng's brother gave up the opportunity to study in secondary school, to the Dongjiang Lake cruise ship as a sailor. In Cheng, on the other hand, entered Zixing Municipal High School to start working on his and his family's dream of going to college, but what In Cheng didn't expect was that something would happen to his family before his first semester in high school was over.
When Shen Rencheng called home, his father told him that he had sprained his back while working as a logger, but it was nothing serious. After another period of time, Shen Huicheng was always distracted, so he called home again, and his father said he had chest pains and couldn't stand up when he was in pain.
In the family's repeated persuasion, Ren Cheng's father finally agreed to go to Changsha for medical treatment, but the results of the diagnosis of the whole family into a greater anxiety, Ren Cheng's father was diagnosed with lung cancer, and is already in the late stages. So, the whole family put together and borrowed 10,000 yuan, the brothers accompanied their father in Changsha for treatment, but only a month's time, the money was spent, in the father's insistence they returned home, stubborn father from then on refused to go to Changsha for treatment.
At the time, my father was not feeling well, and he said that he would have lost his money if he had been treated. So he has been refusing to go to Changsha for treatment. The family could only send a little chemotherapy medicine back to him through some relatives and friends.
In early 2003, Rencheng's father passed away, and the family was in financial distress at the same time as they lost their closest relative.
Faced with the family's plight, Ren Cheng thought of dropping out of school, but this idea was strongly opposed by his family, especially his brother.
Shen Renxing, his older brother, said his father had told him that no matter what happened to his father in the future, you must send his younger brother out and not ruin his life.
The simple brother took his father's words to heart, and he would save half of his monthly income of less than 500 yuan to give to his brother. In order to increase the family's income and to raise money for tuition for her son, who may enter college, Rencheng's 40-something-year-old mother also went to work in Guangdong in early 2005 and hasn't been home for more than a year in order to save money on travel expenses.
Mom works in an electronics factory for 12 hours a day, with an extra shift of more than three hours, from 8 a.m. until at least 11 p.m. every day. She only earns five or six hundred dollars a month.
Ren Cheng is very aware of his mother and brother to make money is not easy, so, in life he can save on saving, often three months of living expenses are not two hundred dollars. 2005, Ren Cheng's college entrance examination scores of 505 points, was admitted to a college, but because of the results of the less than ideal, and the mother and brother to discuss, Ren Cheng decided to repeat the hope that in the next year to get a better school, the second year. In 2006, Ren Cheng's college entrance examination score of 579 points, was admitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology. Just as the family was getting excited about the good news, a terrible flood hit unexpectedly.
Now the Shen family group can no longer farm, more than 60 acres of fields, the loss of 40 to 50 acres, only a few acres of fields left, almost no arable land.
In addition to all the arable land washed away, Ren Cheng's parents worked hard to plant more than 40 chestnut trees were also washed away by the flood.
After the flood, although the people in the village suffered serious damage to their homes and property, but when they learned that Rencheng had not been able to go to college tuition fees, these grateful villagers to the brothers organized a fund-raising campaign to give Rencheng more than 1,000 yuan. But what they did not expect is that this more than 1,000 dollars and was Ren Cheng to the village, for the repair of the mountain road washed away by the flood. The most important thing now is that we can get through the difficulties as soon as possible and rebuild our homes," he said.
Ren Cheng said that because of the flooding, many houses collapsed, so the higher level of government specifically approved each collapsed house can cut 15 cubic meters of wood for rebuilding their homes.
Ren Cheng told reporters that they will put the trees felled here in the sun for a period of time, such as the trunk of the trunk of the water is basically no longer, and then a root transported down the mountain, but Ren Cheng's brother told reporters that he is ready to build things temporarily suspended, because, now the main thing is to raise the younger brother's tuition fees.
Now, the two brothers and the villagers went to repair the bridge, they told reporters, in the local government and the villagers *** with the efforts, soon the traffic here will be fully restored, then Hou, the villagers rebuild the home of the material can be transported in through these roads.
From Shen Rencheng's home back to Zixing City, I heard that the staff of the China Education Development Foundation has come to Zixing, investigating the situation of poor college students here, the reporter rushed to get in touch with them. Cai, director of the Zixing City Education Bureau, told the reporter that one of their main tasks at present is to investigate and organize the situation of the affected students. Shen Rencheng students in front of the flood heroic rescue deeds they have also heard.
The China Education Development Foundation has organized a special Geely Education Fund to help poor students in the disaster area go to college. Shen Rencheng's name has also been included in the list of sponsored students.