Tears of love for a lifetime

Preface: This story is an emotional story of modern life integrating family, friendship and love. It mainly embodies the spirit of great love between people that gives up grudges and understands, tolerates and helps each other, and promotes positive energy to create a harmonious society and realize the Chinese dream as soon as possible.

In 2009, in Rong County, a remote small county in Qian Province, a young, beautiful and sunny girl full of youthful vitality came from Qianyang City, the provincial capital, to report to Rong County Middle School. She was a female teacher who volunteered to go to the countryside to teach. Her name is Zhang Xiaotong, she was 23 years old and graduated from the Vocal Music Department of Kyoto University of Communication. She is from Qianyang City, Guizhou Province. She is innocent, lively and kind, full of love in her heart and willing to help others without asking for anything in return. One Friday afternoon after Teacher Zhang Xiaotong went to the countryside to teach for a month, all the children went home after class. Zhang Xiaotong walked out of the classroom and suddenly saw a male classmate who did not go home, but was sitting alone in a small corner of the school playground. In the corner, he lowered his head and didn't know what he was doing.

Zhang Xiaotong walked over. When she walked up to the boy, she saw that it was Zhao Xiaolong, a first-year junior high school student. Zhang Xiaotong walked up and asked:"Classmate Zhao Xiaolong, what are you doing here?" Why don't you go home after school? Student Zhao Xiaolong slowly raised his head and stood up and said: Hello, Teacher Zhang, something happened at home. I am upset and don’t want to go home now. Zhang Xiaotong asked casually,"Zhao Xiaolong, what happened at home, can you tell the teacher?" Zhao Xiaolong lowered his head and said nothing. Zhang Xiaotong stretched out her hand to pull classmate Zhao Xiaolong over, gently touched Zhao Xiaolong's head, and said softly:"Zhao Xiaolong, don't worry, tell me if you have anything, and see if the teacher can help you solve the problem." The teacher can take you home, and also drop by your house to see what happened, okay? Zhao Xiaolong nodded heavily and said,"Okay, thank you, Teacher Zhang." Then he bowed to Teacher Zhang Xiaotong and briefly told what happened to his family.

After listening, teacher Zhang Xiaotong followed classmate Zhao Xiaolong to his home. Teacher Zhang Xiaotong walked into the door of Zhao Xiaolong's courtyard and saw a middle-aged man sitting in a wheelchair. There were two old people beside him who looked like an old couple. They all lowered their heads and were weaving bamboo mats. Zhao Xiaolong pulled Teacher Zhang Xiaotong into the courtyard and said:"Second Uncle, our Teacher Zhang is here." At this time, the middle-aged man raised his head and glanced at Teacher Zhang Xiaotong, and then said enthusiastically:"Oh, it's Teacher Zhang. Please come quickly." Sit down, Xiaolong quickly went to pour water for Teacher Zhang. Zhang Xiaotong walked to classmate Zhao Xiaolong’s second uncle and sat down to chat with him. At this time, the two old people also looked at each other at the same time. Zhang Xiaotong stood up and said: Hello, Teacher Zhang, you guys have a chat first before we enter the room. After that, they turned around and left the room. Teacher Zhang Xiaotong learned about the current situation of the Zhao family and some unfortunate family changes when she was chatting with Zhao Jinshan, the second uncle of Zhao Xiaolong's classmate.

Zhao Jinshan, 30 years old at the time, graduated from the provincial normal university. After working in a foreign educational institution in the provincial capital for 2 years, he gave up the generous treatment of a company executive with an annual income of 300,000 yuan and returned to his hometown after resigning. Worked as an English teacher in a senior high school in the county. When Teacher Zhang Xiaotong was chatting with Zhao Jinshan, she vaguely felt that Zhao Jinshan had an intriguing domineering air about him, not exactly like a scholar who taught.. It turns out that classmate Zhao Xiaolong is now a child of a single-parent family. His father died in an accidental car accident three years ago. Zhao Jinshan was also seriously injured in that car accident. Due to lack of timely treatment, his legs and lower limbs were paralyzed and he was unable to return home. If you continue to teach in the school, you can only resign. Now I am working as a temporary substitute teacher in a primary school in the village, and my service is voluntary and unpaid. Because of his health, Zhao Jinshan can't do anything now. When he is free at home, he can only make some handmade bamboo products such as vegetable baskets and bamboo mats, and sell them in the market for some small change, earning some small change as a subsidy. She had no other source of income, but Zhang Xiaotong didn't know that the man in the wheelchair in front of her was once a brave man with strong bones who could bleed without shedding tears, and he was also a man who stepped out of the university campus. The special forces soldier who has served in the military camp for two years is also a combat hero who has participated in the Black Triangle to eliminate the leaders of international drug trafficking organizations. Just because of the accidental car accident three years ago, Zhao Jinshan's family was destroyed overnight. The driver's escape brought disastrous consequences to the Zhao family. For more than three years, Zhao Jinshan has suffered countless ups and downs in his heart without anyone telling him about it, turning him into a disabled person who cannot do anything now. This shows how much pressure he has in his heart. As the saying goes, a man doesn't shed tears easily, but he has not yet reached the sad point. At this moment, Zhao Jinshan was sitting in a wheelchair, looking up at the sky, and helplessly shed two lines of tears. How he hoped that one day he could stand up again and resume his journey to the top of his life. But he knew that it was all fantasy to him now, just a dream. Zhao Jinshan looked up at the stars and blurted out a sad sentence:

The mountains are dim, the clouds are dim, the wind and rain from all directions will stop tonight.

Love is vague, hatred is vague, and a lifetime of trials and tears is free.

The waves of the river are roaring and the tide is moving. When I wake up, I have a glass of wine and play the piano and flute.

The world is smiling, people are lonely, who will leave a lasting picture of their strong feelings?

The wind and clouds are surging, the sky is thundering, no one in the world can look forward to it but work hard.

In one's life, in heaven and on earth, kindness, filial piety, benevolence and sincerity are the way.

When Zhang Xiaotong heard this poem blurted out by Zhao Jinshan, she was filled with emotion. She felt that the man in front of her was not that simple. Most of the real daily expenses of Zhao Jinshan's family and the money he spent on medicine for his current treatment depended on him. The eldest sister-in-law is Tang Meijuan, the mother of his nephew Zhao Xiaolong. She works as a store treasurer in a fresh produce supermarket in the county town and earns money to support the family.

Zhao Jinshan’s sister-in-law Tang Meijuan was 32 years old at the time and graduated from the provincial university for nationalities. Tang Meijuan was the deputy director of the state tourism bureau before she resigned. At that time, she was the youngest deputy bureau-level cadre in the state and had particularly strong work ability. However, after two brothers in Zhao Jinshan's family had an accident, the huge changes in the Zhao family overnight made Tang Meijuan make the most helpless and strongest decision. After the family changed dramatically overnight and she lost her husband, Tang Meijuan struggled to survive for this broken family. To survive, she could only choose to resign and return home to take care of her son Zhao Xiaolong and brother-in-law Zhao Jinshan. She relied on the money she earned from working in the supermarket to maintain the family's normal living expenses. Tang Meijuan cooks meals every night after returning home from get off work. After doing laundry, she also provides physical therapy and massage for Zhao Jinshan to restore the function of Zhao Jinshan's legs. Day after day, year after year, she has paid a huge amount for this family. The price, because she had no choice for this family relationship and responsibility. On the day of the car accident, Zhao Jinshan's eldest brother, Zhao Jinhe, died due to excessive injuries due to severe damage to his internal organs and massive bleeding, resulting in ineffective rescue efforts. Zhao Jinshan's mother died of illness 10 years ago, and his father, Zhao Donglai, died after the two brothers were involved in a car accident. The next day, he died of a heart attack due to excessive grief and failed to save him. Within two days, the Zhao family's father and son died one after another. It was so cruel to the family. During the chat between teacher Zhang Xiaotong and Zhao Jinshan, Zhang Xiaotong learned that the two old people who had just entered the house were Mr. Tian and his wife, colleagues of Zhao Jinshan's father. They were here to collect debts from Zhao Jinshan's house. They had already arrived. It’s been 4 days [The Zhao family owes Mr. Tian and his wife 60,000 yuan on the day the Zhao brothers were involved in a car accident three years ago. Because the cost of surgery and rescue was not enough, Zhao Jinshan’s father, Zhao Donglai, went to Mr. Tian’s house to borrow 60,000 yuan for the two brothers. The son paid back the medical rescue expenses. At that time, because Mr. Tian and his wife had been colleagues with Zhao Jinshan’s father for decades, Mr. and Mrs. Tian lent the money to him without asking Zhao Jinshan’s father to write an IOU. However, the next day Zhao Jinshan Jinshan's father also died of a heart attack. Faced with this unfortunate family, Mr. Tian and his wife never came to Zhao's house to ask for money for more than three years. Now Tian Laohan's son owes the bank more than 100,000 yuan in credit card overdraft due to business failure and has not repaid it for several months. The bank sent people to visit his son Tian Xiaoliang to collect the credit card debt, and at the same time, it issued a legal document stating a deadline for repayment. Old man Tian and his wife were forced to come to Zhao's house to ask for money.

Because Zhao Jinshan’s family now has no money at all and cannot repay Old Man Tian’s 60,000 yuan debt, Old Han Tian and his wife did not leave the Zhao family. Old Han couple came to Zhao’s house to ask for money to save their son. If they can’t get the money, they will not leave. If there is no other option, they can only live in Zhao's house and let Zhao Jinshan find a way to borrow money and pay it back to the old couple.. Teacher Zhang Xiaotong looked at the handsome but troubled yet elegant man in front of her, and she shed tears of sympathy. After Zhang Xiaotong listened to Zhao Jinshan's brief account of the incident in the Zhao family, she pondered for a moment and comforted Zhao Jinshan without saying much. After learning more about the condition of Zhao Jinshan's legs in detail, she stood up. He said to Zhao Jinshan: Mr. Zhao, I will go into the room and say goodbye to the two old people, and then go back to the school dormitory. I will come over to see you when I have time. Zhao Jinshan nodded and said: Thank you, Teacher Zhang, for bothering you. Zhang Xiaotong then entered the house and said goodbye to Mr. Tian and his wife before leaving the Zhao family. After returning to the school dormitory, Zhang Xiaotong did not eat dinner and lay alone in bed in a daze. She felt regret and sympathy for the series of unfortunate encounters and family changes in Zhao Jinshan's family. She was almost insomnia that night, and she made a decision that she would not regret.