At the age of 1 1, Hong Zhanhui, a college student in huaihua university, Hunan Province, had a great change in his family: his father went crazy, his sister died, his father found an abandoned baby, and his mother and brother ran away from home one after another. Hong Zhanhui's immature shoulders pressed down the burden of life prematurely.

Since high school, Hong Zhanhui has taken this unrelated sister with him, taking care of her younger sister while studying, making a living by doing small business and odd jobs, and taking her to a foreign country to go to college. Now she has taken care of her sister 12 years.

This 13-year-old boy has become the pillar of the Hong family.

1982, Hong Zhanhui was born in Hongzhuang Village, dongxia town, Xihua County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province. Before 12 years old, Hong Zhanhui, like many rural boys, had an innocent childhood. His father, mother, brother, sister and his family are all happy, although life is difficult.

1994 One day at the end of August, life played a big joke on Hong Zhanhui, and his life took a turn for the better.

At noon that day, something happened in Hong's family that shocked the whole village-his father Hong Xinqing suddenly went crazy, not only smashing things at home, but also hitting his wife. When Hong Zhanhui's mother saw this situation, she quickly called for help and sent Hong Xinqing to the hospital. But in desperation, I left my little daughter, who was only 1 year old, in the house. By the time everyone arrived, 1 year-old sister had been thrown to the ground by her father and was dying when she was taken to the hospital. Hong Xinqing got intermittent mental illness, and her sister left forever.

At this time, Hong Zhanhui was in the fifth grade of primary school and was still under 12 years old. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month this year, Hong Xinqing, who was crazy, didn't go home for dinner near noon. Hong Zhanhui went to look for it with his mother. Under a tree five miles away from the village, his father found an abandoned baby girl who came out of nowhere, and his eyes showed a kind of fatherly love.

In desperation, when it was getting dark, the family took the children home. As soon as Hong Zhanhui hugged the little girl, the little girl threw herself into his arms, and he thought of his sister. Hong Zhanhui named the baby girl Hongzai.

1995. On August 20th, after lunch, my mother was busy steaming steamed bread until it was enough for the whole family to eat for a week. The next day, my mother disappeared. Unable to bear the burden of her family and the beating of her crazy husband, she chose to flee.

"Mom, where have you been? Come back. " The cries of the two brothers floated in the dusk for a long time. They don't want to lose their mother like this, and they don't want to lose their dependence on life. Hong Zhanhui cried and looked for her mother with her younger brother. It was late at night and her mother didn't come home that day.

13-year-old Hong Zhanhui seems to have suddenly grown up overnight. His tender shoulders began to take over the burden of family life: raising young Hong, serving his unstable father, taking care of his young brother and looking for his mother who ran away from home.

At this point, Hong Zhanhui has gone to dongxia town Middle School in Xihua County to attend junior high school, two or three kilometers away from home. Every day at school, he was afraid that his sick father would hurt his little sister, so he left the opportunity to his aunt to look after him. After school, he came home and was busy preparing meals for the whole family. Helpless, Hong Zhanhui had to hold the baby girl and beg for milk from nearby mothers. Asking for milk every day is not the way. Hong Zhanhui began to learn to sell eggs and popsicles to earn money to buy milk powder for her sister.

During her three years in junior high school, Hong Zhanhui walked back and forth between school and home every morning, noon, afternoon and evening to take care of the family's dinner.

1In July, 997, Hong Zhanhui graduated from junior high school and became one of the three students admitted to Dongxia Town Middle School, a key high school in Henan Province, Xihua No.1 Middle School.

"I want to earn money to study and support my family."

"When I received the acceptance letter, I was packing my bags and preparing to go out to work." Hong Zhanhui told reporters, "I want to earn money to study, and I want to support my family."

At that time, the sober father exchanged a bag of wheat rations at home for 50 yuan money and handed it to Hong Zhanhui trembling and said, "Baby, dad is sorry for you, he has no money to go to school."

Hong Zhanhui, 16 years old, took 50 yuan and braved the scorching sun to go to Zhoukou and Luohe alone. Because she was thin and small, she couldn't even find a job to wash dishes for three days and three nights, so she had to return to Xihua County. At this point, Hong Zhanhui was penniless.

Hong Zhanhui's persistent spirit aroused the sympathy of a middle-aged man. After two or three days of hard work, the middle-aged man gave Hong Zhanhui a job, delivering nail guns on the construction site where he built the canopy. Hong Zhanhui worked hard and earned more than 700 yuan in a summer vacation.

In September this year 1, Hong Zhanhui finally applied to Xihua No.1 Middle School on time. Moreover, through the election, he became the monitor of Class 293.

After the school gradually settled down, Hong Zhanhui rented a house near the school and used it to run away from home. He began to go back and forth between school and residence every day, just like when he was in junior high school. Early in the morning, he asked his little sister to have breakfast, then told her not to go out and went to school. At noon and evening, he had a meal from school and took it back to his residence to eat with Xiao.

After coming to the county to study, all expenses have increased, and the learning pressure of high school is incomparable to that of junior high school. However, Hong Zhanhui knew that if he lost his financial resources, his father's condition would improve, his younger brothers and sisters' lives and beautiful ideals would become empty talk, and working to make money would become the biggest task of Hong Zhanhui besides his heavy studies.

"I can't help it. If I want to study to support my family, I must find ways to make money. " Since then, Hong Zhanhui has sold ballpoint pens, books and English tapes. Spare time on campus. "Insoles and socks, as long as I can make money, I will sell them." He supported his family on a small income.

It is despised for high school students to engage in campus sales like small vendors, and even aroused the disgust of some teachers and students. Once in the process of a class sales promotion, the class teacher kicked him out of the classroom mercilessly: "Are you here to study or to be a peddler?" No matter how difficult your family is, these money-making things depend on your parents. Your task now is to study hard. Hong Zhanhui also don't refuse, fought back tears, pack up and go. "。

Hong Zhanhui said that as long as the school posted a power outage notice, he quickly ran out to wholesale candles, and then went to retail class by class; The ballpoint pen core oil he sells has a small nib and a low price. If he feels bad after using it, he will take the initiative to return it. "In fact, no matter how small you do or how much money you earn, as long as you work hard, you can be proud of every penny," Hong Zhanhui said.

While earning money, Hong Zhanhui studies and takes care of Mix. He must send medicine to his father regularly. This life lasted for more than a year. When Hong Zhanhui was a sophomore, his father's mental illness suddenly broke out again.

Father needs care and money in the hospital. In order to borrow money, Hong Zhanhui went to several surrounding villages and asked almost all his relatives and friends, but it took him two days to borrow more than 40 yuan. Later, Aunt Deng, the owner of a paint shop in Nanguan, Xihua County, extended a helping hand and sent 2,000 yuan to Hong Zhanhui's home.

The pressure of life and the present situation of family forced Hong Zhanhui to drop out of school. In her sophomore year, Hong Zhanhui said goodbye to her reluctant campus with tears in her eyes.

After returning to his hometown in the countryside, he tidied up the farmland, took care of his father, taught his sister to study in his spare time, and did some small business in his spare time to make money to subsidize his family, earning six or seven thousand yuan a year.

By 2000, Xiaoqian was 6 years old and her father's condition was under control. "You can't do without reading, learning and knowledge," Hong Zhanhui longed to go back to school again.

At the right moment, teachers Yonggui Li and Qin from Xihua No.1 Middle School were transferred to Xihua No.2 Middle School. Two teachers have been concerned about Hong Zhanhui. They sent a message to Hong Zhanhui: I hope Hong Zhanhui can go back to high school. Because the senior middle school in No.2 Middle School is newly built, Hong Zhanhui has become a freshman in Xihua No.2 Middle School.

Hong Zhanhui took Xiaoqian again. She is old enough to go to school. Teacher Qin helped find a primary school nearby, and Xiaoqian began to go to school.

"I can't fall down, I want to go to college and change my destiny."

A new high school life has begun again. Different from the past, while taking care of Xiao, I have another job-tutoring my little sister's study.

Hong Zhanhui told reporters that when he was a sophomore, he worked in a steamed stuffed bun shop near the school. Every month, his boss pays 30 yuan to eat steamed buns for free in the morning, so that he can eat more and save lunch and dinner.

Life goes on monotonously. From June 5438 to June 2002 10, my father committed mental illness for the third time. He sent his father to a mental hospital, but he couldn't afford the hospitalization fee. Soon, his younger brother, Hong Jinhui, who ranked first in his class in the first day of junior high school, left without saying goodbye and went out to work.

/kloc-On the end of 0/0, a township mental hospital in Fugou County was moved by Hong Zhanhui's filial piety and promised to waive hospitalization fees and only accept treatment fees. Hong Zhanhui hurried home to get something from the hospital, and rode to the hospital overnight after he got home. It's nearly 50 kilometers from home to the hospital, and it's already deep at night. Hong Zhanhui was exhausted after running for three days in a row. He can't keep his eyes open when riding a bike. As a result, people and cars fell into the ditch by the side of the road. When he woke up, the bicycle was on him and the fragments of the water bottle were scattered all over the floor.

I don't know how long I have been lying in the ditch. Hong Zhanhui thought of my sister and father. He gritted his teeth and said to himself, "I can't fall." If I fall down, my father's illness will be left unattended, and my sister will be left unattended. I must go to college and change my destiny. " He finally stood up tenaciously.

Hong Zhanhui told reporters that he saw that students had a great demand for review materials, so he used Sunday to go to Zhengzhou to wholesale books and then sell them back to school. In order to save costs, he sometimes walks for several hours from Zhengzhou South Bus Station to Zhengzhou Bookstore in the western suburbs, with blood all over his feet.

Hong Zhanhui's fellow villagers Yang Hongzhi and Ning Dan told reporters that in Xihua County, Henan Province and neighboring Taikang County and Fugou County, high school students around 2002 were deeply impressed by Hong Zhanhui, and many people lent him money as capital. He often goes to school classes to sell books, refills and so on. When they bought information, they became friends with Hong Zhanhui.

It was during that time that Hong Zhanhui only sold one translated classical Chinese, sold more than 5,000 copies and earned more than 20,000 yuan. As Hong Zhanhui is a well-known student, his honest business is getting better and better, and even students from other schools come to him to buy books.

In June, 2003, Hong Zhanhui, who had been studying in high school intermittently for five years, finally entered the college entrance examination room.

"Maybe, at that time, no one understood why I could go to high school for five years on and off without giving up my studies. Five years, a year off to earn money. In five years, I fainted 16 times, but I stood up every time. " Hong Zhanhui said, "I have never received a donation in five years, but when I started a small business selling books, my classmates lent me almost all my living expenses." Hong Zhanhui was very proud and moved.

"I will firmly remember those who helped me, and I want to help more people."

After the college entrance examination results were announced, Hong Zhanhui was admitted to Huaihua University with a score of 490. But the tuition fee of 5200 yuan and taking care of his sister made him very embarrassed. During the summer vacation, he earned 2000 yuan by working, and decided to go to Hunan first and entrust his sister to his aunt.

On the day when the freshmen reported for duty, he paid the tuition fee of 1500 yuan and started his old job as a "small trader". Seeing many freshmen calling home, he asked around to find the sales channel of calling cards. He found a phone card vendor and bought all the money he had in 500 yuan. That night, he sold more than 100 cards and earned six or seven hundred yuan in two or three days.

Hong Zhanhui tried his best to make money. Later, he gradually acted as an agent for BBK repeater, electronic dictionary and Ding Jiayi cosmetics distributor of Huaihua University in Hunan Province. He also monopolized the pure water supply and telephone installation in the school 19 student dormitory.

In the Spring Festival of 2004, Hong Zhanhui returned to his hometown in Henan and felt guilty when he saw his little sister who had dropped out of school. "In any case, I can't let my sister drop out of school again. I want to send my sister to college, "Hong Zhanhui made up his mind.

After returning to Huaihua, Hong Zhanhui began to contact schools for Mix. Finally, one day, when he went to Shimen Primary School in Hecheng District to ask the principal for his sister's request, the principal agreed.

Li Hong 'e, a student in the Department of Economics and Management of Huaihua University, first learned that Hong Zhanhui wanted to take her sister to college. Li Hong 'e said to Hong Zhanhui, "We still have an empty bed in our dormitory. Please bring your little sister, and I will take care of her for you. "

At the end of June, 2004, Hong Zhanhui called Zhang Yongguang, a high school classmate studying in Henan University of Technology, and asked them to help her take her sister to Huaihua. He wants to use his summer vacation to make money.

On June 27th, Mix finally met her brother at Huaihua Railway Station. She hugged Hong Zhanhui's leg for a long time.

In the summer vacation of 2004, a female classmate named Song from a high school came to see him from Henan. As soon as she saw Xiao, she fell in love with him and affectionately called her "little guy". From then on, everyone called her "Tiny".

After the summer vacation, Tiny returned to school. Early in the morning, she went to school with her schoolbag on her back. At noon, eat Chinese food at school. After returning to the university dormitory, Hong Zhanhui gave her a class and taught her Mandarin.

The children of poor families have long been in charge, and the "little guy" has learned to cook. If her brother can't come back from selling things, she will cook alone until his brother comes back for dinner. When she sees an empty bottle on the road, she will pick it up. When my brother comes back from the city with school supplies, she will also help carry them. Hong Zhanhui is very satisfied with his sister's understanding.

When people from all walks of life learned about the situation in Hong Zhanhui, many people offered financial and material help, but he refused: "I don't accept donations, because I think it is the most important thing for a person to stand on his own feet. I have the ability to survive and develop now. There are still many people in this society who are in trouble and cannot struggle out. They are the people we need help now. "

Wang Rong, deputy director of the Student Affairs Office of Huaihua University, told the reporter that after learning about Hong Zhanhui's situation, the school made an exception and arranged a dormitory for him to take care of his sister. With the help of the college, Hong Zhanhui also went through the transfer formalities for her sister at Shimen Primary School in Hecheng District, Huaihua City near the college.

Teachers in the school were also moved by Hong Zhanhui's deeds, and some teachers donated money in succession. Once the teacher donated 3 190 yuan. When the teacher gave money to Hong Zhanhui, he didn't answer: "There are many classmates who are more difficult than me. More importantly, I now know how to support myself. " Hong Zhanhui's attitude is very firm. In desperation, the school had to offset some expenses in Hong Zhanhui. About a year later, teachers and students in the department donated some money to Hong Zhanhui, but this time Hong Zhanhui resolutely refused. The Student Affairs Office specially allocated him a monthly allowance for 200 yuan, and repeatedly urged him not to receive it.

Hong Zhanhui has his own principles about money. He believes that money that is not earned by himself must not be spent on himself. During his college years, he repeatedly refused donations and subsidies from others. Although living in poverty, he has never applied for special hardship allowance.

He Ronghua, a classmate of Hong Zhanhui, commented on him: "He refuses donations from others, but he still likes to help others."

Hong Zhanhui said: "I will firmly remember everyone who helped me, and I will set up a fund to help more people." He emphasized that this fund is a responsibility fund, not a general love fund. I want to help those people in this way, and when they succeed, they will re-inject their strength into this fund.

"I want to tell those who are in poverty and try to keep a peaceful mind, don't complain about others, the most important thing is how and how to change themselves." Hong Zhanhui said happily that after he was admitted to the university, he was glad to see his father's condition greatly improved when he came home every Spring Festival. At the end of 2004, my mother also felt guilty and returned to her long-lost home. My brother, who has been wandering for many years, now has news. As an ordinary person, I will, as always, do what I should do, fulfill my obligations and responsibilities, and live this life calmly, quietly and without regrets.

Hong Zhanhui, an example of life.