That moment, he opened his arms to protect four students - Deyang City Dongqi Middle School teacher killed Tan Qianqiu's final dedication
Xinhua Deyang City, Hanwang Town (Sichuan), May 14 (Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Wen, Tian Yu) "those four children really live? Last night I heard that a teacher saved four children, I do not know is you ......" Zhang Guanrong pounced on the remains of her husband to release mournful tears.
Late at night in the town of Hanwang, Deyang City, cold rain, sad sounds around, whistling past the ambulance can bring a touch of comfort, that means there is a life in the hope of running.
At 23:50 on May 13, the ambulance's siren wailed through Hanwang town -- rescuers from the China Earthquake Emergency Search and Rescue Center rescued four students in a row from the collapsed building of Dongqi Middle School in Deyang.
"My niece is a sophomore class student, if not for their teacher on top of the protection, these four children a can not live!" Rescued girl Liu Hongli's uncle said to reporters.
"The teacher?"
"Alas ...... he is a great man, a great hero Oh!" Said Liu Hongli uncle's eyes red. He told reporters that it was a male teacher, almost 50 years old.
Early in the morning of the 13th, located in the school playground on the temporary morgue, the reporter from the hands of the staff of the remains of the registry to find the name of the hero teacher - Tan Qianqiu. His remains were picked up from the rubble at 22:12 on the 13th.
"When we found him, he was lying on his desk with his arms spread wide, with four students underneath him, all four of whom were alive!" A rescuer described the scene to reporters.
Tan's wife, Zhang Guanrong, is carefully wiping her husband's remains: every grain of sand and dust on his face is gently wiped away; his disheveled hair is carefully combed into the hairstyle he was accustomed to before he died. The back of Mr. Tan's head was smashed into a deep concave by the floorboards ......
When Zhang Guanrong pulled up Tan Qianqiu's arm to wipe away the blood, her husband's stiff fingers once again touched her fragile nerves: "Yesterday when he was carried over it was still soft and fluffy, how did it become so hard? " Zhang Guanrong gently rubbed her husband's arm and wept mournfully ......
It was this pair of arms that had spread countless knowledge that took back four young lives from the hands of the grim reaper in the instant the earthquake struck, and the scars on the arms clearly recorded it all!
"That morning he got up at 6:00 a.m. as usual, washed and dressed our youngest daughter, took her for a walk, and then rushed to work at the school early. He left and never came back. My daughter is still at home shouting for her father!" Zhang Guanrong sobbed uncontrollably.
"Mr. Tan is the director of teaching at our school, and he also teaches political science in the second and third years of high school." Accompanying Zhang Guanrong guarded Mr. Tan's body beside the colleague Mr. Xia Kaixiu said, "In our school teachers he is the most heartbroken students one, walking on campus, far away to see a piece of small stone on the ground he has to go over to pick up, for fear that the students play when injured."
Tan Qianqiu teacher Tan Qianqiu daughter Tan Qianqiu earthquake playground, the parents of students according to local custom for Tan teacher lit a string of firecrackers ......