The story begins 23 years ago.
That year, in an ordinary farmhouse in Hesi Township, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, a young couple's child crashed into the ground. The husband, Chen Shuguo, ecstatically took the baby from the midwife and carried it to his wife, Yu Lihui, saying, "Honey, it's a son, let's name it Chen Yi!"
Under the careful care of Yu Lihui, Chen Yi was well-behaved and obedient from a young age, but also particularly intelligent, less than a year old will be able to speak. When the first time to hear from the child's mouth intermittently called out "dad", "mom", Yu Lihui can not help but discuss with her husband, no matter how much pain in the future must be the child to cultivate talent, so that he can have a role to play.
However, just as Chen Shuguo and his wife were happily envisioning the future, a sudden disaster befell the otherwise happy family.
One night, Yu Lihui found that the originally quiet and lovely Chen Yi suddenly cried and cried. Yu Lihui touched the child's body and was stunned, Chen Yi was hot, like a stove unusually hot. She rushed her son to the village health center. After a brief examination, the doctor told Yu Lihui that the child just had a cold, and then gave Chen Yi a shot of penicillin, then urged her to go home and pay attention to the child to keep warm.
A few days passed, but his son's condition has not improved. At a loss for words, Yu Lihui and her husband had to take the child to a hospital in town for a checkup.
Doctors at the town hospital said the situation was not optimistic and suggested they go to a larger hospital for further tests.
The doctor's words made Mr. and Mrs. Chen Shuguo's hearts hang in the air, the child could not be suffering from any serious illness, right? You know, this fragile family at this point in time is not much affordability at all ah!
Chen Shuguo and his wife rushed to Wenzhou Children's Hospital with Chen Yi in their arms. Chen Shuguo and his wife couldn't believe their ears. Chen Yi was suffering from polio, and the chances of a cure were slim to none.
Soon, the borrowed money was running out, but Chen Yi's condition did not improve. The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers," said Mr. Chen. Whenever Chen Shuguo and his wife looked at the child's pain, they were so anxious that they shed tears. In order to cure the child, the couple began to look around for relatives and friends to borrow money, but the child's condition is getting worse and worse, and soon the lesions attacked Chen Yi's legs, which were in the toddler stage, and Chen Yi began to be unable to even stand up.
Chen Shuguo and his wife found a hospital in Hangzhou with advanced medical equipment that might be able to treat their son's illness. A few days later, Chen Shuguo and his wife rushed to Hangzhou with their son in their arms. However, only a checkup will cost 700 yuan, and at this time Chen Shuguo's pocket only left the last 500 yuan. He had no choice but to let his wife go home and raise the money, while he and his son stayed in Hangzhou and waited for her to send the money to save their lives.
Chen Shuguo sat in the hospital corridor with his son in his arms, and saw an older polio patients are lying on the backs of relatives, unable to walk independently, Chen Shuguo despaired, since the child is sick, he and his wife have been emaciated, and if the debt is high and still can not cure the child, then the family is not completely collapsed? He suddenly felt that he did not know where to go from here.
Desperate Chen Shuguo hugged his son and stayed in the guest house, ready to return to Wenzhou the next day, the child's illness is not treated. But as time passes, he was a little reluctant, after all, because of the poor economic ability to drag down the child, if they are rich perhaps the child is still saved. Suddenly, he developed a bold idea - if the child meets a good family, may be able to change his son's fate.
The next morning, Chen Shuguo cherished the minutes and seconds before he parted ways with his son. He took his son for a stroll around the train station, hoping to leave some memories between father and son. Chen Shuguo looked at the city's bustling crowd, suddenly felt like this let affection "disconnect" some cruelty, in order to create the opportunity to reunite in the future, he then bought a piece of cotton cloth on the street, with a brush in the cotton intentionally leave vague clues: I'm a person from the southern Chenjia Village, the child suffers from polio, do parents really! I'm from Chenjia Village in the south of the country, the child suffers from polio, the parents are really desperate, there is no money for treatment, to see the child left disabled for life, we can't bear it, so we entrusted the child to the state or charitable people to raise, so that the child will be able to survive in the future, if you can give the child to relieve a little bit of the disease and suffering, we will be in the next life and then to repay the kindness.
The reason why it was written on a cotton cloth was because Chen Shuguo considered that this special family letter might have to accompany his son throughout his life so that it would not be destroyed by time.
Chen Shuguo carried his son to a train station near Hangzhou, where he took out 320 yuan from the only 500 yuan he had on him and stuffed it on his son. Then he wrapped the written letter into the clothes his wife had hand-knitted for his son. Just as he was about to turn around and leave, Chen Yi burst into tears. The sound of his son's crying broke through the quiet morning sun, and also y pierced Chen Shuguo's heart. But after a moment's hesitation, he boarded the train to Wenzhou.
When Chen Shuguo returned home, Yu Lihui learned that her son had been abandoned by her husband.
"How can you be so cruel ah, I borrowed money all over the place in the past few days, in order not to give the child treatment? Now you let me how to live ......" Yu Lihui very angry at her husband's behavior, while grabbing her husband, while hysterically crying.
How could they not have expected that this goodbye to their son would be a long 21 years?
Disabled orphans watch out for love
Chen Shukuo abandoned his son that morning, from the train station near the passing of the middle-aged woman Pu Suzhen saw the freezing Chen Yi shivering. Pu Suzhen, while mentally blaming his heartless parents, could not help but walk up to Chen Yi and hold him in her arms to warm him up. But this hug does not matter, she found that Chen Yi not only has a high fever, legs are also some abnormalities. Worried that the child will not last long in the cold outdoors, Pu Suzhen rushed to carry Chen Yi to the Hangzhou First Social Welfare Institute.
When the orphanage staff took the child from Pu Suzhen, their first reaction was that the child was suffering from polio, as similar abandoned babies are not uncommon in the orphanage. They then named the ill-fated child Jiang Jian. From then on, Jiang lived with a group of children who shared the same fate and spent his childhood in ignorance.
Jiang Jian often stared at the door of the orphanage alone, trying to recall his parents, whose memories were fuzzy, hoping that one day a miracle would occur and that his real parents would walk through the door of the orphanage and lead him home with a warm hand.
Jiang Jian started elementary school. Whenever his classmates proudly chatted about their parents, he would always quietly hide to the side. Even when asked by his classmates, he always deliberately avoided the topic of his own life.
When Jiang Jian first arrived at school, he had to walk up and down more than 10 steps to go to the bathroom. A kind teacher told his classmates to help him go to the bathroom every time class ended, but Jiang Jian didn't let his classmates help him even once. Not only did he go to the bathroom alone, he was even active on the playground with his crutches. There is a belief in his heart that he must live like a normal person. It's just that every time he has a parent seminar, when he sees the parents of other students come, Jiang Jian is incredibly envious of those students.
Jiang Jian, who is now 13 years old, was placed in the home of his parents, who are the vice-presidents of the orphanage. Jiang Jian's good behavior and understanding of the grandpa and grandma y like, treat him as his own grandson love. Jiang Jian also felt the warmth of a family for the first time in this new home, which also made him more eager for family love. Although Jiang Jian has limited mobility, he always takes the initiative to help his grandparents do housework, and when he hears them praising themselves, Jiang Jian always feels a kind of indescribable joy.
In the Spring Festival of 2002, Jiang Jian received the first New Year's money in his life. It was 50 yuan from his grandfather, and he was so happy that he kept the money under his pillow, unable to spend it. Whenever the New Year's festival, grandpa's family and friends gathered together, Jiang Jian was also infected by the strong atmosphere of affection, the thought that he does not even know who his parents are, he can not help but sneak alone to hide in his room tears.
We must find our parents and reunite with them! Jiang Jian's determination to find his biological parents is becoming more and more resolute. But he realized that the world is so big, and he is so small, there is no way to find his parents in the sea of people.
One morning, the sky suddenly started to rain heavily, Jiang Jian was unable to go to school, so his grandfather carried him to school. Jiang Jian was lying on his grandfather's back, a warm feeling suddenly touched his every nerve like an electric current, and he finally couldn't help but say that he wanted to find his parents.
"Grandpa, do you know where my mom and dad are? How am I going to find them?"
"It's not really difficult to find your parents, but the prerequisite is to study hard and become a man of honor, then it will be much easier to find your parents." The old man did not want to let Jiang Jian down, so he had to comfort him so.
"Well, then I'll be a scientist in the future ......"
In the rainstorm, lying on his grandfather's back, Jiang Jian while playing the umbrella, while in the heart of the great ideals of his own, not the slightest realization that his legs exposed outside have long been The rain is soaking through.
In 2009, Jiang enrolled in the Hangzhou Jiangnan College of Technology, which is close to the orphanage.
Jiang Jian was admitted to college, and he had been trying to find his parents, so the orphanage staff felt it was time to tell him about his life. The staff handed him a file bag. When Jiang Jian unfolded the yellowed cotton cloth and a piece of red paper inside, tears blurred his vision for a moment. This was what his parents had left him back then, and it was also the only way to find some clues to his parents. It turned out that his last name was Chen and he was from Chen Jia Village. He also learned from a caregiver at the orphanage that he was picked up by a kind aunt and sent to the orphanage, and that he was dressed like a city kid.
However, when Jiang Jian was ready to search for his relatives based on these clues, he found that there are many places called Chenjia Village, and the south is surprisingly which city and which town are like a mystery that can not be solved. Why parents did not leave a specific address, they are afraid of their own grown up to find the door? Jiang Jian momentarily fell into confusion and contemplation. The good thing is that from the letter can be seen, parents were forced to abandon him, which makes Jiang Jian a lot of relief.
Paralympic champions straighten the spine home
In the spring of 2010, the Eighth Paralympic Games in the country to select players, Jiang Jian felt that this is a good opportunity, because it will have the opportunity to show their faces in the country's major television stations, undoubtedly become a shortcut to find their families, and then took the initiative to help participate in the race. After passing the test, he was selected for the archery team of the Zhejiang Provincial Delegation.
Training in the archery team to prepare for the war was very tough. Jiang Jian exerted all his spirit and perseverance to train actively, and his archery performance improved by leaps and bounds.
"Jiang Jian, it seems that this championship you are bound to win ah ......" As Jiang Jian's training results are getting better and better, some of his teammates joked. Whenever this happens, Jiang Jian's face will always show a big smile. In fact, the teammates do not know, Jiang Jian this trip drunkenness, he is trying to take the opportunity to find relatives.
On May 26, 2011, his teammates celebrated his 23rd birthday. But at this time still no one knows, this strong teammate, the heart has been buried a dream. He blew out the candles, made two wishes: one is the Paralympic Games can achieve good results; the second is to find his biological parents.
Part of the eighth National Paralympic Games started early in Hangzhou. In the first men's compound bow 50 meters single round event, Jiang Jian with 327 rings of excellent results to win the crown, won the first gold medal of the Paralympic Games. Instantly honored, Jiang Jian is no longer an obscure ordinary disabled person.
The day before the opening ceremony of the Paralympics, Jiang Jian, as an honorable torchbearer of the Paralympics, lit the flame pot with his own hands. Reports about the Paralympics began to appear frequently in the major media, Jiang Jian felt the time was finally ripe.
Jiang Jian finally said what he has been wishing for years: "Maybe I didn't know better when I was a kid, and I gave you a lot of trouble. But now I've grown up and understand very well, I can understand your suffering. I have never resented you, I just hope to find you, even if only to see a side, I have no regrets ......"
Jiang Jian's search for his relatives after the media reports, when he sent him to the orphanage of the Pu Suzhen old man saw the report, they took the initiative to contact him, agreed to meet the next day.
Jiang Jian and Pu Suzhen old man met, but got not many clues.
"At that time you were wearing a blue woolen sweater, black pants, white socks, but no shoes!" Despite Pu Suzhen's efforts to recall, the nearly ninety-year-old woman eventually recalled only this.
This afternoon, Jiang Jian and the Paralympic Games champion identity issued a search for relatives microblogging: "Understanding, I want to find my parents, but has not dared to disclose to people. Until the harvest of the Paralympic Games first gold, eager for the parents of the mood intensified. Mom and dad, I never resent you, I just want to find you." And uploaded a photo of the white cotton cloth letter. This microblogging a time quickly by thousands of netizens relay spread.
That night, a couple from Wenzhou contacted Jiang Jian, saying they were the biological parents he had been searching for, claiming that the letter was written by them, and also stating the reason why they had abandoned him at the time. Subsequently, the two sides agreed to meet the next day. Jiang Jian was momentarily excited, if the other party did not lie, then they are undoubtedly his biological parents.
In the conference room of Jiangnan College of Technology, Jiang Jian met Chen Shuguo and Yu Lihui who came to recognize their relatives. After Yu Lihui saw Jiang Jian, she cried on the spot and lay on the table, sobbing uncontrollably.
"Like, too much like ......" Chen Shuguo took out the photos of his daughter and youngest son and sighed at Jiang Jian while comparing them. He was completely sure in his heart that Jiang Jian was his son. And they had waited for this day for 21 years. "Son, ah, it's us who have wronged you." Chen Shuguo knelt beside Jiang Jian and bawled his eyes out. Afterwards, he also explained some doubts in Jiang Jian's heart.
Originally, Chen Shuguo left the "Chenjia Village" in the family letter is not the name of a village, but in the local language, it is the meaning of the rural villagers surnamed Chen.
In order to prove that he is Jiang Jian's father, Chen Shuguo also handwrote a few lines in the letter for handwriting comparison. However, Jiang Jian decided to do a paternity test with Mr. and Mrs. Chen Shukuo for the sake of prudence.
Jiang Jian was very nervous, afraid that his "mistrust" will make the dream broken, while Mr. and Mrs. Chen Shukuo have a bottomless heart, can not help but keep comforting Jiang Jian.
The appraisal results came out. The appraisal shows: support Yu Lihui and Jiang Jian and Chen Shuguo and Jiang Jian between the existence of biological blood relations. However, perhaps the happiness came too fast, Jiang Jian happy, a moment do not know how to face the parents in front of the 21 years of separation.
"Son!" With Chen Shuguo's call, the family of three finally hugged tightly together. "From now on, none of us will leave anyone anymore, to live together ......" Jiang Jian nodded his head in excitement, "I finally have my own home, no longer an orphan!"
This day at noon, Mr. and Mrs. Chen Shuguo and his son ate a reunion meal in Hangzhou. At the dinner table, Chen Shuguo and his wife constantly to his son's bowl of food, as if to make up for the 21 years to his son's shortcomings. The parents' actions also infected Jiang Jian, who finally mustered the courage to call his father and mother!
This night, Jiang Jian and his parents stayed together in the hotel, intending to return home to Wenzhou early the next morning. But until late at night, Chen Shuguo and his wife can not sleep, Chen Shuguo can not help but push open his son's room, watching over his son to sleep. Which know Jiang Jian has not been asleep either.
"Dad, tell mom to come over too, let's sleep together tonight." Chen Shuguo hurriedly called his wife over, the family as if back to 21 years ago, in front of this champion son just like a baby in swaddling clothes, except that his face, in addition to the childlike innocence written on it, there are strong and vicissitudes.
The next morning, the family went back home to Wenzhou. Along the way, the sun shone warmly into the car window, Yu Lihui held her son's hand tightly, and Jiang Jian knew that this time his mother's hand would not be loosened.
Because Jiang Jian's friends and studies, among other things, were in Hangzhou, he had to go back to Hangzhou to continue his studies after spending four days at his home in Wenzhou. Chen Shuguo and his wife insisted on sending him back to Hangzhou: "Son, this road, dad and mom have been traveling back and forth frequently for 21 years, but the scenery along the way is nothing but loneliness and guilt. This time, we can finally make happiness as a shadow ......"
Abandonment of the father