If the fire on July 26, 2004 did not surround Xie Xiaohui, no one knows where his future life is, who is sunny and handsome. Xie Xiaohui, who is nearly 1.9 meters tall, was seriously burned in the fire, suffered severe facial injuries, blurred vision, and swaying when walking. The God of Death seemed to suddenly stretch out his huge hands and tightly pinched his throat to death. However, Xie Xiaohui struggled by chance to escape the life-and-death struggle with the God of Death, and thus began a life journey that challenges fate endlessly.
Before that fire, Xie Xiaohui's life was shining with the sun. Because he likes military life, after graduating from university, he joined the army and came to the Fire Brigade of Sanming City, Fujian Province. Although it is different from the dream of gun-dance and cannon-playing, the tense rhythm of life, the strong fighting atmosphere, and strict training management have put him in a battle formation composed of men, allowing him to feel the prosperity and publicity of life at all times.
Before the fire, Xie Xiaohui was in the army.
004 was the most important year in Xie Xiaohui's life. That year, he got married and his wife was his classmate in college. It is precisely because of her that he chose to go to the fire brigade of his wife's hometown, born in , Longyan . The love between husband and wife bridges the gap between career and life, and the two plan a bright future and walk towards that goal with great strides. It was in that year that Xie Xiaohui was promoted to a regular company position as a deputy police officer when he graduated, and his life and career album was brand new and fulfilling.However, a sudden disaster caused Xie Xiaohui's life to fall directly from the hillside to the bottom of the valley. His dream was like a beautiful blue and white porcelain bottle falling to the ground, fragmented and incomplete. When Xie Xiaohui was rescued from the fire by his comrades, he felt some pain in his buttocks and respiratory tracts, his whole body was numb. After being rushed to the hospital, he began an endless operation for nearly three years. After more than 100 surgeries, he felt that life was worse than death, and he felt the difficulty of life again and again. More than 30 anesthesia is equivalent to more than 30 deaths; more than 30 awakening is equivalent to more than 30 rebirth. Living a black and white life in the ward without sunshine, he hopes to go back to work again and again, dreaming of returning to his beloved sports field again and again. The dream is colorful, and Xie Xiaohui, who was lying on the hospital bed, did not realize how much he was injured. At that time, his facial features were burned beyond recognition, with only five black holes on his head, and his eyelids were burned and broken, so his eyes were not closed tightly when he was sleeping. His hands were burned and deformed, and his fingers that had lost their vitality were curled up tightly. In order to prevent the limb from sticking, he was tied to the bed. The dimness in the ward has smeared life without any vitality. For the most part, he looked at the ceiling and thought about the future empty again and again.
How many years later, Xie Xiaohui finally walked out of the shadow of pain. Looking back on the years of treatment, although his deformed face was invisible, his tone was full of miserable pain. He only had some complete skin on his chest, abdomen and back, which were the only true body left to him by God. The responsible doctor stared at his only goodness, because to make the greatest recovery of his face, the skin was transplanted on these parts. The advantage of this practice of demolishing the east and west walls is that it can help the part that Xie Xiaohui showed to restore some of the skin as it is, but the price is to make another scar in the place being "demolted". The final result of this surgery is to make the "surface article" generally qualified, but it turns him into a real incomplete state. He described himself as a skinned rabbit when he was injured. He recalled the repeated surgeries and said that it was a numb fear.
A photo of Xie Xiaohui and his family
Xie Xiaohui's rebirth in the sense of life is absolutely inseparable from his wife. The vows that year have become shared joys and sorrows. A pair of beloved fell into the sea of suffering set by fate and began to swim and struggle to get ashore. Xie Xiaohui's wife works in the procuratorate. The sudden change made her feel helpless and then quickly woke up.Her husband was injured so seriously, and his life and death were uncertain, and he didn't know his true situation. Therefore, although she was weak, she had to appear in front of her husband in a strong manner. So, Xie Xiaohui saw a wife who was extremely strong but forced to hold back her tears. It was not until one day when Xie Xiaohui woke up in the middle of the night and saw his wife sleeping on the desk that he temporarily set up with wooden boards by the bed that he suddenly realized that the woman who was with him day and night had such a strong career aspiration. If it weren't for this accident, my wife might have walked into the prosecutor's examination room, which is her pursuit. Faced with this incident, my wife not only took good care of him, but also took time to review the exam questions. Xie Xiaohui didn't know what time it was at night. His wife's hair was a little messy in her blurry vision, and her breathing was conveying fine fatigue, while the information was being gently pressed by her hands. At that moment, Xie Xiaohui tried hard to raise his hand, wanting to gently stroke his wife's head, but he had the will but lacked strength. The suture on his arm pulled his nerves tightly, and he couldn't even express the simplest caress. Xie Xiaohui stared at the wall, and his ears were heard "Men should strengthen themselves" sung by his comrades in the corridor through the glass window. Moreover, at that time, after living in the hospital for half a year, he accidentally learned that his comrade-in-arms Dai Yonglin and who were fighting with him had already died. Xie Xiaohui was in a mental struggle. He didn't say anything, but asked himself countless times in his heart about the value and meaning of living. Someone has already sacrificed because of the battle, and he is the one who survived for luck. Sacrifice has the meaning of sacrifice, so living must also have the value of living.
This is how people's lives come first, I don't know which one will come first, tomorrow or accident. When disasters turn life into suffering, how to face and live a wonderful life calmly is an important topic. Half a year later, Xie Xiaohui, who fled the death line, solemnly submitted an application for discharge from the hospital and returning to the team. Although the body has become incomplete, the soul must still be full. If he loses his former position, he will not be able to stand in his life. He will prove the value of living with a posture of starting the road again. After being reborn from the ashes, Xie Xiaohui is no longer the same as Xie Xiaohui as before.
If the fire on July 26, 2004 was the day of hardship for fire prevention officer Xie Xiaohui, then January 21, 2005 was his birthday.
When Xie Xiaohui was discharged from the hospital, the first request he made was to return to the Yong'an Fire Brigade of Sanming City, Fujian Province, which gave him strength in his most dangerous time. There is his position, his comrades, and his goals. Perhaps it can be said that it is a place that gives him the courage to survive. Early in the morning, he asked his wife to help him put his uniform on him. It was a sacred process, but it was also an extremely difficult process. Every time the stiff limbs stretched out, it hurts heart-wrenchingly. The pain caused by the friction between the brittle and thin skin and the hard fabric will quickly spread throughout the body. However, wearing this uniform that he had been thinking about day and night made him feel a kind of power rising in his heart. Yes, I'm still alive, I'm really alive. When he saw the light of day again, he suddenly felt two pairs of eyes looking at him in the sky. One pair of eyes that are the surrender of death, the other pair of eyes that are the sacrificed comrades-in-arms. Even if he can't walk, Xie Xiaohui has already stood up. He is proving to fate that a person can become a real person only if he is not defeated by bad luck.
Xie Xiaohui was pushed by his wife and appeared at the entrance of the camp where he had bid farewell for half a year. Dozens of comrades who had heard the news lined up to welcome his return. The sky was a little gloomy that day, but Xie Xiaohui's appearance sprinkled light into everyone's heart. Engaging in the fire protection career means facing many unpredictable dangers. Faced with the disaster that has already happened, should we be willing to sink, complain constantly, or face it calmly, Xie Xiaohui is conveying the answer to them in a strong way.
After the fire, Xie Xiaohui saluted the military and
Dozens of arms were raised in unison, and his admirable eyes were turned to the familiar figure on the wheelchair. This scene made Xie Xiaohui feel like he was collapsed when he was warm and moved.In the hopeless ward, he never cried no matter how painful it was, but he choked up at this moment: It’s great to have a unit, and it’s good to have support; it’s good to have organization, and it’s good to have comrades and it’s warmth. He is not the one who was abandoned by fate. He is no longer afraid that he will become a lonely bird who will not be able to find his return home after he is tired. This is where his dream begins, and this is where his dream continues. Xie Xiaohui endured the severe pain of the wound and struggled to lift the twisted and deformed right hand. The action was like a slow motion, slightly upward, and then upward, and finally frozen into a very irregular military salute. He used this action to declare his standing up, return, and his unyielding vow.
At this time, his wife could no longer control her emotions, and left the wheelchair and ran to the side of the team and started to sob suddenly. Her man belongs not only to her, but also to his team. He really crossed the river of life and came ashore tenaciously. Before this, whenever Xie Xiaohui talked to her about returning to work, she was still comforting and perfunctory about him. She was already a first-degree disabled person. Whether she could take care of herself or not was an unknown thing, and how could she work. However, when she saw Xie Xiaohui's difficult military ceremony, she seemed to hear the man's storm. She deeply understood that the husband said that he liked this profession when he graduated from college and chose a career, not just because of the words he could reunite with her.
Although Xie Xiaohui's first stop was to return to the team, he still needs long-term rest, surgery and adjustments. Before returning home, my wife had already put away all the mirrors, photos and other objects in the house, because until then Xie Xiaohui didn't know what he had burned. As a result, it was still unpredictable. One day during dinner, Xie Xiaohui saw his appearance on the glass plate of dining table . The face reflected in the glass completely frightened him. The skin on the strange face was wrinkled, his nose disappeared, two black holes above his lips looked at him, his head was bare, and his ears disappeared from the root. He stared blankly for more than ten seconds, gently put down his chopsticks, stood up with shaking, and slowly walked away from the dining table. My wife was at a loss for a moment, and she didn't expect the truth to be ruthlessly revealed.
For several days, Xie Xiaohui fell into a dullness. Sitting on the balcony, looking into the distance, the lights in the distance were bright, but he lost his way. After returning to the team, the short sense of sufficiency and belonging were being stripped away from his body little by little. He always thought optimistically that he would continue to work after returning to the team and become the recognized person rather than the person being taken care of. As a result, he himself did not have the courage to face it now. When he was the loneliest, he even thought of death, but what problem should death solve? Did the country spend millions of yuan to rescue his life to make him choose to commit suicide? Once this question came out, he was shocked. The country has spent more than one million yuan in treatment expenses for him, and the next step of plastic surgery and skin grafting will continue. His life no longer belongs to him after the disaster.
In the matter of death, Xie Xiaohui thought of the death of different people. If an ordinary person encounters an accident, he is called death or death. The death of a soldier or firefighter while performing a mission is called sacrifice. It is also the demise of life, but the difference in name also proves the glory of profession. He thought fatefully that this disaster in his life might happen sooner or later. Fortunately, he was lucky enough to choose this glorious profession. Even if it was beyond recognition, it only changed his appearance rather than ambition. He must recover as soon as possible and return to the team as soon as possible. Even if he cannot be as intact as before, as long as he can do a little bit of things, his life will become valuable.
After this disaster, Xie Xiaohui completely woke up. In the hospital, he is a patient and needs the care of doctors and family. Now, when he returns home, he is the owner of this family. He can no longer let his wife be afraid of him. He wants to live happily like a real man and a warrior who has returned from the battlefield. Since you have survived, only by living out meaning is valuable.
The suffering in life is for facing, and evasion and complaining cannot solve any problems.The mirror at home hung back, and Xie Xiaohui's laughter came back. Especially when his wife found out that he was no longer the man who was rushing to look for her if she didn't see her for half an hour, she started to have some conspiracy because of a disagreement in a certain view, and the family returned to its original state.
My wife went to work again. She passed the prosecutor with the second place in the provincial unified examination, and Xie Xiaohui found strength in her. He also wants to integrate into society. He began to try to go downstairs from the eighth floor to outside. There was no elevator in the building where he lived. He held the wall and walked down step by step. Every step he took, the pain of the friction between his skin and shoes rushing from the soles of his feet. He told himself that if he is not afraid of death, why is he afraid of pain? When he moved downstairs sweating profusely and just sat on the flower bed, many children surrounded him as if they saw monsters. They screamed and greeted each other, "Let's see Ultraman", "Michelin", and "Aliens". Xie Xiaohui's body and face were wrapped, otherwise he would have scared these ignorant children. Xie Xiaohui was watched, pretending to be very calm on the surface, but he couldn't help but feel blood coming out.
Xie Xiaohui began to resume training. He was angry with himself. Since he could not die, he had to live like a person and never let himself become a burden to others. He began to receive treatment again and again optimistically, and it was the repair of his nose and lips that allowed him to return to his adult appearance little by little. He began to encourage the person he faced in the mirror, telling him that he still had dreams that he needed to persevere.
Xie Xiaohui and his comrades are together
Every time you walk, blood will flow into your shoes; every time you stick your fingers, itching; every time you complete one move, you will be itchy all over your body due to being unable to sweat...Xie Xiaohui has a constant goal in his heart: return to the team. During the three-year treatment, he already knew what else he could do. His tenacity moved all his comrades, and he has become their idol. He was going to stand back into the team and form a strong wall with them. Only by his victory can he tell his comrades that there is no life in this world that cannot overcome difficulties, but only a life that is willing to sink into decline. Only by standing with your teammates can you tell them with practical actions that suffering is not terrible, but what is terrible is the retreat of people after facing suffering. Even though this profession gave him a fatal blow, he never fell down. That fire made him a fire-fighting hero in the eyes of others. But that was accidental, and suddenly, he wanted to live as a hero.
July 18, 2007, should be defined as the day when Xie Xiaohui enlisted in the army for the second time. On this day, when he put on his uniform, he was going to wear it like this and walked on the way to work. The pedestrian's strange eyes had no effect on him. Although he walked a little staggering, his pace was extremely firm. After three years, he has truly become a self-supporting person. While recovering from his injury, he returned to the squadron in a wheelchair and could not play on the court. He was on the sidelines as a referee for his teammates. He used to be on the court, now off the court, but no matter where he was, he and his comrades got together again.
When Xie Xiaohui rejoined the team, he suggested to the team not to treat him specially. He is not afraid of death, but is afraid of being pitiful or forgotten. The brigade leaders knew his character and still allowed him to engage in fire prevention work. Xie Xiaohui's incomplete hands have been repaired several times and some basic functions have been realized. He found that the team had accumulated police records for more than ten years and a thick stack of work files, so he took the initiative to take over the sorting work. He began to practice writing, his stiff fingers crossed like dry branches, neither listening to hello nor following the commands. His two fingers clamped the pen and wrote the words he wrote was crooked. From being unable to walk to being able to walk, from not being able to eat to finishing the meal smoothly, from not daring to being able to go out to facing it calmly, Xie Xiaohui has repaired and established strong self-confidence. He feels that this difficulty is nothing at all. He copied one by one, practiced one by one, and in less than a few months, he sorted out all the materials in a neat manner. When the brigade leaders saw the dozens of files placed in the rolling cabinet like a military parade, they were delighted to find that the staff officer Xie had returned, and he did not fall behind. He even used another way of self-improvement to become a benchmark in the team.
Xie Xiaohui exercises in the gym
In order to restore your body to its best condition, the team's gym became a place where Xie Xiaohui often goes to at the unit. Dynamic bicycles, arm stretchers, etc. have become his close partners. Sometimes he held a dumbbell weighing dozens of kilograms and looked at the broken skin but strong muscles in the mirror and nodded and smiled. Sometimes he walked slowly on the treadmill but felt his heart steadily. Sometimes he rode a cyclist and even hummed a song. His optimism and persistence infected his surrounding comrades.
Xie Xiaohui became the elves leaping in the gym, and this place has also become his territory of responsibility. He told his comrades that he would clean the gym because everyone has a sanitation sharing area, and he also needs it, and he uses it the most here. Every day, he wiped the equipment clean with his relatively clumsy hands and swept the ground spotlessly.
At the beginning, he could not follow him to the brigade. At that time, his heart would be raised and unable to let go. He was a person who had experienced disasters. No matter how much he paid attention to safety, no one could guarantee that he would be foolproof. He was like a loyal waiter, waiting for his comrades to return at the gate. He asked with concern if anyone was injured or what happened, and then silently helped everyone to pack their equipment. Only when he knew that everyone was safely returning to the team, he would breathe a sigh of relief.
Unconsciously, Xie Xiaohui became a backer for his comrades. No matter who has something to worry about, he will come to him for a while; no matter who encounters a hurdle that cannot be overcome, he will ask him to come up with advice. And he has also become someone else's pistachio. The leaders of the brigade could always see that during the break, Xie Xiaohui was surrounded by a group of firefighters, some tickling him and some rubbing his shoulders. While Xie Xiaohui was playing with them, he solved many management and ideological problems silently. He became the squadron's extra-staff instructor.
, and Xie Xiaohui became a textbook. He used actions to tell people how to face the facts calmly, he used results to tell people how to be grateful and repay society, and he used positive attitude to tell people that living is an attitude. He followed the team to go to campus and enterprises for fire prevention inspections, and sometimes it took a day to check. Because he couldn't sweat, his whole body was so painful and itchy, but he and his teammates insisted on it, and he felt that he was the same as others. He went to various units to do fire prevention publicity. He used this bright face, exposed skin, and shaking walking to tell people the harm of fire to people and life. When he first walked onto the podium, he was also afraid. Later, he felt that it was also his value to achieve the most popular publicity effect through his distinctive image. As long as people enhance their fire prevention awareness and reduce disasters, what else can they do to lose? In his words, how to live, God is watching him.
"Xie Xiaohui Fire Protection Propaganda and Cycling Service Team"
Fire Protection Promotion
In September 2018, the fire brigade is about to be transferred. According to the policy, Xie Xiaohui will also retire in a technical ninth position. After learning the news, Xie Xiaohui made a bold decision: before changing the cards of each team, he rode his bike around 12 brigades and took a photo with the cards there. Before this, he took the lead in organizing the "Xie Xiaohui Fire Protection Propaganda and Cycling Service Team" and led his cyclists to go to the streets and alleys in the Sanming area to carry out fire prevention publicity, with more than 1,000 home publicity. This time, he will lead his teammates to say solemnly goodbye to his beloved career and position.
Xie Xiaohui put on his helmet and sunglasses, and set off with dozens of teammates. In this cycling team, he exists like a spiritual leader. His teammates sincerely said that when they set out with him, they felt that life became different, and any kind of wind and rain they encountered was the scenery of life.
The squadron that Xie Xiaohui is going to is 200 kilometers away from Yong'an City. This time he rode was undoubtedly a feat for him, but he still set out on the road without any obstacles. Over the years, it was the comrades of the Sanming Detachment who gave him the motivation to live, the team gave him the most powerful call in his life, and the career that gave him the platform when he was most miserable. Even if he had infinite reluctance, he would say goodbye to them one by one.He wanted to tell them that although he took off his uniform, his fire protection charity publicity campaign would not stop, and he would still live a wonderful life for everyone to see with great strength.
This time, Xie Xiaohui went to his comrades' cemetery along the way. That day, he stood in front of his teammate's bust and stared at him for a long time. He told his teammates that I was living seriously, working hard, and living well for you. He believed that his comrades could hear it. The
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team has been restructured. Xie Xiaohui retired.
Life continues, everything is as old as before. Xie Xiaohui also appears on time in the courtyard of the Yong'an Fire Rescue Brigade every day, cleans up carefully in his sanitary area, and talks and jokes with his comrades.
is not so much that Xie Xiaohui's life is inseparable from here, but rather that since he joined the army in 1999 to the present, every tree and grass in this courtyard cannot be separated from him. How many people walked in and out of here, and they all remembered a person. Some of them called him Xie Tuan, some called him Brother Hui, some called him Old guy, and even the young firefighter could call him Dad. However, they all knew deeply that Xie Xiaohui had become an idol in their lives, and a fiery and plump soul was leaping in this incomplete body.
In fact, Xie Xiaohui is no longer a name. He has become a symbol of persistence and enterprising, a representative of daring to face reality and not fearing suffering, and the spiritual strength required by an era.
Xie Xiaohui posted a promotional poster
● Interview notes
Heroes let us learn, not let us learn how to be heroes, but how to grow like heroes. Xie Xiaohui's experience is telling us that tenacious perseverance can conquer any peak in the world. It is not scary to encounter suffering, what is scary is losing confidence in life. It is not scary to encounter ups and downs, but what is scary is that you don’t have the courage to overcome it. This is how life is, with suffering, happiness, sick, and luck. How to face career and life is a life attitude. Although Xie Xiaohui's walking staggered, what we can see in the process is the firmness of walking. Although Xie Xiaohui's body is already incomplete, we can see his calmness and his plump heart from the itinerary he has walked along the way.
If you meet, I don’t want you to look at Xie Xiaohui with sympathy, nor do I want you to look at him too much. You just need to walk with him and walk forward together, and you can hold hands and shoulder to shoulder, because this world needs our mutual recognition and companionship.
Of course, after Xie Xiaohui was injured, the fire brigade he was in never abandoned him, giving him the greatest warmth and support, giving him the platform and opportunity to showcase, and it is also the key to rebirth. Here, let us express our deep respect to this warm and emotional organization.
●Author: Xu Deyi
●Source: China Emergency Management Newspaper, October 13, 2022, 8th edition Original title "Life has soul" Editor-in-chief: Li Jinsu
●Editor: Xing Zuyi
