In 2015, a young man from Guangxi, Ding Yizhou, took his terminally ill girlfriend Lai Min, and started a nationwide trip despite his family's opposition.
Ding Yizhou was very poor, and his entire savings were only 200 yuan. He rode his bicycle and dragged Lai Min in his wheelchair and started this special trip.
In the following years, Ding Yizhou relied on working on the journey to earn expenses, took Lai Min to travel more than 40,000 kilometers and visited most of China.
Now, seven years have passed, is Lai Min, who is suffering from a terminal illness, okay? Are these lovers still together?
Lai Min and Ding Yizhou are elementary school classmates.
The two were once deskmates, and Lai Min's smile was once the best memory of Ding Yizhou when he was a teenager.
Later, Ding Yizhou, who had poor grades, dropped out of junior high school before graduating, and Lai Min successfully got admitted to university.
After dropping out of school, Ding Yizhou learned the haircutting skills and became a barber. After graduating from university, Lai Min worked as a tour guide in Liuzhou .
Later, the two of them never intersected again.
Until one day in 2014, Ding Yizhou suddenly saw Lai Min's statement posted on QQ:
"If one day, I die, what do you do?" What happened to
? Could it be that Lai Min is in trouble?
As an old classmate, Ding Yizhou decided to ask, if Lai Min encounters difficulties, he wants to help. Only after asking
did he realize how desperate Lai Min's life was.
Lai Min was unfortunately diagnosed with a rare disease "hereditary cerebellar ataxia", which is what people call "penguin disease".
People with "penguin disease" will walk, sway, speechless, and have difficulty breathing. In the end, Cerebellar atrophy and , unable to stand, and leave the world.
Walk while walking, she had to quit her job as a tour guide and came to Nanning with her parents in her back and worked as a telephone operator. With a monthly salary of 800 yuan, Lai Min could barely make a living.
The house is leaking and raining. Just as Lai Min hesitated whether to tell her parents about her illness, her father suddenly died in a car accident.
Lai Min has not breathed from the pain of losing her father. Nine days later, her mother, who had also been troubled by "penguin disease" for many years, left her.
Learning about Lai Min’s situation, her boyfriend, who had been with her for 7 years, also abandoned her.
Suffering and disease are like huge waves, hitting Lai Min one after another.
No father or mother, no job, no love.
Lai Min was beaten to the point where she was unable to fight back, and could only lie alone in the dark and humid rental house in Nanning waiting to die.
Learning about Lai Min's situation, Ding Yizhou chats with her every day to help her relieve her depression. Over time, the two young hearts sparked the spark of love.
Ding Yizhou had an idea in his mind: he wanted to take care of Lai Min and spend the rest of his life with Lai Min.
Lai Min hesitated when he learned Ding Yizhou’s plan.
I am already half a disabled person, and my life will be more difficult in the future. How can I be embarrassed to drag others down?
Lai Min thought about Ding Yizhou's plan again and again, but refused.
Ding Yizhou saw that Lai Min disagreed, so he ran from Liuzhou to Nanning himself.
In Nanning, Ding Yizhou saw Lai Min lying alone in the dilapidated rental house and was lifeless. He persuaded Lai Min to go back to Liuzhou with her with her.
At the beginning, Lai Min disagreed and could not withstand Ding Yizhou's soft and hard beatings. Lai Min finally returned to Liuzhou with Ding Yizhou.
Ding Yizhou's mother almost fainted when she saw her son bringing back a paralyzed girl. She refused to let Lai Min enter the house.
Ding Yizhou had to take Lai Min out to rent a house.
In order to get Lai Min to recover as soon as possible, Ding Yizhou took Lai Min to seek medical treatment and medicine. He spent all his savings, but he could not see that Lai Min's condition had improved at all.
The doctor told him that this disease cannot be cured.
In addition to being depressed, Ding Yizhou figured it out. Since the disease cannot be cured, he must give Lai Min the greatest happiness in his limited life.
Lai Min likes the writer Sanmao . Her biggest wish is to be able to travel around the world like Sanmao during her lifetime. Even if she can't travel all over the world, it's good to see it in China.
Lai Min told Ding Yizhou what he thought and immediately got Ding Yizhou's approval.
The two decided to set off from Liuzhou, pass through Yunnan and Guizhou, arrive in Lhasa, and then return to Liuzhou through Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia. They want to use love to get out of the shape of a "heart" on the land of their motherland.
On January 1, 2015, Ding Yizhou took the only 200 yuan on his body, rode an mountain bike , with two straps tied to the car, and pulled Lai Min, who was sitting in a wheelchair, on the road.
They also have an old dog "Abao" who has accompanied Lai Min for many years.
The first stop of their trip was Nanning. Although Liuzhou is only more than 200 kilometers away from Nanning, it took the two of them half a month to arrive because they didn’t have enough money and had to take care of Lai Min’s health.
During the itinerary, they sleep in the wild most of the time. Only when the weather is bad and they are worried that Lai Min's body can't bear it, will they stay in a small hotel once.
I had no money, so Ding Yizhou went to cut people's hair, worked as a small worker at the construction site, and herded sheep for the shepherd. He earned two or three thousand yuan before setting off again and rushing to the next stop.
Along the way, some people saw their steps, some heard their stories, and some people stretched out their warm hands to them.
More people are moved by their love and courage and spontaneously donate money and materials to this lover.
Faced with the help of kind-hearted people, Lai Min and Ding Yizhou hope to rely on their own abilities to complete this love journey. Therefore, except for leaving a motor tricycle , they refused the rest of the money and goods.
After changing into a tricycle, the speed of the two people traveled greatly, and Ding Yizhou could also save more time and energy to work and make money.
On July 1, 2015, they finally came to the dream of Lhasa.
In Lhasa, those who heard their stories, those who were moved by their love, gathered at Potala Palace Square and actively helped them plan a "marriage proposal".
In the Potala Palace Square, Ding Yizhou was wearing a suit that had just taken off the enthusiastic man, holding Gesanghua in his hand, kneeling on one knee, and proposing to Lai Min in a wheelchair.
Ding Yizhou said: He likes Lai Min to smile like a child.
Lai Min said: She likes Ding Yizhou to be reliable, keep her word, and be concerned about her affairs.
True love is the attraction of one soul to another soul. It is not afraid of illness or the world.
It is such simple and innocent love that has touched countless people and made Lai Min and Ding Yizhou live the pain and fatigue in the eyes of others into the love and smile in their hearts.
In July 2017, Lai Min became pregnant.
Lai Min especially wants to have a child. She hopes that if one day she is gone, there will be someone who can give Ding Yizhou warmth and hope instead.
Ding Yizhou firmly opposed it. He was worried that raising a life would aggravate Lai Min's illness, making her already unstable body even more overwhelmed.
He doesn't want to trade his wife's life for another life.
After repeated arguments, the two decided to stay if the child was healthy.
In the days of pregnancy, Lai Min was always in excitement. She named the child "Ding Luyao", which means that the journey of life is long and every step must be taken well. And start writing a diary for the baby in your belly:
Maybe on the road of your growth, you will have a lot of things. I hope your mother can participate, but my mother has a lot of helplessness and hopes that you can understand. Many things about you can only see in my eyes, but I want to do them but can't do them well...
In November 2017, Lai Min was four months pregnant. They received an invitation from " Reader " hosted by Dong Qing .
In the show, Ding Yizhou pushed Lai Min onto the stage and choked up several times. Lai Min on the stage finished reading " You Are My Dream " by her favorite writer Sanmao.
In the audience, Ding Yizhou was already crying.
The simple and selfless love of the two people moved countless people in front and behind the screen.
Unfortunately, life will not get good luck because of their kindness.
Soon, Lai Min found out that the fetus had inherited her "penguin disease" during the pregnancy test. Under helplessness, Lai Min cried and had an abortion operation.
After a miscarriage, in order to take care of her health, Lai Min and Ding Yizhou temporarily stayed in Litang, Sichuan.
Lai Min and Ding Yizhou's love story has been paid more and more attention by people. More than a dozen news media have interviewed them, and one media has also brought their love story to the screen, and they received a copyright fee of 500,000 yuan.
used this 500,000 yuan to make the bottom, and the couple borrowed another amount of money and opened an inn called "Luyao Xingkong" in Litang.
Inn business is good, and the two of them start to settle down.
In 2019, Lai Min got pregnant again. This time she finally got the favor of the goddess of luck and gave birth to a healthy daughter.
Lai Min and Ding Yizhou named the child "Ding Anning". After so much experience, in Lai Min's heart, nothing is more important than health and safety.
After giving birth to his daughter, Lai Min's health became worse and worse.
She almost lost the ability to stand and could only stay in bed all day long.
Her fingers were out of control. Even the most common movements such as bathing, eating, and dressing need to be completed with the assistance of Ding Yizhou.
Despite this, Lai Min still writes with her inflexible fingers every day. She records the process of falling in love with Ding Yizhou, the joy of travel, and the little things about her daughter's growth.
Lai Min wants to make as many records as possible for the rest of the days, leaving them with his lover and young daughter so that they can be tied to the rest of the days.
When her body allows, she will write more. Most of the time, she can only write one or two hundred words a day.
The epidemic that began in the Spring Festival in 2020 has caused a sharp drop in tourists.
Affected by the epidemic, Lai Min and Ding Yizhou's "Luyao Starry Sky" inn has been closed, and the interest on loans is getting more and more. By 2022, the foreign debts owed by the two have exceeded 1 million yuan.
In order to repay the debt, Ding Yizhou and Lai Min began to sell goods live because their stories have been reported in major media, and many people know this "Internet celebrity couple" and their traffic has always been good. The income from selling goods in
can also support the daily life of a family of three.
But there are always some bad voices outside that make them unable to argue.
Some people say that this couple is now in poverty and will only rely on selling miserable things to attract attention and earn traffic.
Some people question their love, believing that they are just hyping up for selling goods.
Some people even accused Lai Min of bringing children to this world as a terminally ill patient.
Seeing these messages, Lai Min couldn't help crying. Love and children are her own business, and she doesn't want to argue whether it is right or wrong.
She told others that she was wronged in earning traffic. In fact, she did not like the hustle and bustle of the Internet. She and Ding Yizhou decided to return the Internet after paying off the bank loan.
In the spring of 2022, Ding Yizhou and Lai Min's daughter Ding Anning reached the age of kindergarten. For the sake of her daughter's education, the two returned to Liuzhou from Litang.
Just last month, Lai Min collected the text he recorded in the past few years and published a book with a symbolic title called "The World is Beautiful, We Are Good".
Get the manuscript, Lai Min smiled, naive like a child.
She said to Ding Yizhou: "Husband, although I am paralyzed, it is still useful. I can still make money."
Now, Lai Min’s happiest thing is to pick up his daughter from school every day.
From 4:30 p.m., Ding Yizhou would put down his work, carry Lai Min, and come to the kindergarten gate to wait for his daughter.
Whenever this time, Lai Min would stare at the school gate without blinking until she saw her daughter coming out, and the small figure came into her sight bit by bit.
Looking at her daughter jumping, Lai Min was filled with mixed feelings, and tears filled her eyes instantly.
The tears are gratitude, hope, attachment, reluctance, and endless ties...
The child is the continuation of her life, and the storage of hope is a trace of warmth and ray of sunshine she left for Ding Yizhou in this world.
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Author: Ai Xizi
Editor: Liu Ye Taotao
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