Chutian Metropolis Daily, January 24 (Reporter Chen Jun, Correspondent Gu Zhenglin) The father died of cancer, his mother was paralyzed half of the body, and the 22-year-old Enshi Lichuan girl Yang Yuxia was not crushed by misfortune. Starting from 2017, she took her mother to the Three Gorges University where she studied, rented a small house next to the school, and took care of her mother while studying. Her optimism and strength moved many netizens. Today, the teachers from her alma mater, Lichuan No. 5 Middle School, visited and comforted her, encouraged her to complete her studies and take her mother to live a good life.
It took more than two hours to bump the rugged mountain road from Lichuan City to come to Yang Yuxia's home in Shuanghe Village, Liangwu Township. This is an old wooden house from decades ago, low, dilapidated and incomplete places. 22-year-old Yang Yuxia was wiping her mother Huang Jugui's face by the stove at home. After wiping, she picked up a kitten and made her laugh. After returning to her hometown during this winter vacation, she interned at the Health and Family Planning Bureau of Lichuan City. While taking care of her mother, she also reviewed her homework. The teachers from Lichuan No. 5 Middle School came and asked Yang Yuxia about her study and life in school with concern. "We are all very moved to know that you took your mother to school." The teachers said that more and more people are caring about her now, and if there are any difficulties at home in the future, you can directly look for your alma mater. As they said that, we all came to the Yiqian resettlement site not far away. Yang Yuxia's new house has been basically completed. As early as March this year, their family will be able to live in a spacious new home.
In 1997, Yang Yuxia was born here. Her mother was bedridden for nearly 40 years due to accidental paralysis. The family's life was entirely due to her father Yang Jicheng working hard outside. In May 2017, Yang Jicheng was diagnosed with advanced esophageal cancer and unfortunately passed away five months later. My brother was working outside and couldn't take care of his mother, so Yang Yuxia took her mother to the school and rented a house to take her to study. The mother and daughter live on the first floor of a rental house in Group 2 of Wangzhou Village near Sanxia University. This is something that Yang Yuxia finally found. The monthly rent is 450 yuan. She gets up at 7 a.m. every day, walks for more than ten minutes and can go to school to attend classes. The rental house is very simple, only more than 10 square meters, one room and one toilet, and there is a bed, one cabinet and one table in the room. After Yang Yuxia went to class in the morning, Huang Jugui took a wheelchair to make breakfast by himself. Yang Yuxia bought the dish in advance, and it will take two or three days to buy it. When cooking, Huang Jugui can move his body to the edge of the bed with both hands and then slowly move it to the wheelchair. At noon, Yang Yuxia rushed home to cook lunch after class. After evening study, I went home to make supper. After dinner, she would help her mother massage her legs, and chat with her while massage. Her mother likes to listen to her daughter talking about school.
For more than a year, Yang Yuxia has been repeating such a hurry every day. She said it was very hard, but it was very down-to-earth. "Where is a place where mother is there, it is a warm home." On one hand, there is high-intensity study and careful care of her mother. Yang Yuxia has not been left behind for more than a year. With his own efforts, Yang Yuxia won the National Inspirational Scholarship , the second-class scholarship at the school level, and won the special awards and honors such as "Self-Strength Star", the first place in the 3,000-meter school sports meeting, the "Top Ten Outstanding Youths" of the Medical School and the May Fourth Evaluation "Outstanding League Member".
The mother and daughter live a frugal life, and many caring people extend a helping hand to them. Yang Yuxia's family is a targeted poverty alleviation household in the local area. Every month, a cadre from Lichuan Municipal Health and Family Planning Bureau would send her 500 yuan in love money, and would occasionally send her some daily necessities such as clothes and quilts. Ai Wenbing, director of Yichang Yiling Hospital, sends her 5,000 yuan in funding every year. During the winter vacation, the Lichuan Municipal Health and Family Planning Bureau also gave her a monthly subsidy of 1,200 yuan. Starting from the next semester, Yang Yuxia and her classmates will study at the East Campus of Sanxia University. The school specially left a room on the first floor of the dormitory area for the mother and daughter to live.
"As long as I am here, everything will be fine, and my mother will definitely live a happy life." Yang Yuxia said, "I will be my mother's legs, take her to a happy life, and see the most beautiful scenery."
