Fifty thousand miles of love

Some people like to use time to measure the loyalty of love, while others are used to comparing the weight of love with wealth. If a relationship can be measured by distance, is it a miracle to walk 50,000 miles with an immobile wife?

Yao Hongyou, 47, an ordinary farmer in Qianyao Village, Chenjiajiao, Panjin City, has a tricycle buttoned with plastic film and affixed to the Red Cross in his yard. It was the tricycle that carried his promise to his wife, a promise of love.

Ten years ago, Lao Yao's wife, Wang Yan, suffered from uremia. Originally suffering from rheumatism, she lost the ability to walk because of muscle atrophy in her legs.

In order to take his wife to the hospital for dialysis, Lao Yao thought of many ways. He had to walk more than 50 miles from home to the hospital. The best way was to take a taxi. Lao Yao's home has no other appliances except a 19-inch second-hand TV set, and the houses he now lives in are all built by charity, and the only more than 10 mu of land supports the living expenses of a family of three.

Such tight conditions discouraged Yao Hongyou, but the illness must be treated, so Lao Yao came up with the idea of turning his tricycle into a temporary ambulance to take his wife to the hospital.

In order to prevent his wife from being drenched by the wind and rain on the road, Yao Hongyou built a roof for the tricycle, leaving only one gap in and out, and the rest closed. In order to get some air, Yao Hongyou added a curtain to the car. Carefully Lao Yao also put mats, bedpans, toilet paper, water and emergency medicine in the car.

In this way, Lao Yao rode his tricycle on the roads of the country and the city every day. With a round trip of 50 miles and dialysis twice a week, Lao Yao needs to walk more than 6 hours to ride a bike and pull a rickshaw.

When it snows in winter, the road is full of ice, and when we get uphill, I'm afraid I won't be able to pull the car and slide down. Lao Yao said that he was most afraid of rain and snow. There are many tunnels and holes in the countryside. There is a big pit under the railway track that Lao Yao must pass every time he goes to the hospital. Every time it rains, he will accumulate water. I took off my shoes and dripped barefoot on a rainy day. How many times Lao Yao's foot was cut by a stone, Lao Yao said that his foot was covered with blood blisters, and every time he picked it out and went on walking, and when he got home, he sweated just like he had just taken a bath.

In the most difficult winter, Lao Yao covered his wife with two quilts before going out, filled the kettle with boiling water in the hospital and let Wang Yan hold him for warmth, so he rode all the way home.

Ten years have passed in the twinkling of an eye, Yao Hongyou has traveled nearly 50,000 miles on this human-powered ambulance, and I don't know how many pairs of shoes have been worn out, because Lao Yao suffers from serious hemorrhoids, and every time he takes off his pants at home, he is covered with blood.

Looking at Lao Yao's sad figure, Lao Yao's mother-in-law could not help sighing that it was a blessing for Wang Yan to have such a good son-in-law.

Just two years ago, Yao Tianzhi, his son in the second year of junior high school, had to drop out of school and stay at home because of diabetes. The burden of life for a family of three fell on this man.

Over the past 10 years, Lao Yao owed more than 200,000 yuan in foreign debt when he saw his wife and children. Nowadays, Wang Yan's uremia is becoming more and more serious, and the dialysis that should be added once a week has to be given up because of the huge financial burden.

Because with heart failure, Wang Yan's side can not be separated from people, Lao Yao did not forget to take her with him when he went to work in the field, looking up from time to time to see his wife, Wang Yan, is he thirsty? Between the words, Lao Yao has passed the water to his wife's mouth, gently tidied up the quilt, I am working on the side, anything to call me. The plain words are permeated with deep love.

Over the years, Lao Yao didn't say anything sweet to me, nor did he give me any decent gifts. He was just silently waiting by my side and taking care of me. I married him 17 years ago, which was the right choice in my life. Wang Yan said.

(by Zhang Shiyao / Chinese Business Morning Post)