Liu Haifeng
MA daddy and his three children, the left one is the Pearl of the disease. Reporter Liu Haifeng photo
Paulownia town of Huangpi District, there is a 72 year old scavenger horse Qi Bing, everyone calls him daddy horse. There are 3 children under the father's knee, the biggest 20 years old, the youngest only 4 years old. They are all abandoned children when dad picked up the trash.
on the evening of the 20 th of this month, Mr. Peng, a resident of Paulownia Town, telephoned this newspaper. His words were urgent. In the afternoon of the same afternoon, when Mr. Peng passed the bay of Jianghuang in the next door, he heard a loud cry from a native house. He went into the house to find out. It was a girl who had a tumor without money and had no pain. This girl is the Pearl of the big daughter adopted by Dad.
can not ignore those children's lives
Pearl was picked up in Yangxin county 20 years ago when scavenging. "I opened a carton, the child was inside, and the umbilical cord was not cut. After I cut it, I kept it until now." Pearl is very sensible. She always wants to earn money to support her family when she grows up, but her illness makes her unable to do anything. "He is so old and has to take care of me. I feel like I have been dragging the family down. I really hope that the disease will get better and I will be filial to my father."
the 14 year old deaf and dumb brother Ma Liang (pseudonym) and her 4 year old sister were also adopted by ma Dad. The three brothers and sisters grew up with their father in their childhood and enjoyed a lot of food and shelter. Ma Dad wanted to send them to the rescue station, but none of them would leave.
MA daddy left his home in Xinyang in 1986, just one person, picking up a waste of life, picking up the Pearl, he told the family, but the family did not understand, never visited. When he adopted a deaf mute Ma Liang, his son simply cut off the relationship with him, no longer to travel.
is it worthwhile to break away from your own son in order to adopt abandoned babies? Facing the reporter's question, ma Dad firmly said, "value is very valuable." He believes that the family is too mean, regardless of the overall situation, he can eat enough, he can not ignore those children's lives.
50 thousand yuan is not willing to "sell" children
now, the 72 year old ma daddy is still a caretaker in the cattle farm, with only 1200 yuan a month, which is only enough for the Pearl and the milk and the needle. In order to maintain a family life, daddy has not eaten meat for two years, and the children are also skinny.
once a large sum of money hit him, but he did not waver. 4 years ago, when dad was picking up trash on the streets of Huangpi, a Henan woman would give him a little girl in the middle of a baby. Let him help him to see it for a while. As a result, the woman never came back, so the little sister followed him. Later, someone asked for 50 thousand yuan to adopt her little sister. "What should I do in case the child comes back?"
now, the little sister always kindly calls Grandpa, daddy is satisfied. In the past 20 years, he has worked hard and worked hard to earn money to support his family. In his 70 years of age, he still wanted to be a father to take care of 3 children. He never felt tired.
"when I saw 3 children around me, I was very practical and happy. I didn't know that I was tired." Ma Dad said, when he earns money, he will take a pearl to a hospital in Beijing, even if he dies on the road.