The 8th Provincial Moral Model | Liu Hua: the "mushroom champion" who has taken care of three elderly people for 20 years

Published on: December 7, 2021

Liu Hua, a villager of Cuizhai Village, Dawang Town, Guangrao County, is the legal person of "Liu Hua Family Farm". For 20 years, Liu Hua has guarded five sick elderly people in three families and taken good care of two young children. In the eyes of villagers, Liu Hua is the "mushroom champion". Liu Hua is an ordinary rural woman's diversified responsibility of the times. Her farm has been successively rated as the New Rural Cooperative Medical Education Base of the Organization Department of Dongying City, the New Farmers (Citizens) Education and Training Demonstration Base of Dongying City, the Family Farm Demonstration Farm of Dongying City, and the Big Sister Workshop of Home based Entrepreneurship, Employment and Poverty Alleviation in Shandong Province; She was personally rated as Shandong Good Man Star and the eighth provincial moral model.

When Liu Hua was young, her parents adopted her to Er Niang and Er Ye, and her adoptive parents raised her up. Twenty years ago, Liu Hua's adoptive parents, mother-in-law, and biological parents fell ill one after another. The hardships and burdens of life did not overwhelm Liu Hua. She wrote a hymn of "filial piety" with her practical actions.

Running around, writing the word "filial piety" carefully

Forty years later, when Liu Hua was young, she was very lovable. Her family consisted of her father, mother, brother, sister and five people. The biological parents, understanding that the second brother and sister-in-law had no children, adopted the young girl. Since then, Liu Hua has lived with her adoptive parents.

In the new family, Liu Hua's adoptive parents take care of this "hard won" daughter. In the era of material scarcity, Liu Hua's adoptive parents never mistreated her. "The delicious food will be given to me first, and the beautiful clothes will be given to me before others." People's hearts are all fleshy, and their foster parents are good. Liu Hua has always kept in mind. "The second father and the second mother are my father and mother, and I have been calling from my parents. They are both my parents."

In 1997, Liu Hua and Jia Rongxing from Cuizhai Village formed their own family. With the tenacity and courage of young people and under the guidance of the thought that something must be done if she wants to change her life, she and her newly married husband tried to grow edible mushrooms - mushroom in their responsibility field. Unfortunately, the sweet and happy days did not last long, and a heavy blow followed. As early as 1989, Liu Hua's adoptive mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, but because of the limited medical conditions at that time, there was no evolutionary therapy after the operation. In 1999, the cancer cells spread frequently. After one year of treatment, the adoptive mother who had suffered from breast cancer for nine years died. Liu Hua, who had been waiting in front of his bed, felt very worried, "As soon as my mother left, I learned what it means to be a" son who wants to support but doesn't care ". I thought that whether my parents, my father, my parents, my parents must take good care of them and let them enjoy their old age." But fate did not pity this hardworking and obedient farmer woman. In 2007, Liu Hua's mother-in-law left sequelae due to cerebral thrombosis, and her hands and feet did not listen to orders, At that time, Liu Hua, who was pregnant, helped her father-in-law wash and cook for the elderly every day, and accompanied her mother-in-law for rehabilitation exercises; After a few years of stable life, in 2015, Liu Hua's adoptive father had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, and later suffered from senile dementia due to secondary cerebral infarction; The father's eyes had herpes, and the pain made the old man's temper become irritable; In 2016, Liu Hua's birth mother suffered another cerebral hemorrhage at the market, and after rescue, she also lost the basic ability to take care of herself; In 2019, my father had two surgeries

One after another, Liu Hua was overwhelmed. She spent all her time taking care of four elderly people, and sometimes even young children were neglected. One year when it snowed heavily, the child woke up and didn't find his mother. He ran to the second aunt's house naked. After returning home, Liu Hua didn't see the child looking everywhere like crazy. After finding the child at his second aunt's house and picking him up, he shut himself in the house and cried all day. In 2015, the seriously ill adoptive father needed to be hospitalized for one month. Liu Hua put his two children in a neighbor's house, and ate and lived in the hospital with her husband every day to take turns to look after the elderly. "I care for the elderly, but I can't care for the children, and I can't put them in the neighbor's house every day. Once I simply locked the children in the house, and the children had to go to the hut to go to the toilet. Because I couldn't open the door, I was so worried that I wet my pants and cried loudly." Liu Hua said with tears in his eyes.

Careful care and warmth interpret the word "love"

After his adoptive father left the hospital, Liu Hua took him back to his hometown and entrusted his own brother to take care of the elderly. At the beginning, he was very uneasy. He had to go several times a day. Sometimes he often received a call from his brother at two or three in the morning. Liu Hua always rushed to the elderly at the first time. Later, Liu Hua, who was really worried about the old man, installed a monitor in his adoptive father's room and paid close attention to the old man 24 hours a day. "I'm not worried about my brother. The main reason is that I always remember the old man. In the past, when I was working, I always took out my mobile phone from time to time. I was always afraid of missing my brother's phone number. Now, if I want to see him, I will take it out from the video to see him. I'm much more confident," said Liu Hua.

After his adoptive father suffered from Alzheimer's disease, his behavior is often difficult to understand; Sometimes, when I go to see him at home, he often suddenly loses his temper and scolds me. I feel very aggrieved. I wonder if there is something wrong with his body or if I don't take care of him enough... "When I said this, Liu Hua, who was smiling straight in the face, suddenly cried, and the hardships of life did not overwhelm this optimistic woman, But she felt deeply remorse for thinking that she had not done a good job in filial piety. She simply put her adoptive father in her own home. Every day, she brought water to feed her adoptive father, changed his diapers and urine bags, wiped his body, did rehabilitation exercises, ate, dressed, combed his hair, and got up. The simplest things fell on Liu Hua. Day after day, these trivial things became the main content of Liu Hua's leisure life.

In 2015, Liu Hua and her husband started to run an edible fungus farm. Because of their hard work and excellent skills, the couple became well-known "mushroom experts". In April 2020, Liu Hua's family farm was opened, and the moment before the firecrackers were lit, Liu Hua received a phone call - the adoptive father threw himself on the bed and covered the bed with excrement and urine. Liu Hua was so worried that he didn't care about anything else. He hurried home to clean his body and make the bed for the old man... How to choose between family business and caring for the old man became another problem in Liu Hua's heart. "Once, when the leaders of the town came here to guide work, they enlightened me when chatting, saying that filial piety does not have to stay in front of the elderly, and creating good living conditions for the elderly is the most important." Liu Hua repeatedly weighed, carefully considered, and inspected several elderly care institutions. After discussing with her family, she sent her adoptive father to the caring home for the elderly in the town, no matter how busy, She still insists on visiting the elderly in the nursing home every week, massaging the elderly, chatting with the elderly, taking two boxes of mushrooms and some tomatoes to the elderly in the nursing home, so that all the elderly in the nursing home can eat the fresh vegetables picked on the farm. Seeing that the mental and physical state of the adoptive father is getting better in the nursing home, Liu Hua's heart is finally put down.

Paying back to the society and making contributions highlight the word "love"

Life must continue. Liu Hua is determined to give the elderly a better life. The 30 mu edible fungus farm run by her and her husband has been successively rated as the "New Rural Cooperative Education Base of the Organization Department of Dongying City", "New Farmers (Citizens) Education and Training Demonstration Base of Dongying City", "Big Sister Workshop of Home based Entrepreneurship, Employment and Poverty Alleviation Action for Women in Shandong Province", etc. In terms of professional technology, Liu Hua knew that he was a young man with a low educational background. He was modest in learning from peers and experts. He actively participated in the agricultural technology training courses, economic management and academic training held by the technical departments of cities, counties and towns, and completed the two-year study of the "One Village, One College Student Plan" from 2017 to January 2019.

When you become rich, you will never forget your love and repay your gratitude to the Party. The success of Liu Hua's mushroom family farm has also brought him great economic benefits and embarked on a prosperous road. However, many villagers in the village still live on a few acres of fertile land. Although they can provide food and clothing, they are not rich. Liu Hua actively publicized the benefits of planting edible fungi and encouraged villagers to plant mushrooms. For more than ten years, she has used her own technology to help the backward villagers for free. From the initial on-site guidance and hands-on operation, to the annual training class on edible fungus planting, she has made them have a new understanding of the economic value of planting edible fungi, and gradually become interested in mushroom production. She not only "teaches to fish", but also "teaches to fish", selects young, studious and dedicated backbones, trains them into technicians and market salesmen, and makes them become leaders in rural science and technology to become rich. Win the battle against poverty and create a better tomorrow.

In 2018, Liu Hua actively responded to the call of the County Women's Federation and helped a girl in Shenliangting Village, Guangrao Street in pairs. I intend to persist until my child finishes junior high school. " During the epidemic in 2020, Liu Hua also sent mushroom eggs to poor households in the village, bananas and ham sausages to volunteers on duty at the entrance of the village, and donated 1000 yuan to the Guangrao Red Cross through the mobile phone platform

Life is sometimes unfair, you can only do your best in the situation. Sometimes life is fair, suffering will be sweet, after rain always see rainbow. In the past 20 years or so, his adoptive mother died, his mother-in-law, adoptive father, biological father and biological mother fell ill one after another, three elderly people, two young children and the operation of a farm did not overwhelm Liu Hua, Liu Hua smiled again: "I just want to do a good job of the farm, earn more money, buy more good clothes for the elderly, buy more delicious food, and make more small contributions to the society." Liu Hua doesn't have any gorgeous words, just remember the words engraved in his bones, "The elderly support us small, we elderly people old", and interpret the traditional Chinese virtue of "filial piety" with practical actions. (Qilu Evening News, Qilu 1:00 reporter Wang Shuai, correspondent Dong Kangkang)