Mother had to report to the higher education department. In a month's time, she ran dozens of kilometers from home to the county every day, looking for someone to give her children a chance to go to school. Her persistence touched the other side. Under the coordination of the county education bureau and the Disabled Persons' Federation, Li Wei finally sat in the classroom, only nearly two months later than other children.
In the first three years, parents took turns to send Li Wei to and from school. Once, he was busy with farming, and his parents really didn't have time to pick him up, so they let him stay at home and read. Li Wei, who was 10 years old at that time, was very stubborn. He just climbed from home to school. In the distance of nearly 1000 km, he climbed for more than an hour. The teacher looked at Wei in surprise at the classroom door. After patting off the mud for him, he said, "I'll pick you up for school tomorrow." The next day, before the teacher came to pick him up, Li Wei climbed to school again. After climbing several times, he tried to use his knees as his feet and knelt on the ground to walk forward. After seeing it, my father said with joy but heartache, "Li Wei can finally walk by himself!" It's just expensive. After a few days, my trousers and knees were worn out. Father found a car inner tube and wrapped it around Li Wei's knee. It was worn out in a few days. Li Wei saw that her mother's rubber shoes were strong, so she tried to put the remaining calf in and tie it to her thigh with shoelaces. I didn't expect it to be okay, so he began to kneel on the way to study.
Li Wei's family of four lives in an adobe house of more than 20 square meters, and the place to sleep is very tense. Their parents tried their best to support Li Wei to go to school. Until later, their son learned to paint and trained in Xi for two years. I spent more than 4,000 yuan each time for more than three months, which is almost the income of the whole family for one year. The simple couple said that it is worthwhile to sell blood on credit for the sake of their children to get out of the mountains and support themselves!
People who meet Wei for the first time will be surprised. A person without feet can easily play table tennis or go upstairs. Some people even suspect that he has short legs rather than no feet. Li Wei said that in order to practice kneeling, I don't know how many layers of skin have been worn off my knees. For more than ten years, small wounds have been kept, and knees and calves are red and swollen regardless of cold, heat, winter and summer.
A few years ago, someone suggested installing a prosthetic leg to make him stand up as soon as possible. His family spent 2000 yuan to order a pair of artificial legs in Ankang. Because of kneeling for a long time, Li Wei's two crippled calves became stiff and it was difficult to straighten them. He just stood up and fell to the ground without taking a step. At that time, although the pain was unbearable, Li Wei was still very happy to finally have the opportunity to stand up. He said it's good to stand taller than mom. When he is in a good mood, he will put on a prosthetic leg and hold the door frame for a while, even if it is only for a minute, because the pain of stretching and squeezing his calf can't support him.
Last year, Li Wei failed the college entrance examination because of the difference of seven points. He decided to repeat it. He said that although art is the luxury dream of poor students, he is willing to work hard for it. To the delight of his family and teachers, Li Wei passed the provincial fine arts entrance examination and got 19 in the fine arts examination of Chongqing Normal University. "I know my future is not a dream. I live every minute carefully. My future is not a dream. My heart was moved by hope ... "On the evening of June 2, after the last class of the college entrance examination cram school in Puxi Middle School, Hanyin County, the students arranged a party in the classroom to decompress themselves. Li Wei stood in the center of the stage, with his eyes closed, singing "My future is not a dream" with ecstasy.
Li Wei plans to find a job after graduating from college, save money to make a good prosthesis, and stand up and walk like a normal person. With this dream, Li Wei stepped into the examination room on the red carpet.