Carry You up the Mountain

Her husband was paralyzed in a mining accident, and 800 yuan in compensation was misappropriated by the contractor. Mei Xiang carried him on her back and carried him through the 60-mile mountain road between the ICU and debts. Everyone in the village borrowed it, and with the reminder note stuck to her heart, she took him to live in a leaky shabby house in the back hill. The land is barren and the rice jars are empty. She was clearing land in the front mountain, and he moved down from the kang, holding the gravel with his hands and crawling toward her inch by inch. Two crooked traces were drawn on the mud - that was his path, from the edge of the kang to the edge of the field, from the paralysis to the station. He learned to weave bamboo baskets and sold them for broken rice; she saved enough money to buy the first crutch; he cut two brackets out of jujube wood and supported himself in the snow for three seconds; after harvesting the corn, she stewed a pot of rib soup, and he arranged the bones in a row on the table. From a broken house to a brick house, from being paralyzed to walking, from being carried by one person to being carried by two people side by side. Corn after corn is gathered in the ground, brick by brick. There is a bowl of porridge placed on the windowsill, and there is corn on the right for the person living on the left. This is the story of a woman who refused to let a man die, and then the two of them brought life back to life.