Ma Yutang helped grandma go out to farm with her back basket.

Ma Yutang, Puyang town, Dujiangyan City, Sichuan province, was busy at home after the college entrance examination, helping her grandmother plant vegetables and sell vegetables. This year, she scored 476 points in the national college entrance examination and applied for the Sichuan University of Arts and Science. Her parents were killed in the earthquake, but she and her grandmother are dependent on each other. Her cheerful and optimistic attitude has ushered in the spring of her life.

On the morning of July 22, a reporter from West China Metropolis Daily came to Ma Yutang's home. "Our granddaughter is not easy, she is very sensible, thanks to your care." Ma's grandmother said with a smile. She dragged her old body, her hair was gray, and her feet were worn out with straw sandals.

Grandparents were killed to carry the burden of raising

The construction community in Dujiangyan Puyang Town is Ma Yutang's "new" home, here is the "5¡¤12" earthquake for some of the people newly built resettlement housing.

Different from the beautiful appearance of the house, the furniture in the house is very simple, two yellow chairs, a sofa covered with old rhubarb cloth, standing next to a shabby wardrobe, the top of the wardrobe is filled with various plastic bags picked up by my grandmother. The family's past suffering can still be seen in the narrow space.

"I'll pick up the garbage for you!" Earthquake leaves girl as young as 9 orphaned overnight. After the earthquake, the two lived in a boarding house for several years before moving into their current housing in 2011. The head of the Dujiangyan education bureau told reporters that her grandmother is a local farmer and has no job. In addition to the 1,500 yuan of land loss insurance given by the government every month, she has reclaimed a small plot of land behind her new house to grow vegetables for herself.

"A month can sometimes sell tens of yuan." The balcony is full of plastic bags and waste items, is the grandmother saved a year of hard work, "a balcony of plastic bags and waste, probably can be changed more than 70 yuan." Grandma sighed, no matter whether there is money can not lose granddaughter.

Now, if Ma Yutang is admitted to the private university of his second choice, it means that he needs 13,000 tuition fees for one semester, which is very difficult for this poor family.

Cheerful personality overcome suffering with optimism

< BR />< BR />< BR /> A white blouse, loose jeans, half tied hair, handsome face, Ma Yutang always showed innocent smile in conversation. Ma Yutang in Dujiangyan middle School to study high school, is the class disciplinary committee. The school waives her tuition fees and meal allowances, but she often runs out of money. When she runs out of shampoo, she uses it again with water or asks classmates to use it.

"I will never be lonely when I have my classmates with me." Ma says her classmates don't know what's going on at home, and she doesn't want them to. "She has a cheerful personality and works hard during her senior year," Ma said. Guo Xiaoyi, Ma's head teacher in high school, said that she was very strong and never talked about sad things, and it was only in her senior year that her teachers learned about her misfortune.

Study life will inevitably encounter sad time, Ma Yutang will use pictures, read the reasoning book, write a diary, talk to the students to adjust themselves.

When asked who her favorite writer is, she said without hesitation: "Yu Hua!" When Yu Hua was mentioned, Ma went on and on about his works.

Looking forward to the future after earning money want to buy shoes for grandma

< BR /> In Ma Yutang's life, there is a portrait light lit up her front, this person is an "uncle" from Tianjin. In the 2008 earthquake orphans one-to-one help plan, the good Samaritan chose to support Ma Yutang. In previous years, he regularly sent a few hundred yuan a month for living expenses. Last year, he remitted 5,000 yuan in one lump sum. His uncle's support has lightened Ma's living burden. "Although God makes you unhappy, you must also work hard to live your future life well." My uncle once encouraged Ma Yutang in this way, and even filled in the college entrance examination this year, my uncle also gave Ma a lot of help and advice.

"I want to be a person like my uncle who helps others." In the holiday of the third year of high school, Ma Yutang and the school's youth volunteers went to Dujiangyan Welfare Institute to do public welfare, and thanked them bit by bit in their own way.

At the thought of going to college, Ma Yutang's face is looking forward to it. She hopes to do some part-time work while learning her major well, and then take the entrance exam for postgraduate school, so as to make her and her grandmother's life better. "Earned the first money, want to buy a pair of shoes for my grandmother!" Ma Yu Tang pointed to the straw shoes on her grandmother's feet, and said his first wish after working to earn money.

Photo by Reporter Yang Xiaobi and intern Yang Jingshuang of West China Metropolis Daily

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