Zhang Qing, the daughter of "Grandma of Foot Shoes": For the first time in 40 years, my mother was absent from we sent shoes this year from us to us.

Cover news reporter Zhou Yi

On the day after sending the cloth shoes and insoles, Zhang Qing returned to the place where the mother lived, gently wiped off the dust on the old sewing machine, took out the mother's old photos from the drawer, and solemnly reported to her mother: "You do what you do We gave fire soldiers and armed police officers and soldiers, and we will continue to complete your last wish. "

The person in the photo is the old man Tang Ming, who is known as the "grandma of cloth shoes" in Panzhihua, Sichuan. On December 1 last year, Tang Ming died of illness. In her 81 years of life, she sewed cloth shoes and insoles for the people's children and firefighters for 40 consecutive years.

Today, this incident has fallen into the hands of her daughter Zhang Qing. On July 27th and 28th, Zhang Qing took the 87 -year -old father Zhang Sicheng to send the 520 double cloth shoes and insoles, including more than 200 pairs of dual double -sewn during his lifetime, and sent it to the fire soldiers and armed officers of Panzhihua. Essence

▲ Zhang Qing sent a hand -stitched insole for the firefighter Peng Li Photography

On July 30, on the occasion of the "August 1st" Army Festival, the cover journalist talked exclusively Zhang Qing, the daughter of the "grandma of cloth shoes".

Mother's last wish:

"My cloth shoes, you have to help me continue to send it"

In the Wudaohe community of Yinjiang Town, East District, Panzhihua City, when he walked into the small courtyard where Tang Ming lived in his life, the departure of the elderly made the whole small courtyard look a bit deserted, and the plants on the door were a bit messy because of no one. The first side of the right hand side on the second floor is Tang Ming's home. There are blessings on the door, and there are 3 signs of "Ping An Civilized Demonstration" on the top.

▲ Zhang Qing returns to the community where his mother lives before his life

In the bedroom where Tang Ming lived in his lifetime, an old -fashioned sewing machine was standing on the window, and the small table next to it was filled with various colors and scissors. How many days and nights, the elderly are here, and more than 13,000 pairs of cloth shoes and insoles are sewn here, which warms countless fire soldiers and armed police officers and soldiers.

Since October last year, the elderly have been admitted to the hospital for many times due to lung cancer. In the end, they caused organ failure due to disease and failed to suffer that winter. "Before admission, I was still sewed shoes and insoles with me, and was ready to give it to the local people's children and firefighters in the Spring Festival." Zhang Qing told the cover journalist that after the "August 1st" army was established last year, the old man had rushed out. More than 200 pairs of cloth shoes and more than 100 pairs of insoles.

▲ Zhang Qing organized the needle line used by her mother during her lifetime

"My mother is very strong, and I never say anything in pain." Zhang Qing still remembers that the old man was in a bad mental state when he was dying, but he still supported it. To help me continue and send it. "

Zhang Qing nodded hard while wiping tears.

Affected by parents

Send a handkerchief to the children soldiers at the age of thirteen

"Even if my mother didn't say it at the time, I would continue to do this." In fact, in Zhang Qing's heart, the seeds of the army had been buried.

When he was young, Zhang Qing also had a "Military Dream". Unfortunately, because of various conditions at the time, Zhang Qing was not able to enter the barracks.

In 1983, the second year when Tang Ming and Zhang Sicheng began to send cloth shoes and insoles to the people's children, Zhang Qing thought, "I also send something to the PLA uncle." So she took out her own white handkerchief, Write the word "peace" one by one on the handkerchief, so that the parents were sent to the hands of the children's soldiers with the cloth shoes.

▲ Zhang Sicheng and daughter Zhang Qing

"At that time, when I thought of the sweating of Uncle PLA, I felt particularly proud of using the handkerchiefs I sent." Zhang Qing told the cover journalist that as she was older, she also learned to make cloth shoes and embroidered insoles, but never never Sorry to follow my parents into the fire station or the Armed Police Force. "Until more than 10 years ago, my mother was sick and asked me to help. I first saw the insoles I made with my own eyes and was handed over to the firefighters. "

▲ Zhang Sicheng and her daughter Zhang Qing gave the firefighters and the respondents of the firefighters and insoles.

After receiving the mother's "relay stick"

The insole is still the word "peace"

"The earliest mother started sewing shoes and insoles, which was still in 1982." According to Zhang Qing, the mother saw the scene of sending shoes to the soldiers in the movie "Bitter Caulus", and then germinated the idea of ​​making shoes. 10 pairs of cloth shoes and insoles are sent to soldiers.

Tang Ming now likes to embroider the word "peace" on the insole. "I hope you will be in peace and return safely." This sentence is also what Tang Ming said to firefighters before.

This year's "August", "Grandma of cloth shoes" lost his contract, but the blessing was not "absent".

Zhang Qing took over her mother's "relay stick". On July 27th, in the special service station of Panzhihua Fire Rescue Detachment Park Road, Zhang Qing took his father Zhang Sicheng to learn the appearance of his mother in memory, while saying "I hope you will attend the attendance safely and return safely." The player's hands.

On the insole, the word "peace" is embroidered as in previous years.

▲ Zhang Qing is sewing insoles

3 people become 2 people

"I will continue this matter all the time"

"Every year until this time, the happiest." In the special service station of Panzhihua Fire Rescue Detachment Park Road, the monitor Tian Fei remembered the scene when he received the insole of the "Grandma of Cloth Shoes" 5 years ago. It became an unwritten "agreed" between Tian Fei and "Grandma of cloth shoes".

But this year, the insoles came, but the "grandma of cloth shoes" did not come. Tang Mingxian, Zhang Sicheng and Zhang Qing became Zhang Sicheng and Zhang Qing. "I can no longer see the warm smile of grandma."

"The biggest difference this year is that three people have become 2 people." Looking at his father's insoles into Tian Fei's hand, Zhang Qing also remembered his mother. He had a sour nose, "But it doesn't matter, the blessings given to them have not changed. "

"For so many years, every time they salute or applaud, I feel very ashamed and feel that what I do is too small and I can't afford them to salute." With this idea, I will give this year's 520 double cloth shoes and insoles. Zhang Qing was busy preparing for the next year, "I didn't deliberately count it. I didn't expect to give them" I love you '. "

▲ Firefighters received love cloth shoes and insoles Zhanlu cream photography

The number of cloth shoes and insoles is asked in advance. Take out the insoles that have not been completed from the coffee table, pass it over, and pull it over. " Go down. "Zhang Qing said.

Zhang Sicheng sitting next to him, watching the insole in his daughter's hand also said, "Keep it all the way, until I ..." Zhang Qing interrupted his father's words and didn't let him talk about it.

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