Mongolian girls Long Mei and Yu Rong are a pair of little sisters. They lived in the Na Ren Gerile Production Brigade of Xinbaolige Commune, the former Wulanchabu League in Inner Mongolia (now the United Banner of Darhanmaoming, Baotou City, Inner Mongolia).
On February 9th, 1964, Miss Jie volunteered to herd 384 sheep for the production team. At that time, Long Mei 1 1 year old, and Yu Rong was less than 9 years old. At noon, the drooping clouds shed strings of goose feather and heavy snow, and the whistling wind swept the snowflakes flying all over the sky. In an instant, the white-haired wind swallowed up the vast grassland: a snowstorm came! Long Mei and Yu Rong hurried to round up the sheep and turned to drive them back. But storms and blizzards are like an invisible wall, blocking the return of the sheep, and the sheep run around with the wind. At this critical moment, Long Mei said to her sister, "Go and find Abba to help us stop the sheep!" Xiao Yurong listened to her sister's words, turned the car around, ran hard against the snow, and fell down before she ran far. When she got up and looked back, her sister was alone in the snowstorm, with a sheep whip in her left hand and her fur coat in her right hand. Without their own helpers, the sheep are becoming more and more chaotic. Xiao Yurong didn't call Abba again, and immediately returned to the flock, waving a small fur hat in his hand and constantly shouting.
Long Mei and Yu Rong stopped for a while and ran for a while. Continue to block, and then run, I don't know how much I blocked, and I don't know how long it took. After the first round of fighting with the snowstorm, Long Mei and Yu Rong finally gathered the scattered sheep together. The storm is pervasive and disoriented, and even adults are more afraid of loneliness in the strong wind and cold. Not to mention children? When the snowstorm comes at night, it looks even crazier. They identify their sheep by the reflection of the snow on the ground, and the sheep are still heading southeast in the roar of the snow. When the two sisters were chasing the sheep closely, they were afraid of getting separated, so they tactfully shouted to each other: "Dragon Sister" and "Jade Rong". Taking care of each other is inspiring.
The two sisters struggled for more than 20 hours from noon until dawn the next day. Cold, fear, hunger, fatigue and sense of responsibility are all concentrated on the two little girls. Finally, Yu Rong fainted in the snow and was dying. Her sister Long Mei was not much better, but she still walked behind the sheep. Fortunately, the herdsman Ha Chaolu and his son arrived in time. When the railway workers and commune secretary who were looking for them arrived, they found that the sisters and the sheep escaped safely. * * * On March 20th of that year, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League wrote a letter praising their noble behavior and warmly congratulating them on joining the Chinese Young Pioneers. The People's Daily reported their touching stories with the title of "The Most Brilliant Flower", and was praised as "Little Miss Prairie Hero".
After the snowstorm, Miss Jie first received treatment in Baiyun Obo Mine Hospital, and then transferred to Hohhot for further treatment and rest. Due to severe frostbite, Long Mei lost his left big toe, while Yu Rong had his right leg amputated below the knee joint and his left ankle joint amputated. After my little sister was discharged from the hospital, under the care of the government, my little sister went back to her hometown to start studying and never herded sheep again.
Sister Long Mei's experience after the snowstorm was equally smooth. 16 years old joined the army gloriously, then studied in Baotou Medical College and Inner Mongolia Mongolian College of Literature, 1982 transferred to work in Donghe District, 1988 served as chairman of Donghe District CPPCC. In the same year that my sister served as the chairman of CPPCC, the Disabled Persons' Federation was established in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and my sister Yu Rong was transferred to the vice chairman of the Disabled Persons' Federation.
The two sisters were elected as nationals of the whole country.
As the fourth and fifth representative, Yu Rong was once the 11th and 12th representative of the Communist Youth League, and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd representative of the China Disabled Persons' Federation. He was also awarded the title of national advanced individual for helping the disabled and self-improvement model. Long Mei also visited France and Japan, and Yu Rong visited Romania and South Korea. For more than 30 years, the sisters have been the focus of media attention. They warmly receive every visitor, and every visitor can feel the sincerity and generosity of an ordinary Mongolian woman.
On February 26, 2002, at 65438, a reporter interviewed Yu Rong in Hohhot and told a story in Accompanying Wife: A mother living in the United States told the story of Little Sisters of Prairie Heroes in order to let her son learn Chinese. When her son heard that her little sisters were seriously injured by freezing to death to protect the sheep in the commune, he suddenly asked, "Mom, they did this and the government gave them a lot of money." ..... "Our teacher said that there is no job that should not be unpaid. "The mother later told her son," The best reward is that children all over the country learn from these two prairie heroes. Can I buy this with money? "The son finally understood:" There is still a job in the world that can't be paid. "
After listening to the reporter's story, Yu Rong said: "I remember that the price of a sheep was two yuan at that time, and three of the 384 sheep died, which was equivalent to a loss of six yuan. However, for these six dollars, I left a lifelong disability. " Jade Rong smiled and said, "Spirit cannot be measured by money."