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Shao Hengfang, 66 years old this year, is a villager in the fourth group of Xinsheng Village, Batan Town, Binhai County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. For 20 years, she has taken care of her handicapped brother-in-law wholeheartedly, and supported this happy and harmonious family with the diligence and simplicity of rural women.
Tao Haizhi, a 60-year-old brother-in-law, became a first-class intellectual disability due to a sudden meningitis when he was 6 years old. Tao Haizhi grew up under the care of his parents and siblings, but his parents were old and suffered from a variety of diseases, the second brother was engaged in transportation all the year round, and the two younger sisters married to other places. Since then, Tao Haizhi's eldest brother and sister-in-law, Tao Junzhi and his wife, have taken on the burden of taking care of the two elderly people and their younger brother. The husband and wife make a living by working, and the family is inseparable from people, so the burden of taking care of the family naturally falls on his wife Shao Hengfang, who entrusts the two grandsons living in southern Jiangsu to be taken care of by her in-laws, and she becomes a full-time "nanny" for the two old people and the little uncle. Under her careful care, the two elderly people lived happily in their old age, and passed away in the spring of 2022 and 2023 respectively (their father was 94 years old and their mother was 90 years old).
When she got up early in the morning, the first thing Shao Hengfang had to do was to clean up her brother-in-law Tao Haizhi's bedroom first, serve him a urine bucket, and then cook for him, which she and her husband have been married almost every day for many years. Because her husband Tao Junzhi works as a water steward in Huaihai Farm, she basically relies on Shao Hengfang to take care of her brother-in-law every day, she takes care of her brother-in-law in an orderly manner, the bedding in the bedroom is clean and tidy, and air conditioning and heating are readily available.
In the countryside, it is difficult to imagine how much spirit and perseverance it takes to take care of a disabled person for most of his life, so Shao Hengfang silently took care of his brother-in-law with his increasingly rough hands. Because Tao Haizhi only has the IQ of a child less than 3 years old, it is difficult to complete the diet and daily life completely independently, and sometimes the scene of defecation in the room is a mess, every time Shao Hengfang cleans the room and changes clothes for Tao Haizhi's bath, and after the neighbors see it, they all praise Shao Hengfang for being a rare good sister-in-law. Tao Haizhi sometimes loses control of his emotions and behaves abnormally, but Shao Hengfang never cares about him, does laundry, cooks, and takes care of him wholeheartedly. Even when the farm is busy, Shao Hengfang will set an alarm clock when he is working in the field, help the little uncle take care of everything on time, and then continue to work in the field. Under Shao Hengfang's careful care, the mental state of the little uncle Tao Haizhi has also improved a lot.
Shao Hengfang's husband Tao Junzhi always calls ** and comes back to inquire about family matters, she always reports good news and not bad news, so that her husband can work outside with peace of mind, and he can take care of everything at home. "It's not so much a sister-in-law as a mother-in-law, if it weren't for the sister-in-law's careful care, Tao Haizhi might have starved to death and froze to death. Whenever someone mentions Tao Haizhi's name, the villagers of the fourth group of Xinsheng Village always praise Shao Hengfang like this. Now, with the guidance of their mother and their own efforts, Shao Hengfang's children have not only been admitted to university, but also started a family in southern Jiangsu. They all took their mother's example and took over the "baton" of filial piety, and every time they came back from vacation, they helped their mother take care of their uncle and do some housework within their ability. Tao Junzhi's younger brothers and sisters often come back to help whenever they have time, and the family is happy.
According to Zhou Ya, a member of the village's grid, Shao Hengfang's touching deeds of taking care of his in-laws and uncles have been widely spread in the village for many years and have become a beautiful cultural landscape of "filial piety and love for relatives" in the town. Village volunteers and grid members have also set up a good volunteer service team to help vulnerable groups like Tao Haizhi, so that they can fully feel the warmth and care from the social family.
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