Zhang Zequn was born in an ordinary rural family, and his parents were honest farmers. Although his family background is ordinary, Zhang Zequn is not limited by this. With the support and encouragement of his parents, Zhang Zequn was determined to change his destiny through learning since he was a child.
However, the road of fate is never easy.
When he was in high school, Zhang Zequn applied for the pilot exam but was unsuccessful. His mother comforted him and said, "Frustration is a successful mother." With the support and encouragement of his mother, Zhang Zequn decided to take the college entrance examination for the second year.
In the following time, Zhang Zequn failed three times in a row in the college entrance examination, and many teachers and classmates looked down on him. However, his mother encouraged him every day and made him decide to fight one last time.
In the end, in the fourth college entrance examination, Zhang Zequn was successfully admitted to his favorite Beijing Broadcasting Institute. Since he started 4 years later than his peers, he experienced more setbacks and struggles, which made him appear more mature and steady among his classmates.
After graduating, Zhang Zequn was assigned to work in a film studio. In order to gain the appreciation of the leader, he began to direct and perform his own commentary. After 6 years of hard work, Zhang Zequn successfully became a well-known host of CCTV.
Looking back on the past many years later, although there have been many detours, the support and encouragement of his mother have made Zhang Zequn persevere. He was able to become a CCTV host, and his mother had half the credit.
In 2015, Zhang Zequn's mother suddenly suffered a stroke, resulting in paralysis and inability to take care of herself. During this period, Zhang Zequn was on the rise in his career and had to go home often to take care of his mother.
At the same time, his father's physical condition deteriorated rapidly, and he was unable to overcome the disease after all. In just one year, Zhang Zequn has lost the company of his parents, which is undoubtedly a major turning point in his life.
Zhang Zequn faced family changes, and his personal life was also very unhappy. He is in his 50s and is still single. It wasn't until 2020 that he shared online that he was holding a baby about 1 year old.
This scene surprised countless netizens, it turned out that a few years ago, Zhang Zequn, who was over half a hundred years old, had married and had children, but he has not made it public. However, the good times did not last long, and the daughter-in-law in ** soon immigrated to the United States with her children, and gradually drifted away from Zhang Zequn.
Now the lives of the two of them have almost no intersection, and there may be a rift in the relationship, or even divorced.
At this moment, Zhang Zequn's heart was extremely empty and sad. After years of hard work, he achieved fame and fortune in his career, but when he needed the companionship and comfort of his family the most, the Deng family left.
Faced with such a cruel life, Zhang Zequn couldn't help but burst into tears.
After his mother suffered a stroke and was paralyzed in bed, Zhang Zequn still found time to visit home despite his busy work. Every time he returned to his hometown in Henan from Beijing, he would bring his mother's favorite food and medicine.
In the limited time on vacation, Zhang Zequn did his best to take care of his mother, personally feeding his mother, wiping her body, cutting her hair, and pushing her wheelchair to bask in the sun, expressing his deep respect and filial piety to his mother. However, due to his mother's unstable physical condition, he could not stay with his mother for a long time, and this situation of not being able to fulfill his filial piety made him feel extremely bitter and self-blamed.
On holidays, Zhang Zequn also returns to Henan after work, and most of the time he accompanies his mother in the hospital. Looking at the Spring Festival couplets, flower dew, and paper-cuts pasted in the ward, as well as the warm scenes of the family's Spring Festival reunion in the past, Zhang Zequn couldn't help but redden.
Zhang Zequn felt sad and helpless, because he found that his mother rarely had a smile on her face, and his heart may have been full of thoughts.
Over the years, Zhang Zequn has taken care of his mother considerately, but it is difficult to do both. He couldn't stay by his mother's side day and night, which also became a thorn in his heart.
One day in January 2024, Zhang Zequn received a call from his hometown, telling him that his mother had passed away. This news is like a bolt from the blue for him, who is nearly 50 years old.
He stayed where he was for a long time, and then took leave and immediately went to his hometown in Henan to take care of the funeral.
Zhang Zequn's mother has accepted ** for many years, but he has never been able to stay with his mother for a long time, so that he has not been able to witness his mother swallow her last breath, which has become an eternal regret in his life.
What made him even more heartbroken was that his daughter-in-law and grandson in the United States did not come back to attend the funeral. Whether his mother was still thinking about them before he died is an unanswerable question.
Zhang Zequn was alone in his hometown in Henan to take care of his mother's funeral. There was an endless stream of relatives and friends mourning, but he stood alone in front of his mother's spirit. He burst into tears and knelt down in front of his mother's black-and-white fax with a very sad expression.
The wreath with his and his son's names on it expressed the indescribable sadness.
The concern of his hometown in Henan disappeared with his mother's burial, and Zhang Zequn once again embarked on the road back to Beijing. His heart was empty, and it filled his heart with an emptiness that he had never felt before.
His mother had given him infinite support in his most difficult time, but now the opportunity to repay it has been lost.
After Zhang Zequn's mother passed away, he deeply realized that life was like a dream, with a mixture of joy and sorrow. Years ago, his mother's support and encouragement enabled him to achieve his dream of becoming a presenter. However, in the process of pursuing his career, he neglected the warm harbor of family.
The fact that his mother passed away made Zhang Zequn feel lonely, and his family gradually moved away from him.
At this moment, Zhang Zequn drove back to Beijing alone, and his thoughts were full of bits and pieces with his mother's life. He recalls the scene when his mother taught him to read and write; remembered the frivolity of his youth, and failed the college entrance examination three or four times, but his mother has been silently supporting him behind him; After becoming a father, when he was waiting for labor in the hospital, his mother stayed with him all night......These memories revived in his mind, and tears welled up in his heart.
Life is a long road, and Zhang Zequn knows that the death of his mother is an inevitable pain in life. In the days to come, he will work more dedicatedly and strive to live out his own value in memory of his mother's deep filial piety.
He will cherish his wife and children and try his best to make up for his past regrets and alienation. Even if he is old, he will be warm and no longer lonely. Grasping the present is the best consolation for the future.
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