At that moment, he opened his arms to protect four students-the last dedication of Tan Qianqiu, a teacher who died in Dong Qi Middle School in Deyang City.
Xinhuanet (Sichuan) Hanwang Town, Deyang City May 14 (Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Wen, Tian Yu) "Are those four children really alive? Last night, I heard that a teacher saved four children. I didn't know it was you ... "Zhang Guanrong threw herself on her husband and burst into tears.
In Hanwang Town, Deyang City, in the middle of the night, the cold rain is biting and sadness is everywhere. The roaring ambulance can bring some comfort to people, which means that another life is moving towards hope.
At 23: 50 on May 13, the horn of an ambulance rang through Hanwang Town-rescuers from China Earthquake Emergency Search and Rescue Center rescued four students in succession in the collapsed teaching building of Dong Qi Middle School in Deyang City.
"My niece is a student in Class 1, Grade 2. Without the protection of the teacher, these four children could not survive!" The uncle of the rescued girl Liu Hongli told the reporter.
"Where's the teacher?"
"Alas ... he is a great man and a hero!" Say, uncle Liu Hongli's eyes are red. He told reporters that he is a male teacher who is almost 50 years old.
On the morning of June 5438+03, the reporter found the hero teacher's name-Tan Qianqiu in the temporary morgue of the school playground. His body was dragged out of the ruins at 22: 00 on June 38, 2003.
"When we found him, he was lying on the desk, with open arms, protecting the four students under him. All four students were alive!" A rescuer described the scene to the reporter.
Teacher Tan's wife, Zhang Guanrong, is carefully wiping her husband's body: every dust on her face is gently wiped away; Carefully comb the unkempt hair and comb it into the hairstyle he used to have before his death. Mr. Tan's head was pressed deep by the floor. ...
When Zhang Guanrong took Tan Qianqiu's arm to wipe away the blood, her husband's stiff fingers touched her fragile nerves again: "I was still soft when I held it yesterday, how did it become so hard!" Zhang Guanrong gently rubbed her husband's arm and cried herself to death. ...
It is this pair of arms that spread countless knowledge that regained four young lives from the hands of death at the moment of the earthquake. The scar on the arm clearly recorded all this!
"That morning, as usual, he got up at 6 o'clock, washed and dressed our little daughter, took her out for a walk, and then rushed to school early. He left and never came back. My daughter is still calling her father at home! " Zhang Guanrong burst into tears.
"Teacher Tan is the teaching director of our school, and there are also political classes in senior two and senior three." Teacher Xia Kaixiu, a colleague who accompanied Zhang Guanrong next to Teacher Tan's body, said: "Among the teachers in our school, he is the one who cares most about the students. When walking on campus, he saw a small stone on the ground from a distance, so he had to go over and pick it up for fear that his classmates would get hurt while playing. "
When the earthquake happened, the parents of the students lit a string of firecrackers for Teacher Tan in the playground of the teacher's daughter according to local customs. ...