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Heroic story of a pretty tour guide

By Guan Xiaomeng (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2006-01-20 11:14

Wen, despite her own trapped and injured body, and at the risk of dying, mightily struggled to let out her voice to warn the tourists not to fall asleep during the long wait, or they might not wake up again. Actually, Wen herself passed out several times but struggled to open her eyes for the sake of her tourists.

Wen Huazhi (right) is helped by her sister to use a notebook on January 18, 2006. [Xinhua]

So finally, after a long wait of more than two hours, Wen, the last survivor, was rescued. A traffic policeman, who got Wen out of the chaos said, "As a policeman myself, I can't help admiring Wen's courage and morality."

The local hospital announced the incredible earth-shattering news after they examined Wen: She had 9 fractures in her left leg, a right thighbone fracture, 3 hipbone fractures, and 4 rib fractures on the right side. Because of the grave wounds on her left leg, the doctors had to amputate the leg on her second day in the hospital.

The doctor-in-charge lamented over her leg cut, saying: "Her leg could have been kept if she had been sent to us earlier."

So what does the future hold for Wen, a still-young tour guide, but now one without her left leg?

"I don't regret doing this for my tourists at all," she said, smiling. "I just did my duty."

Wen's regretless sacrifice to her tourists wins people's respects as return. Wen once appeared in a local tour guide contest on wheelchair. The smiling young girl received a thundering and long clapping and hurrah from the spectators, some even with tears in their eyes.

The brave young girl hasn't dropped any tear or poured out any complaint about pain at all since the accident happened. "It will only make others more painful than I," she explained. Instead, without one leg though, she always wears a sweet smile on her face.

"I may study in a university," she said, concerning her future. The hospital has decided to give her an artificial leg after this year's Spring Festival and Wen expressed she would go back to working as a tour guide if she is able to walk well with the artificial leg.