Postponed wedding: "During the epidemic, we must not embarrass everyone"

After communicating with family and friends, Yu Yaya and Liu Lifeng, employees of Tongguan Station in Xi’an Depot of China Railway Xi’an Bureau Group Co., Ltd., decided that the original schedule will be on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year. The wedding held on February 2 in the Gregorian calendar will be postponed until the new coronavirus epidemic has completely ended.

In 2017, Yu Yaya and Liu Lifeng graduated from railway colleges and were assigned to work at Tongguan Station. At the station, Liu Lifeng is a signalman who is mainly responsible for arranging the routes of receiving and dispatching trains; Yu Yaya is a passenger transporter who is engaged in station ticket sales and ticket checking. Since they were employed in the same batch, and their hometown is in Luonan County, Shangluo City, soon after they worked, the two officially confirmed their relationship. After two years of getting along, in 2019, the two received a marriage certificate and set a date for the marriage.

On January 21, they asked for a wedding leave from the station, ready to go back to their hometown Luonan to prepare for the wedding. When they got home, the two saw the daily news of the epidemic on TV, plus they heard that the station was understaffed due to epidemic prevention and control. After consideration, the two decided to cancel the wedding and return to their respective jobs to fight on the front line of prevention and control.

When parents and friends learned that the two decided to cancel the wedding and return to work, they immediately exploded. "Marriage is such a big thing, how can you just cancel it!" "Everything is prepared at home, what should I do if we don't get married?" Faced with their family's incomprehension, the two said: "The epidemic is so serious, we can't let it Everyone is embarrassed, let alone add chaos to society. Moreover, we must stick to the railway line to ensure that passengers travel safely, and we will get married after the epidemic is completely over.” After repeated communication, the two young people finally reached a consensus with their families and expressed their support for the delay. Wedding, return to work. On the night of January 26, the two simultaneously posted a temporary cancellation of the wedding in their Moments. Early the next morning, the two packed up their luggage and rushed back to Tongguan from Luonan, returned to their jobs again, and engaged in the front-line "fight" against the epidemic.