In 2008, Li Hongzheng gave 9-year-old Zeng Jiafu a precious notebook, which Zeng Jiafu has been carrying with him for more than a decade
Beijing, February 3 (Central Broadcasting Network) There is such a story about the reunion, starting from a group photo from 14 years ago - the photo of a young boy named Zeng Jiafu, the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake hit his hometown dujiangyan hard. In the temporary resettlement of the board room, Zeng Jiafu met another protagonist in the photo, Li Hongzheng, a military doctor who came to rescue the disaster, and affectionately called Li Hongzheng "Uncle Iron Army". Since then, becoming a soldier of the people like "Uncle Iron Army" has become the greatest wish of Zeng Jiafu.
Last spring, the dream of zeng jiafu's childhood shone into reality, and he put on the military uniform as he wished, but he missed the "iron army uncle" who had not been seen for many years. With the help of reporters, the two were reunited in Zeng Jiafu's military camp, and Li Hongzheng personally put on the rank of private soldier for the child he had rescued that year. At the beginning of the new year, Zeng Jiafu and Li Hongzheng adhered to the mission of soldiers in their respective posts and sent blessings to their "old friends" and "new comrades- in-arms" who were far away. Special report "Happy New Year" this issue launched "When you grow up, I will become you".
Zeng Jiafu: On May 12, 2008, this day was particularly heavy, and my hometown of Dujiangyan was also hit hard. There was an uncle of the People's Liberation Army who came to the school to fund my study, and he gave me a notebook more than ten years ago, and I now carry it with me.
Li Hongzheng: My original plan this time was to go to Shijiazhuang as an expert to give them a lecture. In the course of the lecture, I heard that Zeng Jiafu had become a soldier and was about to be awarded a title. He was an old friend of mine 13 years ago, and I set off from Shijiazhuang at around 4:50 a.m. this morning and rushed to this place.
June 11, 2021, will be an unforgettable day in Zeng Jiafu's life. On this day, he was awarded the rank of a private soldier, and more importantly, he reunited with the "Uncle of the Iron Army" who was thinking of the twilight.
Zeng Jiafu said: "At that time, the Wenchuan earthquake was particularly serious, and at that time, Uncle Li set up a medical team to come to the rescue of the affected people, found that my family was seriously affected, and funded my study. Since elementary school, every year the family has received a sum of money, and later Uncle Li will also come to see me. We moved to the board house temporarily, and he would buy me books and watercolor pens. ”
The uncle in Zeng Jiafu's mouth was named Li Hongzheng, and he was the chief physician of the 923rd Hospital of the Joint Logistics Support Force. In that year, Li Hongzheng followed the troops to the disaster area to carry out psychological counseling work, and met Zeng Jiafu, who was only 9 years old at the time. At that moment, Li Hongzheng's eyes were full of pity and love, pulling Zeng Jiafu's small hand to chat with him and taking him out of the haze of losing his homeland. Since then, Li Hongzheng has continuously funded the Zeng family's rich family, the children's schooling, and his father's treatment, and he has been silently concerned and helped. Zeng Jiafu loved a notebook that Li Hongzheng gave him, and in the past 13 years, Zeng Jiafu moved with his parents many times, and even accidentally lost the phone book that remembered Li Hongzheng's contact information, but this important notebook has always accompanied him.
Zeng Jiafu said: "When he gave me this notebook, it said 'Li Hongzheng gave Zeng Jiafu'. I feel that Uncle Li's writing is very beautiful, and when he was a child, he did not understand things, so he used the watercolor pen he sent to imitate and write once, which was written more than ten years ago, and it is still on it. I have kept it since the second grade of elementary school, and it is still in the cupboard, just like new. ”
When he was a child, Zeng Jiafu used a watercolor pen sent by "Uncle Tiejun" to learn Li Hongzheng to write in that precious notebook
When he was a child, Zeng Jiafu and the children affected by the disaster liked to call Li Hongzheng and his comrades-in-arms "Uncle Iron Army". "Because the place where we lived at that time was called 'Iron Army Road', we often passed by here, and many people asked 'Where?' Just say ' to the Iron Army Road'. Zeng Jiafu said.
Li Hongzheng, the "Uncle of the Iron Army," did not know that a good deed in that year planted a seed of serving the people and serving the country in the heart of a child, and it was slowly sprouting and growing. During the new crown pneumonia epidemic in 2020, Li Hongzheng was once again ordered to go to Wuhan Huoshenshan Hospital. In Dujiangyan, more than a thousand kilometers away from Wuhan, Zeng Jiafu, who had just become a preparatory party member for more than a month, returned home for winter vacation, and when the epidemic broke out, he took the initiative to ask for help and became a volunteer serving the frontline of the community's fight against the epidemic. In parallel time and space, two people who have not yet reunited have the same heart.
Zeng Jiafu said: "At that time, our community was full of resettlement houses, no elevators, twenty or thirty units, a unit with six floors, and I carried 50 pounds of disinfectant to wipe out the community." It was winter, and the three clothes inside and outside were soaking wet, really tired, and the clothes and pants were all stained with disinfectant. ”
In the most difficult moments, Zeng Jiafu inspired himself by recalling the "Uncle of the Iron Army". But he hopes to one day wear that olive green and reunite with the "Iron Army Uncle" in the form of a soldier.
In the spring of 2021, Zeng Jiafu, who was about to graduate from college, joined the army, and when the reporter went to the military camp to shoot a feature film, he accidentally learned that Zeng Jiafu had been looking for Li Hongzheng, who led him to grow up in faith, so he helped him find this "uncle of the iron army" and secretly invited Li Hongzheng to participate in his new recruit awarding ceremony. The night before the ceremony, the reporter told Zeng Jiafu the story of Uncle Li, whom he did not know: "The reporter said, 'Actually, do you know?'" Uncle Lee has more than just funded you. Uncle Lee has sponsored dozens or hundreds of people over the years, and I didn't know that before that. He said.
The new recruit conferment ceremony begins.
Zeng Jiafu said: "I was sitting offstage, and it was normal to hold the award ceremony, and there was a big screen on the stage that began to broadcast photos, exactly the same as when I was a child!" I looked at it, the first, the second, the third... The more I looked, the more I looked, and then I saw the picture of Uncle Lee holding me. I watched, and then the tears flowed down. I was so excited that I couldn't hear anything else later. My eyes were full of tears, the screen was not clear, I only heard my name called from above, and I answered and went up. ”
At the new recruit award ceremony, Zeng Jiafu reunited with the "Uncle of the Iron Army" who had not been seen for many years.
The thoughts and friendship accumulated over the past 13 years have become the mission inheritance between the two generations of soldiers at this moment.
Li Hongzheng: Comrades, this is a very exciting moment, and I am particularly honored to be invited to participate in the conferment ceremony of comrades. Here, I would also like to bless Comrade Zeng Jiafu once again, cherish this opportunity, be grateful to this society, and do my best to make some contributions to the army and the country. I promise that I, the comrade veteran, and this comrade of the new recruit, will fight side by side from today onwards!
Zeng Jiafu recalled the scene of being personally awarded the title by "Uncle Tiejun", describing them as "the most familiar strangers". "He said we would fight together and become comrades-in-arms from now on. He actually approved of me, and I knew in my heart that he wanted me to do better. ”
After the award ceremony, Zeng Jiafu opened the notebook that he had been carrying with him for 13 years, and solemnly wrote down, "We must become good comrades-in-arms with Uncle Li and fight side by side."
After the new recruit awarding ceremony, Li Hongzheng came to Zeng Jiafu's dormitory. The uncle and the little boy, the military doctor who had once urged his knees in the board room, now became comrades-in-arms, sat together again, and opened the notebook full of memories.
Li Hongzheng: I wrote this word! How about I turn it over and sign it again? Ten or twenty years from now, we'll look at it again. Haven't you moved many times?
Zeng Jiafu: But I have always kept this notebook.
This notebook bears witness to the agreement between the two "comrades-in-arms". Seeing the handwriting of Zeng Jiafu's childhood in the notebook, Li Hongzheng also sighed that the thin boy of that year had now grown into such a sunny and handsome guy, and he couldn't help but call Zeng Jiafu's mother Lei Xuehua to announce the good news:
Lei Xuehua: Hello Brother Li!
Li Hongzheng: Hello, you should call your sister! I haven't spoken to you in many years, the child is very good and excellent! Now tall and strong, you can rest assured! Together, we supported him, encouraged him, and let him live a good life in the army.
Lei Xuehua, like his son, finally contacted the benefactor of the year, and shed tears of excitement. On the eve of this Spring Festival, she once again made a special dish from her hometown after many years, which she said was the most simple gift she could give to "Uncle Tiejun".
Lei Xuehua said: "Sichuan is to make sausage bacon, when Uncle Li funded Zeng Jiafu, I sent a sausage bacon to Uncle Li once, he said it was delicious. This year I made it for him again, he said next time tell me not to do it, I said this is our Sichuan specialty, whether it is delicious or not, I said you taste it. I was very excited, I cried when I saw Zeng Jiafu and Uncle Li meet, I was proud, and I also hoped that my son could take The road of Uncle Li. ”
On the first day of the Year of the Tiger, Zeng Jiafu and Li Hongzheng sent New Year greetings to each other
On the first day of the Year of the Tiger, Zeng Jiafu and Li Hongzheng, two soldiers who insisted on their posts, took the time to send New Year greetings to the distant "comrades-in-arms" WeChat. Zeng Jiafu wished his "Uncle Iron Army" academic progress and family happiness, while Li Hongzheng hoped that his "new comrades-in-arms" would do a good job. In the new spring after the reunion, Zeng Jiafu silently made a wish - when he grows up, he will also become an "uncle of the iron army".
Zeng Jiafu said: "Because my matter was exposed, Uncle Li knew that I was thinking about him, and there may be many people who are thinking about him, but for various reasons there is no way to contact him." I hope he feels that he will continue to do what he is right, and I will help more people in the future, just like we have a spirit that is passed on from generation to generation. ”