This year's Spring Festival, Li Haidong was on duty at Lanzhou Station, and in the face of his mother's sudden appearance, he couldn't help but shed tears...
At Lanzhou Station on the eve of the Spring Festival, passengers in a hurry stepped onto the train home with a happy mood. On this day of family reunion, Li Haidong, a police officer of the special police detachment of the Lanzhou Railway Public Security Department, still gave up the opportunity to reunite with his family again as in previous years, stuck to his post, and escorted the passengers to travel safely with loyalty and enthusiasm.
Since becoming a SWAT team member in August 2019, Li Haidong has stuck to his post for three consecutive Spring Festivals and has not returned home. When he was young, his father died for some reason, and only his mother lived alone in the family, and the only sister could only go home to accompany her old mother when she was resting from work. In a heart-to-heart talk organized by the detachment, Li Haidong expressed his desire to accompany his mother for the New Year. However, this year coincided with the intertwining of the Spring Festival and the Winter Olympics, and the security tasks were heavy, and Li Haidong and his comrades in arms of the SPECIAL Police Detachment threw themselves into the security work with higher standards and requirements.
In order to realize Li Haidong's wishes, after studying the party branch of the special police detachment before the Spring Festival, adhering to the concept of "comrades-in-arms standing guard for the motherland, I do filial piety for comrades-in-arms", and thought of a trick - to take Li Haidong's mother to the detachment for the New Year. In the early morning of the 28th lunar month, Li Ang, the deputy commander of the detachment who was on leave, arrived at Minxian Station by train with his comrades-in-arms according to the plan, and then transferred to a car and rushed to Li Haidong's home in Mu'er Town, Zhuoni County, more than 400 kilometers away from Lanzhou. After four hours of travel, Li Ang and his party finally met Li Haidong's mother and sister. After arriving home, Li Ang and his comrades-in-arms sent the care and condolences of the organization to Li Haidong's mother, and helped them clean the courtyard and paste the Spring Festival. Li Haidong's mother enthusiastically prepared a hearty meal for her son's comrades-in-arms. During the conversation, Li Ang told her about Li Haidong's actual performance in the SWAT detachment, and agreed with her to hide Li Haidong from going to Lanzhou to celebrate the New Year in the detachment and give Li Haidong a surprise in the Year of the Tiger.
On the morning of the 29th of The Month, Li Haidong's mother, who walked into the provincial capital for the first time, toured the lanzhou urban area accompanied by the off-duty members of the SPECIAL police detachment. In the afternoon, in the SWAT detachment, she visited the SWAT detachment police history museum and Li Haidong's daily life and work environment. After a series of activities full of comrade-in-arms, Li Haidong's mother wrapped Li Haidong's "mother's dumplings" with the ingredients she purchased. After wrapping the "customized dumplings", she and the SWAT detachment police prepared a Chinese New Year's Eve meal for the big guys. At about 7 p.m., Li Haidong's mother delivered dumplings specially made for Li Haidong to Li Haidong and his colleagues who were on duty at the Lanzhou station police station. Unbeknownst to him, Li Haidong actually ate the taste of home.
Halfway through the dumplings, Fang Chunru, the leader of the detachment, suggested that the comrades on duty record a video of their families. When Li Haidong was telling his thoughts about his family in front of the camera, his mother and sister came to Li Haidong's side surrounded by comrades-in-arms. The sudden appearance of the family made the big boy burst into tears. Seeing this scene, the comrades-in-arms who came to deliver dumplings together took the initiative to ask for Li Haidong to be on duty, let him accompany his mother more, and spend a happy Spring Festival in the Year of the Tiger with his family. After the simple handover, Li Haidong took his mother and sister's hands and returned to the SWAT detachment to eat Chinese New Year's Eve meal, set off fireworks and firecrackers with his comrades-in-arms.
Lanzhou Daily All-Media Chief Reporter Ge Qiang Correspondent Su Xudong Text/Photo
Source: Lanzhou Daily