Life is ordinary, how many waves can there be? Life is like a song, how many brilliant symphonies will there be? With his adoptive father in Beijing to study scientific theories, Dong Yong, an associate researcher from the poor countryside of Inner Mongolia, was in Colonel One by one
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Ride up the big love to catch the sun
The fourth day of the Lunar New Year
The reporter walked into Dong Yong's house
A rental property in Beijing
Dong Yong's father at the age of 89
Dong Dong staggered
But a rustic smile filled his face
Dong Yong was always supporting his father
Look at the scene in front of you
I couldn't help but be moved
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Say goodbye to the thick homeland of Northern Cyprus
In the 1960s and 1970s, in Inner Mongolia, Dong Dong's small family changed, his wife divorced and remarried, and two sons died one after another, leaving only the elderly mother, and the two depended on each other.
Three generations of grandchildren were together as a child
One day in April 1979, 46-year-old Dong Dongxiao accidentally learned that a peasant family wanted to give away a boy who had just been born for more than two months, and Dong Dongxiao, who was at the trough of his life, seemed to see a beam of light. He sold the only pig and most of the grain in his possession, and hired a nurse for the child for 8 months. The child is too young to live, Dong Dongxiao named his son "Forever", which means "always around".
Dong Yong's graduation photo in elementary school
In the blink of an eye, Xiao Yong reached the age of school, although his life was more difficult, but his father did not hesitate to make up for the tuition. The junior high school is 6 kilometers away from home, and Dong Yong can't come up with accommodation and food expenses, so he has to get up early every day and walk to school in the dark.
On rainy days, he took out two small holes in the fertilizer bag and covered his head; in winter, he wore a stubble sheepskin jacket and a thousand-layered cloth shoes made by his father on his feet.
Watching his father, who was nearly sixty years old, go out early and return to work every day, the young Dong Yong was thinking: "I must learn to be famous!" "For three years in junior high school, he lit kerosene lamps every day to learn late at night.
At the age of 16, Dong Yong was admitted to the camp middle school under the key high school with excellent results.
Dong Yong attended a speech in his first year of high school
However, the father who learned of this happy news frowned and did not sleep all night. For the sake of his children's tuition and food, he worked overtime and worked hard, and he was tired.
Looking at the admission letter on the Kang table and looking back at his father on the bed, Dong Yong had mixed feelings in his heart.
In the northwest in summer, the sun is like a brazier hanging in the sky, scorching the yellow earth.
The young Yong Zai carried the suffering in front of him with his thin body. In those days, every morning, he got up to fry medicine for his father, and then drove the donkey cart and hoe to the field to do farm work; every afternoon, he went home to cook for his father and grandmother, two old men, and hurried back to the field after nibbling on a few steamed buns; every evening, when it was so dark that he could hardly see the road, he rushed home in a car...
Looking back on his high school days, the word that impressed him the most was "hungry."
Before the beginning of each semester, his father would slice and dry the steamed buns, and Dong Yong would carry them away in a fertilizer bag, and every morning breakfast would be steamed bun slices and boiling water.
Dong Yong was in his freshman year of high school
In order to eat enough, Dong Yong could only use all the money to buy steamed buns, and every day he waited for other students to finish eating before he went to the canteen, one day in the second semester of high school, the logistics director found this boy who only bought steamed buns, and asked him: "Why don't you eat steamed buns and not vegetables?" Dong Yong bowed his head and said timidly: "The family is difficult and can't afford to eat vegetables." ”
Knowing that this young man with a family condition that was not very good, his academic performance had long been ranked first in the liberal arts class, and the kind logistics director reflected his situation to the principal. The principal specially approved a note for the canteen - from then on, Dong Yong could eat second-class dishes for free in the canteen, and at the same time, the tuition was free!
Photo of three good students in the third autonomous region of high school
For such a "gift", he is extremely grateful, and gathers these "loves" into a driving force to forge ahead, and has won the "three good students" at the school level, the "three good students" at the league level, and the "three good students" at the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region for three consecutive years, and won the only guaranteed place in the liberal arts class. When he stood at the crossroads of his choice for the first time, he was excited, joyful, proud! Poor, he finally chose Inner Mongolia Normal University, which is exempt from tuition. That night, with the acceptance letter, he and his father cried with joy.
Dong Yongzai, who had just joined the army
During his college years, Dong Yongzai has been working-studying. Cold drink sellers, school pool cleaners, cement workers, tutors... He rode his bicycle to almost every corner of Hohhot, the raging wind blowing on his green face, and his indomitability melted into the boiling blood.
He wanted to be a soldier since he was a child, and in 2001, after graduating from university, he was recruited into the army as he wished, and became a police officer in the Baotou detachment of the Inner Mongolia Armed Police Corps. Dong Yong, who put on his new military uniform, couldn't sleep for a few days in excitement, which was the moment when his dreams came true for many years, and it was also the first time he had a new dress of his own.
After that, Dong Yongzai, who no longer worried about eating and wearing, began to work hard. He has successively served as a platoon leader, officer, and instructor, and in each position he has been diligent and down-to-earth, and strives to do a good job. Subsequently, Dong Yong was admitted to Jilin University as a master's student.
Father is steadfast in his heart around him
In 2007, Dong Yong obtained a doctorate from the National Defense University, specializing in Marxist theory. Later, the Armed Police Command College recruited young instructors, Dong Yong was successfully selected, and he finally settled down in Tianjin after many years of running.
Returning home for the Spring Festival in 2011 and watching his elderly and frail father live alone, Dong Yong decided to take his father to Tianjin. After that, Dong Yong came to the former Military Political Work Research Center of the Academy of Military Sciences to engage in postdoctoral research work, and he took his father to Beijing and lived in the postdoctoral swing building of the Academy of Military Sciences.
Dong Yong graduated from Jilin University with a master's degree
Dong Yong and his father live temporarily in Beijing
Dong Yong is with his father in Weihai, Shandong
Dong Yongzai's father is in the postdoctoral dormitory of the military science department
Beijing, for Dong Dongxiao, an old man in the rural areas of Northern Saibei, is a place that he has only heard of but has not been to, and Dong Yong takes his father out for a walk after studying and working. Summer Palace, Tiananmen, Badaling Great Wall... They all left the figure of their father and son.
In 2019, Dong Yong was officially transferred to the Academy of Military Sciences Military Political Work Research Institute, after work, he was often sent to participate in the research of higher-level organs and other units, to leave the unit for a long time, in order to better take care of his father, he asked to take his father with him, and the leaders of the research institute agreed to his application after understanding the situation.
Nowadays, his father is older, his legs and feet are becoming more and more unfavorable, Dong Yong comes home to eat with his father every day, washes his father's feet at night, bathes his father every week, and gives his father a haircut every month... He said: "Although my father and I are not related by blood, every time I sit next to my father, my heart will be very solid and calm. ”
Dong Yong is in Beijing with his father
He gained more than love
Dong Yongzai, who grew up in a hard life, understands the importance of human emotions. When he was a child, after doing his homework, he would always help his father to do some farm work, and some people described him as "a farmer among students, a student among farmers", who not only cooked homely meals, but was especially good at making pasta, such as dumplings, flaky cakes, fried oil cakes, steamed steamed buns, and made noodles.
Dong Yong was making noodles for his father
Along the way, Dong Yong has gained a lot of kindness and love, and he has spread it in his own way. When he first went to college, his grandmother was seriously ill and spent a lot of money, and Dong Yong was working several jobs at the same time. Cleaning the water room of the dormitory building, 2 times a day, 1 yuan at a time; going to the construction site on weekends, working from daytime to 12 o'clock at night, can earn 17 yuan.
One day, he had just received his "salary" and saw that everyone at the entrance of the canteen was holding a donation activity for a classmate with leukemia, he hesitated, walked to the donation box and donated 100 yuan. Classmates said that he himself was a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, how to donate so much. Dong Yongzai said: "Money can be earned again after donation, but life is only once." ”
Later, when doing tutoring, the parents who caught up with the children were both laid off, and the tutor Fei Dongyong did not receive any money. In the face of the kind reminder of his classmates, he only said lightly: "People who have been in difficult situations can understand people in difficult situations the most!" ”
Dong Yong gave a lecture at the Armed Police Force
Because of his previous arduous experience, he was even more hungry for the study and study of political theory. Dong Yong was praised by the Armed Police Headquarters many times as an expert member of the propaganda team of the Armed Police Force, going up to the plateau, going down to the island, and going to the frontier. After arriving at the military section, he continued to give full play to the superiority of instructors, went to major units to preach the spirit of the all-army ideological and political work conference, and gave a series of micro-lessons on "Talking about the Soul of the Army in the Military History Museum" at the military museum, which was widely praised by the officers and men of the unit.
Dong Yong gave a lecture on the All-Army Political Work Network
From Tianjin to Beijing, from the Armed Police Command College to the Academy of Military Sciences, more than 60 papers, more than 10 academic works and textbooks, more than 20 various topics, and many achievement awards...
On his desk was a card excerpted from Capital: "There is no smooth road in science, and only those who climb along the steep mountain road without fear of toil can hope to reach the peak of glory." ”
Dong Yong teaches at a certain unit in the Beijing garrison district
Looking back, Dong Yong said: "A thousand words condensed into one word - 'gratitude'. "Grateful fathers, grateful for well-meaning people, grateful for organizations, grateful for the times...
Dong Yongzai's family portrait
The authors of this article: Shao Longfei, Wang Lishan, Liu Mingzheng, Wang Xiaoyu, Bao Guojun
Photo: Liu Zhao, Shao Longfei
Editor-in-Charge: Wang Yun
Source: WeChat public account of the Academy of Military Sciences