Editor's note
The Central Office for the Construction of Spiritual Civilization organized and carried out the online activity of "I recommend me to evaluate the good people around me", mobilized the majority of netizens and urban and rural grassroots cadres and masses to recommend the good people and good deeds around them, and regularly recommended and evaluated the "China Good People List". The column of "The Story of the "Good Chinese Guys" in the New Era" of China Civilization Network will tell you the story of the "Good Guys of China" in the evening. Let us learn the most valuable spiritual qualities of "good Chinese people", carry forward the core values of socialism, strive to be good citizens of society, good employees of units, and good members of families, and dedicate our light and heat to the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Ten years ago, Zhao Keke became the keeper of an oil warehouse at a naval base in the Northern Theater of Operations, and was ordered to guard the safety of the deep mountain cave. His newlywed wife, Liu Junlan, followed him to the depths of the mountains to guard the sentry, patrol the line, and be on duty together. In the past ten years, the couple have taken the island as their home, and have written youth poems loyal to their duties and the motherland with practical actions.
Zhao Keke, Liu Junlan and his wife. Image source: Haizheng Propaganda and Cultural Center Newspaper
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Zhao Keke was born in the community of Licheng Town, Linquan County, Anhui Province, and enlisted in the army in 2005. Liu Junlan's family and his family are not far away, and the two were introduced to each other and got married in 2013. Soon after he got married, Zhao Keke took the initiative to submit an application to the army and volunteered to be stationed in the mountains to become the keeper of the oil warehouse of a naval base in the Northern Theater, responsible for guarding the safety of the deep mountain caves. Knowing that Zhao Keke chose to stay at the Beishan outpost for a long time, Liu Junlan respected her husband's choice.
A month later, Liu Junlan came to what her husband called "paradise" for the first time, two peaks and a ditch, and the house was built in a ditch, which was windy, damp and cold. The husband, who had been guarding the outpost for more than a month, was thin and dark, and the quilt was also a layer of moisture. She sat on the bed distressed, tears flowing, and her heart was not a taste. After repeated thinking, Liu Junlan decided to go up the mountain to support her husband's work and take care of his husband's life. She quit her job in her hometown, carried her luggage, followed her husband to the depths of the mountains, and set up her home on the outpost.
The cave on the hill is cold and damp with oil and gas, and every part of the tank room needs to be carefully inspected. After one inspection, Zhao Keke had to squat up hundreds of times in a row. After 10 years of training, he has developed "leopard legs" and "eagle eyes", and where there are potential safety hazards in the mountains, you can know at a glance and smell.
An important duty of the garrison is to patrol the line, the 1,500-meter patrol route, which does not seem to be long, but the road is rugged and there are often rockfalls. In winter, it is extremely cold in the mountains, with a minimum temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius. In rainy and snowy weather, mountain roads are even more difficult, and wrestling and injuries are common. But Zhao Keke and Liu Junlan couldn't move, rain or shine, and "patrolled three times a day and once a night". In the past ten years, the couple has taken the mountain as their home, patrolling the mountain, checking the library, observing the weather, and writing a diary, without stopping.
On the way to patrol the line, Liu Junlan flicked the dust off Zhao Keke's clothes. Image source: Haizheng Propaganda and Cultural Center Newspaper
A small home in the mountains
Ten years of life in the mountains seems a bit monotonous to ordinary people. But Liu Junlan felt that life in the mountains was simple and happy. The couple used their leisure time to cultivate a vegetable patch in the yard. Zhao Keke said: "My daughter-in-law grows whatever she likes, and I am even happier when she is happy." "With the efforts of two people, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, and pumpkins grew in the yard......
In Liu Junlan's eyes, Zhao Keke is also full of romantic feelings. When patrolling the line in spring and summer, he often picks some wild flowers, and leaves marks on the road he has walked, leaving marks on the basis of flowers, so that his wife can find them along the road, which is a small romance he created for his wife in the depths of the mountains.
In 2014, their daughter Tiantian was born, and there has been a lot of laughter and laughter at the Beishan outpost. "Tian Tian was very lonely when she was a child, she didn't have friends of the same age, and she often played with the dogs and ants in the yard. Liu Junlan said distressedly. Later, the family ushered in a new life, which added a lot of life to the outpost. The family stayed with each other and had a strong affection for Beishan.
Monday is the most important day of the week for a family, as the national flag is hoisted on this day. Looking at her husband slowly raising the five-star red flag, Zhao Keke told the child: "The national flag is a symbol of the country, let the five-star red flag rise in our hearts, and we will understand why we have to stay here." ”
Zhao Keke and Liu Junlan took their children to raise the national flag in the courtyard. Image source: Haizheng Propaganda and Cultural Center Newspaper
Consistent choice
Zhao Keke's WeChat avatar is the peak of Beishan. He said that this mountain peak always reminds him to be grateful, and there is the support of his family and the love of his comrades-in-arms behind the watch.
At the end of 2021, Zhao Keke's service expired, and in the choice of leaving or staying, he decisively chose to extend his service and stay at the outpost. With his wife by his side, the outpost has become a home that he can no longer give up and can't leave without.
"The ancestors exchanged their lives for the peace of the motherland, and Wang Jicai spent his whole life guarding the island. Now the conditions at the outposts are getting better and better, the children are going to school, and the roads have been repaired, all of which are the organization's concern for us, and only by doing our work well can we be worthy of the care of the party and the state. As long as there is a need, we will keep it up. Zhao Keke said. "Compared with many military wives, I am already lucky, I can be with my husband every day, guarding the country and my small family. I support him in whatever he chooses, and I will stick to it with him. Liu Junlan said firmly.
In the fourth quarter of 2023, Zhao Keke and Liu Junlan were selected into the "China Good People List".
Source: China Civilization Network