China News Service, Zhengzhou, February 21 (Wang Dengfeng) On February 20, the ninth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Spring Festival couplets posted on the gates of every household in Donglongwangmiao Village, Shipogu Town, Yanjin County, Henan Province were still red, and the couplets at the west end of the village The family members did not post Spring Festival couplets, but the nameplates such as "Military Glory" and "Glorious House" were very conspicuous.
This family is the home of the martyr Xiao Siyuan.
In June 2020, Xiao Siyuan died heroically for defending his country to the death in a border conflict. He was only 24 years old.
The wedding room prepared by his family for Xiao Siyuan now displays his relics.
Photo by Wang Dengfeng
Talking about his son, Xiao Siyuan’s father, Xiao Shengsong, had tears on his sad face, “The son was sacrificed for the country and I am proud of my son! My son is good!”
Xiao Shengsong invited the reporter into the East Room.
This is a suite connecting two rooms, and it is also the wedding room previously prepared for Xiao Siyuan.
Today, it is set up as a memorial hall.
"The son is a very sensible child, caring, and very independent." Xiao Shengsong recalled, "From the time he went to college in Zhengzhou to join the army, he left with his luggage alone, never letting him go. Family members worry about it.” In order to reduce the burden of life at home, his son always uses winter and summer vacations to work during school. “He earns 1,600 yuan a month, and he gives me 1,000 yuan and leaves 600 yuan for living expenses.”
The party flag, national flag, and honor have become the glorious mark of Xiao Siyuan's short life.
Photo by Wang Dengfeng
Xiao Siyuan is a particularly filial and responsible child in the eyes of the elders.
Xiao Shengsong has a deep memory. Xiao Siyuan's uncle fell ill and was hospitalized. Xiao Siyuan stayed in the hospital for more than 20 days until his uncle died.
When I go home from vacation, I always help my family to wash the pots and pans, and I want to let my family rest for a while through my own work.
Xiao Siyuan's relationship with his parents has always been very good. If there is no task, he will often contact his parents by phone or video.
Father and son often joke with each other.
"When he talked to me, he always told me to take care of what I eat, in fact, to supervise me not to let me drink." Xiao Shengsong usually doesn't smoke, just likes to drink a little alcohol, but Xiao Siyuan often persuades him to drink two less .
Having said that, Xiao Shengsong's tears slipped again: "No one cares whether I drink or not, and Siyuan's wedding wine can't be drunk."
During the Spring Festival last year, Xiao Siyuan went home to visit his relatives and promised that he would bring his girlfriend to see his parents when he returned home next time, but he did not expect that the separation from his family would become a farewell.
"His promise can no longer be fulfilled." Xiao Shengsong said, and his son left with this regret.
In Xiao Siyuan’s room, his younger uncle Xiao Han took out the relics from his army bag and introduced to reporters, “These are the cotton-padded clothes and cardigans he wore when he sacrificed...” He choked and said, “Siyuan paid back last year when he returned. I was chanting, when I came back to visit relatives during the Spring Festival this year, I must take a family portrait with my family. I didn't expect this to become another regret for him."
In the days when Xiao Siyuan was away, her mother Liu Lixia always looked through her son's photos.
When she saw the reporter, she took out the photos and introduced them one by one: "This is the first time Siyuan came back to visit relatives and told me in the courtyard that he would give me a standard military salute; this one is after he visited relatives last year. Send him a picture at the airport; this is a picture of him with the girl..."
On the official website of Henan Vocational College of Agriculture where Xiao Siyuan studied, the mourning article "Ning to bleed all the blood without losing an inch of the country" is specially written for Xiao Siyuan.
"...Youth and blood are sprinkled in Kunlun, brave and loyal only for the country. Great rivers and mountains, no one's land! All teachers and students of Henan Agricultural Vocational College, salute the heroes!"
Jiang Peng, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Henan Agricultural Vocational College, told reporters that commemorating Xiao Siyuan, a martyr, will encourage the teachers and students of the school to remember their original aspirations, keep their mission in mind, love their jobs, and make selfless dedication.
"We are the boundary monument of the motherland. Every inch of land under our feet is the territory of the motherland." This is a sentence written by Xiao Siyuan in the battlefield diary.
Zhengzheng vowed to make a sound, from a weak scholar to a steel soldier, Xiao Siyuan used his blood and life to submit an immortal answer sheet to the motherland and people.
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