Mochizuki, in the foothills of the Himalayas
Over the mountain in my heart——
When arrival becomes faith, all difficulties are no longer difficult
This is the last time the company organized a patrol of the Lambala Pass before the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Boundary Marker No. 62 at Yamaguchi is the "sacred existence" in the hearts of sergeant Wu Jie and corporal Guo Jiacheng.
This spot is patrolled 4 times a month and is located on a mountain pass at an altitude of more than 5,700 meters.
The difficult climb is a double test of the physical strength and will of the officers and soldiers, and each time they arrive, they will leave a different memory imprint.
Participating in a patrol for the first time, as a recruit, 19-year-old Wu Jie was the youngest member of the team.
He still can't forget the excitement when he climbed the mountain pass and overlooked the snow-capped mountains. The cliff at his feet was like a "step". The difficulty of climbing step by step suddenly turned into the surging blood of that moment.
In Wu Jie's view, this is the "most profound footprint" on the road to youth.
After that patrol was the Mid-Autumn Festival. Wu Jie and another new comrade in the post called his family together. He told his mother that he had something to gain this Mid-Autumn Festival: "Growing up is to climb the mountain in my heart."
Youth is worth sweating for growth.
Corporal Guo Jiacheng was born after 00 and has served as a soldier for three years in a regiment of Tibet's Shigatse Military Subdistrict, where Ba Nong Zhuokang Post is located.
The highest sentinel of this company is a testimony of his youth.
It is an unwritten rule for outposts to conduct a mountain pass patrol before the Mid-Autumn Festival every year.
In Guo Jiacheng's view, the more the festival, the more difficult it is to take. This is about loyalty to the motherland and commitment to relatives.
When the non-commissioned officer was first selected, Guo Jiacheng's mother suddenly became ill and bedridden.
Upon hearing the news, he wept in front of his comrades.
It was very windy that day. On the promenade outside the post, Guo Jiacheng's tears were blown dry as soon as the tears gushed out.
The comrades beside him silently put their hands on his shoulders.
In the difficult moments of life, sincere company is like the fire in the cold night.
At that moment, a warm current spread all over the body.
After that day, Guo Jiacheng never feared the fierce wind and snow on the plateau, "there is always someone by your side to make you forget the cold."
Warmth can be passed on, and finally turned into confidence and conviction.
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival of that year, Guo Jiacheng tossed and couldn't sleep. The star screen of the post was drooping. When he was sleeping on the upper bunk, he saw the glittering stars and the silver-plated moon from the window, and his heart was more worried.
Thinking of the mother who was on the sickbed during the video with the family, I can’t wait to fly back to her right away... Guo Jiacheng competed with himself in his heart: "Participate in the next patrol of Boundary Monument No. 62!"
It takes courage to make this decision.
Guo Jiacheng, who grew up in the city, once believed that he was “not good at climbing mountains and not suitable for snow-capped mountains with thin oxygen”.
He had previously "challenged" the Lambala Pass twice and failed to reach the summit.
After experiencing setbacks, Guo Jiacheng was once afraid.
But he understands that he must dare to challenge when he is young.
Early the next morning, Guo Jiacheng took the initiative to apply for a shift with his left-behind comrades.
That day, when only a few hundred meters away from the No. 62 boundary marker of the Lambala Pass, Guo Jiacheng accidentally smashed his foot and almost slipped into the ice cave on the side.
"When the arrival becomes a belief, all difficulties are no longer difficult." As Guo Jiacheng said, where the boundary marker is, the belief is there.
With the help of his comrades, he moved to the boundary monument little by little.
After this patrol, Guo Jiacheng's mother miraculously woke up from a coma.
Guo Jiacheng burst into tears while holding the phone that day.
At that moment, his heart was full of gratitude.
It was the experience of facing difficulties that made him stronger and more courageous.
"Climb the mountain in my heart, so I won't be afraid of the next climb." This is Guo Jiacheng's understanding of growth.
Since then, Guo Jiacheng will gain "new feelings" every time he patrols Boundary Marker No. 62.
Every time he stood on the top of the mountain and looked at the rolling snow-capped mountains, he knew that only border guards could appreciate the scenery in front of him, and that was a gift of perseverance.
Overcoming the highest altitude of youth, this may be the meaning of "arrival".
The special taste of sentry moon cakes——
Staying in a difficult place, happiness is easy
A ray of morning glow jumped out of the mountain col and shone on the open space in front of the guard post. The sun was dazzling, Liang Yixin poked her head, squinted her eyes and looked towards the end of the road.
After breakfast, this is the third time for instructor Liang Yixin to go out.
The company supplies are sent to the outpost every two weeks.
The lanes of the sentry are many and narrow, and some sections of the road are covered with ice all year round. Every time the transport vehicle goes to the sentry, the heart of the company's "big leader" hangs.
"The brothers in the company are all a family, don't worry about it being a fake!" After learning on the phone that the car would be there after another turn, Liang Yixin hurriedly summoned the staff at the outpost to greet him.
Pvt. Dobobo was a little excited, and he was looking forward to it for a long time at this moment.
The transport truck brought supplies, as well as the most scarce things in this lonely snow-capped mountain-news from outside the mountain, and concerns from afar.
"Unpacking" is the happiest thing in the hearts of the officers and soldiers at the outpost.
The package can be received before the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the words of the officers and soldiers, "it is like digging a treasure, there is a special surprise."
Staying in a difficult place, happiness is an easy thing.
"Every time I receive a package, I am satisfied. It feels like it can last for several days." Liang Yixin said as she opened the carton in her hand.
This time, he received the long-awaited express delivery of love as he wished—a big pack of snacks sent by his girlfriend Zhu Ruoxi from Chengdu.
Zhu Ruoxi and Liang Yixin are middle school classmates. They walked out of their hometown in Sichuan together. One was admitted to a military academy in Henan and the other was admitted to a university in Chengdu.
Since joining the military academy, receiving parcels is the moment Liang Yixin looks forward to most: "The school is strictly controlled. It is not easy for me to go out. There are time limits for answering the phone. Zhu Ruoxi will send me a parcel every time he misses me in Chengdu. ."
In Liang Yixin’s mobile phone, there are still all kinds of photos of the package, including T-shirts, watches, snacks, and "Polaroid" cameras... You can feel a strong feeling of love across the screen of the phone. Bashing.
That year, from Chengdu to Henan, a package could travel for more than half a month. Zhu Ruoxi often joked on the phone: "The path that our package walks can circle the earth a few times."
Liang Yixin's WeChat profile picture is a picture of a moon cake.
It was the Mid-Autumn Festival of a year. Zhu Ruoxi took a special leave to visit Liang Yixin. When the two went to the hotel to participate in a handmade moon cake making experience, they made moon cakes by themselves.
"The taste of mooncakes is the taste of reunion." That time, the childhood sweethearts made a solemn decision to hold hands for a lifetime.
After graduating from university, Liang Yixin rushed to Tibet's border defense, with Zhu Ruoxi's support and understanding of him, and with the dream of reunion that the two adhered to.
A few years have passed, and every Mid-Autumn Festival, Liang Yixin can receive moon cakes from Zhu Ruoxi from Chengdu.
Liang Yixin said that they have planned the time for the wedding-just next year's Mid-Autumn Festival.
"Moon cakes are so sweet." Dobobo stuffed a moon cake into the reporter's hand, smiling like a child.
He took out his cell phone and showed the reporter the moon cakes he had just ordered online: "Send the moon cakes to my parents."
Dobobo remembers that when he was away from home, his mother stuffed his favorite rice candy in his bag.
When the last piece of rice candy was finished, the young man shed tears.
Now in the snow-capped mountains, he has a new dream: when he is on vacation, he will take his parents "flying" to Guizhou to see Baili Rhododendron.
20 years old, the age when everything is possible.
"I will open a moon cake shop in the future, and it will be called'post moon cakes'." When he arrived at the post, Daubbo once heard the veteran say that the moon cakes at the post were particularly sweet.
After staying at the outpost for a few months, he truly understood the deep meaning behind the words of the veteran—the taste of mooncakes at the outpost is the taste of home; eating mooncakes with his comrades is the taste of reunion.
Sergeant Gao Peng would never forget the moon cakes he had eaten with his comrades on the border line.
On that day, Gao Peng and his comrades who were out on patrol encountered wind and snow at a pass, and they were trapped in a cave.
Several people lit a bonfire and shared a piece of moon cake together...
At this moment, while eating moon cakes with everyone, Gao Peng's eyes again appeared in front of the Mid-Autumn Festival's wind and snow, and the campfire in the cave.
"At the post, I have eaten the most flavorful moon cakes." The taste of moon cakes at the post is the taste of life.
Every night can be Mid-Autumn Festival—
Close the moon on the top of your head, just for the better homeland behind you
About to leave the team, Gao Peng was reluctant to bear everything in the post.
Gao Peng took the initiative to "transfer positions" with his comrades, and he took all responsibility for the most sleepy time in the wee hours of the morning.
He understands that sticking under the moon at the outpost will be the "cleanest memory" in his life.
The guard post on duty is located in a clearing, with rolling snow-capped mountains in the distance, and a little farther away is the border defense line that officers and soldiers stare at every day.
Gao Peng stood guard for the first time on such a moonlit night.
The moon like a silver plate made the squad leader Wang Pu's figure taller and taller.
Under his leadership, Gao Peng held a steel gun and stood erect.
When the temperature dropped to freezing point and the cold wind blew, Wang Pu turned around and tightened his collar for Gao Peng.
Looking at the moon, Gao Peng, who stood guard for the first time, felt the inheritance of perseverance and the sacredness of perseverance.
At that time, the young people in the city liked a popular song "The Moon at the Time".
Before joining the army, Gao Peng often sang this song on KTV with his high school classmates.
When he thought of the lyrics "The moon at that time/whose heart used to represent", standing a distant sentry post, he gradually had an answer in his heart-the soldier's persistence belongs to the motherland, and the moon above his head is just for the better homeland behind him.
"If I didn't stay here, I wouldn't understand why the moon is bright, the mountains and rivers are magnificent, and the border defense line is sacred." Gao Peng wrote in the first letter to his family.
At this remote outpost, a squad of officers and soldiers persevered in the inheritance, and also passed on in the perseverance.
That day, Corporal Wu Zhengxian went to the sentry for the first time.
His squad leader Gao Peng said earnestly, standing on the sentry post, you can feel the weight of responsibility on the shoulders of the soldiers.
The first time I stood on the night post, there was silence around me. In this battle position more than 5,500 meters above sea level, I could not hear the chirping of birds, beasts and insects at night, and there was only the whistling wind in my ears.
At noon the next day, Wu Zhengxian left a message to his girlfriend on WeChat: "In the quiet night on the top of the mountain, I can see you in the distance, as if guarding your sleep."
Guardian, because of responsibility.
Wu Zhengxian gradually discovered that in the "big school" of the army, he understood more about responsibility and responsibility. "If you look at the moon at the post, you will understand the weight of the land under your feet."
This year, Wu Zhengxian went to the company to participate in the training of drone operators.
He became the first batch of drone operators in the company with his excellent assessment results.
Before going to the sentry this time, Wu Zhengxian took the drone and followed the company's comrades to participate in another sentry patrol.
It was a low altitude point. The drone successfully captured an image of a patrolling blind spot. In the past, to reach these "dead spots", comrades in arms often had to go around for several hours.
"I don't think this soldier is in vain if he can give full play to his skills and expertise and do something for the company on duty." Wu Zhengxian said.
There is also veteran Wu Jie who also feels his own value.
Climbing the Lambala Pass, Wu Jie took a picture of a glacier with his mobile phone.
He sent the photo to his wife Zeng Youhua: "This year's Mid-Autumn Festival coincides with your birthday, and I still can't go home..." What didn't say it was the internal debt of the veteran.
Zeng Youhua on the other side of the phone's eyes flushed suddenly.
She knows that if her husband is not a soldier, she can hold hands with him to enjoy the moon at this moment; on every stormy night, he will come to pick himself up from get off work.
Zeng Youhua knows better that she is a military sister-in-law and must support her husband with her shoulders.
This border guard wife has not been reunited with her husband for almost a year.
She spent the Mid-Autumn Festival last year and the Mid-Autumn Festival the year before last with her parents.
Last year, Wu Jie sent home a third-class merit certificate.
Zeng Youhua put the certificate in the cupboard in the living room. This is the honor of her husband, and it is her honor.
A colleague asked Zeng Youhua: "What does your husband do? Why don't you keep seeing him come to pick you up?" Zeng Youhua said, "The place my husband guards is far and high. There are towering snow-capped mountains and bright galaxies. He is a guard for the motherland."
"I will be wherever the motherland wants me to stay!" With the support of his wife, Wu Jie chose to continue to stay at the foothills of the Himalayas.
At the beginning of this year, Wu Jie was named one of the “ten most moved people who are loyal to defending borders” in the Shigatse Military Division.
As a military wife, Zeng Youhua was invited to the company to participate in the award ceremony.
That reunion night is not Mid-Autumn Festival better than Mid-Autumn Festival.
Instructor Liang Yixin, with his comrades Guo Jiacheng, Dao Bobo, and Gao Peng, celebrated the "Reunion Festival" with Wu Jie and his wife.
This time reunion is so precious.
The dishes on the table were fried by the comrades themselves. The bananas and apples were sent to the sentry specially by the company; the pots of succulents on the windowsill were brought by Zeng You from his hometown all the way; and the smiling faces of the officers and soldiers were so. So sincere and so clear...
Picking up the cup full of drinks, Zeng Youhua said: "If I hadn't come here, I couldn't imagine the hardship here; if I hadn't come here, I wouldn't have experienced the'warmth' here."
For soldiers and military members who have the motherland in their hearts and love, every night is Mid-Autumn Festival, a warm day and a day of reunion!