"Ho! The patrol has grown again!" On February 5, in the early morning of the fifth day of the lunar new year, braving the severe cold of more than minus 30 degrees Celsius, the military civilian joint patrol team of a border defense company of the army in the northern theater set foot on the ice and Snow Patrol road. In the joint patrol team, there are not only border officers and soldiers, but also college students, township cadres and "old border guards" over 60. Small fishing villages at the border have deep military and civilian friendship. The border defense company is stationed in bacha village, bacha Hezhe Township, Tongjiang City, Heilongjiang Province. Over the years, the officers and soldiers of the company have forged a strong feeling of fish and water with the Hezhe people and jointly guarded the peace and tranquility of the border. During the Spring Festival, they joined hands to patrol and protect the border, which is also an old tradition that the army and the people have adhered to for more than 40 years. The officers and soldiers of the company participated in the "Winter Fishing Festival" with the Hezhe people "The small fishing village is our home!" Uncle Li Benhua, who is at the forefront of the team, took the initiative to become a voluntary border guard at the age of 22 and has worked for decades. In 2019, bacha village was successfully lifted out of poverty with the joint efforts of the company and the villagers. Li Benhua's children went out of the fishing village and did a prosperous business in the urban area. They repeatedly proposed to take him to the city to enjoy his old age. However, Li Benhua never entered the city. He has always adhered to the border line with the officers and soldiers, and has become the largest edge guard of "edge age". There are many border guards like Li Benhua. Walking on the familiar patrol Road, Jing Rui, a border guard, was delighted to see that the roads in the small fishing village were getting wider and higher, and the houses were getting higher and higher. "The village has changed a lot." As the first "female champion" in the village, Jing Rui came back to be a village cadre after graduating from university and took the initiative to sign up to join the team of border guards. Even if she later worked in the village, she still didn't give up her "special" position in the village and was praised as "border Mulan" by officers and soldiers. "Water is active, trees have roots." Referring to the reason for joining the volunteer border guard team, Wang Jiabin, a college student border guard who set foot on the patrol road for the first time, said two words without hesitation: gratitude. In the days of preparing for the college entrance examination last year, company cadres and college students took the initiative to be Wang Jiabin's tutor and buy him teaching aids... With the help of officers and soldiers, Wang Jiabin was admitted to Harbin Normal University. As soon as the winter vacation, he came to the company to report for duty and applied to join the volunteer border guard team. Over the years, although the officers and soldiers of the company have changed one crop after another, the student assistance activities have never stopped. In the team, like Wang Jiabin, there are 8 college students who serve as border guards when they return to the village on vacation. Because they can go back to the village to protect the border only on holidays, they are affectionately called "migratory bird" border guards. Speaking of gratitude, Wang Haizhu, the border guard at the back of the team, can't forget the scene when the company officers and soldiers helped her plan and contact to open an online store. Now, she is the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Hezhe fish skin painting. She took more than 20 Hezhe people in the village to Zhifu road and joined the team of border guards. The officers and soldiers of the company participated in the "Winter Fishing Festival" with the Hezhe people Walking on the patrol Road, the patrol members carefully record the observation all the way. "Aimin road", "drainage ditch to help the people" and "green belt for the convenience of the people"... As far as you can see, you can see the deep love of fish and water everywhere, and the hearts of the army and the people working together to protect the edge are closely linked. "Everyone is an informant, everyone is a border guard, and every family is on duty", which has become the "frontier song" of bacha village in the Spring Festival. (Mei Shixiong, Chi Bo, Liu Baorui) [News Agency]