A mountain, a home ■ PLA Daily reporter Chen Xiaojing A cartoon created by Liu Junlan, a military sister-in-law. The dawn shone on the forest path. The road extends to the distance. Ahead, there is an open road near the sea, and the breath of the sea comes to my face. A dog chased the footsteps of a couple. Every such early morning, the couple would go out to patrol the line with the sound of birds. They stopped at the edge of the cliff and looked at the sunrise on the sea together. The Beishan post behind them is bathed in the sea breeze and sunshine with them. Year after year, the days are as plain as water. For the couple guarding the sentry, staff sergeant Zhao Keke and his wife Liu Junlan, the thousands of meters of patrol road and the mountain, as well as the cave on the mountain, are the watchmen engraved in their hearts. All this has become a part of their lives. The mountain is not high above the sea. It takes only twenty or thirty minutes to patrol along the road. The couple usually separate at the entrance of the cave. Liu Junlan went down the mountain along the road, and their daughter was still sleeping in the post. After carefully telling his wife a few words, Zhao Keke, a storekeeper, bowed his head and turned around and walked into the cave. With the faint light of the flashlight, he began his first patrol inspection of the day. The stove was steaming, and the dishes and chopsticks on the table were placed neatly. At this moment, the sentry post was filled with the smell of home. Wake up her daughter, tidy up the housework, go down the mountain to buy vegetables, go up the mountain to carry vegetables... Everything is due to the choice nine years ago. In order to support her husband to guard the sentry, Liu Junlan quit her job as an art teacher in the county despite the dissuasion of her relatives and friends and moved into the sentry post in the mountain. Liu Junlan gave Zhao Keke a home. With each other's company, life is not bitter. In my memory, every time I return from a task, Zhao Keke's eyes are no longer cold walls and cold stoves, but his wife's smile, his daughter's hug and the warmth of the family together. It is these warm drops that make the veterans who have been guarding the mountain for many years forget the ice, snow and cold between the mountains and the sea, and the wind and rain on the way home; Forget the hardship of guarding the mountains and watching the sea, and stay away from the loneliness of prosperity. When he was a teenager, the veteran cherished his dream and adhered to the distance in his heart. In the years with his wife, he gradually understood that those dreams were the mountains and seas and the long road in front of him. Keep watch, so that the distance is no longer far away, and the dream shines into reality. You keep the mountain, I keep you - this is the husband and wife's commitment to each other and their determined happy life. The road goes farther and farther, and the warmth is consistent. Occasionally in her spare time, Liu Junlan would paint the scenery of the post with a pen. Years are like water. Under her delicate strokes, "the mountains are beautiful at first, then they are like high walls, and finally they become a family". After years of creation, she focused on different landscapes. "Watching the 'home' of Beishan" is an eternal theme, just as she decided when she went up the mountain: watching his watch, the years are not long. The mountain and the post: the watch engraved in the heart ■ Li muqiang, Wang Yuanbin, Lu Yun Beishan post is located on a hill near the Bohai Sea. The mountain is unknown. The mountain is to the north of the camp, hence the name "Beishan". The mountain is silent and the post is nameless. The officers and men are on duty at the sentry post, responsible for pipeline patrol, hole warning and oil receiving and distribution duty. In his 20s, Zhao Keke, a storekeeper, went to the post for the first time and stayed on the mountain for half a month. In 2013, as the oldest soldier of the company, Zhao Keke made a decision: go up the mountain and guard the Treasury. From then on, he took the Beishan post as his home. This year, Zhao Keke's wife quit her job in the county, carried her luggage and followed her husband up the mountain. Keeping watch with her husband, the scenery of four seasons in the mountains and a patrol path have become their daily life. Zhao Keke and his wife Liu Junlan patrol in the mountains. Post · home country Wake up her sleeping daughter Tiantian, take care of her, wash and have breakfast, and then lead her out of the gate of the post. Outside the door, there is a flat open space, where Zhao Keke has been waiting for them. It's Monday, April 11. For the Zhao Keke family, this is also the most important day of the week. The wind was very strong. The five-star red flag held by Zhao Keke was blown by the wind, and Liu Junlan beside him carefully smoothed it. Then she and her daughter watched her husband walk to the flagpole with a five-star red flag. Tiantian, who is 9 years old, looks taller than children of the same age. Accompanied by her mother, the little girl looked up and watched the red take off in her father's hand. Liu Junlan leaned down and gently said to her daughter, "son, do you know why we should stay on the mountain?" Tian Tian nodded seriously and looked at the national flag above her head. Her clear eyes flashed bright light. This scene, young sweet has experienced many times. Since the day I remember, my father took their mother and daughter and raised the five-star red flag in front of the post every week. Dad told his daughter that the national flag is the symbol of the country. Only by raising the five-star red flag in our hearts can we understand why we should watch here. My daughter reached school age last year. The county primary school is located dozens of kilometers away. The road is far away. The little girl can only live in school and return home once a week. Every Monday, Tiantian goes down the mountain. In order to let her daughter participate in the flag raising ceremony at the post, the husband and wife have to get up before dawn every day. Stationed in the mountains, the day never slowed down. After the flag raising, Liu Junlan and Tian Tian immediately set off down the mountain and took a bus to the bus station. This trip to school will take more than an hour. To this end, the army leaders suggested that Liu Junlan let her take her daughter to live in the county. She was worried about her husband who was guarding the sentry down the mountain: "guarding the sentry is his business, guarding him is my business, and it's not a matter for the child to suffer." In Liu Junlan's view, guarding the sentry is the common responsibility of the whole family. She said to Tian Tian, "it's not a bad thing to learn to bear hardships early." Last year's National Day holiday, Tiantian's primary school held a composition competition. She wrote the composition "guarding the mountain in Beishan". That time, the whole school knew the girl who grew up at the post. On the eve of the Spring Festival last year, Tiantian's primary school organized teachers' home visits. Head teacher Wang Li climbed up the mountain and walked into Tiantian's "home in Beishan". He took out the sweet "all eugenics" certificate from his backpack and looked at the smiling face of the husband and wife. The teacher gently wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled. Zhao Keke inspected the cavern carefully. Choice and responsibility In Liu Junlan's understanding, guarding the post is guarding the home. In Zhao Keke's heart, keeping watch is a responsibility. "Now that you have chosen to go up the mountain, you should shoulder this responsibility." Zhao Keke can never forget the words of the monitor of that year. In the early spring of 2013, guard veteran Wang Gang was about to take off his military uniform. The cavern on the mountain is an important duty point of the company. In the past, technical backbones have been on duty in turn. That year, Zhao Keke, who was already a sergeant, became the backbone of custody technology and has been participating in line patrol inspection with veterans. Once, after being overhauled from the cave, Zhao Keke was called to the office by the instructor. At that time, he was just married, and his wife Liu Junlan was a teacher in the county. The couple were still planning to put their home in the county next. Monitor Wang Gang had no intention of leaving the team. Unexpectedly, his father was seriously ill and bedridden. The night he heard the news, he found Zhao Keke: "I have decided to retire from the army. You know the technology and do things reliably. I can rest assured that you keep the post..." One side is the "master"'s entrustment, the company's expectation, and the other is the wife's reunion expectation. After tossing and turning all night, Zhao Keke chose to "go up the mountain and guard the sentry". Early the next morning, he handed a "sentinel application" to Shi's teaching director. Zhao xiatong walked out of the room anxiously and looked at the sky no longer. "Every time you choose, you should give yourself a sufficient reason that you won't regret." On the phone, she learned that her husband chose to stay at Beishan post for a long time. Although she didn't understand it, Liu Junlan knew that respecting her husband's choice was the greatest support for him. It was not easy for a person to "stay at the outpost" - at that time, there was no mobile phone signal in Beishan, the outpost was connected with the outside world only by one phone, and the transportation of materials needed to be carried by hand and shoulder. Stay alone on the mountain and go down the mountain once a week. The husband on the mountain affects the heart of his wife. "All the posts are good." I call my husband every day and hear words of relief. At the thought of the conditions on the mountain, Liu Junlan was burning with anxiety. After a heavy rain, the telephone line on the mountain broke down. Worried about the sudden cooling in the mountains, her husband had few clothes to keep out the cold. The next morning, she went up the mountain with a cotton padded jacket and quilt on her back. This is the first time Liu Junlan set foot on the post. She found that the post was not the "paradise" described by her husband. "There is a ditch between two peaks, and the house is built in the ditch." Beishan post, located in the canyon, is windy, humid and cold. After guarding the post for more than a month, Liu Junlan almost couldn't recognize her husband. "People are thin and black.". Reaching out to touch the quilt, a layer of moisture, she sat on the bed painfully, tears flowing. Zhao Keke grinned: "it's quiet here. It's good here." The husband has always been introverted. In the past, he used to "ask and answer". Thinking of her future life, Liu Junlan was even more worried. On the way down the mountain, her heart was not the taste. After a night of repeated thinking, she went to the leader at dawn to explain the idea of "going to the sentry to take care of her husband's life". A week later, the superior approved Liu Junlan's request. After receiving the news, she began to pack clothes and materials, and contacted several comrades in arms to help "move". That day, watching the "brigade" carrying materials up the mountain, Zhao Keke knew that his wife had quit her job and the house rented in the county had also quit. He wholeheartedly moved to the post to take care of himself. He was deeply moved by his wife's behavior. From then on, I have to follow myself to suffer in the mountains. Zhao Keke's heart is also a little mixed; Remembering that he and his wife would no longer have to "keep one on the mountain and the other at the foot of the mountain", he was full of expectation. Flag raising ceremony at Beishan post. Photo by Li Jiajiu Company · warmth The night is the hardest on guard days. In the first year of sentry duty, the power supply on the mountain has not been connected. At night, the mountain wind blew, and the sound of the forest made Liu Junlan dare not stay at the post alone. Zhao Keke goes out to patrol the line late every night, and Liu Junlan will go out with him. There was still a dirt road under my feet. In rainy and snowy weather, my shoes and socks were wet. The post is wet. After washing clothes and shoes, sometimes they can't dry for several days. The villagers selling vegetables nearby, no one wants to carry the vegetables up the mountain. Liu Junlan went down the mountain to buy vegetables every day and wore out a pair of shoes in a few days. "I always think it takes too much shoes..." now recalling the difficulty of going to the sentry at first, Liu Junlan said with a smile. There was another night patrol with her husband. Liu Junlan followed Zhao Keke. When the snow melted in early spring, the road was covered with a layer of ice. She slipped and fell on the hillside, and her calf was scratched with blood by the barbed wire. The next morning, she got up quietly and left a note to her husband: "go down the mountain to deal with the wound and buy vegetables." That afternoon, she returned to the post with a basket of vegetables on her back, but Zhao Keke "scolded": "why don't you let me accompany you down the mountain to see a doctor? There's nothing missing at home, so you don't have to carry vegetables every day..." Tears of grievance burst into her eyes, and Liu Junlan choked for a long time. That day, Zhao Keke also shed tears. Also after that, the couple