Hunan sister Song Shi and her husband are thousands of miles away, and on the occasion of the "March 8" Women's Day, I understand the dedication of a military wife-
The Karakoram bears witness to our "clear love".
Song Shi's happy family. Photo by correspondent.
Hunan**Quan**Reporter Sha Zhaohua.
Correspondent: Yang Xinxin.
In March, the border city in western Hunan was full of spring, and the place where her husband was standing guard was still frozen for thousands of miles.
This year, I had the opportunity to visit her husband in the border area, and Song Shi, the military sister-in-law of the border town of Huayuan County, began to prepare early. This time, she plans to bring some bacon and sausages from her hometown, as well as cultural and creative products from the 18th Cave, so that her husband and comrades-in-arms can feel the delicious and cultural charm from Miao Township.
I hope that day will come sooner rather than later. On March 6, in the face of the interview, Song Shi said with great anticipation that it had been more than 2 years since the last reunion of the husband and wife.
Karakoram, the westernmost point of the motherland, with an average altitude of more than 5,000 meters, and her husband, who served as an instructor, was stationed on the border defense line of the "forbidden area of life".
Her husband is a young man from Henan, and when she talked about the experience of falling in love, Song Shi opened sweet memories. It was in 2012, her husband served as a freshman military training instructor at Changsha Normal University, Song Shi was a senior in college at the time, and she was a freshman with a class, the two fell in love at first sight and started a 7-year love run, during which her husband was transferred to the frontier, and Song Shi returned to his hometown after graduation. In 2019, with the blessing of relatives and friends, the two entered the marriage hall in Huayuan County.
We didn't have a honeymoon, and on the day of the wedding he received an urgent notice ordering him to return to the army immediately. Early the next morning, there was still a festive scene of firecracker crumbs on the ground, so Song Shi hurriedly put her husband on the bus.
The soldiers who choose to fight on the border have to give up the romance of the wind and snow, endure the loneliness of being separated from the two places, and the bitterness and helplessness of living independently. After getting married, Song Shi felt the difficulty of being "helpless" in life.
In 2020, the child was born, and she only stayed with her for 3 days of maternity leave, and her husband was urgently recalled. Not long after the child turned 100 days old, he was hospitalized for viral pneumonia, his husband who was on the task could not be contacted, his in-laws were far away, and during the epidemic, Song Shi silently took on everything alone for more than ten days.
Every reunion is precious, and I hope the holidays will be a little longer, a little longer. Song Shi said.
In December 2020, when she finally waited for the opportunity to visit relatives in the army, Song Shi decided to take her 10-month-old child to visit her husband, from Huaihua to Changsha, and then from Changsha to Urumqi, and arrived at her destination Yecheng County, Kashgar City 2 days later. When the couple was picked up, the husband, who had been waiting in the snow for hours, only choked up and said, "It's hard." This is the second time her husband has seen her after the child was born, and Song Shi saw that the strong longing made her steely husband seem at a loss and excited.
In the army for more than a month, Song Shi saw the eight characters of "clear love, only for China" written by the soldiers on the border with their lives, and in the sonorous oath of her husband and soldiers, Song Shi understood: "The motherland and the people are above all else. ”
Before he knew it, his son was about to turn 4 years old, and when others asked him, "What does Dad do?" He will proudly reply, "Daddy is the one who protects the flag!" "The son is also determined to be a policeman when he grows up, and he is also like a man at a young age, full of justice and responsibility.
The love is separated by mountains and seas, and mountains and seas can also be flat. Song Shi said that she and her children are her husband's powerful "back-up", and she wants Karakoram to witness that "clear love" is not only from the soldiers beside her, but also from the warriors' families who are far away from thousands of rivers and mountains.