On January 20, Cheng Fenglei's brother-in-law, Fang Guangming, was on a business trip to Xi'an to discuss equipment renewal with an electric power research institute. In the past two years, the director and party secretary of Huayuan Power Plant have invested a lot of energy in the transformation of ultra-clean emission of power generation equipment, and the power plant has invested more than 200 million yuan in equipment transformation, and the level of scientific and technological environmental protection has been greatly improved, and all the units that have been transformed have reached the ultra-clean emission standard.

When Fang Guangming saw Academician Zhong Nanshan's assertion that "there must be someone passing it on" on WeChat and TV, he had a hunch that the new crown pneumonia problem was very serious, and immediately took the high-speed train to Wuhan overnight.

Huayuan Power Plant is one of the largest thermal power plants in Hubei Province, with an installed capacity of 2.6 million kilowatts, accounting for half of Wuhan's total installed capacity, and is responsible for the city's important power generation and industrial steam supply tasks.

Fang Guangming graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology with a major in thermal and power engineering, and Cheng Fenghua is an alumnus. When Cheng Fenghua, a junior, and Fang Guangming, a freshman, competed on the court, both were attracted by each other's skills. Fang Guangming admired Cheng Fenghua, the captain of the football team, who was easy to attack and defend, daring to rush and commanding. Cheng Fenghua admired Fang Guangming's flexible footwork, rushing and fast, and he was like a clever and swift little leopard on the court. sympathized with each other, and the two became inseparable friends, and they became "iron buddies" by kicking football. In their spare time, they often play football together, drink beer, and are like brothers and sisters.

Fang Guangming was born in the countryside, and his family lives in Xiaohe Village, Linjiang Township, Gong'an County, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province. After going back and forth, not only did the friendship between the two further deepen, but also achieved an "unexpected gain" - fell in love with Cheng Fenghua's sister Cheng Shuang. So, when he had nothing to do, he ran to his house under the pretext of something.

Cheng Shuang also likes Fang Guangming's intelligence and cleverness, and the two secretly frowned, and soon fell in love. Cheng Fenghua saw that the two of them were "playing", so he pushed the boat along the river, and often said good things about Fang Guangming in front of his parents, which was recognized by the two old men, and finally became married and became "the good of Qin and Jin".

On the high-speed train back to Wuhan, Fang Guangming was leaning back on his seat and closing his eyes to recuperate, when suddenly a rapid mobile phone ringtone woke him up, and at first glance, it was the eldest brother Fang Xueming calling from his hometown, and his tone was hurried and flustered: "Guangming, where are you now?

"Big brother, I'm on the high-speed train back to Wuhan. What's the urgency?" Fang Guangming asked anxiously.

"My mother is not feeling well these days, maybe her condition has worsened. She is very worried about you, do you think you have time to come back in the past two days and accompany her for the New Year?"

"Big brother, the factory has been very busy recently, and I guess I won't be able to go home. So, I'll go back and discuss it with your brother and daughter-in-law Cheng Shuang, and I'll call you after I'm sure, okay?"

"Okay, try to take the time to go home, my mother misses you very much!" his brother told him repeatedly.

The eldest brother's words pulled Fang Guangming into distant memories. Fang Guangming lost his father when he was young, and it was his mother who pulled the brothers up and raised them with hard work. At that time, their brothers were all young, there was no labor force in the family, and the farm work in the fields was all done by their mothers. Sometimes, when I was so tired that I was doing my work, I would stand there and fall asleep, and then I would be awakened by a sudden start. Sometimes at night they make cloth shoes for their brothers under the lamp, and when they take the soles, they fall asleep. But the needlework in her hands did not stop, until the needle of the shoe pierced her finger, and she woke up in pain, and the blood flowed.

At that time, the whole family was struggling in the quagmire of poverty, and the mother squeezed money out of her teeth, and Fang Guangming went to college. In order to support his younger brother in school, he took the initiative to drop out of school and go home before graduating from middle school to help his mother do farm work......

Every time he thought of these hardships in the past, remembered his mother's hard and hard parenting, and remembered his brother's dedication, sacrifice and full support for him, Fang Guangming was sad and burst into tears.

Later, he got married and started a business, and he wanted to bring his mother to Wuhan to enjoy Qingfu and spend his old age in peace. However, my mother was accustomed to life in the countryside, and the neighbors got along well. After coming to the city, she was not familiar with the place, everyone went to work and school, she felt extremely lonely and depressed when she stayed at home alone, and she was very uncomfortable with city life.

Now, my mother is 81 years old, in her last years, and her health is not good, and she also had a major surgery to remove two-thirds of her stomach a few years ago, which can be described as a narrow escape.

The New Year is approaching, how much Fang Guangming wants to return to his mother, cheer up with her old man, talk about old things, and accompany her to spend a reunion year. However, since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety have been difficult to achieve, and now that the new crown epidemic has broken out, as the head of a factory, he must be in front of the command, stand up as a model, and lead the cadres and workers of the whole factory to fight the epidemic and ensure electricity safety. I can only bury my deep guilt for my mother in my heart!

It was half past ten in the evening when I got home. With a feeling of shame, he tentatively discussed with Cheng Shuang: "I just received a call from my eldest brother in the car, saying that my mother is sick and hopes that I can go back to see her old man and accompany her for a reunion year." But now that the epidemic is so serious, how can I get out of the way? So after thinking about it, I still want to ask you to go back to see the old man on my behalf, do you see if it's okay?"

Cheng Shuang is a very reasonable woman, she pondered for a while, and then readily agreed: "No problem." You have always been a busy person, but now that the new crown pneumonia epidemic has broken out, the factory is even more inseparable from you. So, I'll take my annual leave from the hospital tomorrow morning and go back to your hometown to see my mother. ”

Hearing Cheng Shuang say this, Fang Guangming was stunned for a moment, deeply moved by her thoughtfulness and kindness, he stretched out his arms and hugged Cheng Shuang tightly in his arms......

Early in the morning of the 21st, Fang Guangming drove straight to Huayuan Power Plant. At half past eight o'clock in the morning, he presided over an emergency meeting of the party committee of the plant to study the epidemic prevention and control work, immediately start the emergency plan, set up a leading group for epidemic prevention and control of the whole plant, and served as the leader of the leading group.

In order to ensure that the production personnel of the power plant are not infected during shift operation and equipment maintenance, he decisively decided to isolate all the more than 300 production personnel of the whole plant to the hotels around the power plant and implement closed management.

The power plant immediately set up 5 commandos of party members. At the brief flag-awarding ceremony, Fang Guangming made a mobilization speech full of passion: "Everyone must always remember that in addition to having a 'small self' in each of us, there should also be a 'big self' in our hearts, and in times of crisis, in extraordinary times, the 'big self' is the most important. Now, the country has reached a moment of crisis, and every one of our party members and cadres must first take the lead, have the courage to take responsibility, take the initiative, and always stand on the front line of epidemic prevention and control. At the same time, each of our party members must remember the solemn oath they swore under the banner of the bright red party, and truly 'do not forget the original intention and keep the mission in mind'. Now, it is time to test the critical moment of each of our party members, we must give full play to the role of each party branch as a fighting fortress, give full play to the vanguard and exemplary role of each party member, unite and lead the employees of the whole plant, ensure the safe power generation of the unit, ensure the supply of electricity and heat in Wuhan, let the party flag fly high on the front line of anti-epidemic and power protection, and jointly win this war without gunpowder!"

Fang Guangming has always been calm and stable in the face of things, and is good at foresight. As early as the beginning of January, he had a keen premonition that the epidemic storm might be coming. He took precautions, made decisive decisions, and told the procurement department to urgently purchase epidemic prevention materials from all over the country. A total of 82,000 protective masks, 1,600 bottles of 84 disinfectants, 2,354 liters of medical alcohol, 340 protective clothing, and 180 temperature guns were purchased, making sufficient material reserves for epidemic prevention and control.

Fang Guangming knows that whether protective measures are in place is the key to winning the battle of epidemic prevention and control. According to the requirements he put forward at the meeting, the factory has adopted strict protection, disinfection, isolation and other epidemic prevention measures: comprehensive sanitize of public areas such as commuter cars, elevators, canteens, corridors and so on every day; operation personnel ensure "independence" and strictly separate from other personnel in eating, living and traveling; body temperature checks must be carried out when personnel enter the factory area every day; in order to avoid cross-infection caused by crowd gathering, all personnel implement a separate meal system...... In the anti-epidemic and power protection of the whole plant, a solid safety barrier has been built.

When he was eating at noon, Cheng Shuang called: "I have asked for leave from the hospital, and I will drive to your hometown in the afternoon." ”

"Thank you so much, my wife, you must pay attention to safety on the road, I wish you a smooth journey, and call me to report your safety when you get home." Fang Guangming advised.

As soon as he went to work in the afternoon, Fang Guangming put on a mask and a helmet, called Fu Chunsheng, the deputy director in charge of safety production, and led the personnel of the safety production supervision department to conduct a "dragnet" investigation on the important areas of epidemic prevention and control in the whole plant, the main and auxiliary equipment areas, etc., to check hidden dangers, plug loopholes, and make up for shortcomings, so as to ensure that every prevention and control measure is in place.

After inspecting the zero-meter floor, the 15-meter floor, the steam turbine platform, the coal storage yard, and the coal trestle, they came to the central control room of the power plant to learn about the power load and the operation of the unit.

Fang Guangming said to everyone: "The centralized control room is the center of the production of the whole plant, and it is also the most critical and important part of the anti-epidemic and power protection. ”

Director Liu of the operation department said: "Please rest assured, Director Fang, we have contacted two hotels in the surrounding area, and all the operation personnel on duty will be centrally isolated and closed. We promise to complete the task and ensure zero infection of operating personnel!"

Fang Guangming said: "That's good! In this case, let's go to these two hotels together to check and see how the situation is in all aspects." ”

After that, the group drove straight to the hotel for inspection.

Fang Guangming carefully inspected the accommodation conditions, catering supply and disinfection of the hotel, communicated with the person in charge of the hotel, and asked the hotel to provide safe and high-quality services to the isolated workers of the power plant......

When he returned home after work, Fang Guangming first checked the completion of his daughter Fang Zixuan's homework, and then hurriedly cooked and cooked meals for his daughter and himself.

Dinner started at seven o'clock in the evening, and the news broadcast had also begun to broadcast, at this time, Cheng Shuang made a video call to Fang Guangming: "Guangming, I drove from Wuhan at two o'clock in the afternoon, ran on the road for more than four hours, and arrived at your hometown safely at six o'clock. Mom's physical condition is generally okay, I just took her temperature, did a preliminary examination, except for the old stomach disease, there should be no major problems in other aspects, you don't have to worry. The main thing is that the old man is very concerned about you and wants you to come back and have a reunion with her. ”

"My wife has worked hard all the way, thank you so much!"

"Hey, the family doesn't talk to each other! You wait a minute, I'll hand over the phone to my mother, and you can video her old man. As he spoke, he handed over his phone.

Seeing her son who was thinking about her day and night in the video, the corners of her mother's mouth twitched a few times, and the words were already full of old tears: "Guangming, my son, why don't you come back to take a look, how good it is to go home and have a reunion together!

"Mother, I miss you too, and I want to go back to see you, I originally planned to go back to accompany you for the New Year, but recently, there was a new crown pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, the epidemic is serious, and there are a lot of things in the factory, I can't go home, I'm really sorry, please forgive me. Fang Guangming said as he spoke, tears filled his eyes.

"Son, my mother knows that it is not easy for you to be a factory director, and you are busy with work, so my mother doesn't blame you. It's just that my mother is now old, and her health is not good, and she is a person who is 'far away from the world and close to the earth', and she doesn't know how many years she can live in the world. Hey, my mother misses you very much, no matter how busy you are, you have to pay attention to your body!"

Fang Guangming choked up and said, "Mother, I will pay attention, you should also take care." I'll definitely come back to see you next time I have time. Tomorrow, let my daughter-in-law Cheng Shuang and my eldest brother accompany you to celebrate the New Year, and wish you a happy New Year, health and longevity!"

Looking at his aging mother and listening to the old man's entrustment, Fang Guangming was very ashamed and sad in his heart, and he could no longer suppress his emotions, and tears burst out of his eyes......