In the capital in spring, the sky is often full of wind and sand.

The wind swept up the gray-green tidbits of poplar trees on both sides of the road, and blew them away, sprinkling them with joy;

The red and white flowers of the mountain peach trees in the landscape belt on both sides of the road are also blooming, swaying in the spring breeze, and dancing in the tidbits of poplars.

The chill has completely faded, and although the spring breeze is strong, it feels warm and refreshing.

The air is filled with the scent of fresh earth and the fresh smell of grass in the greenery.

One weekend afternoon, I was working overtime in the project office to design a schematic when the security guard walked in to inform me that someone outside the gate had come to me by name.

With permission, the security guard brought in a soldier in uniform.

I was surprised, I didn't know anyone coming.

The soldier is tall, with a Chinese face and a dignified appearance, he seems to have just rushed a lot of roads, dusty, and his face is full of tiredness.

"You're a comrade of a great power, aren't you?" As soon as he entered the door, under the guidance of the security guard, he strode towards me, his voice was loud, but his voice was a little hoarse.

I nodded.

"I am Dagang's comrade-in-arms, and I am entrusted by Dagang to visit you."

"It turns out that he is Dagang's colleague!".

Although I was still confused and didn't know the purpose of his visit, when I heard Dagang's name, my heart immediately felt very warm, and at the same time I stood up and politely stretched out my hand to shake his hand.

He didn't shake my hand, but instead gave me a standard military salute.

I was a little surprised by such a solemn way of communicating.

Standing there, a little at a loss.

The soldier's visit reminded me that I have been busy recently, and I really haven't bothered to contact Dagang for a while.

"Dagang has been doing well lately, isn't he? You see, I've been busy for a while, I haven't been back to my hometown, and the two of us haven't seen each other for a while. He has just enlisted in the army, so he should still be able to adapt to life in the army, right? I handed him a glass of water and began to notice that the military uniform he was wearing was an armed police uniform, reconfirming his identity as a colleague with Dagang.

He looked solemn and did not answer my greeting directly.

After taking the water and drinking it all, it seems that my judgment is correct, he should have traveled a long way and just arrived in the capital.

"Comrade Daguo, Dagang and I are fellow villagers in the city, and we have been working together since joining the army, which is an honor, and I have often heard him talk about you in the past."

After drinking the water, the soldier took a breath and his expression eased slightly.

"Really? Dagang is my high school classmate and fellow countryman, we have always been best friends, and I am glad to hear you say that. ”

I glanced at him, and the conversation brought us closer to each other, and the honest and sturdy appearance of the soldier made people feel very friendly.

"Comrade Daguo, I just came to Beijing from the city to look for you because the incident happened suddenly, and I must report an urgent message to you in person!"

The solemn and solemn expression of the soldier frightened me.

I felt a faint sense of unease, and a sense of foreboding arose.

"Is your message about Dagang?" , I cautiously guessed and asked politely.

"Yes, it's about Comrade Dagang."

There was a sad tone in his tone that was diametrically opposed to the previous conversation.

"Da Gang, he ...... What happened to him? After I confirmed my judgment, the sudden change in my facial expression made me more and more nervous.

"Dagang he, he died gloriously in the process of performing a mission the day before yesterday!" After that, the soldier's eyes were full of tears, and his resolute face twitched violently twice, as if he had been preparing for a long time to say this, but such cruel words still made him a little unpredictable after saying it.

From the expression on his face before he spoke, I vaguely guessed the worst outcome.

After such sad information was confirmed, I preferred to believe it rather than believe it.

Even though I was mentally prepared for 10,000 bad things to happen, his news still shocked me.

For a moment, I felt like I had been struck by lightning, and I stood still against the workbench, frozen, unable to move.

I subconsciously stared at the soldier's mouth, how I wished that his mouth would move again, either to retract what he had just said, or to change the shape of his mouth again, and by the way, to completely change such a cruel message and turn it into an inconsequential message!

However, the corners of the soldier's tough mouth did not reveal another word, and he did not even move again.

I leaned forward and stood there desperately in my chair, speechless for a while.

"Ah, my dearest friend, my best friend, my most sincere confidant!

How so?

How so? ”

God, why are you always so cruel to me?!

You deprived me of the right to love and now take my best friend?

Are you going to take everything from me?

......

"Why?" I didn't know how to organize my language anymore, mechanically, muttering to the soldier on the other side.

"What's going on?"

"Dagang, what happened to him?"

......

The soldier didn't respond to me for a long time, as if he was thinking about the whole incident, and he seemed to be organizing the language to tell such bad news more tactfully.

"I was in the city hospital yesterday, and after seeing him off, I was asked by him to come to Beijing to find you." , he calmed down a bit, and his tone returned to calm.

"I know, Comrade Daguo, you are his good friend, and this is what Da Gang told me many times before his death."

"Da Gang..... He..... What happened to him? I asked again.

"It's a long story.....

The corners of his mouth twitched violently twice again, and he continued:

"Our squadron went out together the day before yesterday to carry out a mission, to deal with a traffic accident on the highway, in the process of dealing with the accident, Dagang was in the process of saving people, he was seriously injured, after the accident, we immediately sent him to the city hospital for rescue, but unfortunately could not be saved."

It can be seen that while restraining their sadness, the soldiers are trying to recall the tragic accident scene they have just experienced and the tragic heroic deeds of Dagang.

He told me what had happened, and his face was ugly.

"Comrade, can you sit down and rest? Let's talk slowly. Little by little, my consciousness returned to normal, and I felt the great sadness of the loss of his best friend and comrade-in-arms, and moved a chair for him.

In the face of the hero, my heart is full of admiration.

The soldier sat down with a sad expression.

"Da Gang and I enlisted in the army at the same time, and since I joined the army, we have been living in the same dormitory, and we are basically in the same group every time we carry out a mission."

"Dagang is very optimistic and pragmatic, the whole fire brigade likes him very much, and he is also my best comrade-in-arms."

"The day before yesterday, we received a police notice that a car from the city to the direction of the capital had a rollover accident, and the team was required to send someone to the scene for rescue."

The soldier began to tell me about the whole incident, and his expression was painful.

"Dagang and I belong to the technical support group, we rushed to the scene as soon as possible, and found that the situation at the scene of the car accident was more complicated and urgent, a car rolled over into the high-speed isolation belt, the body of the car was seriously deformed, and there was a danger of explosion and fire at any time."

"At that time, the plan formulated by the on-site commander was to rescue the wounded first and rescue the trapped people."

"There were five people in the car plus the driver, and a child, the driver had died on the spot, so we first demolished the vehicle and rescued a passenger who was stuck in the co-pilot."

"Originally, according to Dagang's medical professional skills, the team arranged him in the technical support group, but he was only responsible for bandaging the wounded, treating wounds, and judging the rescue plan, and he did not need to go to the front line to participate in the rescue."

However, when he heard that there was another child trapped in the back seat, he rushed to the front line of rescue desperately.

I listened to his narration silently, and in front of me it was like a movie, showing Dagang's heroic feats at the scene of the incident, he rushed to the front in order to save the child, this is the most real Dagang I know.

The soldier paused, his hoarseness seemed to worsen, he put down the cup in his hand and stood up, looking anxious.

He coughed and continued.

"I wanted to hold him at the time, but the incident happened suddenly and the situation at the scene was urgent, so I didn't hold him, so I rushed up with him."

"Dagang is very professional, he rescued the child in a very short time, pulled out the child, handed it to me, I was holding the child and turned around, I heard him shout "Lily!" I realized that Da Gang should know the other person trapped in the car, the woman who had been holding her child, she was covered by the child's body, and after the child was pulled out, she was completely exposed, and the woman was called Lily."

Hearing this, my heart felt like someone was being grabbed so hard that I couldn't breathe.

He continued.

At that time, there were two comrades who were involved in the rescue, and I heard a comrade-in-arms shouting, "Retreat quickly, it will explode immediately!" ”。”

"That's exactly what happened."

"At this time, the position of the engine in the front of the vehicle has begun to catch fire, the fire is spreading quickly, and the situation at the scene is very critical!"

"I hurriedly carried the child rescued by Da Gang to a safe position, and went back to reach out to pull Da Gang, afraid that he was too focused at the time and didn't hear the retreat order, so I pulled him because I wanted to retreat with him."

The other two comrades had been evacuated to a safe area as ordered, and at the same time they were trying to control the fire, but Dagang did not evacuate as requested, on the contrary, he seemed to have lost the common sense of a professional fire rescue fighter at that time, and put himself in complete danger, he climbed into the car and tried to cut the seat belt of the woman named Lily and drag her out of the car. I could see clearly that the harness was wrapped around Lily's arm and she couldn't get out. ”

......

"The accident happened at this time, the vehicle exploded violently, and Dagang was thrown out by the explosion and was seriously injured."

The military man's voice grew lower and lower.

"Did the woman named Lily finally get out?"

I asked softly, sad.

"It's a pity that Dagang's sacrifice didn't get her life back, she was severely burned, and she ...... on the spot, alas, it's a pity!"

The soldier could not continue to speak, and two lines of tears were left on his steely face.

I watched him bend down in pain, sit down in his chair, bow his head, and be silent for a long time.

I can't know what he thought at that moment, but I know that this is not only a heroic feat, but also a heroic act of a man who stands up to the sky! A chivalrous act with affection and chivalrous tenderness!

"You just said that Da Gang entrusted you to come to me, did Da Gang say something to you before leaving?"

I asked him with a trembling voice and a choked voice.

"Da Gang was very peaceful when he left, and he asked me to tell you to take time to see him off."

My heart was sour, tears welled up, my dear brother, even if I have a thousand reasons, this request you made, I can satisfy it even if I die!

"He also made a small request."

"Say it." , I said softly.

"Da Gang said that he had repeated his studies with you in the county, and there are apricot trees all over the mountains on the back hill of your old county middle school repeater class, and now is the day when the apricot blossoms are in full bloom, and he wants you to go back and pick a cluster of apricot blossoms for him, he said that he likes the taste of his hometown the most, and he said that it is also Lily's favorite flower."

I nodded in agreement, tears pouring down my face.

Six years ago in the spring, Da Gang fell hopelessly in love with Lily on the day when the apricot blossoms were in full bloom.

Now, also in the spring, this love has become an eternity.

"According to the arrangements in the fire brigade and with the consent of Comrade Dagang's family, we plan to hold a farewell ceremony for the heroic comrades at one o'clock in the afternoon in two days. The soldier stood up, straightened his uniform, and gave me a standard military salute again.

"I'll definitely participate." I stood up and sent him out.

Outside the office, a military vehicle was parked, and the military vehicle was covered with a shallow layer of dust all the way.

He walked in, and after the car started, it quickly disappeared into the bustling traffic of the capital.

A gust of wind and sand blew.

In the air, there was a faint fragrance of apricot blossoms with the taste of home.