Following.

On the two flagpoles in front of the Dongfang Steam Turbine Plant, the party flag is on the left and the national flag is on the right.

Captain Luo stood in front of the queue, facing everyone, and his solemn and serious voice echoed around:

"Comrades, in a difficult environment, it is an excellent tradition of our party to review the oath of joining the party!

It was precisely by virtue of firm faith and unswerving devotion to the Party's program that our revolutionary forefathers devoted their lives to it!

Today, in this extremely testing environment, 108 soldiers, 62 party members, and probationary party members of the corps led 16 new comrades of the party to take the oath of joining the party! ”

After that, he turned around, pointed at the two high flags, and said in a loud voice:

"First, sing the Internationale!

Arise, hungry and cold slaves! ”

The following voices sounded together:

"Arise, hungry slaves!

"Arise, all the afflicted people of the world!

"The blood is boiling!

"Fight for the Truth......"

"The Internationale", a total of six stanzas, in our country is generally selected to sing the first, second, and sixth stanzas, respectively, "Arise, hungry and cold slaves", "There has never been a savior", "Who created the human world?" It is the three paragraphs at the beginning of our working masses."

Today, there is no sound, there is no performance, and Mr. Luo is obviously a rare singer, although the voice is loud, the tone is unstable.

Fortunately, the song is roared.

With Mr. Luo's level, he personally led the singing, and they also experienced it for the first time, but today, under these two flags, the division commander, the regiment commander, or other cadres and soldiers, all seem insignificant.

Mr. Luo, who was standing in front, was just an ordinary party member.

After singing the song, Mr. Luo raised his right hand to the party flag and shouted:

"I swear!"

"I swear!" Below in unison.

"I volunteer to join the Chinese GC Party!"

"I volunteer to join the Chinese GC Party!"

"Support the party's program! Abide by the party's constitution! ”

"Support the party's program! Abide by the party's constitution! ”

Mr. Luo read a sentence, and shouted a sentence below.

Fang Huai stood among the other one hundred and seven people, the excitement in his heart was indescribable.

To talk about his motivation for joining the party, it is actually very simple.

In addition to the careful thinking about those personal promotion qualifications, there is also the fact that after today, he will be able to say openly, "I am a party member, I will go first!" ”

The profession of firefighting coexists with disasters. Ordinary people are blocked from the red line of the disaster circle, and the soldiers are inside, but once they charge to the innermost level, they can't avoid this sentence.

I'm a party member, I'll go first.

From today onwards, I am also a member of the party.

Qualification.

People with a scarce sense of honor can't imagine that in times of peace, sending people to death also requires qualifications.

Just like the sentence during the Beibei wildfire in Chongqing, "I am a party member, I have been a soldier, and I have participated in the 2008 earthquake relief!" ”

Fang Huai did not hesitate to come forward in the midst of disasters again and again, sharpening his whole person into a military merit medal.

"Fulfill the obligations of party members! Execute the party's decision! Strictly abide by the party's discipline! Secrets of the Conservative Party! Be loyal to the party! Work actively! Fight for communism for life! Always ready to sacrifice everything for the party and the people! Never betray the party! ”

"Always ready to sacrifice everything for the party and the people! Never betray the party! ”

At the end, Fang Huai shouted this sentence again.

……

Fang Huai's last few days in Sichuan were more difficult than expected.

In the past few days, he and six female volunteers and staff have led 97 children.

Originally, there were more than 120 of them, and several of them were taken away by public welfare organizations in other places and taken into local welfare homes; A few of them of the right age were taken away by the Quyi Society and accepted as apprentices; Most of them were taken away by relatives who were brought in.

The policy has been put down, and from December, orphans will receive a monthly allowance of 600 yuan until they are 18 years old, or until they are adopted.

The China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA) has also urgently launched an orphan sponsorship program to provide additional grants.

Relatives can receive it for guardianship, but adopters can't.

In fact, the civil affairs department has organized a meeting between parents and orphans who have lost their children, although they have not said it explicitly, but they all hope to promote adoption, and these families can better understand each other's suffering.

However, there are almost no affected families who are not relatives who are willing to adopt orphans.

Most families who have lost a child cannot accept the adoption of a new child just after the death of the child, and the child does not want to leave the relatives, even if it is a distant relative.

The call for adoption by the people is very high.

Even before the children arrived at the local welfare institutions, tens of thousands of people had already consulted and expressed their willingness to adopt them.

Of course, the civil affairs department cannot let people from the outside world adopt at will, so it has put forward many hard requirements, such as the age of the adopter, economic conditions, whether there is a bad record, the number of children is limited, there is no serious infectious disease, and the difference between single men and girls should be more than 40 years.

A package of conditions that isolates most people.

Moreover, the kindness of many people also cooled after a few days.

Many people adopt children in order to raise children to prevent old age, and most of them want a 0 to 3-year-old child who does not remember.

This mentality makes it difficult for elderly and sick children to be adopted.

And impulsive kindness, difficult to persevere, and second abandonment, will only bring more harm to children, so the government has set so many conditions.

Under such conditions, the 97 poor orphans will be gradually sent to various welfare homes after they are clearly assigned by the civil affairs department.

Orphans are not just a few years old.

Counted up to the age of eighteen.

Fang Huai has thoroughly experienced how difficult it is to manage a rebellious child.

At every turn, he had to go out and ask him what he was doing, just two words: "Something." ”

Moreover, the six girls who were in charge of the children around them shouted dry.

Fang Huai began to think that he was sent to be alone with Yang Shaotian and fall in love, but he stayed for a morning to know that he was asked to be Sun Wukong.

Listen to the six female Tang monks chanting mantras.

"Well, eat a little more, okay?"

"xxx, don't run around!"

"What do you want to do when you grow up?"

"What do you want?"

The six female bodhisattvas have been trying to communicate with the children, the purpose of which is to let them eat well, and second, to let them talk and not be bored.

Little success.

But Fang Huai's ears were buzzing, saving people in the ruins, and when the two excavators roared in his ears, he was not so annoying.

Younger children, some cry, some make noise, and some squeak.

Most of the older ones have cried enough in the ten days since the earthquake, and now, they have entered a state of misanthropy.

"What's the meaning of life? It doesn't make sense. ”

"I don't have any wishes, I really don't."

When you get tired of asking, you will even yell: "I don't want to have a wish!" Why do you have to have a wish?! ”

There are also strange underwhelming beatings.

"Sister, you are so beautiful, my wish is for my sister to be my girlfriend."

This is a 10-year-old male doll told Yang Shaotian.

Hearing that, Fang Huai had filled up the anger value of the three stars of the King of Fighters' special moves, and turned his head to stare at Yang Shaotian.

Don't promise him!

The children in the disaster area can't morally kidnap Lao Tzu!

Unexpectedly, Yang Shaotian touched the child's head and began to patiently draw cakes:

"Boys have to have strength and knowledge to protect girls, if you want to be someone else's boyfriend, you have to grow well, eat well, and there will be a lot of beautiful girls like you in the future, okay?"

The child didn't eat much flatbread and said "not good" again and again, but Yang Shaotian smiled and took out his nirvana: a primary school Chinese book.

Turning a few pages, he said:

"Then you listen to my sister talk to you about "Learning to Play" and "Two Children's Debate Day" first, okay?"

A forced lecture with his head pressed.

Seeing the child sitting on the bench by the tent, his eyes narrowed.

Fang Huai was inspired to see it, went to the camp to look around, and got two elementary school and junior high school mathematics books and gave them to Yang Shaotian.

Chinese is really nothing, mathematics is the cure for insomnia.

Mr. Yang gave lectures to the children, and the children called her Teacher Yang.

However, a new trouble has come.

The children came to her when they had something.

Junior teacher = Qingtian master.

Adjudication of cases and handling of civil disputes.

Whose money was stolen.

Whoever had a small rock hit a bag in the head.

Who was undressing and sleeping in the tent when the socks were taken away, and when they were found, they had been put into a pile of sand and were used as punching bags by everyone......

Yang Shaotian couldn't deal with it, so he looked for Fang Huai.

Fang Huai had no choice but to teach Yang Shaotian a mantra: "Okay, the teacher knows, let's go play." ”

Every day like this, tortured until 10 o'clock in the evening, and when the children fell asleep, Fang Huai's eyelids began to tremble.

Earthquake relief, you can go three days and two nights without sleeping, with children, you can't sleep for a day.

……

May 25, morning.

Finished a breakfast.

Now in Hanwang, there is already breakfast.

Some people who had passed the grief began to pick up their old crafts again, and made use of more and more abundant materials to set up pots on the side of the street again, and made noodles and rice noodles for the officers and soldiers.

Before the new city was built, they used their labor and wisdom to make this abandoned city have smoke.

In fact, many people are still eager to "rescue" this city, after all, before the earthquake, it was so prosperous and made people so happy.

Zhang Zhongting and Fang Huai ate rice noodles and walked on a stone path outside the camp.

"I'm leaving." Zhang Zhongting looked around, wanting to remember the city.

Fang Huai didn't speak, but nodded.

Zhang Zhongting picked up a small pebble from the ground, checked it, and put it in his pocket.

"How do you feel with those children these days?"

Fang Huai smiled, shook his head and said: "It's not good, it's annoying, it's noisy, I want to change them, but no one listens to me, I finally surrendered, children's education is really not an overnight thing, it's much more difficult than rescue." ”

"There are a few things in the world that are simple, the three identities that men are born with, son, husband, father, which identity is done well, it will take a lifetime, your sense of family responsibility is too poor, let you take those children, I hope it will inspire you."

Zhang Zhongting said, sighed, and changed his words:

"I've already asked about the meritorious service, this time, the ministry will award you first-class meritorious service, and the order will probably come down after the official end of the disaster relief work in June, and the meritorious commendation ceremony should be held in BJ after the end of the Olympics.

At present, many things must be slowed down and not rushed.

I think I took this first-class merit back then, but I fought for 10 days in the Qingzhen wildfire in 99, and my life was almost gone, and it took half a year to get the approval. ”

Fang Huai listened and shook his head: "I'm not in a hurry, listen to the organizational arrangement, but, after the Olympics... Won't the time of conferring merit coincide with the time of participating in the national competition? ”

Zhang Zhongting waved his hand and said: "There is a high probability that it will not, it doesn't matter if it coincides, it will be a morning or an afternoon, this year's big competition is in Tianjin, very close to BJ, and the organizing committee of the big competition will adjust the time for you at that time, in fact, it is best to participate in the commendation meeting when you go to the competition, so far, so as not to run back and forth." ”

Fang Huai nodded perfunctorily, but pouted inwardly.

If I didn't have to rush back to save you, I wouldn't be in a hurry, and it didn't matter if I waited there.

Zhang Zhongting looked at him like that and sighed.

"Get down to business with you, be serious! This kind of merit is not so easy to get! In the future, you must pay attention to every word and deed! What you represent is the image of honor! ”

Fang Huai rolled his eyes: "Yes, yes, I heard it, I will wait in BJ, and I will come back for dinner after I finish taking the military merit medal." ”

Zhang Zhongting's eyes widened: "What kind of banquet to eat?" The first-class honor is high, but it is not allowed to hold a seat! ”

Fang Huai smiled.

(End of chapter)