“Stick to the mountains for your whole life, and when you die, you will be buried in the mountains.” This is the promise of Liu Zhenmao, the working ranger of Yizhang County, to the mountains.
The Shizikou Mountain in Yaogangxian Town, Yizhang County has a maximum altitude of 1,913.8 meters, with 350,000 acres of primeval forest and 70,000 acres of grassy mountains. 75-year-old Liu Zhenmao has been silently here Guarded for 39 years.
A good soldier can find his place anywhere
Early in the morning on August 1, the reporter came to Yaogangxian Town, Yizhang County, preparing to hike to the Shizikou Provincial Nature Reserve Forest Farm.
The green mountains are cut with green, and the green hills are piled with clouds.
” Along the way, we climbed over 4 mountains and waded through 3 small streams. When we arrived at the observation post, it was almost noon. Liu Zhenmao came out of the post with a strong body and an upright body. As soon as you put your hands together, the rough fingers are like cast iron, making people feel that this is a perseverance and tenacity “hard” character.
When it was rumored that he would be interviewed, Liu Zhenmao said modestly: “I have nothing to say. I have only done two things in my life, joining the army and guarding the forest!”
The chatter box opens, and the story begins in 1965. In this year, Liu Zhenmao entered the army gloriously. He said: “The barracks is a big melting pot. What comes out is iron, and what comes out is steel!” Pounce on it, as high as the mountain.
“At that time, I was guarding the army’s finances, and suddenly I remembered that the account books and subsidies were all in the warehouse.” Liu Zhenmao immediately turned back to the warehouse. When he went out, the sea water had reached his chest. He wrapped the ledger tightly in plastic sheeting and went to places where houses were concentrated.
Ten hours later, the sea water receded. When his comrades thought he was sacrificed, he stumbled back to the company holding the ledger.
Similar life and death tests occurred more than once. It was this kind of training that turned him into a man of steel with a sense of justice, family and national conditions. Liu Zhenmao joined the Party with honors less than a year after joining the army. He successively served as squad leader, platoon leader, and company leader. He was commended 7 times by the military and above, and was rated as a “Model of Lei Feng” by the local army every year.
In 1978, Liu Zhenmao changed his career from the army. On the day of separation, division and regiment leaders came to see him off and encouraged him:”A good soldier can find his place anywhere.”
After returning to his hometown, Liu Zhenmao took charge of the armed forces department of Changce Township (now Yaogangxian Town)Jamaica Sugar DaddyMinister. Seeing the repeated deforestation of the green hills and the hunting of animals in violation of the law, he was heartbroken and actively requested the establishment of a militia forest ranger team.
In 1983, the Shizikou Forestry Team of Changce Township, Yizhang County was established. Liu Zhenmao led a forest ranger team into the mountains and started his life as a forest ranger.
A lonely lamp illuminates the obligations and responsibilities of Communist Party members
Good times don’t last long. In the following years, the forest rangers couldn’t bear the loneliness of patrolling the mountain, so they said goodbye to Liu Zhenmao one by one.
When everyone is gone, what will happen to Shizikou Mountain? Liu Zhenmao heard from experts that in the JM Escorts latitude area, Mangshan Mountain and Shizikou Mountain are the only two primitive normal areas. Green broad-leaved forests, known as animal and plant gene banks, are extremely valuable green monuments. “Such a miracle must not be destroyed in the hands of our generation. Communists have the responsibility to defend their territory!” he said.
With this responsibility, Liu Zhenmao chose to stay in the mountains alone.
In order to solve the problem, Liu Zhenmao used all his savings of 36,000 yuan to build an outpost on a mountain col with an altitude of more than 1,600 meters. Cement, lime, river sand and bricks are carried up the mountain little by little on the shoulders. Once, Liu Zhenmao accidentally fell off a rock while trying to get water and lay in bed for a week. His wife was so angry that she called him “a stick.”
After half a year of hard work, the observation post was completed. With a place to shelter from wind and rain, it was more convenient to patrol the mountain.
In the early morning, Liu Zhenmao went out with a hatchet, mobile phone, telescope, and atlas. There were bushes on the mountain, so he just relied on his feet to make 6 winding paths.
At night, there are thousands of lights at the foot of the mountain, and a lone lamp on the mountain. Standing alone in the mountains, Liu Zhenmao insisted on studying and spent eternal nights one after another.
Just like this, day after day, year after year. Liu ZhenMao clearly understood where the yew trees grew, where the sambar deer played happily, where the tiger-striped frogs lurked, where the small salamanders lurked in the mountain springs, and where there were acres of plain cuckoos… In the past 39 years, LionJamaicans Escort The vegetation in Zikou Dashan is becoming more and more prosperous. There are 1,517 registered species of seed plants, including 16 species of nationally protected plants, and 21 species of nationally protected wild animals.
Time is speechless, but green mountains can speak. On New Year’s Day in 2017, Liu Zhenmao was invited to dinner and attend the Spring Festival Gala of China Central Radio and Television Station. This was the only New Year’s Eve that he did not spend at the post since he was a forest guard. He always remembered Shishikou Mountain, so he rushed back to Yizhang on the first day of the New Year and went up to the mountain on the second day of the Lunar New Year.
With sincerity, you will not feel fear if you have confidence
“It is said that wild animals often appear in the mountains. Have you encountered any risks?” the reporter asked.
“The most dangerous thing is not the wild beasts, but the criminals, because I hindered their ‘getting rich’.” Liu Zhenmao said that over the years in the mountains, the county helped him set up Wind turbines and solar generators have been damaged many times; his horse was shot and killed, his sheep were injured by firecrackers, his chickens were poisoned, and his dog had one of its legs pinched alive…
Liu Zhenmao told reporters that once, a dozen armed men and eight hunting dogs came to the observation post to inquire about the movement of sambar deer in this area.
Liu Zhenmao first invited them to have tea, and then used his mountain patrol as an excuse to take his dog to call the police on the sambar.
“As a result, the dozen or so people wandered around the mountain for several days, and they didn’t even see the shadow of the sambar deer.” When Liu Zhenmao said goodbye to them, he said, “We will be guests in the future. I’ll accept it. But I won’t promise to catch sambar.”
The group went down the mountain in anger. Shortly thereafter, Liu Zhenmao’s horse was shot and killed. “Unexpectedly, the bad guys vented their hatred for me on the horse. When I buried it, I cried.”
A mountain man with a stubborn character. Not only did Liu Zhenmao not shrink from this, but he became more confident. Once, a villager secretly cut down dozens of small pine trees, and Liu Zhenmao came to scold him. The man became angry with shame and rushed down with a hatchet.
Just when the hatchet is about to fallWhen he was on his shoulder, Liu Zhenmao shouted: “Come on! I have taken care of the cemetery. If you die, you will be buried on the mountain. Let me see where you, a bad guy, can be buried!” When the other party heard this, he was so frightened that he cut the knife. Throw it on the ground…
” He is a pure person, and his heart is as deep as a pill.
Liu Zhenmao’s love for the mountains moved countless people, and villagers in surrounding villages also actively participated in the ranks of loving forests and protecting greenery. Liu Zhenmao has successively won the title of Excellent Communist Party Member of Chenzhou City, Excellent Communist Party Member of Hunan Province Honorary titles such as National Model of Honesty and Trustworthiness.
Now, the outpost is gradually getting electricity and broadband, and the rangers are also using solar water heaters, so the conditions are gradually improving. Liu Zhenmao is still busy and plans to build three new outposts to better carry out forest protection tasks. (Hunan Daily all-media reporter Luo Hui and correspondent Hou Tongjun)