Just because he saw a video on his mobile phone showing the "emergency" flood situation in Poyang Lake, 20-year-old Zhang Luo, a young man from Yueyang, immediately asked for leave and set off from Changsha, taking the high-speed rail and hitchhiking overnight to Poyang County, J

Sanxiang Metropolis Daily reporter Zhou Ke

Just because he saw a video on Poyang Lake "emergency" flood situation on his mobile phone, 20-year-old Yueyang Zhang Luo immediately asked for leave and set off from Changsha, taking the high-speed rail and hitchhiking overnight to Jiangxi. Provincial Poyang County . As a veteran who spends almost 16 hours a day fighting on the front line of flood control, Zhang Luo said with a smile, "I'm young and it's okay."

Today, Sanxiang Metropolis Daily and Alibaba have positive energy for Zhang Luo every day. The "Daily Positive Energy Special Award" and a bonus of 5,000 yuan were awarded.

12html For 5 hours, he rushed from Changsha to Poyang to fight the floods overnight

html On the morning of July 11, Zhang Luo, who worked as a security guard at the Changsha Changfang Metro Ginza Marketing Center, took advantage of his break to check the news on his mobile phone to pay attention to the flood situation. A video showing the "emergency" flood situation in Poyang Lake in Jiangxi made him unable to sit still. In the video, the water level of Poyang Lake continued to rise, and local armed police officers and villagers were racing against time to install sandbags to reinforce and raise the dam. Zhang Luo, who was a soldier in an infantry company of a unit in the Western Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, immediately decided to ask for leave from his unit and go to the Poyang Lake area to participate in flood fighting.

At 4 pm, with the permission of his work unit, Zhang Luo ran back to his dormitory to pack a few changes of clothes, bought a high-speed rail ticket that departed from Changsha to Nanchang at 8:50 that night, and rushed to Changsha South Station . At this moment, Zhang Luo seemed to have returned to the army and found the tension to assemble urgently at the first command.

At about 11 o'clock that night, Zhang Luo's high-speed train arrived at Jiujiang Station. At this time, the bus to Poyang County had stopped running. He was anxious to rush to the front line of flood fighting and could only "try his luck" and find a tailwind willing to give him a ride. car. Knowing his purpose, the owner of a van readily agreed to take him along. However, the national highway was flooded, and the enthusiastic car owner could only send Zhang Luo to the toll station at Tianban Street in Shangrao City. Ten minutes later, Ms. Chen, a car owner who originally planned to go to Jingdezhen City, and her companion Mr. Cai enthusiastically expressed their willingness to take Zhang Luo to Poyang County and then to Jingdezhen City by taking a detour of more than 200 kilometers.

html At 4 o'clock in the morning on the 12th, Zhang Luo finally arrived in Poyang County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province. He immediately went to the local emergency management department to express his identity and intention. The staff said that he could follow the armed police force arriving the next day to the flood fighting front line.

html At 6 o'clock in the morning on the 12th, Zhang Luo was added to the flood fighting team in Zhujiaqiao Village, Poyang County.

Fighting on the front line 16 hours a day: "I'm young and okay."

Arriving at Zhujiaqiao Village, the enthusiastic local villagers provided Zhang Luo with rain boots and other flood prevention equipment, and found a room in the village committee to make a bed for him. A change of clothes and daily necessities are provided. Zhujiaqiao Village is within the Poyang Lake water system. The water level of the Changjiang River in the village in recent days has far exceeded the historical water level in 1998.

htmlAt around 10 a.m. on July 12, the continuously rising water level of the Changjiang River was about to exceed the height of the embankment. The height of the embankment made of sandbags has exceeded the roofs of residents. Once the embankment breaks, the consequences will be disastrous. Zhang Luo and more than 200 armed police officers and soldiers quickly carried sandbags prepared in advance to reinforce the embankment. After three consecutive days, Zhang Luo's feet were worn out and calluses formed on his hands. The villagers in Zhujiaqiao Village all know that there is a young man from Changsha who has been on the front line of flood fighting, but few people know his name.

Every morning at 8 o'clock, Zhang Luo would walk to his "work station". During the day, he loaded sandbags and strengthened the river embankments; at night, he followed the flood control patrol team to inspect the embankments along the river bank. The patrols continued until two or three in the morning before Zhang Luo was willing to leave. The villagers and the flood control armed police officers persuaded him to go back and rest, but Zhang Luo insisted on staying near the embankment and immediately stepped forward to "help" when he saw the opportunity.

A reporter from Sanxiang Metropolis Daily asked, "You only rest for five or six hours a day. Are you tired?" Zhang Luo replied loudly, "I'm not tired. I'm young and I'm fine."

Hidden from the family, my mother watched the flood fighting video Become familiar with the figure

From July 12 to July 14, Zhang Luo had been fighting 16 hours a day for three consecutive days to participate in flood fighting and rescue tasks. However, before the afternoon of the 14th, his parents did not know that their son was on the front line of flood fighting in Poyang. .

html On July 14, Zhang Luo’s mother, who works in Shanghai, saw a video of the flood fighting scene in Poyang County on her mobile phone. She was surprised to see a familiar figure in the video, which was her son Zhang Luo.

’s mother immediately called the phone and asked where Zhang Lu was. When she saw the caller ID, Zhang Lu already guessed what her mother wanted to say. “Originally, I was afraid that my parents would be worried and I didn’t plan to say anything, but my mother saw it.” Zhang Lu told A reporter from Sanxiang Metropolis Daily, despite some worries, on the evening of the 14th, Zhang’s mother also posted a video of Zhang Luo’s participation in the flood fight to her circle of friends, and said with a little pride, “My son, I see you are no longer a kid today. ”

“Looking at the quiet village at night, I will also think of my home in Yueyang and my parents who are working abroad.” Zhang Luo said that even though he missed home, he decided to wait until the flood receded before returning to Changsha.

After winning the award, he was grateful for the "positive energy" gained along the way.

Zhang Luo, who is 1.78 meters tall and has dark skin, was born and raised in Yueyang, will celebrate his 21st birthday in September this year. When he was serving in Qinghai, Zhang Luo was a soldier in an infantry company. Running 5 kilometers in the morning and evening was his daily training. The army also organized a 50-kilometer cross-country training with armed loads every month.

When he learned that Sanxiang Metropolis Daily and Tiantian Positive Energy awarded him the "Tiantian Positive Energy Special Award" and a bonus of 5,000 yuan, Zhang Luo showed a little surprise, "I am just one of many people who fight against floods and rescue people. I don't do anything special." Thank you to Sanxiang Metropolis Daily, and I am also grateful to those who have helped me these days."

Zhang Luo said that he felt full of positive energy along the way. After arriving at Changsha South Station on the afternoon of July 11, he wanted to take the earliest high-speed train to Jiangxi. After understanding the situation, the staff in the duty room of Changsha South Station immediately helped communicate and arranged for him to take the train that departed at 7:57 that night. G634 high-speed rail. Along the way, he met several car owners who were eager to give him a lift. As soon as they arrived in Zhujiaqiao Village, the villagers brought a change of clothes, toiletries, and hot meals. Zhang Luo sent a photo of him and the local villagers to the Sanxiang Metropolis Daily reporter, "My uncles and aunts are very kind to me. I wanted to borrow well water to wash clothes in the afternoon. When I came back from the flood prevention work, the grandma had already helped me. Wash your clothes."

"Everyday Positive Energy" is a large-scale public welfare open platform jointly created by Alibaba Group and more than 100 mainstream media including Sanxiang Metropolis Daily, with the purpose of "spreading positive energy and promoting truth, goodness and beauty". Look for and reward the good deeds of ordinary people in the whole society. At present, "Everyday Positive Energy" has rewarded more than 7,000 positive people and invested more than 65 million yuan in public welfare funds.

's award speech:

learned that the floods were serious, and he had already retired from the army, so he took the initiative to return to the team to fight the floods.

put down his work, traveled thousands of miles and volunteered.

He said that the country's affairs are important affairs, and we should use as much energy as possible.

was a soldier in the past and is now a volunteer. Although

is only 20 years old, his simple words and tanned face still shine with the military spirit engraved in his blood.

Once you are a soldier, you will always be a soldier.

Once you take off your military uniform, you will never take off your mission.

Whether it is fighting floods or rescuing people in danger,

wherever there is need, their presence is there.

Their names are veterans.

Thank you, good work!