At 15:37 on October 31, 2022, the Long March 5 B Yao-4 carrier rocket was ignited at the Wenchang Space Launch Center, rushing straight to the sky and running towards the sky. Cao Yanfeng, the head of the third team of the communication station, looked up at the distant firelight and used his fingers to draw the passing marks.
After returning from the patrol, he called his wife as usual: "When the epidemic is over and the watermelons are ripe, you can bring your son to our yard to see."
Cao Yanfeng met his wife Coke in 2009. In the spring of 2013, the two registered their marriage. In March of the same year, Cao Yanfeng came to China Wenchang Aerospace Launch Center , but the simple working environment made him dare not let his wife visit the unit. At that time, the unit was first built and lived in a model house, with upper and lower bunk beds, without air conditioning and fans, and the small space was like a sauna.
Like many aerospace workers, although they cannot be with each other all the time, this "distant" happiness has allowed them to walk hand in hand for a full 13 years. When getting married, the wife was busy with her wedding and the arrangement of the wedding room. After getting married, the unexpected gifts expressed Cao Yanfeng's long-distance care and company.
During the time when my wife was waiting alone, Cao Yanfeng was always concerned about her. However, the accident also tests the couple. In 2015, my wife had a car accident on her way to the hospital. Her left arm fell into and her right clavicle broke. After the operation, he woke up and saw that his relatives and friends were surrounded by his wife, and she burst into tears. Due to various considerations, his wife did not tell her husband immediately. Cao Yanfeng only learned about his wife's condition from relatives and friends three days later and arranged the work at hand. He hurried back home.
Cao Yanfeng's company gradually improved his wife, and his wife also knew her husband's responsibilities, so he let him return to the unit with confidence. "Understand because of understanding." As a wife, she knows what work means to her husband.
In recent years, the rocket launch mission has become more and more arduous. Each time, patrols is as short as two or three weeks, and as long as several months. Cao Yanfeng takes his team members to the wind and rain, and the difficulties and obstacles encountered are hard to describe in one word. He laughed at himself that everyone in the squad was carved out like a mold - dark face, thin shoulders, and rough hands. When patrolling the line, it is monotonous and boring. Walking on the bumpy road, there is only a shadow for you every time. Some roads cannot be connected to cars, so they can only walk. As long as they are patrolling the line, they have never had clothes.
"What I fear most is the phone ringtone in the early morning. I woke up in my dream and immediately started to repair the task. This is common," said Cao Yanfeng. When they successfully completed the task and returned to the unit, it was already dawn and they could no longer remember how many times they had experienced such a sleepless night.
When you have firm beliefs in your heart, there are "stars and seas" everywhere. Cao Yanfeng felt that the love in his heart should be like the sea, broad, surging and surging. And my wife felt that in a sense, love is the "sea of stars" in Cao Yanfeng's heart.
The poem written by wife coke to Cao Yanfeng:
Time flows through
Missing becomes silent shouting and rolling tears
My heart has long been deeply
hugged you again and again
This bright day
Your appearance is in my eyes
Shining
Shining
Source: People's Liberation Army Daily Client
Author: Zhou Qi Zhang Yi
