Five years later, what happened to the brick boy who received the notice from the university on the construction site?

In China, the college entrance examination is called a "turning point" in life. This is a rare opportunity for ordinary people to change their destiny in their lives, so June 7 and 8 each year also carry the expectations and hopes of countless families.

Wei Kailun is a boy from a poor county in Dingxi City, Gansu Province. Five years ago, Wei Kailun stood out in the college entrance examination with a high score of 620, and later realized his dream of being a soldier in China.

In order to subsidize the family, Wei Kailun was still moving bricks on the construction site at the moment he received the admission notice. That day, before he even washed his hands, he ran excitedly all the way to the hillside with the admission notice. Now that five years have passed, I wonder what happened to Wei Kailun who was admitted to the university.

The boy in the mountains 1997 Wei Kailun was born in the home of an ordinary farmer in Gansu Province. Wei Kailun is the first child in the family. Although this family is poor and humble, the arrival of this little life has brought endless warmth and hope to this family. His parents hold him happily every day, smiling from ear to ear.

In the following years, Wei Kailun also added several younger brothers and sisters. While the family is happy, they are worried that there will be more people, and their income will not catch up with the flowers. Tongwei County, Wei Kailun's hometown, is listed as one of the 23 poverty-stricken counties in Gansu Province. The family only relies on Wei Kailun's parents to farm for a living. When they are free, they go outside to do odd jobs and chores, and the family can barely fill their stomachs.

In order to support his family, Wei Kailun's father decided to follow his fellow villagers out of the mountains to find a job, and then came back once a year for the New Year. Wei Kailun's mother, with a family of several people, squeezed into an adobe room and shouldered all the burdens of the family alone.

In Wei Kailun's childhood memory, it seems that she never saw her mother stop to have a rest.

Wei Kailun talked about his family situation: "There are grandparents, two sisters and a younger brother at home. My father works in Xinjiang, and my mother is the only one who takes care of the family. She gets up early every day and cooks breakfast for the students in Hualan Temple School, so that she can earn more than 1000 yuan a month. In order to get there, mother has to walk a long way and climb a mountain. I have to go home to feed the animals at noon, and finally I have to work in the fields. "

Wei Kailun was very sensible from an early age. In order to help her mother reduce the burden, Wei Kailun took the responsibility of taking care of her younger brothers and sisters after school, and also took the initiative to help her carry water, cut wood and sweep the floor. Wei Kailun's family planted 20 acres of land. He turned his back on the loess all the year round and watched his mother work in the field. Although Wei Kailun's mother can't finish her work, she has never forgotten her responsibility to educate her children.

She often says to her children, "If you want to get out of the mountains, reading is your only way out. Only by reading the book well can you change your destiny, so you must study hard. " Under the influence of his mother's words and deeds, Wei Kailun also deeply understood that "only by reading books well can we get out of the mountains."

Exciting moment: Wei Kailun stayed in the classroom all day, keeping company with books, in the year when he received the college entrance examination notice at the construction site. Fortunately, hard work pays off. After three years of hard study, Wei Kailun finally stood out in the 20 16 college entrance examination army and scored 620 points.

Wei Kailun and his family were ecstatic after hearing the news. Wei Kailun's grandfather trembled and wiped two lines of tears from his face. "I didn't expect Karen to get such good results in the exam. The child worked hard for several years, and now it is finally bearing fruit. We are all happy and proud of him. "

This achievement is enough for Wei Kailun to choose many schools he wants to go to, but at this moment, Wei Kailun is thinking of his father. Wei Kailun's father used to be a soldier. Influenced by his father, Wei Kailun is also eager to grow into a hero in his father's heart to defend his country.

So when he volunteered, he hoped that he could go to a military school. In this way, I can realize my childhood wishes, and secondly, I don't need to spend much tuition and living expenses in military schools, and I don't need to add burden to my family. As early as at home, when he was happy with his grades, Wei Kailun had been worrying about tuition.

Now that I understand these two points, Wei Kailun wrote "National University of Defense Science" when he filled in his volunteer. National University of Defense Technology has always been a key institution for national and military construction and the best military school in China. After filling in his volunteers, Wei Kailun decided to find a temporary job to subsidize his family and go to the construction site to move bricks.

Moving bricks on the construction site is a real coolie, and this job is far more tiring than Wei Kailun imagined. He has to work on the construction site for more than ten hours every day to earn dozens of dollars.

Under the scorching sun, Wei Kailun's sweat spouted down, and the dazzling sunshine overhead often blinded people. Wei Kailun ran around the construction site in his school uniform, and the sweat on his face and the dust on the construction site left a string of gray marks on his tender face.

This job is hard and boring, but fortunately, the site owner pays wages on time every day. Every time I get this hard-earned money, it is the happiest moment of the day for Wei Kailun, and then he immediately gives it to his mother. The work on the construction site is very hard, but in order to earn more money, Wei Kailun never cries bitter. After working for more than a month, he gradually got used to these heavy physical work.

One morning, a workmate found Wei Kailun and told him, "Someone is calling your name outside for you!" " "Wei Kailun still feel strange. When he went out, he saw a postal courier. I saw the courier take out a big envelope from his bag and hand it to him. "Is Wei Kailun himself? Please sign for this express delivery. "Wei Kailun took the envelope, glanced at the address, and immediately took off all the gloves for moving bricks.

Before the courier went far, Wei Kailun couldn't wait to tear open the envelope carefully, and his heart thumped violently. At the moment when the admission notice appeared in front of him, Wei Kailun only saw the glittering characters above, "National University of Defense Technology".

Wei Kailun's eyes were red, and she stood there quietly reading the admission notice for a long time. At this moment, the admission notice in my hand seems to be heavy. All the sadness and efforts have been rewarded in this letter.

After so many years of suffering, he finally saw the dawn of his future. Wei Kailun rushed out of the construction site crying and laughing and ran to the nearest hillside in one breath. Roads and houses in the mountains are piled at Wei Kailun's feet. Wei Kailun looked at the flat road and the end of the distance, and shouted at the sky with all his strength: "Mountain, mountain, I went out, I finally went out!" "

Before long, the news that Wei Kailun was admitted to the National University of Defense Technology soon spread in the village and town. Relatives and school leaders who came to congratulate were crowded into Wei Kailun's small adobe house. For decades, Wei Kailun was the first person to "walk out of the mountains" in Tongwei County.

New Challenge of College Life In September, Wei Kailun came to National University of Defense Technology with the blessings and bags of his family. For the first time in more than ten years, Wei Kailun came to such a far place with his luggage on his back. He looked at the tall buildings and crowds in big cities and made up his mind that he must work harder in universities and get ahead in big cities in the future.

Before Wei Kailun could get familiar with the campus, he found that the first problem he faced was the high-intensity training and fast-paced life arranged by the school.

The admission difficulty of National University of Defense Technology is comparable to that of famous universities such as Tsinghua and Peking University. As a national key comprehensive military college, National University of Defense Technology is very difficult to comprehensively test students, especially the assessment system of command specialty related to operations, which makes many outstanding students feel very hard.

Wei Kailun thinks he is a child in the mountains and must be very diligent. But unexpectedly, the experience in the first week at school gave Wei Kailun a new definition of the word "hardship". In college, besides the heavy schoolwork, there are various physical fitness tests, large and small, every day to test students' physical fitness.

According to the regulations, 13 minutes and 20 seconds can be regarded as a passing grade in the three-kilometer race walking test, but Wei Kailun took 15 minutes. After repeated failures, Wei Kailun found that his physical fitness was almost the worst in the class. The huge gap between reality and ideal makes Wei Kailun depressed. He even doubted whether his decision to choose this university was wrong.

Wei Kailun talked to his father about these things on the phone and couldn't help choking up. His father comforted him. "Although my father's education level is not high, I was a soldier. I know how difficult it is to become a qualified soldier, but it is because it is not easy that you have to stick to it. In the future, you will protect not only our small family, but also all of China. "

From the mountains to the frontier, his father's warning gave him unprecedented confidence and courage. Later, in repeated failures and tempering, Wei Kailun gradually learned how to run hard and how to persevere.

Through his own efforts and the accumulation of time, Wei Kailun's whole physical quality and cultural achievements have made a breakthrough leap. During his four years in National University of Defense Technology, Wei Kailun has been constantly exploring and accumulating experience, which is not only often praised by instructors, but also an excellent example of inspiration in the eyes of students.

There, Wei Kailun is still sweating hard and constantly refreshing his academic performance again and again. On the occasion of graduation, Wei Kailun also won the honorary title of "excellent graduate" with the second place in the comprehensive test.

According to Wei Kailun's performance at that time, if Wei Kailun chooses to stay in school or go to other big cities for development after graduation, he can also achieve quite good results. Later, Wei Kailun was assigned a job because of his excellent performance.

However, the boy who wanted to walk out of the mountain made an amazing decision at this time. In August 2020, Wei Kailun gave up the generous treatment given by many units and submitted an application to his superiors to work in remote areas such as Xinjiang.

In this application, Wei Kailun wrote, "Choosing the sacred career of soldiers means choosing sacrifice and dedication." In this most youthful and beautiful age, Wei Kailun chose to struggle instead of being mediocre and comfortable. "As a party member, it should be called' three to one determination'".

Therefore, Wei Kailun chose to aspire to national defense. Many people are puzzled by Wei Kailun's decision. In Wei Kailun's view, being a child from the countryside, it is easier for him to adapt to and accept the harsh conditions in remote areas. Moreover, Wei Kailun has always believed that only the real "hardship" can get what he wants.

Wei Kailun once explained: "Going back to the northwest again, I am not my former self. I have become an officer of the Republic of China, and I have the obligation and responsibility to contribute to the national defense of our motherland.

These mountains are still the mountains in my childhood eyes, but now they are not my bondage, but the great rivers and mountains of our motherland. I'm not going back to the original point, this is my new starting point! "