Chapter 312 The origin of the White-Eye League, the people’s heroes will live forever!
"Comrades, please be quiet. Let us invite General Rong, Academician Rong Feiyang, Chief Engineer Lu Chiyu, and Brigade Commander Gu to say a few words to us all, okay?" At this time, Political Commissar Hai proposed in the crowd.
Now the political commissar of the navy has also been promoted and applied to come to the island. He and Gu Yuan are old partners.
"Good!" Everyone applauded and cheered in unison.
Seeing everyone like this, Lu Chi and Yu San, who were called, had no choice but to take turns to speak.
General Rong said, "I, Rong Xinqi, am very happy to celebrate the New Year with you all here on Feiyang Island today. You have transformed a vast ocean into land from scratch, added a city to Country B, and expanded Country B's land area to over 9.6 million square kilometers. You are great comrades of Country B who possess both wisdom and courage.
I believe that with comrades like you, the construction of the C Sea will get better and better. Everything now is just a good start. In the future, it will become a huge treasure house of our country B and the most solid southern gate of country B facing foreign enemies.
When our C Sea is fully developed, our B Country will surely usher in a peaceful and prosperous era.
Today, I offer tea instead of wine to thank all our colleagues for their dedication. Let us also raise our glasses and drink to a brighter and more promising future!
"good!"
"good!"
As General Rong finished speaking, the scene erupted in cheers that broke through the sky. The scientific researchers and soldiers who worked with Lu Chiyu to build Feiyang Island had tears in their eyes.
There is no one who does not hope that his or her efforts can be recognized by the outside world. These scientific researchers and soldiers were even more moved and excited to hear General Rong’s recognition of their efforts than if they had received money or other material subsidies.
In just a few months, Feiyang Island was built to its current state. Lu Chiyu and his wife and these people have paid so much!
Amidst the cheers, everyone present drank the tea in their hands. This was their most sincere expectation for the future.
There is nothing else on the island, but there is enough tea and water to prevent diseases.
After everyone calmed down a bit, Lu Chiyu stood up and said with a smile: "General Rong was right just now. He said everything that Academician Rong Feiyang, I, and your Brigadier General Gu wanted to say.
Today is New Year's Eve, so let's just eat and drink well tonight. So Academician Rong Feiyang, Brigadier General Gu and I won't say any more. Comrades, let's eat!"
"Okay!" Lu Chiyu gave an order and the audience cheered again, and then this special New Year's Eve dinner began.
Lu Chiyu did not assign seats according to positions for this New Year's Eve dinner. Everyone sat down wherever they found a seat, and those who didn't have a seat squatted while eating.
Then the kitchen staff at the back of the dining room continued to serve the dishes, placing them on the tables and windows, and anyone who wanted to eat could take them.
Even during the meal, General Rong asked someone to bring the bacon, cured chicken, sausage, dried vegetables and other foods he brought with him as snacks for everyone, saying that this New Year's Eve dinner must ensure that everyone is well fed and there is no leftovers.
Country B now has gold, silver and supplies that its ancestors moved in several times, as well as huge amounts of foreign exchange earned from the epidemic prescriptions and fragrance pills that Lu Chiyu brought out. In addition, the chemical fertilizers that Lu Chiyu made before completely liberated agricultural productivity. The living standards of Country B have risen several times.
So it is enough for the comrades present to have a full New Year's Eve dinner.
In the end, the New Year's Eve dinner lasted for more than an hour. At ten o'clock, Lu Chiyu asked the kitchen staff to take out all the prepared ingredients for making dumplings so that everyone could make dumplings together to celebrate the New Year.
In this day and age, almost no one doesn’t know how to make dumplings. When they see the ingredients for making dumplings, everyone comes forward excitedly to help.
In this joyful atmosphere, time quickly passed and it was past eleven o'clock. By then, the dumplings were out of the pot. General Rong saw that the New Year was approaching and asked the guards to get the couplets and fireworks he brought to post and set off in the cafeteria.
In the end, General Rong even went to personally post couplets on the canteen door.
General Rong finished pasting the last couplet with the help of his guards. Seeing Lu Chiyu and the others gathered around him, he couldn't help but sigh, "Ayu, do you know why the top of this couplet is white?"
Lu Chiyu nodded solemnly: "Grandpa, I know, this is called the White-Eye Alliance."
The reason why Lu Chiyu knew that this kind of couplet was called Bai'e Lian was because her grandfather in her previous life told her that this was a kind of couplet unique to the Guangdong province.
The origin story of the White-Eye League is extremely tragic, and can be said to be a particularly important chapter in the countless tragic stories of the War of Resistance.
During the Anti-Japanese War, the entire nation of country B worked together to save the country.
Millions of young and strong men from the three provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan traveled thousands of miles north to fight against the Japanese. In the end, only a few thousand of the nearly 900,000 volunteers were able to return alive, and the rest all died heroically.
These thousands of volunteer soldiers returned just before New Year's Eve, so that year every household in the Lingnan area lit kerosene lanterns and hung these white-fronted couplets to commemorate their relatives who died on the front line.
Later, the tradition of pasting white forehead couplets was passed down in this area. In his previous life, before Lu Chiyu traveled through time, he still saw people pasting white forehead couplets in Guangdong Province.
Sure enough, seeing Lu Chiyu nod, General Rong also stroked the couplets in his hand and said with red eyes: "Yes, these are the white-headed couplets, which are the elegiac couplets written by the people in this area of Chai to commemorate the heroes of the 29th Army who died heroically at that time.
Back then, the Japanese invaded our country B in an all-out manner and even boasted that they intended to take over all our territory within a month. When the Japanese artillery was frantically bombarding the northern cities of country B, our compatriots in several provinces of Chai formed a volunteer army and actively went north to fight against Japan.
These volunteers had to walk thousands of miles with only their own feet. Many of our poor compatriots didn't even have a pair of shoes and had to rush to the front line barefoot.
They could not adapt to the cold in the north. Without shoes and cotton clothes, many people fell down on the road, but they still did not retreat.
When we arrived in Shanghai, our country B was so poor that this volunteer army could not even get any hot weapons. They had to fight with their bare hands against the well-armed Japanese imperial army, and countless people died in the enemy's artillery fire..."
At this point, General Rong choked up and could no longer speak, and the sounds of many people sobbing could be heard all around him.
It has only been 32 years since the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. There are many soldiers and scientific researchers at the scene whose loved ones died in this battle.
Lu Chiyu was also very sad when she saw this scene. At this moment, facing the descendants of these heroes, she felt that she should say something.
"Don't worry, Grandpa, these heroes will be immortalized, and our children from generation to generation will remember them.
They are the backbone of our country B. Because of them, we have not been successfully invaded by the little guys and have not become slaves of the subjugated nation. The people's heroes will be immortal. In the future, our country B will become stronger and stronger! "
Lu Chiyu said the last sentence in a sonorous and powerful voice.
"Chief Engineer Lu is right!"
Political Commissar Hai suddenly knelt down in the crowd. He looked at the night sky to the north and choked up, saying, "Dad, did you hear that? We will remember your sacrifice for generations to come. The people's heroes will live forever!"
"The people's heroes will live forever!"
"The people's heroes will live forever!"
In an instant, the soldiers and scientific researchers at the scene all sobbed and shouted in unison.
When Lu Chiyu saw this scene, tears blurred her vision.
She had heard countless stories about the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and knew very well how many martyrs Country B had sacrificed in that battle.
The Sichuan Army had not yet set out, but the Guangdong Army had already been wiped out, which shows how cruel the war was at that time.
Young people from many southern provinces actively went north to fight against the Japanese, just to avoid becoming slaves of a conquered nation.
Every citizen has a share of responsibility for the rise and fall of a country. The ancestors of that generation wrote the true meaning of this sentence with their lives!
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