“...... Daughter-in-law, what shall we eat at night?"

“...... Mom asked me to go home and said I made some dumplings......"

Outside the trees, on the road in the park, some pedestrians walked by from time to time, and the sound of words gradually approached and faded away.

Under the shade of the trees, the old man looked at the couple walking by outside the shade with somewhat cloudy eyes, and after watching the two walk away, he slowly turned his head and was silent again.

“...... In the second year of studying abroad, news came from China that a new homeland was established. ”

“...... My classmates and I at that time, when we heard the news, cheered and shouted excitedly on campus, as if we wanted everyone to hear and know ......"

As the old man spoke, a smile appeared on his face,

Immediately after, the smile faded again,

“...... Before that, when I was a child, I saw people from other countries, riding tall horses and driving tricycles, showing off their might in front of us...... My classmate when I was in school was chased down the street by two Japanese people on three-wheeled motorcycles, as if they were teasing, and finally they were forced into an alley corner...... At that time, I was living on the upper floor of the street with my parents, and my mother came over and blindfolded me, and my father came and took away my mother's hand that was blocking my eyes, looked at me, and said to me, "Remember, remember!"

I watched as my classmate got run under the wheels of the tuke...... I remember the smiling faces of the two brutes, the screams of my classmates when I was in school, and the cries of his parents......"

The old man said, paused again, and looked out of the shade,

“...... I know that after that, after the founding of the Motherland, there will never be any more of this, and no one will ever dare to bully our family and oppress our people......"

The old man said, with a smile on his face and some tears in his cloudy eyes.

“...... My classmates and I were happy and wanted to celebrate, but we touched our bodies and found that the money we had scraped together was not enough for us to eat...... At this time, I thought of the small piece of bacon that I brought from China and was never willing to eat...... We hurriedly ran back to where we were staying and pulled out the piece of bacon.

Although it looks a little dark, but the bacon has not deteriorated, I took the bacon and washed it, and when I was about to get out of the pot, I hesitated again, took a knife, and divided the small piece of bacon again, put more than half of it in the pot, and left a small piece, and put it back again......

After cooking the piece of bacon, my classmates and I ate the bacon in that room, celebrating the founding of the new motherland. ”

......

“...... Come, baby son. ”

On the side of the road, in front of a food stall, a child tiptoed and looked at the food stall.

The child's father took the snack handed by the stall owner, turned around, and handed it to his child.

"Thank you Dad. ”

Joyfully took it, and the child took the snack and ate it.

"Let's go, go home, your mother is still waiting at home. ”

"Good...... Go home......"

The child's father smiled, took the child, and walked away to the park, and the voice gradually faded away.

......

Looking at the pedestrians who walked by from time to time outside the shade, Lian Ge quietly listened to the old man's narration,

The old man looked out of the shade, his eyes were in a trance, he was silent again, and continued,

“...... That night, I lay in that bed and didn't fall asleep, and I thought, I have to go back, back home.

I told my classmates who lived with me that he agreed...... That night, we didn't sleep for two nights, so we were thinking about the journey back to China, thinking about the changes in the country and the things we would do after returning home. ”

“...... The next morning, the two of us went to the port and asked for the cost of returning to China...... At that time, the money we had added up to was not enough, and we were really anxious to return to China, so we thought about borrowing some from the old overseas Chinese who worked in the place where we worked......

He listened to our intentions, first gave us enough money for the boat and the journey, and then went back to the room, and took out a cloth bag, in which were stuffed with a few handfuls of neatly arranged banknotes...... He told us that this was some of the money he had saved up over the years, and that if we were going back, let us bring it back as well...... He said that he was old and no longer useful, so he wouldn't go back to make trouble, but he just hoped that when we arrived, we could send him some domestic things and photos, and he had not seen the motherland for many years......"

The old man said, his eyes were a little distracted, and he paused,

“...... In the end, the plan to return to China did not come to fruition. ”

Looking out at the shade of the trees, the old man continued,

“...... Approaching the school, a senior who had already graduated persuaded me. He told me that I had not finished my studies yet, so I could study and accumulate more knowledge so that I could play a greater role when I returned to China in the future. This time, let them go back first.

At the beginning of the second year, they embarked on the journey back to their homeland one after another, and many of them returned to China, and many others were detained by that country for various reasons......

...... I stayed at that school and continued my studies, and from then on, I started to pay attention to ...... Most of the research results have been abandoned to avoid attracting attention. ”

The old man said, pausing again,

“...... By the time I was in my third year at that school, the war in Silla broke out. After my motherland entered the war, some foreign students showed off their military might in front of me and said that their country would defeat my country......"

“...... I endured it then. ”

"It was also that year that I received my PhD...... Even though some people were very reluctant, I got a job as a teaching assistant at that school...... At that time, I thought, I have to go back to China, I have to go back to China...... At that time, I began to look for opportunities to return to China......"

The old man said, looking out of the shade with some cloudy eyes,

On the side, Lian Ge didn't say much, just listened quietly,

“...... In the second year after that, on the battlefield of Silla, our country won and won, while theirs was defeated...... At that time, many people in that school looked at me with hatred, but I was very happy. ”

The old man said, with a smile on his face,

“...... We won, we won......"

“...... However, it was also at that time that many foreign students were frantically clamoring to drop atomic bombs on our country, and many of them said it directly to my face...... Like those two brutes, I remembered, remembered the expressions on their faces, remembered their tone. ”

“...... That year, I asked for leave from school to return to China, but a week before I was about to leave, my classmate, who was also about to return to China, was arrested on the grounds that he had taken secrets from that country out of the country...... But he watched him pack his luggage, and he didn't even carry a book, a page, except for the necessary clothes and ID documents......

I had to give up on returning to China at that time, and I had to look for another opportunity to avoid being detained for 'leaving the country with secrets'. ”

The old man said, his eyes were a little dazed, he looked out of the shade of the trees, and fell silent again.

Glancing at the old man again, Lian Ge didn't say anything, turned his gaze back and looked into the distance.

Outside the shade of the trees, it is still lively,

Under the shade of the trees, on the side of the winding path, on the benches, there are some people sitting on each side, chatting about some trivial matters.

The sound of words, the sound of the wind, the chirping of insects and birds, mixed in,

“...... It wasn't until I was five or seven years old that I returned to China. ”

The old man looked out into the shade of the road and spoke again.