Tang Cheng nodded and said: "Director Gao, you have done a good job, so let's do it, it's good for me to visit it alone, you don't have to accompany me first, you go and receive the old lady, if you can, you can buy it and put it in our museum to enrich our content." ”

Director Gao obeyed Tang Cheng's meaning and asked Tang Cheng to visit alone first, and he went to receive the old lady.

After a while, this Curator Gao came back, and Tang Cheng asked him, "How are things going?"

Director Gao sighed and said with a disappointed look: "I thought the old lady was willing to accept our price! I couldn't accept her price and let her go. ”

Tang Cheng nodded and said: "800,000 yuan, it is indeed a bit of a sky-high asking price, the military merit medal, which was awarded to him by the army at that time, is a kind of honorary title, it is said that this kind of thing cannot be sold as a commodity." The descendants of the winners of the military merit medal will either collect it personally and pass it on from generation to generation, or donate it to the museum for exhibition, if it is used as a means of obtaining wealth, it will be a little sorry for the hero!"

At this time, Tang Cheng and Director Gao happened to be visiting on the second floor. The two were very close to the window, Director Gao refused the old lady's price, and the old lady left again in disappointment, and the lonely and old figure happened to pass by downstairs, so that Tang Cheng could see it. Director Gao hurriedly introduced: "Governor, it's this old lady. ”

Tang Cheng stood in front of the window, and there was a pair of women supporting the old lady, and the old lady walked forward slowly, with white hair and a sense of vicissitudes. Tang Cheng asked, "Director Gao, are these two military merit medals her husband's, or did she get them from elsewhere?"

Director Gao said: "It's her husband's." I also found someone to verify that the thing is real, and it is indeed a military medal issued by the army to her husband during the Anti-Japanese War. ”

Tang Cheng looked at the back of this old man, Tang Cheng felt it, and said lightly: "She can also be regarded as a martyr." Is her husband still alive?"

Director Gao said: "Her husband died a long time ago and went out to fight, according to her, he died in a foreign land. ”

Tang Cheng has a special affection for the families of such martyrs and the families of veterans! The prosperity and dignity of the Republic today are causally related to the fact that veterans of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression used their flesh and blood to resist aggression.

Tang Cheng's heart suddenly moved, and he read a strange feeling from the vicissitudes of the old lady's back! A family member of a heroic martyr like this, the widow of a veteran of the Anti-Japanese War, shouldn't care so much about money! There should be a story in this.

Tang Cheng immediately decided to ask Director Gao to invite the old lady back to the office, and Tang Cheng wanted to talk to her in person.

In the museum office, Tang Cheng asked the old lady to pour a glass of water. Ask the old lady to sit down, Tang Cheng said, "The old man has a long life this year?"

The old lady said, "I'm 90 years old, and my body is still strong." ”

The old lady was accompanied by a pair of children, both of whom were in their 60s.

The son introduced his mother and said: "Old mother, 90 years old, can still take care of herself and cook and eat by herself. can pick vegetables and raise flowers, and his brain is not confused at all. For my sacrificial father, she can remember the past. ”

Tang Cheng said, "Okay." ”

The old lady asked Tang Cheng, "Are you a big official?"

Tang Cheng smiled.

Director Gao hurriedly introduced in his ear: "This is the governor of our province!"

The old lady looked at Tang Cheng fixedly, and she was about to kneel down and kowtow, but Tang Cheng hurriedly supported her! Tang Cheng hurriedly said: "Old man! You are the widow of a hero, a family member of a martyr, and you are an old birthday star, if you give me such a big gift." I can't afford it! I've heard about you, did you bring the military medal?"

The old lady asked her accompanying son to take out a green cloth bag, put it on the table, and open it layer by layer, Tang Cheng noticed that even the cloth bag that wrapped the military merit medal was the military color of the year. Two military medals emerged from inside. It was awarded to her husband by the national government of that year. Director Gao said: "I found someone to identify it, and it should belong to the 16th Army Corps of the Army. ”

Tang Cheng asked the old lady with a pleasant face: "Why do you have so much money for your two military medals? Are you very poor now, do you need money very much?"

The old lady said, "We don't really need money, that's what we should want." ”

The old lady's son came over and introduced: "Governor, do you know that we are not the kind of people who are greedy for wealth, and if we were greedy for wealth, we would not be the descendants of heroes! The 16th Army, participated in the Battle of Wuhan and the Battle of Changsha against Japan, and later went to Burma to fight with the expeditionary force, and later died in Burma, and when he died, his body was left in a foreign land. Just a few months ago, through personal relations, we inquired in many ways, my father's bones were discovered, the other party is a Burmese, can let us transport my father's bones back, but, they actually asked for 800,000 yuan, as long as they give them money, they agreed, to transport my father's bones back, we have so much money there, just right, our father has these two military medals, it was the two battles of the Battle of Wuhan and the Battle of Changsha, awarded to my father, my father handed it over to my mother, my mother has always treasured, the military medal was not brought into the Burmese War, so it was preserved, my mother and I discussed, I thought, can we use these two military medals, in exchange for 800,000 yuan, to redeem my father's bones and bury them in our hometown. It just so happened that I saw that the Red Museum sent out a call for items with red genes, and so I came. ”

The old lady's daughter shed tears and said: "My mother is 90 years old, and she also knows that she is about to leave this world, and she has a wish that after death, she can be buried with my father's bones!"

Tang Cheng understood, it turned out to be like this, and it also proved that Tang Cheng's hunch was correct, the hero's family would not be so greedy for wealth.

Tang Cheng immediately expressed his stance and said: "Old man, if you are telling the truth, you don't have to worry about this kind of thing, our government has to take care of it! In those days, in order to protect their families and defend the country and to fight against aggression, countless heroic sons and daughters rose up to fight in order not to become slaves of the country, and did not hesitate to use their flesh and blood to resist the high ships and cannons of foreign aggression! They left behind heroic and tragic deeds that can be sung and wept! In our time, there was no way to let the bodies of martyrs be left in a foreign land! Now that we are strong, we must recover the bones of the soldiers who have been exiled in a foreign land! This is the integrity and responsibility that a nation should have!"

Tang Cheng immediately arranged for Director Gao and said: "Accept the two military medals of the old man's family and place them in our museum for collection! You go in person, find Sun Zhenglu of the Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, and tell him that this is what I arranged, let him do it urgently, and do it himself, and immediately follow Miao Manling's relatives to Burma and bring back the bones of the martyrs to me, no matter how much it costs, there will be financial expenses from our government! After the bones of the martyrs are brought back, they can be disposed of by their relatives, and if they are willing to be buried in their hometown, the government will give them a burial fee of no less than 10,000 yuan! If they are willing to be handed over to the government for resettlement, they are guaranteed to enter the martyrs' cemetery. ”