The atmosphere in the church is more solemn, and there are many black and white photographs in the exhibition room, mainly from the Second World War period, but also in the fifties and sixties, and even fewer in modern times.

Qin Shiou looked at these photos just to understand the previous Canada, but Auerbach was even more touched, and sighed: "There are many things in it, I haven't seen them for many years." ”

Qin Shiou smiled and said, "Time is fast, right?" ”

Auerbach patted him on the shoulder and said, "So you have to cherish the time when you were young, I think the next time you say this, maybe you will be the same age as me, haha." ”

After seeing them in the first room, Simmons took them to the second room, when Hamlet came over and greeted, "Hi, Qin, Mr. Auerbach, Winnie Sweetheart, I have to apologize to you for snubbing you just now." ”

Qin Shiou shook hands with him and said with a smile: "It's not necessary, just be nice to your subordinates in the future." ”

Simmons thought he was talking about himself, his face was full of grievances, and he quickly explained: "No, Mr. Hamlet is very good to me. ”

Qin Shiou pulled Winnie and said, "You misunderstood, Mr. Simmons, I'm talking about my wife, and she is also a subordinate of Mr. Hamley, isn't she?" ”

After meeting Hamlet, someone came over again, it was Yan Donglei, the helmsman of the Newfoundland Chinese Mutual Aid Association, and he was naturally indispensable on such occasions.

After Yan Donglei found Qin Shiou, he had a brief greeting, and then took him to another exhibition hall that Simmons was going to take him to, the World War II Chinese Contribution Memorial Exhibition Hall.

There were many black-eyed and yellow-skinned Chinese in this room, as well as old soldiers wearing military uniforms and wearing military merit medals, and there were five such old men in total. They are all in their old age, and they are accompanied by people.

Qin Shiou's reputation in Newfoundland was quite large. Almost all of these people know him, and even if they don't know him, they know Yan Donglei. The latter's connections seem to spread throughout the Chinese community in Canada.

These people greeted the two one after another, and Qin Shiou returned the salute and met everyone under Yan Donglei's introduction.

When he entered the room, an old man with a dragon head cane looked at him carefully, and when he heard Yan Donglei introduce his identity to him, the old gentleman asked first: "Young man, your surname is Qin?" Is it the descendant of Qin Hongde's brother? ”

When Qin Shiou heard him say this, he quickly corrected his attitude, he was obviously familiar with his second grandfather. In this way, he is his elder: "Yes, uncle, I am his grandson." ”

The old gentleman laughed, he looked like he was in his nineties, his sparse hair was pale, but his voice was still clear and loud, but he was not fluent in Mandarin, but fortunately, it was a northern accent, and Qin Shiou could understand it.

The old man reached for his wallet. There is a group photo inside, all of which are a group of young men in their prime, he pointed to a tall young man in the middle and said, "This, can you recognize this?" ”

Qin Shiou has seen many photos of his second grandfather. The two look very similar, which may be related to intergenerational inheritance. So he recognized it at a glance, and the person the old man was referring to was his second grandfather.

Qin Shiou helped the old man out and found a place to sit down. He asked, "Were you comrades-in-arms in World War II?" ”

The old man laughed. said: "Yes, it is a comrade-in-arms." Although we haven't fought together, we have trained together. ”

Yan Donglei introduced: "Mr. Chen was a combat hero at that time, he was a member of the 136 task force recruited by the British military in Canada. ”

Hearing this, Qin Shiou was in awe, for the 136 task force, he had specially learned before he came, this unit is all composed of Chinese, and the task is to go deep behind the enemy to do reconnaissance and sabotage work, in today's words, they are all special forces.

The reason why this combat team was all Chinese was because at that time the Asian battlefield needed scouts with Asian characteristics so that they could be more easily sent behind enemy lines in the Japanese army, and the largest number of Asians in Canada at that time were Chinese.

The old man patted Qin Shiou's hand and said, "Your grandfather and I met at this time, and we were both conscripted into Task Force 136 and trained in Vancouver. Later, the British governor thought that Brother Qin had good water nature, and it was too wasteful to go to East Asia to fight, so we were separated. ”

Qin Shiou heard Auerbach introduce this, his second grandfather did not join the army, but he was responsible for the transportation of the Allied forces in the North Atlantic during World War II, and he had a transport fleet in his hands.

Before the 80s, the Chinese in Canada had a very difficult time, the discrimination was very serious, the Chinese to open a private fishing ground is almost impossible, his second grandfather was able to establish the Daqin Fishing Ground, because he had made meritorious contributions in wartime, and there was a transport fleet for him to accumulate the first wealth.

The old man likes to reminisce, and then the old gentleman began to tell some of the past things he had with Qin Hongde and the things he experienced on the battlefield.

In the early days of the war, young Chinese who wanted to join the army were not accepted, especially the Air Force, and the Canadian Air Force did not accept a single Chinese American during World War II.

As the war continued, more troops were needed at the front, so they began to admit Chinese Americans into the army in 1940, and at first they mostly went to the European theater with the Canadian army to participate in the war, and later found that they were more effective in the Asian theater, and then the establishment of Task Force 136.

"What did you do at the time?" Qin Shiou asked.

The old gentleman explained with a smile: "Most of the time, before the military operation of a large army, I went to the rear of the enemy to carry out reconnaissance missions to see the deployment of the Japanese defense line, and the military operation began, and I did some sabotage. I also went to Burma as an interpreter for the Americans and General Dianlan's army, which were all Allied at the time. ”

Speaking of this, he paused and said: "General Dai Anlan is a good man who dares to fight tough battles, and my American governor at that time admired him very much, but it's a pity." ”

The old gentleman shook his head, Dai Anlan was one of the supreme commanders of the Burma Expeditionary Force at that time, and the death rate of the expeditionary force abroad was very high, and General Dai Anlan, as the commander of the 200th Division, did not return to China alive.

Yan Donglei wanted to take Qin Shiou to continue to get to know the Chinese compatriots who participated in the commemorative activities, but Qin Shiou was not very interested, and said that he would have time to meet later, so he would chat with Mr. Chen first.

When people are old, their only hobby is to chat, and it is estimated that the old gentleman usually has no one who can talk - as soon as they met, Yan Donglei told Qin Shiou that he did not marry a wife after retiring and was alone.

Yan Donglei left, Qin Shiou chatted with the old gentleman alone, he looked for a topic, it was very easy, just talk about the medal on the old gentleman.

chatted for more than an hour, and at this time Yan Donglei found him and said that the event was about to start and asked them to participate together.

Qin Shiou helped the old man to stand up, and when he was about to leave, the old gentleman patted his forehead and said: "Oh, I'm useless now, I used to prepare a gift for Brother Qin, alas, I knew that I could see my brother's descendants, so I brought it to him." (To be continued......)