Chapter 040: I Have a Dream
With Lu Peng's sad and painful voice, those soldiers and those people quietly gathered around Lu Peng,
At this time, a thin man raised his face timidly and asked Lu Peng: "Sir, do you say that we can survive in this troubled world?" Can those officials keep us alive? β
The thin body, the blank eyes, the tattered clothes that could not cover the body, and the cherry gun that was twice his height were on his lean, just looking up like that, waiting for Lu Peng's answer with sincerity and longing.
This is just a child who has not grown up, such a child, if in Lu Peng's era, he is still studying in school, and he is still coquettish in the care of his parents, but in this troubled world, in order to survive, he picked up a knife and gun early, and this time he was lucky to survive, and he may be in the next battle, and he fell into a pile of dry bones in which ditch in obscurity.
Lu Peng stroked the child's head lovingly, looking at the infinite desire for birth in his eyes, and felt sour in his heart.
What made him so vicissitudes at such a young age, and what made him bear the difficulties and confusions of life at a young age? Is it a natural disaster? Or is it a man-made disaster? Or is it this dark old man who doesn't open his eyes?
Looking at the child's eyes eager for answers, Lu Peng took a deep breath, he must give them a hope to live, this is his responsibility, this is his mission, so he calmly smiled faintly: "I don't know if we can live, maybe we will all die in the process of this struggle." β
The child's eyes instantly returned to their original grayness, and he lowered his thin head weakly. In this long and dark camp battlefield, people lowered their heads.
What a sad thing it is to be born hopeless?
Lu Peng took a breath, stroked the child's head again, and said softly: "Child, don't be disappointed, we may all die, but some people are confused, just let God arrange to die, but we are not like this, we have to fight, my life is up to me, we have to fight against those officials who oppress us, the evil landlords, and fight against this thief, even if we die, we will die after living vigorously, we fight like this, then do we still have regrets." β
As a member of the government, he criticized the lord of the government, and this time it clearly showed the boundary between Lu Peng and the government.
Looking at the child who raised his head again, and seeing the hope burning again in the child's eyes, Lu Peng took a deep breath and said: "In this world, if we want to live, we can't rely on any savior, nor can we rely on any immortal emperor, Taiping Dao, even more fucking bullshit, everything can only rely on ourselves, child, be strong, I can't guarantee that you won't die in this struggle, but I promise that I will die in front of you, your uncle, your brother, and then it can be you." β
When the boy raised his head again, his eyes were filled with endless hope and tears.
There was endless hope and generosity in the eyes of all the people, and all of them clenched the swords and guns in their hands.
"So, sir, if we could live, what would the future be?"
When Lu Peng looked up, he didn't know when, the sky was completely dark, the sky was like black thick ink gloomy and gloomy and coercive on everything in this world, and the black and undulating figure of the green mountains in the distance was like countless giant beasts in the sky, crouching there, as if they could jump up at any time, devouring the lives of all the small people in this world.
A torch was lit, another torch was lit, countless torches were lit, in this dark and oppressive darkness, stubbornly burning their own lives, bursting with warmth and light, although they were weak, but what gathered together was the fierce brilliance.
Although this light is still insignificant compared to this darkness, as long as a gust of wind can blow him to ashes, but, now, even now, they are all burning highly, tearing a corner of the dark and heavy tomorrow, Lu Peng firmly believes that with this corner, it will eventually become a prairie fire, and will eventually burn the entire dark world.
Lu Peng took a torch, pulled the child, and slowly walked through the torch light, in the sound of beeping firelight, it seemed to be muttering to himself, and it seemed to be speaking to everyone.
"I have experienced a world in which peasants no longer pay taxes and receive subsidies, public servants are paid accordingly for their work, education is no longer the preserve of the clan's power, the common people can get free education and be happy and wise, officials are called public servants, not from above to serve the people, the people are wronged by the law, not by virtue of the preferences of the superiors, merchants gather wealth for the circulation of things, and farmers and craftsmen produce for the purpose of increasing social wealth. The government levies reasonable taxes, not to fatten the officials and emperors, but to build schools, so that children like you in the world can have a school, to repair the roads of the whole world so that people can travel conveniently, in order to build water conservancy, so that people can have land to plant, work, new clothes to wear, and enough to eat. There everyone is created equal, there is no hierarchy or inferiority, freedom, yes, freedom, and the atmosphere of freedom permeates every corner of the world. β
In the sound of beeping torches, everyone's eyes shifted with Lu Shi's movement, there was no noise, not even the slightest disturbance, everyone was immersed in the heavenly world outlined by Lu Shi.
Although some of Lu Peng's words and some words and phrases they seemed to understand or not, it could not stop their endless expectations and imagination.
"Of course, there are such and such shortcomings in that world, and there are also such and such filths, but after all, it is only temporary, and the people there are constantly fighting in a happy life."
"On such a fairy day, why do you have to fight?" The child asked in a whisper, blushing, tilting his head.
"Because in order to be more free and happy, no matter how close to the world is, it is not really perfect after all, and all the imperfect things need to be in the hands of us, the thousands of people who have supported and continued history, and we have been perfected to the greatest extent in our continuous struggle."
"Sir, how long will these days last?" The childish voice is crisp and vibrant.
The child followed behind Lu Peng, grabbed the corner of Lu Peng tightly, and asked in a crisp and energetic voice, and asked in a hopeful tone.
Lu Peng stopped, lowered his head, and replied very seriously: "Maybe it won't be long, maybe it will be very long, so long that it will take us to go forward and succeed generations, or even more people, but you must firmly believe that that world is real, and that world will definitely be realized." β
Walking and talking, then Lu Peng stood up violently and faced everyone: "Although this is still a dream, as long as we insist, the dream will definitely be realized, follow me, follow me, I will lead everyone to realize this dream, at least infinitely close to this dream." Then he said firmly: "I will not abandon my dreams, I will not give up my dreams." β
"Don't abandon, don't give up." The child suddenly paused the spear in his hand in a childish voice, looked at Lu Peng and shouted with hope.
"Don't abandon, don't give up." Xi Zhen clenched her fists tightly, looked at Lu Peng with sincere eyes, and shouted from her heart.
"Don't abandon, don't give up." Zhao Quan's voice changed from hesitant to firm, from whispering to shouting with everyone's strength.
"Don't abandon, don't give up." This wave spread like a wave from the inside out, and finally there were bursts of neat shouts, neat swords and guns.
This is a commitment to the oath, and it is also a kind of trust and supervision for Lu Peng, the person who initiated the oath.
Lu Peng suddenly raised his hands.
The scene suddenly became silent, and everyone waited quietly for Mr. to make a decision.
"I, Lu Peng, will use my life to fulfill my vow, never abandon or give up, go through this dark journey with my brothers, and create an ideal world in our hearts."
"Lord-" Xi Zhen fell to her knees with tears in her eyes.
"My lordβ" Hundreds of brothers fell to their knees together.
"My lord-" Zhao Quan fell to his knees and burst into tears.
This kneeling is life and death.