Dozens of Olympians walked through the city with flowers in their hands, slings diagonally and flower crowns on their heads, standing in the bodies of three trucks.

Every time a truck pulls into a street, that street will sound firecrackers in advance. Both sides of the road were crowded with citizens who had come to welcome them, and the windows on the second floor facing the street were opened, ready to throw gifts at the car.

Some vendors mingled with the crowd, shouting and shouting:

"Selling cigarettes, selling cigarettes, authentic camel cigarettes, Olympic athletes smoke with energy!"

"Sweet and crispy big duck pear, buy a pound and give it to the Olympic athletes, and guarantee to get the gold medal back!"

"Postcards, postcards, send blessings to the Olympic athletes!"

“……”

The business of the vendors is very good, and some citizens who have not prepared gifts have paid for some knick-knacks.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

At the window on the second floor of the street, a noble lady with heavy makeup shouted loudly, turned back to the servant and shouted, "Atsui, bring my ocean quickly!" ”

After the government's monetary reform, the use of the ocean has been banned, but it is still widely circulated among the private sector.

I saw more than a dozen policemen riding bicycles to open the road, followed by five cars, all of whom were high-ranking officials and celebrities. For example, Lin Sen, Zhou Hexuan, and Wu Tiecheng took the first car, and Du Yuesheng and his brothers took the last car.

Behind them were the trucks of the Olympic athletes, and the moment they appeared, the whole street was in a stir.

The bewitching lady in the window on the second floor grabbed the ocean with both hands and threw it down. She spotted a sturdy, handsome athlete, threw a wreath of flowers, and shouted, "Darling, love tiger oil!" ”

Citizens on the side of the road also threw things at the car desperately, and many people ran after the truck like crazy, just hoping to shake hands with the athletes, and even just hope to touch the athletes' legs.

Zhou Xuan stood with the classmates of the Chinese and Western Girls' School, and when she saw the convoy coming, she immediately waved flowers and shouted: "Chinese athletes, Olympic might, defeat Britain, defeat Japan!" Long live China, it will surely be rejuvenated......"

Standing opposite them was St. Mary's Girls' School, and the female voice of the team leader hurriedly said: "Shout with me, don't be robbed of the limelight by the Chinese and Western Girls' School!" ”

Zhang Ailing waved her arms with her classmates and shouted reflexively: "Chinese athletes, No. 1 in Asia, Tu Ying will destroy the sun, and raise the prestige of our country!" Revitalize China and ...... with the glory of the country"

The student leader of the Chinese and Western Girls' School immediately stuffed the iron megaphone to Zhou Xuan: "Xuanzi, you are a golden voice, sing that Olympic hymn!" ”

At the beginning, the 19th Route Army bravely resisted the enemy in the Battle of Songhu, and some people immediately wrote poems and songs to praise, and the "Song of the 19th Route Army" was widely sung. Song Zheyuan's troops won a great victory in the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, and some people wrote poems and songs, and "The Big Knife Cut Off the Heads of the Devils and Devils" is even more popular.

When the news of the Olympic athletes' victory in Europa broke, countless poetry works immediately emerged, among which "Olympic Athletes' Song" was the most popular.

Zhou Xuan held the iron megaphone, cleared his throat and immediately began to sing: "You are the dawn of the dawn in the east, you are the rising sun that breaks the darkness, Olympic athletes, and the national strength accumulated for 5,000 years...... Behold, the sleeping lion has woken up, walking with majestic steps, and sending out earth-shattering rage to the world...... The dragon is soaring, his light shining in the clouds, and his descendants marching forward...... Fly, roar, the Chinese nation has never yielded. Ancestors, compatriots, we have never given up, and the pride and faith of the ancient oriental country have always flowed in the blood of the descendants of Yan and Huang......"

The students of Santa Maria Girls' School were suddenly blinded, they didn't have a golden voice, only Zhang Ailing, who relied on literature to make a nickname.

The leader of the Santa Maria Girls' School hurriedly said, "Let's sing together and suppress the voices on the other side!" ”

Zhang Ailing felt a little headache, because she had never learned this song at all, so she could only open her mouth and paddle in the chorus.

The Chinese and Western girls' schools on the opposite side also started a chorus, and St. Mary's Girls' School was their sworn enemy, which was a bit like Tsinghua University and Peking University in later generations. Gradually, countless citizens also sang along, and gathered into a heroic torrent on the streets.

All kinds of small gifts in the car body have drowned the ankles of the Olympic athletes, and the citizens are still frantically throwing them up. Dozens of athletes listened to the neat and loud singing, looked at the gifts at their feet, and their eyes were full of tears, and the emotions were even more difficult to suppress than standing on the Olympic podium.

"The people's hearts can be used, and the people's morale can be inspired!" Lin Sen sighed as he sat in the car.

Zhou Hexuan poured cold water faintly and said: "I just hope that the government can be sober, don't lose the hearts of the people and lose the morale of the people." ”

"Huh." Lin Sen smiled a little embarrassedly.

Among the crowd on the street was a foreign girl, Xiang Meimei, a corresponding correspondent for The New Yorker magazine, whose English name was Emily Hahn, who was about to marry the Crescent poet Shao Xunmei as his aunt's wife.

A month and a half later, the New Yorker published a beautiful article:

"At that time, hundreds of thousands of Shanghai citizens gathered in the streets to throw gifts to the Chinese athletes to show their joy and respect. I even saw a beggar who was also throwing copper plates (a Chinese currency) into the truck, which could be his income all day. People chased the trucks frantically, and others struggled to climb and were chased away with sticks by the police who maintained order. ”

"Even athletes who don't win any medals are treated like Hollywood superstars in China, like heroes returning from the battlefield. People sang an Olympic song in unison, the lyrics to the effect that the Chinese sleeping lion had woken up, and as an American, I could still feel the tremendous spiritual power contained in it. ”

"I know a famous courtesan in Shanghai named Lu Haitang, who is a frequent visitor to the rich circle, and at that time she was also like a star-chasing fan running in a convoy. Later, she told me that she liked Ji Zhengliang, who won two gold medals in swimming, and that she could abandon everything and marry this athlete if the other party wanted to. Maybe she's joking, who knows? ”

"My Chinese friends and I had an in-depth exchange on this. They all agreed that the Olympians were worthy of praise, enough to boost the morale of the country's people and give the country unprecedented self-confidence. They say that China needs heroes, and any Chinese who wins glory for the country is a hero. ”

"China is an ancient and wonderful country, and if you just take a quick glance here, you will see backwardness, ignorance, chaos and squalor. If you stay and blend in with them, you will see strength, wisdom, unity, and hard work. I think one day, this sleeping lion in the Far East will really wake up and show the world its great power. ”