Chapter 4: The Defeat of Berlin
The climax of the opening ceremony was not the German track and field athlete Fritz? The moment when Hilgen lit the Olympic flame. It was not the former president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) who gave an impassioned speech, but the German head of state, Adolf Coubertin. The moment Hitler entered the rostrum.
The audience stood up, thundered with joy, the crowd of 100,000 people in the stadium shook, the ground shook, and the SS soldiers in charge of guarding the field all performed the ancient Roman fascist military salute, these soldiers were all young blonde men with a height of more than 1.8 meters, black military uniforms and steel helmets, breeches and leather boots, and their postures were erect and unstoppable.
Hitler was not tall, wearing a yellow Nazi Party uniform, and he couldn't see his face from too far away, but in the past few days in Berlin, he has been accustomed to seeing huge pictures of the Führer on the streets and alleys, and knows what this gentleman looks like.
The Führer began to speak, announcing the start of the 11th Olympic Games, Chen Zikun could not understand German, but he could hear that Hitler was eloquent, and his speech was unscripted, and his voice seemed to have a special magic.
Yao Yilei held up a simple folding telescope produced by Zeiss and looked at it: "Hitler is not like a man." ”
The crowd of cheers around her overpowered her voice, and the eyes of all Germans shone with a feverish sparkle, and with countless five-story Nazi flags and German eagles stomping on their feet, even if they were not Germans, they were naturally infected.
Powerful, orderly, and fanatical, this is the impression that the opening ceremony of the Berlin Olympics left on Chen Zikun.
Germany in 1936, prosperous and full of vitality, the people's living standards are thriving, walking on the Kurlieu Street, you can feel the greatness of the German nation everywhere, the window is full of goods, Mercedes and Porsche cars are driving on the road, it is said that Hitler designed a national car for the German people, the front and rear are round, like a beetle, but unfortunately it has not been mass-produced, only a few cars, such a rich and orderly country, it is difficult to imagine that ten years ago it was still in the crisis of defeat in inflation and land reparations.
This is a brand-new Germany, a great Germany, no wonder Chiang Kai-shek admired Hitler very much, in fact, there are many voices in the domestic intellectual circles, all of whom highly respect this model of National Socialism and think that it is a good medicine to save China.
On August 2, the sprint preliminaries began, Chen Zikun took his family to the sports field, and waited with confidence to see Cheng Shi's competition, even if the performance was abnormal, it is estimated that it is a sure thing to enter the finals, but Cheng Shi did not appear on the field, only Chinese players Liu Changchun and Cheng Jinguan participated, and they were eliminated in the first round.
Chen Zikun was shocked, and hurriedly found the delegation leader to ask, it turned out that Cheng Shi accepted a banquet from several overseas Chinese in Germany last night, and after eating a meal, he returned to the Olympic Village and began to have diarrhea, and he was dehydrated until the morning, and now he has been sent to the hospital for treatment, and he still has the physical strength to participate in the competition.
When I came to the hospital, I saw Cheng Shi lying on the hospital bed, his face was full of shame, and he came to Germany across the ocean to earn face for the Chinese nation, but he lay down first before he played, and he was really shameless to face Jiangdong's father.
Cheng Shi wanted to die, and struggled to get up to ask Chen Zikun for his guilt, the doctor came over and said a few words, and the translator said: "He didn't eat a bad stomach, but was poisoned, we found a strong poison from his excrement, fortunately, the patient has a strong physique, if it is an ordinary person, probably his life is lost." ”
Everyone looked at each other, fear spread, Cheng Shi was the dark horse of the Chinese delegation, and the news of defeating Owens in the warm-up spread all over Berlin, and everyone in the world knew that even if China did not win the gold medal this time, a silver medal was not run, how do you know that the joy is sad, the dark horse did not even participate in the preliminaries, and was directly poisoned.
Chen Zikun was furious, but the people and land were sparse, there was no way, so he had to turn a blind eye to this kind of thing, and could not count on it at all, the delegation and the overseas Chinese had to investigate on their own, it turned out that the so-called overseas Chinese who hosted Cheng Shi on the night before the game were not Chinese at all.
It just so happened that Jiang Baili, a senior adviser to the Military Commission, came to Germany to discuss military cooperation, Jiang was an old man from Beiyang, who had been the principal of the Baoding Military Academy, and Wu Peifu was the chief of staff, and now he was a member of the Military Commission, and he had some intersections with Chen Zikun, he came in an official capacity, and he could put appropriate pressure on the German side, so Chen Zikun went to visit Jiang Baili.
Although he is also a general and a member of the Military Commission, Jiang Baili is an old-timer after all, Chen Zikun held the disciple courtesy and politely told the matter, Jiang Baili was filled with indignation and said that he would negotiate with the German side through channels.
Although Chen Zikun and Jiang Baili are not irreversible friends, but they meet in a foreign country, they are also very cordial, Chen Zikun invited Jiang Baili to the Brandenburg Hotel for dinner, and Jiang Baili readily agreed.
When going to the banquet, Jiang Baili brought a man and a woman to two young people, the man was about twenty years old, heroic, handsome, the girl was sixteen or seventeen years old, born with a beautiful and lovely country, Chen Zikun smiled and said: "A pair of good sons and daughters born by Brother Baili." ”
Jiang Baili laughed and said, "This guy is my attendant adjutant, Jiang Weiguo, the second son of Chairman Jiang, this is my daughter, Jiang Ying." ”
Jiang Weiguo stepped forward and saluted: "Hello General Chen." ”
Jiang Ying also said: "Uncle Chen is good. "The voice is crisp and melodious.
Chen Zikun said: "Okay, good, seeing you young people, my bad mood has changed for the better, double happiness, go and call the young master and Miss down." ”
Originally, Chen Zikun didn't plan to let his children come to the banquet, but since Jiang Baili brought his daughter here, he called Xiaobei and Yan'er down, so that the young people could get to know each other and take care of each other in the future.
Although Xiaobei is only fifteen years old, he is tall, and he has been with his father and has seen a lot, and Jiang Weiguo, who is five years older, has no sense of generation gap, but at first sight, they talk very happily, Yan'er and Jiang Ying are both little girls, and they have not yet reached the age of learning to be jealous, so they can naturally play together.
The meal was German-style bacon, sausage elbow and dark beer, the portion was extremely large, Chen Zikun sighed: "Hitler preached the supremacy of the Aryans, it is completely nonsense, eat elbows and drink beer all day, can this physique be bad, if we Chinese eat such good things all day, we must be burly, big shoulders and round waist, and the gold medals in the Olympics are full of grabbing." ”
Jiang Baili said with a smile: "Although the words of the elder brother Kunwu are white, they are not unreasonable, China is an agrarian nation, and has always been invaded by the nomads of Mobei, and the reason for the physique accounts for a lot, not to mention eating meat all day long, in the barren mountainous areas of the northern land, the peasants can't even eat coarse grains, so we are called the sick man of East Asia by the powers, they hope that we will always be weak, so that we can oppress and invade, among them, Japan is the most fierce, and suppresses China everywhere, this athlete poisoning incident, presumably the Japanese did. ”
Chen Zikun said: "It is very likely that Japan is afraid that China will win a medal and the people's morale will be strong, which will have an impact on their aggressive plans, so they have come up with this trick." ”
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Although Jiang Baili has an official status, his words are not so effective, the German police are still false and deal with the matter, after all, this case is too small to be able to file a case, as for you Chinese said that it was calculated, and the gold medal in hand flew, that is what you talk about yourself, and cannot be used as evidence.
However, a few days later, the head of the German police was big, and there was a vicious burglary and robbery somewhere, and several Asians were killed, and the deaths were very tragic, and it was found that these people were businessmen from Japan and North Korea.
A tragic incident occurred during the Olympics, and the police made great efforts to investigate, but there were no clues, and it eventually became a headless case.
After the case, Cheng Shi's condition improved rapidly, and he had a smile on his face.
All the Chinese players did not enter the semi-finals, the news of the total annihilation is not unexpected, the Olympic spirit is focused on participation, the Chinese team crossed the ocean to Berlin, itself is not easy, winning a medal is really a luxury, so no one blames Cheng Shi, they just feel that Cheng Shi failed to run in the Olympic arena, it is a pity.
The half-month Olympic Games finally came to an end, and Chen Zikun's family bought a lot of things, including several Olympic commemorative phonographs, as well as replicas of torches, German sausages and beer, and of course, a lot of German-made firearms.
Cheng Shi returned to China by boat with the Chinese Olympic delegation, and the Chen family continued to travel in Europe, shopping to Paris, London, Rome, and finally to New York.
After 14 years, Chen Zikun came to the United States again. Pacino came to pick up the plane, and the Italian young man who was in the wind in Yushu has now become a mafia leader with a fat brain, wearing a suit on a hot day, sweating hot, and a full ten black and shiny Lincoln cars parked behind him.
"Dear Chen, we met again, I heard that you became a general, and I haven't congratulated you in person." Mario gave him a warm bear hug, and then his expression froze, and he was dumbfounded as Yao Yilei, Jian Bing, Xia Xiaoqing, and Liu Ting came down the gangway.
"Friend, don't tell me that these are your wives, or Mario will die of jealousy." Mario burst out laughing.
"Unfortunately, you guessed it, basically." Chan smiled and introduced him, the ladies from the East greeted him in English gently, and Mario behaved like an authentic gentleman rather than a mafia boss.
Previously, Chen Zikun had commissioned the Percino family to buy a property in New York, located in the bustling part of Manhattan, with fifteen bedrooms and a huge living room, and the family happened to move in, and went to Anthony's old man's house for dinner in the evening to eat authentic Italian food.
The old man Anthony, who is over 70 years old and still strong, warmly welcomed the arrival of Chen Zikun's family, but was a little dissatisfied, Chen Zikun has too few children, according to Italian tradition, at least a room of children.
Mario gave birth to four children, two boys and two girls, playing in the house, two boys playing darts, playing a mess, Xiaobei was originally very reserved to sit, I really couldn't stand it, picked up a dart, shook his hand, hit the bull's-eye, shocked the two boys, and quickly handed over the darts, Xiaobei opened the bow left and right, dizzying, and the darts all hit the bull's-eye.
Even Mario was stunned, and no one in the Percino family who played with throwing knives could do so.
At dinner, the white cat was still walking gracefully around the dining table, Chen Zikun touched it, and the white cat shook its fur disappreciatively.
"This is Jimmy, old Kate's son, poor Kate died last winter. We're all old, and the kids are in their prime, and look at this kid, it's about the same as you were back then. Old man Anthony looked at Little North Road.
Chen Zikun said: "I want to foster my son in your house, and ask you to teach him to be an upright man." ”
Yao Yilei and Jianbing were surprised, Xia Xiaoqing didn't understand English, and she looked dazed, but the old man Anthony smiled: "I'm so honored, let Mario be the godfather of this child, although he is a yellow race, but I think in the whole of New York, no one dares to bully the children of the Percino family." ”