Chapter 1161 1161 Goodbye, Sir Churchill
"May I ask you, Lady Isabella, how do you feel about being back in London again?"
"Feel good." Isabella smiled and did Tai Chi.
"Do you feel like home?" Another reporter asked.
"I'm married, and for me the family is home now, England is called home, and home is different from home." Although there is no legal marriage relationship between Lin Youde and Isabella, the public has long regarded her as a member of Lin Youde's family, so there is no problem in saying that she is married.
So Isabella replied like this, and no one among the reporters continued to ask, and all kinds of other questions followed, but before Isabella could pick an answer, a loud voice drowned out the voices of other reporters: "Will you apologize at the tombstone of Sir Winston Churchill?" β
The question is quite acute, no, this is not a sharp Cheng dΓΉ anymore, this is simply a verbal attack on Isabella.
Lin Youde was a little worried that Isabella would not be able to cope, so he glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, but found that Isabella's expression was calm as usual.
"I will not apologize," she replied word for word, "and I have been reflecting on what I did before the war all these years, and I feel from the bottom of my heart that I have made huge and indelible mistakes in many decisions." At that time, I failed to stop the main war faction led by Churchill, and the British were drawn into a war with no chance of winning, which was the biggest mistake of my life. I feel that I owe it to the whole British people for this mistake, but I don't see any reason for Winston Churchill to apologize to him. β
"But your betrayal has put Sir Churchill in a great crisis, and if you don't feel sorry, shouldn't you have some apologies." This time, the reporters who asked the questions didn't need to overpower their peers with such loud voices, because their peers were stunned by his straight-ball questions and couldn't speak at all, and Isabella's answer made the reporters all busy thinking about tomorrow's front-page headline, and they didn't have time to continue to ask noisy questions.
"It is true that I betrayed Sir Winston Churchill, but the main reason he will be in crisis is that he does not have a good sense of the situation, and I want to correct you by saying that I was captured on the battlefield, do you understand? Even if I hadn't been a member of the Lin family, I wouldn't have been able to return to England before the war ended. And I would like to remind you that in the early and middle stages of the war, I had been fighting on battlefields that had nothing to do with England, and by the time I returned to the skies of England, the tide of battle was almost decided, and what I did had no effect on the outcome of the war. β
What else did the reporter want to say, the British Home Secretary who came to greet Lin Youde's family came forward: "That's all for today's question session, Mr. Reporter, Mr. Lin must be very tired from afar, don't cause him too much trouble." β
It is also reasonable for the minister to come forward, and now there are many factions in Britain that want to cooperate with Lin Youde, this time they specially built Lin Youde to bring Isabella over, now that the war has passed for almost 20 years, everyone's memory of the war has been indifferent, Isabella's return will not make the people too disgusted, but can increase the people's closeness to Lin Youde, and create a public opinion advantage for the faction that wants to cooperate with Lin Youde.
And those born after the war are now at an age where they are very interested in legends, and the story between Lin Youde and Isabella will have a different meaning in their eyes.
So of course these people are not going to sit idly by and watch a poor journalist ruin their wishful thinking.
I guess the other reporters present will be given a valuable gift to revise the headline they have in mind.
After finally getting rid of the reporters, Lin Youde and his entourage boarded the car bound for the hotel.
As soon as he got in the car, Lin Youde said to Isabella: "It's hard. β
"It's okay, I knew there would be such a day. Hopefully no one throws tomatoes at me at the funeral tomorrow. β
Lin Youde smiled.
"If someone throws it, it's over, Alulu is so good to you, a 'wet nurse', she will definitely rush out and bite the guy who threw the tomatoes."
Lin Youde's words seemed to hurt Isabella ten thousand times more than the reporter's question just now, and she said with some frustration: "Don't make fun of me, right?" I know Chihiro didn't mean to, but I'm still hard to accept that my daughter is closer to her because she has ears and tails......"
Lin Youde reached out and put his arm around Isabella's shoulder: "Don't worry, Alulu will understand what's going on when she grows up, the fox can't take away your baby bump." β
"I'm not worried, because everyone will love Alulu very much, and she can't suffer from anyone. It's just a little unacceptable. β
"It's a big deal, I'll have another one with you."
"Less, I think this hope is very slim, Viola and Chihiro rolled the sheets with you for so many years after the first child, and they didn't give birth to a second one, so I don't have extravagant hopes."
Isabella said this, but apparently her mood had improved dramatically, and the change could be felt just by looking at her expression.
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The next day, Winston Churchill's state funeral was officially held.
With the exception of the countries of the Alliance for Human Innovation, almost all countries in the world were represented at the funeral, and the countries of the Alliance for Human Innovation also sent unofficial representatives to the funeral.
Lin Youde is the representative of Germany, but what is interesting is that Lin Youde is also the de facto ruler of Germany, the mastermind behind the call for wind and rain.
Because of this, Lin Youde, as an unofficial representative, was still given the opportunity to speak, and he was the third guest speaker after the British Prime Minister and the US Secretary of State.
When Churchill's coffin was escorted by the royal guard of honor to the city of London, Lin Youde found that there were many fewer London citizens who came to bid farewell to the prime minister than in another time and space - this is also normal, Churchill in this time and space is indeed not as beautiful as that time and space, and there are many people in the British public who think that he took Britain to the pit, so Isabella's remarks on the day of her arrival did not trigger the expected wave of protests - many British people actually think she has a point.
Most of the people gathered on the roadside to bid farewell to Churchill were middle- and upper-class people, and in Lin's view, they were more like remembering the glory of the empire where the sun never set.
Eventually, the coffin arrived at Blenheim Royal Cemetery and was ready for burial.
Before the pastor's sermon begins, there is a speech session for the guests who have come to see them off.
When it was Lin Youde's turn, he said into the microphone:
"Thirty years ago, I thought Winston Churchill was a nasty old guy who stood in my way like a bull and was a formidable opponent I had to take seriously. Thirty years later, I am also an old man who is hated by many people, and they are trying to bring me down in any way they can, and I am beginning to understand how Mr. Winston Churchill felt back then. Now, an old fellow of mine has come to bid farewell to another old fellow, and his departure represents the end of an era of heroes competing for supremacy, and gradually we will all become names in the history books, a picture, and perhaps a naughty child who does not listen to the lecture and scribbles on our faces with a pen.
"Even though we knew it would happen, there was nothing we could do. No matter how surprised people are, they can't compete with time, and eighteen years have passed since World War II, which has become a historical memory, and we are walking on the same path. Good all the way, Sir Churchill. β