Chapter 15: The Awakening of Ownership

She is far worse than the embroiderer.

This is Xu Ruifeng's evaluation of Bai Ling, because even if she wears ordinary clothes, the words she says are still floating in the sky, like a middle-aged person observing Xiao Young, she will always unconsciously feel that the other party is a little unreliable.

But Lao Xu has forgotten that when he first heard Xiuniang talk about the ideals of the Red Party, he also felt very unreliable.

Just like this time.

"Look."

Bai Ling pointed to a peasant on the side of the street, and he drove the carriage to stop on the side of the road, and the carriage was made of iron boxes, and the shopkeeper immediately rushed over as soon as he saw this kind of cart.

"Hurry up and get out of the way, don't disturb our family's business for a while."

The coachman was also very unhappy, and replied: "Your family is open to the palace of the king of Hades, and you won't let you at the door for a while?" ”

"I really let you say, we are really the Hades Palace here!" The shopkeeper approached the coachman and said, "Coming from the countryside, right?" Going into the city to pull dung? Do you know where this is? ”

"Listen, this is called Wafangdian, we are sitting upstairs drinking tea, it is our Beiman's sitting cannon, Master Xu!"

"You dare to stop here? If you smoke Xu Ye, do you want to die? Why can't you hear it? ”

When the coachman heard the last sentence, he didn't even dare to refute, and after reaching out and pulling the reins, he gently patted the horse's buttocks and shouted, "Drive." ”

After the brass bell under the horse's neck rang several times, the carriage slowly left.

Bai Ling pointed to the coachman: "With your eyesight, can you tell who the coachman was just now?" ”

"Mud legs."

Xu Ruifeng didn't have to think about it, the coachman didn't have any anger in his eyes, and he didn't have any sense of resistance in the face of scolding and choosing to endure, it was obvious that he was the most ordinary people, or farmers outside Beiman City.

Bai Ling asked again: "Then do you think he is a pavilion or a foundation?" ”

Does this need to be asked?

Lao Xu didn't want to answer.

"They have to dig their feet into the mud all day long, take advantage of the cold winter to plough the ground, press the fertilizer into the ground to nourish the land, and then continue to plough the ground in the spring field, turn the cultivated land to the surface, and re-nourish the bottom, so that the land can become energetic, and they have been working hard all year round to feed the general public...... And in exchange for the least amount of money, sometimes even can't keep enough food to feed the family, you tell me, is this a foundation or should it be a pavilion? ”

"This should be a group of people who should be valued, and the base in China is huge, but what is the situation that can be faced? After the beginning of the whole industrialization, the young people in the village were full of yearning to go to the big city, and would rather starve and start all over again to become a worker, rather than keep the land and cultivate, and even earn some money and have to come back to show it, which is called the beautiful name of returning to the hometown; Shinong Industry and Commerce, this group of industries that have been praised for the entire feudal era have inexplicably declined, obviously we still need them, obviously we can't do without them at all...... But they began to look down on them unconsciously. ”

"Is this a foundation or a pavilion?"

"Has anyone come forward to say a word for them?"

"The Japanese, the Soviets, the Germans, the Eight-Nation Alliance, as long as all the foreign races invade the Central Plains, they must be the first to be unlucky, but how has the current government ever attached importance to this group of people, and how have you ever heard someone say who did their best because of them?"

Bai Ling looked at Lao Xu seriously: "Times have changed. ”

"Isn't it because you hate that any new ideas come before you, that we start to abandon our easy roots, and start chasing after the state system, the industrial process, the new things that are still experimenting and not even mature? Do you look down on the irritability and fury of the entire era and even the entire modern civilization? ”

"I admit that this shock may be too powerful for the old-fashioned ordinary people, but you must know that sooner or later these things will become the same foundation as this group of people, the land, and the crops in the blink of an eye, and when the time comes, will you still feel that what I am saying is a pavilion?"

"Lao Xu, we have also been so angry, but we have found the reason, because if we don't chase closely, everyone will be abandoned by this era of rapid development. We are not exaggerating in pursuit, but in resisting more powerful beings, we try our best to adapt to the rhythm of others, otherwise, we will be left far behind, and there is no possibility of catching up. ”

This is the first time Xu Ruifeng has heard a tirade about the entire era, and before his perception of this exposition has appeared, a new round of impact has come.

"Ever since I came into contact with you, I've always felt ...... The two of us are like two people who are incompatible, obviously in the same time and space, but we seem to live in different eras, until today, I suddenly understood. ”

"Lao Xu, you never seem to have loved this world, you locked yourself in the past, just so that there was your former glory."

Xu Ruifeng seems to be naturally resistant to the word 'love', and repeats it very understandingly: "Love? ”

"Yes, love."

"You don't know the world, you don't want to know about it, you only know the name of this country, but you don't know where it is......"

Xu Ruifeng hurriedly stopped: "You wait!" ”

"I don't understand, do you?" Bai Ling lowered his speed and explained: "You know that you are Chinese, and you may know some history, but those things exist in your fantasies, and you have not seen them with your own eyes. But now you are clinging to these things that you have never seen before, and you are still looking at all the new generations with a high and cold attitude. ”

"Do you know about hot springs hidden deep in the mountains? Have you ever soaked it? ”

"Did you know that when the fish come back, thousands of salmon pass by in the river, and you can catch one of them at your fingertips?"

"Have you ever been lying on the lawn in the middle of summer, letting the wind blow, listening to the birds singing and enjoying the scent of flowers in the shade?"

"I've seen it, we have walked more than 20,000 miles around this country, and I know that we have only recently been sent back to the Northeast, and we have witnessed every grass and tree in this country, and while we have fallen in love with this land, we have also understood the gap with others."

Xu Ruifeng found that Bai Ling and Xiuniang were two ways, Xiuniang smashed the biggest worldview directly into his mind, making him understand a framework, but Bai Ling was completely filled with details, and every word he said could make you think of the scene at that time.

"Lao Xu, if you haven't experienced all this in person, how can you really fall in love with this country?"

Xu Ruifeng looked at her: "You said these things, delay me and the Japanese?" ”

"No delay." Bai Ling smiled: "Resisting Japan is the great righteousness of the nation, and there is no need to change it and there is no need to recount it......"

"But you also have to know where this national righteousness comes from, and why this patriotic sentiment is aroused, so as to prove that we are still alive and have come to this world."

We are alive and have been in this world.

This sentence was repeated over and over again in Xu Ruifeng's mind, and the picture was that when he grilled fish by the river, soaked in the hot spring, and hummed with grass in his mouth on the ground, the tiresome dandelion fell on his face and was wiped away with a wave of his hand.

At this moment, he realized that his world had color, and before that, it was all black and white memories.

Lao Xu seemed to be standing in the middle of the long river of memory, standing at the boundary between color and black and white, he looked back and saw the killing in the past ten years, the agitation when he ran for his life. At that moment, he didn't have time to look at the beautiful scenery around him, and the air in his mouth and nose could only be described as cold, never fresh...... There is also eating and drinking, when the common people are poor, the meat he eats pays attention to class; The common people can live a little better, and he began to enter major restaurants, and he has to specialize in which chef's fried dishes, paying attention to identity......

It's not that those things aren't delicious, it's that the moment they are on the table, it's already destined for something, and it's done to satisfy the heart, not the stomach. When something goes wrong with your supply, how can love arise? If you can't even produce love, how can you produce love?

Without love, it is not to save the country, it is simply to resist Japan, and it is desperate!

Why do you have to fight the Japanese to the end?

For the nation? For the sake of righteousness?

That's right, this is something that a person can say, but can it be just for the sake of this land, or simply because of the love of this place?

If you let those Japanese people in, you won't be able to soak in the hot springs if you want to, and if anything goes wrong in this battle, those salmon might become the product of other countries. Is this a matter of righteousness and personal emotion? No, it is a great righteousness formed by the convergence of smaller personal emotions into a river and finally flowing into the sea.

Can it be fought against Japan simply for the sake of the grain in the field?

Can it be fought against the Japanese just for the pond under the hillside?

Can you just take a breath and simply look at this group of Japanese people stepping on this land to resist Japan?

It's okay, no one forces you, but in the case that no one forces you, you still have to resist Japan, which is called loving this country, because you firmly believe in your heart that this land only belongs to yourself and many people, you are a part of it, you are the master!