The Chinese and Shanghai markets under the night, finally ushered in the end of the Sino-Japanese Go battle, the seventeenth gold medal was born, the turbid flow of the Huangpu River came from thousands of years ago, overlooking the red dust, in its eyes, maybe all the joys and sorrows are not a big deal, but for the Chinese people present, this moment is happy, excited, because we stand at the end.

It's already dark, the neon lights are flashing slightly, this is not a dark, but a hazy, but there are still thousands of Chinese people gathered outside the venue, they hold banners, hold five-color flags, silently wait outside, some of them start the game in the morning, they have been waiting until the evening, and even more from the far away place to come.

When a burst of celebration came from the Go hall, thousands of people outside the stadium clearly heard the compatriots calling, and in an instant the blood boiled, and the cheers were like a soaring flower, blooming brilliantly at night, and after a while, it spread all over.

It's just a game of Go, it's not just a game of Go.

Standing on the side of the Huangpu River, the "Peace Hotel", a building built by the people of Ying, shines brightly tonight, in the banquet hall on the sixth floor, He Qi's gold medal and Gu Rushui's bronze medal are being appreciated by everyone in turn, and they are indescribably envious.

At the same time, in the banquet hall on the second floor, the athletes of the Chinese delegation, who had enjoyed a bumper harvest, were enjoying dinner, which was donated by the Shanghai community.

In the banquet hall, He Qi was halfway through the meal, and President Wang Zhengting came and invited He Qi to go to the second floor to speak as a representative.

As the most popular person in the entire Far Eastern Games, he won the heaviest gold medal, and with this honor, speaking as a representative is expected by everyone, He Qi did not refuse, got up and went.

The chandelier in the banquet hall is very dazzling, the venue is very large, hundreds of tables are lined up, full of people, when He Qi stood on the stage, he only felt that his eyes were bright, and his ears were occupied by warm applause,

He Qi first bowed and saluted, and when he raised his head, a hot face came into view, for some reason, he was nervous for a while, and said solemnly: "It's an honor to stand here." ”

"President Wang asked me to speak, and to be honest, I'm a little nervous right now, and I don't know what to say."

"Say whatever you want." The soccer team sat at the front, a dozen squeezing a table, shouting in unison.

"Okay, I'll just talk about it."

"Haha." Everyone had probably never seen such a casual speech, so they all laughed.

He Qi straightened up and said: "You all know, I just returned to China not long ago, and I was wandering around in the West before, and I had no fixed place to live. ”

"At the same time, I want to go home, and I also want to see with my own eyes, what is my country really like?"

"My father went to Nanyang with his relatives many years ago, I was born in Nanyang, when I was young, I saw my father, uncle, uncle being bullied all day long, foreigners bullying them, and the locals also bullying them, and they swallowed their anger, neither fought back nor resisted. I was ignorant at the time, so I asked my father, why can they all bully us? ”

"My father touched my head at the time and told me that because the motherland is not strong, children who are adrift will be bullied."

"I said, wouldn't there be no one to bully a strong motherland?"

"My father immediately gave me a slap in the face, fiercely slapping me, saying that you are not allowed to say such things in the future, although you were not born in China, but you will always be a descendant of Yan and Huang, no matter where you are, you are born as a Chinese person, and death is a Chinese soul."

"At that time, I was still young and didn't understand it, and I was angry about it for a long time, because I hated this motherland where my father was bullied."

Speaking of which, there was silence in the audience, and the smiles on everyone's faces were gone.

"When I was a little older and started reading, I understood what the motherland was?" He Qi looked at the people on the field, and there was a sense of aftertaste in his voice that had lasted for many years, and said: "For you, the motherland should be a mountain and a sea; ”

"It's a forest, it's a meadow;"

"It's Beiping, it's Shanghai;"

"It's a desert of the wild,"

"It's rolling hills."

"It's the smoke, it's the pigeon's whistle;"

"It's the dragon boat of the Dragon Boat Festival,"

"It's the torch of the Mid-Autumn Festival,"

"It's a reunion for the Spring Festival."

"It is the thinking of Confucius, Laozi, and Zhuangzi;"

"It's a poem by Qu Zi, Li Bai, and Lu You;"

"It's the prose of Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, and Su Shi;"

"It's the words of Li Yu, Li Qingzhao, and Xin Qiji;"

"It is the crystallization of the wisdom of our ancestors in China."

Someone went on to say, "It's parents, it's relatives." ”

"It's the Yangtze River, it's the Yellow River."

"It's yellow-skinned, black-haired."

When the squirming voice became quieter, He Qi then asked, "Then do you know what the motherland is for people like me who were born abroad since childhood?" ”

Everyone shook their heads again.

He Qi said: "But for people like me, who have been wandering the open sea for many years:"

"When I face the East, the East is the Motherland."

"When I go west, there is the motherland behind me."

"When I was studying, the words in the book were the motherland."

"When I eat Chinese food, Chinese food is the motherland."

"It's hard to put into words, so I'll use a song to describe my motherland."

"The song is very simple, I'll teach everyone to sing it:"

"Good !!"

He Qi sang: "The rivers and mountains only linger in my dreams,"

"The motherland has not been close for many years."

"The Great Wall of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River,"

"It weighs a thousand pounds in my heart."

"Whenever, wherever,"

"The heart is the same."

In the banquet hall, the singing voice gradually became uniform from the beginning to the high-pitched, and the whole audience sang in chorus, although there was no soundtrack, but it was extremely beautiful, and there was an incomparably strong force bursting out.

"When I walk on the streets of the West, I see high-rise buildings, cars coming and going, and magnificence, but what I think of in my heart is the magnificent Forbidden City for 600 years, the Great Wall, the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty, and the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty."

"I am the motherland in my heart, he used to be very strong, but now he is very weak, he was once incomparably brilliant, but now he is bleak, he used to make us hold our heads high, now he makes us feel inferior, but in any case, he is the motherland that gave birth to me and raised me. Anyone can dislike him, not love him, and bully him, but we, as her children, cannot dislike him, do not love him, and cannot bully him. ”

"Whoever bullies him, we have to stand up and fight back; said that if we spoke ill of him, we would scold him back; If anyone dislikes him, we must protect him. ”

"Most of you are green students, in their prime, full of spirit, today on this occasion, I want to send my father to me back then, and then to you: we will always be the descendants of Yan and Huang, no matter where we are, we are born Chinese people, and death is the soul of China."

"I would like to encourage you all of you!"

"Thank you!"

He Qi took a step back and bowed.

There was silence in the audience, and there was extraordinary applause, which lasted for a long time, everyone got up, bowed in unison, and then said in unison: "Please rest assured Mr. Yubai, we will keep it in mind and will live up to the teachings." ”

(End of chapter)