Under the night, the Chinese Shanghai Stock Exchange finally ushered in the conclusion of the Sino-Japanese Go war. The seventeenth gold medal was born. The turbid water of the Huangpu River came from thousands of years ago, overlooking the world of mortals. In its eyes, Maybe all the joys and sorrows are no big deal, but for the Chinese people present, this moment is happy and exciting, because we stand at the end.
It was already dark, and the neon lights flashed slightly across the world. It was not completely dark, but hazy, but there were still thousands of Chinese people gathered outside the venue. They were holding banners and holding five-color flags. Waiting silently outside, some of them started the game in the morning and waited until the evening. Some of them even came from far away.
When a roar of celebration came from the Go hall, thousands of people outside the venue heard clearly that it was the compatriots calling, and their blood boiled for an instant. The cheers were like fireworks soaring into the sky, blooming brilliantly at night , it spread throughout the country within a short time.
Although this is just a game of Go, it is not just a game of Go.
The "Peace Hotel" standing on the bank of the Huangpu River, this building built by the Yingguo people, is shining tonight. In the banquet hall on the sixth floor, He Qi's gold medal and Gu Rushui's bronze medal are being admired by everyone in turn. Indescribable envy.
Li Yu, who is wealthy and wealthy, specially booked this hall to treat everyone to a meal to celebrate the championship. At the same time, in the banquet hall on the second floor, athletes from the Chinese delegation who had a great harvest were enjoying dinner, which was paid for by the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Made from donations from the community.
In the Chinese banquet hall, He Qi was halfway through his meal when the 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. With this honor, he was expected to speak as a representative. He Qi did not refuse, got up and left.
The chandeliers in the banquet hall were very dazzling. The venue was very large, with hundreds of tables lined up and filled with people. When He Qi stood on the stage, his eyes felt bright and his ears were filled with warm applause.
He Qi first bowed and saluted. When he raised his head, a series of hot faces came into view. For some reason, he became nervous for a moment and said solemnly: "It's an honor to stand here."
"President Wang asked me to speak. To be honest, I feel a little uneasy now and I don't know what to say."
"Say what you want to say." The football team, sitting at the front, a dozen of them crowded into a table, shouted in unison.
"Okay, I'll just talk about it casually."
"Haha." Everyone probably had never seen such a casual speech before, so they all laughed.
He Qi straightened up and said: "As you all know, I just returned to China not long ago. I was wandering around the West with no fixed place. Our ancestors in China said that they should return to their roots after falling leaves, so I came back."
"At the same time, I want to go home for another purpose, which is to see with my own eyes what my motherland is like."
"My father traveled to Nanyang with his relatives many years ago. I was born in Nanyang. When I was young, I saw my father, uncles, and uncles being bullied all day long. Foreigners bullied them, and locals also bullied them. And they I just swallowed my anger and neither fought back nor resisted. I was not sensible at that time, so I asked my father, why can they bully us?"
"My father touched my head and told me that because the motherland is not strong, children who wander outside will be bullied."
"I said, wouldn't there be no one to bully us if we had a strong motherland?"
"My father immediately gave me a slap in the face and threatened me. He said that he was not allowed to say such things again. Although you were not born in China, you will always be a descendant of the Yanhuang people. No matter where you are, you will be born in China and die in China.
soul."
"At that time, I was still young and didn't understand it. I was angry about it for a long time because I hated this country where my father was bullied."
At this point, the audience was silent, and the smiles on everyone's faces were gone.
"When I was a little older and started studying, I understood what the motherland is?" He Qi looked at the people in the audience, with a sense of long-lasting aftertaste in his voice, and said: "For you, the motherland,
It should be a mountain or a sea;"
"It's a forest, it's a grassland;"
"It's Peking, it's Shanghai;"
"It's a vast desert,"
"It's rolling hills."
"It's cooking smoke, it's pigeon whistle;"
"It's the dragon boat of the Dragon Boat Festival,"
"It's the torch of the Mid-Autumn Festival,"
"It's the Spring Festival reunion."
"It is the thinking of Confucius, Laozi and Zhuangzi;"
"They are poems 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 Chinese ancestors."
Someone continued: "They are parents and relatives."
"It's the Yangtze River, it's the Yellow River."
"He has yellow skin and black hair."
When the rustling sound subsided, He Qi then asked: "Then do you know what the motherland is to people like me who were born abroad?"
Everyone shook their heads again.
He Qidao: "But for people like me, who have been wandering outside the sea for many years:"
"When I face the east, the east is my motherland."
"When I go west, my motherland is behind me."
"When I read, the words on the book are my motherland."
"When I eat Chinese food, Chinese food is my motherland."
"It's hard to describe everything in one word, so I'll use a song to describe my motherland."
"This song is very simple. Let me teach you how to sing it:"
"good!!!"
He Qi sang: "Rivers and mountains are only in my dreams,"
"We have not been close to our motherland for many years."
"Yangtze River, Great Wall, Huangshan Mountains and Yellow River,"
"It weighs a thousand pounds in my heart."
"Anytime, anywhere,"
"Just as dear in my heart."
In the banquet hall, the singing gradually became uniform and high-pitched from the sparse at the beginning, and the whole audience sang in a chorus. Although there was no soundtrack, it was extremely beautiful, and there was an extremely powerful force bursting out.
"When I walk on the streets of Western China, I see high-rise buildings, cars passing by, and splendor, but what I think of is the 600-year-old Forbidden City, the Great Wall, and the
Emperor Qin, Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Tang Zong Mingzu.”
"This is the motherland in my heart. It was once very powerful, but now it is weak. It was once extremely glorious, but now it is dim. It once made us hold our heads high, but now it makes us feel inferior. But no matter what, he is still there.
It is the motherland that gave birth to me and raised me. Anyone can dislike him, not love him, or bully him, but as her children, we cannot dislike him, cannot stop loving him, and cannot bully him."
"If anyone bullies him, we will stand up and fight him back; if he speaks ill of him, we will scold him; if anyone dislikes him, we will protect him."
"Most of you are young students, in their prime and high-spirited. Today, on this occasion, I would like to pass on to you the words my father sent to me back then: We will always be the descendants of Yan and Huang. No matter where we are, we are born in China.
Man, death is the soul of China."
"I would like to share this with you all!"
"Thanks!"
He Qi took a step back and bowed.
There was silence in the audience, and suddenly, there was an extraordinary round of applause, which lasted for a long time. Everyone stood up, bowed and saluted, and then said in unison: "Please rest assured, Mr. Yubai, we will keep this in mind and we will live up to it."