Xia Jianguo stood up, his body still trembling slightly.
As a father, he has never been too intimate with his daughter since she grew up.
But this time, he walked to the table, tilted his head and looked at the wrist of the girl who was watching the excitement outside the courtyard, and dragged her out of the courtyard.
Xia Li just saw someone shouting outside and wanted to watch the fun.
But she also felt that "Lei Kong" was herself. Seeing others praising her was a little weird, so she didn't go out.
Now being dragged out by his own father, when he saw the scene outside the yard, he suddenly grinned inexplicably.
Nandao is not a prosperous city. There is a large area of wasteland. When building a family courtyard, it is natural not to care about the land price and build the family courtyard. The road in the courtyard is very wide, and four cars can walk side by side.
The wide road between the two rows of houses was full of soldiers with excited faces, arms around each other, and random pats on the back of each other's arms.
Whether it is Mo Ke Jin who has always been burdened with machismo, Zhao Haining who likes to pick on Xia Li every day, or even the self-proclaimed calm leader Bai, they were all excited by the news broadcast through the loudspeaker, and they were as happy as child.
The young military wives hugged each other, and the older ones put their arms around each other and kept pulling their arms down, their expressions of excitement could not be concealed.
Military families sitting on the ground holding their heads with their loved ones and crying, remembering their deceased relatives and comrades.
Those who felt the same could not help but also have red eyes and shed tears.
The children's faces were beaming with joy, and they stood jumping up and down, holding paper boats in their hands and comparing pictures.
His innocent face was full of yearning, and he kept shouting: "When I grow up, I want to be like Lei Kong, building big airplanes and big ships!"
"Then when I grow up, I will build tanks and cannons! Fight out all those invaders!"
"Then you build airplanes, ships, tanks, and cannons from now on. I will fly airplanes, ships, tanks, and cannons! Contribute to the motherland and make everyone afraid of us Chinese!!"
"Okay! Then I'll handle the logistics so that you don't lack anything when you go to the battlefield!"
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The children's voices are particularly young, and their words are also somewhat innocent.
Maybe they simply don't understand that scientific research is not that simple, and it is impossible for one person to be both a pilot and a captain.
But that childish voice can make people see hope for the future.
Xia Jianguo grabbed his daughter's wrist with trembling hands, and his eyes fell on the excited adults and children.
Probably because this scene touched too much on the thoughts in his heart that he had never expressed, he suddenly whispered to his daughter in a hoarse voice: "This is what it means for us to protect China and hope that China will be strong.
Since the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China in 1900, China has been in the flames of war every day, and the people have been in dire straits.
The year I first went to war was in 2023. I was only thirteen years old at that time.
We finally drove the Eight-Nation Allied Forces out, but the Japs came again.
I was young at that time, and countless old soldiers stood in front of me with their thin bodies, using their lives to protect us, the young generation, so that we had the opportunity to see the founding of New China, but they fell Before the founding of China.
I still remember that one of my old platoon leaders, in order to allow us to evacuate safely, died with the Japanese while holding explosives.
Today, we have inherited their legacy and ushered in a new China. We have suffered from being oppressed by foreign powers. We really want to make China strong, and we want our descendants to no longer suffer from our generation.
Just like those old soldiers protecting us new recruits on the battlefield, we believe that only with young blood like you, China will have a future.
It is up to you in the future to bring the ideas of powerful China to your next generation.
This is inheritance and the foundation of China.
As long as generations of people hold the same belief, one day China will not be bullied by any foreign powers and stand at the top of the world.
It truly realizes what the Chairman said while standing on the Tiananmen Gate Tower: "The Chinese people have stood up since then!"
There is always someone who has to step up, and I hope that one day you can be a shield for these children, just as your ancestors were for you, just as you are today.
I may not be a qualified father, but I hope that my children can become upright and respectable people.
I am proud of your contribution to our country. "
Xia Jianguo can be regarded as a person with feudal ideas.
Deep down, he feels that boys should stand upright and girls don't need to shoulder too many responsibilities.
This is why when problems arise at home, the family must be decentralized. He asks his son to be decentralized with him, but he tries his best to keep his daughter in the city.
After he was devolved, he knew that he was about to be criticized. His daughter was puzzled by him. He did not force her to stay with him and suffer. Instead, when her daughter asked to go abroad, he chose to find a way to send her to study abroad.
The above-mentioned concepts are the concepts he has always taught his sons, and they have never been applied to his daughters.
But this time, perhaps because of the "Taotie"'s emergence and victory in the first battle, it was so amazing that he felt that his daughter was more than just a little girl who needed his protection by his side.
Or perhaps, the crowd of people in front of us, the atmosphere of crying with joy, was too exaggerated. The children's expectations for the future were naive and ignorant, but full of vitality.
Or maybe it was the strength of the motherland that made him feel that the forbearance of generations was not in vain, and that the fresh blood of China would eventually push China to become rich and powerful, which made him say these words without knowing it.
He had already prepared that his daughter would make a round of sarcastic comments about him, and by the way say some stupid words that would make people suffer from brain congestion.
But unexpectedly, my daughter was exceptionally quiet this time.
Xia Li stood next to Xia Jianguo, quietly watching the broad road crowded with people. Everyone was beaming with joy, sincerely proud of China's strength, happy, and even crying with joy.
Being in this atmosphere is completely different from what you see on TV across the screen. It's hard not to be infected by their true feelings.
I think of those who died in the Sino-Maoist border conflict when I was in Northeast China. And the old couple who left a deep impression on her, because the country was lagging behind, and they sent away their son and grandson one after another.
Xia Li did not refute Xia Jianguo's words this time, but said softly: "Maybe I also hope that China will be well.
At least as long as his interests don't conflict with mine, I hope he can be strong. "
