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Chapter 148 New Year's Eve
A heavy rainstorm only temporarily trapped the teachers and students of Whampoa in the border town of Hubei for one night. After the first shower in the morning, the teachers and students of Whampoa continued to move forward with the rough coir raincoats weaved overnight.

The mountain road is long, but everyone's foot strength has been exercised.What is difficult is not the road, but the news of the continuous failure of the front line from the radio station, which makes people feel heavy.

On December 12, Chongqing sent a telegram to inform the teachers and students of Whampoa, who were about to leave the Tujia community, the sad news that Jinan had been fully occupied by the Japanese army.

This means that, so far, on the bright side, it has lost its influence on the huge territory of East China.It means that at the end of this year, the Japanese army occupied two vast areas of North China and East China.

"Leader Liu, the morale of the students has not been very high these two days. With such a low atmosphere, it is not good to continue like this." Zhong Dingwen, the political instructor, saw that the atmosphere of the entire team was very depressed during the two days of marching. The team leader Liu Yongyao discussed ways.

"What can you do?"

"Tomorrow is January [-]st. Let's spend New Year's Eve in Jiangchi Town ahead tonight, so as to boost morale."

"Oh?" As soon as Liu Yongyao heard that tonight has entered a new year, he raised his wrist and looked at his watch, isn't it? Today is the last day of the 31st. Looking at the time every day, he subconsciously ignored this. One stubble. "I didn't expect that tonight would be New Year's Eve. It's time to have fun, get rid of bad luck, and welcome the new year!"

The more Liu Yongyao thought about it, the more feasible it became. "You immediately pass down the order. There are still seven kilometers ahead and you will enter Jiangchi Town on the edge of Chongqing. We will hold a commemorative event there to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China!"

The news has spread, and the mood of the students has indeed improved.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, teachers and students from Whampoa arrived at Jiangchi Town, a fringe city in Chongqing, a prosperous border trade town on the provincial border.

But the edge is also very edge, there are still more than 200 miles from Jiangchi Town to the center of Chongqing, and 250 kilometers away from the revised destination Tongliang.

The instructors bled, bought six pigs from the town, and then invited butchers to slaughter them. An average of 150 people could share one pig. They set up a big pot and burned it fiercely. The smell of meat permeated the whole building for a while.

The people in this small town in the southwest, except for those merchants who are rich in business, are mostly poor people, and they don't have such luxury all year round.You may not be willing to buy meat once a year. Even if you eat meat, you only weigh a little at a time. How can there be such an aroma cooked in a big pot?

However, even if the smell of meat makes people drool, no one in the town dares to come out to grab food, even the beggars who have formed a local gang dare not go forward. The soldiers with spears snatched food from their mouths.

At night, the starry sky is bright and the wind is biting, but the smell of meat warms people's hearts.

Dozens of cauldrons formed a huge circle, the students gathered behind the cauldron, the instructors stood in the circle, and the bonfire reflected everyone's faces.

Team leader Liu Yongyao stood in front of the instructors with a tin horn.

"The meat is very delicious now. In order not to delay everyone's eating meat, I will not gossip. Tomorrow will be 1938! The new year is here!"

"On January 1912, 1, Mr. Sun Yat-sen, the father of the nation, established the Republic of China in Nanjing. At that time, the instructors behind me and you just graduated from school just like you now. At that time, the country and the nation had just emerged from decay. We came out of the Qing government, and we were asking where the future is?"

"But no matter how powerful the former feudal warlords were, they have now been swept into the dustbin of history. I know that you are obsessed with the news of a series of defeats on the Anti-Japanese War. In the second half of this year, we lost one after another. With Beiping, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Jinan and a series of important cities along the coast and along the river, everything is moving in a worse direction for this battered country."

"But what I want to say: revolutionaries have a bright future, and true revolutionaries always look ahead!"

"As Huangpu people, we must look forward and stick to our confidence in the War of Resistance. Why did the Japanese send their elite airborne special forces to encircle us after we moved out of Nanjing? Because they were afraid!"

"Afraid of the charge of the Whampoa people! Afraid of the persistence of the Whampoa people who would rather die than give up! Afraid of the excellent quality of the Whampoa people in commanding operations!"

"Everyone can be depressed, you can't! Hold your head up, and I will finally encourage you with the last words of the father of the nation: the revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still have to work hard!"

"Now, everyone regains confidence! Eat meat and fight devils!"

The sonorous and forceful speech of the team leader Liu Yongyao received warm applause, which sounded very encouraging. The students stood up clapping each other's shoulders, took out their food boxes and lined up in front of the iron pot, and the instructors scooped up food from the pot with large iron spoons. Thick chunks of meat are produced and put into each student's food box.

This was the most extravagant time for the teachers and students of Whampoa along the way, and of course it was also because of the windfall they made in Wolongzhai.Six fat pigs feed more than 900 Whampoa teachers and students, and an average of 150 people can eat one white and fat fat pig, which is enough for everyone to eat a mouth full of fat.

For the first time, many students from civilian families experienced the happiness of being tired of eating, which had never appeared in their dreams before.

"My friend, what are you thinking?" When surrounded by the bonfire with a greasy mouth and no desire to eat anymore, Li Chong half lay on a grass handle and watched the moon digest food in a daze. shoulder asked.

Li Chong breathed a sigh of relief, and could see the fog in the night, "They say they miss people when they see the moon, and it's true, they suddenly think of their family."

Jin Huizhen looked up at the bright moon hanging above her head like a silver plate, and suddenly put her hands together in front of her chest, muttering to herself.

Seeing this, Li Chong asked curiously, "What are you doing?"

Jin Huizhen put down her palm after a while, "Pray and bless."

Hearing this, Li Chong asked with a smile, "Everyone in the world prays to gods and buddhas for shooting stars. Is it reliable to pray to the moon?"

Jin Huizhen nodded affirmatively and said, "It must be reliable! There is only such a moon under the sky. At this moment, you and the people you think about are seeing this round of bright moon. Didn't the ancients often use the moon to send lovesickness?" .”

Two hundred kilometers away, not in the SPB district of CQ city center, in a three-story building with a roof at the foot of the mountain, mother Chen Yueying was wearing a sweater under an oil lamp.

The bright and cold moonlight fell on the table in front of the window, and his father Li Derun was lying on the rattan chair, holding a pen in his hand and counting the family's expenses on paper.

(End of this chapter)