"Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival..."

The call sounded sometimes near and sometimes far away, sometimes clear and sometimes blurry.

Duanwu slowly opened his eyes, and what appeared in front of him was a face that made him feel at ease.

"Brother Lin, I...just now I seemed..." Before he could finish his words, he felt something was wrong with the surrounding environment. He turned his head and looked to the south. At the end of the dark alley was a crowd of people coming and going. Occasionally, there was the sound of car horns and headlights.

The light flashed past, and further away was a somewhat dilapidated-looking building. There were sandbags as high as one person piled on the first floor, with broken windows above and many bullet holes next to them.

Sihang Warehouse is on the other side? Then he is now...

The answer is ready to come out.

Duanwu's eyes were widened. He was urinating in the latrine just now. Why did he come to the concession after being so beaten?

"Put on these clothes." Along with the voice, a black shadow appeared. He took it in his hand and saw that it was a tunic suit popular among students in big cities.

"I'll wait for you in front." Lin Yue took a puff of cigarette and walked towards the entrance of the alley with a light spot.

Duanwu looked at the clothes in his hands, hesitated for a moment, and then took off his military uniform and changed into a Chinese tunic suit as Lin Yue said.

"Brother Lin, why are we here?"

When Dragon Boat Festival walked to the alley, he found Lin Yue looking to the left. An old man in white robes was sitting on a chair. Next to him was a table. There was a wooden sign in front of the table. On the wooden sign were written in Chinese and English respectively.

Together with the 524th Regiment to fight against the Japanese invaders, there was a message saying thank you for the donation. Behind the table there was a man dressed as a bookkeeper, holding a brush and writing and drawing on the booklet. A long line of teams had been sent to the opposite side, and some people held long arms in their arms.

Some people were carrying baguettes, pastries wrapped in oil paper, and others were carrying clothes and quilts to keep out the cold.

Not far from the donation point, a group of teenagers were discussing using a street light pole on the river bank to make a slingshot and throw the packages in their hands.

Lin Yue did not answer his question, but pointed to the red-haired woman who left the crowd and said, "Do you know her?"

He said he knew the other person, but he didn't even know his name. He said he didn't know him. On the first day he came to the warehouse, he was attracted by the singing on the second floor of the Victory Bar. Last night, he spent most of the night watching with a telescope. Others thought he was envious.

Only he knew clearly about the feasting and feasting on the other side. He was here to see that woman.

"EVA Li is a Chinese-Russian hybrid."

"Mixed blood?" Duan Wu didn't know what mixed blood meant, but when he heard those women in cheongsam calling her a bastard, he felt angry for some reason.

Lin Yue watched EVA, who was wearing a black leather jacket, walking towards the bar step by step, and said with a smile: "Do you like her?"

"No...no." Duan Wu's face showed the embarrassment of being exposed, and his eyes were evasive, not daring to look at him.

Huangpi County and Greater Shanghai.

Farmers with faces cleaner than pockets and foreign women with outstanding temperament.

The gap is so big that it's like living in two worlds.

Lin Yue patted him on the shoulder and handed him a cigarette. Duanwu took it hesitantly, put it in his mouth and lit it. He took two strong puffs and finally suppressed his restless mood.

After the Japanese army retreated this afternoon, Qi Jiaming gave him one. He choked when he took the first puff, but later he got used to it. With its help, he was no longer afraid, and his hands and feet stopped shaking.

"Let's go, it's still early, I'll take you to have something to drink."

Lin Yue tightened the collar of his windbreaker and walked towards the Victory Bar, with Duanwu quickly following behind.

The two walked out of the alley, and the Boy Scout promotional vehicle happened to drive by. The female student who was standing next to Yang Huimin with a loudspeaker calling on the public to raise funds suddenly became anxious when she saw Lin Yue's profile.

"Brother Lin." As soon as she threw away the flyer in her hand, she was about to jump out of the car and chase the person. She was so frightened that a boy scout next to her quickly stopped her.

"You're crazy."

"I seem to...see him."

After speaking, when Han Yi looked back, she could no longer find the dreamy face.

The propaganda truck continued to move forward, and the chatter of citizens drowned out her call.

…

Twenty minutes later, Lin Yue finished the drink in the glass, put a banknote under the coaster, and left the Victory Bar with Duanwu.

"Brother Lin, what on earth are you doing here?" Duanwu walked while looking at the vehicles on the street, the shop signs, the neon lights in front of him, and the concession residents in brightly dressed clothes. His two eyes were completely insufficient.

, looking left and right and turning around very quickly.

Lin Yue did not answer this question directly: "You will know after you go there."

At the same time, Dao Zi opened the door of the casino, took a look at the empty hall, and walked up to Liu Rong.

"Sister Rong, sir, he said that he has collected 200 cotton-padded clothes, plus what Miss Lu has prepared. He can call Xie Tuanfu tomorrow and ask him to send someone to collect them."

Liu Rong nodded, took a blue sky and white sun flag from the servant who came down from the second floor, placed it on the gambling table in the middle, smoothed out the wrinkles, and folded it into squares.

"This is what Tianhe covered himself with when he came back. I kept it as a memory. Now... you can take it to the people on the other side. They need it more than me."

"Sister Rong, you really want to..."

Daozi held the blue sky and white sun flag in both hands, with unbearable expression written all over his face.

Liu Rong shook her head and signaled him to stop talking.

Daozi's gaze stayed on the flag for a moment, then turned and walked outside.

The Boy Scouts had dispersed to various areas of the concession to appeal for donations. Yang Huimin returned to the Suzhou River. When the knife came out of the casino, she stood under the arcade and watched the parade pass by.

"Sister Rong donated."

Hearing the sound coming from behind, Yang Huimin turned around and saw that it was that particularly annoying man. Yesterday, the Japanese army dropped poison gas bombs on the Sihang Warehouse. She once took an old man with handicapped legs and feet to the casino to take refuge. At that time, the knife locked her in the casino.

I went outside and wouldn't open the door no matter what.

"Thanks."

Some people donated food, some donated bedding, some donated money, some donated jewelry, but Liu Rong was the first to donate the national flag.

Yang Huimin was about to pick her up, but she didn't expect that someone would take the national flag from the knife's hand first and walk straight into the casino hall.

"Hey, you..."

"Lin Yue?"

Knife's shout interrupted her train of thought: "What do you call him?"

"Lin Yue."

Daozi didn't have time to explain to her and hurriedly chased her into the casino hall.

Liu Rong was originally standing with her back to the door. When she heard the word "Lin Yue", she turned around and saw that he was holding the national flag he had just donated, followed by a boy who had never seen the world. She couldn't help but be surprised.

.

"What are you..."

Lin Yue put the Blue Sky and White Sun flag on the gaming table, ignoring the knife and Yang Huimin who were chasing after him. He looked at Liu Rong and said, "I want to know the reason why you donated this flag."

Liu Rong walked to the window facing Sihang Warehouse, looked at the other side and said: "Look at the Japanese flag over there, look at the British flag at the bridge, and the French flag flying from the clock tower in the west. Shanghai is so big, and

Is there a place where we can plant our Chinese flag?”

After hearing these words, Yang Huimin was not impassioned, but rather sad and helpless, and looked towards Sihang Warehouse.

Yes, in the huge city of Shanghai, is there any place where the national flag can be planted?

The answer is of course yes, there is only Sihang Warehouse on the other side.

She understood why Liu Rong donated this flag, because when the flag flutters in the sky, it is equivalent to announcing to the world that Shanghai has not been lost and the Chinese nation will not perish.

Lin Yue can naturally think of things that Yang Huimin can think of. This section in the movie is very sensational, but he is actually very confused whether to do it to this extent.

The men of the 524th Regiment finally withdrew into the British Concession. This was the result of the political game between Britain, Japan, and China. It was also a better result than the annihilation of the entire army. So, was it too much to sacrifice the lives of soldiers on the rooftop to protect the flag?

Cruel?

But from another perspective, the sacrifices of those soldiers awakened the will of many people to fight.

Although he was prepared to make a fuss out of this incident, he was really hesitant in his heart.

"Do you know what kind of trouble the 524th will be in if you send this flag over and raise it?"

Liu Rong was silent.

For her, this flag is for remembrance and can be folded up and placed in a clean cupboard, but for the 524th Regiment, the flag is for hoisting.

What will happen when the Japanese army sees a hint of color in Shanghai, which is covered with rising sun flags?

Lin Yue pulled Duan Wu in front of her.

"What you are doing now may cost this child's life, so I want to ask you, is it more important to use the sacrifices of others to stir up emotion and move everyone, or is it more important to calm things down and save a few deaths?"

Liu Rong continued to remain silent.

Yang Huimin looked at Lin Yue and then at Liu Rong. When she saw the flag just now, her heart was excited, excited and grateful. However, when Lin Yue asked, those emotions disappeared.

Yes, how to choose?
Chapter completed!