Chapter 1603 Youth and Country: Traveling with the whole class (15)
Gu Mo took a deep breath. At this moment, he seemed to suddenly understand what the feelings of family and country are.
"The enemy he faces is a powerful imperial system that has stood for two thousand years, and the countrymen are ignorant and decadent. He will fail and die. This is the price that must be paid to save this country. He is better than anyone else.
Everyone knows it, but no matter how difficult it is..."
"He is a young man. If he gives up, who else in this country can be saved? He knows that he will die, but he still chooses this path. There is no way I can persuade him to give up his beliefs in order to survive.
and ideal.”
This country has not lacked such benevolent people since ancient times. The wise men filled the seas and the foolish old men moved the mountains...
No one can stop them from moving forward. When they take that step, they are ordinary people and heroes. They are young people and ancestors that future generations respect but cannot name.
Although they are humble and dare not forget about their country, even if no one knows about me, when they choose to take a path destined to die, they never think about what will happen to them after death.
Xiao Lai wants to serve the country, not to be a prince.
Gu Mo suddenly said something again in the gloomy atmosphere of the students.
"I asked him for you."
Gu Mo asked He Yaonian, "What if you died? Would you regret not seeing everything you fought for become a reality?"
He Yaonian shook his head at that time, with a smile on his face.
"Every living person is my eyes. When they see that day for me, I will smile."
Then he said to Gu Mo, "Teacher Gu, if you pass by the place where I died in the future and see the long waves roaring and the wind swirling around the flag, you will think that I am an old friend coming to see you."
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After He Yaonian left, Gu Mo began to organize people to go down the mountain to find out the news.
She organized three students into a team, adopted a shift system, and sent one team down the mountain every day.
After all, the current situation is changing rapidly. If you don't pay attention to it for one day, you will fall behind the outside world.
At first, the students didn’t dare to go down the mountain for fear of what they were afraid of. “Teacher, it’s so dangerous down the mountain and there are wars everywhere. Why do you keep asking us to go down the mountain?”
"It's just because of the danger down the mountain that I asked you to go and get information. If you do it behind closed doors, you won't even know it's coming to your doorstep."
Then he said, "You won't let me run down the mountain every day to take risks at such an old age, right?"
Students, "..."
They had no choice but to bite the bullet and go there. Later, they gradually became familiar with it and became less afraid.
But the further down the mountain they saw, the heavier their hearts became.
The common people of this era not only face natural disasters and the oppression of the imperial court, but also the ravages of foreign enemies. They work so hard to live, not to live with dignity and backbone, but to live...
However, even this small wish is so difficult.
People die for various reasons on the roadside every day. Their corpses lie like that in the sun. Those who are still alive are used to it and will not stop to take a second look or even care.
Compassion...
That was not the history in the textbooks, it was the reality that really happened in front of their eyes. It was bloody and seemed to be gradually dyed red in the brand-new textbooks that they had been too lazy to open...
On this day, the students who went down the mountain to inquire about the news came back. When they came back, their faces were a little pale.
"Teacher, I, we saw He Yaonian..."
Another classmate immediately asked impatiently, "Where is he? Is he okay now?"
"He, he is dead. We saw his body. The court hung his body on the city gate for a day..."
The students were stunned, thinking they heard wrongly.
"It's impossible, how could it be possible, how could it be so fast..."
The students who came back with the news still couldn't accept it.
Every bit of the time they spent together is still in their hearts. He Yaonian's smile and his confident and elegant look are still in their hearts without any blur, but he died...
A life is lost so quickly...
Moreover, he died so miserably and suffered countless tortures. The flesh on his body was rotten to the point where his internal organs were so rotten that it was completely unrecognizable that he was still a human being...
Several classmates who saw that scene with their own eyes still find it shocking when they think about it.
"We heard from the common people that he participated in the uprising to overthrow the imperial court. The uprising failed, and he and his friends were all arrested. The officers and soldiers tortured him to extract a confession, and offered him a high official and a generous salary to tell him the whereabouts of his other accomplices.
, he refused and was killed..."
"Why is the imperial court so bad? It is because of their incompetence that our country has become like this. If they use the same skills that torture their own people to deal with outsiders, will our country be like this now?"
"How hateful!"
The students cursed the court angrily, wishing they could go into battle in person and finish off the court as soon as possible.
At this time, Xia Hu, who had been silent all the time, suddenly said: "Teacher, I, I want to go down the mountain. I want to bring He Yaonian's body back and bury it properly..."
Everyone looked at Xia Hu, as if they didn't expect Xia Hu to say such words.
Thinking about it again, when He Yaonian was in the mountains, it seemed that Xia Hu looked for him the most as an adult.
Moreover, every time Xia Hu came to He Yaonian, he always asked some mentally retarded questions. Thanks to He Yaonian's good temper and gentle nature, he always answered all questions.
Xia Hu faced everyone's gaze and scratched his head, "I know he is dead and there is no use in retrieving the body. If we go there, we will be in danger, but I still want to go..."
Then he said something that no one had thought of, "He is a hero. Heroes should return their souls to their hometowns, rather than leaving their corpses in the wilderness."
Let He Yaonian have a grave, and the country will be as he wishes in the future. When someone misses him, he can have a place to worship him. This is the only thing Xia Hu can think of and want to do now.
"However, the officers and soldiers hung his body on the city gate just to attract their accomplices to fall into the trap. Maybe they have already laid an ambush. If we go, we will definitely be arrested as their accomplices..."
"We have to go even if we die! We can't even have someone to collect the corpses of heroes, otherwise we have no right to enjoy the funeral they paid for with their lives!"
"I'm not saying I won't collect the bodies. I just think it won't be our turn. What if Mr. He's friends will go..."
The students held two opinions, and they argued with each other word by word.
In the end, those who were unwilling to go were persuaded by those who were willing to go, but whether they would go or not would depend on what Gu Mo said.
Everyone looked at Gu Mo, and Gu Mo said, "I respect your opinions."
