War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 353: Things in the world are not over yet, and they will never end
night.

The Dagu Shipyard canteen set up more than a dozen stoves in the yard, and feasts were served all over the yard. This was also the first peaceful year for the 217th Regiment since Xu Chaoyang moved in.

Many people got drunk that night and started recounting the past at the table, talking about how they had lived through bullets and gunfire, and how nice it would be to have their brothers who had died in battle by their side. A good year was turned into a memorial meeting by them.

Xu Chaoyang felt very uncomfortable. What was going on during the New Year?

But on second thought, what would the brothers under me think if no one remembered those people?
So he just let go completely, he kept talking and cried, and he drank his wine bowl.

At this time, he also noticed one thing, that is, since returning to the 217th Regiment, there seemed to be someone next to the second sister who had not sat at the same table with this group of people...

Xu Chaoyang looked over curiously and found that his second sister was talking and laughing with a young man at another table. His second sister was still the same, with one foot on a long bench and one hand on her knee. There was no room for anyone else to sit where she was sitting. The man next to her was quite well-behaved, not saying a word and drinking slowly in small sips.

"Is it true? Those things played in theaters nowadays are all filmed with such a big box? How can people put things in such a small box? How do people get them out?" The second sister said while gesturing, talking and laughing with the man Xu Chaoyang didn't know.

"Look, if you still don't believe it, I'll take you to see it on the first day of the new year when we have a holiday."

"Can?"

The second sister seemed to have never seen anything like it before and was listening with great interest. Duan Jingwen seemed to have found someone to talk to. The key point was that this person was not a spoiler and was interested in everything you said.

Maybe this is how the world is. As long as you endure and pretend, you can get the company of others. It’s just that many people don’t understand this truth.

My second sister was born in Harbin. How could she not know what movies were? Harbin was no worse than Songhu back then. There were dozens of movie companies. Even if she was captured by bandits and taken to the mountains, it was impossible for her to not know everything she had heard of.

But the second sister didn't say anything, she just listened to Duan Jingwen with a smile, and the two of them talked and laughed in this environment...

She seemed to have changed. She was no longer the woman who would throw Qu Yong to the ground and draw her knife to stab him when she got angry. Although she still could not show the same gentleness as other women, she still showed great patience.

It would be nice if Hua'er and the others were here too, as well as the one who was pregnant at the time. If all of them were here, the child would be running all over the place by now, right? Strangely, Xu Chaoyang felt that he could not remember the appearance of the pregnant woman.

Xu Chaoyang wanted to laugh when he thought of Hua'er looking at Tong Meng infatuatedly and frightening him...

It's strange. Isn't it the most uncomfortable for me to feel sad and depressed when I am so happy? Why do I have this problem?

Xu Chaoyang collected his thoughts, but felt his eyes itchy. He wiped them with his hands and found that his eyes had become moist and his eyelashes were wet with tears.

Thinking about those who died on the battlefield, those who are alive now are undoubtedly lucky, at least they can have a peaceful meal here.

"Chaoyang, I wish you and I a happy first year as husband and wife."

"Brother, here's to our first 'safe year'." "Captain, here's to our first year without gunfire and hail of bullets..."

Xu Chaoyang didn't know how much he drank. The two large bowls in front of him were filled up one after another. The brothers who were toasted by him frequently raised their chopsticks and shouted: "Drinking and eating food is not bad!"

But Xu Chaoyang didn't eat a single bite of the food. It wasn't that he wasn't hungry, but it was as if he had experienced again the comfort that belonged to his own era. He wanted to bring the comfort of his own era to all the brothers in front of him and lead them out of the smoke of war.

Xu Chaoyang stood up, holding the wine bowl with drunken eyes, and shouted loudly: "Listen carefully!"

“From now on, no matter what happens to us, no matter who we meet, you, you, you…” Xu Chaoyang swept his eyes over everyone present, raised his wine bowl, and shouted to everyone else, “No one can leave first. You all have to live until the day when we drive the devils away. By then, I will buy a big yard, and we will never fight again. We will raise a bunch of small 217th Regiments!”

"Dry!"

Xu Chaoyang raised his hand and drank all the wine in the bowl. Qu Yong looked at Xu Chaoyang's posture and added: "Half of the wine must have splashed out. It all splashed on my face..."

Hahahahaha!
Everyone stood up amidst the roar of laughter. Amid the sound of fireworks and firecrackers in Dagu, the only place in Dagu without the sound of fireworks and firecrackers, everyone raised their wine bowls and said, "Cheers!"

Xu Chaoyang didn't remember how the banquet ended. He only knew that someone kept cursing in his ear: "This is what you get out of drinking cat urine. This is what you get out of drinking cat urine. If you can't drink it anymore, you have to drink it!"

Amid the shouting and cursing, Xu Chaoyang felt a warm feeling wiping his body, but the shouting and cursing did not stop.

Xu Chaoyang knew that it was Yuan Fuzhen who was serving him, and he also knew that it was Yuan Fuzhen who kept yelling and cursing. She had the typical temperament of a Peking woman, her mouth was as sharp as a knife, but she would show you the tenderness that should belong to you through her actions. But do you want her to be like a southern girl, with a clip-like voice and looking at you with watery eyes? No way.

Xu Chaoyang fell asleep like this, and slept soundly. However, he still could not celebrate the New Year in Northeast China that year. He could not eat corn and sorghum grown on the black soil. Like other wanderers of his generation who were far away from home, he could only watch his hometown from afar.

He also wanted to see the hot sticky rice dumplings and hawthorns covered with syrup, but even if he could go back to this era, it is estimated that all that would be left on that land would be the factory with its machinery dismantled and the collapsed factory buildings.

In his dream, Xu Chaoyang seemed to walk through that void, watching his fellow villagers welcoming the arrival of a new era in the ruins.

But is all this really going to happen?
Now that I have returned to this era, do I still have to watch all this happen?

No, never!

Why can't we fight back and accept the Japanese surrender?
Whether it's the Russians or the Western devils, why should they accept the surrender of the Japanese invaders on our behalf on this land!
Xu Chaoyang seemed to have found a new direction in his dream, and he also understood that he came to this era not only to fight against the Japanese, he wanted to personally plant the national flag back to our land!
In his dream, a smile appeared on Xu Chaoyang's face, which even he couldn't see. He finally realized where the sense of peace in his heart came from.

In 1934, a child from Northeast China who could not return home would never allow the situation of "things in the world are never resolved and will never be resolved" to happen again.

(End of this chapter)