Chapter 407 - We can do it too! (2/2)
”Yes, we aren't afraid of the consequences!”
”In the past, Teacher Zhang became bankrupt and even borrowed money from others to allow his fan to be treated. Now, he's trying to take all the blame for so many people who are unrelated to him. I don't know how you all feel about this, but I feel bad. Surrender? Count me in!”
”Me too!”
”F**k! I'm going as well!”
”Who's afraid of who!”
”That's right! We can't let anyone look down on us!”
”Now that something has happened, no one wants to come forward to accept their responsibility? They even let Teacher Zhang Ye take the blame for everyone else? Isn't that so shameful!? We mustn't let foreigners think that we are like this and allow them to look down on us! If you did it, then you better step up to admit it! Help Teacher Zhang!”
”Count me in!”
”Don't let Teacher Zhang face this alone!”
”Well said! Let Zhang Ye know that we are still here!”
”Let everyone know that! Know that our country consists of more than just one person like Zhang Ye! There's still us!”
When this news was revealed, a lot of people's pa.s.sionate blood boiled! if this was any other time, they would not have such courage, but as Zhang Ye's series of actions today were so infectious, his stopping of Lee Anson from leaving, his ”I love this land” poem, to his refusal to rat out the others who had been involved, but instead took all responsibility for the incident. All of these had stirred the ma.s.ses fighting spirit, which could no longer be held down!
”If I were a bird.”
”I should sing with my hoa.r.s.e voice.”
”Of this land buffeted by storms.”
”Of this river turbulent with our grief.”
”Of these angry winds ceaselessly blowing.”
”And of the dawn, infinitely gentle over the woods.”
”—Then I died!”
”And even my feathers would rot in the soil.”
”Why are my eyes always br.i.m.m.i.n.g with tears?”
”Because I love this land so deeply!”
Rereading this poem again, the ma.s.ses had yet another different feeling. Just what sort of person and talent would be able to write a poem with such kind of national sentiments? Just what sort of a person could have such pa.s.sion and beliefs who would rather die than let his homeland rot? At this moment, they finally understood Zhang Ye's thoughts and feelings! If one did not place the community higher than themselves, if one did not love his community and nation so deeply in his bones, such a person would never be able to compose a poem like this! The beauty of poetry lay in this kind of a moment. The moment when the string in everyone's heart was plucked with such vigor! When our community is in danger, or when our people are being bullied and insulted, why should we depend on others to fight for us? Are we going to complain that we have no one to look up to? Complain about each other's inactions and not self-reflect on our own inactions instead?
If Zhang Ye can do it!
Why can’t we do the same?
We can also step forward and take the blame!
We can also be like Teacher Zhang putting himself up so selflessly!
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