Golden Fishery

Most of these soldiers' retired life was unsatisfactory. Although they were still far away from committing suicide, according to Qin Shiou's observations, these people usually had the idea of ​​suicide at least occasionally.

He could tell from the way some people went crazy when they drank that they were self-destructive.

The soldiers were very noisy together. Father Hixon left his shop after preparing the food. Before he left, he called Qin Shiou over and said, "Listen, young man, help me take care of my house. I don't want to Came back to find my lovely old den turned into a pigsty by these guys and, seriously, if it wasn't for your sake, I wouldn't take these guys in"

Qin Shiou hugged the old man, and said with a smile: "I know that my father treats me well, and I feel deeply."

Papa Hixon laughed happily when he heard this, patted him on the face and said, "You just need to know this, well, keep playing with you young people, I hope those bastards will die of drunkenness." in the bottle."

Qin Shiou didn't stay here for a long time either. At eleven o'clock, the commemorative activities of the Invalids Day officially started. Byrd turned up the volume of the TV in the dining room to the maximum. The group of people stood up and watched the commemorative activities on the screen.

Ottawa, the capital of Canada, holds grand commemorative activities in front of the war memorial at this time of the year every year.

How grand is their commemoration? The British royal family has to send someone to preside over it. At that time, the Prime Minister, accompanied by members of parliament, will inspect the troops in front of the war monument. Of course, it is not a Chinese-style military parade, but this can already show that they attach importance to the event.

The ceremony began with the sound of gun salutes, and representatives of elite troops appeared on the stage, but only infantry, and the armed forces of the sea, land and air formed a guard of honor to accept the inspection.

Qin Shiou watched and shook his head, Bird turned his head and asked, "Do you think this is not good?"

The official Qin said frankly: "I will show you the scene of our country's military parade later, and you can find the gap."

After a brief review of the troops, the participants sang the national anthem together, several warplanes flew over the Parliament Hill, the Scottish military band wore tartan kilts and played bagpipes, and countless small national flags were waving in people's hands. This is exactly the same as the domestic military parade.

Ferguson begins, singing: "Hey Fields of Flanders, red poppies are blooming. Where we were bloodied, there are crosses now..."

Others sang along: "The skylark fluttered its wings and screamed in mourning. The gunshots seldom rang out again. We used to have time, and we also had family ties in the world. We suddenly drifted away from this world, and now we sleep forever on the battlefield. Our hands are lowered."

"Brother take the torch,

Continue to fight to the end, if we betray our last wish, even if the fields are full of flowers, how can we rest in peace? "

"This poem became famous for a while, and some people began to commemorate the deceased soldiers with poppies, which is why poppies later became a symbol of commemorating fallen soldiers..."

There was nothing else to happen to Qin Shiou, he left quietly and put the poppies he was wearing on the table at the door, which is a tradition. After the event, people will offer poppies to the event site.

Bird and the others went back to work in the fishing ground in the afternoon. Qin Shiou said, "You don't have to be in such a hurry. I've granted you a day off. You can have a good chat with your comrades."

Nelson smiled wryly and said, "What's there to talk about? We have to work hard and make money. Now I'm going to be killed badly."

Qin Shiou frowned and said, "What do you mean? Did you gamble?"

Nelson shook his head and said, "No, it's not gambling, it's life money."

Bird explained to Qin Shiou that the living money was an agreement between some of their close comrades in arms, and they went to the front together. It was agreed at the time that if anyone survived, they should help the families of the war dead or disabled as best they can.

Both of them and Matt and others are comrades-in-arms, and Matt did not find a job after retiring. There is no social security fund, and they are almost supported by them.

Qin Shiou asked: "Then how much do you need to pay?"

Bird said: "There is no regulation on this, I gave 60,000."

Nelson shrugged and said, "Me too, 60,000 yuan, half a year's bonus, isn't too much, right?"

Heidao and others said that they should be less. Each person only paid 25,000 yuan, because there were twelve people in the mercenary team at the time, and only one person was killed and one person was injured, so the pressure of ten people was relatively small.

Qin Shiou was quite surprised, and said: "Wow, this is not a small amount of money. Each of you is 25,000? The ten people are 250,000?"

Hei Dao said: "How could it be? We make a lot of money and give a lot. Some brothers can't even take care of themselves, so they don't have to pay."

Qin Shiou asked: "Then you must be responsible for this part of the money? How long will you take care of them?"

The seven people were very calm, Bird said indifferently: "They die or we die."

Qin Shiou couldn't understand it, and Bird and others also understood this, so they laughed: "This was the agreement at the time, don't look at those bastards who said they would rather die on the battlefield, in fact, it was just their nonsense and threw them on the battlefield again , they must want to live more than anyone else”

"If we survive, we have to fulfill our promise to the dead. We can't cheat the dead of their money, so we despise ourselves." The doormat laughed.

"Of course, if we didn't follow you to have meat to eat, if we couldn't eat bread ourselves, then we would definitely not do this, and then we would have to rely on others to help us." Hei Dao added.

Qin Shiou suddenly realized that, in fact, there is an invisible insurance among these people. Whoever plays well will maintain this insurance, so as to ensure that the brothers at that time can at least eat and live after retiring.

This is beyond his comprehension, the culture is different, the experience is different.

The soldiers continued to be in charge of security, and Byrd and Nelson continued to teach newcomers the knowledge of working at sea.

Qin Shiou was still surprised, and asked Bird: "Then you have so many comrades-in-arms, have you ever thought about finding a job for them? You see that the fishing ground is recruiting, and many of them don't have suitable jobs, don't they?"

Bird said calmly: "Of course I think, if the fishery was mine, I would let them work, but it's not mine, I can't entrap you, those guys are not made for work, they are no different from the black knives." The same, otherwise you won’t be unable to find a job that will allow you to survive.”

Qin Shiou laughed, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Then I really saw you right, my buddy."

This is how the Day of Invalids ended, and the only trace it left was the steel poppy standing stubbornly by the sea, which was later painted with red paint by Hei Knife and Byrd, making it come alive. To be continued.

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