Chapter 374 The So-called Original Sin

The little boy's voice was loud enough to attract the attention of everyone in the business hall, which was relatively quiet in the morning.

"Little, devil? Are you referring to me?" Hanabi looked at her young fiancé beside her, pointed at herself, and repeated word by word.

"No." Luo Yi denied it flatly, "That was a derogatory term our ancestors used to refer to invaders. It's not a label that can be casually attached."

It is extremely irresponsible to generalize and condemn everyone.

But now is a special period, and the external environment is sensitive. It is probably not appropriate to publicly announce the hometown of fireworks...

"Sorry! Sorry!" Seeing that he was in trouble, the staff at the business hall quickly picked up the girl's ID card, bowed and handed it back.

Luo Yi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This guy knew how to add fuel to the fire.

"Boom-"

I only heard the old lady behind me tapping the floor with her cane, her eyes becoming unfriendly, "Are you spies from the island? We are no longer the same as we were a hundred years ago. We can no longer let you bully us!"

"Grandma!" The little boy hid behind her, then poked his head out and made a face.

Offline business halls are gathering places for middle-aged and elderly people. In addition, grandchildren don’t have to go to school on Sundays, so the probability of encountering this kind of combination here is not low.

"Customer service sister, please give us the phone card as soon as possible. The most basic package will be fine. We will change it on our phone later." Luo Yi reminded the staff calmly, and then, "Grandma, we are ordinary people who have come here to seek refuge."

"Don't give me that! Are any snowflakes innocent during an avalanche?" An old man also got excited, not caring at all that the other party were just two kids.

The Japanese didn't spare any kids who were younger than them back then.

Hanabi was a little scared and couldn't stop shaking while holding the boy's hand.

What was going on? She didn't even know where her hometown was as stated on her ID card. Why did these old people and children start to release their hostility without reservation just by taking a glance at her?

Seeing the signs of conflict, the lobby manager came in late, wiped his sweat and smiled, "Everyone, please calm down, or we..."

"If you take them to some VIP treatment, you'd be a rare gem!" The old man has seen the world.

"Ah, this..." This is different from the conflict resolution procedures in the pre-job training.

The era of preferential treatment for foreign guests has long passed, and the current positions and historical context of the two countries are somewhat subtle.

"Please don't mind it. Just get our cards done quickly and we'll leave right away." Luo Yi didn't intend to cause trouble.

"Oh, oh! Let me do it!" the manager said in a hurry.

...

Five minutes later, on the street.

The weather was the same as when they came, sunny and slightly warm, but there was no doubt that a layer of haze was covering their hearts.

"Luo Yi, did I... do something wrong?" Even until I stepped out of the telecommunications business hall, the gazes of many strangers were still piercing my back like swords and spears.

"You are right." Luo Yi answered immediately.

Even in this world, Hanabi's hometown is an island country, and the evil done by the islanders here has nothing to do with the little girl.

"But I don't think anyone who attacked me was wrong."

Luo Yi: “…”

In the girl's relatively innocent worldview, the emergence of conflict is inevitably accompanied by one side being right and the other side being wrong; if one side is right, it means the other side is wrong, and vice versa.

"Let me tell you about my ancestor from that island country. Back then, her country, for the sake of abundant resources and a stable environment, launched an invasion against us with the whole country's strength. And she, who opposed the war and the invasion, betrayed her own country. Do you think she was right?"

"Of course it's right." Hanabi answered straightforwardly, but if you think about it carefully...

"That's right, but to her country, betrayal is a serious crime, a capital crime. Even if she was a princess at the time, she couldn't escape it."

In the eyes of the island nation’s hundreds of millions of people at that time, the island nation’s ancestors were "wrong."

This resulted in her staying in China for the rest of her life.

"Just like the many rebellious ninjas in the Hidden Mist Village during the Blood Mist period..."

"The right and wrong between countries is often determined by their stances." Luo Yi recalled the past stories told by his father, "There are people who transcend national stances, such as my great-grandfather's troops who assisted the wounded soldiers of the enemy country, and my great-grandmother and others who participated in the anti-aggression war.

"The position they uphold transcends national boundaries and is called 'justice'."

Hanabi, who experienced the Ninja World War, has a vision and perspective that transcends national boundaries at a young age.

And thinking is backward compatible.

"Those grandparents, maybe their grandparents fought against the invaders from "my motherland". From the perspective of the country, it seems reasonable for me to be hated..." Although she was sad, the little girl came to the conclusion, "Is this my "original sin"? "

Luo Yi paused for a moment, "I don't know how to put it. On this side of the Earth, almost all of the powerful countries have a history of foreign aggression and colonization.

"Their current strength is closely related to the plundering they did in the past. Some of them are still plundering today, such as the North American Western University, which is currently in full confrontation with us."

For example, the island nation’s world-famous medical industry is largely based on anti-human live experiments, and a considerable number of those poor experimental subjects are our fellow countrymen from a hundred years ago.

It is hard not to think that the Japanese people, who enjoy advanced medical technology and even take pride in it, are free from some original sin.

Just like in the world of Naruto, behind the peace and prosperity of big countries, there are small countries that have been unable to recover or even become battlefields. It is not wrong to say that the people of big countries from top to bottom are burdened with original sin.

Therefore, big countries have the obligation and responsibility to help small countries.

...

I returned home with a heavy heart.

Mom and dad were still celebrating their Valentine's Day in the next city, so the two little ones had to make do with lunch.

Luo Yi originally wanted to have a good meal outside, but the little girl was obviously devastated and didn't want to see strangers.

"Fortunately, there is no shortage of vegetables at home. I'll simply fry two. You just wait." Luo Yi tied his apron skillfully.

"Hmm... can I help wash and pick the vegetables?" Hua Huo didn't want to be idle, as it was easy for her to have random thoughts when she was idle. "Luo Yi is really amazing, he can handle both housework and cooking."

"Speaking of this," Luo Yi said, a little unconvinced, "We have to thank those articles that praised the kids in your country back then."

For example, the famous "The Battle in the Chinese-Japanese Summer Camp" describes the children of the island country as being good at all things, and makes their parents, who were still middle school students at the time, so "worshiping foreigners" that they tacitly decide to raise their children in this way in the future.

There are too many Chinese parents who think this way, so there are endless "neighborhood kids" like Lao Luo, who live like the Yizhe Dulinli.

"The relationships between countries in this world seem to be more interesting than I thought." Hanabi frowned and smiled bitterly, "If they are really as good as they say, the war wouldn't have happened, right?"

"Strategic deception, reverse strategic deception is also strategic deception. They succeeded in deception, and we also produced a group of outstanding young talents. This wave... this wave is a win-win situation."

The "history" of the next decade also proved that the wisdom of our ancestors is still useful today, that is, be lenient in anticipating the enemy and be strict in anticipating yourself.

"Luo Yi."

"Ok?"

"After lunch, can you teach me the history between the two countries? I want to learn."

This is probably the sentence that Chinese parents like to hear the most, perhaps the only one. Even Lao Luo felt indescribable joy in his heart when he heard the little girl say this.

If I remember correctly, "The Protracted Sino-Japanese War" was a course in the eighth grade of compulsory education, which was a bit too early for Hanabi.

But, "Since you are interested..."

The little girl shook her head solemnly and said, "It's not that I'm interested, but I feel that I have a responsibility to understand this history."

Luo Yi: “…”

Indeed, no matter who you are, as long as you are a kind-hearted person, when studying that period of history, you will never be able to associate it with a positive word like "interest".

With the resources of Luomu University lecturers, Luo Yi can log into the online library at home and find various versions of history textbooks easily.

Hanabi has no difficulty reading words, and can read Chinese characters, Japanese, and English fluently. This is the episode that best fits the time traveler's golden finger.

"Tojo, Matsui, Itagaki Masaru... These are the first time I've seen them, but I always feel that these surnames are familiar." Looking at the black-and-white photos with extremely low quality, the little girl couldn't even smile bitterly.

This turned out to be the true history of my young fiancé’s homeland.

"We remember history not to pass on hatred, but to prevent the same tragedy from happening again in the future."