The work related to "Veterans Never Die" quickly got on track with Liu Xinyin's active preparations, and Li Mu also began to coordinate various resources to prepare to officially promote this charity project to the people of the country.
Liu Xinyin used his influence in Yanjing's upper class society to not only recruit many key employees who were very capable in marketing, but also mobilized his previous relationships with major charities and private foundations to start simultaneous promotions across the country. The search and identification of veterans began.
All actions related to Veterans' Immortality are still in the confidential stage. Li Mu and Liu Xinyin have the same idea. They should follow the trend when doing charity. The high attention of "Flying Tigers" in China is a general trend, and now the whole country is looking forward to it. With the announcement of Chinese actors, this became the best opportunity in the eyes of the two.
Liu Xinxin has divided the charity project of Veterans into multiple stages. The first stage now is to prepare for the branch project of "Looking for Surviving Flying Tigers". After these few days of hard work, she has already launched the project across the continent. Eleven surviving Flying Tigers were found. According to the information fed back by Liu Xinxin, the current living conditions of these eleven surviving Flying Tigers are not very optimistic.
The youngest of these Flying Tigers is now eighty years old. These veterans have lived in poverty in the past few decades from their middle age to their later years. One of the Flying Tigers with the worst conditions is now living in seclusion in a mountain village in the southwest border. This old man After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he married a wife and gave birth to a son. However, in the 1950s, the old man was criticized and reformed because of his ethnic background. His wife and children were also ostracized by the villagers in the village, so he took the children away while he was undergoing reform. When the old man returned to the village in the late 1900s, his wife and children had disappeared. Later, the old man spent ten years searching for his wife and children across the country, but never found any clues. Later, he lived in seclusion in a mountain village, alone. Life till now.
From the photos sent by the frontline staff, you can see that half of the thatched house where the old man lived has collapsed. Since he was too old to repair the house, he moved his bedding to the corner. The house was leaking and the living conditions were extremely poor, including food. It was even more difficult to use it, but the old man still kept his military officer ID card from his time in the Flying Tigers, a medal, and a black and white photo of him wearing a pilot's uniform and standing towards the nose of the aircraft.
The old man was in poverty all his life, but he never disclosed his true identity to anyone. However, the few things from the Flying Tigers period were still well preserved by him. He wrapped these things in a piece of plastic film and folded them. Many layers, and then placed in the only iron box containing biscuits from the 1980s in the thatched house, which has been carefully preserved to this day. The old man said that he will definitely die in this dilapidated thatched house in his life, and he hopes to wait until he dies. After that, the person who collected his body in the village was able to bury these things with him in the ground. He could no longer afford to buy a coffin. Being able to bury him in the ground a hundred years later was his biggest wish now.
In this extremely dilapidated mountain village, there are almost no young and strong laborers. There are only a few middle-aged people who have worked outside and suffered from silicosis. The old man said that he visits these households every few days. The family gave him some onions, garlic and wild vegetables he had grown, so that these people would not regret it and abandon his body in that thatched house a hundred years later.
The staff at the front drove to the town and then hiked into the mountains. They just brought some cakes as gifts. After seeing that the old man's life was so difficult, he immediately wanted to leave 2,000 yuan for the old man, but the old man refused to accept it. He said that from joining the army to becoming a pilot to fight the Japanese, and now, his backbone has never been bent in his life, and he has never taken anything from others in vain. Until now, he has only two wishes in total, one is to find the missing four people. He has a wife and children of fifty years, and the other is that he hopes that his identity as an anti-Japanese soldier can be recognized by the country, so that after his death, his ashes can be buried in the Martyrs Cemetery.
The volunteers wanted to take the old man down the mountain and have him checked out at a hospital in the city, but the old man was not willing to live or die. He just wanted to stay quietly in the thatched house where he had lived for half his life. He said that he wanted to die here. Take your last breath.
After seeing these materials, Liu Xinyin burst into tears in the office, and then immediately arranged for someone to buy the earliest air ticket, preparing to leave for the southwest with two staff members, hoping to see the old man in person. And she tried to find a way to take him out of the mountain. Before leaving, she called Li Mu.
Li Mu happened to be on his way to Taobao Technology. He made an appointment with Senior Brother Liu and Master Lei to meet up. Several suppliers, including 3M, that he had arranged for when he went to the United States have begun to ship SARS supplies to the country. Li Mu needs Taobao to make arrangements in advance. At the same time, he also needs to understand the overall progress of Taobao Logistics. Once the SARS period enters in the future, when the entire society is in turmoil, Taobao Logistics staff must fight on the front line. Therefore, these aspects also need to be communicated with Senior Brother Liu in advance and plans made.
As soon as he received a call from Liu Xinxin, Liu Xinxin said to Li Mu on the phone: "Mr. Li, I am going to Spring City in the afternoon. It may take a few days to come back. I will arrange for a girl from our foundation to take care of the matter here. Come on, I'll ask her to contact you later, if you have any instructions, you can contact her directly."
Li Mu asked curiously: "Why are you going to Spring City all of a sudden?"
"Go and see a surviving member of the Flying Tigers." Liu Xinxin said, "This old man's situation is a bit special. I want to go there myself."
Li Mu asked her: "What special method?"
Liu Xinxin briefly introduced the situation to Li Mu, and then said: "I went to Chuncheng for two purposes. One is to find a way to take the old man out of the mountains. It is best to take him to the hospital in Kunming, the provincial capital, for a good physical examination, and then Arrange for him to recuperate in a military sanatorium with good conditions for a period of time, and the other is to record the whole process of the old man. This is a very good real material for us to promote "Veterans Never Die". I think the old man's situation must be It can call on people to pay attention to the living conditions of veterans."
After listening, Li Mu was silent for about half a minute and said, "I'll go with you."
Liu Xinxin was stunned and said quickly: "Mr. Li, that place is too remote. You are so busy and you are a public figure, so don't go with me."
Li Mu said: "It's okay. I have some chores at hand, and the people under me can handle them. As for public figures, you don't have to worry. After listening to what you said, I think no one should recognize the place where the old man lives. Find out who I am."
"But… "
Liu Xinxin also wanted to persuade Li Mu, but Li Mu said without any doubt: "Okay, don't worry about anything. What time did you book the flight?"
"Six-thirty." Liu Xinyin said: "It will be past ten o'clock in the evening when we arrive in Chuncheng. We are going to stay in Chuncheng for one night. There will be a car from the Chuncheng Military Region to take us there tomorrow. I heard that the road there is not easy to walk, so we can only pass through. There are still more than ten kilometers of mountain road to go to a town below. It is said that there is a river without a bridge, and you need to slide across it by zip line. It is too dangerous, so you still..."
Li Mu didn't give her a chance to continue persuading her, and said, "Let's do this. You have to have your ticket refunded first. I'll arrange for my assistant to say hello to the charter company and try to fly tonight. You guys come with me."
When Liu Xinxin saw Li Mu's insistence, he had no choice but to say: "Okay, I'll make arrangements. Mr. Li, you can say hello to me after you finish it."
After hanging up the phone, Li Mu quickly asked Li Ziwei to contact the chartered flight. It was fine if he didn't know about this kind of thing. Now that he knew it, he couldn't leave it to others. After all, the Veterans' Immortality project was initiated by him. Enterprises can just use lip service, direct their people to line up and charge forward, but charity is definitely not possible. Charity needs example and leadership. At this time, you need to be at the forefront.
(End of chapter)