Chapter 1253 Model and lead
With Liu Xinying's active preparation, the work of "the veterans are immortal" quickly became formal. Li Mu also began to coordinate various resources and prepared to officially push this charity project to the people of the whole country.
Liu Xinying used her influence in Yanjing's upper class society to not only attract many backbone employees who are very capable in marketing, but also mobilized previous relationships with major charities and private foundations, and began to simultaneously promote veterans' search and confirmation work across the country.
All actions about veterans' immortality are still in the confidential stage. Li Mu and Liu Xinying have the same idea, and they must go with the flow when doing charity. The high attention of "Flying Tigers" in China is a general trend. Now the whole country is looking forward to the announcement of Chinese actors, which has become the best opportunity in the eyes of the two.
Liu Xinying divided the veterans' immortal charity project into multiple stages. The first stage now is to prepare for the branch project of "Finding the Existent Flying Tigers". After these days of hard work, she has found eleven still alive Flying Tigers on the mainland. According to the information feedback from Liu Xinying, these eleven Flying Tigers members are not very optimistic in their current living conditions.
The youngest of these flying tiger team members is now eighty years old. Because they were under the national army when they were in the Flying Tigers, they almost went through criticism and reforms, and even were labeled as spies after liberation. They were relatively poor in the past few decades. Among them, the worst-case Flying Tiger team member now lives in a mountain village on the southwest border. The old man married his wife and gave birth to a son after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. However, in the 1950s, the old man was criticized and reformed for his composition issues, and his wife and children were also excluded by the villagers in the village. So he took his children away when he was transforming. When the old man returned to the village in the late 1950s, his wife and children had disappeared. Later, the old man spent ten years looking for his wife and children nationwide, but he never found any clues. Later, he lived alone in the mountain village and lived alone to this day.
As the photos sent by the staff in front, it can be seen that the thatched hut where the old man lived had collapsed. Because he was old and unable to repair the house, he moved the bedside to the corner. The house was leaking, his living conditions were extremely poor, and his food was even more difficult. However, the old man still retained his officer certificate during the Flying Tigers, a medal, and a black and white photo taken in the direction of the head of the plane in the Flying Tigers.
The old man was in a miserable life, but he still preserved these few things from the Flying Tigers period. He wrapped them in a plastic film, folded them into many layers, and then placed them in the only iron box of biscuits in the 1980s in thatched hut. He has been carefully preserved to this day. The old man said that he would definitely die in this dilapidated thatched hut in this life. He hoped that after he died, the people who collected the corpse for him in the village could bury these things with him. He was no longer able to buy a coffin. It was his greatest wish now to be buried in the soil in a hundred years.
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 would go to these families every few days to send some onions and garlic he grew and wild vegetables he picked, so that these people would not regret it after a hundred years and abandon his bones in that thatched hut.
The staff in front drove to the town and then walked into the mountain, but brought some pastries as gifts. After seeing the old man's life so difficult, they immediately left two thousand yuan for him, but the old man was reluctant to accept it. He said that from joining the army to becoming a pilot to fighting the Japanese, and now, his backbone has never bent down in his life, and he has never occupied anything else in vain. Until now, he has only two wishes in total. One is to find his wife and children who have been separated for forty or fifty years, and the other is to hope that his identity as an anti-Japanese soldier can be recognized by the state and that his ashes can be buried in the martyrs' cemetery after his death.
The volunteers hope to take the old man down the mountain and take a good health check at the city hospital, but the old man was unwilling to do so. He just wanted to stay quietly in the thatched hut where he had lived for half his life. He said that he wanted to take his last breath here.
After seeing these materials, Liu Xinying burst into tears in the office, and then immediately arranged for someone to buy the earliest air tickets and set off to the southwest with two staff members, hoping to see the old man in person and find a way to take him out of the mountains. Before leaving, she called Li Mu.
Li Mu happened to go to Taobao Technology. He made an appointment with Senior Brother Liu and Master Lei. When he went to the United States, several suppliers, including 3m, had already begun to ship supplies to deal with SARS to China. Li Mu needed Taobao to make arrangements in advance. At the same time, he also needed to understand the overall progress of Taobao logistics. Once the SARS period is in the future, in the panic of the whole society, the staff of Taobao logistics must be on the front line, so these aspects need to be communicated with Senior Brother Liu in advance and make plans.
As soon as he received a call from Liu Xinying, Liu Xinying said to Li Mu on the phone: "Mr. Li, I have to go to Chuncheng in the afternoon. It may take several days to come back. I will arrange for a girl from our foundation to take care of the matter here. I will ask her to contact you later. If you have any instructions, you can directly find her."
Li Mu asked curiously: "Why are you going to Chuncheng suddenly?"
"Go to see a surviving Flying Tigers." Liu Xinying said: "This old man's situation is a bit special, I want to go there in person."
Li Mu asked her: "What is a special method?"
Liu Xinying briefly introduced the situation to Li Mu, and then said: "I have two purposes to go to Chuncheng. One is to find a way to take the old man out of the mountains. It is best to take him to a hospital in the provincial capital Kunming to have a good health check, and then arrange for him to have a good condition to recuperate for a period of time. The other is to record the whole process of the elderly. This is a very good real material for us to promote the 'Veteran Immortal'. I think the situation of this old man will definitely call on people to pay attention to the survival status of the veteran."
After hearing this, Li Mu was silent for about half a minute and said, "I'll go with you."
Liu Xinying was stunned and said quickly: "Mr. Li, that place is too remote. You are so busy and you are a public figure. Don't go with me."
Li Mu said: "It's okay, I have some chores on hand, and the people under my command can handle it. As for public figures and unpublic figures, you don't have to worry. After hearing what you said, I think no one can recognize who I am in the place where the elderly live."
"But……"
Liu Xinying also wanted to persuade Li Mu, but Li Mu said without any doubt: "Okay, don't let it go, what time have you booked for the plane?"
"Six-thirty." Liu Xinying 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 to take us over tomorrow. I heard that the road there is not easy to walk, so we can only lead to a town below. There is still more than ten kilometers of mountain road to walk. It is said that there is a river without a bridge and needs to slide over by zipline. It is too dangerous, so you still..."
Li Mu did not give her the chance to continue persuasion and said, "This is how you can ask someone to refund the ticket first. I will arrange for my assistant to say hello to the charter company and try to fly tonight. You and I will go with me."
Seeing Li Mu insisting, Liu Xinying had to say helplessly: "Okay, I'll arrange it. Mr. Li, you will say hello to me after you finish it."
Chapter completed!