The doctor gave Hathaway a sedative, confessed a few words, and shook his head and left. Hathaway was lying in bed with her eyes narrowed. She was dying. It was the last time to see the church priest, warm-hearted Shrek and his wife around the bed to comfort Hathaway.
"Hathaway Anne has gone to call Selim home. He will be back soon."
The door was messy and hurried, and Wang Haidi stumbled into the room. He lost a pair of shoes and his trousers were covered with mud, and his spirit was a little sluggish.
"This way, Selim …" Old Mrs. Shrek hugged Haidi, gave him a close kiss and made a cross. "God bless you and Hathaway. Go and see Hathaway for the last time …"
Haidi didn’t say anything. He bowed to Mrs. Shrek, then went to the bed and sat down. Mrs. Shrek smiled with relief. She went out with the priest and gave it to Haidi and Hathaway.
"Heidi, is that you?" Hathaway can’t see, but she can hear her breathing. She is familiar with it and tastes old. She opens her eyes and fumbles for her hands. Excited way
Wang Haidi has never experienced death before. His grandparents’ bodies are great. Grandpa Xiang’s in-laws are very eloquent. They want to help Wang Haidi and his little girlfriend take care of his great-grandson. Wang Haidi is at a loss. He has never experienced death. He doesn’t know how to face someone who is about to die, especially his nominal mother. Wang Haidi put her face on Hathaway’s hand and asked Hathaway to rub his face carefully. "Hathaway is me. I am here."
"Heidi, my good boy, tell me, are you really not admitted to Berlin University?" Although she is dying, Hathaway is still obsessed with Heidi’s future.
"I’m sorry I lied to you …" Haidi sighed and took out the deeply hidden admission notice from the bed surface and stuffed it into Hathaway’s hand.
Hathaway smiled at Heidi’s surprised eyes. She sat up on the bedstead and clutched the notice tightly, almost word for word
"Heidi Selim went to Berlin to go to college to fulfill your dream. Don’t let that old bastard Fresi fool you; Military service is a German man’s righteousness. I hope you will never love the navy. The Shrek family are good people. Annie is not beautiful and doesn’t read much, but she is a good girl. Forget Catherine and Anne, and take care of your father, Fresi, a stubborn old Prussian navy who never gives up, but he is old, lame, with rheumatism and injuries. "
"I promise I promise …" Wang Haidi nodded desperately in tears.
"Heidi, my son, I haven’t heard you call me mother Heidi. Maybe you hate me for not letting you join the navy. Maybe you blame me for ruining your relationship with Katherine. Maybe there are other reasons … But Heidi, I’m dying. Whether I do it right or not, can you see Emperor and Fresi call me a mother …"
Wang Haidi moved his lips, but he couldn’t shout. Since Wang Haidi realized that he couldn’t go back, he left a narrow mind. Wang Haidi was not a lover. He was determined to honor Heidi Selim’s parents and protect his first love to fulfill his ideal. But Wang Haidi would never call Frey and Hathaway’s father and mother, and Wang Haidi would never love Catherine. Wang Haidi simply thought that her parents and little girlfriend were the only things he could catch after crossing the border. However, Hathaway was the only link left in his previous life. Her request made Wang Haidi hesitate.
When Hathaway didn’t weigh Wang Haidi, her pupils suddenly dilated and her face became ferocious. She pounded her chest and wailed desperately, "Are you taking me away? I hate it. I hate it. I don’t listen to my child calling me mother. I hate that I can’t see my child getting married and having children. I hate that I can’t accompany Fresi to the end. I hate it … "
A few breaths, Wang Haidi finally abandoned his last persistence in crossing the world, desperately trying to hold back the tears in his eyes and screaming hoarse.
"Come on, mom …"
Hathaway’s chapped lips smiled and solidified, and her body was so cold that her eyes lost their focus. This is white. It was just Hathaway’s return to life. Hathaway’s mother really left.
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"From the dust to the dust, may God’s mercy be with you forever. Amen to the name of the Father." The priest in black slowly finished his eulogy with a Bible and made a cross to the black sarcophagus.
"Rest in peace. Amen …" Not many people attended the funeral, so Uncle Schneider listened to the priest’s prayer, and his relatives and friends dressed in black and holding white flowers bowed their heads in silence and walked around the cemetery quietly.
The funeral ceremony was incomplete, and there was no church band to sing hymns and play funeral music, but no one could criticize Heidi Selim too much. After the ceremony, several big men carried the sarcophagus and carefully put it in the hands of pickaxe big men in the cemetery. Soon the sarcophagus disappeared and a stone tablet was set up in front of the grave.
German cemeteries are always full of evergreen pines, cypresses and small daisies all over the mountains. It’s a rainy day, and it’s gray and drizzling. It’s very annoying that Haidi grabbed a big black umbrella and looked at it coldly until Mrs. Shrek came over.
"West lime go home …"
"Mrs. Shrek, you guys go ahead. I want to be alone."
Little Anne was relieved that she didn’t want to stay with Heidi Shrek. She shook her head and took her away. Her relatives and friends all went to bid farewell to Haidi, and the cemetery was quiet again.
Wang Haidi threw an umbrella and sat on the soft and wet grass, reaching out and stroking the stone tablet. A few dry syllables popped up from time to time in her throat.
Hathaway, my mother, I’m not your son. I’m a thief who stole your son … "Little raindrops slid into Wang Haidi’s collar with a little coolness. Wang Haidi couldn’t help wrapping up her old clothes and continued," I used to watch those novels that crossed the other world in my previous life. The protagonists always accepted the reality freely, broke free from the fetters of previous lives and started a new chapter. After six months and twenty-one days, I didn’t know my family relationship until now. It was far from a few cold words to forget this life. I faced your death, but I couldn’t help myself In this life, Fresi and I will be filial to take care of my biological parents. Who should care? "
This is a solution to a proposition, just like the famous proposition "which came first, the chicken or the egg". Wang Haidi just sat on the grass and lost her mind.
PS, I am a low-yield writer, and 6,000 words is a bit beyond my ability … Let’s watch it one day later … And click on the collection comments to recommend various requests …
The first chapter of the first twenty years is Berlin or Kiel (5)
Hathaway is dead after all. The funeral is simple and solemn. It costs money like water. The old account of Selim’s family has not been settled, and new accounts have been added. It is said that there are too many lice to be afraid of itching. Wang Haidi can be calm with her "barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes".
Hathaway’s death touched Wang Haidi very much. Heidi has been hesitant about both Berlin University and Kiel Naval Academy, but Hathaway’s death made him make up his mind.
After the funeral, Wang Haidi returned to the pier, and the noise and busyness of Kiel Pier were still keen. Wang Haidi could vaguely detect the commotion around the pier.
“西莱姆不瞒你说我最近刚加入码头工人工会我觉得你也应该加入进来”就王海蒂边扛货箱边胡思乱想时候布朗特凑了过来瞄了瞄工头莱曼位置压低线欲言又止道“我们这些深受剥削产阶级应该团结起来同一种音来维护我们益”
19年鲁尔大罢工工会组织迅速发展引起了新兴工商业主和保守克贵族恐惧政府打压工会运动很快便陷入低潮时期如今五年过去了工会和产阶级运动卷土重来就王海蒂浑浑噩噩忙着海瑟薇葬礼时候工会组织重新渗透进码头工人中
尽管马尔堡大学教授海尔－柯亨代表马尔堡学派和弗莱堡大学教授威廉－文德尔班代表弗莱堡学派竭力宣扬新康德主义慕尼黑大学教授卢哥－布伦坦诺代表德国新历史学派大学讲坛鼓吹”讲坛社会主义”可社会主义、马克思理论依然势不可挡许多码头工人偷偷加入工会就连性格大大咧咧布朗特都不能幸
“布朗特昨天我刚收到基尔海军学院录取通知你也知道海军规矩……”
尽管王海蒂很同情工人阶级悲惨遭际可一名熟知未来穿越客王海蒂深知伟大社会主义革命背后皑皑白骨、虚伪和欺骗胆小怕死王海蒂注定复制不了毛太祖丰功伟绩意志不坚定他也注定不能谱写德国潜伏好王海蒂有基尔海军学院录取通知来搪塞布朗特
"I know the rules of the army …" Blunt turned his head and his eyes were full of disappointment.
After finishing Tim Kroeger’s middle school, Wang Haidi came to Kiel Wharf alone to work hard. Wang Haidi didn’t know anything. It was Blunt who taught Wang Haidi to work skillfully and be lazy and tricky. Blunt took care of him a lot. Wang Haidi didn’t want to see his name in the imperial government’s wanted order in the future. He thought about every word and said, "Stay away from politics is our German army. Although you have retired from the army, you can …"
"Selim, I joined the trade union to protect my own politics, and the old Prime Minister’s Anti-socialist Extraordinary Law has died in name only. Even the Social Democratic Party is now free to participate in the Congress and be elected as the largest party in Congress! Trade unions are not illegal organizations! " Germany was born insensitive to politics, and Blunt made a few muddleheaded excuses. Finally, he changed the subject, grabbed Wang Haidi’s shoulder, and said, "But I still want to congratulate you on being able to take an examination of whether Kiel Naval Academy has studied in a military school or not, and coming out after three to five years is directly that the starting point of the alternate second lieutenant is much higher than the average person."
"Blunt, you are lazy again!" Lyman roared far away. "You should be fired!"
"This black-hearted Jewish businessman!" Blunt’s stall owner turned his head to complain to Wang Haidi while resisting the container. "It’s so unfair, Selim. When you are lazy, he always doesn’t want me to sit and have a cigarette. It’s so dark that the foreman will definitely scold me. Selim, I guess Lyman must have an old and ugly girl. He is partial to you and wants to recruit you as a son-in-law Wang Haidi. You must be careful …"
Germans don’t like gossiping, but Blunt is an exception. He is still a bachelor in his forties. He is very enthusiastic about all women’s divination. When Blunt talks nonsense, a beautiful warship slowly enters Kiel Bay. Heidi’s face changes, and she jumps and jumps. The box is as pure as sapphire, and her eyes are fixed on the warship.
It was just returned to the naval base after being repaired from the shipyard. The Siegfried-class light cruiser Beewolf was damaged in the annual autumn sea training exercise in January 1993. It has not been repaired until now. The displacement is 3,000 tons. Four groups of steam boilers drive 570 horsepower, and the maximum speed is 147 knots. It has three 24 mm main guns and four torpedo tubes, which are the essence of German naval designers under the guidance of German offshore defense thought.
The Germans are not a nation with a profound maritime system. Frederick I and the kings of Prussia after him all believed that "Prussia does not need a navy." After the Franco-Prussian War, the young German Empire Frenchman Versailles was founded, and the wise and far-sighted old Prime Minister Bismarck knew that the British navy was powerful and avoided possible conflicts in Britain. The old Prime Minister tried his best to prevent the navy from turning a deaf ear to other powers, Africa, America and Asia.
After the Battle of Sedang, the natural enemy of the German Army, European countries, were frightened by the Imperial Navy, which was just a dispensable role.
When the Six-Week War broke out in 164, the Prussians were not Danish opponents. The Germans had no choice but to order an armored ship Arinius)167 with a displacement of 1,917 tons and four guns. When the Prussian Navy was first established in 167, the Germans only had one armored ship Friedrich-Carr with a displacement of 743 tons and 16 guns and 21 guns, which was built by the British. In 169, the Germans began to try to build a battleship with a displacement of 443 tons, equipped with doors and 21 guns. The Hamburg armored ship soon began to build the slipway of Danzig Shipyard, but it took seven years to build it.
The Prussian Navy made great achievements in the German unification war. After the establishment of the empire, the German Navy was struggling with government policies. In 172, the German Admiralty proposed a ten-year naval expansion plan to Congress. Fourteen armored ships and two cruisers were planned to be built 12 years ago, and a total of one ship could not be completed until one year. This glorious and arduous 19 years later, the German Navy spent less than 230,000 US dollars, accounting for one-fifth of the army’s appropriation in that year, which was equivalent to one-third of that of the French Navy. Appropriation 1/2 of the navy has only 72 ships with a total tonnage of about 190,000 tons. There are not 10,000-ton warships. Most of them are two or three thousand-ton second-class cruisers or 6,000-ton offshore defense ships. The German navy is not only inferior to the crumbling country in the Far East, but its tonnage is not as good as that of the famous sick man of West Asia, the Ottoman Sultanate.
So that the old-fashioned and conservative landlord can jump on his feet and curse that the German industrial and commercial class has grown up and worshipped Mahan’s "On the Sea" crazily. German Emperor William II also ascended the throne with a strong personality, and the militaristic leader, Erpitz, had a historic meeting with the German emperor, and whether it was all good or bad, the rise of the German navy was unstoppable.
In the past April, the latest Knuber armored freeboard was designed with turrets along the longitudinal center line of the hull. The first-class armored ship Brandenburg has been in service in 1993, and the first-class armored ship Wools has been in service in 1992. The large armored cruiser Augusta (Augusta Virginia) was in 1993. The 4,000-ton Gefin was the first-class armored ship of the Brandenburg-class Wiesenburg at the berth of the Shangfuerkeng Shipyard.
It is better to say that Heidi’s sight is chasing the light cruiser than to say that Heidi is waiting for hiding than the Wolf cruiser. The small sailboat shows its shape. The sail power of the old sailboat is obvious, but the steam power of the new cruiser is short. In a moment, the cruiser sounded its whistle and turned around and headed for the military pier. A scarred three-masted whaling ship was exposed to the sea.
The old whaling ship’s old hull is covered with moss, and the left side of the hull is covered with holes of all sizes. Its tall mast is still crumbling despite the reinforcement of planks and rigging. The whale smelting furnace, which is usually placed on the main deck, has been cut across more than half, which looks a bit shocking.
"God, this old sailboat looks like it’s going to fall apart. How much storm should poor Whale Rider encounter? If they bring this pile of junk that barely floats on the sea back?" The horror of the old sailboat made the dock stir, and people jumped into the breakwater and looked around with their mouths covered. The hull was full of holes, old clothes, canvas rigging and cork whalers.
"South Schleswig is the South Schleswig!" Following the memory of the old year, Wang Haidi easily recognized that it was the whaling ship Schleswig, South of Fresi.
Fresi is back. The first mate of the stubborn former Prussian second lieutenant whaling ship, the South Schleswig, has been wandering in the sea all his life. The old navy is back, struggling to hold on. Wang Haidi can finally breathe a sigh of relief and have a good rest for a few days.
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