When Ye Chen stepped onto the terrace of the third floor of the villa alone, the motorcade of Liu Jiahui and Chen Zhaozhong’s family had already driven into the villa courtyard one after another.
Reporters swarmed in after the motorcade, and the best lion dance team on Hong Kong Island danced the two lifelike lions to perfection, making the scene extraordinarily lively.
Although Ye Chen had never been a fan of lively scenes, he was particularly relieved to see this scene now.
The familiar yet unfamiliar smell of smoke from the exploding firecrackers, wrapped in the rich smell of gunpowder, rose upwards, giving Ye Chen a sudden refreshing feeling.
He had loved the smell of smoke produced when firecrackers burned out since he was a child, but with the ban on fireworks everywhere over the years, he hadn’t smelt this familiar smell for a long time.
It may also have something to do with the fact that Chinese people love fireworks during festivals, so whenever he smells it, it is also a good time for family reunions and happy events, especially when Ye Chen was young, his parents would take time out to accompany him to set off fireworks during the New Year festivals.
At that time, Ye Chen could not wait to set off fireworks from New Year’s Eve, until the 15th of the first month.
So this smell, too, would make Ye Chen involuntarily find the unique happiness of his childhood.
Standing on the edge of the terrace, Ye Chen took a few greedy puffs, and his mind could not help but think of his parents again.
Most of the time, Ye Chen is a strong person, rarely shedding tears and never being afraid, even if life has given him great hardships, he can still smile back at life.
But it is only when he misses his parents that the fragile sensitivity of his heart is involuntarily exposed.
His character is like a hedgehog with a strong armour, and his parents are his soft and fragile belly.
He saw Chen Zhao Zhong, dressed in a suit, coming down from the car. Chen Zhao Zhong was wearing the same suit he had brought with him when he fled to the United States, and after so many years, the suit still fit him well, and although his hair was already white, he looked extraordinarily refined.
In Ye Chen’s mind, he suddenly recalled something his father had said to him when he was young.
Those words were also the reason why he refused Grandpa and insisted on taking his mother back to China.
He said, “Remember, Chen’s son, all people who are worthy and have flesh and blood inside must have three souls and seven spirits, if such people stay away from their homeland for a long time, one of the three souls and seven spirits will be missing, when they set foot in their homeland again, that lost soul will naturally be found, if they do not return to their homeland or if their homeland is lost, that soul will never be found. ”
Now seeing Chen Zhao Zhong look as if he had become ten years younger overnight, Ye Chen suddenly had an epiphany of the true meaning of his father’s words.
Father also said, “Among the three souls and seven spirits of a person, the three souls are the heavenly soul, the earthly soul and the destiny soul, the heavenly soul means the homeland, the earthly soul means the parents and the destiny soul means oneself.”
As he said this, his father asked him, “Do you know why, in the 5,000 years of history, whenever the country was in danger and the land was falling, there were countless ancestors who died for the country?”
The young Ye Chen shook his head in confusion and asked, “Why is that, Daddy?”
With a faint smile, his father explained, “That is because one can lose the other two souls and seven spirits, but not the heavenly soul! Because among the three souls and seven spirits, the heavenly soul is the most important, because it represents one’s highest faith, one’s faith in one’s homeland, one’s motherland and one’s nation, which is the highest faith, and that is why Papa chose to return to China, and why, after all the trials and tribulations the Jews went through, they still went out of their way to return to the Palestinian region and establish Israel, because like Papa, they also wanted to find their heavenly souls, the only difference is that Dad left his homeland back then, while they, on the other hand, lost their homeland.”