The second volume is full of glory and splendor in the capital, and the spirit is full of energy in the foggy city. Chapter 235: Grand Marshal (Part 1)
The subtitle of this chapter: There are famous generals in the greetings, and no unlearned people are willing to take over.
As soon as our Master Yuan recovered, he thought of his Keke... What was he thinking about? He wasn't that eager.
He thought of the 404 that his Keke gave him.
Comrades, although this is not a building on the Bund, it is a garden house on Fifth Avenue!
It would be difficult for the Seres not living a hundred years later to understand this craze for houses in good locations.
So he immediately started to arrange this matter...
That evening, Yuan Yanshu and several of his friends drove to Ms. Brooks's home.
"Ah, I can't believe you're getting better so quickly! Oh, right..."
The Queen of Pentacles glanced behind him and said sourly, "Where's your big star?"
"Keke, Lillian's gone back to Maine to film a movie." Master Yuan smiled slightly, stepped forward, grabbed her hand and kissed it, and asked magnanimously, "Where's your brigadier general?"
"cough!"
The brigadier general came to them with a frown on his brow.
Ms. Brooks, not at all embarrassed, smiled sweetly at him, turned around and said, "Niao, let me introduce you..."
"No, no introductions are needed. I know this general!"
Yuan Yan suddenly looked at the handsome middle-aged man who took her plate with a burning gaze, and said excitedly: "The most outstanding student in West Point history is also the youngest president, the youngest brigadier general in American history, the future..."
"Um...you are Mr. Douglas MacArthur."
He bowed slightly and said in a rare tone of slightly respect: "It is my honor to meet a European war hero like you."
One of the future three great commanders of the empire, the commander-in-chief of the Pacific theater, a five-star general of the U.S. Army, the emperor of Japan, and the defeated general of the Volunteer Army, after hearing such pleasant words and seeing that the Chinese man had a pleasing attitude, his frown finally relaxed a little.
His expression eased slightly as he nodded, then extended his hand and said, "Mr. Yuan, I'm glad to meet you, too."
The two shook hands, and when Master Yuan was about to introduce his friends, three cute little kids rushed towards him with cheers.
"Uncle Neo, I heard you were going to die. I was so worried! Who would write 'Battle Through the Heavens' for us if you died?"
"Thomas, don't be silly!" The ten-year-old girl scolded her brother and said in a coquettish voice, "Uncle Neo, we miss you so much."
The eldest among them said very honestly: "Uncle Neo, we are so happy to see that you are okay. Because..."
He glanced at MacArthur beside him and didn't say anything else.
However, all the adults around understood what Ms. Brooks's eldest son meant, and the atmosphere in the room became a little awkward again.
"Hahaha..." Yuan Yan suddenly laughed to herself and said, "I'm so happy to see you guys."
"Thomas is right. When I was about to die, I was thinking that if I died, you wouldn't be able to watch Battle Through the Heavens. So I gritted my teeth and survived. So..."
He took the briefcase from his driver, pulled out a stack of documents, and said to the three children, "I brought you a gift..."
"This is..." The three of them immediately had their eyes lit up, staring at the manuscripts with their mouths watering.
Master Yuan smiled broadly, bent down, handed over the manuscript, and said, "Ms. Brooks, Mr. Brooks, these are the first two hundred chapters of 'Battle Through the Heavens'!"
"Oh yeah! Boo!"
"Hurray! Boo!"
"Uncle Neo, you're the best! Boo!"
The three children hugged his neck and kissed him hard on the face, then took the "Battle Through the Heavens" and ran to their bedroom cheering...
"Regardless of whether Mr. Yuan Yanshu's political stance was 'progressive' or his attitude towards the Chinese revolution, he made a great contribution to China's philanthropy.
His SCP Foundation has allocated special funds for decades, and he also used all the income from his children's literature to open an orphanage to adopt orphans.
This project began in Shanghai after he returned to China in 1922, and the person in charge of this project was Mr. Yuan’s wife, Ms. Wei Mingzhu.
Because they had no children and Mr. Yuan's other partners had not given birth to children for him, the Yuan couple, especially Mrs. Wei, took special care of these orphans, and the orphans affectionately called her "Mother Mingzhu".
Although Yuan Yanshu publicly criticized China's communist movement, he did adopt a large number of revolutionary orphans, the most famous of whom were the three sons mentioned here.
Later, he brought these three and several other revolutionary orphans to the United States and opened a school for them in California. Many of them later successfully entered universities in the United States and Europe. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, a large number of them resolutely returned to China and made great contributions to the modernization of the new country.
The three sons changed their surnames to Yuan, so no one knew their . It was not until after the normalization of Sino-US relations that the matter was exposed, naturally causing an uproar on both sides of the Pacific.
Some people in the United States accused him of sympathizing with the communists, and some even said that he was a secret member of the Chinese Communist Party, a close comrade-in-arms, and a fifth column lurking in the United States.
However, the international situation was completely different at that time. China and the United States had a common enemy, and China at that time was known as a non-member of NATO, so such accusations did not have much impact on Mr. Yuan.
More importantly, Mr. Yuan’s reputation in the United States and even the world is unmatched, and his charity work is also open and aboveboard.
Not to mention the American political and media circles, even the general public scoffed at such ridiculous accusations, believing them to be groundless slander.
The Yuans really love children. Perhaps they are using this charity to make up for their regret of not having children..."
——Excerpt from "A Brief History of the SCP Foundation》
After entertaining her three children with "Fights Break Sphere", Yuan Yan introduced John McCall, Louis Baker and his nephew Huang Zongyi to MacArthur.
"Keke, cough, cough..." Our Master Yuan changed his address and asked, "Louis, has your lawyer arrived?"
Ms. Brooks said with a half-smile, "Oh, my lawyer will be here soon. I didn't expect you to be so anxious..."
Nonsense, how can I not be anxious about a garden house on Fifth Avenue?!
That's right, Yuan Yanshu brought his own lawyer and New York State notary publicI came here to sign the transfer agreement.
