Chapter 5

Xiao Youming left the armed forces department with a red face and a thick neck.

It's not because he had a big quarrel with the minister who called himself Lao Chen, because when he went out, he and Lao Chen were hooking up with each other.

At noon, Lao Chen didn't do anything, and invited him, a bricklayer, to drink a drink in the canteen of the People's Armed Forces Department. Three yuan a pound of loose wine, drinking it is a fire to burn the chest and gallbladder. I didn't eat much, but the wine was poured into more than a catty, Xiao Youming felt that if he drank a little more, he dared to kowtow to Lao Chen.

So it's not a big deal to do whatever that little thing in your own house likes to do, and to be a soldier.

Although he slept on someone's tractor and slept home, he woke up and regretted it a little, but Xiao Youming was still a little relieved about this. Just waiting for Xiao Chen to go home during the summer vacation, whether to sign up for the army or join the work, everything is up to him.

Time spread all over the country with rumors, and finally came to the summer vacation.

Xiao Chen still came back with a shabby suitcase.

The old style and bright red made Xiao Chen look down on people in school because of this box. But this thing was Xia Yufang's dowry when Xiao Youming and his wife got married, and it was also the best thing at that time. More than a decade has passed, but the suitcase is still durable.

In the box were all of Xiao Chen's textbooks and clothes this semester, and he had already made up his mind to join the army, so of course he packed all his belongings. Except for the bedding being carried home early, everything else is here.

Xia Yufang saw Xiao Chen enter the door, left the rice she was scooping, and pulled Xiao Chen into her arms regardless of the wet hands.

"Baby, why did you say you came back? Let's not be a soldier with this soldier, okay? People say that when you come back as a soldier, you will become a second-rate person in society. You said you were such a good child, why should you behave like this? ”

Xia Yufang is telling the truth.

There are many people in the county who have gone to serve as soldiers over the years, and many who come back every two years.

Among them, there are many outstanding people who change their minds and re-behave, but there are also many people who look like veterans and are idle all day long and do not do their jobs.

The more she cared about this aspect, the more Xia Yufang paid more attention to the negative news of being a soldier. This is no longer their time, one person is a soldier and the whole family is honorable, and now they will take it out and talk about it.

Xiao Chen was a little caught off guard by this sudden cry.

But after stabilizing his mentality, he quickly broke free from Xia Yufang's embrace, and comforted him very calmly:

"Mother, if it's really not good to be a soldier, where are so many people who want to be soldiers. You don't want me to go, so you just try to persuade me to do something bad. I told my dad a long time ago that being a soldier may not be the best way out for me. I've been studying for so many years, and I've also grown a brain. ”

Xia Yufang is just a somewhat shrewd rural woman.

Just now, she did cry twice to make Xiao Chen give up her attention, usually this method tried Xiao Chen, but she didn't expect to be exposed so bluntly today, and she didn't care about her face as a mother at all.

Xia Yufang laughed wryly: "I'll cook for you." ”

Watching Xia Yufang turn around and return to the kitchen, Xiao Chen sighed. When he came to this world, he was still a little resistant and alienated from Xiao Youming and Xia Yufang. Xiao Youming's straightforward temper still felt a little close, but Xia Yufang's cleverness made him faintly disgusted.

But no matter how you say it, they are also the parents of this life. Even if Xiao Chen resisted a little, he couldn't deny his six relatives.

Looking at Xia Yufang, who was still peeking at him a little cautiously in the kitchen, Xiao Chen sighed lightly again.

Xiao Youming seemed to have fully accepted this result, and when he came back from work in the evening, he specially bought a pound of braised pig ears, called Xia Yufang and Xiao Chen together, and after they sat down, they poured a glass of wine for each of them:

"Today, our son is back. Half a year away from home, it's time to celebrate when you come back. Come, take a sip. ”

After speaking, he took the lead in picking up the wine glass, and then looked at Xiao Chen with a broad smile:

"Don't pretend, you kid, I wanted to call you last time, but the young man from the Liu family said that you got drunk after drinking a glass of wine with someone. You've grown up, and you can't drink, you're not manly. Come, pick it up. ”

Seeing Xiao Chen pick up the wine glass like this, Xiao Youming nodded with satisfaction and drank all the wine in the cup.

"You kid called me and said that he wanted to be a soldier, and my heart was turned upside down. I went to the county to ask about it, not to mention, the armed forces minister really has no fight. He told me for a long time, and I know that there is no harm in you being a soldier. Go as you want. ”

"People say that signing up is only a matter of a few days. Originally, your school could have signed up to be a soldier, but after thinking about it, I moved my hukou to the school in the first place so that I could go to school and eat public meals. Now that you're going to be a soldier, it's useless to put your hukou in the city, so you just turn back and look at our land. ”

Xiao Chen is a key college student, and there must be no problem in signing up for the army.

Xiao Youming talked a lot with Lao Chen, which involved the issue of household registration.

Although Lao Chen is selfish, no matter what, he knows more about the policies above than Xiao Youming. At this time, Xiao Youming still remembered what Lao Chen had told him at that time:

"Lao Xiao, the baby is in college, of course I don't have to say anything about the hukou in the city. However, in recent years, major colleges and universities have begun to merge their enrollment, and many schools are making trouble about the hukou. And now the urban hukou is not as good as before, it is better to transfer the hukou back. When you become a soldier, your household registration will be cancelled, and you will resettle down after demobilization, and the land will still be under your baby's name. ”

"None of us want the baby to go out, but if you really go out, can you give up the land at home?"

Relocated to the land, Xiao Youming is now living a well-off life by working as a bricklayer. But no matter what, he has the same idea as Lao Chen, that is, no matter where he goes, the earth is the foundation of life.

Xiao Chen's account can be transferred back, of course, it is the best. And in this matter, Xiao Youming asked Xiao Chen's opinion at this time.

Of course, Xiao Chen, who is familiar with the policies of later generations, has nothing to say, and if he can really talk about the transfer of household registration, it is of course the best. You must know that in another 20 years, how many people will cry and shout that they want to return to the countryside to farm, but their hukou will limit their dreams.

At dinner, Xiao Youming said a lot.

He has always been very simple, but today he is particularly emotional. It's as if Xiao Chen will never come back when he arrives in the county tomorrow.

The family of three talked a lot and didn't sleep until late at night. At this time, Xiao Chen's feelings for this couple seemed to be deeper, and the previous resistance and alienation had also faded a lot. Xiao Chen understood that this was the only person he felt when he came to this world and wanted to be good for himself without asking for anything in return.

When the sun rose again, Xiao Chen opened his eyes and found that Xiao Youming had already gone out to work.

Xia Yufang brought the poached eggs: "You eat some first, I'll say hello, the old Wang family in the east of the village is driving a mule cart to the city today." When you get to the city, you buy something to eat. The old Chen that your father said, he is the Minister of Armed Forces, you are more polite, and they can arrange it for you. Eat it quickly, it will be cold after a while. ”

This kind of extremely careful nagging, Xiao Chen couldn't hate it for a while.

Looking at the bowl of poached eggs on the table, Xiao Chen looked at Xia Yufang, who was still busy making dry food in the kitchen, and couldn't help but exclaim:

"Mother."

"What's wrong? Are eggs hot? ”

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay, I just want to scream suddenly. It's been a long time since I've spoken to you. ”

The woman who was kneading her dough vigorously in the kitchen was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly laughed softly:

"Silly boy."

Picking up the chopsticks placed on the bowl, Xiao Chen dragged the bowl to his side, sniffing the poached eggs with a salty smell, Xiao Chen took a sip of soup with the bowl, let his mouth get used to the somewhat strange taste, and then bit the poached eggs in the bowl for a month and a half.

"It's delicious, mother, let's eat this tomorrow morning."

Looking at Xia Yufang's smiling face, Xiao Chen quickly finished eating the bowl of poached eggs, washed the bowl and put it in the cupboard, and walked to the old Wang's house that Xia Yufang said according to his memory.