214 Returning Home (4)

Fu Fu climbed a small dirt slope and let the wind blow his body - he walked under the sun for most of the day, and he also let the sweat be harvested. He didn't feel so tired, he was used to doing crop work since he was a child, and after he arrived in the army, he had plenty of food and daily training and hard work to make his body stronger and stronger. As for walking dozens of miles in one go, it's nothing.

There is no ox cart shuttle bus from East Mén to Meiyang Village, but the roads have been basically repaired, with temporary bridges erected along the road, potholes all raised in the places, drainage ditches on the side of the road, and gravel paved on the road - except for the lack of width, the level of the roadbed has reached the level of an easy road. Fu Fu doesn't have to worry about walking on the road at all, you must know that he trains for a five-kilometer cross-country run once a week.

The wind in Lingao winter is not cold, but refreshing and pleasant. Looking out from the dirt slope, the yellow-brown road winds its way between the dirt slope and paddy fields overgrown with shrubs and trees. Most of the second rice crop has just been harvested, and the paddy fields have been planted with winter wheat, broad beans and various green féi crops – an area where the Tiandi Society will focus on promoting the new farming methods.

This is a field scenery of the "new countryside" that he has never seen before - it is somewhat like the scenery on the "Australian picture" shown to them in the political class in the army, and the "Australian countryside" on the picture is so beautiful that it is like a fairyland, and Fu Fu can't believe that there is such a beautiful and rich village in Shijie, and there are such beautiful fields.

He still remembered the scenery along the road in the past: a little further from the village, there were barren and terrible mounds of wasteland, and the grass on both sides of the dirt road grew higher than that of Atananhai, and the grass would disappear immediately when an adult walked in. Wild dogs wander the wasteland, making a terrible low bark. He had heard from the old people that these wild dogs would dig up dead bodies in the graveyard and eat them...... Fu Fu grew up hearing all sorts of terrible stories about the wilderness.

The large areas of grass and shrubs that used to be everywhere have been much reduced, and most of the flat areas have been reclaimed into fields, leaving only miscellaneous forests on the hillsides, and some have even been planted with saplings. Fu Fu also participated in the "support of farmers" in the army, and knew that most of the "economic forests" planted on the slopes were fruit trees.

In the distance of this quiet rural scenery there is a large number of houses - there is the village of Meiyang. Fu Fu felt a little suspicious, is Meiyang Village so big?

Fu Fu was sold to Meiyang Village when he was seven or eight years old, and he hardly left the village until he was sent to serve as a soldier. Fu Buji himself rarely leaves the village, and he will go to the market once in the middle of the night every ten days, and he will only go to the county seat once or twice a year. Fu Fu has only been out less than five or six times in total. Miyo Village is all he shijie. In his rare leisure time, he would climb a small mound two or three miles from the village with other children, looking at the scenery in the distance, arguing about what he would encounter and see if he kept going in a certain direction. Going to the county seat where he couldn't see the village once was already an eye-opener for him.

When he was a soldier, the village sent Ding Zhuang, who was apportioned by each family, with a rope. In order to prevent Paidin from escaping halfway, this is how the villages operated. He and several other people in the village who had been sent to serve as soldiers were tied together with ropes and escorted as they stumbled along the potholed road. The village sent a few strong men with large knives and wooden guns to escort them. He still remembered that Fu Yizhuang, the eldest son of the leader Fu Yousan, had been using a rusty knife to make a gesture on their necks: whoever dared to escape halfway would cut off their heads. The cold swishing blade made his body chill for a while, and his heart for a while—when he was leaving, the housekeeper only let him a broken kù and a broken vest-like piece of rag, and did not even let him wear a pair of straw sandals. Fu Buji said, "Let him wear it and go." was robbed by his wife: "Anyway, if you go, you're a dead man, what shoes are you wearing?" ”

He walked barefoot for several days, eating a few raw sweet potatoes and drinking a few sips of raw water every day, and almost every pai had diarrhea. There was an orphan in the village who was too young and had severe diarrhea, and died halfway through the road before he could reach Bopu. The eldest son, who was in charge of sending them to Fu Yousan's family, dug a shallow pit on the side of the road and buried the people. also complained, "Why don't you die again when you go to Bopu." ”

Fu Fu dragged his feet and was sent all the way to Bopu with the depressed mood of going to death, and since then he has been a soldier for the Australians.

Fu Fu didn't know the so-called "encounters of life", and in his lack of adjectives, he still felt glad that he had "good luck". Life as a soldier opened up another dimension in his life, leading him to a shijie he had never imagined before—a shijie he had never dreamed of.

"I really didn't expect such a day." Fu Fu took off his cool hat, when he left Meiyang Village, he didn't expect that he would come back alive, let alone that he would come back so majestically, it turned out that being a soldier could also be the same as acting in the play. Thinking of this, Fu Fu couldn't help but smile proudly. He felt very happy to think of the mean housewife's expression when she saw her.

Fu Fu quickened his pace and walked towards the village, he couldn't wait to see Fu Yijin's face. With Fu Yijin, even the Fu family's lady has become less annoying.

He walked along the road, looking at the fields on both sides of the road, many of which had been dug ditches and installed sluices—these farmland water conservancy projects also had the credit of the army, and Fu Fu participated in the "support of farmers", two-thirds of which were in the construction of farmland water conservancy.

When he reached the entrance of the village, he saw two NV children coming down the hillside on the side of the road, one wearing blue cloth "work clothes" and the other being dressed as a local NV child, both of whom were carrying a rattan basket filled with tender grass. One of the NV children was also carrying a basket of rice and straw that had fallen in the field.

Fu Fu can see at a glance from the appearance and general figure of the nv child that this is Fu Yijin and Fu Xi. He shouted loudly: "Sister Yijin! Hi sister! ”

The two NV children were stunned when they heard this, and looked at him in amazement.

Fu Fu saw them stop and decided that they were. Hurry up and catch up. A little closer, he could see more clearly—it wasn't who they were. Fu Yijin still wears braids, bangs on his forehead, and a wooden hairpin in his hair. With a round face and a pair of big but dark eyes, he looked at the homestead in surprise. It's really a big eighteen changes, I haven't seen her for two years, and her appearance has become very different from before. He greeted loudly: "Sister Yijin, it's me!" ”

Fu Yijin and Fu Xi still looked at the strange soldier in surprise, and they didn't recognize who he was.

Fu Fu walked up to her, took off his helmet, and said with a smile: "It's me!" I'm a little rich! ”

The two men finally recognized. This sturdy and energetic young man is Fu Fu. Fu Xi took two steps forward in surprise: "You are a little rich brother!" How did you get back from the ranks? I really didn't expect it. ”

Fu Fu opened his mouth and smiled, not knowing what to say for a while. Fu Xi was wearing the usual work clothes in Bopu, which made him very strange - except for village cadres and the like, ordinary villagers really didn't wear such clothes. Did she do the work for the chiefs too?

Fu Xi saw him looking at the clothes on his body: "I studied in the national school, which was issued by the school, and I wore it when I was studying engineering and agriculture." Fu Xi pointed to the cloth ticket at his xiōng mouth, which indeed had the words "National School" and the school's motto "Knowledge is Liliang".

"The school was on holiday, so I went back to the village." Fu Xi looked at Fu Fu with a look of surprise and joy, and pulled his arm to look left and right, "You have become so powerful, if you hadn't called us, I really wouldn't have recognized you," she said and stabbed Fu Yijin, "Do you say yes, Sister Yijin." ”

Fu Yijin smiled shyly, a layer of blush appeared on his face, and he was speechless, and only after a while did he say, "You have worked hard all the way, so let's go home first." ”

"Is Master Fu at home?"

"Daddy is in the field. Chief Wan is here, and he is giving everyone an agricultural technology class. Fu Yijin suddenly changed his name to Fu Fu and called him "Master", which was very strange - this was like a stranger's name. However, she knew that Fu Fu was no longer the child-raising child of her family. She looked at Fu Fu: he was taller and stronger than before, his skin was healthy and dark, his hair was as short as that of an Australian, especially the heroic armed belt and the short sword hanging from his belt, which made her eyes take her eyes off for a moment.

Is this still the same house-brat, who farms and drives ducks? Seeing his smile and gaze, Fu Yijin's heart became pounding. I was a little afraid to look at Fu Fu's face.

"Let's go, let's go home together."

Along the way, he learned from Fu Xi's mouth about the tax wind bō more than a year ago and the follow-up.

"Fu Yousan's old red father was ruthlessly rectified by the chiefs, and now he has become poor, and he can't even play prestige at home." Fu Yousan is very unpopular in the village, and there are many contradictions in Fu Fuji, and the people of Fu Fuji's family hate this person even with it. Fu Xi has not eaten this old man's crutch in the past, and he is very relieved when he talks about it.

"Now our family is the richest man, and the head of the family has become the village head." Fu Xi said, "The family business is several times larger than in the past, Chief Wan is really a capable person!" It's like turning a stone into gold! When she talked about Wan Lihui, she was simply dancing with her eyebrows, and she admired it very much.

"Did the master send you to study?"

"Yes, if it weren't for the lack of people in the family, he would have wanted to send a few more to study. Nowadays, the price of hired labor is more expensive, and it is not as casual as in the past to give a full meal. ”