Whether it's Zheng Sen or Zheng Ping, no one doubts that everything in front of them is a false appearance deliberately made.

When they came out today, they chose a random direction and kept going inland. In this case, if the chicken coop government can still cheat, they will also accept it.

The two of them saw the houses in the village with their own eyes, almost all of them were tall and sturdy brick houses, and there were no low, dilapidated loess thatched houses to be seen. Even the few villages I saw along the way were mostly bright brick houses.

Zheng Ping just sighed at the wealth here, looking at the people's clothing and healthy and ruddy complexion on their faces, everything was obvious. This is something he simply cannot see in the Japanese countryside.

Zheng Sen, on the other hand, knows Taoyuan better, and it is precisely because he knows more than Zheng Ping that the shock he has experienced now is even greater.

At the beginning, he saw a lot of adobe thatched houses in Taoyuan, but now the scene of the past seems to have never appeared. Instead, there are tall, sturdy brick houses.

How long has it been? It is as if all the disasters and scars of the past have been healed.

Liu Wujia is a very representative reorganized family. A pair of old people, a daughter-in-law, three children, plus Liu Wu himself, a family of seven is more than the average number.

Everyone's faces were full of smiles, and they were full of joy when they saw Liu Wu'er, and they couldn't see the estrangement between them at all. It's not just the Liu family, there are several other families, today the son/husband/father is back, and the whole family is reunited. For them who have no worries about eating, drinking, and clothing, this is the best expectation.

The atmosphere is only joyful, and the feelings are only joyful.

The men all gathered together, from the soldiers to the elders of the family, and then the distinguished guests like the Zheng brothers, as well as the chief of the village such as Zhou Zhoufu, and the head of the first class, pushing the cup and changing the lamp, happily.

until the middle of the moon, until the end of this feast. It's time to ruin the atmosphere, but it's still going to be like this.

Zhou Fu took a sip of the camellia, and the bitter taste lingered in his mouth, but these were not as bitter as in his heart.

The troops are about to start, the Zheng clan is going to war, there are no eyes on the battle array, who dares to say that these descendants in front of them can come back alive? There are also his cousins and nephews.

"The troops are about to be deployed, and I won't say what awaits you. You all know it in your hearts. As the chief of our village, I will only say one sentence here today, and I also express my attitude, that is, I want you to rest assured that there is something going on at home. ”

This sentence was like a cold snap rushing out of the polar regions, completely freezing all the cheerful atmosphere.

War, battlefield.

After tearing away the disguise of joy, everyone has to face the cruel reality.

Their relatives are about to go to war, and their lives and deaths are uncertain.

In fact, everyone understands that it is definitely not easy for all the people in the village to come back from the army's rations. A lot of people think about war!

But this is just a speculation on their part, and they still have one in ten thousand hopes in their hearts. And now Tuesday Fu has completely extinguished this last shred of hope.

"Dad, you don't want to be a soldier. We have so much land, enough for us to eat. You don't want to be a soldier, okay? "Liu Wu'er's son is ten years old, what else does he not understand? After all these years of hardship, Liu Wu is really heaven in the eyes of his son. Thinking that the sky above his head might have collapsed, the kid's tears fell.

One of the two daughters was pro, and the other was brought by the daughter-in-law, and they all hugged their father's legs, without saying a word, and shed tears.

can come here from Beizhili and Ganxi, those are people who don't know how much suffering they have suffered. Now that I have finally lived a good life, have new hopes, and taste happiness, how can I give up my family to be born and die?

Liu covered her mouth and didn't speak, only crying, not only she was crying, but the women and children present were crying, and the tears were about to flow into a river.

The child's voice was also very unpleasant to hear Liu Wu'er, and she hugged the two girls tightly in her arms, her eyes red. But how could he comfort his children and wives?

He couldn't say a word, his mouth was open, and he still couldn't speak.

He couldn't have told his father, his wife, and his children that he would come back alive, that would only make them more worried. So don't you say that you will embarrass the Liu family? He's not that stupid in his head.

"Ah Fu, come here, grandpa take a look, let's not cry."

The old man of the Liu family saved his grandson, and Liu Wu's son has a very festive name, Daming is called Liu Feng, the harvest of Feng; The nickname is Ah Fu, the blessed blessing.

"Your dad doesn't want to leave the house either. But your dad can't do that. ”

"Man, you have to speak of conscience. We can live the life we have now, and it all depends on the grace of the old Zheng family. ”

"So much land in our family was given by the Zheng family, because your father joined the army; Your grandparents are old, you are young, your father is not at home, and the people in the village are busy with our family planting and harvesting grain, all because of the old Zheng family. ”

"What we eat, wear, and live in, even our life, is all given by the old Zheng family, and it is all because the old Zheng family can stand on the road of this world, and we have it."

"Can you watch the old Zheng family collapse? It's not just the old Zheng family that has collapsed, but also our family who is happy with the old Zheng family. If the old Zheng family is finished, can our family still be as good as it is now? Everything will be gone. ”

"This is a grasshopper on a rope, one loses and one prospers, and no one can run away from anyone."

"So, your father is going to fight for the old Zheng family, and he has to buy a hundred forces to fight for the old Zheng family. It's not a matter of life and death, and it's not even a matter of conscience. It's a matter of whether you can continue to live a good life, and whether you can keep your own good life. Everyone should be grateful for their kindness, but they should also keep their eyes open. ”

Liu Laohan said and glared at Liu Wu'er, and there were muddy tears in his eyes.

Liu Wu'er nodded fiercely, "Dad, you can rest assured." The son is not a bad seed, the son will not embarrass your old man, will not embarrass our village, and will not make Ah Fu They can't hold their heads up for the rest of their lives. ”

If you become a deserter on the battlefield, or even be directly beheaded, the consequences and impact on your family are so great that it is not a matter of life at all.

All the recruits, before the recruit training period is over, have already firmly remembered this danger.

If they desert from the army, or if they are beheaded on the battlefield for cowardice and riots, their families will not only have to return all the good treatment they have received for joining the army, but they will also be knocked to the ground and trampled on several times.

The two are opposites, one in heaven and the other on earth. How superior the social status of a person is, how unbearable the social status of a person after it is.

"Uncle Fifth is right. We are not bad breeds, we will not disgrace the village, nor will we disgrace our families, let alone let our wives and children not be able to hold their heads up for the rest of their lives. Huang Er clenched his fists fiercely.

God knows how excited he was when he returned home today and saw the pile of grain in the barn.

Compared with the happiness of his family and the future of his children and grandchildren, what is his own fate?

Liu Laohan smiled, tears hitting the back of his hand. continued to hug his grandson and said: "Ah Fu, if your father doesn't fight, thousands of people like your father won't fight, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, the Tartars of the Manchu Dynasty, they will all kill and snatch all our land and our food." Just like killing your uncle and third uncle, killing your seventh uncle, and killing your maternal uncle's family, kill your father, your mother, your grandparents, and your two sisters. Even if you are lucky enough to survive, you will starve to death just like your own mother. Do you think dad can still stop fighting? ”

Ah Fu's tears flowed even more violently, he still remembered his mother, his mother was to save him from stuttering, and she ate Guanyin soil to death.

Although his grandson is still a child, Liu Laohan believes that his grandson can understand his words. Because of the bloody reality, he has seen it with his own eyes, children who have experienced hardship mature quickly, and those who have experienced hardship understand the preciousness of happiness best.

"Ah Fu, your grandfather is right. Dad fights for our family, for our land, and so that you will not be bullied in the future. In order to let your grandfather and your mother, let you and your sister, always eat and dress well, and be happy......"

"But Dad also promised you that Dad would come back."

Ah Fu shook his head, "You adults love to deceive people. That's what Tuanyi's father said to him, and the result ......"

Ah Fu, who pouted, didn't say anything, but who still doesn't know who the 'Tuanyi' in his mouth is?

A small village with only 100 households.

But this small village of 100 households is not only these soldiers at the moment, not only these military families, they are already the second batch of enlisted soldiers in this small village. Here, there are still three families of the bereaved families of military martyrs. The 'Tuanyi' family is obviously one of them.

Zheng Ping let out a sigh.

As outsiders, he and Zheng Sen obviously have no possibility of flower arrangement, but he is really holding back his words now. But when he and Zheng Sen came to a house to rest, when Zheng Sen was alone, he wanted to say but couldn't talk about it.

What to say?

Is it pitiful to say that these people are 'separated from life and death'?

There are too many people in the Central Plains today, and they are not as good as the poor ones.

Or let Zheng Zhilong speak and exempt the enlisted soldiers of this village from going on the expedition? Then you also have to think about how many towns and villages there are in the chicken coop. The scene that happened in front of their eyes is still repeated in many villages.

"Don't think they're pathetic." Zheng Sen looked at his brother's wrinkled face, and said with a smile: "In this world, people can live for their relatives, and they can use their lives to win a stable and prosperous life for their relatives, that is a kind of luck. ”

"Look at Daming, Li Shun, and Daxi, how many soldiers' lives are not worth a penny. Including the green battalion soldiers in the Tartars, those who died with Li Shutai, what can their deaths bring to their relatives? ”

"Remember the elementary school we walked by?"

"Sooner or later, these schools will spread all over the towns and villages, so that all the children can go to school. And now, unless they are willing to pay money to go to school, the children in the school are more children of military families and martyrs. The depth of their father's care for them was unprecedented. ”

Zheng Pingliang did not speak for a long time.