"Oh......"

The aroma of wine and meat, as well as the table full of wine and food, made Zhou Jinyi stunned.

Such a sumptuous banquet is simply a luxury. It is clear that the five workers in their workshop are all small laborers on the construction site.

The salary of five yuan per month also guarantees basic food and accommodation - accommodation has a workshop, and there is a large canteen for food, and there is no limit to how much you can eat. But if you want to eat well, you still have to go to a small canteen, and it costs money.

The table in front of me has 16 dishes, including meat and vegetarian dishes, wine and meat, hot and cold, and I am afraid that none of them can be purchased with a single silver dollar. This is not something that the workers in their workshop can afford.

"Brother Tuesday! Take a seat, just waiting for you. Liu Yonggao shouted, he was the youngest in the entire workshop, and he had not yet married.

But at the same time, he is the person with the longest working experience in this workshop, and among the five people, only he and another named Liu Feng stay at the construction site all year round, not necessarily in Chenliu, but there are a number of main branches of the Yellow River, and it is true that there is no work to do.

The remaining three, including Zhou Jinyi, were all temporary short-term workers. After the slack time, you still have to return to your hometown to farm.

Zhou Jinyi sat down in a fog, unable to understand what was going on in front of him.

"Today is a birthday celebration for my second brother. Although we are not blood relatives, we have a fate to meet thousands of miles away, and it is also a great fate to gather together in Chenliu. The younger brother will be the east today and invite the brothers to drink a bowl. ”

"Jin Yi, sit down. It's all a piece of Xiao Wu's heart. "Everyone in the workshop has been together for a month or two, and who doesn't know the details of their house. Zhou Jinyi is a native of Hedong, and his food and clothing on weekdays can be said to be the worst of the five. The reason for this is self-explanatory.

The northern part of the Central Plains is adjacent to Hedong, and there are often Hedong men to work on the Yellow River. The name of Hedong Lao has long been spread throughout the Central Plains.

Liu Feng is the oldest of the five.

"yes, Brother Tuesday. It's waiting for you! The one who spoke was one of the two anonymous members of the five, and he was already drooling as he looked at the good food in the room.

Zhou Jinyi's attention was also instantly attracted by the good wine and good food, and the meals in the big canteen were not all oil-free, but they couldn't be compared with the small canteen. If you want to say that others will go to the small canteen every once in a while to make this tooth sacrifice, Zhou Jinyi has never spent a penny in the small canteen.

The aroma of wine and meat stimulated him to drool wildly, his endocrine swelled, and the hunger in his stomach made him consciously swallow a cow.

"Come, I'll also salute everyone. Dry. ”

"!"

All the incomprehension in Zhou Jinyi's heart was pushed to the back of his head, first eat it in his stomach, and drink it in his stomach. A group of people shouted five and drank six, and the sea ate and drank, which was called a fragrant ah, with a mouth full of oil and a smirk. And the combat effectiveness is really not weak, it is worthy of being a coolie, and one by one is fine.

"It's hard to eat such a delicious meal in the future." Liu Feng drank the last wine in the bowl and said with a sigh.

"Brother Liu, Xiao Wu, what are you going to ......" Zhou Jinyi is not an eyeless person, he felt that Liu Yong and Liu Feng were a little wrong before, but now when he heard Liu Feng's emotion, he asked at the moment.

"Alas, life is not going to be able to live. The brute drank and broke people, and he didn't take any of them, and was taken straight to the trumpet. Although he is not filial, he is always a son, and I am just this one son, so I can't ignore it. Liu Feng, who is already forty years old, said with a bitter face. Over there, [the victim] asked for 200 silver dollars in compensation, and I couldn't borrow that much money even if I borrowed it. That beast will also be sentenced to at least three years, what will happen to the daughter-in-law and grandson of the family? "Everything costs money.

"For the sake of money, for the sake of my grandson, I am willing to take my old life." Therefore, when he heard that the army was recruiting auxiliaries to go to Heaven, Liu Feng signed up without hesitation. The salary of five silver dollars a month does not seem to be more than working on the river embankment, but the auxiliaries can also share the spoils, although not much. And after entering the heavens, even honest people can pick up some objects, right?

When the bank saw the auxiliary soldier card he had presented, it immediately lent him 200 yuan. Liu Feng left his savings, as well as the twenty yuan that Liu Yong borrowed him, to his daughter-in-law and grandson. Now I just wait for the beginning of the month to report on the 'enlistment'!

Zhou Jinyi and the other two anonymous clans all understood when they heard it, Liu Feng was taking the blame for his son, don't look at him as a beast, then his son is not a thing, but it is no longer a thing, it is also his son.

If this happened, if Liu Feng didn't carry it, who else could he rely on?

With their brains, they also felt that Liu Feng had no other way to go except this road. So why did Liu Yong also join the army?

"Brother, I'm young, I don't take advantage of my youth to fight, I just spend my years on this construction site, can I get a good one?"

His father and mother are there, but he won't go back to his hometown if he kills Liu Yong. Hengzhi has his two good brothers to do filial piety on his behalf.

Zhou Jinyi looked at Liu Yong and Liu Feng and thought of himself. Is his life bitter? It's bitter. Counting the family property every day, lest I cross the line. But he never thought of joining the army, nor did he think of moving to the Hetao or the Western Regions.

Because Zhou Jinyi is very down-to-earth, he has money, he has food, compared to the days when he was a child, he didn't have enough food and clothing, and now the life of the Zhou family can really make people laugh out loud in their dreams.

And even if he is really targeted by the pickled stuff of the immigration bureau, he is not afraid. Because he has money in his hands! Even if he is immigrated, his family property will be converted into silver and exchanged for him, what will he be afraid of if he has money in his hands?

Therefore, he will not go to join the army, and he will not go to die.

In the Chinese mainland, in order to avoid the disaster of 'immigration', some people are anxious to take the initiative to join the army - this is a preferential policy of the imperial court for military families. But there are also many people who would rather be relocated thousands of miles away than go to the battlefield to fight.

Zhou Jinyi is such a person.

Therefore, when Zhou Jinyi suddenly bumped into Liu Yong and Liu Feng, the waves stirred up in his heart were very high. He tossed and turned overnight without peace, and Zhou Jinyi lost sleep. The fact that you can still lose sleep at a riverbank construction site with a lot of work can be used as an example of the Ministry of Works' 'benevolence and friendliness'.

But Liu Feng and Liu Yong slept very soundly. Before they made their decision, neither of them knew how many times they had thought in their hearts: "If I go, I will either die, or I will be able to live a good life!" ”

The cold wind howled, and a heavy snow silently annihilated Chen Liu.

Liu Feng and Liu Yong, who got up early in the morning, were wearing thick cotton clothes and carrying rolled up bunks on their backs. Mixed with scattered snow foam, people instantly feel the deep malice of the cold winter.

"Gone."

"Let's go."

From today onwards, there will be two less small workers surnamed Liu on the construction site on the first line of the Yellow River, and there will be two more inconspicuous small soldiers in the formation of the Chinese and Western Expeditionary Army.