Chapter 148: Returning Home
"After I became a soldier, the troops came to this vicinity again, and the commander gave me family leave. You can come back for a three days. As he spoke, Shen Yunhao took out six silver cakes from his pocket and stuffed them into his father's hand, and untied the backpack on his body. These were brought from outside the mountains, and I knew that it was not easy to get money in these mountains, so I brought some back for my family. Shen Yunhao untied the burden.
"This furoshiki is made of cotton, and if you give a child short clothes in the future, you can also make one."
Unwrapping the package, all kinds of things were scattered on the ground: iron heads for farm tools, scissors, needles, and bottles and jars of various seasonings. A white cotton cloth at the bottom of the bag looked even more conspicuous, and finally, scattered on the ground, there were some candy cubes wrapped in paper as hard as stones--- which were brought to the younger siblings of the family to eat.
Smoke rises from this thatched hut, and today, the smell of food in this mud hut is oily. The family sat around and ate with relish. Large chunks of lard melt into the soup in a crockpot and drift out in the direction of the wind.
When it gets dark, in this place where there is no nightlife, parents and younger siblings go to bed early, and they huddle together with their younger siblings. For the first time, he felt that this bed was cramped, although he slept in the army in a bunk, but it was cleaner and more comfortable than here. The air was filled with the dark, damp, musty smell that kept him awake all night, stroking his rifle.
Early the next morning, Shen Yunhao changed the thatch for the bed, threw the damp thatch in the room directly, and got wormwood to smoke the mosquitoes in the room, and cleaned up all the dirt that could be seen in the house.
Shen Yunhao, who suddenly disappeared in the eyes of the people in the village, suddenly returned, making this place with very little information exchange with the outside world explode. There were even some idlers who came out to see what Shen Yunhao's clothes looked like. Shen Yunhao also prepared some things to distribute to the neighbors, the same iron gadgets and candy for children, seeing the appearance of the neighbor who teased the neighbor when he was a child sucking on the candy cube, Shen Yunhao grinned with red light.
In a pair of eyes full of envy and amazement, Shen Yunhao's afterglow noticed a hint of abnormality. "Who is this man, and why is he so cringe?" With the eyes honed from the barracks, Shen Yunhao noticed the face of the thief. Isn't this bullying our family since childhood, relying on men more when harvesting, and cutting your own family's grain...... As long as he thought of his experience when he was young, Shen Yunhao trembled with anger.
"Huh?" lost the gun, but when it came to shooting, Shen Yunhao carried it all the time. Thinking of this, Shen Yunhao suddenly put down the gun, quickly took out the tong strip tied to his body, and stabbed gunpowder and lead bullets.
Most of the villagers are still watching the excitement and don't realize what it is. Only some people felt the danger and slowly retreated.
However, Shen Yunhao didn't continue to do anything, and still talked and laughed with the villagers. Just a pair of feet fled for their lives and hid home.
After a period of politeness, Shen Yunhao grabbed the gun and walked and calculated. Although the imperial court set up a township office in the countryside, the township office was dozens of miles away, and it was a completely different world. As long as the official master didn't hear this voice, the villagers wouldn't spread it--- and it wasn't just his family who hated this family, almost everyone could have some festivals with him, but everyone swept the snow in front of the door, and saw how bad his son was--- six! Six whole sons! Is this a raw rabbit, a litter in a lifetime?
However, he had heard that the army was about to issue a pistol that could shoot six leads in a row. I just hate that I don't have that kind of pistol, otherwise I will rush forward and shoot one at a time!
"Bang!" Shen Yunhao kicked his legs and climbed to the wall, aiming at the head of the youngest teenager is a shot, there is no organized enemy on the opposite side, Shen Yunhao calmly loaded. Seeing someone coming out of the house to check the situation, Shen Yunhao pulled the hanging knife and shot again.
By this time, perhaps the house knew what was going on, and there was a small crunch of windows opening, and the ground was covered with dirt, and it didn't hurt to jump off the wall.
Shen Yunhao walked around to the back of the courtyard in a few steps, picked another son to fight at three o'clock, and no longer had time to reload at this time, so he directly got on the bayonet and stabbed the remaining three to death. A minute passed, and the six sons that the family was proud of just now who were still in the position of the village tyrant were all the same as the family of the rats who were poisoned, and they were out of business!
Shen Yunhao's family has been bullied by them since they were young, and they can finally breathe a sigh of relief at this time. As for the women, Shen Yunhao didn't touch them, because the villagers would consciously divide them into the household, move all his belongings home, use a few girls as fertility machines or transport them out to sell, and several houses may also be separated, the pace of life in the mountain village is very slow, this rhythm is unusually fast, Shen Yunhao feels that when he returns to the barracks, the traces of the family's survival will disappear in this world.
Smelling the gunpowder from the muzzle, Shen Yunhao felt that the smell had never been so tempting.
At the township office where Shen Yunhao was worried, a long row of brick bungalows was completed. The two northernmost houses are the township offices, one is used as a grocery store, hung up with the sign of the supply and marketing cooperative, and finally two houses are reserved for the upcoming school to provide public services for the villagers in the vicinity.
The location of the township office is located on the flat land where a market is located, and the merchants who come here to sell all kinds of goods did not expect that the government would actually compete with them for business, but who made the salt they sell too expensive?
As for the schools, they also forced the children to come to school in the form of providing free lunches, thus serving the great cause of the imperial court a few years later.
Even in the areas that have undergone land reform, the living standards of the peasants have not improved much, and the vast majority of the excess grain and materials produced have been sucked away by the governments at all levels to serve the great cause of liberation.
In the spring, one after another, the township offices, composed of cadres who participated in the six-month short training course, took root in various places, like dandelions, and the armor protection system in Chinese history was not so much a grassroots organization as a rogue official sent by the superiors, and its control power far exceeded that of previous dynasties.
As for what kind of effect these little officials who have been trained through short-term training can achieve, they can only resign themselves to fate! Even if many of them are carrying their own jobs on their backs, it is better than not being assigned by anyone!
Of course, in order to solve all kinds of problems for them, Zhu Youlang also stationed one or two companies of the national army or security army in each county (the former was transformed into a field army much faster than the latter), ensuring that he could wipe out any local strong and powerful household at any time.
(End of chapter)