Qingzhou, Gaoyao Town, in the open-air playground of the boy camp.

Chen Ergou's eyes widened, looking at the words written in white ash on the black-painted slate, copying in the sand table, while stammering in unison with everyone.

Chen Ergou and his sister Chen Aguan are the descendants of typical Qingzhou mountain people, I don't know how many generations ago, in order to escape from forced labor, they fled to the mountains.

The times have been passed down, and he has been a good hunter since he was a child, although he always can't eat enough, but he can always make do with the stumbling days.

The continuous fighting not only destroyed the livelihood of the people outside the mountain, but also directly affected and impacted the daily life of these mountain people.

There are fewer and fewer wild catches that can be found before the winter, and the source of salt and iron for daily use has been cut off, and many people are swollen as a result.

There was no news of the adventure out of the mountain several times, and only the last time a few people escaped back, but the leather goods that each family put together were all robbed by unknown thieves.

Eventually, most of the village starved to death, leaving only the half-grown children, scrawny and skeletal in the snow-crushed rubble, and then found by the search party deep into the mountains.

Then, tempted by a few pieces of shriveled bread, he got into an ox cart and was sent to the boy boy camp. Since then, a new life has begun and an unpredictable future.

Of course, there is no such thing as a good thing that falls on the head in the world. In this new environment, called the boy camp, there are also no idlers. They had to work as well as participate in the training of the standing line and equipment, and spent the rest of their lives paying for the relief provided by the officials and their good deeds.

But at least you don't have to go hungry, do you?

Compared with the children sent by the local people, the orphans and teenagers collected from these places are obviously obviously inferior in terms of system and physical foundation, so they can only be divided into several batches of preparation, junior high, middle, and senior according to their age and height, and do not dispose of them in separate camps......

Like Chen Ergou, he can only enter and accept the management of the junior boy camp.

Therefore, when they are growing up in the age of their bodies, they are numb **** training to die and live, and they are always trembling hands and feet, and when they return to the house, they don't want to get up when they lie down.

At this time, they will be dragged up one by one by the specially designated head of the dormitory from among the old people in the boy boy camp, and ordered to rub each other's bodies and wash their faces and feet with a basin of water before they are allowed to lie down and rest.

The hard work and tediousness are simply indescribable.

But on the other hand, although the diet of the boy camp is very coarse, only a large pot of sorghum corn residue, together with the picked wild vegetables, is boiled into a thick and thick paste, although the taste is bland, but it is enough to make people full of pantothenic acid; At least one night's sleep until dawn without waking up hungry several times.

If you have a big exercise or field training, or you need to work overtime on the supplier, you will also add additional vegetables, you can see a little oil and water and delicious pickles, sometimes sweet baked potatoes and boiled potatoes, a ration or unlimited additional supply.

Although the clothes are made of shabby felt and coarse cloth, and the two-section uniforms are used, they can be regarded as warm as long as they are diligent and active on cold days. They slept on a large board of five or six people huddled together, with straw and coarse felt. The only disadvantage is that it is easy to grow lice, and it needs to be diligent in cleaning and sanitation and regular cleaning and drying.

Of course, if the same house is found to be in poor hygiene, then the twenty or thirty people in the six large houses in one house will be punished together. It is still a trivial matter to eat a whip and be flogged, so it is the most fatal thing to run around the camp wall several times after a break.

Therefore, no matter how hard you work in the work, a clean water source is always maintained.

At the beginning, there were many people who couldn't stand this kind of harshness and harshness, and gave birth to the idea of running away again, but the longer they stayed in the boy camp, the more the impulse and thought to return to freedom naturally faded with the transformation of reality.

After all, the more hungry and bitter people are, the more reluctant they are to endure this kind of rare daily life. Therefore, Chen Ergou thought so much that he could grit his teeth, so he persevered.

In this way, I gradually adapted to the daily rhythm of high-intensity training and non-stop busy work all day long.

Then, when they had the initial discipline and collective concept, the food in the camp finally went up to a higher level, turning into solid thick noodles and mixed vegetable soup, and the body of those dry arms and ribs-like rocks gradually became thicker.

At this time, they finally had a rare New Year's holiday, although it was only a few days of leisure.

So, he would occasionally go to the women's camp near the silk reeling factory to visit one or two. At this time, you will find that the dry and thin girl with soybean sprouts, in addition to the more calluses on her hands, there is also a little more blood and blush on her sallow and dull little face. Wearing dusty overalls, it no longer looks like a bamboo pole carrying a lantern.

And at this time, she will even secretly stuff a small piece of it to herself, because it has been stored close to her body for too long, and some of the coarse candy that has melted away.

Then, in the process of pushing around, it had to be broken into smaller halves and shared together. Although there are a lot of ash and other impurities in this coarse wrench, the sweet and sour taste is a short and warm moment for the brothers and sisters to cherish and reminisce.

It also slowly fades and temporarily forgets, once cruel memories and sad pasts.

In addition to the daily **** and workmanship, in the dry season of the annual green and yellow, or the need for top dressing and replanting, they also have to go to the nearest field to help, avoid the hot and windy day, under the moonlight and faint starlight, all night long.

But it was their happiest day, comparable to the few holidays of the year. Because while working hard, you can also enjoy it in advance, compared to the general food standard of adults and the big pot of meals provided by the farmer.

It was really oily and watery green onion pancakes and a large bowl of wheat rice, plus salted fish and bacon to eat in different ways, which made people only feel their bellies round and unfinished. Sometimes, you can also get a few extra gifts of chicken, duck eggs, goose eggs or something, whether it is boiled or eaten in a spread, it is a delicious delicacy that makes people never forget to drool.

Because he is a descendant of mountain people, Chen Ergou has some remnants of family heirlooms in hunting and setting traps. At this time, he tends to be one of the most popular among his peers.

Because he not only knows how to set up traps to hunt and kill those voles and finches that steal precious grain, but even sometimes he will shoot some small prey that steals domestic poultry, such as yellow skin, cauliflower snake, etc., to smoke and make meat to improve his life.

Then, the farmers will be more tolerant, allowing them to catch some small fish, loaches, shrimps, crabs, and snails in the ridges full of water, and roast them on the public stove with boiling water, as snacks and tooth sacrifices during the labor period, and eat them until the day when the team returns to the camp.

Then, after a period of time, they have gradually become accustomed to their daily work and life, but there are a few more teaching assistants and new additions, but the corresponding labor hours are reduced.

Of course, it is said that it is a teaching assistant, but in fact, it is just a senior boy camp veteran who is older than their group of teenagers, but they just get a subsidy in kind in the name of a teaching assistant to enlighten them.

Chen Ergou realized that he could still read and write, which was a great thing.

In that remote and humble mountain village, the people who can read a few words and understand the official proclamation are quite remarkable characters, and this family is also the best and most beautiful family in the village.

Because the village's foreign affairs, the sale of mountain goods, the purchase of exchanges, and even the distribution of daily necessities in the village have to rely on his leadership and justice.

Of course, the so-called compulsory enlightenment of the nature of work-study is actually very simple, requiring hundreds of commonly used words and four operations within a thousand.

Moreover, the scope of this enlightenment, although it is claimed to be all children of school age, is except for the immigrants who are under the supervision of the immigrants and the orphans who are taken in by the army;

In fact, the current degree of promotion is limited to the children of residents in various cities and market towns with convenient transportation, and it is impossible to imagine slightly more remote towns and mountain villages.

It's just that outside today's open-air classroom, there are more adults, although most of them are wearing civilian clothes, but their gestures are traces of their birth.

It's just that they don't have any solemnity or calm in the army at the moment, but uncharacteristically have some kind and excited expressions, and in a sense of helplessness, or forced themselves to be calm and secretly look at these young people.

However, it is because of the named foster care system being implemented in the army, which is the object of the first batch of pilots.

The so-called named foster care is to allow those veterans in the army who are old but have not yet started a family to take out a small amount of money from their daily salary as an additional investment to fund and support the orphans in the boy boy camp.

In exchange for this, an orphan may be given the opportunity to adopt an orphan by name, if they die in battle or from injury or illness. These designated orphans can inherit their surnames and Zongzhao incense.

and even their heroism and deeds will be passed down from generation to generation as inspirational stories handed down by the family, rather than a name on a deserted grave that has no name.

Even if the adopter retires or changes jobs in the end, the adopted son who grew up in the army can continue to cultivate his feelings and continue to support him for the rest of his life when he becomes an adult, and even marry a wife and have children to inherit the family business.

As an orphan itself, it is equivalent to obtaining a predictable support and future, and there are also similar desires and needs for family affection, so after being enlightened and indoctrinated in the army, this is not too repulsive.

It may even be seen as an honor and incentive to be proud of, and to perform better on a daily basis.

It can be said that it is quite a human initiative. Don't underestimate this little bit of change, the so-called unfilial piety has three, and no queen is the great inheritance, but it is deeply rooted in the bones of all Chinese people, even if it is modern dark gray, it is still unchanged.

This also means that more soldiers who have been demonstrated, after going to the battlefield, forget about life and death, and have no worries. Therefore, just a little bit of intent, it is already a cloud of responders, and even released words to express a certain ambition.

Of course, for the sake of fairness and to avoid disputes, the first participants in the pilot are the most qualified or meritorious single veterans after the initial selection, and they will choose their foster sons from among this batch of orphans according to the method of drawing lots.

As the teenagers whose names were called, they enjoyed the meeting of tea and snacks.

"I don't do it"

It's just that when this matter was Chen Ergou's turn, he couldn't help but be stubborn and stiffen his neck.

"Now I can support myself on my own,"

"In a few years, I'll even raise my sister together,"

"Anyway, I didn't know what my father was like since I was a child, so I came over like this......"

"Why bother to have an extra father out of thin air......"

He kept stuffing coarse grain snacks into his mouth, glaring at each other without showing weakness, muttering in his mouth

"Thank you so much for your kindness......"

"Good boy, you're really."

The other party who was rejected was a rough and powerful old army, he didn't laugh angrily, but his voice was a little deafening

"I can't see that he is still a character with affection and righteousness...... I like it."

"My Luo Dayou is not good at gambling or prostitution in my life, and I have earned a lot of salary over the years,"

"What is it to raise a few more children under your knees......"

"If she is willing to recognize me as a father, Lao Tzu doesn't mind a pair of children ......"

"It's a big deal that in the future, I will buy a dowry with my own hands and send the wedding out in person......"

With that, he took out another oiled paper bag, slapped it on the desk and spread it out, revealing a lot of white and glittering sugar cubes.

"Eat slowly, don't choke......"

"I'm going to meet you after eating, my cheap daughter is fine"