The aroma of the food quickly wafted over, the ship that sent Li Shouxin and them over was originally prepared to take people south, and the supplies in the ship were originally to prepare hundreds of people to go south to Taiwan to eat, not only many but also very rich, since they want to recruit all the people on the island before leaving, the food brought by this ship is also free to supply, and when the fleet comes, the ship will leave to Tianjin or Denglai to resupply. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

As soon as the meal was ready, there was an immediate commotion in the group that sat cross-legged again.

Lu Da said to his subordinates: "Each squad will receive two canned meat, a bucket of soup, and a basket of steamed cakes. ”

The crowd was in an uproar, and each recruit took out his tin can and waited with a blank eye.

Lu Da saw that someone wanted to move forward, he found one with the most obvious movement, pulled it over as soon as he pulled it, and scolded: "How many times have you said that when you wait for the food to come, everyone has it, and whoever dares to move will not let the food go, and will be hungry." Also, don't even bother your family, they also have soup to drink and bread to eat. ”

A rattan can't scare these Liaodong men, but when it comes to the fact that their families also have food, everyone's eyes become soft, the recruits are quiet, and everyone sits quietly.

Lu saw sweat on his forehead, and it was cold just now, but his body was a little hot and dry.

……

Ma Rong and Ma Xian brothers stood in the crowd with a bowl in line, the bowl in their hands was dirty and broken, and there were several gaps in the side of the bowl that were pasted with mud, and the two of them were still like treasures, holding them with four hands.

Behind the two is a woman with white hair, and a five or six-year-old child, this is their nephew Ma Jie, they were originally a big family, parents plus eldest brother, sister-in-law, and two nieces and nephews, a family of nine living in Yaozhou, not rich, but Liaodong is rich in specialties, a family has more than 30 acres of dry land, two acres of paddy fields, enough labor, the old father is not yet fifty years old, the body is strong, with Ma Rong brothers a few farming for a living, the days are still passing, everything is over after the battle of Liaoyang and Shenyang, On the way to escape, Ma's father was shot to death by an arrow in Jinzhou, followed by the eldest brother was hacked to death, the sister-in-law was snatched away, and the two nieces were also snatched away by the captivity, a family of nine, in the blink of an eye, only Ma Rong Ma Xian and his mother, and Ma Jie, who was regarded as a treasure, later they fled all the way to the sea, went to Phi Island, and finally survived.

The hardships of escaping, coupled with the blow of losing their loved ones, this is a double torture, Phi Island is not a happy land, everyone has to do things for Dongjiang Town, from spring to autumn to do all kinds of miscellaneous labor, winter began to chisel ice, Ma Rong and Ma Xian brothers are less than twenty, they look like middle-aged people over thirty, their hair is messy, they have not washed their hair for several months, their long hair has become lumpy, they can't wash it, the beard on their faces is more than a foot long, it looks like a demon crawling out of the ground, their mother is only in her forties, Now he has gray hair, and even his waist is bowed down.

is the family's most cherished Ma Jie, and now he is as thin as firewood, with a yellow complexion, as if he will fall down as soon as the wind blows.

People on Phi Island can only eat two meals a day, today is the Chinese New Year, Dongjiang Town specially added a meal to everyone, of course, all of them are miscellaneous grains, fortunately, it is a lot sticky, a big bowl is full, you can barely eat.

The Ma brothers have a broken bowl to hold, many people don't even have a bowl at all, there is no wood on the island, there is no material to make a wooden bowl, many people are taking mud to pinch the bowl, use weeds to make a fire, and you can use it.

The crowd is constantly surging, Ma Jie's small throat keeps rolling up and down, no one can eat enough on Phi Island, there are at least 200,000 people on the island now, and the food is always in a state of insufficiency, in Yiju, Tieshan, and Kwandian, there are at least 400,000 people, there are at least 400,000 people who are cultivating the wasteland, but the weather is not good, the harvest is really limited, a large number of people are starving, and some people are dying of hunger every day.

The Ma brothers plan to go farming in the spring next year, but the place is not certain, the population of Phi Island has been evacuating, but the action is very slow, and they don't know when they will be able to leave next year.

Ma Jie was led by his grandmother, the child kept coughing, the north wind was steep, and the family had tried their best to wear clothes for the child, but Ma Jie was still infected with the cold.

When it was the turn of the Ma family of four, the soldiers who were cooking saw that there were two young people plus an old man and a young one, and the spoon turned over and hit a thick spoonful.

"It's really the New Year." The Ma family gathered around most of the sticky multigrain rice, and their eyes were shining.

This thing, when the Ma family was well-off, that is, they drank porridge for breakfast and used it to pad their stomachs, and they had to have side dishes to accompany the meal before they ate it. At this moment, there is only one bowl in front of everyone, and Ma Mu has already put her hands together, thank God.

Ma Xian said: "Mother and Xiaojie will eat first, and my second brother and I will eat after you eat." ”

Ma Mu said: "How many days can I live?" You brothers take my treasure to eat. ”

Ma Rong didn't say anything, his eyes were full of helplessness.

With such a big bowl of rice, a few people in a family have to push it around!

In the end, it was decided to ask Ma Jie to eat first, and the three adults watched the child pick up the bowl and put it to his mouth tremblingly.

Ma Jie just took a sip, a black hand reached over, and snatched the bowl over, the three of the Ma family looked up and saw that a short black man had put the bowl to his mouth and drank the porridge in a big gulp, but in the blink of an eye, the whole bowl of porridge was drunk by this man.

"Death for the dog!"

Ma Xian jumped up and kicked the short black man to the ground with one kick!

The other party was lying on the ground, his tongue was still licking in the bowl, and he smiled while licking: "You are pushing around, it is obvious that you are not hungry, I am hungry before my heart is close to my back, you should save my life......"

"Dog's day, dog's day, my family is reluctant to eat you, so I robbed ......"

Ma Xian's face was deformed, and there were tears in the corners of his eyes, this bowl of porridge is too important to their family, Ma Jie is sick, this bowl of porridge may be better, otherwise, it may not be possible to survive tonight.

The two of them tore apart, and the bowl fell to the ground and shattered.

Ma Rong didn't make a sound, he quietly touched it, grabbed the tip of a bowl, shook his hand, and slashed it towards the neck of the short black man, there was a neck, Ma Rong had seen Dongyu kill people, all of them were slashed there, blood gushed wildly, and the person died in less than a few breaths.

The tip of the bowl slashed between the man's neck, and immediately cut through the skin, and the short black man was frightened, and shouted: "It's just a bowl of porridge, I will definitely return it to you tomorrow, little brother, don't hurt me." ”

"A bowl of porridge?" Ma Rong's hand continued to exert force, blood burst out of his skin, and he said expressionlessly: "This bowl of porridge is the life of my family, if you want the life of my family, I will want your life first!" ”

At the critical moment, a pair of big hands stretched out, and Ma Rong was lifted.

"Good boy." Zhang Chunniu looked at Ma Rong with a vicious face, and said with a smile: "I am not tall and young, so I have the courage to kill people." Since you are afraid that your family will starve to death, why don't you join the army? ”

Ma Rong looked at the tall black-faced man and said, "My brothers are thin and short, and I am afraid that I will not be able to pick them up as soldiers. ”

Zhang Chunniu frowned and looked at it, the Ma family brothers were indeed not tall and too thin, but he still said: "We have standards for selecting troops with Yusheng, and your brothers are also qualified." As long as you are not sick and have the courage, you can give it a try. ”

Ma Rong was still hesitating, and Ma Xian and the others suddenly turned their heads.

A strong aroma of food came from the north.

"Meaty, meaty!"

Ma Xian was trembling with excitement, after all, he was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old half-grown child, and he hadn't eaten meat in the past year, so he was really greedy.

Zhang Chunniu smiled and said to everyone in front of him: "Almost half of the people in the first batch of people in Yusheng have been selected, because of the reason that we have said good with Dongjiang Town, we can only recruit men with a small family around us as soldiers, this time there are not many people to collect, everyone who wants to go should hurry up, in a few months, we will definitely come to recruit people again, this time I didn't report the name, and there will be a chance next time." ”

Ma Rong looked at Zhang Chunniu and said word by word: "Do soldiers have meat to eat?" The family also gives food? ”

There were a lot of people gathered around, and Zhang Chunniu said: "Everyone has meat to eat, and the family members will plant the land when they come to Taiwan, and the military department will give them a living allowance before it is confiscated, so that people will not go hungry." ”

"Where is Taiwan?" Ma Xian said with a confused face: "I heard that it is thousands of miles away. ”

"It's far." Zhang Chunniu said quietly: "But no matter how far away it is our Daming place, it is said to be an island, the place is hundreds of times larger than Phi Island, there are mountains and rivers, the land is more fertile than the land of our Liaodong, and there is no Dongyu Tartar, only a small number of Yi people, the place where we beat away is ours, the only bad place is the hot weather, there is no winter ...... all year round"

"No winter?" The short black man who had just been knocked to the ground immediately jumped up and shouted, "Say it earlier, let's go and sign up a long time ago." I'm going to die of cold here, I'd rather die of heat. ”

The Ma brothers were also moved, and at this time, the smell of food wafted over, and everyone was even more itchy, and at that moment, many people followed the short black man to Heyusheng's registration point to sign up.

Zhang Chunniu looked at Ma Jie, took out a can from his arms, which was roasted mutton, Zhang Chunniu unscrewed the lid and said with a smile: "It's the New Year, this little baby is so thin, it makes people feel distressed to look at, this can is for you to eat." ”

Ma Jie swallowed his saliva and didn't dare to take it, but Ma Rong took it and asked his nephew to eat, watching Ma Jie swallow the mutton and broth, Ma Rong swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked at Ma Xian, and turned back to Zhang Chunniu and said, "Let's go too." ”