Chapter 51: The Lantern Festival
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, it is the rainy season in Australia, and the weather is not beautiful, from morning to night, the pouring rain does not stop for a moment. If it weren't for the drainage facilities of the Ming Dynasty that were built very well, the city of hope would have become a country long ago.
But even if it rains like this, the festival will still be celebrated.
According to Chinese tradition, tonight is a family reunion and eating rice balls together. Some people who have not married a family are also pulled by various neighbors and friends to celebrate together. lest when everyone is reunited, he will be alone, and he will feel uncomfortable.
Therefore, the Civilization Brigade also specially chartered a banquet today, and the venue was in the Zhonghua Building. All soldiers of the civilized brigade can go, and in order to increase the festive atmosphere, the brigade commander Gu Liyang and the deputy commander Ou Ziwen also specially invited the female soldiers of the nurse company to participate.
In the army, there are already wolves and less meat. In addition, the female soldiers of the nurse company are all impatient, and because of the long-term military life, they have a little more heroic spirit.
Such conditions are enough to attract the wolf howl of those soldiers who have been single for a long time and have been vegetarian for many years.
As a result, many single soldiers of the Civilization Brigade happily went with a sense of excitement. Even those soldiers who are not civilized brigades are trying to get involved in every possible way. There are even some soldiers who have become families, and they can't help but feel their hearts sprout, and they come to this dinner party to steal and fishy with their wives behind their backs.
Fortunately, although the Zhonghua Building is not as good as the Ambassador Hotel, it is still a bargain in a private hotel. Any thousand people can fit it.
However, Yang Ganming, who is the captain of the Civilization Brigade detachment, did not participate in this friendship dinner because of the Gu family.
But his invitation was exchanged for a box of cigarettes from the Yellow Crane Tower by a soldier of the People's Army.
Good boy! It made him so happy!
Although their Civilized Brigade is also a member of the People's Army, internally, the People's Army is divided into three levels. The first is the official unit of the People's Army, and there is no need to add any suffix to the title, so it is referred to as the People's Army.
The second is the Civilized Brigade of the People's Army. In the outside world, in order to distinguish the difference between them and the regular units of the People's Army, others call them the Civilized Brigade. Even the prefix of the People's Army has been omitted. Therefore, in the eyes of the regular troops of the People's Army, the civilized brigade is a second-rate unit. In my heart, I don't look down on them.
The third is the People's Army's Indoctrination Brigade. Since this unit was formed the latest, it also had the fewest people. So within the People's Army, there is no sense of existence. Not only did the regular troops not take it seriously, but the civilized brigade also looked down on them.
On weekdays, when a KPA soldier speaks in front of a soldier of the Civilized Brigade, he is a man with his head held high and his toes high. And the words are extremely obscure! Although the soldiers of the Civilization Brigade knew what they were talking about, they just couldn't understand the meaning of the words.
Of course, this is also deliberately done by the KPA soldiers. Because the Ming Dynasty is currently waging an internal war, the enemy is an uncivilized native. So the heavy responsibility is all handed over to the Civilization Brigade!
As a result, in a series of civilization battles, the reputation of the Civilization Brigade has also grown.
Many people in the Ming Dynasty compared the Civilized Brigade with the People's Army. This made the KPA soldiers very dissatisfied, as the main troops. After all, the Civilized Brigade is only a brigade under the People's Army, so how can it be placed with the People's Army?
However, where are the real military exploits of the Civilization Brigade, so that they cannot find a reason to refute it. Moreover, the leaders of the Ming Dynasty did not allow them to participate in the war against the natives, saying that it was easy to hurt the feelings of the ethnic groups and undermine the unity of the ethnic groups.
In the eyes of many KPA soldiers, this is simply nonsense. After all, how can the civilized brigade be killed, and how can their people's army not be killed?
And they've heard about the methods of the Civilized Brigade, the cruelty. In modern times, it's simply anti-human.
Doesn't this hurt the feelings of the community? That's weird!
Of course, they are just complaining, not yet speaking. Because they know that the Civilization Brigade can undertake this task because they are both indigenous.
Later, in the official historical sources, it can be written as an internal conquest between the natives. In this way, the negative impact on Daming can be reduced.
Therefore, the attitude of the People's Army, which is holding its breath, towards the civilized brigade is not very good. In addition, many soldiers are modern people, and their thinking is advanced. In terms of words, he deliberately said very esoteric things so that the soldiers of the Civilization Brigade would be deflated.
In the long run, the civilized brigade will not be able to raise its head in front of the people's army.
It's just that soldiers are bloody, so the soldiers of the civilized brigade are also full of disobedience. However, in several exercises and trainings, the People's Army has completely tortured and defeated them again and again, and has dealt with all kinds of disobedience.
As a result, the civilized brigade has also lost the idea of competing with the People's Army to win. turned to vent his anger on the various indigenous tribes who disobeyed the Ming Dynasty.
That method may have gone a little too far. But the benefits are beyond imagination. After seeing the consequences of disobeying the Ming Dynasty, many indigenous tribes obediently surrendered, making the Ming Dynasty's expansion faster and faster.
Today, three of the new five towns have been built. The remaining two are not expected to drag on for too long.
Thinking that the soldiers of the People's Army were flattering themselves like that today, Yang Ganming's smile deepened a little. lit a cigarette that only the president and other leaders could smoke, crossed Erlang's legs, and spit out the smoke in a leisurely manner, and he felt refreshed.
At this time, his daughter-in-law brought a large bowl of rice balls, steaming hot and full of tempting aroma. Seeing that his old god was smoking a cigarette, he couldn't help but glance at him.
Yang Ganming knew that his daughter-in-law felt that it was not worth it to change to a pack of cigarettes that were gone after smoking. So some can't think about it. But his daughter-in-law is also an understanding person, don't think about it if you can't think about it! Anyway, it was an invitation in exchange, and it didn't cost anything. As long as Yang Ganming is happy, she is also happy in her heart.
So in Yang Ganming's eyes, the strange white eyes of his daughter-in-law are so seductive and soulless. So he extinguished the burned cigarette, touched his daughter-in-law's face, and smiled.
made his daughter-in-law look white again, and she moaned.
Yang Ganming saw it and smiled even more happily.
This daughter-in-law was found from an indigenous tribe after fighting a counterinsurgency war last year.
Perhaps it was because he was also an orphan, so when he saw the lonely and dirty girl being bullied in the tribe, he couldn't help but feel pity and brought her out of the tribe.
Later, after living for a while, he found that this girl was good-looking, down-to-earth, not only hardworking and capable, but also caring for people, so he married a daughter-in-law.
Moreover, he also had the honor of having the brigade commander as a witness!
You know, the brigade commander is just like him, he is a naturalized person. But the brigade commander was clearly better mixed than him, and was the highest official among all naturalized people. It has become the object of worship for many naturalized people.
Picking up a large bowl of rice balls, the heat is blowing in your face.
This is the first time his daughter-in-law has made rice balls, and for this reason, she specially learned from the Chinese eldest sister next door for most of the day. But just by looking at his appearance, he had a bad premonition. One more bite instantly confirmed his guess.
Because this bag of glutinous rice balls is either unusually large and undercooked; Or it's too small and it's cooked badly.
In the whole big bowl, there are not a few normal rice balls.
Fortunately, Yang Ganming is a reasonable person. I know that my daughter-in-law has not learned much cooking. After all, in the indigenous tribes, many times they eat raw food, and they don't even have fire.
It wasn't until I came to Daming that I knew that things could be eaten like this. What kind of steaming, boiling, dry frying, barbecue and other tricks, it would be good to learn one.
And he's very happy with his. Although it is not whiter than those Europeans, not smaller than the natives of Nanyang, and not younger than the Chinese, but in the end, it is his daughter-in-law, and everything is good in the eyes of his lover.
Moreover, they are all naturalized and orphans, and they understand each other best and have a common language. In addition, I have developed feelings, and my life is full of happiness and nourishment.
There are many families like theirs. Whether it is a naturalized person or a Nanyang immigrant, most of them found the right person in Daming, and then formed a satisfactory family.
In this Lantern Festival, eat glutinous rice balls and enjoy reunion.