Compared with the Chinese in Nanyang, some stay in the countryside and jungle to welcome the arrival of the Spring Festival. The Chinese people in the far mainland also ushered in the sixth Spring Festival of the full-scale outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. For many Chinese people, this Spring Festival is still not a taste.

The people living in the occupied areas, even if they are accustomed to the presence of the Japanese army, are still not too ostentatious during the New Year, for fear of attracting the disturbance of the little devils. But the people in the nationalized area are not happy with this year's Spring Festival.

The six-year war of resistance against the Japanese army has displaced many people. Coupled with the blockade of China by the Japanese army, many people basically tried their best to support the War of Resistance. In other words, full support for the war of resistance often does not matter whether they want it or not.

After all, in order to ensure a protracted war of resistance, the Kuomintang army also collected heavier taxes on the people in the control areas than before. In addition, corruption is rampant in the Kuomintang region, and many ordinary people are still living a miserable life.

If you talk about this Spring Festival, the people who are better than before may only be the people in the areas controlled by the Eighth Route Army. Compared with the Nationalist Government's looting of the people in the jurisdiction, the Eighth Route Army's work in this regard is still very humane.

Even earlier, the Eighth Route Army began to engage in a self-reliant production campaign, and in this atmosphere, the troops in many base areas were able to meet some of the materials needed by the troops. After all, the Eighth Route Army was used to living a hard life, and it didn't matter if it was hard.

When night fell, the sound of firecrackers soon rang through the entire city of Davao. Even near the manor where Zhao Tiehu was, there were firecrackers from time to time to welcome the new year. And at this moment, Zhao Tiehu's family can finally prepare for dinner.

Zhao Tiehu, who finished frying the last dish, looked at Chen Wan, who was holding the child in his hand, and said with a smile with a string of firecrackers: "Cover your son's ears, Xinxin, go to the firecracker battle with Dad, okay?" ”

"Good! Dad, can you let Shin Shin light the cannon battle later? ”

"Aren't you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid! The sound was like a gun, and I wasn't afraid at all. I'll be careful, though, and Daddy will protect me! ”

Listening to his daughter's answer as a little adult, Zhao Tiehu also knew that his daughter, who grew up in the jungle, seemed to be used to gunshots. And the sound of firecrackers outside at this moment seemed to her to be the same as gunshots.

It's just that when he heard these words in Zhao Tiehu's ears, he felt a little guilty. Even Zhao Tiehu knew that in this era, his daughter had lived happier than other children of the same age.

But compared to the children of the era before he traveled, his daughter's childhood seemed a little too frightened. Even if his daughter is still young and doesn't understand anything, Zhao Tiehu still hopes that he can give his daughter a good childhood.

Carrying her daughter out of the house, after disassembling the firecrackers and setting them up, she handed her daughter a lit incense. Covering her ears for her daughter, she said, "Xinxin, you can order a cannon battle, and you can go eat big chicken legs after lighting a cannon battle!" ”

"Good! Daddy, hold me a little bit! ”

Holding Zhao Tiehu's hand boldly, her daughter Zhao Xin carefully lit the lit incense onto the torn firecracker string. As the thread was ignited, Zhao Tiehu immediately turned his daughter's body around.

When the two got up to leave, there was the sound of firecrackers exploding behind them. Zhao Xin, the daughter who was held tightly in her arms, laughed very happily. For Zhao Tiehu, this kind of laughter is also what he wants to hear and see the most.

Considering that today is the Spring Festival, Li Hao originally arranged for the domestic helpers at home, and Zhao Tiehu also asked the domestic helpers to go back to their own homes. As for Zhao Tiehu's words, he personally cooked a meal for his wife and children, which was regarded as fulfilling the responsibility of the head of the family.

After all, since the two moved to Nanyang, Chen Wan's meals have been eaten every Spring Festival. And Chen Wan, who is not yet out of confinement at the moment, Zhao Tiehu also doesn't want her to work too hard. And cooking is naturally no problem for him.

When the father and daughter entered the door and looked at the smiling father and daughter, Chen Wan also felt very happy. For her, this home is everything to her right now. has a husband who loves her, a lovely daughter and son, and she feels very happy.

"Alright, let's get ready to eat! Shin Shin, go wash your hands and get ready to eat! ”

"Okay, Mom!"

After trotting into the kitchen to wash his hands, Zhao Tiehu also moved the children's chair made by the carpenter to the table and carefully placed his daughter on it. Although the two doted on their daughter very much, they still had to educate their daughter since she was a child.

After sitting down with the family, Zhao Tiehu picked up a chicken leg that had been boiled for a long time and said, "Xinxin, this chicken leg is for you to eat, okay?" ”

"Good! But my mother just gave birth to a little brother, and it was very hard. This one is for my mother, and I'll eat the other one, is that okay? ”

Listening to her daughter, who is less than three years old, say such intimate words, Chen Wan also felt warm in her heart. Since giving birth to her son, she has also spent less time with her daughter than before. Coupled with the couple's positions, they are usually very busy at work.

If you really want to talk about it, the time that the two can spend with their daughter may be that the daughter rests a lot of the time. In other words, when she was working in the base camp, her daughter also played with those officers and staff officers in the base camp.

Even Zhao Tiehu, who was holding a chicken leg, was also shocked when he heard this, but he was very relieved: "Well, Xinxin is great, my mother gave birth to a younger brother very hard, this chicken leg is rewarded to my mother, okay?" ”

"Good!"

After waiting for the first bowl of chicken soup to his wife, Zhao Tiehu looked at his daughter who was a little greedy, and gave the remaining chicken leg to his daughter. And it's very intimate, tearing off the chicken skin on it.

After all, her daughter is less than three years old, and it is still somewhat difficult for her to gnaw on chicken legs. The torn chicken thigh strips with chicken soup are her daughter's favorite food.

Seeing that Chen Wan didn't want to eat chicken legs, Zhao Tiehu also persuaded in a timely manner: "I know you don't like to eat this thing, but for the sake of our son, let's eat more and drink more." This chicken was raised by Li Hao's mother, and Li Hao specially brought it over! ”

As Zhao Tiehu's wife, Chen Wan naturally has no problem with nutritional supplementation after every birth. During confinement, I ate a chicken every few days to supplement nutrition. This kind of treatment is not available to many mothers.

Perhaps it is the adequate nutritional supplement that allows Zhao Tiehu not to worry too much about the lack of milk in his child. At least Zhao Tiehu knows that many mothers give birth to children who lack nutrition since they were young because of insufficient milk.

Even if she drank too much of this thing, Chen Wan felt a little tired. But every time she thought about feeding her children, she had to bite the bullet and eat it. Fortunately, Zhao Tiehu's appetite has always been good, and he can help her eliminate most of them many times.

So much so that every time he was confined, Zhao Tiehu felt that he supplemented more nutrients than Chen Wan. But Zhao Tiehu knows more or less that compared with their family's situation, it is also more common in many Chinese families.

When he moved to the jungle in his early years, raising livestock was also the work assigned by Zhao Tiehu to the relocated people. These domestic animals can be eaten by the people themselves or sold to the army buyers in exchange for some daily necessities.

Nowadays, even though many Chinese have moved out of the jungle, there are still many Chinese living in the villages established in the jungle earlier. In the eyes of these Chinese, they are reluctant to leave the new village where they have lived for more than a year.

There was land they had cultivated, houses they had been allocated, and livestock they had raised. All this, if moved out of the jungle, is likely to have to be abandoned, and many people are obviously reluctant to do so.

It is the people who have moved in earlier who have settled in the jungle to cultivate and breed, so that there is no problem with the supply of food and agricultural products in Mindanao. In addition, the fishing team organized by Zhao Tiehu can also bring some benefits to many people.

At least for now, fishermen fishing near Mindanao, protected by offshore fleets and patrol aircraft, are rare. Even the Japanese ships stationed in the Philippines rarely cruised the waters around Mindanao.

After all, looking at some of the military strength of the Xinghua Army exposed from time to time, the Japanese army finally knew that the Xinghua Army was not only an army that was good at jungle warfare. Their navy and air force were also beyond the imagination of the Japanese army.

What worries the Japanese army the most is the military strength of the Xinghua Army that is currently exposed, is it all of the Xinghua Army? According to the reconnaissance of the Japanese army, it seems that it is not. So how much the Xinghua Army hid was what the Japanese army cared about.

Fortunately, at present, the Xinghua Army has not had a fierce conflict with the Japanese army stationed in Nanyang. As long as they do not infringe on the interests of Mindanao, the ships and air force of the Xinghua Army are also operating around the Medan Peninsula in many cases.

Earlier, the Allied forces had even organized a group of warplanes to break through the Japanese blockade and enter Mindanao. As a result, in the process of the Japanese army's blockade, the Xinghua army seemed to know nothing and did not give the corresponding cooperation to the allies at all.

The message conveyed through the intermediary was that the Xinghua Army had adopted a policy of neutrality in the battle between the Japanese and the Allied forces. Neither the Japanese nor the U.S. military wanted them to disturb the peace of Mindanao.

It is in this atmosphere that many Chinese who have relocated to Mindanao have also had a peaceful and peaceful New Year. Such tranquility and tranquility also make many Chinese who have just moved from China feel that this is really a paradise for Chinese.

Even if the number of Chinese in Mindanao is currently far from one million, there is not much left. But if he is in Mindanao, Zhao Tiehu still feels that there are not many people. In his opinion, it is not a problem for tens of millions of Chinese to live in Mindanao.

What's more, in the future, if the Xinghua Army wants to control other Nanyang countries, the more Chinese it needs, the better. Out of such considerations, Zhao Tiehu's transfer of people from China has never stopped.

Even in many villages along the coast of the mainland, there have been cases of people going to empty villages. And many of these disappeared civilians appeared in the Nanyang control areas controlled by the Xinghua Army. The arrival of these Chinese also brought new development to the Xinghua Army.

After all, in the future, if the Chinese want to occupy more voice and dominance in Nanyang, population is also a big problem. If there are more Chinese than indigenous people in a place, then the Chinese will naturally have the final say in this place.

If the Chinese become a minority and control the military and political power, I believe that there will be endless troubles in the future. And what Zhao Tiehu is doing now is to cut off the possibility of this kind of trouble in advance!