Seeing the soldiers smiling happily on New Year's Day gave Zhang Cheng a lot of new ideas. After visiting www.biquge.info the bazaar, Zhang Cheng was thinking about whether to hold a party in the local area, so that the art troupe, which had never performed since leaving the Soviet area, could show off his skills, and at the same time let the soldiers also have fun.

At the same time, Zhang Cheng also thought: Since ancient times, there has been a practice of labor in wars, and it is a very important job to regularly improve the treatment of soldiers and improve everyone's lives.

As soon as he thought of it, Zhang Cheng immediately summoned the comrades of the division headquarters and told the cadres about the idea of holding a New Year's Day party at noon with the leaders of the division party committee and the grassroots troops under the leadership of various departments, and the political commissar immediately patted his thigh and praised loudly: "Okay! I didn't think of that. Everyone has worked hard for so long, it's time to comfort everyone! ”

The party members and cadres of the Young Communist Division are generally in their twenties, and it is the time when they are young and lively, and when they heard that the division commander said that they were going to go down to the army and hold a New Year's Day party, they immediately cheered, and they no longer stayed in the division headquarters, and they all ran to the station of the art troupe to inform them of the good news, and told the comrades of the art troupe to seize the time to rehearse the program.

At the same time, the firehead soldiers of the logistics department and the cooking squad were slaughtering pigs and sheep, and they were very busy, preparing to present a rich feast for the officers and men of the whole division.

Zhang Fengnian was an ordinary squad leader of the Second Brigade and the Fifth Regiment, and in the bazaar, he listened to his comrades-in-arms excitedly discussing the labor army at noon and the party at night, and he had both expectations and a little apprehension in his heart.

He was originally the son of an ordinary farmer in Jiangxi Province, with both parents and an older sister and a younger sister. The family has two acres of land, and a family of five lives on these two acres of land.

However, in order to survive, Zhang Fengnian's family had to borrow money from Deliang, the landlord of the village, to buy grain, and prepare to spend the disaster year.

It's a pity that natural disasters came, and man-made disasters followed, and the black-hearted grain merchants took advantage of the disaster year to aggressively raise grain prices, and the silver money borrowed by Zhang Fengnian's family couldn't buy a few catties of grain at all, and the rations were quickly eaten. The disaster is not alone, and the date for repaying the debt also came at the same time, and the landlord advocated that Deliang came to force the debt, but Zhang's father had no choice but to sell his sister to Zhang Deliang to pay off the debt.

My sister has been beautiful since she was a child, and she is also quite favored when she enters the local advocate Deliang family, which makes Zhang Fengnian's family really live a period of food and clothing. However, the good times did not last long, and after her sister Zhu fetus was secretly knotted, the result attracted the jealousy of Mrs. Zhang's family, she was afraid that her sister would compete for the family property after giving birth to a son, so she resorted to means to let her sister die twice.

After Mrs. Zhang killed her sister, she didn't get any punishment, Zhang Deliang just casually said a few words to her and let the matter pass. As for my sister's body, I didn't take much care of it, but I just ordered my subordinates to roll it up with a blanket and throw it into a mass grave.

The news reached Zhang Fengnian's house, and Zhang's father and mother went to the mass graveyard to look for his sister's body, but only found a few bones wrapped in his sister's clothes, and the body had already been eaten by wolf dogs.

This thunderbolt on a sunny day stimulated the parents of the Zhang family in pain, and immediately ran to Zhang Deliang's house to ask for an explanation, but was beaten out by the Zhang family's subordinates, Zhang's father and mother were depressed, and it didn't take long for them to go, leaving behind a pair of children and dying.

Since then, Zhang Fengnian has taken his sister Zhang Xiaomei to beg for a living. After a few months, the Red Army came, saying that the Red Army was a poor man's army and that it was to be the master of the poor people.

Zhang Fengnian didn't believe it at first, but after seeing that a landlord in a neighboring village was shot dead by the Red Army, he took the idea of trying it out and complained to the Red Army, accusing that the Deliang family had murdered people, and the Red Army really helped Zhang Feng's revenge, arrested Zhang Deliang and his wife, and shot them after the trial.

The revenge of his parents and sister was avenged, and Zhang Fengnian wanted to follow the Red Army wholeheartedly and repay the kindness of the Red Army. Therefore, when the Red Army was expanding its popularity, he took his sister to join the Red Army, and as a result, Zhang Fengnian became a small soldier in the Second Brigade and Fifth Regiment of the Young Communist Division, and his sister Zhang Xiaomei entered the Young Communist Division Art Troupe.

In this era of human life, more people have strength, Zhang Fengnian's purpose of joining the Red Army is very simple, one is to repay the kindness, the other is to rely on the big tree to enjoy the shade, the Red Army is overwhelming, as long as he works hard for it, he has been appreciated, and he can better take care of his sister in the future, and shelter his sister from the wind and rain

Therefore, Zhang Fengnian worked very hard in the Red Army, and the leaders also admired him very much, although Zhang Fengnian was only fifteen years old, he still made him a squad leader. And to the good fortune of the brothers and sisters, the leaders of the Red Army, large and small, not only did not bully people, but also treated people very kindly.

The most important thing is that although everyone worked hard for the Red Army, they always made people eat.

This made Zhang Fengnian follow the Red Army with determination, and his sister, who usually likes to sing mountain songs, stayed very well in the art troupe, so Zhang Fengnian was relieved.

However, in the morning, I heard that the art troupe was going to perform a show in the evening, which made Zhang Fengnian look forward to it, but also mixed with a trace of worry about whether his sister's first performance could perform the show well.

In a state of anxiety, Zhang Fengnian heard the troops blow the rallying call for lunch dinner. Zhang Fengnian immediately began to assemble his small team, and then took the soldiers to the canteen to eat.

From 11 o'clock at noon, Zhang Cheng and the political commissar soldiers were divided into two routes, each leading a dozen people to send condolences to each regiment along the way, and then each regiment left a cook trained by Zhang Cheng himself to be responsible for stewing braised pork. There are only a dozen fat pigs, so it is natural to take good care of them, and it would be a pity if the meat was wasted.

The soldiers who had just finished shopping in the market were very happy when they saw the division commander Zhang Cheng sending condolences into the barracks. When the braised pork was cooked, an unheard-of fragrance entered the nostrils, and all the comrades who smelled it immediately swallowed their saliva.

There was no need for the grassroots officers to maintain order, and all the soldiers lined up in a long column, waiting for the cooks to feed them, and in front of all the cooks, there was a crowded scene.

But the smell of the braised pork was so tempting that the soldiers gradually forgot about the habit of queuing, and everyone crowded in front of the big pot of stewed meat, rushing to hand the rice bowls to the cooks one by one, and couldn't wait to eat the braised pork.

Everyone has the same thought in their hearts, if they don't eat a bite of this meal, they will regret it in this life.

The officers of the various units had to come out in person to suppress and even kick the butts of several desperate people in order to maintain the order of the queue.

"It's so delicious!"

The soldiers in front of the line ate ate the braised pork, and after only taking a small bite, they were eager to swallow it with their tongues, until they chewed the braised pork with white rice and swallowed it slowly into their stomachs, and then let out a series of loud exclamations.

The soldiers in the back of the platoon heard the admiration of the soldiers who ate the braised pork, and they all surged, wanting to grab a higher position, and let the squad leaders clean up. The soldiers in the front row didn't care about what was happening behind them, their eyes lit up, staring at the braised pork that exuded an infinite fragrance, and their arms were holding the bowl straight forward.

Even the grassroots officers who maintained order couldn't care so much, watching the soldiers who ate braised pork swallowing with their mouthfuls full of mouthful, and the officers had to swallow their mouthfuls of saliva back into their stomachs one by one.

After a long busy work, it was finally the turn of the grassroots officers to eat, Zhang Fengnian held the rice bowl, picked up a small piece of meat with chopsticks, chewed it slowly, and two big tears flowed down instantly, thinking to himself: "If parents can eat this bowl of braised pork, how beautiful it would be!" ”

At this time, Zhang Fengnian was eating braised pork, thinking of his parents and sister who died tragically, and tears were raining down.