"Hurry up and unload all these farm tools!"

After entering April, the whole grassland is preparing for the opening of the wasteland in the new year, with more and more immigrants from Dongmeng, the road from Jilin to Tongliao and Fengtian is full of horse teams carrying farm tools, in order to meet the needs of reclaiming wasteland, Yu Wendou's horse team has temporarily requisitioned a lot of military horses, and even some troops have been arranged to escort farm tools.

"Zhang Pengmu, you took more than a dozen brothers and sent these farm tools to the village chief's house in the south of the city, but there are a lot of people in Li Village this year."

"Li Pengmu, this is sent to Bajiatun ......"

Chen Yu, the commander of the three standards who was assigned to the horse team to assist Yu Wendou in escorting farm tools, hurriedly ordered that the three standards were stationed in Taonan, in order to settle the immigrants, most of the troops of the three standards were sent out to support the immigration office, Chen Yu was nicknamed Chen Lao Slow, but at this time, the problem of farm tool distribution was handled in an orderly manner.

However, in half an hour, the escort work of several large villages on the edge of Taonan City has been completed, and the farm tools of Nandian Tunzi have not been delivered.

I thought that Nandiantun, there was a girl in the village, named Li Caifeng, last year when the autumn harvest in Taonan, the snowstorm came quickly, thanks to Gan Zhiming, who was like a god, sent soldiers to help the farmers harvest, which avoided losses, and Chen Yu's troops were in charge of Li Caifeng's family in Nandiantun at that time, and Caifeng also brought water to himself at that time.

Later, I came to Nandiantun a few times one after another, secretly looking for opportunities, and went to Caifeng's house to see it twice, the more I looked at it, the more pleasing it was to the eye, thinking about Caifeng's red cheeks like a big apple, Chen Lao's slow legs sped up again.

Nandiantun is close to Taonan City, but it does not belong to the main urban area of Taonan, and the cultivated land around Taonanfu City has been almost reclaimed by the previous immigrants, and at this time the cultivated land can only be reclaimed in a little outer place.

"Mother. I'm hungry! The thin little boy whispered as he pulled the corner of the woman's clothes who were hoeing the weeds.

"Bao'er, wait a little longer, there will be something to eat in a while." When Zhao Guiying was in Anhui, her husband starved to death, the family's fields were out of harvest, there was no one to turn to, and the rent in Anhui was high. The woman and her children fled with a large group of refugees to Shandong, and later boarded the train to the northeast with the crowd of people who had broken through the eastern part of the country.

At this time, hundreds of people have to live in each refugee shed, and the poor conditions are naturally needless to say. Next to the refugee shed, there is also a separate granary. It is specially used to put coarse cornmeal, sorghum rice and other coarse grains.

"Dong" There was a sound of gongs beating from the refugee shed, and the meal was served, and the farther places informed each other and shouted twice, and the closer ones heard the sound of the gong and rushed directly to the shed.

"It's time to eat, it's time to eat. Fresh bud rice dumplings" (lumpy food made from cornmeal by northerners)

There was a crowd of people all around.

"Queue, queue. Cut in line and worry about not having to eat. The middle-aged man who distributed the bud rice dumplings shouted.

The steamed bud rice dumplings are slightly larger, and two are distributed per person and one for children. Although it is not enough for people who are engaged in heavy manual labor in the fields, it is much stronger than when there was no food to eat before, and every once in a while, the head of the granary next to the refugee shed will take a few people to the city to pull some grain. The coarse grain in the granary is full of piles, which also makes these refugees feel a lot more relieved, there is only so much food, so many pairs of eyes staring, if anyone wants to do it on everyone's heads, it is impossible.

The little boy happily held the bud rice dumplings with some soup, and nibbled on them one by one. These bud rice dumplings are not very tasty, but they are much better than when they used to have nothing to eat, or even eat tree bark.

"Drive, drive!" Two officers and soldiers rode towards this side.

"Look. The official is here. ”

"Official, what's the matter?" When the head of the shed saw the officers and soldiers, he hurriedly greeted them.

"The town guard has ordered the adults to come and announce some good news to you, and from this day onwards, the grain in each shed will be distributed evenly among the people, not counting the children. In the future, as long as you return the grain you have eaten and the money for the placement of farm tools, the reclaimed fields will be rented to you at a low price, which is 30% less than the rent outside, and after planting for 10 years, you can buy a land deed. ”

Some of those who heard the news burst into cheers, and some women were holding their children and sobbing on the side. If Kannai is like this, where will they be displaced in a foreign land, and where will they lose their relatives who are starving to death.

The land of Eastern Mongolia is sparsely populated, some are alone, and some are families. According to the area in front of them, each person in their shed can get seven or eight acres, how much grain can a person eat in a year? That is to say, they will work hard for a year next year, and the next year they will have a field to plant. The rent is still so low, I used to be tired and tired in Anhui for a year, and the harvest was not enough to pay the rent, so the days were miserable.

"Oh, what a ruler is really a bodhisattva!" Zhao Guiying hurriedly put down the hoe and pulled her daughter next to her to kneel, not caring about the muddy land, anyway, she had done a morning's farm work.

"Gui Ying, get up!" The middle-aged woman beside Gui Ying pulled Gui Ying, pulled her neck and said, "You just came to Taonan, I don't know, this Dongmeng town guard is not a bodhisattva, that is, a living Bodhisattva from the sky." ”

"I'll tell you, my family is the same as you, the child's father is gone on the way to Kanto, and I am a woman who pulls Feng'er alone, but I suffer a lot......" said Here, a tear crossed the corner of the woman's eye, and like Zhao Guiying, she was from Guannei and came from Guandong.

The middle-aged woman wiped a handful of tears and continued: "Originally, I wanted to follow this family leader, but at this time, He Tongzhi entered Taonan City, and suddenly gave us ten acres of land for orphans and widows, and gave us emergency food. ”

said that the middle-aged woman's voice began to be out of tune, Zhao Guiying couldn't help but feel bitter when she heard this, and the two quickly hugged each other, maybe it was the same disease, the orphans and widows were frightened by the suffering of the world, and the two had a greater sense of identity.

After all, the middle-aged woman has already lived in Taonan with a thought, and she has lived a good life, and everything can be seen, she inserted a handful of tears on her face, and said with a smile: "Sister, don't be afraid, you will have a good life when you come to Taonan." ”

"I'll tell you something happy, the soldiers of the eleventh town under He Tongzhi are all good, not to mention the courage to fight, how can He Tongzhi say that we are kind to the people...... What is that called? ”

"Oh, mother, what son soldier? That's called a soldier! Zhu Caifeng on the side pouted.

"Hey, yes, that's right, it's called a soldier!" The woman glanced at her daughter and continued to boast: "They are good soldiers, there is a sentry commander who runs to my house twice in three days, and when it is time to farm, he will work for my family, I think she and my daughter have that meaning......

"Mother, why do you say everything? How old are people, you just talk about it! ......" Zhu Caifeng's face turned red all of a sudden, and he fell his head all of a sudden.

"You little, you still know how to be shy today, why don't you panic when you look at that officer, this matter is decided today."

"Caifeng, Aunt Zhu!" As soon as Zhu Caifeng turned his head, he met Chen Yu who was walking towards him, and when he thought about what his mother said just now, he might have listened to it, his face blushed even more, and he hurriedly lowered his head.

"Oh, it's Captain Chen, let's put these tools down quickly!" After all, this Aunt Zhu is from here, looking at Chen Yu, who was sweating profusely, she hurriedly took over the farm tools in his hand, and took out a handkerchief to wipe Chen Yu's sweat.

"Aunt Zhu, it's okay, my body is strong, this little thing is not hard." Chen Yu smiled unconsciously, in fact, Zhu Caifeng's house was the last stop along the way, in order to see Zhu Caifeng, Chen Yu personally sent the farm tools to Nandiantun.

"This is what I just said about Chief Chen, my son-in-law, you see how energetic the young man is!" Aunt Zhu, looking at Chen Yu's beautiful new military uniform, introduced to Zhao Guiying.

"Mother...... What do you say? When Zhu Caifeng heard this, she blushed again, but she didn't expect her mother to recognize Chen Yu in front of outsiders.

"Aunt Zhu......" Chen Yu also blushed when she heard it, not much better than Zhu Caifeng, scratching her head with her right hand, it didn't feel natural to put it there.

"Silly boy, I recognize you, it's time to call my mother!" Zhao Guizhi was also a person who came over, and couldn't help but laugh when he looked at the shy Chen Lao.

“…… Mother......" Chen Lao said hurriedly when he heard this.

"Old Chen is slow...... You ......" Zhu Caifeng was so angry that she didn't know what to say, but after thinking about it, if her mother didn't bring it up, with Chen Lao's shyness, she didn't know how long she would hold back.

"Old Chen, what are you still doing in a daze? If you don't hurry up and work, first open up the few acres of wasteland at Aunt Zhao's house, and you are not allowed to go back if you can't finish it. ”

"Yes......" Chen Lao nodded helplessly, saying that women are fickle, and this is too fast.

Listening to the conversation of several people, Zhang Si smiled happily, along the way to drive the sheep to push the cart, towards the pasture, after coming to Taonan, Zhang Si also considered farming or going to work in the factory, but the two children were too young to be inseparable from people, so he applied for the shepherd of the Invalids Ranch, so that while herding sheep, he could also take care of the children, so that he could rest assured.

"Baa"

The male goat barked loudly, thinking that the ewe showed that strong voice, spring is a season of estrus, looking at all this in front of him, Zhang Si smiled, full of warm thoughts and lust, has settled down in Dongmeng, will there be peach blossom luck next? (To be continued...) )