"What kind of place is Xinyi?" Ah Chu asked.

"It's a vast new world, with fertile black soil, and although the winter is cold, only hard work can lead to a happy life here." Zheng Kun, who was in charge of escorting the Japanese brides, replied.

Ajiang in the carriage patted Hisako, who was still motion sick, and asked, "Can you eat enough?" ”

Zheng Kun replied with a smile, "Of course, you don't have to worry about food and clothing when you get here, and when you find your favorite husband, then you can have your own land, at least one or two hundred acres of land." ”

Hisako lay on the side of the carriage and spit out a mouthful of sour water, "It's all because I'm greedy, I can finally eat rice, but I can't help but eat more, and as a result, I feel more and more uncomfortable when I get up in the car." ”

"You are really, it's not the first day you eat rice, you've been eating it for a few months, and every time you see rice, you have to eat three bowls of rice, aren't you afraid that when the Han man knows that you can eat so much, he won't marry you?" Ah Chu joked.

The women in this carriage are all young Japanese women in their sixteens and twenties, also known as Japanese brides. They spent several months in concentration camps in Japan, where they learned Mandarin Chinese and even wrote their own names.

They didn't show much rejection and fear about leaving their hometown of Japan and going to a distant Han to marry a strange Han man as their wife.

During that time in the camp, many of the girls were even able to eat rice for the first time. On the way from the concentration camp to this point, the officials and soldiers of the Han Dynasty treated them very well, protected them strictly, and did not let them be harassed and bullied at all. Therefore, the first son and other sisters actually have a good impression of the Han people.

Ah Chu is 17 years old this year. She is the daughter of a poor farmer in Amakusa on the island of Kyushu, and she is the eldest child in the family, so she is named Achu. She also has a sixteen-year-old brother, a seven-year-old brother, and a sixth-year-old sister. Before the Han army landed in Amakusa, their family was already too poor to open the pot. The mother gave birth to one child after another, which made the family more and more poor, and a few died in the middle, but there were still four children.

Both parents are very ordinary farmers, with little knowledge and a weak temperament. In the past few years, Ah Chu has even become the main force of labor in the family, and more often, she has to take care of her younger siblings. I have to work in the fields again.

Since childhood, Ah Chu has never even eaten rice, and their family eats more porridge, salted fish, and pickles.

In the concentration camp, for the first time, she ate large white rice, without mixing anything, and eating vermicelli. Even white flour. She also studied Chinese with a Han teacher and learned to sew and weave. Learn to cook.

Not long ago, the distribution of their family was down, their parents were moving to the island of Taiwan, and the younger brother joined the Imperial Army. The two younger siblings followed their parents to Taiwan, where they lived together and continued to study in a Han school.

And Ah Chu. The assignment given to her above is to marry a Han Chinese as a wife.

There are many new immigrants in the northeast of the Han Empire, and it is a very good place, the newly developed black land, and if you marry there, you can eat, drink, and dress well every day.

Both parents tried their best to persuade Ah Chu to go. even said that when she married the husband of the big man over there and lived a good life, she would take the family over then.

"I don't want to be separated from my family, my younger siblings are still so young." Ah Chu was reluctant to bring up his younger siblings by himself. But my father said, "You're so old that you always have to get married." What a good thing it is to have the opportunity to marry a man of great manhood now. When you're settled down over there, you'll pick us all up. ”

Her parents' words made her finally agree to be a mainland bride, and in the concentration camp, the Japanese called the girls who were going to marry far away to marry the Han Dynasty as mainland brides.

With a simple baggage, Ah Chu stepped on the ship to leave Japan for the mainland, and before leaving, he reluctantly said to his younger siblings, "It won't be long before I will definitely pick you up." ”

These mainland brides were already assigned a place to go before they left Japan.

They are also divided according to their place of origin, and the girls in the same place are separated together, and then they are arranged to marry in the same place together.

Ah Chu's team consisted of 1,000 people, all girls from Amakusa, and acquaintances who had lived in the same concentration camp for several months and studied together.

There were many of them, and a large boat carried 1,000 of them, and then they left Japan, and sailed all the way to a place called Lushun, where they changed to smaller boats and went up the Liao River in several boats.

When the boat could not pass, they began to ride in a horse-drawn carriage.

When they left Japan, they only knew that they were going to marry outside the Kansai. When he arrived in Lushun, he was told that he was going to Heilongjiang. Then when they were on the boat in Nenjiang, they were informed that they had been assigned to Xinyi County.

When the carriage stopped in front of a tunpu on the edge of a small river, she learned that a hundred of them would marry the man in the tun and live here in the future.

After getting out of the carriage, Ah Chu and the others, who were carrying a simple baggage, saw a lot of people waiting at the gate of the fort. There are both young men and older men and women, and they are very enthusiastic about their arrival.

Some people brought water, and some people brought boiled eggs and tea eggs that were still hot

Zheng Kun came back after communicating for a while and told them that because there were many unmarried men in this castle, they had to go on a blind date.

"After a while, you and the unmarried men in the castle will meet each other, and each of the men who go on a blind date will have a number tag on him, and if you have a good eye, write down their number. Also, you should bring such a number plate later. ”

It's a somewhat surprising way of blind date, with more than 1,000 tunpu men and 100 Japanese brides on blind dates.

They and the men were standing in the open field on the side of the road outside the fort, which was a freshly harvested potato field, and Ah Chu saw that the land was black and oily, and it was indeed as fertile as Teacher Zheng said.

The process of blind date is also very simple, with men and women standing on both sides. The Japanese girls stood still, and across the road, the men divided into many teams and took turns coming.

The men and women looked at each other across the road, and then memorized the number of the person they liked.

Less than an hour later. The blind date is complete.

Zheng Kun and several Han officials came over, asked them for their favorite numbers, and then registered them one by one.

Ah Chu reported a number.

"You can apply for another one, which is considered an alternative."

The first number reported by Ah Chu is the eighteenth, and the second number. She reported the one hundred and seventh. In fact, this is just a casual view, and they can't see too much, and they don't even know each other's names, nor do they know the situation of the family.

But Ah Chu didn't care too much, these were all new immigrants from the Han Dynasty to open up the frontier, and she knew that their family background might not be too good, but it didn't matter. As long as the husband she wants to marry is young and healthy, she believes that as long as the husband and wife work together. I'm sure I'll be able to live a good life.

Eighteen is very tall, and so is one hundred and seven, both in their early twenties, which is neither too young nor too old.

After Zheng Kun and the others got the figures, they got together with the officials on the other side to count the results.

The way is also very simple, first see if there is a mutual selection, whether it is a primary selection or an alternate. As long as there are mutual selections, there is priority. Among them, the primary election has a greater priority.

There are really several pairs of people who choose each other. Among them, Ah Chu's main election No. 18 is precisely the primary election of Ah Chu, and Ah Chu is also No. 18.

In the other pairs, some people are the right choice, and the other side is the other choice.

"There are really Wang Ba who look at mung beans, and these pairs are directly done." Zheng Kun said with a smile.

When Zheng Kun loudly announced that these newcomer pairs were successfully paired. Wei Shan was a little surprised. Although he came to participate in this blind date, he was not very positive in his heart, so when he chose someone, he directly chose the eighteenth number casually, because he himself was also this number. He didn't expect that. The Eighteenth also chose him.

At this time, he took a serious look at this eighteenth.

It's not tall, but it's tall among those Japanese women, estimated to be more than 1.6 meters. It looks a little dark, and a little thin, but the skeleton doesn't look small, he remembered that his father said that women have big butts, so easy to give birth, so he subconsciously swept down, but it was facing each other, and he couldn't see whether the butt was big or small, but the pelvis looked pretty much the same.

Wei Shan's eyes are very good, so across the road, he can also look at No. 18 very clearly, his face is a little pointed, but his eyebrows are still very delicate and young.

Ah Chu and Wei Shan and several other pairs were successfully paired and came out of the team.

Then the pairing continued, and after a few such pairings, finally, the rest of the men and women were also paired.

The men were very happy with the successful match, and the Japanese girls were also whispering to each other about their fiancés.

Those who failed to match the men were inevitably very disappointed.

Wei Shan's father and mother were all happy, and Wei Shan's three younger brothers and sisters were also happy for their eldest brother.

"Quick, go get the tea eggs." Father Wei shouted excitedly.

The family hugged in front of the first son, looking up and down at the future daughter-in-law, and Wei Shan's mother still took the tea eggs and stuffed them into the hands of the first son.

"It's so good that the girl is so strong, girl, we are the parents of the eighteenth."

Hearing that it was his fiancé's parents and family, the first son couldn't help but be a little nervous, and hurriedly bent down and bowed, "Hello uncle and aunt!" ”

That Mandarin is much better than what the Wei family speaks. Daddy Wei still speaks Shandong, but they don't speak Mandarin very well, but they can understand it, after all, Shandong dialect and Mandarin are not too far apart.

"Oh, girl, aren't you Japanese, how can you still speak Beijing."

"When we were in Japan, we learned Mandarin from a Han teacher, and we also learned writing and arithmetic. I don't speak very well in Beijing, please forgive my aunt. ”

"Girl, what you said is so good." Daddy Wei Shan couldn't help but say, his heart became more and more satisfied, this girl is good, not only young, but also has a strong body and a large pelvis. It turned out that he was still a little worried, marrying a foreign daughter-in-law and coming back, he couldn't speak Chinese, and he would have trouble living then, but now it seems that it is not a problem at all.

The blind date was successfully completed, but the new daughter-in-law could not be brought home immediately.

In the words of the village chief, there must be a formal and solemn wedding, and these girls will first live in the village, and when the day is chosen, each family will come to the village to welcome their relatives.

However, today you can still go into the tunzi to go to each house to recognize the door, have a cup of tea and have a meal.

The tunzi was very lively, and the tun chief announced that he would take a day off today and not go out to do things. Even let the pigs and sheep raised collectively in the tunli drag a big fat pig to kill, and kill a few sheep, and the women in the tunli went into battle and made a hearty lunch.

Ah Chu has grown so big, and he has never seen so many delicious dishes, large pieces of braised pork, sweet and sour pork ribs, roast chicken, there are twelve dishes per table, and the meals also include rice and white noodles, as well as steamed buns and buns.

Ah Chu and the sisters couldn't help but gobble it up, and the people in the tunzi looked at it and didn't feel anything, especially the parents of those young men who were successfully matched, and even the in-laws looked at the new daughter-in-law, and the more they watched, the more satisfied they became.

"It's a blessing to be able to eat well, and to be able to eat." (To be continued.) )