October 28th

Today, Tang Baocheng, the son of Tang Fugui, a military household in Jingbiantun, was born at the age of sixteen, but in this era, only the old people over fifty years old are eligible to live a long life, and the children of ordinary military households are nothing more than catching two fish, the world is better to boil an egg, and the world is not good to get some wheat cakes to fool the past, although Tang Fugui died in Lushun, but the Tang family's eyes are becoming more and more prosperous, Tang Liu's grandmother Tang Liu felt sorry for her grandson, or secretly stewed an old hen, and urged her daughter-in-law to tell her grandson about family affairs, sixteen years old, It's time to get married and have children to inherit the incense of the Tang family, Tang Liu stared at his son's spiritual position, couldn't help but lift his shirt and wipe a few old tears, got up and put a stick of incense on his son.

At noon, Qin Xianghua, the daughter-in-law who worked in the watch factory, came back, and Tang Liu was not happy to show up to work outside, but after the death of his son, the Tunli took extra care of these martyrs, and the daughter-in-law wore many hats, and there were three taels and five silver in the account every month, and she worked with the neighbors, and Tang Liu was not good at saying anything.

Seeing that her mother-in-law said that the meal was extraordinarily rich, Qin Xianghua also knew the reason, so she sat down and talked to her mother-in-law for a while, and said some new things in the tun, both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are waiting for Tang Baocheng to go home, today is also the end of the private school, the adults of some departments in Lushun will come to select the schoolchildren, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law both hope that Tang Baocheng can be selected by the adults and become the head of the department or something.

The most beautiful in the Santun family is the Han Erjia, there are several thousands of households under the department she leads, and Ping said that when he went to Andong Wei, he commanded the adults to salute when they saw her, and the woman of the Han Erjia family is also good, working in the Sea Trade Division, the monthly salary is five taels, which is not comparable to ordinary people, but according to Tang Liu's view, the second girl in the first phase of the private school was only barely in the top 20, and his grandson Baocheng was the first champion! Shouldn't it be at least ten taels a month?

After a while, Tang Baocheng came back, and everyone began to eat, Tang Liu carefully looked at his grandson's expression, and asked, "Baocheng, can you be picked by any department today?" Say it and let the mother refer to it, can you go to the department where you can be a soldier and eat food? ”

Tang Baocheng shook his head, bowed his head and picked up the rice, Tang Liu knew that since his son's death, his grandson's surname had changed greatly, and he rarely spoke. Seeing his grandson's appearance, Tang Liu said distressedly: "Good grandson, if you are not satisfied, you won't go, Niangniang still has three salt ponds, ten acres of land pension silver, what are you afraid of if you don't do things?" ”

After a while, Tang Baocheng raised his head and said, "Niangniang, mother, Lord He has sent someone to find me today." ”

"Ho, my lord? Which Ho Adult? "Tang Liu is inexplicable

"Lord He Jiu, mother-in-law, is the chief officer of the most elite family team of adults, what is the special camp or something, Lord He is the commander of Ao Shanwei, and he is the fourth product." Qin Xianghua explained

"What is he looking for you for? Could it be that you are being transferred to work with adults? Tang Liu asked with some expectation

Tang Baocheng nodded and continued to grill rice.

"The ancestors of the Tang family are blessed, and the mother knows that my grandchildren are promising"

Tang Liu's face was excited: "Xianghua, taking advantage of Baocheng's time to be free, I have opened up my relatives, and the old body is still waiting to hold my great-grandson." ”

Qin Xianghua glanced at her son, who was silent, and said carefully: "Mother-in-law, both families are willing, I heard that Baocheng can read, and I can't wait for the bride price, but Baocheng doesn't like it."

Tang Liu glared and said: "The life of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, what is there to be happy about?" ”

He turned his head and said warmly: "Good grandson, now that you are not young, the Tang family will have you as the only seedling left, listen to the mother's words, marry your granddaughter-in-law as soon as possible, so that the ancestors of the Tang family can rest assured."

At the end, Tang Liu choked up, Tang Baocheng put the bowl down and said: "Niangniang, mother, Baocheng is full, and he will go to Lushun to report tomorrow, Baocheng will pack up his things, and he may have to come back in a few days." ”

Tang Liu hurriedly said: "Hey, good grandson, eat one more bowl?" Go back and ask your mother to help you clean up, remember to bring some silver for use on the road, I will let Xu Laojiu on the other side accompany you, how can you go alone? ”

Qin Xianghua got up and smiled: "Mother-in-law doesn't need to worry, the top twenty people in the private school will go together, the logistics department has a carriage to send them to Dengzhou, and there is a special boat ......to pick them up when they arrive in Dengzhou."

Tang Baocheng went out sullenly, walking towards the market center of Fort Mighty, his home is in the northernmost part of Fort Mighty, this is a single-door single-family high-end residential area, when he moved in, he spent ten taels of silver, which was bought with his father's pension silver, and ordinary households would have to pay three times the price to buy it, and there were two sheep tied to the courtyard in front of the two-story brick house that were sent over yesterday, which was the welfare distributed by the Tunli to these martyrs, and it was said that the adults snatched it from those northern captives after seizing Jinzhou.

Since the completion of Weiwu Fort, here has been earth-shaking changes, in addition to some fields and salt ponds in the fort, Weiwu Fort has wrapped up the stone mortar Santun, the residential area in the fort is a row of alleys, each alley is a Jia, the person in charge is a chief, the bluestone slab of the lane is very neat, basically can not see any phlegm traces and soil clods, the big ditch beside the road has begun to lay some stone slabs one after another, there are rows of willow trees planted on the edge of the ditch, but now there is no greenery, all trembling in the cold wind.

Tang Baocheng walked to the entrance of the alley, where a lot of people had gathered, Han Zhuangshan, the first leader, stood at the front of the team with a cane, and saw Tang Baocheng at the end of the line, Han Zhuangshan turned his head and grinned, and his hideous scar face suddenly bloomed: "The champion is here, do you want to hold a graduation parade in the private school today?" ”

The head of Tunli has a lot of power, and Tang Baocheng said with a smile: "Uncle Han, I won't go to the street until tomorrow, but I may not be able to go, so I'm in a hurry to report to Lushun." ”

Han Zhuangshan glared at the people who were talking and feeling sorry for Tang Baocheng, and beckoned to Tang Baocheng again: "The champion is sensible, and it is best to go to the street, but it is the right way to follow the adults, you can't figure out which one is lighter and which is heavier, Baochengwa, come, come behind me, what department are you assigned to?" ”

"I don't know yet"

Tang Baocheng shook his head: "The order written by Lord Liu Bingwen of the Intelligence Department, but there is still the signature of Lord He on it." ”

"Intelligence Division?"

Han Zhuangshan was a little confused: "I don't know about this, but Baochengwa, Lord He Jiu's signature, that means that you have been transferred to Lord He's subordinates, Lord He is the right hand man of Lord He, and I drank with Lord He at that time......

Just when everyone was discussing Tang Baocheng's whereabouts, the carriage finally arrived.

This is the special carriage of eight horses in the fort, behind which a huge simple open carriage is towed, there are six rows of benches in the carriage, nearly 50 people can be squeezed at a time, Weiwu Fort is often open to the north and south gates, some people who live in the north of the city want to go to the south of the city to cultivate, some people who live in the south of the city want to go to the salt pond outside the north of the city to harvest, so this kind of manned carriage was born, and it is managed and used by the Transportation Department of the Logistics Department, there are four such carriages in Weiwu Fort, which is said to run the north and south line, most of the people who sit in the car are the old, weak, sick and disabled, and they need to spend five dollars of silver a month, It is definitely impossible to get guests elsewhere, but in Weiwu Fort, five coins of silver is the price of an ordinary wine banquet, and there are still a lot of people who sit there, and when Han Zhuangshan gets on the bus with the help of everyone, there is no seat.

"Han Bo, you sit here!" Tang Baocheng took out a medal from his pocket and shook it at the coachman, there were more than a dozen red-painted seats in the six rows of seats, which were reserved for the martyrs' families, although many people squatted on the side of the seats, no one dared to glance at those empty seats.

"Baochengwa, my brother is blessed with wealth today" Han Zhuangshan thanked him with some emotion, and then sat down on half of the **, the seat is not necessarily very comfortable, but these positions are not ordinary people can sit, dare to sit, even a veteran like Han Zhuangshan is the same.

Tang Baocheng pretended to blow his eyes, turned his head to look outside, these martyrs are very respected in Weiwu Fort, not only have a cheap house to live in, but also give priority to solving the work of their families, rich monthly salary, all kinds of dazzling benefits, even in the private school, the most naughty schoolchildren dare not bully the children of martyrs, but the question is that these are all exchanged for the surname of Tang Fugui, is it worth it? Tang Baocheng was very confused.

The carriage started slowly, the huge and light iron wheels began to turn, there was occasionally a slight vibration between the two bluestone slabs, Tang Baocheng squatted on the edge of the seat, looking into the distance, one after another buildings rose from the ground, most of the barracks were empty, the field was deserted without the big soldiers, on the street, occasionally there was a team of new tunhu under the leadership of the first commander to walk towards the south gate, looking at their straight and neat team like a soldier out of the **, Tang Baocheng of course knew that it was not conscious, but was scared by the instructor and the first commander, Even he had been beaten with a dozen sticks before he learned to obey, and in Fort Might, obedience to various rules and regulations had been carved into the marrow of these people. These people took advantage of the slack to go to the fertile fields outside the city, and he also had ten acres of good land in his own house, because there was no manpower, so he rented it to the newly arrived homeless people to cultivate, and according to the regulations on renting in the fort, it was distributed in the proportion of thirty-seven, and they received two percent, the homeless people received seventy percent, and the remaining one percent was the tax in the fort.

Tang Baocheng once heard adults say in a private school, what is the interest bundling method, everyone's interests are closely related to Tunpu, and everyone's property and life support are dependent on Tunpu, so they can work together. Tang Baocheng was a little disgusted with the straightforwardness of adults, but he recalled that he had never eaten a full meal before he was thirteen years old, let alone him, at that time there were only two torn pants in their family, one was worn by his father boiled in the sea, and the other was worn by his mother and mother, so Niangniang slept in ** for a long time, leaving her pants for her daughter-in-law to go out to do work and wear, and she was naked ** everywhere since she was a child, so that the big and small girls in the tun ran blindfolded when they heard his voice, now? Now he has become the "rich second generation" often said in the mouths of adults, just like today, he didn't move his chopsticks after eating a piece of chicken breast, and no one dared to think about this kind of thing if he put it in the past. However, in just two years, this subversive change of surname has always puzzled him.

The carriage slowly drove into the wide street, and the surroundings began to be lively, and there were bustling crowds everywhere, most of them were women, Tang Baocheng also saw several classmates in the fourth phase, they were dressed beautifully, ready to choose some things for the graduation celebration of tomorrow, the troupe set up a stage to sing in the most lively place on the street, Tang Baocheng glanced at it from a distance, and immediately recognized that today's performance was the bridge section of the adults sticking to Lushun, and the script was written by the people of the teaching camp. I want to continue to wrestle with adults in Jinzhou, so there are a lot more martial arts scenes to kill Tartars, the stage is full of people, and there are many tun households with farm tools, they have forgotten the time when they watch the play, some veterans are spitting and boasting about their combat experience, and loudly complaining that the actors on the stage are not dedicated enough and do not show the tense atmosphere on the battlefield.

The play is only halfway through, the gongs, drums and silk bamboo suddenly stopped, an instructor wearing a straight military uniform, with a small star on his shoulders walked to the stage, as soon as he appeared, he let a lot of women who were still shopping around, this instructor is very young, and he looks even more handsome when he wears a uniform. These generous conditions made the women who had seen too many posters very excited.

"Folks, the Tartars are ready to start attacking Jinzhou again, you all know that the adults spent countless efforts and sacrificed more than 200 good men to fight down, and more than 150 good men died in Jinzhou in our Shijiu alone, and now the Tartars still want to take it back, do we agree?" The instructor's words made Tang Baocheng a little slanderous, the level of propaganda of this instructor was too inferior, and he didn't know how he became a team officer, Tang Baocheng thought that he was better than him when he came to power.

"No!" To Tang Baocheng's surprise, there was an angry echo in the audience, and even those women raised their hands and screamed.

"Where is the Golden State? That's where the adults are going to settle the Liaodong refugees, that's where the adults are going to divide the fields and land for us, you all know what the dog Tartar is, they want to rob Jinzhou, rob Lushun, and finally grab us, do you think you are safe? I'm not afraid to tell you that in three days, in just three days, the Tartars will be able to take a boat from Golden State to our mighty fort! Sprinkle all our fields with salt, so that you can't grow crops, demolish your house, take your whole family to Liaodong as slaves, shave the heads of men, shave the heads of women, shave the heads of the old and young, let you lose the country and destroy the species, so that you will not recognize your ancestors after death, take your property and ploughing cattle, and treat your wives and women as public property in the flag, whoever wants to take your wife today, take it away directly......"

The carriage drove slowly, Tang Baocheng frowned, and was a little disgusted that the instructor spoke bluntly, you must know that many of the women who fled were mostly annihilated and defiled by the Dengzhou rebels, didn't the teaching camp care about the feelings of the women in Tunli when formulating these propaganda?

"Golden State!"

The instructor raised his arm: "Let's go shopping and watch the play leisurely here, don't forget that the adults are still confronting the Tartars in Jinzhou, and the adults are still fighting bloody battles with the Tartars. Why don't we have a bunch of bandits here? Because the bandits have been exterminated by adults! Those who didn't cut it were also frightened by the adults and didn't dare to come! So you don't have to live your life in fear, the adults are afraid that the Tartars will come here, so they will fight with the Tartars first, and you will touch your conscience and say, how is the current day? How is it like two years ago? How are you doing better than the rest of Daming? Whose bread do you eat? Whose favor is it to be rewarded? Who are the adults desperate for outside? Don't say it in your mouth, put it in your heart, so we have to do our duty, we can go into battle, we can work, let's use our own strength to help adults, but also to help yourself, Golden State is our land, the Tartars want, can, but also step on our corpses first"

The carriage turned around the corner, and the cheers of the instructor and the crowd in the audience came one after another: "Defend the Golden State, defend the Golden State!" ”

Tang Baocheng nodded thoughtfully, although in his eyes, this instructor's propaganda was too straightforward and the level was very low, but the results achieved were very good.

At this moment, Tang Baocheng's heart suddenly trembled, because he saw a pretty figure on the corner of the street who was setting up a stall to do business, it was the woman he liked, Han Fangmei, selling his own pickled water Luo Bai, Han Fangmei was his classmate in the fourth phase, Tang Baocheng silently watched the figure disappear in front of his eyes, I heard that she was picked up by the Construction Division, the Construction Division is a more difficult place, even if it is a woman, it will not be too easy.

Tang Baocheng sighed and turned his face back, Han Fangmei is not a local, it seems that she was rescued by the adults the year before last, not many people in the tun know the specific details, but the only thing you know is that Han Fangmei has been annihilated and dirty!!

I heard those soldiers say that Han Fangmei was an orphan, and after being rescued and returned, she was arranged to be raised in Tunli, and after the battle of Lushun, some orphans were arranged in Tunli to recognize their fathers, Han Fangmei followed the surname Han and also enjoyed the treatment of martyrs, but unfortunately although she liked her, she could only suppress it in her heart and dare not tell her mother, she could not care, but she couldn't ignore the face of her mother and mother......

"I just hope she can have a good home in the future!" Tang Baocheng closed his eyes, and a tear slowly seeped out.

The carriage swayed, almost to the north of the city on the street, a person who looked like a general A was surrounded by a large number of tun households, the general A was spitting to explain the evil things done by the Tartar slaves, and taught everyone how to observe the words and colors, and identify the Tartar slaves who mixed into the fort, etc., Tang Baocheng felt a little ridiculous about this, according to this general A statement, it is estimated that a lot of fine works can be pulled out, obviously relying on the stupid method of observing words and colors alone is not very reliable.

Soon, the carriage stopped leisurely at the north gate of Weiwu Fort, from the north gate is the seaside, the carriage has been empty, even Han Zhuangshan does not know when to get off the car, Tang Baocheng took out a knife from his waist, took the back basket from the car and walked towards his own salt pond, while there is still time, he wants to finish harvesting his own three acres of salt pond before leaving.

Three days later, Tang Baocheng carried a package on his back, and a few classmates came to Lushun, Lushun they are very familiar with, the private school organized them to visit twice, the main purpose is to feel the war up close, they also once saw the Tartar sentry of the money rat tail at the head of Lushun City.

Compared with Fort Weiwu, Lushun is too far away, but the neat rows of warships on the dock, the straight bluestone road, and the swarthy artillery on the southern city still make these fledgling young people extremely excited.

"Baocheng, let's go all the way" classmate Cai Changshun took a few steps behind, and waited for Tang Baocheng to arrive in front of him before saying.

Tang Baocheng asked with some surprise: "Changshun, where are you assigned?" ”

Cai Changshun took out the appointment order with a smile, and the signature on it was: "Liu Bingwen of the Intelligence Department"

Tang Baocheng smiled at Cai Changshun, walked side by side with him, and when he arrived at the Lushun Deputy General's Mansion, those classmates had been diverted, and only they were still walking towards the dilapidated house where the Intelligence Department was located.

Tang Baocheng was a little repulsed by Cai Changfu in his heart, not because he was a descendant of the Liaodong refugees, but because Cai Changfu was really in the sun, and he was smirking happily all day long, as if nothing had happened in the big tomorrow.

The intelligence department is in the street behind the deputy general's mansion, I heard that in the last battle of Lushun, the adults demolished all the houses that could be demolished, which blocked the attack of the Tartars, and now the houses of the intelligence department can still see the traces of reconstruction, the foundation is dilapidated, and the top is fresh, and it looks strange.

When I entered the house, a few guards were still chatting, no one paid attention to the two little hairy heads, and the soldiers brought out by the adults were very arrogant, and they always liked to look at people from the corners of their eyes.

The two of them dealt with the soldiers for the first time, and they were a little timid, those guards only cared about their own chatting about the recent movements of the Tartars, and didn't care about their cowering appearance at all, after waiting for a long time, Tang Baocheng finally couldn't hold back, took out the medal in his pocket and lit it up, and the guards immediately changed their faces and took the initiative to come over and take over the order in their hands.

"Lao Tzu is a hero, and his son is also a hero, so I'm here to report today, right? Follow us adults and do a good job, don't embarrass you. The guard touched Tang Baocheng's skull with some pity, and punched him again, Cai Changshun looked at his classmates with envy.

"Cai Changfu, come with me, Lord Liu wants to see you" A guard led Cai Changfu over.

After a while, another guard shouted, "Hey, Tang family boy, Lord He wants to see you in person." ”

Tang Baocheng's brain buzzed, and he followed the guards in a bit of a panic for a while, before he remembered something and quickly tidied up his clothes.

When he came to the room, a burly fourth-rank military attache was sitting inside, and some documents were piled up in the corner, Tang Baocheng knew that this was the right hand of the adult, the boss of the special forces camp, Lord He Jiuhe.

"The villain Tang Baocheng has seen Master He," Tang Baocheng knelt down respectfully and kowtowed.

"Get up, you are Tang Fugui's cub? Well, it's not bad, I didn't embarrass your father," He Jiu replied with a big grin.

Tang Baocheng held back the tears in the corners of his eyes and stood up.

He Jiu picked up a piece of paper on the table and read: "Tang Baocheng, sixteen years old, the son of the martyr Tang Fugui, no brothers and sisters, the immediate family members include the fifty-eight-year-old grandmother Tang Liu, the thirty-six-year-old mother Qin Xianghua, the leader of the watch factory inspection team, the monthly salary is one or two five, and the leader of the clothing team of the Logistics Department of the Department of Displaced People, the monthly salary is two taels, Tang Baocheng is born with a stubborn surname, and at the age of fourteen, he entered the Maojiatun private school to study. At the age of fifteen, he was already in the top 20 of the fourth phase of the private school, and in July, after his father Tang Fugui died in Lushun, his surname began to become taciturn, and he graduated with the first place in October this year......"

Tang Baocheng listened expressionlessly, as if He Jiu was not reading his record.

"Do you know which department you went to?" He Jiu asked suddenly

"Listen to the arrangement of adults, any department can do" Tang Baocheng, like all young people, has the dream of becoming a soldier.

"Intelligence Division, Einsatzgruppen"

He Jiu said: "The mission is to spy on the intelligence and information of the Tarslaves"

Tang Baocheng was in a trance for a while, he remembered the words of the general armor on the street of Weiwubao a few days ago, could it be that the Tatar slave's fine work is more powerful than the Tatar slave's soldiers and horses? The adults are so cautious, in order to deal with the Tatar slaves?

He Jiu glanced at Tang Baocheng and said: "We have to face a lot of enemies in the end, of course, it's not just Tartars, spying on the news of these enemies is something we must do, adults want me to find a few good seedlings to cultivate, to be from a good background, no bad habits, not a ** church believer, we have investigated your background, you are very lucky......"

Tang Baocheng said with some doubts: "Lord He, didn't Cai Changshun, who ranked sixth in the fourth issue, also come to report today?" ”

He Jiu shook his head: "That's right, but he will never be reused, and you are different, you will be an officer of the special operations team as soon as you go out." ”

He Jiu saw Tang Baocheng nodding and continued: "You will be trained in the special forces camp for three months, and the training content is a lot, including hand-to-hand combat, riding, camouflage, survival, counter-reconnaissance and a series of courses, and then you will be stationed outside, the most likely place is Shenyang, followed by the Dongjiang River, if you go to Liaodong, then you will be active under the noses of the Tartars, you must be ready to set off and die at any time, this is not a scout training in a private school, nor is it a game of hide and seek, this is playing for real, So if you want to marry a daughter-in-law, you have to hurry up, I personally recommend that you marry the Yuanxiang girl of the Wang family, well, **big, easy to have children. Go back and get ready, and wait for a notification from the Intelligence Division next month......

Tang Baocheng was silent for a while, turned to leave, and when he walked to the door, he suddenly asked, "Lord He, if the villain dies at the hands of the Tarslaves, will the adults know my name?" ”

He Jiu was stunned for a moment before he said, "Yes, every soldier who died in battle knows the name." ”

Tang Baocheng nodded: "Lord He, the villain is ready." ”

He Jiu glanced at Tang Baocheng deeply, picked up a book casually and said: "Okay, you take this book first, ask me if there is anything you don't understand, this is written by the adult himself, how much you can comprehend depends on yourself." ”

Tang Baocheng took it and took a look, and what was written on the cover was——(To be continued.) )