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On June 19, 1943, it was a big day for Lijia Village on the western border of Shaanxi Province on the Yanhuang Continent, and today was the auspicious day for Li Yanshan, the eldest son of the Li Yanshan family in the east of the village, to marry his bride.

Speaking of Li Yanshan's family, they are also considered prosperous, the couple gave birth to two sons and a daughter, the eldest son Li Dalu is 23 years old this year and works as a farmer at home. The youngest son, Li Xiaolu, is 21 years old, has been in the army for more than 1 year, and has a younger daughter who is 13 years old.

At 4:30 in the morning, Li Yanshan and his wife got up and were busy, and at 5 o'clock, in addition to the youngest daughter who was still asleep, the eldest son also got up to help pick up. Although as a poor farmer, relying on geographical planing for a living, but as the saying goes, "a poor family is worth ten thousand", with the average land rights and land reform of the Yanhuanghong Party, the two and the children were divided into seven acres and eight points of land, and several people relied on the sunrise to work, and the sunset and rest also earned a food and clothing.

The area of Li Yanshan's family is not small, the three caves in the connection, the leftmost one is the couple's room, and the middle one was originally the room of the two sons, and now only the eldest son lives alone. On the far right is the miscellaneous warehouse, the youngest daughter is still sleeping with her mother because of her young age, as for the kitchen, the home is not set up separately, and the stove is built in the couple's room to solve the family's eating problem.

"Dad, what are we going to eat at today's wedding banquet?" Li Dalu's mother asked.

"Mother, you take out 20 catties of 30 catties of white noodles in the past 3 months, make them into happy noodles, and slaughter two chickens to stew a big pot of chicken soup to make chicken noodles, and give a bowl of joy to the guests who come at noon. On the dining table, let's put a full amount of yellow steamed buns made in the past few days, and then remove all the vegetables in the field that can be picked, wash them and mix them with vegetable oil and snow salt (the name of the villagers for the white salt that Wang Fan brought over), with pickles, as well as the ham and sausages brought back by the second child, except for leaving a part of the boss's daughter-in-law to enter the door and open a small stove for them, the others are cut, and a table is more than a point, it is estimated that there are almost these! Li Yanshan, who has been thinking about the wedding banquet for the past few days, said methodically.

"Middle, baby daddy, I'm going to make noodles!" Li Yanshan's boss said.

"Dalu, help your mother work first, and when the day dawns, after the aunts and aunts in the village come to help, you don't have to worry about it, put on the newly made clothes, and go to the neighboring village to pick up your daughter-in-law." Li Yanshan commanded again.

"Medium! Dad, I'll go. After hearing his father's instructions, Li Dalu, who was in good spirits and nervous and happy on happy occasions, quickly went out to slaughter chickens, pluck feathers, bleed, and stew soup.

At half past six in the morning, after the other residents of Lijia Village got up one after another, the men prepared the congratulatory gifts for the wedding banquet at noon in their homes, while the women went to the east of the village to help Li Yanshan's family pack their things. Several families living next to Li Yanshan's family invariably moved out the big wooden dining table at home and carried it to Li Dalu's house.

"His aunt, you get up, go, let's go to Da Lu's house to see the busy work!"

"Hey, auntie, you're early, today is a big day for Dalu, I haven't slept much all night, I was looking forward to it yesterday!"

"Yes, especially yesterday, Dalu's family received so many things, I really want to go to his wedding room to see what it is like, do you remember? There are floral cloth sheets in the things I sent back yesterday, and I don't know what pattern they are, and they are not beautiful! ”

"You can't be wrong, how many do you want to join the army, which time did you bring back something that was defective?"

"yes, I know that, hey! You say, why is it so good to be a soldier, pouring good things into the house every day! ”

"Pull it down, what a day, once a month, and not every family that joins the army is the same, I heard that it is the loot captured on the battlefield that can be exchanged for things!"

"Really? That's fine! Alas~~ The starving shopkeeper is a tendon, and he will not let the little six sons go to be soldiers! ”

"Come on, Xiao Liuzi is the lifeblood of your family, a seedling in a thousand acres, and the gold is very expensive!"

"Phew! It's just that his father is expensive, the dead boy is lazy, and he causes trouble all day long, if his father hadn't counted on him to inherit the lineage, I would have broken his legs! ”

"You just talk about it, every time I see you, he can't stand the pain, not to mention that he has five girls, it's not easy!"

"Hey, don't mention those five girls, I have a headache when I think of the dowry money in the future now!"

"Come on!"

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In this way, the old and young of Lijia Village, whether it was lively or helpful, rushed to Li Yanshan's family in the east of the village one after another.

At the same time, 9 kilometers away from Lijia Village, Zhao Cui's family is busy up and down, today is Zhao Cui's wedding day, the house is filled with a festive atmosphere.

"Mother, help me get my head!" Cui'er said coquettishly to her mother.

"Medium, medium! Cui'er, when you pass the door today, you will be the daughter-in-law of the Li family, and you can't be petty anymore! While helping her daughter comb her hair, Zhao Cui's mother instructed.

"Got it, mother! Don't worry, I usually study seriously, and now I'm also proficient in needlework, and Dalu you also know that it hurts me very much. Zhao Cui, who was dressed in red, replied.

"Good, good! Oops, my Cui'er is so beautiful today! After seeing her daughter dressed in the red dress that represented the bride, the mother complimented. From the perspective of later generations, Zhao Cui at this time is really not beautiful, but has some rusticness. Because she has to help with the family work and housework, Zhao Cui's skin is relatively dark, and her skeleton is relatively large, in addition, today's Zhao Cui is red from head to toe: red head rope, red shirt, red pants, red cloth shoes! It is really not in line with the aesthetics of the weak beauties of later generations, but in the Yanhuang Continent in 1943, when the chemical fiber industry was zero and the cotton output was extremely limited, it was the lifelong dream of many women to be able to wear red clothes and appear in front of their future husbands with the most beautiful figure.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, with the familiar sound of "Tutu Tu Tu", Li Dalu sat behind the agricultural tricycle and appeared at the entrance of Zhaojialing Village, which attracted a cheer, I didn't expect him to be able to appear in such a stylish scene (the 1943 agricultural tricycle to pick up the bride should be able to catch up with the Daben ^_^ of later generations).

It turned out that Li Dalu saw the agricultural tricycle coming to Lijia Village yesterday, and he had an idea and thought of taking a tricycle to pick up the bride. Of course, if his request is made dryly, it will definitely be rejected by the two cadres who came to deliver the goods. Instinctively, Li Dalu, who has seen his father's affairs in the village since he was a child, trotted into his father's house, soft grinding and hard soaking, and grinding out 2 bags of 3 taels of tea (5 small bags) that his younger brother honored his father, relying on the tea industry, he talked to the two cadres who transported the goods very smoothly, and heard that it was not far away, and each person could get a bag of tea for nothing, and the two cadres also happily agreed to his request to pick up people tomorrow, so there was a scene of the next day.

Under the vigorous beating and blowing of the invited drummers and suona players, Li Dalu successfully completed the etiquette and procedures, put the bride on the three-wheeled motorcycle, and embarked on the journey home.

At 12 noon, the wedding officially began, according to a series of Chinese wedding procedures such as one worship of heaven and earth, two worship of the high hall, and the husband and wife worship each other, the bride is ushered into the new house, and the groom official is outside to entertain the guests. Because of the war, there is absolutely no luxury such as wine, so the old man Li Yanshan gritted his teeth and took out a bag of tea and made it for everyone to drink.

"Tsk, it's delicious, it's good tea!" An elderly man attending the wedding feast muttered to himself while sipping pale yellow tea in a stoneware bowl.

"If you want to say that Li Laohan is blessed, hehe, the second son is so capable in the army, he must be a general in the future!" The Yanhuang people, who like Kanda Mountain, unconsciously show this fine tradition.

"Second brother, let me ask you, how many congratulatory gifts did you give this time?" A man in his 30s asked.

"It's not much, I gave 10 catties of corn and 10 eggs!" The man called the second brother replied.

"10 pounds? It's not much, I gritted my teeth, and only then did I get 5 pounds from home! ”

"Ahem, each family is different, you don't know the relationship between me and Li Yanshan, besides, this gift is an exchange, when the eldest in my family also gets married, he has to send it back to me!" Hearing the other party's surprise, the second brother explained.

"Alas! Your doll is growing up, my eldest son is only 14 years old, and I don't know how long it will take to earn it back! ”

"Now in this year, in addition to relying on the sky to eat, there is only the Chuang Hetao Plain, but it is occupied by devils, and there is no way for us to live!"

"Yes, there is still a way to join the army, you see that the changes in Li Yanshan's family are all due to his second son."

"But it also depends on luck, you see that a few other companies have joined the army, and they have received fewer things, I heard that what military merit is exchanged, the greater the military merit, the more things are exchanged."

"In fact, the 10 catties of white flour fixed every month, 5 catties of vegetable oil is very good, tsk, that's white flour!"

"Hehe, are you greedy? But that's in exchange for his life, you see that Zhang's husband just died, young, alas!! ”

"But isn't there also a monthly quota of 100 catties of white flour, 20 catties of vegetable oil, 10 catties of sausages, 10 catties of ham, and 1 catty of sugar? The village chief and Mr. Tong also said that as long as he no longer marries, he can continue to receive it. ”

"The man is gone, what's the point!"

"Listen to Mr. Tong, now our border district government encourages free love and widow remarriage!"

"Shhhh Don't mention this, folks!"

"Oh! Understood, understood! ”

The other table is dominated by ladies.

"Hey~ This thing is so delicious, what's it called?" A woman in her 40s said.

"It seems to be called ham, I remember seeing it at Brother Li Dingwen's house." Her daughter Xiaolan, who was sitting next to her, said.

"That's not bad either! Xiaolan, try this! The lady sitting opposite picked up a slice of sausage and put it in front of Xiaolan.

"Thank you, Aunt Hua!" Xiaolan replied.

"You're welcome, kid!" Aunt Hua said with a smile, the adults have a tacit understanding of the taste, the meat dishes on the table are only tasted, and most of them are left for the children brought around them, so that they (she) can eat more.

"Mother! I want to take another bite of this! A 6- or 7-year-old boy pointed to the sausage and spoke.

"Xiaodong, don't be naughty, the other brothers and sisters haven't eaten much yet!"

"It's okay, third sister, let's add a few more pieces to the child!"

"Ahh Auntie, what is this! What a line! ”

"It's okay, let's eat!"

In this way, a storm and clouds, with the concerted efforts of the villagers, chicken noodles, ham, sausages, etc. were wiped out cleanly, and the two cadres who came to distribute the materials yesterday also ate a big belly and a round waist, and were very satisfied, but when they returned, there were three more new faces on the agricultural three wheels, and the villagers who were ready to join the army, after a night of entanglement, were stimulated by the distribution of materials and today's wedding banquet, the three villagers still made up their minds to let the children of the family join the army and break out of a future.

Let's talk a little more about Heaven here, and there may be readers who think that the common people in the liberated areas written by Heaven could be so snobbish and join the army for the sake of what is distributed. In fact, I wrote this story because Heaven found a story when I checked the information, after the liberation of the whole Northeast, many people divided the land, but there was no such thing as a large number of people joining the army, and more people wanted to marry a daughter-in-law after having land, so as to live a comfortable life with their wives and children on the hot kang. Therefore, the first task of the village chief at that time was to persuade young people to join the army, what should I do? Individuals have their own tricks, one of them is to do this, invite a few young people who want to persuade them to join the army to come to their homes, and then let them sit on the kang (it was summer at the time), and then the village chief sits on the chair to do persuasion and education mobilization, but there is no effect at all, a few young people bow their heads and do not speak, and then the village chief gives a look outside, let the people outside burn the kang, and then mobilize themselves, saying "stand up if you want to join the army", everyone thinks, in summer, the kang is getting hotter and hotter, and finally it is really unbearable, someone stands up, The village chief immediately patted his shoulder, said "good, ambitious", and then before he spoke, pulled out of the house, took the big red flower and rode on the horse, and toured the village for a week to show publicity and encouragement. Therefore, Heaven feels that complaining about grievances and mobilization meetings are very useful, but just by complaining about grievances, many rural people can spontaneously follow the fight against the country, and Heaven feels that it is still up for discussion. The countryside of Yanhuang is actually very complicated, the rule of man is greater than the rule of law, and the villagers are also very practical, there are not enough benefits for them to take the initiative to sign up for the army, and Heaven feels that this possibility is still a bit low.