After entering October, the first snow has fallen on the Nenjiang Plain. The snow fell heavily and fell for a day, but the first snow did not accumulate, and after the snow stopped, the snow on the ground melted again in less than a day.

Ice began to flow in the Xinyi River, and the weather was getting colder.

However, this year's bumper harvest has been bumper, and the potatoes, corn, rice, wheat, soybeans and other crops in the field have already been recovered, and the good weather in September has been dried well.

The rest of the grain still fills the warehouse in the tunpu.

There is grain in the warehouse, firewood in front of the house, and some savings in the passbook, and everyone is very satisfied with this year's life.

During this time, the families of those immigrants who were already engaged were in a hurry to prepare wedding supplies. The best craftsmen in recent times are those who play cotton.

When a newlyweds get married, they have to prepare a new quilt, especially when it is cold in winter in this Nenjiang Plain, they need to prepare a few more catties. The merchants of the Central Plains came to Liaodong by boat, changed to take the Liaohe River to ride the wind and waves, went north, after the Yitun exchange, and then through the Songhua River of the Yitun River and then the Nenjiang River, the total length of nearly two thousand miles, with this Northeast Grand Canal, the cotton originally produced in the mainland and even from Southeast Asia and India was transported by a boatload to the far northeast, Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang

Many families buy forty or fifty catties of cotton, and ten catties and twelve catties of thick quilts are ready to be put on several beds at a time. Because many of the new daughters-in-law are girls from Japan, Jurchen, Mongolia and other places, they also save a lot of courtesy, and there are no particularly heavy requirements from the woman's family.

But everyone is relatively simple, as long as there are some conditions in hand, they must always prepare better. Not to mention anything else, when a newlyweds get married, they have to be given an independent new house, even if there is no independent yard. There must be one independent new house, and there must be one new kang, and the new kang mat and new blanket quilt must be at least enough for six beds, which means six or six shun.

In addition, the simple furniture has to be a little, the kang table, the wardrobe, and the decent big camphor wood box have to be put together again.

During this time, in the various immigration forts, everywhere you go, you can hear the shouts of those caravans who came to the countryside, selling cotton, selling all kinds of necklaces, rings, earrings and jewelry. Those who buy red cloth and sell ribbons, and those who sell mirrors, combs, and porcelain.

Marriage is a big deal for Chinese. Therefore, even if this is the first year of immigration, and everyone does not have much savings, they still have to do this decently and lively. Therefore, borrowing from Tunli, borrowing from neighbors, borrowing from credit cooperatives, in short, no one dares to be arbitrary.

The craftsmen who play cotton lead the apprentices to rush the cotton from morning to night. At this time, the carpenters were also booked early to go to each house to make furniture, and even the aunts and daughters-in-law in the village also took the initiative to go to the homes of those who had happy events in the family this year to help make clothes, shoes and socks.

Linshui Township Waterside Tun.

Wei Shan is also very busy these days. After the autumn harvest, Tunli organized some young people to reclaim the swamp by the river, which is close to the river and water, as long as it is in order. Taking advantage of the lack of water in the river in winter, the swamp has dried up. Dig a ditch and repair the field. Next year, this land will be a good rice field, in this Nenjiang, the rice yield is not as good as potatoes and corn, but the price is much higher, so it is actually more cost-effective to grow rice.

In addition, some of the young people were taken away from the tens of thousands of young people in dozens of tunbao in the other five townships of the county, but they participated in the construction of the county's reservoir. According to the provincial plan, a reservoir will be built in the county. After the reservoir is built, it can prevent flooding and waterlogging, and it is also conducive to the irrigation of fields in the county.

For the construction of the reservoir, the county contributed 10,000 young people, and the government allocated funds, and the government transferred another 10,000 young people to support. In addition, there is a special engineering battalion to help, and there are skills, funds and manpower, and this small reservoir is expected to be completed in three months.

Because this reservoir is a provincial project, and the imperial court has withdrawn funds, the people sent by Tunli still have money, food and shelter, which is something that the immigrants are very grateful for.

Wei Shan went to the river to dig ditches and build embankments during the day, and every day he had to pull his brother and a group of young people from the same village to prepare a new house for himself.

Today, the immigrants of Shuibiantun still live in a large tunzi, which is more like a temporary camp. A tunpu was divided into ten brigades, each with 100 households, and below it was divided into 10 groups of 10 households.

Tunli is like a large military camp, with rows of wooden houses, one next to the other, and each family has four rooms. There was a lot of space in the front and back, so everyone built a wooden shed in front of the house as a kitchen, and a wooden shed at the back of the house as a livestock pen and firewood house.

Now that Wei Shan is getting married, the four houses in the family are not enough to live in, in addition to his parents, there are three younger brothers and one sister below. Wei Shan, like most of his partners who want to get married, plans to build the remaining piece of the kitchen in front of the house, build another house, make a kang, and then make his new house.

The tun chief agreed to this matter, in two years, everyone will divide the land, and then this tun will also be divided into many villages, and it will not be so crowded, but now, it can only be settled first.

Although after the autumn harvest, the reclamation still did not stop, and even many young and strong women were arranged to turn over the land after the autumn harvest and go to the mountains to cut firewood.

Therefore, to build a house, you can only use that free time to build a little bit every morning and noon and after finishing work in the evening.

In addition, every two or three days, Wei Shan has to go to the countryside. His fiancée, the first son, like the fiancées of other companions in Tunli, still lives in the township, and they have to continue to learn Chinese during this time, and they have to adapt to the climate here, learn the etiquette of the Han people, and so on.

The officials are also preparing dowries for these girls, and when they arrive here, the government is their maiden family.

Wei Shan now has a little liking for this girl called Chuzi, she is very simple, she has a good temper, she is also very good at working, she can do everything she does laundry and cooking, and even chops wood.

Wei Shan's parents preferred it, always making something to eat and letting Wei Shan send it.

If it weren't for the official appointment of the date of marriage, they would have to wait for some time, but I am afraid that the two elders would have let them get married a long time ago.

Early in the morning, Wei Shan's mother got up early to cook eight tea eggs, and steamed a basket of meat buns, which was made from roe deer meat that Wei Shan and his companions had caught in the nearby pine forest.

Plus some hazelnuts, pine nuts and stuff like that. Packed quite a bit.

"Tell Chuzi, don't be stupid and give it all to others to eat, this is what my mother made for her. You see, that kid has suffered a lot before, and he has to be nourished and replenished by his body. After waiting for the door, you will be able to conceive a child. ”

As she spoke, Wei Shanniang brought over another blanket and a sweater.

"This blanket is a wool blanket, authentic Mongolian wool. Produced by Chengde blanket factory. This sweater is also a wool produced by Chengde Woolen Factory, which was woven by her mother herself, warm, so that she remembered to wear it, and she couldn't catch a cold when it was cold. ”

Wei Shan took these things with a smile, "I know Mother, I'll go first." ”

Picking up two hot steamed buns and wrapping them in dried lotus leaves, Wei Shan went out with his things.

There are still more than ten miles of road from the hometown of Shuibiantun. He had to get back to work. Fortunately, he has a horse to do foot strength, this horse is on the team, but it is taken care of by Wei Shan's house, and everyone will not say anything if he rides occasionally.

When I got to the countryside. It's still early.

The first son and the others lived in a special camp, guarded by police and officers and soldiers outside. However, he has been here many times, and the other party has already known him.

"Oh, Brother Wei is here again."

Wei Shan took out two large Shandong steamed buns wrapped in lotus leaves. It's still hot.

"Thank you, Brother Wei, I'll help you call the first girl." Guarding the door are the police from the township police station. People are good talkers, but they can only call people out, and they will never let them in.

After a while, Hatsuko came to the door with a blushing face.

"Brother Shanzi." Chuzi is also very familiar with Wei Shan now, "There was frost this morning, it must have been cold all the way." ”

"Nothing, I came on horseback." Wei Shan smiled, and then took out the things prepared by his mother, "This is the tea egg boiled by my mother, this egg was boiled last night, it is already very delicious, and this meat bun, I went to the pine forest with the people of Tunli last night to hunt a roe deer, and this bun is wrapped in roe deer meat." ”

Hatsuko took the steaming tea eggs, eggs and meat buns, and felt a little sour in the nose.

"Thank you!"

"What do the family say thank you, you eat while it's hot."

"My mother also bought you a wool blanket and knitted a sweater for you, it's cold, I'm afraid you'll catch a cold. My sister was a little red-eyed, saying that my mother hadn't knitted a sweater for her yet. ”

When the first son heard this, he hurriedly took out the sweater, "Then let's wear this sweater for my little sister, I have clothes to wear, and I just sent a sweater yesterday." ”

"You have it, you have it, this is specially woven for you by my mother, and my little sister wants me to buy some more wool for her to weave by herself."

Wei Shan personally peeled tea eggs for the first son.

"Brother Shanzi, you eat too."

"I ate when I came, you eat more."

The first son happily ate tea eggs and felt sweet in his heart.

"Chuzi, our new house has been almost built, the roof has been built, the kang has been plated, now it is to plug the cracks in the wooden wall, and then clean up and dry, it's almost done."

"The six-bed quilt is almost ready, as well as the sheets and quilts, as well as new clothes and shoes, are also almost ready."

Speaking of these things, Wei Shan also felt very happy.

"Ten days to go, and in ten days, I'll come to meet you."

According to the meaning of the officials, because the immigrants are getting married a lot this year, and most of the brides are foreign women such as Japan and Jurchen Mongolia, not only in order to make this big happy event a little more lively, but also to provide frugality in order to oppose waste, so this year, about 200,000 couples who are about to get married will adopt the form of collective weddings throughout Guanwai.

The main thing is that the newlyweds of each immigrant Tunbao get married collectively and only have one banquet.

Weishan Tunbao, this time there were nearly 200 couples married, of which 100 pairs were Japanese brides, many were foreign women who were later organized by the government, and some were Han brides from the Middle Plains.

The tun chief has already decided, and in response to the official's request, two hundred couples will hold a wedding collectively, and the tun will have a three-day holiday, and the wedding banquet will be held for three days, and it will be lively.

Wei Shan is counting his fingers every day, waiting for this day to come as soon as possible.

The first son blushed, and she was looking forward to getting married as soon as possible and living with this man she liked as soon as possible.

"After we get married, we will have a few more babies." Wei Shan said with a smile.

"Ah, I won't tell you, it's not serious." Hatsuko blushed and ran away with those things. After running for more than ten steps, he stopped again, turned to him and said, "You should go back early, be careful on the road." ”

After saying that, he waved his hand and turned to go into the camp. (To be continued.) )