Ma Kuangyi and Jiang Ruifeng each carried a wooden box and walked on the rugged road in the countryside, and the road was full of footprints and cow hoof prints after the rain. The side of the road is overgrown with weeds, and it can be seen that the road has not been repaired for a long time.

"We went out for three years, but I didn't expect that three years have passed, and it will be the same when we come back to our hometown." Jiang Ruifeng said with emotion, seeing the scattered houses in the distant village, except that they are a little more dilapidated than before, there are no other changes.

"This Wucheng county magistrate is not a master who does practical things, in the northeast, he has long been dismissed from his position, from the county seat to the countryside, there has been no progress in three years, and he is really incompetent to the extreme." Ma Kuangyi has a straightforward temperament, and when he talks about these big and small officials in Wucheng County, he looks disdainful.

"Even the richest province of Fengtian was not much stronger than Guannai in the past, and there were many bandits and bandits. Yushuai was born, which can be regarded as a blessing for the people of Fengtian. Jiang Ruifeng sighed, only to feel that the blessings of the people in the Northeast were much better than those of the people in Shandong.

"Second uncle!" Ma Kuangyi saw an old farmer wearing straw sandals hoeing in the field 100 meters away, and immediately became happy, raised his arm and waved his hand. I haven't returned to my hometown for a long time, and suddenly I saw the villagers in the past, and the excitement can't be expressed in words, but the strength of the arm wave can show the fluctuations in the owner's heart.

Ma Mingen stood still, and slapped his hand on the back of the waist a few times, and it would still be a little sore after bending over for too long. Seeing that two men in straight military uniforms not far away were waving to this side, and they looked excited, they couldn't help but wonder for a while, he had also seen the blue-gray military uniform, and this soldier was in chaos, it was the regular military uniform of the Beiyang Army. However, what I have seen in the past does not seem to be as neat and clean as the two of them. Compared with those military fetishes in the past, this military uniform on the two of them seems to be tailor-made, clean and vibrant.

"You, you're a four-boy?" As the two sergeants got closer and closer, Ma Mingen only felt that the two were a little familiar. At the beginning, the eldest brother's family was short of food, and Ma Kuangyi, who was the fourth in line, went out with a few people in the village, and there was no news for a few years, just looking at the heroic young man in front of him, Ma Mingen was not sure.

"Second uncle, it's me, I'm the fourth boy." Ma Kuangyi couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and jumped over the roadside canal that was no more than one meter wide with a stride, and gave Ma Mingen a kneeling salute.

"What a four-boy. Look at you are going to be a soldier like this, which soldier food do you eat? Ma Mingen asked.

"Second Uncle Ma, Kuang Yi and I are now in the Northeast Army, and we eat food under Yu Shuai." Jiang Ruifeng also jumped over the ditch and said proudly.

"You are a kid of the Jiang family." Ma Mingen first smiled, and then looked surprised, "Northeast Army? Won Lao Maozi's Northeast Army? ”

"There is only one Northeast Army in the whole world. We are from the 6th Division, and Kuang Yi is now the deputy platoon commander inside. There are also more than a dozen people in their hands. Jiang Ruifeng said with a smile.

"Good, good. It's really good. Dressed like a dog, you're really good. Go, go, go home, it's rare that you haven't come back for a few years, and life in the army is hard. Today, a whole table of good wine and good food will be sacrificed to you. "Although there is a saying that a good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a nail, but a few years ago, it was a good errand to be able to get a soldier in the six towns of Beiyang. This year. Being able to be on an errand in the Northeast Army, which defeated Lao Maozi and became famous all over the world, was even more a matter of glory to the ancestors.

"Second uncle, you can say that this is bad, the Northeast Army can get some oil and water every day, and you can eat meat every three or five times, and there is also a supply of eggs, which is not comparable to the big soldiers in the Guan. Kuangyi is now a deputy platoon, a month's salary has 8 Northeast tickets, there is an allowance at the end of the year, and there is a subsidy for fish and meat every festival. Jiang Ruifeng said with a smile, "Yu Shuai has never treated those of us who are soldiers and fights badly. ”

"8 Northeast tickets a month?" Ma Mingen suddenly opened his mouth wide, the Northeast ticket was circulated in many places in Hebei at this time, and he also used it when he went to the county seat, the value of the Northeast ticket was about the same as the current ocean, and it was very strong, but it was not the military tickets issued by the provincial overseer.

"Yes, I still eat and live outside, and it is better than the little food in my hometown before. I didn't spend much money in the army, but in the past three years, plus the wartime allowance, I have saved more than 200 yuan in the army, Kuang Yi is a deputy platoon, and I also taught myself German, and I have an additional 3 yuan German allowance every month, and I only save a lot more money than me. ”

Speaking of learning German, Jiang Ruifeng looked envious, according to the above meaning, in the future, many international students will be sent to the West, the most important of which is Germany, for these people who can learn German is naturally the first choice for studying abroad, not to mention that there are additional study subsidies in the army after learning German. It really has both a future and a rich future.

"Okay, good, it's really a good time, a few hundred yuan of savings, and the identity of the Northeast Army, these days, old man, I will give you a little bit of Zhang Luo, introduce a beautiful daughter-in-law, and give birth to a few sons as soon as possible to inherit the lineage." Ma Mingen smiled happily, and then said, "Fourth boy, you are now the deputy platoon commander, the treatment in the Northeast Army is so good, you see that the two boys in my family are still doing nothing, can you also send them to the Northeast Army to eat food for a few years?" ”

"The standard of recruitment in the Northeast Army is much higher than that in Guannei, Brother Baomin has a good physical foundation, and the problem of recruitment is not big, but Xiaowu is weak and I am afraid that he will not be able to apply, although I am a deputy platoon in the army, but the recruitment office is speechless." Ma Kuangyi shook his head, and then said, "But Xiao Wu has a flexible mind, if the second uncle releases him, I will sponsor him to go to the technical school in the northeast to learn an art, and to be a technician, the salary is not less than mine, if I can become a technician and engineer in the future, even if I become a platoon commander, I can't compare." ”

Hearing Ma Kuangyi's reply, Ma Mingen was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

"Come here, come here, Kuang Yi of my old Ma family, and Jiang Ruifeng of the Jiang family have all grown up and returned to their hometowns!" When he arrived at the head of the village, Ma Mingen shouted at the top of his voice, and a few children who were far away frolicked around, but when they saw the two of them in military uniforms, they didn't dare to get too close.

But when Jiang Ruifeng took out some milk candy from the Northeast from his pocket, these boys still couldn't resist the temptation of sugar after all, and after tasting the taste of milk candy, the little ones who had no fear frolicked and begged for candy from the two military men.

"Kuangyi, someone from my family is here, I'll go back first, don't forget the task assigned by the platoon commander." Jiang Ruifeng saw his father coming from afar, his eyes were hot, and he said to Ma Kuangyi.

"Okay, let's go home first." Ma Kuangyi nodded, the two of them have been away from home for many years, so naturally there are a lot of things to tell their families, as for the task Jiang Ruifeng said, it is not a special task, because the northeast is vast and sparsely populated, and the industrial base that has begun to take shape needs a large number of workers, and the railway plan of several thousand kilometers alone will require more than 100,000 laborers, and the construction of medium and large hydropower stations will be a labor shortage of tens of thousands of people. In Qin Yu's plan, the population of the three eastern provinces was greatly enriched, and Han immigrants to Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia were organized, one was to enrich the border areas, and the other was to infiltrate the forces in the northeast to the farther Russian Far East at any time, so as to achieve the goal of retaking the Far East in the future. Therefore, the Northeast has spared no effort in its immigration policy, and before the two returned to their hometowns, the platoon commander also personally explained that he would try his best to mobilize villagers to Kanto to seek a living. (To be continued......)