"Next Saturday morning."

The train ticket for the return trip was also bought by Cheng Zheng on behalf of others, and Cheng Zheng's relationship with his comrades-in-arms was still enough, so he bought three sleeper tickets.

"Where's the third uncle?" the second daughter-in-law then asked.

"We're a few days late."

"Hey, this day is going by so fast, I wonder when you will come back next time?"

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, you are empty, come to us to have a look, our beef and mutton over there are delicious."

"That's a good feeling, I have a chance to go over and have a look."

Jian Lu really wanted to go to the frontier, it was not easy to go out in this era, but I didn't know if I had the opportunity to make the trip.

"You can come to us when you're empty, the island has good scenery and enough seafood!"

"Okay!"

Everyone talked lively, as if they could go to the frontier today and the island tomorrow, but they didn't know if there would be a chance to go there.

"Mom!"

Yuan Bao and Xiaohua ran towards Feng Nianjun, and their two little faces were full of eagerness.

"What's wrong? Running in such a hurry? ”

"Mom, we want to go to Shuangshuang!"

"I'm going to the island!"

Feng Nianjun frowned, not knowing what the two children were thinking, "How do you think that one is one out, do you know how far it is to go to the island?" ”

Aunt Wang smiled and said, "Yuanbao Xiaohua wants to go over and play?" That's a good feeling! ”

"Mom, they're so small, they used to make trouble." Feng Nianjun replied to her mother-in-law first, and then asked her son and daughter, "What do you want?" ”

"However, both said that the island was very good."

"There's the sea." Although they didn't know what Dao Hai was, "There is such a big fruit, it is very sweet!" There are also endless fish and shrimp. ”

Sounds really good!

Jian Lu didn't know that her daughter had fooled her cousin so deeply, so she only smiled and welcomed, "Come anytime you want." Come with us and go, that is, you are willing to give up your father and mother? ”

"Willing!" The brother and sister spoke in unison.

Feng Nianjun: "..."

"You two! Wait for your dad to come back and clean you up! ”

Yuan Bao and Xiaohua were both moved by what they said, and they wanted to follow their grandmother to the island together, but they heard the eldest aunt say that it would take five days to take the train and they were scared.

When the three Cheng brothers returned home from the hunting team, Cheng Liang heard that he had gone up the mountain to hunt and that the two children were about to run away from home.

"Go, go, your mother and I are still relaxed, and when the time comes, we will eat our own meat at home." You will come back with your uncle's family to see us in four or five years. Cheng Liang poured a sip of water and frightened his son and daughter.

"Huh? Four or five years? "Yuan Bao and Xiaohua have broken their faces again, why has it been so long!

The brother and sister went to Shuangshuang, "Shuangshuang, we're not going!" ”

"For Mori?" Both hope that their brothers and sisters will go to their own homes, so that they can play with themselves.

"It's so far away that we won't be able to see my mom and dad by then."

"My dad said it would take four or five years to come back! I don't want it! ”

Both nodded, that's not good, she can't not see her parents, the little girl pulled Brother Yuanbao with one hand, and Sister Xiaohua with the other, expressing understanding, "Okay, then we will play first, and you will come to play with us when you are older." ”

"Good!" Ingots and small flowers should come down!

Pedaling to find her parents, Yuan Bao and Xiaohua looked at her little back, scratched their heads, and said at first that they were going to the island?

They seem to have forgotten something?!

forget it , I can't remember it !

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After going home for a long time, and now facing separation, Jian Lu's three sisters came to Cheng's house to see that the fourth sister had packed her luggage and would take the train tomorrow morning.

"It's the New Year, and I eat much better than usual." The third sister, Jian Xin, sat on the kang and stretched out her hand to move, looking at the two large packages in the room that had been wrapped, and the other package was open and had not yet finished loading.

"You take those sections of bacon with you." She reminded the fourth sister.

"Know."

The three sisters each brought two sections of bacon, and each family was not very rich, so it turned out to be a lot of weight.

The eldest sister, Jian Yue, also brought some extra herbs, all of which were picked in the mountains before, and dried and put them away, which was easy to carry and could be stored for a long time.

"Take them all with you, I don't know when you will come back next time."

"Okay, that's all, we really can't take any more." Jian Lu rarely experienced the trouble of being cared for by her relatives, and while refusing, she bent the corners of her lips, as if she was a student who was about to go to college, and her family tried to let Duo stuff things take away.

The second sister Jian Meng smiled, "Take it if you can, otherwise you don't think we may have it in the future, just call you stupid, it's not good to take more things?" ”

"Second sister, you don't know the way, Brother Cheng still has a bunch of them!"

Jian Meng smiled even more happily, "See, it's okay now, your family will slowly go back." ”

There are many things to do during the Chinese New Year, and the four sisters have seen each other twice after the New Year, one of which is that everyone went back to their parents' house for lunch collectively.

As the four of them spoke, Jian Xin remembered her parents' house.

"Dad seems to be a little wrong lately." She married Meng Fan's family, which was closest to her mother's family, and she was well informed.

Jian Meng, who married into the production team next door, raised her head and asked her suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”

"I heard Aunt Liu say that my father and the old man of the He family ran out every day for five days, went out before dawn, and did not return after dark.

"What are you doing here?" Jian Yue felt abnormal, it was freezing outside, why did she still run outside.

"I don't know the way, so I think it's strange."

Jian Meng sneered, "Anyway, it's not a good thing, what can the old man and the fifth child of the He family do together?" Don't toss around for anything bad, just thank goodness. ”

"I can't." Jian Xin couldn't think of what the two of them could toss.

Jian Lu pondered for a while, and also felt that something was strange, the most important thing is that Jian Hualin has not come to find his two family recently, and he no longer mentions arranging Jian Junhong to be a soldier, "Could it be that you can arrange any good work for the fifth child of the He family?" ”

"Impossible, right?" Jian Meng's eyes widened and he shook his head, "That person is lazy and lazy, his legs and feet are not good, can he meet a good job?" ”

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While the four sisters of the Jian family were talking, in another room, the three brothers of the Cheng family were also talking.

Cheng Zheng was packing his luggage, just a few days after he came back, he took the dried seafood that Liang Haisheng entrusted him to bring back to Liang's house, and now he was leaving, Cheng Zheng put the things that Liang Haisheng's parents wanted to bring him into his luggage, and prepared to take them away tomorrow.

Cheng Liang came back from work in the commune, and because his eldest brother Cheng Zheng's family was leaving tomorrow, he had to come and see it.

Cheng Zheng and Cheng Jun were stuffed by Cheng Liang, most of them were eaten, and there was even a ginseng.

"That's good stuff!" Cheng Liang stuffed one of them and said with a smile, "I went up the mountain last year to find it, and I was lucky!" Sun-dried and left it open. ”

The mountains are densely forested, there are many things, and there are even more precious things, and this ginseng is one of them.

Cheng Jun took the ginseng and took a bite of his beard directly, "Tsk, it's still the same taste!" ”

Cheng Jun brought beef jerky, raisins from the frontier... For the eldest brother and second brother's house, they took away all kinds of dried seafood, a few sections of bacon and herbs.

In short, you can't come back empty-handed, and you can't leave empty-handed.

After finishing his work, Cheng Zheng took out the big front door in his trouser pocket, shook out three cigarettes from the cigarette case, and distributed them to his two younger brothers, keeping one for himself.

Cheng Jun lit matches, lit cigarettes for the eldest brother and second brother, and finally it was his turn.

The three brothers walked to the door of the house and felt the cool evening breeze, and the three sparks were bright and dark in the night.

"Don't you remember back then, we were standing here!" Cheng Liang, the second child, remembered something, and his eyes were full of memories, as if he had seen the past, "Dad has been gone for two years, and Mom has taken us with us, and we can't eat a full meal." ”

Cheng Jun nodded, "Remember, the eldest brother said that he went out to be a soldier early, and he could save some food for his family." ”

Cheng Zheng joined the army at a young age, first, because he had a natural reverence for soldiers, and not only him, but nine of the ten children in the village had the dream of becoming soldiers.

However, not all of them pass the rigorous screening check.

The second reason why Cheng Zheng joined the army is very simple, to save some rations for the family, and one less person in the family, Cheng's mother and two younger brothers can eat two more bites.

At that time, my mother didn't want my eldest brother to join the army, but my eldest brother quietly signed up by himself, and only then did my mother find out. said that he didn't want us to be soldiers, but as a result, you all went. Cheng Liang thought about it, only he did not embark on this road.

He is different from the eldest brother and the third brother, the eldest brother has a ruthless and stubborn energy, and wants to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, but the third brother is a stunned young man, so he feels that it is glorious to be a soldier, and he also drills into it with enthusiasm.

The two of them are stationed in the army, and they may not be able to come back once, leaving only themselves who don't seem so promising to be here in their hometown.

Fortunately, he was not so ashamed to go from a temporary worker at a grain station to a regular worker.

"Dick." Cheng Zheng held a cigarette, swallowed the clouds, and patted the second brother's shoulder, "In the past, my mother didn't want to leave here, so she wanted to stay at home alone, so you could only watch your mother a little more, but now she rarely wants to open it and is willing to go out, which is a good thing, and I will look at my mother more later." ”

"Mom goes to your side, I'm quite reluctant, especially Yuanbao and Xiaohua, hey."

"Let Mom come and live with us then." Cheng Jun is like a child who also wants to compete for favor, and he always feels that his old mother has never been to the frontier, and he has been struggling for many years, and he has witnessed it, "In a few years, when they are both older, I will definitely take my mother over." ”

Cheng Zheng smiled, feeling that the third brother had become the battalion commander, and the temper of the deputy child was the same as before.

Cheng Liang was not very happy, "Mom will definitely come back to raise her when she is old, what kind of frontier will she go to!" ”

"Why can't you come?" Cheng Jun won't let the second brother at this time, "We're almost open up there now, it's really good." ”

Hearing that her three sons were already arranging their retirement life, Aunt Wang, who was passing by, couldn't help but cross her waist and shout, "Don't worry about my wife!" I'll bring you the baby, and when you get old, where to go, I'll arrange it myself! ”

"Mom, are you still disgusted with us?" Cheng Jun walked over with a throat and smiled with the old mother.

"I'm too lazy to bother with you!" Aunt Wang smiled and left, going to see her daughter-in-law.

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After the luggage was almost packed, Cheng Zheng and the second and third brothers said a few more words, and then they separated, and standing under the eaves, Cheng Zheng lit another cigarette, and spit out smoke rings in the moonlight.

The three sisters of the Jian family have already left, leaving Jian Lu and Shuangshuang behind.

The mother and daughter each have a basin and are sitting on a high and low stool to soak their feet.

"Yaya~" both of them were trying to scrub their feet, and the two little feet stepped on each other.

"Are you washing your feet or playing in the water?" Cheng Zheng smiled and closed the door, looked at his daughter and asked.