The autumn water flows down from the nest, and over a hundred miles is the wilderness. It is known that the whole world is languishing, and it is suffering from people.
Wet geese hover in the extreme clouds, and the diving floods are thunderous in the deep mountains. Life is just being used to home, and the rivers and seas were like water.
"Heavy Rain in Huaibei"
Qing Dynasty: Gu Yanwu
—I am the dividing line —
"I eat thinly at leisure, eat dry in a hurry, there are chickens and ducks every three times, and pigs and sheep are slaughtered every year.
In the faint singing voice, Deng Liao slid the fork in his hand with one hand and the three-eyed blunderbuss in the other hand, and took the lead through the newly turned muddy ridge with his head up and chest up more and more. The ditch water mixed with the muddy smell of years of rotting wheatgrass made him smell very comfortable and cordial, but it reminded him of the 23 acres of land he had received under his name.
Although it is a nearby settlement policy to take care of military members, his barbaric wife can go to the government-run workshops in local cities and towns to work, and then receive a stable salary for work and food. But she obviously cares more about the work she is used to doing in the fields, and she also likes to get along with those who are familiar with the same villages; therefore, she finally asked for favor and changed the resettlement policy to the nearest new farm.
Among them, the basic land for men and women to settle down is five mu each. After he officially joined the army, he received a quota of eight mu of field for help; the last five mu of quota is used to compensate them who voluntarily migrated from Jiangxi to Huainan. Carry out compensation for the difference between land reclamation and settlement. As long as he has served for five years, these fields can be cultivated for the rest of his life regardless of his future illness, death or disability.
Therefore, even though it is a reclaimed land from the deserted slopes of sand and gravel, it is all irrigated fields close to the Xinkai River Canal. Plant some barren-tolerant and fast-growing millet, jicama, melons and vegetables in the first year, and then pile up some water and fertilizer to slowly raise the soil strength; in the coming year, you can fill with water and plant green rice seedlings; It means that you can eat fragrant self-grown rice before the Dragon Boat Festival at the latest.
Then take the salary of the temporary garrison camp and the service allowance at 8 o'clock in the four seasons, which are not only enough to pay and offset the annual double-grabbing and double-receiving labor points in the Zhuangzi, but also to continue to add something new to the family. Objects and household items, replacement of new clothes and head noodles for mothers-in-laws and children; and some cheap glutinous brew with salted peanuts and fried edamame.
Therefore, he does not hate the days of attending work, even if it always seems to be the same hard and boring, but compared to the same wind, sun and rain, standing in the mud with his back facing the sky. I woke up in the dark and worked back and forth all day, at least now I feel more comfortable.
On rainy days, there are rain cloths, coverings, and waterproof rubber boots. When the sun is hottest, there are also bamboo woven broad-brimmed hats and prepared heatstroke prevention tea soup; the food is sweet and salty and can be filled with dry food and fried rice. Fried noodles; not to mention that after each round of duty, you can also have a meal of thickly stewed rice with broth or spicy soup.
It's a pity that the few non-staple foods such as sugar cubes, drinks, tea cakes, and oil cakes allotted by the army are not allowed to be concealed by the soldiers and taken home. They must be eaten on the spot under mutual supervision. Let his wife and children share all the benefits he brought in the army! He even thought that since he has rations in the army, he should try to save some copper.
Although the two children are currently being hosted in the Zhuangzi, they don’t need to spend a penny every day and they get a full lunch. In the future, as long as one more bag of grain is handed in each month, they can go to the regular mobile education in the Zhuangzi. Ban, learned so many hundred and ten words and simple numbers, but he wanted to go farther than others.
After all, if the children in the future have something to do and want to continue to go to the government-run kindergarten, junior school and elementary school, learn a craft or join the military, or even enter the preparatory course of the large seminar room, then the corresponding pen, ink, paper, inkstone, All clothing items need a sum of money to purchase. And unlike that barbarian wife, he even wanted to give it away to his daughter.
In this way, you can not only learn some skills and craftsmanship, but also have the basic income to support your own family. Even if you marry someone in the future, it will be considered a kind of close to you. You can still take it with you without fear of being angry or wronged in your husband’s house. The child came back to live in her natal house, and the brother-in-law's eyes and criticism were no longer met. It can be said to be pitiful to the parents of the world.
Thinking of this, Deng Liao finally stopped, looked at the direction of the sun, and took a small hourglass with a timer hanging on his chest, and took a look; then he ordered a short break under the shade of a nearby tree and took out his bag. The roasted noodles and sweet potato dried in the bag are used as dry food, and they are eaten with freshly poured cold tea soup.
Sitting on the soil under the shade of this tree, you can already see the water surface of the Huai River in the distance that looks like white and white, and there is still a little turbid color after the spring news; you can see the river that has blown over and is cool and paved. The wind made Deng Liao and others, who were covered in sweat soaked in their leather helmets and iron leaf armor, showed useful and comfortable expressions.
And along with the wind, there is a familiar smell of burnt wheat straw and rice stalks. Deng Liao’s first reaction is that this is a child from someone nearby, secretly. In the wild, roast jicama, or roast birds to eat. After all, in this Shili and Eight Townships along the Huaihe River, the original remnants of the household registration have long been moved inward, and only Zhuangzi, who was accompanied by the Jiansheng Army and the armed reclamation group, is left.
However, as long as the opponent doesn't cause an uncontrollable fire in the wild, they don't bother to take care of it. After all, they are all children of the right gluttonous age. It is rare to work hard under the Taiping Army to eat and drink, and no adult will go and criticize these hungry children; if the night watch team happens to run into it, they may still be stuck. Give a few biscuits, oil cakes, a handful of fried rice, etc.
Only after a while, the burning smell of straw turned into an obvious burning smell, which made Deng Liao vigilant again; then they saw the smoke slowly floating over the water and blowing down the wind. ** Ashes, and the vague situation on the other side that has been shrouded in billowing fireworks.
This scene suddenly shocked Deng Liao and others. We must know that although this is the front line facing the enemy in Henan, since Huaixi Liu Hanhong, Weiyang’s Yang Xingmin, and Shanyang’s Sun Ru have been defeated or fled one after another; the land of Huainan that was pacified by the Taiping Army is also male. For half a year's tranquility.
Especially after the Dongduxing camp of the new Daqi Dynasty successively captured the upper reaches of Ying and Cai states, the threat and pressure from Henan seemed to be greatly reduced. Coupled with the concession of business travelers under the Taiping rule in the three towns of Huaishang, and the dark entrance of Pinglu Town/Ziqingjiedu, which is located at the downstream outlet to the sea, this section of the water appears calmer.
Although occasionally it is possible to hear and see the fighting on the opposite bank across the water surface of half a mile to a mile wide; but after the beginning of the spring, the ice ridges that have not completely dissolved and the risk of the spring floods are rolling over, one after another desperately crossing the river. Outside of the refugees and refugees, there are basically no decent warning signs and threats.
And their patrols along the river came into being for this. Although it is suitable for the place where the brigade crosses the Huai River, there are actually only a few places such as Dabukou, which are also closely guarded by the water villages and boat divisions set up on the spot; but they are located along the Huainan coast and can be beaten by a small number of people. In fact, there are many local committees who barely landed ashore.
Therefore, the role of their patrols is to find out in time these migrants or private traffickers who have come here day and night, control them and leave them to the rear aftercare department and defense zone, and the professional departments composed of them will conduct quarantine and identity. Screening. But this time the situation seems a little different.
Soon, amidst the more and more smoke on the upper river, a river boat that was also on fire and smoke drove out, just like this on the surface of the water like Bailian, twisted and twisted, a moment later. The collision ran aground on a gravel-filled river beach; before Deng Liao and others on the soil slope had any action, one after another riverboats of various colors floated out of the smoke.
Some immediately followed the first river boat leaning on the river beach in all manners, but there were also river boats that crookedly sailed on the water for a certain distance, and then turned upside down into the water in some kind of exclamation. . At this time, the first riverboat that docked had already jumped from the boat for several figures, and stepped on the uneven river beach to continue wading towards the embankment.
"The youngest two in the team stand up..."
At this moment, Deng Liao had no fluke anymore, and hurriedly shouted.
"One goes to the nearest outpost to order Fengsui, the other goes to the nearest Zhuangzi to warn..."
"What about us?"
Some of the remaining team members couldn't help asking:
"Of course I touched these outsiders on the shore... How can we soldiers of the Taiping Army flee without fighting against the wind... At least we have to buy some time for the rear?"
Deng Liao said without hesitation:
At this moment, his heart is inevitably tense and frightened, but it is more of a certain kind of expectation and hope; perhaps the future of a pair of children will fall on their own performance this time. (End of this chapter)