Chapter 232: Today is a good day
The thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve is a moment of special significance for all people on this continent, and the power of tradition is always so irresistible, whether it is a high-ranking official or a common person struggling in the mud, when this day comes, he will always try to dress himself up beautifully, eat better, and if he can reunite with his family, it will be a great joy.
Children like to celebrate the New Year, because they have new clothes to wear during the New Year, and they can also eat things that are difficult to eat, and adults are also looking forward to the New Year, because only these few days, they can easily sit down, hold a wine glass, let themselves completely relax, and no longer think about the ups and downs of the year, because the smiling faces of their relatives are enough for them to forget all their troubles in these days.
Compared with many places, Taiping City, which still seems very barren, is undoubtedly very fast. After going through the first difficult years, now they can indeed be regarded as a small rich man, and the money and grain from Shayang County allow them to spend this winter and next spring with peace of mind, so for the first Spring Festival they came here, whether it is Qin Feng or the brothers in the death camp below, they all attach great importance to it.
Naturally, it can't be done, which is too wasteful, but eating is not allowed to be sloppy. Wild dogs took more than 100 brothers, and even went deep into the mountains, and they didn't know how many beasts' dens they had dug up, and they forcibly carried back a head of big or small game for Taiping City, even if these guys were ready-made, they were skinny. In the words of wild dogs, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are also meat! For the New Year, why do you have to let everyone see meat, right?
Naturally, the wild dog's move was welcomed by everyone in Taiping City, especially those people who had just arrived here, and it was already a very satisfying thing for them to be able to eat, but they didn't expect that they would be able to eat meat now.
The people of Taiping City are now expanding rapidly, and even Qin Feng did not expect that his practice of giving him a settlement fee would actually allow him to earn a good reputation at the same time, but also make a large number of people who are still working hard outside Shayang County to flock here, and in less than a month, Taiping City has gathered more than 20,000 people. Of course, there are also many old and weak women and children here.
For the acceptance of these old and weak women and children, there are actually different voices in Taiping City, for the current Taiping City, almost all the work is coolie work, women, children, the old people can't do this, but for the food on the mountain, it is a considerable pressure, although there is a lot of inventory now, but after all, Taiping City has no stable source now, basically belongs to eating one less one, and it is based on this point that the mountain is still implementing a strict supply system, and each person is rationed per day. Even the old brothers of the death camp are the same.
But Qin Feng made a decision and must accept it. This is not only a question of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but also a matter of letting these young people return to their hearts, if they want to work with peace of mind, and be able to take root here in the future, they must make people return to their hearts, and make them feel that Taiping City is a place that can be relied on. When it won't be useful, greet them with a smile, and when it's useless, kick people away.
The old people and women can be assigned to the house, now tens of thousands of people in the mountains, the implementation of unified supply, every day to cook and boil water, need a lot of manpower, these jobs, they can do it, but also let the original people who did these jobs to join the army of the wilderness, even if it is tomorrow in the spring, digging wild vegetables, picking wild fruits, they can always do it.
As for the children, there is indeed nothing suitable for them to do, but they can't be idle, isn't Wang Yueyao okay now? It's very good, collect these children and let her teach these dolls to read and write, so that Lang Lang's reading sound can sound on the mountain, which is also a good spice for Qin Feng, and besides, he is also a drunkard.
These dolls, who have not yet formed some fixed thinking patterns in their heads, are the best moment for brainwashing, and in addition to reading every day, they also have to carry out another important subject - military training.
The military training tutorial was written by Qin Feng himself, which was not much different from the rookies he trained in the death camp when he first entered the camp, but the amount was greatly reduced, and Qin Feng even transferred a few veterans from the death camp to do this. In order to prevent these little guys from skipping class for fear of hard work, Qin Feng asked Wang Hou to transfer a large amount of cloth from Feng County, and then asked the tailors on the mountain to make a set of small military uniforms, which were sent to these little guys in the same style as the veterans of the death camp.
The little ones are really easy to coax, wearing this kind of military uniform, they are naturally very nervous, and they must not miss class in daily military training, otherwise, they will have to pick up the military uniform and spank.
The parents of the children have no opinion, the dolls are managed, and they are given clothes, they have food to eat, and they eat better than their parents, their parents eat black buns, these little dolls who don't do anything, eat white buns every day, and after more than a month, the small bean sprouts that were weak before grew up one by one. The queue is in formation, but it is also decent.
There are more and more children on the mountain, Wang Hou is distressed about his daughter after all, and half-persuasively and half-threatens to get a few teaching gentlemen from Fengxian County to Taiping City to share his daughter's work.
Listening to the sound of the children reading every day, watching the children wearing neat clothes and shouting slogans and drilling, watching them play all over the mountains, their fathers and mothers, working hard, but more energetic, General Qin said, when the spring begins, they will be the first to have their own houses in the city. This makes them more motivated, the trees that were cut down before, the mountains that were opened, the stones that were quarried, and the houses that were built, will have their own share in the future, how dare they not build a little stronger, maybe it will be the set they will give themselves in the future!
Hope is always the biggest driving force. With hope, there is strength, there is the courage to overcome everything, in Qin Feng's view, these young people on the mountain, now it is still very hard, with more and more people, the house is never enough, many people still live in shacks. Eating, it's just barely enough to eat, although Taiping City pays wages, but that bit of money, when it is said, Qin Feng will feel a little blush, it is purely meaningful, but seeing the happy smiles of those people when they get their wages, Qin Feng feels a little incredible.
He doesn't quite understand the thoughts of these people, Pingsu Fan is from the Taiping City Management, these wages, for these original homeless people, even if it is a penny, it is also pure profit, and it will always increase.
In short, in Qin Feng's opinion, everything in Taiping City is slowly getting better. The centripetal force of Taiping City that he hoped for was also being formed little by little.
Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, almost everyone gathers together, and the young and strong people basically gather together in the county and village before they fled, and each huge bonfire represents a small group.
In the big iron pot, the water boiled boiling, a plate of wrapped dumplings was poured in, in an instant, it was already fragrant, this is the meat filling, thanks to the blessing of the wild dogs, although the beasts that came were not enough for everyone to eat, but chop and chop, plus some other things, wrapped into the dumplings, but it is able to have a share.
The adults were all holding bowls, staring at the dumplings tumbling in the pot, secretly swallowing saliva to themselves, while the little dolls were laughing and making noise, running between the campfires, and there was a group among the adults, but these little ones did not have this idea, gathered together, laughing and playing.
"That's great!" Wang Hou, who insisted on coming to Taiping City for the New Year, looked at this scene and sighed sincerely, it was just a few months, and his life could be said to have been turned several times, and his life had many ups and downs. "When I first went up the mountain, I really didn't expect that it would be such a day, at that time, I thought that I would live in a cave and climb a ravine from now on!"
"This is just the beginning, and the days will always get better and better." Qin Feng said with a smile.
"I'm convinced of that now." Wang Hou laughed, "General Qin, I have been a county official for two months, but I don't want to be an official addiction, and now I am thinking that I can become a county guard one day, but the old man's own ability is limited, so he can only hug General Qin's thighs tightly." ”
Qin Feng laughed, "What the county guard will have, that is, the left and right, maybe there will be." ”
Wang Hou stroked his beard and smiled, "Yes, there will be, now the old man is just begging God to give me some more years, so that my old guy can live a good official addiction before he dies, when he is a county guard, when he is the left and right minister, General Qin, if you want to realize my wish, you have to move faster." ”
Wang Yueyao on the side stopped doing it and pouted, "Dad, it's a big New Year, it's really unlucky to say that you are dead or alive." Xiao Shui, who was always standing behind Wang Yueyao, nodded violently, "It's really unlucky, quickly slap your mouth." "Today's New Year, he also said unlucky words several times, and was punished by Wang Yueyao many times, and this time he caught one, and he was really happy.
"Good, good, palm, palm!" Wang Hou laughed, raised his palm, and gently gave it to himself. Seeing that Xiao Shui's eyes widened, he slapped his mouth, but he really slapped himself hard, and there are still red marks on his face.
"Is that okay?" He looked at Wang Yueyao dissatisfied.
"Of course, Xiaoshui, I didn't tell you to hit yourself hard, you have to work hard." Wang Yueyao smiled happily, Xiao Shui pursed her mouth, took out a piece of rainbow candy from her arms, and stuffed it into her mouth angrily. (To be continued.) )