Xiaohu touched Caiwa's thin head with pity. I heard a lot from the big brother, when this child was born, it was just in time for the Daming famine, and the harvest in several surrounding states and counties was not good, plus there were dog officials who were greedy for ink relief food.

So, Big Brother and his hometown had people who couldn't survive and began to rebel and grab food everywhere. The food in the big brother's house was robbed. The family could only become a homeless and began to flee.

Along the way, I was basically hungry every day, and the adults had no milk, so naturally the children could not get strong. Born with a poor foundation, although immigrants to China are well fed and warmly dressed, it is not so easy to get rid of the root of the disease from childhood.

In order to earn a sum of money for the child to see a doctor, the eldest brother joined the army in his thirties and became a soldier of the Chinese Army.

Now, looking at Caiwa's thin body and protruding head, his heart is really uncomfortable.

Xiaohu squatted down and said to Caiwa, "Caiwazi, you should go to school, at least go to the literacy class in the town to study." There are people there who teach you literacy and arithmetic, and that's a good thing, you couldn't have thought of it before.

Look at my little brother, because he is good at reading, and now he has a wide range of outlets, which is much more than the money he earns by staying at home and farming. ”

Caiwa listened to what Xiaohu said, and was a little upset, but then he grabbed the hair on his head and said, "Brother Xiaohu, whether I am literate or arithmetic, I can't learn well, people say that I don't have that life, and the teacher always scolds me."

In addition, now that my father is gone, there is no one to work in the fields, and An Jiu has no time and opportunity to go to school.

A few days ago, my mother said that I would not be allowed to go to school to read and learn arithmetic anymore, and I would honestly farm at home in this life, and never go anywhere. ”

Xiaohu choked for a moment, he was stupid and couldn't make a big sense, but he could still understand the current situation, those who went to school and those who didn't, and the road after that was definitely not the same wide and narrow.

So he continued to clumsily say, "Caiwazi, no matter what, you still have to go to study." How nice it would be if you wanted to be literate, even if you went to the army, you could get an extra military salary than those who couldn't read.

Brother Xiaohu will tell you the truth, in the future, if you don't know words, absolutely not, Brother Xiaohu wasted a lot of good opportunities because of his lack of literacy, otherwise, Brother Xiaohu would have become an officer a long time ago. ”

Caiwa said to Xiaohu with some suspicion: "Brother Xiaohu, are you telling the truth?" You didn't lie to me, did you? If you can't read and write, you can't be an officer? If you are literate, you can really become an officer? ”

His series of questions made Xiaohu a little confused at once, and he didn't know which sentence to answer first.

But Caiwa is completely a child's heart, and this series of questions has just been asked, and before she can get the answer, she has diverted her attention again.

His eyes fell on the medal hanging on Xiaohu's chest, reached out and touched Xiaohu's medal, and said, "Brother Xiaohu, your medal still has a beautiful pattern!"

The military instructor of the school taught us that those with beautiful patterns can only be treated with high-level medals, and I told our instructors that I will wear such a good-looking medal in the future.

By the way, Brother Xiaohu, my father is gone, and I heard that he didn't have it on the battlefield, so does he have to get a medal? I haven't seen it, haven't I got? Or was it lost on the battlefield and taken away by others? ”

Xiaohu said affirmatively, "

Your father died heroically on the battlefield, and I can prove that your father fully meets the criteria for the evaluation of martyrs, so there will definitely be a medal.

Cai Wazi, don't worry, no one else goes, this medal, that is the honor of the soldiers, absolutely no one dares to steal other people's medals on the battlefield. You didn't see your father's medal, it must be your father's medal hasn't been issued yet.

Also, your father is definitely good, he killed a lot of Houjin Tartars, I saw it with my own eyes, at the beginning, I stood in the back, your father stood in front, I counted them one by one.

The commander of the military department said that as long as they are soldiers who have died in battle, they are all heroes and heroes of our China, and their medals must be sent home by the commanders in person. ”

After saying these words and comforting Caiwa, Xiaohu also felt a little better, at least, the brothers who died in the war did not die in vain, they got the honor, status and compensation they deserved.

The Kingdom will take care of their remaining family members. Just like the land that was originally allocated to Big Brother himself, the kingdom will hire people to help take care of it, and the harvest will go to the old sister-in-law and Caiwa.

However, at that point, in today's world, it can only fill the stomach of the mother, plus the annual subsidy after the sacrifice of the eldest brother, it must be saved for the talented baby to marry the daughter-in-law, so there is basically no money to do more things.

Although letting Caiwa go to school is basically the kingdom's money, one less laborer will also greatly affect the future life of the big brother's family.

Thinking of this, Xiaohu immediately made a decision, took out the silver he had taken out from the money bag, counted two large silver dollars of 100 yuan, and then, after a little hesitation, added another one.

Xiaohu stuffed the 300 silver dollars he took out into Cai Wazi's hand, and said decisively, "Cai Wazi, go back to your mother and tell your mother that this money will be used to hire people to work for your family, whether it is to invite new immigrants to collect food for your family, or to hire trustworthy villagers to help watch it all come out of here."

You don't have to watch them anymore, you don't go to herd sheep, you honestly go to school. ”

Caiwa is just a little doll, naturally I don't know what politeness is, Brother Xiaohu asked him to take it, then he took it, of course, the etiquette taught by the teacher in the school has not been forgotten, he said respectfully, "Thank you, Brother Xiaohu." ”

Caiwa took the silver dollar and was about to go back to the house to find his mother to pass the word, Xiaohu hesitated again, stopped him again, and gave Caiwa the remaining two large silver dollars of 100 yuan and said, "Tell your mother, let your brother also study together." ”

It would be great to be able to go to school with my brother, so Caiwa happily took it and ran back to the house.

Xiaohu stumbled to his feet, raised his head and looked around, in the alley in front of him, there were several families holding funerals, and there were spiritist flags and white lanterns hanging in front of the door.

The bodies of the martyrs who were brought back to China were buried in the martyrs' cemetery, and the newly built martyrs' shrine was also built on the side of the cemetery.

Xiaohu planned to go there again to see his comrades-in-arms and worship them, thinking that there should be a caravan of trucks passing by at the entrance of the town, and he planned to spend money to take a ride.

But when I touched the money bag in my waist, I found that there was no money left, and besides, this is just a small town, and there is no bank to withdraw money. The passbook you carry with you can't be used as money like a military ticket.

Xiaohu thought with an embarrassed face, "If I had known, I should have taken a little more money, or, even if it was to exchange a few military tickets for backup." ”