Chapter 1171: Vera's Destination (1)
In Yingkou Port in Liaodong, sailboats are densely moored outside the port, and there are constantly small boats shuttling inside and outside the port, guiding the sailboats to enter Yingkou Port continuously.
After the expansion of Yingkou Port, the current throughput capacity has been several times that of before. In addition, the completion of Lushun Port has greatly alleviated the logistics tension in eastern Liaodong.
Moreover, the branch railways from Shenyang to Lushun, Shenyang to Yingkou, Shenyang to Guangning, Shenyang to Tongliao, and Harbin to Qiqihar have also been completed and opened to traffic, and the reconstruction project of the main artery of the Northeast Railway was also completed and opened to traffic a year ago.
So far, the initial project of the Northeast Railway Network has been completed. In the future, the Railway Division will continue to plan the second phase of railway construction in the Far East while continuing to expand the Northeast railway network.
Vera and many Russian women stood on the deck, and after more than a month of sailing, the fleet carrying a large number of young Russian women finally arrived at Yingkou Harbor before the closure of the sea.
In the past month or so, many young Russian women have suffered from old sins. Most of them had never been on a sea boat, let alone a long voyage of more than a month, vomiting to death, and dozens of girls with weak constitutions did not survive and died at sea.
Fortunately, Vera belongs to one of the few people who is not seasick, but after more than a month on the boat, she is still full of exhaustion. I miss my family more and miss my hometown, she can't sleep at night, and her family, who haunts her dreams, can only appear in her dreams.
After waiting for several hours, the sailboat finally moved, the steam engine roared violently, and the chimney also rose with thick smoke, and then slowly sailed into the huge Yingkou harbor.
"All back in the cabin, ready to land, ready to land......"
Several officers and soldiers of the Far East, whose faces were full of fierceness, came to the deck and shouted loudly. Although they spoke Chinese, after months of continuous study, these young Russian women, although they still stumbled to speak Chinese, there was no problem with basic Chinese.
Vera quickly ran to the cabin, a stout Far East non-commissioned officer, deliberately took a wrong step, rubbed Vera's **** with her shoulder, and frightened her so much that she hurriedly dodged and fled into the cabin.
Although a group of ruffians from the overseas division of the Far Eastern Army who were in charge of escorting on the ship did not dare to do anything out of the ordinary, they kept making small moves on weekdays, especially Vera with a pair of huge Naiko, who would be taken advantage of by a rude ruffian for a few times. Over the course of a month, Vera felt her breasts getting bigger and bigger.
Vera returned to the cabin and put all her bedding and miscellaneous items into a marching bag, and then sat quietly in the cabin waiting for the order to land.
She didn't know what her future would be, and she couldn't decide her future fate at all, she could only wait silently, which was a very bad feeling, so she didn't have a decline.
There was a muffled sound of "bang ......".
The ship shook violently, and another shout came from the cabin: "Landing in small teams one after another......"
Vera slowly disembarked with the many Russian women, her feet had just touched the land, and she felt a sense of solidity that had not been felt for a long time, but the scene around her seemed to be shaking all the time, and it took a while to recover.
This huge fleet, which transported nearly 10,000 young Russian women at a time, was also the last batch of the year. In the past few months, a huge fleet of sailing ships has transported a large number of young women from Russia, India, Central Asia, and Persia to Liaodong, numbering hundreds of thousands.
They will be resettled in various resettlement areas in eastern Liaoning and northeastern China. In recent years, the number of displaced people in eastern Liaoning has increased dramatically, resulting in a serious imbalance in the ratio of men and women in eastern Liaodong and the outer northeast.
Although in recent years, the company has gathered a large number of young women in Japan, South Korea, Nanyang, and even Mongolia to send them to Liaodong and Outer Northeast China, but it still has not completely solved this problem.
Fortunately, in recent years, with the conquest of Indochina, India, Persia, Central Asia, Russia and other regions by the Far East, groups of young women from various countries have also been sent to Liaodong, and the situation of more men and fewer women is gradually alleviating.
Vera and the others rested for the night at a camp near Yingkou Harbor before setting out on their journey again. Before the river froze, he took a river steam deck barge and sailed along the Liao River all the way to the northeast.
Because most Russian women live in cold Russia, they can basically adapt to the cold climate, so they have been sent to Qiqihar, the northernmost part of the Outer Northeast, and along the Heilongjiang River.
After another more than a month's journey, Vera and many Russian women trekked northeast by boat and then by train. Vera was inevitably a little scared when she took the train for the first time, and she was frightened for several days in the stuffy tank car before her heart was relieved.
Every time the train stopped, one by one, the partners were called by name, and then they picked up their luggage and walked off the stuffy tank car. Many people have developed a deep friendship with Vera over the course of several months.
But watching them leave one by one, Vera's mood was also lost again and again. In the past year, she has left her hometown, lost all her family, and now lost her friend in distress who had just established a friendship.
As the crowded carriages slowly became empty, the train finally stopped. The tanker's door opened, and Vera finally heard his name called.
She hurriedly picked up her huge marching bag and got off the train with the few women left in the carriage. Sitting in the stuffy tank car for a long time, Vera was exhausted, and there were only a hundred or so tired Russian women left in the entire train, and she trotted into the queue under the car.
Several grassroots cadres of the Far Eastern Company were standing in front of the queue, smiling at the Russian women in the queue, their faces could not hide their excitement, they were looking forward to the stars and the moon, and finally looked forward to the women back. If the women don't come again, the village men will have to breed with the sows and cows of the family.
Bullock carts were parked nearby, and Vera and her sisters sat on them, slowly jolting along the potholed dirt roads in the countryside. Vera rested her head on her marching bag and stared blankly at the scenery on both sides of the road.
The scenery on both sides is very beautiful, and the mountains in the distance are full of red leaves, like a piece of sunset, and it is extremely spectacular to look at. On both sides of the road are fields, scattered villages, and a small stream meandering not far away.
A long train of ox carts traveled slowly, and finally came to the side of a village. It was already full of people, peasant men, waiting here with eager eyes, until they saw the ox cart in the distance, and immediately cheered loudly.
They ran to the convoy as if they were happy, but when they reached the side of the ox cart, they all became shy when they saw the young Russian women sitting in the cart, but they kept looking at the women in the cart with hot eyes.
Vera and the others couldn't help but get nervous when they saw the eyes of the men next to them. An officer of the Far Eastern Army, who was in charge of the care, laughed loudly and scolded: "Stand back...... Back off...... It's all away from the convoy...... The girls are here, you can't wait for a while. ”
When the farmers next to them heard this, they all burst into laughter.
The ox cart finally drove into the village, and the men in the village had already finished drawing lots, and under the organization of the grassroots cadres, they gave them Russian women one by one.
Vera also finally knows her fate, and it seems that she is married to a man here. She can't decide her own fate, but she also begins to plan for her future. Now she is praying that she can give a better man, as long as she does not keep beating and scolding her mother when she is drunk like her father, she is already satisfied.
A short, black, thin young man walked up to Vera, and he grabbed Vera's hand with excitement on his face and turned to leave. Vera was pulled by him like this, and she twisted all the way to a courtyard.
The yard is not big, divided into front yard and back yard, but the wooden house in the yard looks good, and it looks newly built. She smelled the fresh smell of pine oil outside the yard.
When I entered the courtyard, I saw a barn full of grain, as well as a cowshed, an ox cart, and a shack for poultry, and it was only now that Vera's heart was steady.
At least the man she married had a solid family, and if nothing else, she had grown so big that she had only seen so much grain in the landlord's house in her hometown. If only they eat together, it will be enough for them to eat for several years.
The man couldn't wait to pull Vera into the wooden house, which made Vera very nervous, and she couldn't help but feel a sense of humiliation in her heart. But she was powerless to resist, because she was afraid of death and did not dare to resist.
Vera is just an ordinary girl from a serf family, she has never seen much of the world, and she has not dared to hope for the future since she was born. So she can only live in silence, and her greatest luxury is to marry a man who can feed her and will not beat and scold her when she is drunk.
The man dragged her into the house and asked her to sit down on the kang. But instead of rushing to pounce, he jumped on the kang and took out a large package from the kang cabinet and put it in front of her.
The package contained a bunch of women's things, including a brand new set of bedding, women's winter coats, coats, underwear, socks, hats, gloves and cotton shoes, as well as some women's daily things, neatly stacked in the package, and tied with a red rope.
"It's all for you, if it's not enough, I can buy it for you again......" The man finished looking at Vera with anticipation on his face.
Only then did Vera understand the man's thoughts, it turned out that he was in a hurry to bring her back just to let her see this. Vera had been going through the ordeal for months, and until this moment, a warmth inexplicably rose in her heart, and she was so moved that she wanted to cry.
(To be continued.) )