Zhao Lianhe was smoking a cigarette, and the mother-in-law next to her was sitting there smirking, the two children were already playing crazy, covered in dirt, and their faces were dirty and untouchable.

He looked at the smiles on the faces of his wife and children, and his heart was not to mention how comfortable he was. Now that he has joined the Far Eastern Army, every time he returns home in a straight military uniform, the envious eyes of the residents in the squadron make him satisfied from the bottom of his heart.

The mother-in-law of the family has been with him for more than ten years, and she has not even eaten a few full meals, and the two children are as thin as skin. In the past, every time he came home, looking at his wife and children's eyes, Zhao Lianhe's heart was broken.

Zhao Lianhe, as the pillar of the family, can't get back food and silver money from the family every month, and can only watch the wife and children at home starve and freeze, the taste can be imagined.

Ever since he had followed the Far East to the Hetao, it was as if he had been in a dream. The wife and children put on new clothes, the family has enough surplus food to eat, and the two children are growing up, and every time they eat, it is like struggling to walk.

This stupid woman at home is very simple, she just knows how to smirk every day, and she can't close her mouth when she laughs. Sometimes sitting in the yard, looking at the surplus grain in the granary and the ploughing cow, I can laugh silly for a day.

Now the two children have gone to the school run by the detachment, and they go home two days a week, and they don't have to worry about food and housing, and now they are getting more and more prosperous. When he got home, he gave him an endorsement, although he stumbled on his back, but every time he looked at his son's serious appearance, Zhao Lianhe and his family burst into tears.

If this is in Daming, how can the children of the family have the opportunity to go to private school, the military family in Ningxia Town, the children who can know a few words, they are all prodigies, but now they look at their children. Writing his name crookedly, Zhao Lianhe was excited and sleepless all night.

Happiness is actually very simple, for Zhao Lianhe's family, as well as the thousands of ordinary people in the fields of the Ming Dynasty in this era, it is happiness to be full.

A few acres of land, a cow. Wife and children hot kang head.

Such a simple thing is the biggest dream of all the low-level people in China for thousands of years. However, most people, in their whole life, a hard and busy life, may not be able to achieve it.

Famines, diseases, excesses and taxes, officials and bullies, gentry and landlords are like mountains, weighing heavily on them, not to mention having enough to eat, and it is difficult for them to even breathe.

Now the common people in the Hetao base area. Like Zhao Lianhe's family, it feels like a dream, and every day is happy as if they are in heaven.

After Zhao Lianhe finished smoking, he knocked the cigarette bag pot on the sole of his shoe, and then shouted to the mother-in-law next to him: "Let's work, before it gets dark, do a little more......"

The woman who was giggling there heard Zhao Lianhe's voice. He shook his head and sat up quickly. patted the soil on his buttocks, led the ploughing ox and followed behind his grandfather, ready to continue working.

At this time, several people walked in the distance. Zhao Lianhe hurriedly put down the curved plow in his hand, walked up in a few steps, and smiled at the person at the head: "Captain." How did you get here. ”

The person who came was the captain of the brigade where Zhao Lianhe's family belonged, and he was also an old Liaomin transferred from Liaodong, who was enthusiastic and bold and had a strong work ability.

"Lao Zhao, I came down to learn about the military families of each squadron. See if there's anything you can help with. ”

Zhao Lianhe hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Captain, our family is fine, I still want to finish the work in the field as soon as possible, and go to the brigade to see if there is anything I can help." ”

The captain pointed at Zhao Lianhe and smiled at several grassroots cadres next to him: "Have you seen it, in the end, it is a person in the army, and this consciousness is high." ”

Everyone laughed when they heard him.

Zhao Lianhe laughed when he heard this: "Captain, don't make fun of me." The army gave me half a month's spring ploughing leave, and our family didn't need so many days on these fields, so if there was anything to do, just come to me. ”

The grass-roots units in the Hetao base area are also quite concerned about the military dependents of the Far Eastern Army, and many officers and men are unable to rush home during the spring plowing period because of combat and training reasons.

Anyway, the officers and men of the Far Eastern Army have no worries at all. No matter what happens to any military family, the local grassroots units and garrisons will respond as soon as possible. If the military family is bullied, no matter who it is, they will face the wrath of hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Far Eastern Army.

At the end of the day's farming, Zhao Lianhe drove the ox cart back home with his wife and children. This year, the family divided a few acres of land, and the technicians of the brigade asked them to plant pasture grass first, and then corn and potatoes two years later. The original arable land is rotated to grow legumes or high-quality pastures.

Anyway, farmers like Zhao Lianhe and them don't understand these things very well, and they will plant whatever the brigade detachment tells them to plant, anyway, the Far East Company has never deceived them, and everyone is right to follow the Far East Company.

When he got home, Zhao Lianhe simply washed up, and then sat on the kang and looked at the cigarettes, the two children ran around in and out of the house, and the mother-in-law at home was busy in the kitchen of the outhouse.

Dinner was ready, and the family sat down at the table. A pot of cornmeal cakes, a plate of radish strips and pickles, a plate of stewed sauerkraut, and a large bowl of bud rice stubble porridge per person.

Zhao Lianhe stood up, turned around and took out a box of canned whale meat in his marching bag. The eyes of the two children suddenly lit up, staring at the cans in Zhao Lianhe's hand. The woman hurriedly ran to the outhouse and brought a plate, took the canned food that Zhao Lianhe had already risen, and poured the whale meat pieces inside into the plate with soup and water.

"Let's eat...... What are you looking at, eat it...... Eat ......."

The two children looked at the canned food on the plate, listened to their father's words, and quickly picked up a piece of meat and stuffed it into their mouths. Zhao Lianhe also sandwiched a piece and put it in the woman's bowl.

"Hurry up and eat, these two little rabbit cubs eat much better at school than at home."

originally wanted to give the meat clip to the little one, but when he saw Zhao Lianhe's eyes, he had to eat it in small bites.

The canned whale meat was bought by Zhao Lianhe at the army supply and marketing cooperatives before he went home. This thing is also only bought by recruits, and veterans have long hated it. Therefore, this thing is the cheapest and most realistic in the supply and marketing cooperatives.

He also bought a lot of sugar cubes and other snacks for his two children at the supply and marketing cooperative, and bought a bottle of alabaster for the women in the family. Zhao Lianhe is still a private, and his salary is the lowest. So I didn't dare to spend money recklessly, and all the savings were stuffed into the mother-in-law at home, so I had to leave some money for the family to cross the river. (To be continued.) )