Everyone was busy in Zhao Lianhe's field for most of the day, and the sky gradually darkened.

Li Ming sat on the ox cart, and Zhao Lianhe, who was sitting in front, was foaming at the mouth while driving the cart, talking about his war on the front line. Li Ming and the two guards listened with a smile, and asked a few questions from time to time.

Zhao Lianhe's mother-in-law had already prepared dinner, although there were nothing expensive, but there was a full table. Zhao Lianhe also took out a bottle of corn stalk wine that he treasured and enthusiastically helped Li Ming pour it.

"Brother, today my brother really wants to thank you, I didn't expect that your kid has fine skin and tender meat, and it is really unambiguous to do farm work. I didn't say it, but today our brothers had a good drink. ”

Li Ming also smiled and said: "Old squad leader, you are working the front line, of course we, brothers in the rear, can't watch my sister-in-law being wronged at home, this is the tradition of the Far Eastern Army, even if the king of heaven and Laozi, if you dare to bully the military family, you will have to face the anger of hundreds of thousands of Far Eastern Army." ”

Zhao Lianhe laughed when he heard this, he raised his glass and touched it with Li Ming, and then raised his head and drank the wine.

"Brother, what you said can be said to my heart, I used to eat food in the border army for a few years, and I had a good life, and my mother-in-law and two babies couldn't even eat. I'm not afraid of your jokes, I don't even have a decent futon at home. Since following the Far Eastern Army, although the training is a little more ruthless on weekdays, I don't say anything about eating and dressing.

The monthly military salary has never been broken, and now the mother-in-law and two babies at home have also followed me to the light, I have been gone for two years, and the local and local garrisons have come to ask for warmth every month, and the farm work in the field and the chores at home are also helped to do, and there are condolences for the New Year's Festival. Now that I think about it, I never dreamed of living like this, brother. ”

Li Ming's two guards didn't even drink wine, they just took a sip and got off the table, and the woman and the two children in Zhao Lianhe's family didn't even go to the table.

In the end, Li Ming and Zhao Lianhe were left on the table. The two drank until midnight, and they had a good conversation. Zhao Lianhe didn't know Li Ming's identity, so he wouldn't hide it when he spoke.

Especially when Zhao Lianhe drank a lot, he talked about his army and family, which was actually what Li Ming wanted to hear the most. The only way to truly understand the situation in the grassroots villages and the armed forces is through this way.

Li Ming is in the Hetao area these days. Taking advantage of the autumn harvest period, he continued to stay in the ordinary farmhouses of various squadrons, eat and live with the local farmers, and chatted with them about their parents' shortcomings.

Through these inspections, Li Ming has also gained a general understanding of the situation at the grassroots level in the Hetao area. He is still very satisfied with the Hetao area, these farmers are now living a good life, and they also have a deep sense of belonging to the Far East Company.

In fact, it's useless to say anything, no matter how good the publicity. Nor is it really convincing to raise the standard of living of the people at the bottom of the Far East. Only by enabling the common people of all Chinese nationalities to live a good life is the most important task in the Far East at present.

Today, Li Ming inadvertently met Zhao Lianhe, and it was the first time that he sat down with a grassroots non-commissioned officer of the Far East Army to chat face-to-face under such circumstances, and Li Ming certainly would not let go of such an opportunity, and could truly listen to the voices of the low-level officers and soldiers of the Far East Army.

So he and Zhao Lianhe drank quite happily, one was willing to speak, and the other was willing to listen. So that the atmosphere is always good. Zhao Lianhe purely regarded Li Ming as a non-commissioned officer like himself, and he did drink too much. So everything that should be said and what should not be said was said, and they talked until late at night before resting.

The next day, Li Ming helped Zhao Lianhe do farm work for half a day, and he was originally going to leave at noon, who would have thought that the cadres of the nearby garrison would come to the village with the troops.

Leading the team was a battalion commander named Wang Kun. The qualifications are also relatively old grassroots cadres of the Far Eastern Army. He arranged the troops and personally brought people to Zhao Lianhe's house, after all, this village is a military family, of course he has to come over in person.

The squadron leader of this village also personally led Wang Kun to Zhao Lianhe's house, and said to Wang Kun on the way: "Chief." Yesterday, people from the army came, and I arranged for them to Lao Zhao's house. ”

Wang Kun was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said suspiciously: "No, we were in another brigade yesterday." ”

"It's not wrong, three people came, they helped Lao Zhao's family for a day, and they stayed at Lao Zhao's house last night, and I saw them go to Lao Zhao's field this morning."

When he arrived at Zhao Lianhe's house, Wang Kun saw several people working in the field. One of them looked so familiar to him that he looked at it so carefully that he almost sat on the ground.

Wang Kun was a veteran of the Dongjiang River that Li Ming led to the Hetao area, how could he not know Li Ming. He hurriedly helped up his military hat, tidied up his military uniform again, ran to Li Ming's side in a few steps, and saluted a military salute.

"Comrade Commander, the 6th Battalion of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Field Division of the Northwest Field Army is helping the villagers in the grassroots squadron for the autumn harvest, please instruct!"

His voice was like a thunderclap, which scorched the people around him. Especially Zhao Lianhe, his legs were so frightened that he never thought that this person who listened to him blow for half a night last night was actually a big chief.

The woman and the two children in Zhao Lianhe's family were also confused, they quickly ran behind Zhao Lianhe and hid, the woman was holding his sleeve, and the two children were holding one of his thighs.

The squadron leader standing on the ground was also stupid, why did a big chief suddenly appear, or what kind of commander, what a big official this must be, even a cadre as big as Chief Wang had to report to him.

Li Ming glanced at Wang Kun opposite complainingly, and then looked back at Zhao Lianhe's family, who were completely confused.

"Take a break, I'm just going down and walking, what should you do, I have me in Lao Zhao's house today, I'll leave at noon, you take the soldiers to someone else's house first."

"Yes......"

Wang Kun hurriedly saluted again, then turned around and left with the people.

Li Ming turned his head with a wry smile and said to Zhao Lianhe: "Old Zhao, don't be stunned, work hard......"

Zhao Lianhe came to his senses as if he was excited, and hurriedly beckoned his wife and children to continue working, but now his heart was up and down. Yesterday, I blew a day with others, and at night I hugged people's necks and drank most of the night's wine.

It's like I drank too much last night, and I forgot a lot of what I said, and I don't know what I shouldn't have said. He could hear it just now, the battalion commander shouted the commander when he reported.

Oh my God, Commander...... It won't be the commander of the Northwest Field Army. (To be continued.) )