Zhao Lianhe's vacation is finally over, and every time his family leaves, it often makes people feel melancholy. This is especially true for the military, and it is good to be able to go home once a year.

Joining the military may be just an unforgettable experience for young people.

However, for soldiers who have started a family, this way of life of gathering less and leaving more is simply an unbearable torment for military families. Without the experience of being a soldier, I can't imagine it at all, and I can't appreciate it.

Dedication is easy, but the hardships are not just words, and the dedication is only known to soldiers and their families.

The women in the family had already packed the marching bag for Zhao Lianhe, which was stuffed with things. There is her freshly steamed white flour cake, which is still a condolence gift sent by the local garrison some time ago, and she is usually reluctant to eat it, but this time she took it out.

There are also freshly pickled radish strips, a few eggs that she usually accumulates, and insoles and cloth shoes that she sews with stitches and threads. Although shabby, it has a strong affection for a woman, which is already the best thing that can be taken out at home.

The woman married Zhao Lianhe when she was a teenager, and more than ten years have passed in a flash, from a young girl to a mother of two children. Years of hard work have made this watery girl become a yellow-faced woman.

She has never been out of this village or seen anything of the world when she has grown up so big. She only knew that she had grown so big, and she hadn't eaten a few full meals. Several generations of the family are military households, but a large area of fertile land in Ningxia Town has not been allocated a penny or an acre, and the family has worked as tenant farmers for hundreds of households and thousands of households.

In previous years, every Chinese New Year's Eve, the family could only be wrapped in a broken quilt. The desolate lights are lit up for vigil. Looking forward to the coming year, the wind and rain will be smooth, and there will be plenty of food and clothing. But there is nothing to ask for at home, and even the New Year's goods cannot be afforded, and for the poor, the New Year is a special torment.

Since following the men of the family to the Hetao. It was like a dream, and there was land and cattle in the family, and a brand new house, an ox cart that was previously only available to hundreds of households.

Every winter, as long as the displaced people at the grassroots level work for the squadron and brigade for dozens of days, the coal for heating the whole winter is enough to burn. Her family is a military dependent, so she also saves from having to work. Every year, the local garrison unloads coal into the yard for the family.

The thick felt on the kang covered the two rooms of the kang, and the door of the house also hung two thick cotton curtains, brand new covers, dense stitches, thick stuffed with cotton, how could a family like her afford it before.

In the past few months, she and her two children could only hug each other. Curled up in a torn quilt, through the long cold winter. The family was so poor that they didn't even have a decent bedding. The only few broken quilts are not even cotton when touched by hand. In the coldest winter, she and her two children didn't even dare to go out. There are no cotton clothes at home, and I can't survive the biting cold wind when I go out.

But now all winter, the coal fire has been pressing in the stove of the outhouse, and the cold wind is howling outside. The dripping water turned into ice, but the house was as warm as spring. Even in the coldest winter months, the two children can wear thick cotton coats, hats and gloves, and run out to roll in the snow.

The brigade organized cadres to repair a greenhouse for their family's ploughing cow and two sheep for the winter. The local garrison also sent a lot of pasture and concentrate feed for livestock to overwinter. Now the two sheep in the family have given birth, and they can still milk some goats every day.

During the Chinese New Year last year, since she was a child, her family has never been broken. There were people from various departments in the Hetao base area, people from the detachment and brigade, and people from the local garrison troops, who sent a large number of condolences to them.

The variety of condolences is also very rich, there are two affordable bags of rice and white noodles, more than a dozen catties of beef and mutton on the grassland, a few salted fish, a few pieces of brand-new cloth, two bags of sugar cubes that children love to eat, a few Spring Festival couplets, and a few firecrackers that increase the festive atmosphere.

She had never seen so many strangers when she was so big, and she was so scared that she didn't know where to put her hands and feet.

Moreover, the local garrison also sent soldiers to help her clean the two houses of the house, as well as the front and back yards, such as coal for wintering, green fodder for livestock, etc., and also helped her prepare very well. The school where the two children belong also distributed some candy cubes and snacks to them, and also made them a new set of clothes for the holidays.

Although the conditions in the Hetao base area were difficult and the materials were also very scarce, during the Spring Festival and Chinese New Year last year, some benefits were distributed to the employees, peasant households, students, military families, and officers and men of the army in the base area as much as possible.

Although the weather is cold and windy, everyone's hearts are warm and warm, and they are sincerely grateful to the Hetao base area. Therefore, during the Chinese New Year, the Hetao area was full of laughter and laughter, and everyone had a happy and peaceful Spring Festival.

The men in the family returned home in the thirties of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the troops gave the officers and soldiers with families a seven-day vacation, and also prepared some Spring Festival benefits for everyone. It's not much, but it's very affordable.

The most important thing in the Hetao base area is cattle and sheep, so each person was given ten catties of beef, as well as some fungus mushrooms, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar seasonings, two bags of dry tobacco, two bottles of corn straw wine and other New Year's goods.

The man at home carried dozens of pounds of things on his back and walked more than ten miles in one breath, but he was not so tired. Although she was already sweating profusely after entering the house, she still can't forget the excited look on her face.

The happiest time for a man to be a family may be to bring a lot of good things to the house, and see the happy appearance of the women and children in the family, at this time they are often very proud and relieved, and feel like a man who stands up to the sky.

The woman had been preparing for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for a few days. In the end, women are used to living a hard life, and women are still reluctant to take out good things to buy Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. People who have been hungry want to stay at any time, so this Spring Festival Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is also made very shabby by women.

But Zhao Lianhe was not happy when he saw it, he glared at the woman, and asked her to take out all the good things with a straight face. The woman was so frightened by the man that she had to reluctantly toss things out, although she was a little reluctant in her heart, but she was still very happy.

Zhao Lianhe also took out the New Year's goods he had distributed in the army, as well as the canned whale meat, canned beef, canned fish, snacks and pastries he bought at the army's supply and marketing cooperative.

The family also began to be happily busy, and they were busy for most of the day, and finally got a table of Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, a large plate and a small bowl of ten dishes, in the eyes of dignitaries, these dishes may really be nothing, but in the eyes of Zhao Lianhe's family, this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner can simply be described as luxurious. (To be continued.) )

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