The Spring Festival in the Hetao area, although it cannot be compared with the area of the Far Eastern Company, is still full of New Year's flavor, no matter what, it is also lively and festive.

First of all, the Spring Festival couplets and lanterns were hung outside the gates of every household in each grassroots squadron. The wall of the house is also pasted with New Year's pictures, red paper and gold characters, which looks prosperous.

Although the conditions of the Hetao base area were limited, Spring Festival couplets, lanterns and New Year paintings were distributed to every household, and in order to make up for these things, the base area sought support from the company, and they were all transported from Liaodong to the Hetao base area.

Although it took a lot of effort, the management committee of the base area thought it was worth it, which not only increased the festive atmosphere of the base area, but also made every household in the Hetao area happy.

After Zhao Lianhe's family finished eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, they all rushed to the detachment headquarters. Each detachment headquarters arranged a variety of rich programs, and the peasant households of each brigade squadron of the detachment gathered at the detachment headquarters one after another.

The company organized grassroots cadres from all over the country to organize high platforms, stilt teams, dry boat teams, lion dance teams, dragon dance teams, Yangge teams, gong and drum teams, opera teams and other programs, and held a grand social fire performance.

They are all people who were temporarily made up by their own detachment, and they were trained casually for more than ten days, and the personnel were not professional, and the rehearsals were not skilled, so it can be said that there were many mistakes and omissions, and even a lot of foreign appearances.

But a large group of farmers in the Hetao area, they don't care about that, as long as it is lively, anyway, everyone is stupid to follow the poor and happy. Coupled with the bear children scurrying all over the ground, there is as much chaos as there is.

Due to limited resources, the base area could only distribute some firecrackers to various detachments, which was lively on Chinese New Year's Eve. A limited number of fireworks were also set off, making the Hetao area, which had been silent for many years, become extremely noisy on the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Immediately after that, from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the fifteenth day of the Lunar The grassroots detachments also organized tug-of-war competitions, chorus competitions, ball games, quiz meetings, and lantern festivals, because the preparations were very hasty, and to be honest, the organization was very chaotic, and there was a lot of noise every day, and there was a chaotic scene.

Fortunately, most of the immigrants in the Hetao base area are from peasant families. I haven't seen anything in the market, everyone just needs to be lively, anyway, after a game, they can't see whether they win or lose, and others shout and they shout, venting their excitement to the fullest. Especially for the military households who have been aggrieved for many years in Ningxia Town, this Spring Festival is not to mention happy.

Despite these shortcomings, during the Spring Festival last year, the Hetao was bustling with activity. The entire base area. Everywhere is full of joy, and every household is full of joy.

In fact, the Chinese New Year is a lively one, the poor have the law of the poor, and the rich have the law of the rich. But if there is no joy from the heart, even if it is a rich family, there may not be a poor peasant living happily.

It has only been two years since the establishment of the Hetao Base Area, and the work in all fields has just begun. But the base has been working very hard. With limited resources, many difficulties have been overcome. We will do our best to make the barren and barren Hetao base area impressive.

At least the women of Zhao Lianhe's family now feel that they are content in this life. Since she came to the Hetao for more than a year, she has started to giggle every day. She, like all women in this era, has very low requirements for happiness, and now days like this have greatly exceeded her expectations.

In the past, every time the man in the family came home. It's all full of sadness. When she left home, she and her two children felt empty in their hearts, for fear that the grandfathers in the family would never want them again. Men are heaven in her heart, and there are no men. How can they live?

Since coming to the Hetao, every time the men in the family come home, the first thing they do when they enter the house is to take things out of the marching bag one by one. Then he lit a bag of cigarettes and watched the women of the family pick up there with joy on their faces, and the two children running around happily in and out of the house.

Every time a man leaves home, although he is reluctant, he does not have the worry and despair that he used to have. Just did his best to help the man pack his bags and stuff his marching bag to the brim. He didn't say anything, but his marching bag was full of affection.

Zhao Lianhe sat on the kang, slowly smoking the cigarette bag and pot, and watched with a wry smile on his face as the woman desperately stuffed things into the marching bag. The conditions of the troops in the Far East are better in all respects than at home.

There is no need for a woman to prepare so many things for him, and the journey back to the army will only take a few days, and he can't eat at all. But he didn't stop the woman, Zhao Lianhe knew her temperament too well, if she didn't pretend, this stupid woman could sit at home and be uncomfortable for days.

The next day, before dawn, the woman got up and went to work in the kitchen of the outhouse. Zhao Lianhe sat on the kang and smoked silently, the two of them were crazy for most of the night last night, even if he was strong, he couldn't help but have some backache.

There is always an end to the more than ten days of vacation, and every time before returning to the army, he looks at the woman at home and feels extremely reluctant. Although she is not beautiful now, years of hard work have made her a yellow-faced woman.

But in Zhao Lianhe's eyes, this woman is still the girl who was blushing and didn't dare to look at him when she looked down. In the past, he couldn't bear it, so that the woman who had been with him for more than ten years didn't know how much suffering he had suffered.

Now she has finally lived a good life, but she has become less together and more separated, leaving her alone at home and waiting for herself.

This time I will return to the army, and it may be a long time before I go home. It was said that the troops were about to be mobilized and to assemble in the north. Once the troops enter the vast northern grasslands, it will be considered a year or two less.

Zhao Lianhe sighed, silently put on his clothes, and got off the kang and came to the outhouse. The woman had already put a hot breakfast on the dining table, white rice porridge, white flour cakes and pickles, as well as canned beef and fish that she had been reluctant to eat the other day and had secretly hidden.

Looking at the breakfast on the table, Zhao Lianhe shook his head, then came to the outhouse, picked up the bucket and filled the two large tanks of water at home, and swept the yard again.

After breakfast, Zhao Lianhe put on his marching bag, I don't know why, every time I go home, I always feel that the marching bag is very light, but when I leave, it is extremely heavy.

Zhao Lianhe nodded at the woman, and then walked silently to the outside of the courtyard. There was no farewell language, but the small courtyard was filled with the sadness of parting, which made the hearts of the two of them pull together.

He was ruthless, quickened his speed, walked out of the courtyard quickly, and hurried into the distance. After walking far away, Zhao Lianhe stopped, turned around and looked at the village in the distance, only to see a thin figure standing alone at the entrance of the village. (To be continued.) )

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