Chapter 214: Returning Home (4)
Fu Fu climbed up a small slope and let the wind blow over his body - it was time to stop sweating after walking under the sun for most of the day. He didn't feel tired at all. He had been used to doing farm work since he was a child. After joining the army, the ample food and daily training and labor made his body stronger. As for walking dozens of miles in one breath, it’s nothing.
There is no oxcart shuttle bus from Dongshi to Meiyang Village, but the roads have all undergone basic renovations. Bridges have been erected along the road, all potholes have been raised, drainage ditches have been installed on the roadside, and the road has been paved with sand. Stone - In addition to the insufficient width, the level of the roadbed has reached the level of a simple highway. Fu Fu has no trouble walking on the road. You must know that he trains for a five-kilometer cross-country run once a week.
The winter wind in Lingao is not cold, but refreshing and pleasant. Looking out from the slope, the yellow-brown road winds between the slopes and paddy fields covered with shrubs and trees. Most of the second season rice has just been harvested, and winter wheat, broad beans and various green crops have been planted in the rice fields - this area is the area where Tiandihui focuses on promoting new agricultural methods.
This is a field scenery of a "new countryside" that he has never seen before - somewhat like the scenery in the "Australian pictures" shown to them in the politics class in the army. The "Australian countryside" in the picture is so beautiful. It was a fairyland. Fu Fu couldn't believe that there were such beautiful and wealthy villages and such fertile and beautiful fields in the world.
He still remembered the scenery along the road here in the past: as long as you were a little away from the village, you would see the desolate and terrifying wasteland mounds. The grass on both sides of the dirt road grew taller than Renanhai. If an adult walked into the dense grass, he would disappear immediately. Wild dogs wandered in the wilderness, making terrible low barking sounds. He heard the old people say: These wild dogs specialize in eating dead bodies in graveyards... Fu Fu has heard all kinds of scary stories about the wilderness since he was a child.
The large areas of grass and shrubs that used to be seen everywhere have been reduced a lot, and most of the flat areas have been reclaimed into fields. Only mixed woods are left on the hillside, and some saplings are even planted. Fu Fu also participated in "supporting agriculture" in the army and knew that most of the trees planted on the hillside were "economic forests" such as fruit trees.
There is a large number of houses in the distance of this quiet rural scenery - that is Meiyang Village. Fu Fu felt a little doubtful that Meiyang Village was so big?
Fu Fu was sold to Meiyang Village when he was seven or eight years old. He had almost never left the village before he was sent to serve as a soldier. Fu Buer rarely leaves the village. He goes to the market once every ten days at midnight, and only goes to the county town once or twice a year. Fu Fu has only been to Yuanmei Yangcun less than five or six times in total, which is his entire world. In rare moments of leisure from work, he and other children would climb up a small mound two or three miles away from the village, look at the scenery in the distance, and debate what they would encounter and see if they kept walking in a certain direction. A trip to a county where he couldn't see any villages was already an eye-opener for him.
When he was a soldier, the village sent young men from each family tied up with ropes. In order to prevent Pai Ding from escaping halfway, this is what every village does. He and several people from the village who were sent to serve as soldiers were tied together with ropes and escorted stumbling across the bumpy road. The village sent several strong men with large swords, wooden guns and guns to escort them. He still remembered that the eldest son Fu Yizhuang, the leader of Fu Yousan, had been using a rusty sword to mark their necks: whoever dared to escape halfway would have their heads chopped off. The cold whizzing blade made his body feel cold and his heart felt cold. Before leaving, the wife of the house only gave him a pair of rags and a torn vest-like piece of cloth. , not even letting him wear a pair of straw sandals. Fu Buyer said: "Let him wear it and go." But his wife took advantage of him: "Anyway, he will be dead when he leaves, so what shoes should he wear?"
He walked barefoot like this for several days, eating a few raw sweet potatoes and drinking a few sips of raw water every day. Almost every pie had diarrhea. There was an orphan in the village who was too young and suffered from severe diarrhea. He died on the way before he could reach the shop. The eldest son who was responsible for sending them to Fu Yousan's house dug a shallow hole on the roadside and buried the person. He kept complaining, "Why don't I die before I get to Bopu?"
Fu Fu dragged his feet and was sent all the way to Bopu with a depressed mood of death, and he became a soldier for the Australians from then on.
Fu Fu didn't know the so-called "encounters in life". In his thinking mode that lacked adjectives, he still felt lucky that he had "had good luck". The life of a soldier opened up another path in his life that led him to a world that he had never imagined in the past - a world that he had never dreamed of.
"I really didn't expect that such a day would come." Fu Fu took off his straw hat. When he left Meiyang Village, he didn't expect that he would come back alive, let alone come back in such a majestic manner. It turned out that he could be a soldier and play tricks. It plays the same "Returning Home in Beautiful Clothes". Thinking of this, Fu Fu couldn't help but smile proudly. He felt very happy when he thought about what the mean wife of the house would look like when she saw him.
Fu Fu quickened his pace and walked towards the village. He couldn't wait to see Fu Yijin. With Fu Yijin, even the Fu family's wife became less annoying.
He walked along the road, looking at the fields on both sides of the road. Many fields had already dug ditches and installed gates. The army also contributed to these farmland water conservancy projects. Fu Fu participated in "supporting agriculture", two-thirds of which They are all used in farmland water conservancy construction.
Approaching the entrance of the village, he saw two girls coming down the hillside by the roadside. One was wearing blue cloth "work clothes" and the other was dressed like a local girl. Both of them were carrying a rattan basket with food inside. Full of young grass. One of the girls was holding a basket in her hand, which contained rice and grains that had fallen into the field.
From the way the girl walked and the general figure, Fu Fu could tell at a glance that they were Fu Yijin and Fu Xi. He shouted loudly: "Sister Yijin! Sister Xi!"
The two girls stopped and looked at him in surprise.
Fu Fu saw them stop and decided they were it. Hurry up and catch up. As he got closer, he could see more clearly - that was not who they were. Fu Yijin still wore braids, with bangs on his forehead and a wooden hairpin on his head. With a round face and a pair of small but dark eyes, he looked at the homestead in surprise. It’s really a woman’s transformation. I haven’t seen her for two years, and her appearance is completely different from before. He greeted loudly: "Sister Yijin, it's me!"
Fu Yijin and Fu Xi were still looking at the strange soldier in surprise, not recognizing who he was yet.
Fu Fu walked up to her and the others, took off his helmet, and said with a smile, "It's me! I'm Xiao Fu!"
The two finally recognized each other. This strong and handsome young man is Fu Fu. Fu Xi took two steps forward in surprise: "You are Brother Xiaofu! Why did you come back from the team? I really didn't expect it."
Fu Fu smiled with his mouth open, not knowing what to say for a moment. Fu Xi was wearing common work clothes at Bopu, which made him very surprised - except for village cadres and the like, ordinary country people really didn't dress like this. Did she also go to work for the elders?
Fu Xi saw him looking at the clothes on his body: "I studied in the National School. This is the school's gift. I wore it when I was studying engineering and agriculture." Fu Xi pointed to the cloth stamp on his chest. Sure enough, it had the National People's Congress on it. The name of the school, as well as the school's motto "Knowledge is power."
"The school is on farm break, so I came back to the village." Fu Xi looked at Fu Fu with a look of surprise and joy on his face. She took his arm and looked left and right, "You have become so majestic and majestic. If it wasn't you who called us, I really wouldn't dare to recognize you," she said, poking Fu Yijin, "Tell me, sister Yijin."
Fu Yijin smiled shyly, a blush appeared on his face, and he was speechless. After a while, he said: "You have worked hard along the way, so you should go home first."
"Is Mr. Fu at home?"
"Dad is in the fields. Wan Chang is here and is giving us agricultural skills lessons." Fu Yijin felt strange that Fu Fu suddenly changed his name to Fu Buer and called him "Master" - it was like a stranger's name. . But she knew that Fu Fu was no longer an adopted child of her family. She looked at Fu Fu: he was taller and stronger than before, his skin was healthy, his hair was short and slicked like Australians, especially his handsome armed belt and the dagger hanging on his belt. She couldn't take her eyes off him for a moment.
Is this still the domestic boy chasing ducks on his farm? Seeing his smile and eyes, Fu Yijin's heart started pounding. I didn't dare to look at Fu Fu's face anymore.
"Let's go home together."
Along the way, he learned from Fu Xi's mouth about the tax scandal more than a year ago and its aftermath.
"Fu Yousan's old red father was severely punished by the elders. Now he has become poor and can no longer show prestige at home." Fu Yousan is very unpopular in the village. Fu Buer has many contradictions. Fu Yousan has many contradictions. Everyone in the Fuji family hates this person. Fu Xi had eaten from this old man's walking stick in the past, and talking about it relieved him a lot.
"Now our family is considered rich, and the head of the family has become the village chief." Fu Xi said, "The family business is several times bigger than before. Wan Chang is such a capable person! It's like turning stone into gold!" When she talked about Wan Lihui, her eyebrows were beaming with admiration.
"Master sent you to study?"
"Yes, if it weren't for the fact that the family was too busy with too few people, he would have wanted to send a few more to study. Nowadays, hiring workers is more expensive, and it's not like in the past to just give them a full meal." a! ~!
