Zhui Xu

In the first lunar month, people in Wenpu County in southwest China are still immersed in the festive atmosphere of the New Year.

As a small county town in the southwestern corner of the mountainous area, Wenpu did not have a prosperous cultural life in the past. Although the supplies in the county town were better than those in the surrounding villages in the past, there would occasionally be one or two theater and juggling troupes, but in the end it was just Only a few big families in the county can enjoy it.

It took more than two years for the Huaxia Army to unify the Southwest. This year, the art troupe developed from Zhuji finally took care of this side. Around the end of the year, a troupe toured in Wenpu County and nearby villages, and there were almost no tickets for free activities. It ignited the enthusiasm of the people in the county and nearby. A large number of people chased the theater troupe and watched the big show with huge crowds for several days. With the development of this kind of public entertainment activities, families with a little extra money near the county town have also carried out more consumption. , are several times more.

It is not yet night, and most of the production activities in the city have not yet resumed. The children ran around the street with runny noses, shouting to each other lines heard in the previous few days, such as "Zong Han, you have today", " I'll hit you with a stroke of Heaven's seal" and so on, while the locals with more relatives are still visiting the streets to pay New Year's greetings. Only some work to protect people's livelihood is only slightly suspended on the 30th and the first day of the new year. Afterwards, it has been carried out step by step.

The Yexiang women still get up in the early morning every day, and before dawn, they take away the barrels of Yexiang from each household, and Tang Minjie also stays at the Yexiang station named "Huaxia Army 223 Agricultural Research Institute". Every morning, take away a large cart of Yexiang.

At the end of the new year, the "223 Agricultural Research Institute" actually had several days of winter vacation, but even without research tasks, the operation of Yexiang Station was still ensuring the normal operation of people's livelihood in Wenpu County, so after applying, Tang Minjie became He became the last member of the research institute who stayed on the job. Although the director of the director, Chen Tingrang, said to him: "If no one picks up Yexiang, Ye Xiangfu will naturally drop it into the river, and the water will wash it away. It's okay." They overcharged for selling night incense for a few days.

The total workload, after all, is down.

When he had nothing to do, he also followed the gathered people to listen to a few plays. The Huaxia Army is understaffed, and the teams sent to small places like Wenpu are obviously newcomers, and they are not really experienced in the rules and regulations of dramas. , Tang Minjie could see the problem, but the ordinary audience didn't care about those things. People were smiling at the party, and in the rising firelight and the sound of firecrackers, everyone's faces were full of unspeakable expressions. Even the shivering beggar, with his clothes on, showed his half-missed teeth and participated in the event.

Everything seems to be a lifetime away.

When the New Year's Eve in the past came, he was still in the north, watching countless Han slaves suffering from hunger and cold, driving their mouths, and even worrying about the firewood in winter, occupying the Jurchens on the hills, even the people in the mountains Weeds are not allowed to be pulled by others.

And Wanyan Xiyin had the face to say to him: "...I originally wanted Hannu to live a better life."

Unfortunately, it was impossible for him to execute every Jurchen in the Northland with his own hands.

And in a blink of an eye, he was back to the south.

He had never even seen the scene in this remote small county before him, the smiles on people's faces, even when he was in the bustling Daming Mansion.

In the past, Wang Xietang's front swallow flew into the homes of ordinary people.

Although some of the playful lyrics are more or less playful to ridicule the teacher, for most people who "know opera", the lyrics are too vernacular, he can understand them immediately, even in the hoarse performances of those young actors. Among them, I felt the soul-stirring greatness, which is something infinitely greater than the delicacy of the lyrics and the exquisite pace.

So when the turbulent crowd was watching the big show, Tang Minjie sat far away, either in the sound of firecrackers in the daytime, or in the flickering firelight at night, watching the smiling faces quietly. Presented lively.

For him, this is the New Year's celebration.

On the fourth day of the lunar new year, among the turbulent market-like crowds in the evening, I met several Yexiang women from Wenpu. The young woman He Qing they wanted to introduce to him in the past was also among them with her children.

Generally speaking, Ye Xiangfu's personality is relatively two-level, either she is extraordinarily quiet and inferior, or she is extraordinarily enthusiastic and extroverted. The few she met this time are naturally extroverted, and the group booed Tang Minjie and He Qing to "get along" , The two had no choice but to walk with the child in the crowd for a while. After finding a good seat in the front row for the child, the woman who didn't have much to talk about but obviously had a good impression of Tang Minjie asked him about land allocation.

"Uh, I heard that the land is allocated to those who have no land..."

"Well, yes, everyone should share in the future."

"Uh, I heard... those who don't have a husband's family will also be given points."

"Well, the newspaper said that as long as you have registered household registration, you will have it."

"Ah, I heard...the exam..."

"Don't worry, it shouldn't be difficult."

"I haven't passed the exam, and my baby hasn't... I can't read, and my baby..."

"At that time, someone will teach you in advance and give you lessons."

"Then what if...you have studied, but haven't passed the exam. Tang...Little Tang brother, you...have you ever studied? Do you know what they teach..."

The news about the land reform and land division has been the center of the Huaxia Army's work years ago, and there are many propagandas in the newspapers, but it has not yet reached the boundary of Wenpu County. Most people who heard about it were nervous and skeptical. Tang Minjie gradually understood what He Qing wanted to say at this time.

"The things taught by the land reform working group... I don't know the details at the moment, but I can probably guess some. More specific... I have to ask."

"Then...can you...teach us when you have time, even...just teach me, if you learn...you can teach me..."

Among the many Yexiang women, the twenty-seven-year-old He Qing was considered pretty. When he said this, he didn't know what he was thinking of, and he felt a special force. Tang Minjie was used to observing words and expressions, so he naturally knew the meaning of what the other person said, but he didn't care, but thought about it seriously.

"I'm going to think about it."

The other party only thought that he refused.

He thought about it for a few days.

A few days later, the extroverted woman Ye Xiang asked him about the division of the Huaxia Army. The whole thing sounded like a fantasy in the small place in front of him, but who didn't have such expectations in their hearts?

A few days later, the institute officially went to work. When the director, Chen Tingrang, asked Tang Minjie to talk about work, Tang Minjie talked to him about some thoughts in his heart, but Chen Tingrang was shocked. The 223 Research Institute is considered an extremely remote place among the various institutions of the Huaxia Army. Except for the director, Chen Cirang, who used to be a Confucian scholar, although there are other people in the institute who have come down from the battlefield, most of them are already in similar situations. The state of "retirement" is basically supported by a few backbones, and other people don't have much idea to dawdle.

Even in such an environment, collecting night incense is still the most low-level thing among all employees. Therefore, even though Chen Cirang had long realized that there might be some background behind Tang Minjie, he never thought that he would be in such a position. On, but also want to do some strange things.

Naturally, he gave verbal encouragement, chatted with Tang Minjie for a lot of miscellaneous things, and found that he couldn't get any meaningful clues from the other party's mouth, so Chen Renrang asked someone to inquire about the other party in private. History: How could such a thoughtful young man be assigned to him?

This is not the first time he has inquired, and of course he still found nothing.

On Tang Minjie's side, he naturally understood the director's mood, but he didn't need to worry too much about it. After getting approval, on the morning of the tenth day of the first lunar month, Tang Minjie had a conversation with a group of women at Yexiang Station, and mentioned the matter of land reform. He said that he could give everyone a small study class every morning. Yexiang woman can participate. If there are adults in the family, or children who have not yet entered school, they can also come together. He can teach everyone a certain amount of elementary education, including the identification of some numbers that will be used in the land reform test. , Huaxia Army and the writing of personal names, so as to make them more prepared for the next land reform.

After the unification of the Southwest, although Ning Yi promoted a large number of children's education and good learning, in two or three years, there are naturally many people who have not caught up with the convenience of this matter, especially the main body of the elementary school The main focus is on children, and some evening schools or self-study courses for adults are still not on the right track at this time, not to mention the families of Yexiang women who have the lowest status among the crowd.

Tang Minjie made this decision after careful consideration.

A group of young and old Yexiang women were dumbfounded, and asked several times. After clarifying the matter, some people laughed and joked: "At our age, what else can we learn..." Some old ladies Sitting on the ground, he opened his toothless mouth and began to cry.

In this way, on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month of this year, in the somewhat "disgraceful" Yexiang Station, or in the entire Huaxia Army, or in the thousands of years of history, the first Mongolian school established for Yexiang women Under the impetus of Tang Minjie, a cram school was established in a corner of Yu Wenpu, a small county town.

Although the family background is not very good, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a group of women and old ladies who usually deal with filth still brought all kinds of food to Yexiang Station and gave them to Tang Minjie. "Shu Xiu" taught the teacher that even though Tang Minjie, who had been working in the enemy's rear for so many years and was used to seeing the world, racked his brains, he still couldn't refuse these foods.

It had to be changed into a breakfast for the children from Yexiang's family in the days that followed.

Not long after the peaceful New Year passed, Peng Yueyun came from outside again and brought some food and supplies, but was scolded by Tang Minjie and accepted half a pack of wedding candy from him. After hearing about the study class Tang Minjie held at Yexiang Station, Peng Yueyun was stunned by what he did.

The young teenager stayed in Wenpu for one night, collected Ye Xiang with Tang Minjie the next morning, and hid aside to listen to the short morning class teaching numbers and names. On the way back to Xiaoye Village dragging the dung bucket, he tentatively said, "This can be used for publicity."

Tang Minjie said to him seriously: "Don't make trouble."

Peng Yueyun nodded: "...OK."

"You have to promise, and you are not allowed to tell Lin Jingmei."

This time ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Peng Yueyun was silent for a long time before nodding: "...OK."

During the time after Tang Minjie returned home, Peng Yueyun always wanted to make him feel better in some form, but this time, he didn't pull him until he returned to Xiaoye Village, dealt with Ye Xiang, and was about to leave. Tang's sleeve, said: "...Brother, I understand you."

"..." Tang Minjie looked at him.

"Occupied the southwest, and after Chengdu developed greatly, the random flowers became more and more attractive to the eyes. Some people are different from before, and I saw a lot of things, but today, brother... I understand you, you are the same person as the teacher, You are the closest. Don’t worry, I’ll just do what you say.”

Pulling Tang Minjie's sleeve at this time, the eyes of this soldier, who might have been promoted to major general in the near future if he hadn't married Lin Jingmei, were slightly red: "But...a person like you, with this appearance...I feel uncomfortable..."

Tang Minjie hesitated for a moment, then put his arms around his shoulders, just like the cruel and murderous seniors back then, hugging the young comrades he saved.

"It's nothing, don't be influenced by me..." he said, "Live a good life."