Chapter 316: People's Heart (First Update, Please Subscribe)
"Zhao Ansheng!"
"kingdom!"
"Li Yue!"
"Zhou Yan!"
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In the station square of Xinyi Field, as the field manager Li Renyuan read out the name list, workers, young and old, stood up one by one. Some of them said goodbye to their families, while others looked a little confused. Some of them had not married and were alone in a foreign land.
"Wang Taisheng, I'm 22 years old. My hometown is Wangjiazhuang, Dong'e County, Tai'an Prefecture, Shandong Province. I came to Nanhua on March 16, 1868 during the Tongzhi period. My father's name is Wang Shicheng. He is a farmer, yes, yes, that is...farming..."
Li Shunchang, the farm school teacher in charge of registration, looked at the young man in front of him and asked in a friendly tone in Shandong dialect:
"We are from the same hometown. I am from Feicheng, and we are both from Tai'an Prefecture. Taisheng, do you have anything to add?"
When he heard that he was a fellow villager, Wang Taisheng's tone became friendly and he quickly spoke.
"I didn't know Mr. Li was also from Tai'an. It's good that we're from the same hometown. It's good that we're from the same hometown. Oh, by the way, before I came here, my name was Wang Si. Yes, I was the fourth child in my family, and everyone called me Si Lengzi!"
"Okay, I've made note of it. Is there anything else you want to add?"
The teacher's words made Wang Taisheng's dark face a little embarrassed. He swallowed his saliva and asked with some embarrassment:
"Well...well...if I die, how much...how much pension can I get?"
He had heard about the pension from others. If he lost his life accidentally, his family would receive a sum of money.
No one can say for sure how much they know.
"I heard it's five hundred dollars!"
Wang Taisheng's eyes lit up and he asked excitedly.
"Five hundred dollars! Is that dollars? Can you send it back to my father?"
Li Shunchang felt a little embarrassed about this question. He was not sure whether it could be sent back to Tai'an Prefecture. In order not to disappoint him, he had to answer this question. Scratching his head, he just responded casually.
"Maybe, maybe it's a lot of money, maybe it can be sent back... What's the matter, why are you thinking about death before you even go to the battlefield? Stop imagining nonsense, just fight the war properly, don't think nonsense..."
"Oh, I know, I know..."
Wang Taisheng nodded, and when he was about to ask something else, Accountant Liang, who had been standing next to him, came over and said.
"Brother Wang, don't worry. If you die in battle, Nanhua will definitely not treat your family badly. As long as they are alive, we will send the money to your parents and brothers. If they are willing to come to Nanhua, we will also provide them with care until the end of their lives!"
I’m afraid they don’t believe it, Accountant Liang said.
"It's clearly written in our Security Department's regulations. Don't worry. This isn't the first time the troops have fought in a war. There have been casualties in the past, and the money was still delivered to their parents!"
“Really, really!”
Wang Taisheng's eyes lit up again, and he wanted to ask something else, but after thinking for a moment, he shook his head and left with a smile on his face...
Soon, the Xinyi Field received the mobilized fifty field workers and completed the registration - all the registrations were made in triplicate, one copy was kept in the field, one was sent to the Security Bureau, and one was sent to the company.
After completing the registration, of course, these people must be trained. After all, these conscripts are on the battlefield to protect everyone.
To send them off, the farm slaughtered the pigs that had been raised for two years and were originally kept for the Chinese New Year. In the past, the farm's pigs were kept for New Year, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals. Today, no one would say that they had eaten a few more bites of meat. When the farm was about to slaughter the pigs, everyone was talking about it.
"Pick the fattest one so that the brothers can eat their fill..."
When it was time to cook, the chef Chen, who ran the restaurant, shouted:
"I used up all the spices I had hidden at home. I didn't even use them when Li Laowai got married. I promise you'll be satisfied with the meal today."
As he spoke, his eyes turned red...some people advised him.
"Fatty Chen, you don't have to be like this! This isn't a life-and-death separation!"
Wiping away his tears, Fatty Chen yelled:
"Don't talk nonsense! Why should I be upset? I am upset at all! I am upset about the spices in this pot. I brought them from my hometown in Jiangsu. They were brought back from Nanjing by someone from the Sun family when my father cooked for Mr. Sun's birthday in the city. It has been so many years! I haven't been willing to eat them..."
No one is willing to eat it.
Whether they are men or women, they all hope that these people can eat a few more bites of meat before leaving...
"You must bite it and come back alive! If you can't bite it, you can't bite it *%... *—%"
In a settlement in a valley in the Andes Mountains, a woman hugged her man and said, although the woman's voice was loud, her tone was still very gentle. At the end, perhaps because she spoke too quickly, she spoke not in Chinese, but in Annan. The woman, with tears streaming down her face, no longer had her usual charm.
"You foreign woman, you have been married to me for six years, and you still speak Mandarin with a stammer. What will you do if I die?"
Patting the woman's shoulder, the man comforted her.
"Don't worry! I'm a tough man, and the King of Hell won't take me away. But it will be hard for you when I'm gone. Big brother, second brother, although you two are still young, after daddy is gone, you will be the men of the family, the pillars of the family. Help your mother with more work at home, and don't let your mother get tired, okay?"
While comforting his wife, he looked at his two sons standing beside him. The man bent down and held his sons in his arms, and then seemed to say.
"Boss, the gun is hanging on the wall. Remember this. From now on, this family depends on you..."
"Dad, I know!"
The boy nodded heavily and then said.
"Don't worry, I'll be at your home from now on!"
When the five-year-old boy spoke, tears had already flowed down his face. He just bit his lips tightly, as if at that moment, he had become a man.
man!
The cruel reality will make many children become men in an instant.
"Dad, I know."
The man patted his sons' heads, smiled, and then spoke to the woman who was crying.
"Okay, stop crying. I won't die. If I die, what will you do as a foreign woman who can't even speak properly?"
"What should I do? I will wait for you. You must come back..."
The woman cried and wiped her tears.
The man smiled, then walked out of the yard with his bag on his back without looking back. A carriage was waiting for him outside the yard. There were also several people sitting in the carriage. They had all received the conscription order. While the men were greeting each other, people followed the carriage and sent them to the village entrance. The women and children kept waving their hands.
"Wang Daxiao, you must come back. Wait, wait until you come back, teach, teach me to speak Mandarin... You must come back. If you don't come back, I will never let you go even if I die..."
Seeing the carriage the man was sitting in was about to leave, the woman suddenly chased after him, grabbed the man's hand, yelled at him with tears in her eyes, and then suddenly grabbed the man and kissed him! In an instant, laughter broke out.
The man, who was kissed several times by his wife, blushed but smiled foolishly.
"You silly woman... why are you the same as those foreign women, so good at biting people."
As he spoke, Wang Daxiao looked at his wife with eyes full of reluctance...
(End of this chapter)
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