In the yard square of Xinyi Field, as the field director Li Renyuan read the 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 are not married and are alone in a foreign land.
"Wang Taisheng, I am 22 years old. My hometown is Wangjiazhuang, Dong'a County, Tai'an Prefecture, Shandong Province. Tongzhi, no, I arrived in Nanhua on March 16, 1868. My father's name is Wang Shicheng... he is a farmer.
Yes, yes, just...farming..."
Li Shunchang, the teacher at the farm school in charge of the census, looked at the young man in front of him and asked in Shandong dialect:
"We are fellow villagers. I am from Feicheng and we are both from Tai'an Prefecture. Taisheng, do you have anything else to add?"
As soon as he heard that he was a fellow countryman, Wang Taisheng's tone became more friendly and he said quickly.
"I didn't know that Mr. Li is also from Tai'an. It's good that he's a fellow villager. Well, by the way, I was called Wang Si before I came here. Yes, I'm the fourth eldest in the family, so people call me Si Lunzi!"
"Well, I've noted it down. Is there anything else you want to add?"
The teacher's words made Wang Taisheng's dark face feel a little embarrassed. He swallowed, and then asked a little embarrassedly:
"Well...that...if you die, what kind of pension can...how much can you give?"
He had heard from others about the pension. If he accidentally lost his life, his family would receive a sum of money.
In other words, no one can say how many they will have.
"I heard it's five hundred yuan!"
Wang Taisheng's eyes lit up and he asked excitedly.
"Five hundred yuan! Yes, is it the ocean? Yes, can you send it back to my father?"
Regarding this question, Li Shunchang felt a little embarrassed. He didn't know whether it could be sent back to Tai'an Mansion. In order not to chill his heart, he had to answer this question. He scratched his head and just responded casually.
"Maybe, maybe it's the ocean, maybe I can send it back... What's wrong, why are you thinking about dying before you even go to the battlefield? Stop thinking about it, fight well, don't think about it..."
"Hey, I know, I know..."
Wang Taisheng nodded, and when he was about to ask something more, 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, they will send the money to your parents and brothers no matter what. If they are willing to come to Nanhua, we will also give it to them.
The two of them will take care of themselves until they die!"
I'm afraid they don't believe it, Accountant Liang said.
"Our Security Department's doctrine is clearly written. Don't worry, this is not the first time the army has fought. Some people have died in the past, and the money will be sent to their parents!"
"Really, really!"
Wang Taisheng's eyes lit up again, and he wanted to ask more, but after thinking about it for a moment, he shook his head and left with a smile on his face...
Soon, Xinyi Field received the mobilization of fifty field workers and completed the registration plan - all the registration records were made in triplicate, one was kept at the venue, one was sent to the Security Department, and the other was sent to the company.
After completing the registration, of course, you must put it into practice for these people. After all, these conscripts go to the battlefield to protect everyone.
In order to see them off, the farm slaughtered the pigs that had been raised for two years and had been kept for the New Year. In the past, the pigs in the farm were kept for the New Year, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals to eat at dinner parties.
.Today, no one would say that they had eaten a few more bites of meat. When the pig was about to be killed, everyone was talking there.
"Pick the fattest one and let the brothers eat enough..."
When it was time to cook, Chef Chen, who owned the restaurant, shouted:
"I used all the ingredients I had hidden at home. Even when Li Laowai got married, I didn't even want to let go. I guarantee that you will be satisfied with your meal today."
As he spoke, his eye circles became red... Some people advised him.
"Fat Chen, you don't have to be like this! It's not a separation between life and death!"
Wiping away his tears, Fatty Chen yelled:
"Don't talk nonsense! Why do I feel uncomfortable? I feel so uncomfortable! I feel uncomfortable with the aniseed in this pot. I brought this from my hometown in Jiangsu. It was when my father cooked for Mr. Sun in the city for his birthday.
My family asked someone to bring it back from Nanjing. It’s been so many years! I’m not even willing to eat it..."
No one is willing to eat, no one is willing to eat,
Whether they are men or women, they all hope that these people can eat a few more bites of meat before leaving...
"Mud will definitely come if you bite! No bite, no bite*%...*—%"
In a settlement in a valley in the Andes Mountains, a woman hugged her man and said that although the woman's voice was loud, her tone was still very gentle. In the end, perhaps she spoke too hastily, and she did not speak Chinese, but
It was an Annan dialect, and the woman with tears streaming down her face was no longer as charming as usual.
"You're a foreign woman. You've been married to me for six years, and you still can't speak Mandarin. What will you do if I die?"
Patting the woman's shoulder, the man comforted her.
"Don't worry! I'm very tough on you man. I won't accept it from the Lord of Hell. It's just that I'll suffer a lot when I leave. Boss, second brother, although you two are still young, after dad leaves, you will be our family."
I am a man and the breadwinner of the family. I help your mother with a lot of work at home and don’t let your mother know if she is tired."
While comforting his wife, he looked at his two sons standing next to 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 family will depend on you from now on..."
"Dad, I know!"
The boy nodded heavily and then said.
"Don't worry, I will be at home from now on!"
When the five-year-old boy spoke, tears were already flowing down his face. He just bit his lip tightly, as if at this moment, he had become a man.
man!
The cruel reality will make many children become men instantly.
"Dad, I know."
After touching his sons' heads, the man smiled, and then said to the woman who was in tears.
"Okay, don't cry. I can't die. If I die, what will you do, a foreign woman who can't even speak a word!"
"What should I do? I, I will, wait for you, you, you must come back..."
The woman cried and wiped her tears.
The man smiled, and 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 on the carriage. They all received the recruitment order. The men were slapping each other.
When they were saying hello, people followed the carriage and took them to the entrance of the village. The women and children kept waving their hands.
"Wang Daxiao, you must come back. Wait, when you come back, teach me how to speak Mandarin... You must come back. If you don't come back, I, I will never let you go..."
Seeing that the carriage the man was sitting in was about to leave, the woman suddenly chased after him, grabbed the man's hand, shouted to him with tears in her eyes, and then suddenly grabbed the man and kissed him! In an instant, there was a burst of laughter.
The man who had been kissed several times by his wife blushed with embarrassment, but he still smiled innocently.
"You stupid bitch...how can you look like a foreign bitch and bite people?"
While talking, Wang Daxiao looked at his mother-in-law with eyes full of reluctance...