After dinner, it was two o'clock in the afternoon when Mingxi and his party arrived home. Wang Sufen heard the movement and hurriedly came out to say hello: "Mingxi, come in quickly, the troops are here."

Mingxi was stunned for a moment, and Sayazi ran into the house, took a few steps into the east house, looked at the two PLA troops who stood up, and immediately stood straight and gave a military salute. The two PLA soldiers returned a military salute and stepped forward to shake hands with Mingxi: "Hello, Comrade Li Mingxi, we have something important to tell you this time."

Seeing this, Mrs. Li hurriedly took her family out and closed the door intimately. Wang Sufen tugged her neck to look at it, and quietly dragged her.

Grabbing Mrs. Li's sleeve: "Mother, what do you think they are here for? Didn't Mingxi graduate?"

Mrs. Li took a puff of cigarettes, and after a moment of silence, she said, "It is estimated that we should let him return to the army. This kind of thing is a secret.

Wang Sufen nodded again and again: "What mother said is, I know, I don't want to talk much."

Mingxi and the People's Liberation Army talked inside for more than half an hour before they opened the door. One of the People's Liberation Army said to Mrs. Li and Li Muwu and his wife, "The country has a research mission that requires a group of students who have graduated from the military academy. Comrade Li Mingxi has excellent grades during his school days. He is an outstanding graduate again and has been recognized by the above, so Comrade Li Mingxi was named by the above to be specially recruited back to the army this time." Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen looked at each other with joy on their faces, and nodded again and again to say yes.

Wang Sufen couldn't stop looking at the smile on Mingxi's face, and she couldn't stop laughing: "This is great, comrade of the People's Liberation Army, you don't know, my family Mingxi has lost his soul for the past month at home. Yes, it is his wish to be able to return to the army this time."

Mingxi looked at Wang Sufen's happy expression and hesitated to speak, but Mrs. Li couldn't help but asked, "What's wrong?"

Mingxi looked at his family with a very complicated expression: "Honey, I may not be able to come back for many years after I leave."

As soon as the words fell, the smiles of the family were frozen on their faces. Wang Sufen took the lead and couldn't stand it, she turned her face to remove the tears, and Mrs. Li took out a cigarette bag and pot from her waist and took a few sips. Suddenly, the room fell silent.

Wang Sufen cried for a few minutes, and finally controlled her emotions. She turned her head and wiped the tears from her face with her rough palms. She choked up and said, "Mingxi, go with the comrade of the People's Liberation Army."

"Mom..." Mingxi looked at Wang Sufen who was crying with red eyes, and her eyes were a little wet.

"Mingxi, Mom knows that your heart is in the army. You have been in school for so many years, and Mom doesn't know what you have learned, but Mom knows that if you go to the factory at home, what you have learned in the past few years will be in vain. The country needs it now. You, just use your talents well, there are two younger brothers at home, don't worry."

Wang Sufen has always been an honest and honest image in everyone's heart. Her mother-in-law is in charge of the house, and her daughter-in-law is very capable. She rarely makes decisions at home. She likes to ask her mother-in-law about big things. No one thought that she would be the first to agree today. It was Wang Sufen who was walking in Mingxi.

Mrs. Li took a breath, her voice was a little low: "Mingxi, your mother is hurting you, and I don't want you to waste the knowledge you learned at home." She knocked on the cigarette bag and nodded: "Go, you Isn't it the same, uncle. When you arrive in the army, you will take the army as your home and listen to the organization's arrangements."

Mingxi nodded and looked back at the two PLA troops. One of them immediately stood up and said, "Auntie, sister-in-law, then we'll take Mingxi away. He went to a special place, and he may rarely be able to write letters home. , but don't worry, it's very safe there and there won't be any danger."

Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen nodded again and again. Mingxi had nothing to pack. He only brought a few changes of clothes and a water bottle. The rest will be provided when the troops arrive.

He picked up his luggage and looked back at his family. Even though he was sweating and sweating in the army, he never shed tears. Wang Sufen immediately turned her head and went back to the house, and she burst into tears when Mingxi came out of the gate. In fact, everyone knows that the army is the most suitable place for Mingxi, but the thought of him not being able to go home for many years makes me feel a little uncomfortable. The dull mood spread in the old Li's family for many days, until Mingnan was successfully admitted to the hydrolysis plant, the whole family had a smile on their faces.

Ming Bei didn't know what it was like at school, but listening to him, the teacher was still in class, but there weren't that many students attending the class, and they often ran out in groups of three or five, while Zhen Zhen's primary school had completely closed classes.

Zhen Zhen didn't care about the suspension of classes at all, she could memorize all the things in the third grade of elementary school by flipping through the textbook, it was a waste of time to study there for a year.

Xu Shi saw that the men of Lao Li's family were not at home, and Zhang Defu, who had been inactive for more than half a month, spent many days at the door of Lao Li's house, and finally took advantage of the day when Li Mingzhong took Tianhu out for a run, and took some of his brothers with him. The son came to the door.

Zhen Zhen stood in the yard and looked at Zhang Defu with a sneer, she had found Zhang Defu sneaking around her door in the past two days, so she sent Li Mingzhong out, just to lead the snake out of the hole and get rid of this scum as soon as possible.

Holding a stick in her hand, Zhen Zhen looked at Zhang Defu with a smile: "Oh, I haven't been bitten enough by my Li Mingzhong? How dare you come?"

Zhang Defu looked at the chubby little girl in front of him, and smiled smugly: "Don't think I don't know, your family Li Mingzhong has gone out, and now there are only a few girls in your family. But we are neighbors, and I don't want to be with you either. Tear off your face, it's the same sentence I said last time, give me ten yuan, and then give me two bags of your family's grain, and the grievances between our two families will be written off."

Mrs. Li and others came out of the room when they heard the movement. Seeing the seven or eight strong young men who came, Mrs. Li sank in her heart, fearing that her family would suffer this time.

Zhen Zhen held a stick in her right hand and knocked on her left hand: "Yo, the price has gone up in half a month, your face is really licked by a dog. But there is one thing you may not know..." Zhen Zhen Chao Zhang Defu showed a sweet smile: "Look back."

A group of people hurriedly turned around and saw Li Mingzhong standing at the door with fierce eyes. Tianhu, who was of the same size next to him, looked a little stupid, but when he looked at the sharp teeth that he opened his mouth, no one dared to ignore him. .

While they were stunned, Osmanthus hurriedly stuffed the bean bag into Wang Sufen's arms, pulled the meat bag and pushed them into the house, and took out another pig-killing knife.

Seeing that the three generations of the old Li family were desperately trying, and there were two wolf dogs watching, Zhang Defu felt a little short of breath at first. He swallowed his saliva, his voice a little out of tune: "Well, we are old neighbors for many years, and I don't want to have a relationship with you. Well, you give me five yuan and a bag of grain and I will leave immediately."

Mrs. Li smiled disdainfully: "Zhang Defu, Zhang Defu, you said that you are also in your forties. Are you ashamed if you mix up like this? As long as you are willing to endure hardship and go to manage the wood you pull, you can do it in a month. Earning forty or fifty dollars is no better than cheating people all day long."

Zhang Defu was the kind of lazy person when he was a child. If he could listen to this, his family wouldn't be turned into rogues. He shook the stick in his hands and took a step forward: "Mrs. Li, I'm not here to listen to you. , don't delay time, we all go to work during the day, but no one can save you, and if you don't give money, I'm welcome."

As soon as he finished speaking, the braised chicken nuggets came out of the garden step by step. Because every household kept chickens, no one paid any attention to it. When it moved to Zhang Defu's side, it suddenly jumped up with its wings and flew towards Zhang Defu's. The hand slammed violently for a while, and the blood immediately flowed.

Zhen Zhen smiled when she saw this: "Braised chicken nuggets, you are so fat and you can jump quite high."

Braised chicken nuggets raised his head and shouted, and began to peck at Zhang Defu frantically. Li Mingzhong rushed in with Tianhu, and with a single bite, the thick stick on his arm could be snapped into two pieces.

For a while, the chicken and the people led by Zhang Defu scuffled together, Zhang Defu's younger brother Zhang Dehai took advantage of the chaos and rushed over to Zhen Zhen and strangled her neck. It hit him hard in the stomach. Zhang Dehai covered his stomach and bent over, his aching face turned discolored. Mrs. Li took the opportunity to take out the cigarette bag and pot from her waist, and slapped him twice on the head, which immediately filled his head.

He came over aggressively, and was beaten and fled in less than a minute. Zhang Dehai saw that his two younger brothers and eldest nephew were bitten on the legs and blood was coming out. He was even more timid and ran out along the door.

The people of the old Zhang family were originally a rabble, and each one was more squeamish than the other and was afraid of suffering. Seeing Zhang Dehai running away, they all followed quickly, leaving Zhang Defu alone in a blink of an eye. He nervously took two steps back, and seemed to feel that it would be a shame to run like this, but he really didn't have the courage to do it. The old Li family was not easy to mess with, and the animals they raised were actually better than each other. Feeling the pain of the wound on his leg, Zhang Defu bluffed and shouted: "You guys are waiting for me." Then he turned around and ran. Before he ran a few steps, he tripped over the threshold of the gate, and a big horse fell on his back. At the door, he nibbled at the mud.

The crisp laughter sounded from the yard, Zhen Zhen covered her stomach and bent over with laughter, Osmanthus scooped two spoons from the jar in the yard and poured it into Li Mingzhong's drinking basin, and said loudly: "Hongzhong, Tianhu, come and wash your mouth, biting on such a dirty garbage, it's disgusting."

Li Mingzhong barked twice immediately, as if he agreed. Zhang Defu, who had just got up, heard the dog barking, his legs softened again, and he ran away.

Touching Li Mingzhong's head, Zhen Zhen kept complimenting it: "I did a good job today, and Tianhu is also very clever, I will go up the mountain to catch a rabbit and stew meat for you two."

Li Mingzhong immediately barked a few times, but in the ears of Mrs. Li and Osmanthus, there was a dog barking, but Zhen Zhen listened to it: "What a bunny, one is not enough for me to stick between my teeth, let's drag a wild boar. "

Zhen Zhen tapped its head, and when the old lady Li and others had entered the room, she whispered: "It's very messy now, it's too conspicuous to drag the wild boar back, you can bear it for a while."

Li Mingzhong lowered his head in dejection, and while aggrieved, he drilled into Zhen Zhen's arms, while taking the opportunity to bargain: "Then I want to eat two rabbits, braised!"

Zhen Zhen smiled: "No problem."

As soon as he heard that there was something to eat, the braised chicken nuggets immediately ran over, flapping his wings to show his strength, Zhen Zhen pressed its head down, the braised chicken nuggets just wanted to resist, when suddenly they saw that there was a lot of food on the ground. There were a dozen grasshoppers, and they immediately stretched out their big feet and pressed them, and they ate happily.

The weather was getting colder day by day, and the rice jar and noodle jar of Lao Li's house were full as usual. The two cellars were filled with cabbage, potatoes and radishes. The roof collects the dried beans full of dried beans.

Zhen Zhen found a mountain from the outskirts of the imperial capital, because there were no villages, so it looked particularly desolate. Zhen Zhen scanned it with her consciousness and found that there was a mountain stream in the middle, it was not big, but very flat. Zhen Zhen repaired the place exactly like the space, and also left a narrow and hard-to-find passage at the foot of the mountain for easy access.

When everything was sorted out, Zhen Zhen chopped down three trees, and when she flicked her hand up, it immediately turned into a towering pile of firewood. Taking advantage of Mr. Forget-me's sweet sleep at night, Zhen Zhen quietly moved the mansion out. I was awakened by a momentary trembling, and stood up in a daze and looked outside. It was still the familiar starry sky and the dark mountain stream, so I yawned and went back to bed to continue to sleep.

The next morning, Mr. Forgetfulness got up and cooked breakfast by himself. Zhen Zhen smiled and came in with the newspaper of the day: "Teacher, you are awake, how are you resting?"

"It's very good." Wang I asked with noodles in one hand and pickles in the other: "Have you had breakfast? Let's eat together?"

"I've already eaten." Zhen Zhen said hurriedly: "I see that it's getting colder and colder, the teacher can turn on the heater earlier." Zhen Zhen pointed to an exquisite stove in the living room: "I'm watching every Every floor has a stove connected to the heating of each house. My father brought a lot of firewood last night and moved it to the shed outside for you. You can move it whenever you want.

I was very guilty and uneasy when I heard it: "I've troubled you two again, I don't even know how to repay you."

Zhen Zhen smiled and shook her head and said: "How can you help others in order to repay, my grandma said you can't be that kind of person." Seeing forgetting me, Zhen Zhen hurriedly diverted her words: "By the way, teacher, my father said There are three people who urgently need a place to hide, do you mind if they move in?

I hurriedly said, "This is your place. I'm already very grateful for letting me live here, so I don't care. Not to mention, it's more lively when someone speaks as a company."

Seeing the elated expression, Zhen Zhen scratched her head a little embarrassedly: "It's just that my father is secretly asking about the situation, people who don't know us are afraid they won't dare to come with me, the teacher is a well-known literary master in the country, can you help me? Write a few notes and treat it as the person you invited over."

After pondering for a while, he understood Zhen Zhen's concerns, if he wasn't thinking of seeking death, he wouldn't have believed in Zhen Zhen easily, after all, in the early years of war, children were also a weapon for killing people.

After staying here for a few months, I was very sure through the contact with Zhen Zhen that they just wanted to help me and had no other intentions, so he helped Zhen Zhen to write a note very neatly.

That night, Zhen Zhen had already taken the four of them to avoid the sight of the guards and escaped to this mountain in the suburbs. Zhen Zhen pushed aside the weeds as high as one person, and led the four of them through the winding cave, Came to a place of refuge.

saw a beautiful western-style building standing not far away, the grass under feet had turned yellow and hard, and there was a rustling sound when walked on it. Two apples stood on the side of the western-style building, and the branches were full of heavy apples. In the courtyard, a few hens bowed their heads to peck, and three or five birds stood not far away, chirping, a peaceful scene.

The four people's hearts that had been tense for a day finally relaxed. They looked at each other with a relaxed look on their faces. Pushing open the door of the western-style building, Mr. Forgetfulness also came out from the study on the second floor when he heard the sound. They looked at each other and called out each other's names in surprise.

The four people that Zhen Zhen brought back, one was Su Weiran, a well-known painter. His classic paintings often sold for hundreds of millions of dollars in later generations. Zhen Zhen felt that he was definitely a national treasure; the other was a master of Peking Opera. Xie Shurang, Xie Shurang's father was one of the biggest names in the period of the Republic of China, and Shurang, as his youngest son, is not only extremely talented, but also won the true inheritance of his father, and became one of the new four famous actors at a young age; He is an archaeologist and a scholar at the same time, and many poetry collections have been circulated in the world and become classics. The last one was a woman named Yan Baozhu, a well-known Peking Opera master who was also good at Kunqu Opera. She was Xie Shurang's father's apprentice, and Xie Shurang wanted to call her senior sister.

They were all discovered by Zhen Zhen when they started to write the death letter when they were in despair, and they were all on the verge of despair. If they hadn't seen the self-written notes and familiar signatures, they would never have been with a child. go.

The four of them sat on the sofa, their tired bodies relaxed, and they felt sore all over. I also came here from that time, and immediately said with experience: "Go to the bubble bath, have a good meal, and relax and sleep."

There is hot water in the bathroom. When Zhen Zhen was in the space, she used the hot spring water to bathe. She moved the mansion here and moved to a hot spring, which is directly connected to the water pipe in the previous bathroom. The water in the kitchen must be used for eating and drinking, and Zhen Zhen is connected to a mountain spring here, which is not only very clean and hygienic, but also refreshing and sweet to drink.

There are many bedrooms on the second and third floors of the western-style building. Su Weiran and the others found a room on the second floor to settle down, while Yan Baozhu lived on the third floor. Zhen Zhen checked the grain reserves of the western-style building, and was very fortunate that the original owner had Local tyrants, just the bags of rice and noodles piled up in this utility room are probably enough for these few people to eat for a winter.

Zhen Zhen left with confidence because she forgot to take care of them. Every day, she was busy in the imperial capital, Tianjin capital, and magic capital, buying and picking up a lot of things. Sometimes when she saw the things that the guards had snatched back, she secretly took them all and put them away, ready to hand them over to the state later.

In a blink of an eye, two years have passed, and another year of spring flowers has bloomed. As Zhen Zhen said, after working in the Anbei farm for more than half a year, the previous school was renamed Anbei Agricultural School, and Mingdong was renamed the Anbei Agricultural School. Bei arranged to go back and teach soil and fertilizer to the workers, peasants, and soldiers sent from various places.

Mingdong moved into the former single dormitory once again, and quickly wrote a letter to his family, telling everyone that he would continue to be a teacher. Ming Nan went to get the letter from get off work and came back, and quickly read it to the whole family.

Mingbei looked at Mrs. Li in shock: "Damn, you are too capable. You can guess exactly."

Madam Li had a smug look on her face: "Otherwise, how could I be your milk."