In the first month of the year, people in Wenpu County in southwest China are still immersed in the festive atmosphere of the New Year.
As a small county in the southwest corner that has entered the mountains, the cultural life in the past was not too prosperous. In the past, although the county's supplies were better than those in the surrounding villages, there would occasionally be one or two opera troupes and juggling troupes, but in the end it was just
This is an enjoyment that can only be enjoyed by a few big households in the county.
It took more than two years for the Chinese army to unify the southwest. This year, the cultural troupe that grew out of Zhuji finally took care of this area. Around the end of the year, a group toured Wenpu County and nearby villages to perform, and there were almost no free tickets.
It ignited the enthusiasm of the people in the county and nearby towns. A large number of people chased the theater troupe and watched the huge crowds of people for several days. With the expansion of this kind of public entertainment activities, families with a little extra money near the county town also spent more money.
In the past, it was usually the New Year's Eve when every household would have a few meals behind closed doors, but now the sound of firecrackers going off has become several times louder.
It's not midnight yet, and most of the production activities in the city have not yet resumed. Children are running around on the street with runny noses, shouting to each other the lines they heard in the drama a few days ago, such as "Zong Han, you also have today", "
I will beat you with my Heavenly Seal" and the like, while the locals with more relatives are still walking around the streets to pay New Year greetings. Only some of the work to protect people's livelihood is only suspended on the 30th and the first or two days of the new year.
Then it started step by step.
The night-scented women still get up early in the morning every day and collect the night-scented barrels from each household before dawn. At the night-scented station named "Hua Xia Jun 223 Agricultural Research Institute", Tang Minjie never stops at the night-scented station.
Every morning, a large cart of night fragrance is collected.
At the end of the year, the "223 Agricultural Research Institute" actually had several days of winter vacation, but even if there was no research task, the operation of the 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 institute who stayed at his job. Although the director Chen Cirang told him: "If no one collects the night scent, the night scent woman will naturally drop it into the river and the water will wash it away, so there is no problem."
Tang Minjie couldn't relax mentally, and by the way, the night scent women collected a few more days of selling night scent.
The overall workload has dropped after all.
When he had nothing to do, he also followed the gathered people to listen to several plays. The Huaxia Army was short of manpower, and the team sent to a small place like Wenpu were obviously newcomers, and they were very strict about the rules and regulations of the play.
He is not very experienced. As someone who once worked as a fat boy for a landlord near Daming Mansion, Tang Minjie can see the problems. However, the ordinary audience does not care about those things. People are smiling at the party, and their emotions are rising.
In the light of the fire and the sound of firecrackers, everyone's faces were filled with unspeakable joy. Even the beggar who was shivering with his clothes folded aside showed his half-missed teeth and participated in this grand event.
Everything seems like a world away.
When the past New Year came, he was still in the north, watching countless hungry and cold Han slaves, driving away, even worrying about firewood in the winter, and occupying the Jurchens on the mountain tops, and even the Jurchens in the mountains.
No one is allowed to pull out the weeds.
Wanyan Xiyin had the nerve to tell him: "...I originally wanted the Han slaves to live a better life."
He regretted that it was impossible to execute every Jurchen in the North with his own hands.
And in the blink of an eye, he was back to the south.
The scene happening in this remote small county in front of him, the smiles on people's faces, he had never seen even when he was in the prosperous Daming Mansion.
In the past, when kings gave birth to swallows in front of the hall, they flew into the homes of ordinary people.
Although some of the idioms in the opera were somewhat playful in a way that made fun of the teacher, for most people who "know opera", he understood the problem of excessive vernacular lyrics immediately, even when the young actors performed at the top of their lungs.
In it, I felt the soul-stirring greatness, which is something infinitely greater than the exquisiteness of lyrics and music, and the elegance of pace.
So while the surging crowd was watching the show, Tang Minjie sat far away, quietly watching the smiling faces, either amidst the sound of firecrackers during the day or the flickering firelight at night.
Showing excitement.
For him, this is the New Year celebration.
On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, in the evening, among the surging crowds like going to a market, I met several night-scented women from Wenpu. The young woman they wanted to introduce to him, He Qing, was also among them with her child.
Generally speaking, Ye Xiangfu's personality is on two levels, either extremely quiet and inferior, or extremely enthusiastic and outgoing. Naturally, some of the people they met this time were extroverted. The group of people made a fuss and asked Tang Minjie and He Qing to "get along".
, the two of them had no choice but to lead the child and walk for a while in the crowd. After finding a good seat for the child in the front row, the woman who didn't have much to talk about but obviously had a good impression of Tang Minjie took the initiative to ask him about it.
The issue of land allocation.
"Well, I heard that land is being allocated to people who have no land and no land..."
"Well, yes, everyone should be able to share it in the future."
"Well, I heard... people who don't have husband's family will also be given points."
"Well, the newspaper said that as long as you have registered residence, you will have it."
"Um, I heard... there's going to be an exam..."
"Don't worry, it shouldn't be difficult."
"Well, I haven't passed the exam, and neither has my child... Well, I can't read, and neither has my child..."
"When the time comes, someone will teach you in advance and give you lessons."
"Then what should I do if... I have studied but failed to pass the exam? Tang... Brother Tang, have you... have you ever gone to school? Do you know what they teach..."
The news about land reform and land distribution has been the focus of the Huaxia Army's work a few years ago, and there has been a lot of publicity in newspapers, but it has not yet reached the boundaries of Wenpu County. Most people who heard about it were uneasy and doubtful. Congratulations at this time
Qing wanted to say something, but Tang Minjie gradually understood.
"What the land reform working group teaches... I don't know the details yet, but I can probably guess some. For more specific information... I have to ask."
"Then... can you... teach us when you have free time? Even if... you just teach me, it's fine. Once you learn... um, you can teach it to the baby..."
Among the many Yexiang women, the twenty-seven-year-old He Qing is somewhat 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 the other party's words.
, he didn’t care, but thought about it seriously.
"I need to think about it."
The other party just thought he refused.
He thought carefully for several days.
A few days later, the outgoing Ye Xiangfu asked him about the division of territory by the Chinese 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 director Chen Cirang made an appointment with Tang Minjie to discuss work, Tang Minjie told him some thoughts in his heart, but Chen Cirang was shocked. 223 Research Institute in the Chinese Army
Among the various institutions in the institute, it is considered an extremely partial place. Except for the director Chen Cirang, who was still a Confucian scholar in the past, although there are other people in the institute who have come from the battlefield, most of them are already in a state of "retirement" and are basically in a state of "retirement".
It is supported by a few backbones, and the others are just dawdling around without much idea.
Even in such an environment, among all employees' jobs, collecting night fragrance is still the most humble thing. Therefore, even though Chen Cirang had long realized that Tang Minjie might have some background behind him, he never imagined that he would be in such a position.
I want to do something weird.
Naturally, he encouraged her verbally, and after chatting with Tang Minjie about a lot of miscellaneous things, Chen Cirang asked someone to inquire about him in private after finding that he couldn't get any meaningful clues from him.
Origin: How could such a thoughtful young man be assigned to him?
This was not the first time he had inquired, but 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. After getting the approval, on the morning of the tenth day of the first lunar month, Tang Minjie had sex with a group of women at Yexiang Station.
During the conversation, when the matter of land reform was brought up, he said that he could hold a small study class for everyone every morning, and a group of Yexiang women could participate. If there are adults at home, or children who have not entered school, they can also come together.
, he can provide some basic education to everyone, including the identification of some numbers that will be used in the land reform examination, and the writing of the Huaxia Army and personal names, so that they can be more prepared for the subsequent land reform.
After unifying the southwest, although Ning Yi promoted a large number of children's elementary education and good learning education, naturally there are still many people who have not caught up with the convenience of this matter in two or three years, especially the main body of elementary education.
Mainly focusing on children, some night classes or self-study courses for adults are still not on track at this time, not to mention the families of night-scented women with the lowest status among the crowd.
Tang Minjie made this decision after careful consideration.
A group of young and old Ye Xiang women were dumbfounded and asked several questions over and over again. After some people understood what was going on, they laughed and joked: "What else can we learn at our age..." Some old people asked.
The wife sat on the ground, opened her toothless mouth and started crying.
In this way, on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month of this year, in the somewhat "degrading" Yexiang station, or the entire Chinese army, or perhaps in thousands of years of history, the first elementary school for Yexiang women was established.
With Tang Minjie's promotion, a cram school was established in a corner of the small county town of Wenpu.
Although their family background was not very good, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a group of women and old ladies who usually dealt with filth still brought all kinds of food to Yexiang Station and gave them to Tang Minjie. It is said that it was as a gift.
"Shuxiu" taught the teacher that even after working behind enemy lines for so many years, Tang Minjie, who was accustomed to seeing the world, racked his brains and couldn't refuse these foods.
In the following days, it had to be used as a breakfast for the children of several families of Yexiang women.
Not long after the peaceful New Year passed, Peng Yueyun came from outside again, bringing some food and supplies. Tang Minjie scolded him and accepted half a pack of wedding candies from him. When I heard about the incident that Tang Minjie did at Yexiang Station,
After the class, Peng Yueyun was shocked by his approach.
The young general stayed one night in Wenpu. The next morning, he and Tang Minjie collected night incense and hid aside to listen to the short morning class that taught numbers and names. After dragging the dung bucket back to Xiaoye Village,
On the way, I said tentatively: "This can be used for publicity."
Tang Minjie said to him seriously: "Don't cause trouble."
Peng Yueyun nodded: "...Okay."
"If you make a promise, you are not allowed to tell Lin Jingmei."
This time, Peng Yueyun was silent for a long time before nodding: "...Okay."
During the period after Tang Minjie returned home, Peng Yueyun always wanted to make him feel better in some way, but this time, he didn't do it until he returned to Xiaoye Village, dealt with Ye Xiang, and Peng Yueyun was about to leave.
Tang's sleeves and said: "...Brother, I understand you."
"..." Tang Minjie looked at him.
"After the occupation of the southwest and the rapid development of Chengdu, the flowers became more and more charming. Some people are different from before. I also see a lot of things. But today, brother... I understand you. You and the teacher are the same person.
, you are the closest ones. Don’t worry, I will just do whatever you say.”
At this time, he pulled Tang Minjie's sleeve. If he hadn't married Lin Jingmei, this soldier, who might even be promoted to major general in the near future, slightly blushed: "But... people like you, this look... I feel uncomfortable.
…”
Tang Minjie hesitated for a moment, then put his arm around his shoulders, just like the cruel and murderous senior who hugged the young comrade he saved.
"It's nothing, don't be affected by me..." he said, "You guys live a good life."