Whether it is Zheng Sen or Zheng Ping, no one suspects that everything in front of him is a false appearance made by someone deliberately.

When they came out today, they chose a random direction and kept walking inland. In this case, the chicken coop government could still make fraud, so they were convinced.

The two of them saw the houses and buildings in this village with their own eyes. Almost all the houses were tall and sturdy brick and tile houses, and there was no low and dilapidated loess thatched huts. Even the villages I had seen along the way were mostly these bright brick and tile houses.

Zheng Ping just lamented the wealth here. Judging from the people's clothes and the healthy and rosy complexion on his face, everything was obvious. This was something he could not see in the Japanese countryside.

Zheng Sen is more familiar with Taoyuan, and it is precisely because he knows more deeply than Zheng Ping that the shock he has experienced is even greater now.

He saw many adobe thatched houses in Taoyuan, but now the scene in the past seems to have never appeared before. Instead, they are tall and sturdy brick houses.

How long has it been? It seems that all the disasters and scars in the past have been healed.

The Liu Wu family is a very representative reorganized family. A couple of elderly people, a daughter-in-law, three children, and Liu Wu himself, the family of seven is one more than the average number of people.

Everyone's faces were full of smiles. Seeing Liu Wu'er was full of joy, and they could not see the alienation between them. Not only the Liu family, but also several other families. Today, the son/husband/father came back and the whole family was reunited. For them, who had no worries about food, drink, food and clothing, this was the best expectation.

The atmosphere is only happy, and the emotions are only happy.

The men gathered together, from the soldiers to the elders at home, then the distinguished guests like the Zheng brothers, and the village chiefs such as Zhou Erfu, such as the village chiefs and chiefs, who were cheering and cheering.

It was all the way to the moon and the sky until the end of this banquet. If we should destroy the atmosphere, we should do this again.

Zhou Tefu took a sip of camellia tea, and the bitter taste lingers in his mouth, but none of these can match the bitterness in his heart.

The troops are about to set off, the Zheng family is about to start a war, and there is no sight on the battle formation. Who dares to say that all the young people in front of them can come back alive? There are also his cousins ​​and nephews of the clan here.

"The army is about to set off, I won't say what is waiting for you. You all know in your heart. As the custodian of our village, I will only say one sentence here today, and I will express my attitude, that is, I want you to rest assured that I have the family affairs."

This sentence is like a cold current rushing out of the polar regions, completely solidifying all the cheerful atmosphere.

War, battlefield.

After tearing away the disguise of joy, everyone has to face the cruel reality.

Their relatives are about to go to the battlefield and their lives are uncertain.

In fact, everyone understands that it is absolutely not easy for all the people who eat soldiers and food in the village to come back. Many people think of war!

But this was just a guess from them, and they still held one-tenth of hope in their hearts. Now Zhou Tefu has completely wiped out the last glimmer of hope.

"Dad, don't join the army. Our family has so much land, enough for us to eat. Don't join the army, okay?" Liu Wu'er's son is ten years old, so what else can I do? After all these hard days, Liu Wu is really the sky in his son's eyes. Thinking that the sky above his head might collapse, the boy's tears fell down.

One of the two daughters was kissed and the other was brought by their daughter-in-law. They all hugged their father's legs without saying a word, and they burst into tears.

Those who have been able to come here from Northern Zhili and Western Ganzhou are all those who have suffered a lot. Now that they have finally lived a good life, have new hope, and have tasted happiness, how can they bear to live a life and die?

Liu covered her mouth and didn't speak, just cried. Not only she was crying, but the women and children present cried, and tears were about to flow into a river.

Liu Wuer felt very uncomfortable when the child heard the voice of the child. She hugged both daughters tightly in her arms, and her eyes were red. But how could he comfort his children and wives?

He couldn't say a word, and his mouth opened, but he still couldn't say it.

He could not tell his father, wife, and children that he would definitely come back alive, which would only make them more worried. So would he not embarrass the Liu family? He was not so stupid.

"Afu, come here, grandpa, let's not cry."

The old man of the Liu family saved his grandson. Liu Wu's son had a very festive name. The Ming Dynasty was called Liu Feng, which was the Fengfeng of the harvest; the nickname was Afu, which was blessed.

"Your dad doesn't want to leave home either. But your dad can't do that."

"People need to be conscience. It depends on the grace of the old Zheng family."

"There are so many lands in our family, which are given by the Zheng family because your father joined the army. Your grandparents are old and you are young. Your father is not at home yet, and the people in the village are busy farming and harvesting food. This is also because the Zheng family is here."

"We have food, clothing, living, and our lives, all given by the old Zheng family. We only have it because the old Zheng family has established a tenable position in this world."

"Can you watch the old Zheng family collapse? This is not only the old Zheng family, but also our family that enjoys happiness with the old Zheng family. If the old Zheng family is finished, will our family still be as good as it is now? Everything will be gone."

"This is the grasshopper on a rope. One loss and one prosperity will be the same. No one can escape from anyone."

"So, your father wants to fight for the old Zheng family, and he has to buy a hundred efforts to fight for the old Zheng family. This is not a matter of life and death, or even this is not a matter of being a person who is not conscience. It is a matter of whether he can continue to live a good life and live a good life without protecting himself. Everyone should be grateful, but they should also brighten their eyes."

Old Man Liu said as he stared at Liu Wuer, and tears flowed from his eyes.

Liu Wuer nodded fiercely, "Dad, don't worry. My son is not a coward. My son will not embarrass you, my husband will not embarrass you, our village, and I will not tell Afu and others to be unable to raise their heads for the rest of their lives."

If you become a deserter on the battlefield or even be executed directly, the consequences and impacts it will bring to your family are not a matter of life at all.

All the recruits and recruit training periods have not yet ended, so they have already remembered this danger.

If they were deserters or were executed for riots on the battlefield due to their timidity, all the favorable treatments their families received for joining the army would not only be returned, but would also be knocked to the ground and stomped on a few feet.

The two are opposites, one in the sky and the other in the earth. The superior social status of one before is, and the unbearable social status after is.

"Uncle Wu is right. We are not cowards. We will not embarrass the village, nor will we embarrass our family, nor will we make our wife and children unable to raise our heads for the rest of our lives." Huang Er clenched his fists fiercely.

God knows how excited he was when he returned home today and saw the pile of grain in the warehouse.

Compared with the happiness of family and the future of descendants, what is your life?

Old Man Liu smiled, and tears fell on the back of his hand. He continued to hold his grandson and said, "Ah Fu, your father will not fight, and thousands of people who play like your father will not fight. The Ming army and the Qing Tartars will all kill us, snatch our land and take away all our food. Just like before, killing your uncle, third uncle, seventh uncle, and your uncle's family, killing your father, your mother, your grandparents, and both girls. Even if you survive by chance, you will starve to death like your biological mother. Can you say that your father can avoid fighting?"

Afu's tears flowed even harder. He still remembered that his mother was so painful to save him stuttering.

Although his grandson is still a child, Old Man Liu believes that his grandson can understand his words. Because of the bloody reality, he has witnessed it with his own eyes. Children who have experienced hardships mature quickly, and those who have experienced hardships understand the preciousness of happiness the most.

"Afu, your grandfather is right. Dad fights for our home, for our land, and for you to avoid bullying in the future. In order to make your grandfather and your mother, you and your sister, always have good food and clothing and are safe and peaceful..."

"But Dad also promises you that Dad will definitely come back."

But Ah Fu shook his head, "You lords love to lie. That's what Tuanyi's father told him, but the result..."

Afu, who was pouting, did not continue to say anything, but who doesn’t know who the “Tuanyi” he said was?

A small village with only one hundred households in total.

However, this small village of 100 households is not only the soldiers at present, but not only these military families. They are already the second batch of enlisted soldiers in this small village. Here, there are three families of military martyrs. The "Tuanyi" family is obviously one of them.

Zheng Ping breathed a sigh of relief.

As an outsider, he and Zheng Sen obviously have no chance of arranging flowers, but he is really full of words now. But when he and Zheng Sen came to a family to rest, when facing Zheng Sen alone, he wanted to say it but had no way to start.

What are you talking about?

Is it pitiful to say that these people are "separated from life and death"?

Nowadays, there are too many people in the Central Plains who are not even as good as the pitiful ones.

Or let Zheng Zhilong speak out to save the enlisted soldiers from this village from going to war? Then we have to think about how many towns and villages there are in the chicken coop. The scene that happened in front of them is still repeated in many villages.

"Don't think they are pitiful." Zheng Sen looked at his brother's wrinkled face and laughed: "In this world, it is a kind of luck that people can live for their loved ones and can use their lives to win a stable and prosperous life for their loved ones."

"Look at the Ming Dynasty, Li Shun, Daxi, how many soldiers' lives are not worth a penny. Including the Green Camp soldiers in the Tatars, those who died with Li Rutai, what can their death bring to their relatives?"

"Do you remember the primary school we passed by?"

"As sooner or later, this kind of school will be spread all over the towns and villages, so that all children can enter school. Now, unless they are willing to pay money to go to school, the children in the school are more of the children of military families and wise men. Their care for them is unprecedented."
Chapter completed!