Courtyard light

Chapter 730 Where is the road (first update)
The veteran wiped away his tears and nodded fiercely, looking at the unfamiliar city around him.

"Brother Li, things have changed a lot at home!" The veteran looked at the city, but his mind was still as it was 40 years ago. He started from this city 40 years ago, then traveled north and south, and finally headed south.

"There are great changes. Life was difficult in the 50s, but things have become better since the 60s. Now the elderly in the village get money every month."

"The village has become a cooperative, and the land is distributed to each household. What to grow is planned by the above, but you can grow whatever you want. The tax has become less and less in recent years. In fact, most of the time, there is basically no such thing as in our mountainous areas. tax."

"Asphalt roads have been built in the countryside."

"Wells are being drilled for free in our mountainous area, and there has never been a drought since 1958."

"In recent years, the mountains around us have been planted with trees. Wild dates, which were not valuable in the past, have become valuable in recent years."

"Now every household buys coal and burns it. No one goes up to the mountains to cut firewood anymore. There are fewer big animals in the team. Now everyone prefers to use small cultivators. We no longer have to wait for the animals all year round."

“There are cooperatives that specialize in raising donkeys and cattle to collect straw, and you have to pay for the straw.”

The veteran pieced together a rural scene from the mouth of his second brother next door.

What surprised the veteran was that there were many cars on the road. Although it was already a mountainous road, there were still a lot of motorcycles, various tractors, vans, and even trucks towing excavators.

"Did you see that mountain ridge in front? We used to drive sheep from there to graze sheep in the mountains behind." The car was driving on the mountain road, which turned into gravel after passing the township government.

"Later, a group of doctors came from Kyoto, and eight of them in our village performed cataract surgeries for free. When I couldn't see my aunt, I was worried and thinking about you all day long. Now that I can see in the past few years, my aunt has become more and more beautiful." Said I wanted to see you alive."

The old farmer with dark skin and stooped figure could no longer be seen.

"I bought it for you." Brother Li shook his head.

"Ah, is there any capable person in our township?" The veteran was a little surprised. Eight years ago, the police station in a township had a van.

"That's not bad. There are now more than 600 people in our village, and two of them are studying in universities in Kyoto."

"My uncle is buried not far from home. He said he wanted to see you come back with his own eyes. My aunt's eyes lost sight a few years ago. She said she had cataracts. She injured her eyes while working under an oil lamp when she was young."

"Your family has built a new house. Originally, Brother You said that he would take my aunt to live with him, but my aunt said that she would build a house in her hometown in case you can't find your way back."

The veteran thought of his former comrades again and sighed: "I always hurt my country!"

“We need to plant more trees so that there is water under the ground. We dig a hole in the mountain and then get soil from other places to plant trees.”

"Have you seen auntie?" When the car turned a ridge, Brother Li asked, pointing ahead.

The eldest brother originally wanted to go, but the veteran asked to go because the eldest brother was married.

"Then how did you recognize me at the station?" The veteran was a little confused.

"The rest are in Zibo, Qingdao, Yantai, and Xuzhou. Now there are basically no young people in the villages. They are all older people doing farm work."

"Just fool around and become a village chief." Brother Li chuckled.

The veteran saw that the construction of this road was not simple. All the large stones were made into ridges.

"Ah, I remember there weren't so many trees on the mountain!" The veteran was a little confused, because the mountain used to be full of rocks.

"Not to mention that since we got cars, the sneaky guys around have suffered." Brother Li shook his head.

"It's not that bad. Since the 60s, waves of people have come to recruit workers, and now every household is a two-story building."

The veteran never imagined that his original home was halfway up the mountain, but now it was right next to the highway.

The veteran couldn't help but burst into tears, and howled loudly.

"Hmm!" The veteran hummed, unable to speak anymore.

When I left that year, I kept looking back at the mountain, my elder brother, my younger brother, and my old mother who was wiping her tears and waving.

Brother Li sighed when he heard this voice.

"Auntie also said that if she dies and you haven't come back yet, let us bury her in the highest place. She should see you first." Brother Li said again.

"There are 11 people in our village working in Kyoto."

"Did you register when you got on the train? The conductor told me a long time ago." Brother Li chuckled.

One person kept talking and the other kept listening. The veteran suddenly asked: "What is the second brother doing now?"

The reason why I joined the army in the first place was that I was forced to apportion the number of people in a village, and also because there were too many people in my family. If I didn't go out to make a living alone, the whole family might starve to death.

"Of course, only the best students in each class will get money, and the second and third places will get schoolbags, shoes or clothes."

Finally, the veteran stopped crying, and Brother Li said, "You are finally back. I left with you, and you were the first to come back. You were still a teenager when you left."

And the father who sent him off in the first place is no longer here.

"Since more than ten years ago, children with good grades will be given money. In the beginning, those who studied best were not only given 5 yuan, but also clothes, pants, schoolbags, and stationery."

"However, many people still send their children back to their hometowns to study. Children in the city can't afford hardships, so these kids have to endure hardships in their hometowns before they know how to study hard." Brother Li drove skillfully.

The veteran could no longer tell the difference between north, south, east, and west, but after leaving the city, the veteran saw the mountains in the distance, and the vague impression in his mind suddenly became clear.

The veteran's eyes widened when he heard this: "Are they all going to be workers?"

"Second brother, I want to buy something and see my dad." The veteran was a little confused, because he didn't know the east, west, south, and west, and the roads built in his mind had completely destroyed the original image in his mind.

"Is there a van in our village?" The veteran looked at the van driven by Brother Li and saw that it had been there for several years.

"This car is almost eight years old. It used to be the police station's car, but the police station has now replaced it with a new car, so I just took it in my hand and drove it." Brother Li patted the steering wheel.

"What are you thinking about? Most township police stations are equipped with vans to facilitate the comrades of the police station to maintain law and order."

"Mom!" The veteran got off the car and looked at the old woman standing by the road. Although they were 40 years apart, there was no way to fake that familiar feeling and the feeling of being connected by blood.

"Son! Mom, I'm sorry for you." The old woman has been sitting here since the morning, waiting for the back of the young man who left more than 40 years ago. When she saw the young back turned into an old man with gray hair, the old woman One cannot bear it any longer.

The old soldier immediately knelt on the ground, and the old woman also knelt down. They held their heads and cried loudly.

Brother Li got out of the car and took out a cigarette. He looked down at other people's houses in the village and the scene beyond. His hands were trembling and he muttered: "Just come back!"

After crying for a while, the old woman took the soldier to a place next to the house. There was a tombstone with a photo of an old man with all white hair on it.

"Dad!" The veteran looked at the name on the tombstone and kowtowed quickly.

And this time another car came. "Second brother, where is the second child!" A gray-haired old man shouted loudly after getting out of the car.

"Brother!" The veteran looked at the person in front of him, vaguely seeing the shadow of his elder brother.

"Second brother!" The two brothers hugged each other tightly after 40 years.

"Second brother, I shouldn't have let you go in the first place."

"Brother, stop talking."

"It'll be good to come back, it'll be good to come back. Where are my siblings?"

"They will come back later. I'll come back first to check. She is from the Central Plains. I haven't found anyone from her hometown yet."

"You can definitely find it."

"Sister-in-law."

"Second brother, I have suffered a lot from you these years."

"This is my eldest son..."

"uncle."

"You weren't even born when I left."

In the past, I got married early, at the age of fifteen or sixteen. I basically had my first child when I was sixteen or seventeen. The veteran was only sixteen when he left. My eldest brother was 17 years old. Now my eldest brother is 57 years old. And I am already 56 years old, and the nephew I didn’t meet at the beginning is already 40 years old.

The veteran looked at his house. The two-story building was all built with blue bricks. There was a TV, a radio, a washing machine, and running water.

The veteran simply couldn't imagine that this was the poor hometown he remembered.

All the childhood playmates in the village came and sat together. The veteran got drunk that night and cried again.

Many people present also cried, because too many people went out and too few came back. The better ones could still find some skeletons, and some of them didn't know where they were at all.

Qingxia's father and mother also found their eldest daughter. Qingxia's father and mother gave their eldest daughter to her eldest brother in 33, which was years ago.

There was a bit of strangeness in the intimacy, but this strangeness was quickly eliminated.

When Liu Hai returned home at night, he unexpectedly heard his junior sister talk about things in his hometown: "I heard from my father that two relatives from my hometown have returned from the island."

"Ah?" Liu Hai was also surprised when he heard this.

"People in my hometown thought they were gone. After all, they had been away for decades. I didn't expect someone there to inquire about the news a few days ago."

"They arrived home yesterday, and my father also went back. I didn't expect to see him again in these decades." Junior Sister said again.

The ancestral home of Liu Haiji's junior sister seems to be Jinan. Anyway, the Shandong area was basically destroyed in history, mainly because there were too many people coming and going.

Hearing this, Liu Hai thought of countless relatives and eagerly awaited the veterans' return home.

Even though he is gone, parents still want to know where their son is.

Liu Hai is going to spend a special amount of money to do this, because many veterans' families are still there, whether they are on the island or not.

After all, it was 49 years ago and it is only a little over 30 years ago. It would be hard to say if it would be more than ten or twenty years later.

"Just come back!" Liu Hai nodded. He couldn't remember where his hometown was. Anyway, it seemed like he came from the Central Plains or somewhere.

Mainly because he was too hungry and confused when he was escaping. In addition, the original owner was beaten, so the memory he received may be incomplete.

"Yes." Junior sister nodded.

Kyoto International Airport has been very lively recently because many countries from around the world have been invited to observe the exercises.

The great eastern country has become more and more famous in the world in recent years, and more and more foreign countries have learned about it. However, many people were still surprised when they saw the development of the great eastern country.

Especially those who visited Kyoto decades ago and look at Kyoto now.

Of course, there are also people with small books here. Several people with small books are sitting in their embassy cars, looking at the factory area lined with chimneys in the distance.

And there was the buzzing sound of airplanes above the factory area.

"The mysterious Eastern Heavy Industries!"

"So far, no one can know how many top-secret things are inside this giant factory!"

"The publicly known information is that general-purpose helicopters and armed helicopters were first tested here, including a series of transport aircraft."

"We have not been able to obtain useful information about this place because some of their workers come from remote mountainous areas and some come from their own universities, and all the students in their universities come from mountainous areas."

"There must be a very important secret here, but it's a pity that from the plane you can only see the huge factory area below."

"How do they manage to keep all information secret in a factory with hundreds of thousands of people?"

"hard to imagine!"

"Even Western countries have not found the reason for their industrial take-off!"

"Maybe it's a group of geniuses. This continent will never lack geniuses."

"Yes!" These people with small books are also a little helpless.

The development of Xiaobenzi has become increasingly difficult in recent years. First of all, the domestic market has been impacted by Bald Eagle and various Western products.

Xiao Benzi originally had a chance to take over the oil production equipment of the big Eastern country and obtain a stable supply of crude oil, but what he didn't expect was that the Big Eastern country made a technological breakthrough on its own.

Moreover, when oil prices are low, large Eastern countries import large amounts of oil and put it back into their oil fields.

At first, many experts in Xiaobenzi laughed at the big Eastern countries, but when oil prices tripled, Xiaobenzi's domestic economy suffered a heavy blow.

Not only the small business but also Bald Eagle's economy has been hit hard, as high fuel prices have led to a lack of industrial operating rates.

On the contrary, the big eastern countries not only have their own crude oil, but they also buy a lot of it and reserve it when it is cheap.

While other countries were operating at a low rate due to insufficient industrial raw materials, the Eastern giant was stepping up production, further squeezing out the industrial products of other countries.

The atmosphere inside the car was a bit depressing. These people in the small book could not see the future. The exercises conducted by the red and blue sides in the past two years also made the small book uneasy. They knew that the distance between themselves and this big eastern country was not far away.

(End of this chapter)