Chapter 730 Where Is the Road (First Update)

The old soldier wiped his tears and nodded vigorously, looking at the city around him, which was so unfamiliar.

"Brother Li, the family has changed so much!" The old soldier looked at the city, and his mind was still the same as it was 40 years ago. 40 years ago, he started from this city, and then traveled all over the world, and finally headed south.

"There have been big changes. Life was hard in the 1950s, but it has been better since the 1960s. 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 plant is planned by the top, but you can plant it however you want. Taxes have been getting less and less in recent years. In fact, most of the time, there is basically no tax in our mountainous area."

"Asphalt roads have been built to the township."

"We can dig wells for free in our mountainous area. There has never been a drought since 1958."

"In recent years, the mountains around us are full of trees. The sour jujube, which was not valuable before, has become valuable in recent years."

"Now every household buys coal to burn and no one goes up the mountain to chop firewood. There are fewer large animals in the team. Now they like to use small tillers and no longer have to serve animals all year round."

"There is a cooperative specializing in raising donkeys and cattle to collect straw, and they have to pay for the straw."

The old soldier pieced together a picture of the countryside from the mouth of his second brother next door.

One person kept talking, and the other kept listening. Suddenly, the old soldier asked, "What is the second brother doing now?"

"Fooling around, being a village chief." Li Erge laughed.

The old soldier could no longer tell east from west, south from east, and north from west. But after leaving the city, he saw the mountains in the distance, and the vague impression in his mind suddenly became clear.

When he left, he kept looking back at the mountains, at his elder brother, at his younger brother, and at his old mother who was wiping tears and waving.

But the father who sent him off was no longer there.

He could no longer see the dark-skinned, hunchbacked old farmer.

The old soldier couldn't help crying all of a sudden, and he cried loudly.

Li Erge heard this and sighed.

Finally, the old soldier stopped crying, and Li Erge said, "You are finally back. You were the first one to come back when you left. You were still a teenager when you left."

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

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

"Does our township have a van?" The old soldier looked at the van driven by Brother Li and saw that it had been there for several years.

"This car is almost 8 years old. It used to be the police station's car, but the police station has now changed to a new car, so I took it in my hand and drove it." Brother Li patted the steering wheel.

"Ah, is there any capable person in our township?" The old soldier was a little surprised. A police station in a township had a van 8 years ago.

"What are you thinking about? Most township police stations are equipped with vans, which makes it convenient for comrades in the police station to maintain public order."

"Not to mention that since the van was built, the guys who steal chickens and dogs around have suffered." Brother Li shook his head.

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

"Uncle is also buried not far from home. He said that he wanted to see you come back with his own eyes. Aunt's eyesight has been blind for a few years. They said it was cataracts. When she was young, she worked under the oil lamp and hurt her eyes."

"Later, a group of doctors came from Kyoto. Eight of them performed cataract surgery for free in our village. When Aunt was blind, she was worried and missed you all day long. In recent years, she can see again. Aunt said that she wants to see you alive."

"Aunt also said that if he died and you didn't come back, let us bury her in the highest place, so that she can see you first." Brother Li spoke again.

"Hmm!" The old soldier hummed and couldn't say anything anymore.

The reason why he joined the army was that he was forced to go to a certain number of villages, and the other was that there were too many people in his family. If he didn't go out to make a living, the whole family might starve to death.

The eldest brother was supposed to go, but the old soldier asked to go because the eldest brother got married.

The old soldier thought of his former comrades again and sighed: "Old Chang is a traitor to the country!"

"That's right. There are more than 600 people in our village now, and two of them are studying in Kyoto University."

"From more than ten years ago, as long as the children have good grades, they will be given money. At the beginning, the best students were not only given 5 yuan, but also clothes, pants, school bags, and stationery."

"Of course, only the best students in each class can get money, and the second and third place students can get school bags, shoes, or clothes."

"There are many people in our village who work in Kyoto. There are 11 people who work in the village. "

"The rest are in Zibo, Qingdao, Yantai, and Xuzhou. There are basically no young people in the village now. It's the elderly who are doing farm work."

The old soldier widened his eyes when he heard this: "Are they all workers?"

"That's right. Since the 1960s, waves of people have come to recruit workers. Now every household has a two-story building."

"But many people still send their children back to their hometown to study. Children in the city can't stand hardship, so they have to let these children suffer in their hometown so that they know how to study hard." Brother Li drove skillfully.

What surprised the old soldier was that there were still many cars on the road. Although it was already a mountain road, there were still many motorcycles, various tractors and vans, and even trucks towing excavators.

"Brother, I want to buy something to see my father." The old soldier was a little confused, because he didn't know the directions, and the road he had built had completely destroyed the original image in his mind.

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

"Do you see the ridge in front? We used to drive sheep from there to the mountains behind to graze sheep." The car was driving on the mountain road, and after passing the township government, it became a gravel road.

The old soldier saw that the road was not easy to build, and all the large stones were made into embankments.

"Ah, I remember there were not so many trees on the mountain!" The old soldier was a little confused, because the mountain was full of stones before.

"It's because we need to plant more trees so that there will be water under the ground. We all dig a hole on the mountain and then get soil from other places to plant trees."

"Do you see Auntie!" When the car turned around a ridge, Brother Li pointed to the front and asked.

The old soldier never thought that his original home was halfway up the mountain, but now it is next to the road.

"Mom!" After getting off the car, the old soldier looked at the old woman standing next to the road. Although they had been separated for 40 years, the familiar feeling and the feeling of blood connection could not be faked at all.

"Son! I'm sorry for you." The old woman had been sitting here since morning, waiting for the young figure who left more than 40 years ago. When she saw that the young figure had turned into a gray-haired old man, the old woman could no longer hold back.

The old soldier knelt on the ground at once, and the old woman also knelt down, and the two hugged their heads and cried loudly.

Brother Li got off the car and took out a cigarette, looking down at the houses of other people in the village, and the scenes farther away, his hands trembling as he muttered: "It's good to be back!"

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

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

At this time, another car came.

"Second brother, where is Second brother!" A gray-haired old man shouted loudly after getting off the bus.

"Big brother!" The old soldier looked at the person in front of him and vaguely saw the shadow of his eldest brother.

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

"Second brother, I shouldn't have let you go at the beginning."

"Big brother, stop talking."

"It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back, where's your sister-in-law?"

"They will come back later, I'll come back to see first, she is from the Central Plains, and she hasn't found her hometown yet."

"I will definitely find her."

"Sister-in-law."

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

"This is my eldest brother..."

"Uncle."

"When I left, you were not born yet."

In the past, people got married early, at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and basically had their first child at the age of sixteen or seventeen. When the old soldier left, he was only sixteen years old, and his eldest brother was 17 years old. Now his eldest brother is 57 years old, and he is 56 years old. The nephew who didn't meet at the time is already 40 years old.

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

The old soldier couldn't imagine that this was the poor hometown in his memory.

All the childhood playmates in the village came and sat together. The old soldier 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 find some bones, but some didn't know where they were.

Qingxia's parents also found their eldest daughter. Qingxia's parents gave their eldest daughter to their eldest brother in 1948. It has been 33 years.

There was a little strangeness in the intimacy, but this strangeness soon disappeared.

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

"Ah?" Liu Hai was also surprised to hear this.

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

"They came home yesterday, and my father went back too. I didn't expect to see him again after decades." The junior sister spoke again.

Liu Hai remembered that the junior sister's ancestral home seemed to be in Jinan. Anyway, the Shandong area was basically broken in history, mainly because there were too many people coming and going.

Hearing this, Liu Hai thought of countless relatives, looking forward to the return of the veterans.

Even if they are gone, parents want to know where their sons are.

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

After all, it has only been more than 30 years since 1949. If it takes another ten or twenty years, it will be hard to say.

"It's good to be back!" Liu Hai nodded. He couldn't remember where his hometown was. Anyway, it seemed to be from the Central Plains or somewhere else.

The main reason was that he was too hungry when he was fleeing, and he was in a daze. In addition, the original owner was beaten, so the memory he received might not be complete.

"Yes." Junior Sister nodded.

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

The reputation of the Eastern Power has become more and more famous in the world in recent years, and more and more people abroad know about it. However, when many people come to see the development of the Eastern Power, they are still surprised.

Especially some people who came to Kyoto decades ago, 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 with chimneys in the distance.

And there is also the buzzing sound of airplanes above the factory area.

"Mysterious Dongfang Heavy Industry!"

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

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

"We have never obtained useful information from this place, because some of their workers come from remote mountainous areas, 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 unfortunately, you can only see the huge factory area below from the plane."

"How do they keep all the information confidential in a factory with hundreds of thousands of people?"

"It's 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 in the small notebooks are also a little helpless.

The development of the small notebooks has become increasingly difficult in recent years. First of all, the domestic market has been impacted by the bald eagle and various Western products.

Originally, the small notebooks had the opportunity to take over the oil production equipment of the Eastern Power and obtain a stable supply of crude oil, but what they didn't expect was that the Eastern Power itself broke through the technology.

Moreover, the Eastern Power imported a large amount of oil when the oil price was cheap and loaded it back into the oil fields.

At first, many experts in the small book laughed at the Eastern power, but when the oil price soared three times, the economy of the small book suffered a heavy blow.

Not only the small book, but also the Bald Eagle's economy suffered a heavy blow, because the high fuel price led to insufficient industrial operation rate.

On the contrary, the Eastern power not only has its own crude oil, but also bought a lot of it when it was cheap and stored it.

When other countries were under-operated due to insufficient industrial raw materials, the Eastern power was working hard to produce, further squeezing out the industrial products of other countries.

The atmosphere in the car was a bit depressing. These people in the small book could not see the future. The exercises of the red and blue sides in the past two years also made the small book restless. It is necessary to know how far the distance between it and this Eastern power can be.