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Chapter 57 Leaving Hometown (2)

"Should we be a day behind and visit relatives and family members? It would be impolite to leave without making a sound!" said the mother who was packing her bags with her head bowed beside her.

"There's no need for that, it makes people panic. Old man, I told the public that you have gone on a long trip. Old man, I have never been out of the city to see outsiders in my life. Boss, what are you doing with such a dejected look? You are blessed. , follow the eldest grandson out of Taicheng to look outside."

The grandmother on the side hugged her second brother Zhixin and said slowly, "That's the reason. After the Japanese leave, I will have someone send you a telegram, and you will come back. Send us a telegram when we get there, so that we can feel at ease." .”

There was a long silence, and the sourness of parting lingered in the lobby of the main house.The second brother Zhixin and the third sister Yuanxiu were very happy to watch the smoking train earlier, but the excitement of the iron bump that could run without a mule mother was gone, and they kept silent.

"I'll go talk to Uncle Tong." Li Chong was not good at dealing with this pre-parting atmosphere, and wanted to find something to do.Furthermore, Uncle Xiao Tong went to Chongqing, and he must be with his parents from now on, and it will be an unknown year when he comes back, so he has to explain to Uncle Tong, and take Uncle Tong's wife and daughter away along the way.

In Li Chong's eyes, the relationship between the old uncle Tong and his family is already that of bloodless relatives.

"No need, I've already talked to him." Grandpa Li Qiantang said.

"Then I'll go for a walk." Li Chong paused, stepped out of the steps, and walked along the road between Zhuangzi.

Li Chong is very familiar with every piece of land in Lizhuang under his feet. Even the Haichunxuan Pagoda in the center of the village, which is regarded as an auspicious pagoda by the villagers, he himself climbed it when he was a child.

Walking along the dirt road beside the village, the land on both sides of the road is not owned by the family. Seventy percent of the villagers in Lizhuang are tenants of the Li family, and another thirty percent are farmers with private land.This is rare in other Zhuangzi. The landlords of Shuizhuang and Yaozhuang next door have all the surrounding land under their own names.

My family has such strength, but my grandfather and father didn't do it.

The land on both sides of the dirt road is not all rice and corn, but also a lush green mulberry field.At that time, in April and May every year, there were no mouth-watering snacks in the countryside, and the mulberries hanging on the branches were very yearning for children.Silkworms don't eat mulberries, so the mulberries that hang on branches like grapes turned out to be useless.

The mulberry trees in Lizhuang are not the kind that are tall and big on the side of the road, and it is dangerous to climb up, or you have to beat the branches with bamboo poles.This kind of mulberry tree used for raising silkworms is pruned low and short, no more than the height of an adult's chest, so that the leaves of the pruned mulberry tree are fat and big.In April and May, bunches of purple-medium-black mulberry fruits hang all over the branches, just like strings of frost hanging under the eaves in winter, hidden in thick green leaves, stirring up a green leaf, It's like a treasure hunt. Pick one and put it in your mouth. It's slightly sour and very sweet, making your mouth water when you think about it.

At that time, I always led a group of children to visit this large mulberry garden, even eating and playing, often with a purple-black mouth and hands.

Of course, there are also very scary things. There is a kind of blue long snake that also likes to eat mulberries. They tend to entangle themselves on the mulberry tree stems. The color similar to the leaves is often overlooked. If you accidentally touch it, you will be bitten back. While not poisonous, the tusks leave deep marks on the skin.The key is that you are eating and playing without any precautions, and then a long snake jumps up in front of you. That kind of spiritual panic cannot be comforted by how many mulberries are stuffed into your mouth.

Later, with experience, I also learned to be smart. Every time I entered the mulberry forest, I would move a reed and beat it in front to scare away the long snake.

Here are my childhood memories!Once the Nationalist government fails to defend Shanghai, Shanghai will serve as a springboard, and the entire Yangtze River Delta will be under the maneuver of the Japanese. Will this land still be so peaceful?
Although the entire northern Jiangsu area is not as rich as southern Jiangsu, the thousand acres of land around Xinghua is a very famous grain-producing area in Jiangsu and even in the Yangtze River Delta. The Japanese will not let it go.

It's good that the Japanese can't take down Shanghai. If they do, the land under their feet will most likely become an occupied area.Sitting on the field, Li Chong plucked a leaf and blew it by his mouth. He didn't know what chance he would come to this land after he came out of Huangpu?
From the bottom of my heart, all my decisions are to make my parents and younger brothers and sisters reunite together safely in the midst of the chaos, and my application for the Whampoa Military Academy is based on the "Qi Family" It is a step to "serve the country".

"Woof! Wang!" The two black backs rushed to his side at some point, whistling and whirling around Li Chong.

"I'm going on a long trip, you two will help me take care of this home, okay?" Li Chong rubbed the two black-backed dog's heads.

"Wow! Woah!" seemed to respond.

"Let's go, I'm going back." Li Chong spat out the leaves in his mouth, stood up and walked home.

"Oh! I don't know how to tie up anything!" When I arrived in the yard, I heard my grandfather's dissatisfied voice. I walked through the porch and saw that my grandfather was dissatisfied with my father's binding of the quilt in the middle of the yard, so he wanted to go forward and do it himself.

"No dad, I'll do it myself."

"Stand away, let me do it, I'm not old enough to even tie the quilt!" Grandpa Li Qiantang put the crutches aside, stepped forward and grabbed the hemp rope to tie the quilt tightly, "You Let’s talk about you, you’re not too young anymore, your son and daughter are so old, why can’t you tie up anything? Outside is no better than at home, you have to do everything yourself, you can only read and don’t eat!”

Father Li Derun is middle-aged, and now he is being trained by his grandfather Li Qiantang, like a student in a school.All the servants in the courtyard knew that the young master was going to take the old lady to visit the big city where he was studying.Envious, I have never traveled far in my life, and now the young master is picking up the master to go out to play, so lucky!

At night, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and the mainland is so vast.In Hong Kong, the whole island knows the slightest sign of trouble.And here, Shanghai is now raging with flames of war, and shells are firing in unison.As for Li Zhuang, the frogs were still screaming and the insects were singing.

Li Chong carried a chair up to the second-floor platform for drying, and just lay there watching, looking at the star-studded night sky in front of him, and his mind drifted far away in peace.

Li Chong found that he was a lot more sentimental, and the imprints of this land on him were circling in his mind one after another. He didn't deliberately wave away the scenes that were recalled in his mind at this moment, and just let these pictures circle in his mind.

Not because of reminiscing about the past, but relying on this feeling of nostalgic memory.

(End of this chapter)