The booming era begins with the director of the Propaganda Department!

Chapter 386 Winter Moon
"Don't talk nonsense." Zhang Fendou had a bitter face. He didn't want to get married so early.

Zhang Fenjin sneered: "How can a hero in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad, not be romantic??? Third brother, you are really useless."

"You want to get beaten, don't you? Don't think I don't know what you did in school! If the teacher calls your parents to school again for harassing girls, I'll beat you to death." Tang Danniu slapped him hard in the face, and Zhang Fenjin finally fell silent.

"So what do you say?" After watching the fun, Zhang Shenfei turned to look at his elder brother.

"What can I say? You know I'm not good at talking..." Zhang Shenliang scratched his head. "Second brother, I really want to ask you something. Our family is being besieged and intercepted. What attitude do you think we should show?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Tang Danniu, Tian Xiaozao and several boys from the Zhang family also looked at Zhang Shenfei.

Zhang Shenfei didn't answer his eldest brother, but looked at Zhang Fendou: "Third brother, what do you think? You are a big boy now, almost as tall as your father when you stand up. Do you want a wife?"

Zhang Fendou's face turned red again: "Second Uncle, what nonsense are you talking about..."

Zhang Shenfei didn't seem to notice his embarrassment and said, "We are all family, so why should we be embarrassed? Although you are only sixteen this year, you can get married in four years. Take this opportunity today to talk about your plans for the future and your ideas about your marriage."

Several other elders also nodded and agreed with Zhang Shenfei's statement. Their family was very democratic and did not follow the system of monarch, minister, father and son.

Ah? Let's chat...

Zhang Laosan looked at his mother, his father, and his great-grandmother, and then he spoke slowly: "Second Uncle, I told you before that I want to apply to the Petroleum School and go to Daqing in the future.

In the past two years, I have written down any news about Daqing in the newspapers. Daqing is the lifeline of my country's oil industry and is related to the future development of my country's industry. After I go there, I will probably go to the most difficult places at the grassroots level.

Although I know that I am the dumbest and most brainless among the ten brothers in my family, I also want to make a career.

If a man cannot establish a career, how can he start a family? Besides, Daqing has winter for half a year, and the conditions are harsh. If I find a partner in the city, he or she may not be willing to leave his or her hometown with me... So now, I don’t want to think about those romantic relationships.”

Zhang Fenjin curled his lips and thought to himself that his third brother was indeed a fool. He was probably beaten too much by his mother when he was a child and didn't understand the wonders of women.

After listening to Zhang Fendou's words, Zhang Shenfei nodded and said, "It's good to have your own goals and be willing to work hard for them. I think you don't have to underestimate yourself, Third Brother. You have figured out things that many people can't figure out in their entire lives, but you have figured them out at the age of sixteen."

He turned his gaze to his eldest brother Zhang Shenliang: "That's it for the third brother. Even if we can't be the kind of parents who provide support to our children, we can't hold them back, right?"

"That's right. Tomorrow I will tell Second Aunt that the third child in our family is not looking for a partner." Zhang Shenliang said.

"If third brother doesn't want to find one, then what about eldest brother? I've seen Yu Li and her mother-in-law from the front yard look for my mother many times, saying that they want to introduce Yu Li's school beauty to my eldest brother. Oh, by the way, I also specifically asked my second sister-in-law, and she said that Yu Haitang is very beautiful. If eldest brother doesn't want her, I can make do with her... I don't mind her age..." Zhang Fenjin rubbed his hands as he spoke, his eyes shining with green light.

Tang Daniu looked at him coldly and slapped him a few more times: "Can you change it? Can you change it?"

"You bastard! There's no one like you in our Zhang family!!! Your father married me when he was 18 and gave birth to ten of you in one go. I wouldn't dare even look at a bitch, let alone a woman.

Not to mention your second uncle, he and your second aunt were childhood sweethearts, and they grew up together. Both brothers are extremely chaste, and they would be men who could have been honored with a chastity memorial arch in ancient times. You are so shameless, are you a descendant of the Zhang family? ? Who do you take after? ? ? "

Zhang Shenliang scratched the hair on the back of his head: "Thank you for the compliment. It's not that I don't want to watch it, it's just that I don't dare."

Tian Xiaozao snorted and said nothing, but looked at Zhang Shenfei with his nose not nose and eyes not eyes.

Although Grandma Zhang is old, she is smart and guessed what was going on with just one glance.

She glanced at Zhang Shenfei and said, "This kid was a troublesome person when he was in school... But Dafei, let me tell you this. After getting married and having children, things are different from before. If you continue to be as careless as before, be careful or I will slap you in the face."

Ah, this... why did you mention me again? Thinking of everything that happened last night and the pain in his chest, Zhang Shenfei felt a little guilty.

"How could that be possible? Grandma, you really are, with so many children still here... Let's talk about Ping'an first." He forced a change of subject.

The third child can ask the man himself if he wants to go on a blind date, but the eldest child is now serving in the frontier. It takes three months for a letter to arrive, and another three months to send it back. It’s so late. There’s no way to communicate.

Before Zhang Shenliang and his wife could say anything, Grandma Zhang said firmly: "The eldest child is not good enough! Children join the army to defend the country.

Don't you all listen to that chatterbox? Since the first half of this year, the Elephant Country has been making trouble and has set up countless bases in Western Xinjiang. Where is our Ping An serving in the army? Isn't it over there?
I think there might be a war in the future. We can’t let our children be distracted by their love affairs at this time.”

"Tsk." Zhang Shenfei looked at the old lady in admiration. "That's incredible. You even know about national affairs? Did you listen to all this on the radio?"

Grandma Zhang was very proud: "You look down on me, don't you? Not only do I know that the Elephant Country is looking for trouble this year, but I also know that since the peaceful liberation of the Snow Region, they have been making trouble behind the scenes and want to support the independence of the Snow Region.

Later, the serf owners' rebellion failed. They knew their dream was shattered, and they became furious and started to bite people like mad dogs...

Do you really think that we old ladies only know how to gossip about family matters? It’s just that the chatterbox at home has been used for more than ten years and it’s not working anymore, otherwise, I would know more.”

As Grandma Zhang spoke, she began to fill the pipe with tobacco leaves.

"Then don't you worry about the safety of our family? War is no joke. Think about it, before liberation, soldiers died one after another, like wheat in the autumn harvest." Zhang Shenfei said deliberately.

"How can I not be worried? He's the great-grandson of our eldest grandson!" The old lady's eyes flashed with worry, but she quickly calmed down and continued to pack tobacco leaves. "But the country is in trouble, do you want him to be a coward? The purpose of military service is to defend the country, not to pretend for peacetime."

The old lady stopped and her eyes began to become dazed:
"Back then, your sister-in-law gave birth to her and your eldest brother's first child in 1940 and asked me to give him a name.

What was 1940? At that time, the Japanese invaders had been in our country for several years, and no one could defeat the other.

Now, we always say that we firmly believe that we can win and defeat the Japanese invaders.

But how could we ordinary people understand these things at that time? We only knew that life was difficult, and there was a thick fog that could not be seen at a glance. We could not see whether the future would be a blessing or a disaster, and no one knew what would happen in the future...

At this time, the eldest son was born. I thought, what do ordinary people want in their lives? Isn't it just to have a safe family? So I named him Zhang Ping'an. This name contains our family's hope for life.

Now, Ping An has grown up, and he can't just protect the safety of our family, but also the safety of everyone and the country. So, if there is a day when he has to go to the front line, I will be the first to support Ping An! ! "

The old lady's words seemed to say everything, but also seemed to say nothing. But the Zhang family seemed to understand something. Tang Daniu's eyes were filled with tears: "Old lady, this is a piece of flesh that fell from my body. If I send him to the war like this... If he dies, I will not be able to survive."

I still remember that when we were fighting the Americans, Wang Mantang's apprentice Lao Sheng'er went to the front line and later died in the east.

Lao Sheng's blind mother's hair turned white overnight.

Tang Danniu had mixed feelings, but she didn't dare to refute the old lady.

When the war really comes, whose children are not children? Why can't their children go to the battlefield?
Tang Danniu burst into tears. Zhang Shenliang put his arm around her shoulders, brought her into his arms, and patted her back gently.

Tian Xiaozao hugged Zhang Weiguo with red eyes and kept wiping away tears.

Seeing this, Zhang Shenfei exclaimed that things had gone too far. He had originally intended to tease the old lady to see if she was really conscious, but how did he end up making two women cry?
If you get out of control, you have to get back on track.

He immediately began to analyze the situation and told several people that even if this battle had to be fought, it would definitely not be as harsh as the previous war of resistance against the Americans.

"Let me put it this way. Not only is this war not as harsh as those others, we can even say that this is a foreseeable war in which we can crush the Elephant Country," Zhang Shenfei concluded.

"Why do you think so?" Zhang Shenliang asked back.

Zhang Shenfei said: "Don't be fooled by the current situation of the Elephant Country, but you have to look beyond the surface to see the inner side. Although we are both third world countries and poor, how many wars have we fought over the years? How many wars have they fought? We have won all the games, how about them?
Just like grandma said just now, they have been harassing us on the border for more than half a year, why don't they start a war but just harass us?

In the final analysis, they are now convinced that our country is unable to take care of itself and is attacked from both sides, and they think that we will not launch a large-scale war against them.

But they forgot that our top leader has always been a leader who neither causes trouble nor is afraid of trouble.

We were able to defeat the chickens in the basin with millet and rifles, and the Americans with high-end equipment were defeated. How can we still be afraid of them?
This is just like wrestling. If you let a person who competes with the most famous wrestler in the city fight with someone who has just learned wrestling, how can this not be an obvious situation?

What you may not know is that until now their troops have been used to fight on the plains, and they have not trained troops and weapons suitable for the plateau. Without weapons, morale, and experience in plateau warfare, how can they fight us? "

Zhang Shenliang slapped his thigh suddenly. "The letter that the boss sent home said that the lack of oxygen in the plateau is not good. Some people fainted and some people couldn't breathe. But they train in the plateau every day and have long adapted to the climate and lack of oxygen there. And the tanks they use are all specially made."

The boss suffered a lot when he first entered the snow area, and he complained a lot in the letter. It must have taken him a long time to finally get through it.

If we really told Dafei that the people from the Elephant Kingdom had never been to the plateau, they would suffer a lot when the war started.

When Tang Danniu heard the brothers' analysis, she was immediately excited. She wiped her tears and smiled: "In other words, we don't need to take them seriously at all?"

Zhang Shenfei shook his head: "Not really. Didn't the leader say that we should despise the enemy strategically and take him seriously tactically.

I have said so much just to let you know. Although it has only been twelve years since the founding of our country, our country is no longer the former Z country. There will certainly be wars again, but there will never be wars as tragic as before. "

After the words fell, he continued, "Hey, weren't we talking about Ping An's wedding? Why did we get to this point? Old lady, it's all your fault. You always divert the topic."

Grandma Zhang took a long puff of her pipe and said, "You don't have a strong will, and you blame me. You can't join the army. You can be led astray by just a few words."

"Tsk tsk tsk, if you say that, then I won't go to pick up the new radio I ordered from the department store." Zhang Shenfei sneered, with an attitude that said, "You are so unkind, so don't blame me for being unjust."

Grandma Zhang must be one of those who knows how to deal with things. Upon hearing this, she immediately grabbed his hand and kept calling him "good grandson".

The whole family laughed again when they saw this.

After the Zhang family finalized the policy, they gave the cold shoulder to those people in the courtyard who were trying to match their younger generation with girls.

This made Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui very anxious, especially Yan Bugui, because the time for the steel rolling mill to recruit broadcasters was approaching and they couldn't delay it.

Finally, when Yu Li's parents once again blocked the gate of the courtyard, Yan Bugui had to give up the idea of ​​earning the two hundred yuan.

Yan Jiefang and his wife also wailed. The hundred yuan they had earned was gone, and they could only continue living in the ant nest.

Zhang Shenfei didn't know about these things. In his opinion, the one thousand yuan from Yu Li's family was just a piece of cake dropped from the sky. If he got it, he would take it. If he didn't, it didn't matter.

When the first snow falls in early winter,
Qin Huairu gave birth to Jia Dongxu's posthumous child, a little girl named Huaihua.

This made Jia Zhang very disappointed. Banggeng was the only child in the Jia family's vast territory. She had originally hoped that Qin Huairu was pregnant with a boy who, together with Banggeng, could support the old Jia family.

But now that things have come to this, I have no choice but to accept it.

As for Qin Lao Er? His surname is Qin, and he is not the same as the Jia family.

Forget it, after all, the Jia family is not destined to have many children and grandchildren. She can only comfort herself in this way.

As long as Banggeng grows up safely, she will have done her best for Lao Jia and Dongxu.

Waiting to die and go to the underworld, I hope Lao Jia will not ask the King of Hell to tear her in half for Banggeng's sake...

Without Jia Dongxu, the househusband, Qin Huairu quit her job at the street collectively owned processing factory, returned home to become a housewife, and lived a life of poverty again.

Housewives have a hard time, and Sha Zhu feels really bad for them. He tries to help whenever he can, which in turn makes He Yushui and Liu Lan unhappy.

But no matter what, the days are still moving forward.

The golden crow rises in the east and the moon rabbit sets in the west.

Soon it was the 18th day of the tenth lunar month, the day when Sha Zhu and Liu Lan were to get married.

(End of this chapter)