59 years after its opening, people are still in Nanluoguxiang.

The old man refused the second bottle. Seeing that he didn't want it, Chen Li happily put it in her mouth.

"Little sister, give me a drink quickly." Chen Hao looked at the bottle of drink in his sister Chen Li's hand with a flattering face.

Chen Li hugged the drink tightly in her arms, shaking her head like a rattle, and muttered, "No, Da Guo said that I can't touch anything that others have eaten or drunk. It will be dirty!"

Hearing this, the smile on Chen Hao's face seemed to be frozen and stiffened there.

He widened his eyes and asked in disbelief: "What? You think I'm dirty?"

Chen Li quickly explained: "Second brother, this is all what Da Guo said!"

Sure enough, just as Chen Li expected, as long as the eldest brother was brought up, the second brother could be suppressed immediately.

Although Chen Hao was still a little unwilling, he could only pout helplessly and stop fighting for the bottle of drink.

The two children were making a fuss, so Chen Feng tidied up the back seat and let the old man sit in the back.

"Uncle, where are you from?"

Chen Feng walked to the front, started the car smoothly, and slowly accelerated.

"I'm from Liaodong. I took a train to Sijiucheng, and then to Langfang. But I didn't have enough money. I thought Langfang and Tianjin were not far away, so I just walked to Tianjin."

The old man may look miserable, but he is actually in a very good mood. Like the vast majority of Chinese people living in misery, he remains optimistic despite the difficulties.

Unlike people in the future, who cannot afford the five huge mountains of mortgage, car loan, bride price loan, milk powder loan and pension, they can only choose to lie down with hatred in the end.

Among the young people aged 25-29, the unmarried rate has reached 51.3%, which has made both shepherds and capital anxious.

"Uncle, Langfang and Tianjin are very far away!"

Chen Feng talked with a smile.

"It's not that far. When we liberated Tianjin in 48, our entire company rushed all the way from Tangshan to Tianjin. We crossed the border on foot and surrounded the city of Tianjin in less than ten days."

The old man recalled: "At that time, my leg was still there. It was not blown off by the American planes. I could walk a hundred miles a day. If this crutch was not as good as my leg, I could walk to Tianjin in one day."

Chen Feng had no doubt about this. In the countryside, bicycles with two wheels, let alone four steel wheels, were rare.

Tools such as ox carts and horse carts are generally the treasures of village teams and communes. Village cadres dare not use them too often. If they get worn out, it will be a big problem!

Ordinary people are generally not eligible to use it unless they are suffering from an acute illness or are pregnant.

Going into the city and going home are all on foot!

As mentioned earlier, in order to get high prices, many people in remote villages bypass the supply and marketing cooperatives in towns and villages, set out at six or seven in the evening, and then walk for five or six hours, covering a distance of fifty or sixty miles, to participate in the black market in the city.

Such a long distance is hard to imagine for urban white-collar workers in later generations who may not even walk such a long distance in a year.

"Grandpa, have some candy!"

Chen Li took a sip of soda, turned around, and started giving out candy again.

"Grandpa won't eat it, good boy, you eat it yourself."

The old man smiled and shook his head.

Chen Feng threw the cigarettes and matches in his pocket to Chen Hao, who quickly handed them to the old man.

Chen Feng: “…”

This fool!

He asked Chen Xiaoer to send him a cigarette, not a whole pack of cigarettes.

How could this old soldier, who had obviously experienced the strict "Three Disciplines and Eight Attentions" and had already developed certain habits, accept it?

really.

"No, no, I really don't need that."

"Brother, I don't want it!"

Chen Hao said helplessly to Chen Feng.

"Idiot, can't you light one for me?" Chen Feng said unhappily.

"Second brother is so stupid!" Chen Li said with a smile while drinking soda.

"Little sister, do you still want me to buy you delicious food in the future?" Chen Hao took out a match and a cigarette and threatened his sister in his arms.

Of course!

Chen Li changed her words wisely and said, "Second brother, I was wrong. You are the smartest second brother in the family, smarter than Brother Bayi."

Chen Hao was very satisfied with the latter sentence.

Although I know this is my sister flattering me, it feels good to hear!

"I just love to hear your honest words!"

Chen Li had a smile on her face.

"Brother, let me light a cigarette!"

"Row."

He gave the matches and cigarettes to the little girl, and put his hands together to try to block the wind.

The little girl struck the match and it lit up, but she was so happy that she slightly exposed the match and failed to light the cigarette in time, and it was instantly blown out by the wind.

"Ouch, it's gone!"

The little girl felt a little regretful, but happily took out the second one.

"Don't take it out, it's windy outside." Chen Hao ordered.

The car is not fully enclosed, so it is a bit windy!

If you sit like this in the middle of winter, especially in the Northeast, it would definitely be self-abuse!

"Brother, don't move. I'm going to row."

"I didn't move, it was the car that shook." Chen Hao said, leaning tightly against the seat.

The road was not very good. Even the future rural cement road would be countless times better than this road. Chen Feng had tried his best to choose a smooth road, but the shaking was still unavoidable, so he had to slow down.

Chen Li wasted several matches before she finally lit the cigarette.

The old man couldn't refuse this time. He couldn't just throw it away and waste it!

"Uncle, there is no one else in your family, why do you go to Tianjin alone?" Seeing that the old man was in a good mood, Chen Feng chatted with him casually.

"My spouse enjoyed fifteen years of happiness, and passed away last month with a smile on his face, leaving me to be with my son."

The old man didn't feel too sad when he thought of his deceased wife.

He had survived many wars and was well aware that living to be over 50 was a great blessing. More than 80% of his peers in the village did not live to be 40, and many of his friends were killed by the Japanese in their teens or twenties.

"My son works in Tianjin and is very busy every day. I didn't want to delay him, so I came here alone."

"I know this place very well. I visited Tianjin and the city of Beijing when they liberated it."

Chen Hao put away the cigarettes and matches, put them in his small bag, and said, "Uncle, my father is in the 38th Army!"

The old man stood up in awe and said, "Heroic troops!"

The 38th Army was originally the 1928st Regiment of the 5th Independent Division of the Hunan Army in the Pingjiang Uprising in 48. Later, it became the th Army of the base area. When it moved to the Northeast, it became the st Column. In , it was changed to the th Army and performed well in the Peninsular War.

The origin of the novel "Who Are the Most Lovely People" comes from the 38th Army in the Songgufeng Battle.

In this bitter battle, only 1 people survived from the 3rd Company of the 7st Battalion.

With the strength of a hundred people, they blocked the attacks of more than a dozen planes and several tanks without any strategic locations to defend, killing and wounding more than 500 American soldiers whose equipment and firepower support were far superior to their own.

The real 7th Steel Company!

Chen Feng also read a lot of newspapers and books from the past, and only then did he realize how difficult it was for Chen Jianjun to come back alive!