Having possessed Damei and coming to this rural area, Chen Chen could adapt and endure it, but this bathing was a very difficult problem.

If it is in the city, there will be a public bathroom and a women's bath is not new. But in the countryside, even in the county, it would be great to have one or two bathrooms.

As for the countryside, there is no need to think about it. Chen Chen only hopes that there is a large bathtub that can be soaked in comfortably, so he is basically satisfied.

But just such small requests seem to be a luxury now. Especially in winter, there is no chance to take a bath in the small lake and river.

Therefore, Chen Chen can only take a bath with a wooden basin. To be precise, it is a scrubbing bath; don’t count on taking a bath.

In fact, even if he was so determined, Chen Chen was a very clean person in the rural areas at that time.

Due to the limited conditions, the poor people at that time rarely took baths, even their clothes were washed. They were not lazy, nor did they not like to be clean, but they did not dare to wash too much, for fear of washing the clothes.

Because, for ordinary people, they have to wear a long time. The cloth is too exhausted, and it may turn into a strip of cloth after scrubbing.

After washing his hair and taking a bath, Chen Chen cleaned it up cleanly before lying on the kang and resting with Juzi.

Juzi was already confused when she slept, but after such trouble, she became energetic. She asked questions for a long time. Seeing that Chen Chen was really sleepy, she stopped and fell asleep slowly.

Chen Chen slept very heavily this time, and the next day, until the sun rose, Lao Gao did not ask him to get up.

After a simple meal, Juzi took Chen Chen to Sun Hongshan’s new home.

In fact, Chen Chen still has an impression of this courtyard. When he first came, Juzi introduced him to the He Laocai family.

Now, the courtyard is divided into two parts. Sun Hongshan and his family live in the backyard, walking through the door opened in the courtyard wall. The front yard is a village office and sometimes serves as a service for entertaining cadres from the village.

Wangjiawa is originally a small mountain village. Even though he is known as He Laocai, he does not live in very luxurious places.

Half of the courtyard is not big, a large room with a kitchen, next to it is a utility room. I just put on the kang yesterday and prepared to live for Chen Chen.

No matter what, Chen Chen was still very happy to see that his uncle's family had a house and he was truly a villager in Wangjiawa.

"Sister, you're back!" Erdan was chopping firewood in the yard, and there was no place to pick charcoal here. When he saw Chen Chen, he immediately shouted and jumped up.

As soon as he shouted, the people in the room heard it. As soon as the door rang, uncles, aunts, and Xiaohua all came out.

"Damei--" My aunt stepped forward and pulled Chen Chen, looking up and down, as if she felt that she was not injured and had many parts on her body, so she felt relieved.

Sun Hongshan still stood up reservedly, his eyes flashed with concern and joy, and he looked at his niece carefully.

"Sister Damei." Xiaohua jumped over, hugged Chen Chen's arm, and smiled crisply.

Chen Chen smiled happily, "Uncle, Aunt, I'm not back now! Look at you, it's pretty good."

"It's great, it's great." My aunt took Chen Chen's hand and asked into the room, "I'm looking forward to your return, I'll feel at ease now!"

Sun Hongshan nodded with a smile and said, "You go into the house first, I'll go and see the kang, add some firewood, burn it dry, and you can sleep at night."

Chen Chen opened his mouth, but still didn't say he would live with Juzi, for fear of letting down his uncle's enthusiasm.

"Damei, I'll go home first, remember hunting!" Juzi reminded Chen Chen, said hello to her uncle and aunt, and then turned around and left.

Chen Chen entered the house, took off all his equipment, and quickly sat on the kang, looking around.

"This house is pretty good." My aunt was busy pouring hot water for Chen Chen and said with a smile: "I heard that I lived in the rich man's house before!"

"I think it's average." Chen Chen felt that this rich man was just better than the villagers, and it was limited. You can tell from the owner of this house.

The aunt said, "That's better than the house in Yaohuzhuang. Only by living in it with your own house can you be considered assured!"

Chen Chen nodded, took the backpack, opened it, took out something from it, or a gift, and said it one by one, and handed it to his younger brother and sister.

Cookies, candies, and dolls are for Erdan and Xiaohua; gold rings and silver bracelets are taken out of the Japanese corpse, and are plundered by the Japanese. Now that they are in Chen Chen's hands, they are all left to their uncles and aunts.

There are also small bags of salt, which is a precious thing in the mountain village, which is much better than small salt "salt boiled by ordinary people with saline-alkali soil".

"Rice?!" My aunt took the cloth bag, looked at the crystal grains of rice, and was amazed.

Since being ruled by the Japanese, rice and white noodles have not been eaten by ordinary people. If they are caught eating secretly, they will be arrested for being a crime of economic crime and will be arrested and imprisoned.

"I don't have a few pounds, so I can only make a porridge and taste it." Chen Chen smiled and said, "What's the point of lacking at home? I just have some money, but I don't have a place to buy some things, right?"

Sun Hongshan pushed the door and said, "You are back and there is nothing left. You can celebrate the New Year at home this time, but don't be stuck and leave again."

Chen Chen said: "I have given a few days off and I will go back to the team in the fourth day of the New Year."

Sun Hongshan nodded and said, "I can get my feet in Wangjiawa and have my own house. The village chief said it was explained by the district, and it is thanks to you. But in the army, don't work too hard. It's a girl's family, always rushing in front and killing her. It's not your turn, right?"

"With so many men, how can it be my turn?" Chen Chen said with a smile: "Just do some chores and follow the troops to run around."

So, the family members put down some snacks, and the atmosphere of chatting became relaxed and cheerful.

"Sister." Erdan looked at Chen Chen's long and short spear enviously, reached out to touch him carefully through the holster, and asked, "I think others are all one gun, why do you have three?"

Chen Chen smiled and said, "I'll take care of the guerrillas. I'm afraid I'm in danger, so I'll give me two more."

The little flower is not like a boy, she is interested in guns. She holds candy in her mouth and eats sweetly. She peels another one and stuffs it into Chen Chen's mouth.

"Your uncle is going to re-work his old job and start a blacksmith shop after the New Year." My aunt said of her own life plan, "After spring, and a few acres of hillside land, this family will be almost enough."

Chen Chen thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid there is not much business when opening a blacksmith shop here?"

Sun Hongshan said: "Catch some chickens at home to raise them, so your aunt can still weave cloth. When you go to the big market tomorrow, buy some cotton thread, and then buy a loom machine, and it will be all."

"Yes, you don't have to worry about your home when you're outside." My aunt smiled and said, "As long as the Japanese don't come to harm you, life will always go on."

"There will be a big show tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?" Chen Chen was a little curious and asked, "This New Year is coming soon, where will the big show be opened?"

War is a contest of comprehensive strength, both military, political and economic are indispensable. The Japanese have realized that it is difficult to achieve complete victory by relying solely on military offensives, and political and economic wars are increasingly being taken seriously.

In order to deal with the anti-Japanese bases behind enemy lines, in addition to military blockades, the Japanese also adopted economic blockade strategies, combining military and economic forces to implement strangulation wars.

Military blockade means digging blockade trenches on the edge of the base area to block the connection between each base area and the base area and the outside world.

The economic blockade mainly involves plundering manpower, material resources and financial resources in the enemy-occupied areas, and implementing trade monopoly. At the same time, it is prohibited to flow into the base area and purchase materials from the base area through various means.

It can be said that this blockade policy is vicious. The strategic materials in the occupied areas are plundered in large quantities and the people are levied in numerous harsh taxes. These money and materials are used to invade and massacre the Chinese people.

At the same time, the blockade also exacerbated the difficulties of the anti-Japanese base areas.

In order to crush the Japanese army's economic blockade, various base areas began to carry out effective struggles in various forms.

In politics, strong propaganda work was carried out to expose the enemy's conspiracy to carry out economic blockade and economic plunder. The masses were educated not to invest in the enemy and did not sell strategic materials to the enemy.

In order to break the enemy's monopoly on trade, each base area sent underground workers to the enemy-occupied areas and secretly purchased arms, medicines, steel, communication equipment, etc.

At the same time, vendors are organized and encouraged to transport necessary daily necessities for the masses and troops from enemy-occupied areas to base areas.

Opening a market and strengthening commodity circulation is one of the measures of the base.

Faced with the difficulties in the base areas caused by the Japanese economic blockade, the base areas have also adopted some flexible policies. On the one hand, they vigorously advocate self-reliance and hard work, and on the other hand, they are also doing business with speculative merchants.

Among the speculators, there are guys with complex backgrounds and great powers; there are also those who sacrifice their lives to smuggle from the occupied areas in order to make money; it is even more conducive to the vigilant and two-faced enemy and puppet officers.

Anyway, no matter who you are, as long as you can transport the urgently needed things, the base government will not only not arrest them, but will instead encourage them.

Marx once said that as long as there are several times the profit, merchants are not afraid of beheading, which means they will risk beheading.

What's more, some intimidating materials, such as Western medicine, will be several times or even dozens of times the profit once transported in, and the temptation is still quite great.

After the Japanese raids ended, the people in the base area suffered great losses, and many items needed to be purchased to make a new life.

Therefore, this big market was held before the New Year so that the people could trade goods, and the location was in Zhangzhuang.

This was something that the district planned as early as the Japanese began to retreat. Chen Chen had been in the guerrillas and had no idea about it.

"Let's go to the big market tomorrow!" Sun Hongshan smiled and said, "If you get familiar with the surrounding villages, Damei will also need to add a new piece of clothing."

Chen Chen laughed twice, but he didn't like any new clothes. Besides, he agreed to Ju Zi to go hunting!

"Hunt?" My aunt thought for a while, looked at her husband, and said inquiry: "Then let's go to the big market the day after tomorrow, and it's so lively together."

Chen Chen scratched his head. It seemed that he had to catch up with this episode. He was too lazy to move. Of course, except for hunting.

However, when this hunting, when Juzi came to look for him, Chen Chen felt that he had been deceived by this girl.

"Let's go?" Chen Chen looked at Juzi and felt that this girl was performing.

Kikuko nodded, as if she was a little disappointed, but she didn't pretend very well, "My father went into the mountain silently, really. But where he was going, I know, we will definitely catch up with it now."

I'm afraid I can't catch up if I follow you, right? Chen Chen seriously suspected that this girl did it on purpose, just to be free and not be controlled by her father.

Seeing Chen Chen showing a suspicious expression, Juzi's eyes rolled down and smiled a little flatteringly, "We have two guns, which are much more powerful than my father's old musket. With your gunshots, no prey is a problem, right?"

Chen Chen was unmoved and deliberately stretched.

"Sister Damei——" Juzi sat next to Chen Chen, hugged his shoulder, and said with a smile: "Do I know your age, half a year younger than me! But I still call you Sister Damei, because you have the responsibility, know much more than me, and have a better marksmanship."

Chen Chen smiled helplessly and said, "Okay, even the caller wants me to appreciate it. I really can't do anything to you."

After pausing, Chen Chen said, "But we have to tell the aunt that we should not let her worry. Don't worry, I'll go and say it, and I will definitely let her agree."

Kikuko blinked and said, "If my mother doesn't agree, then we won't go either of us? Just find a place outside the village and we'll shoot, it's great!"

Chen Chen rolled his eyes straight when he heard this. Can the gun be fired at will? It’s okay to say that in the deep mountains and forests, at most, the prey is frightened and dare not approach it. Outside the village, it will be broken if it causes chaos and commotion among the villagers.

"Sister, take me with me when hunting!" Erdan listened beside him, feeling itchy and felt that he could still shoot one or two shots with him.

Chen Chen looked at his younger brother, hesitated and did not agree immediately.

Erdan hurriedly said, "Sister, I have the strength to help you carry things. I am obedient and don't run around and scream."

"Take Erdan with you!" Juzi said nice things to Erdan next to her, "If Xiaohua hadn't been young, I would have wanted to bring her with me."

Chen Chen snorted and said, "You are brave, but you are not allowed to take children into the mountains in the future. Hunting is not dangerous, it is so simple to think."

Kikuko smiled and said nothing.

Chen Chen looked at Erdan's expectant expression, nodded slightly, and said, "Wear more, let's go now."

The second Dan immediately jumped up and put on a cotton jacket, but the locomotive hat did not fall down.

Chen Chen said to his uncle and aunt, a little vague. Sun Hongshan thought he was going into the mountain with Lao Wang, so he was more at ease. After giving a few instructions, he let Chen Chen and the others go.

When he arrived at Juzi's house, Chen Chen told Aunt Wang that he would go into the mountain to find Mr. Wang and hunt.

Aunt Wang hesitated for a moment and couldn't bear to refuse Chen Chen, so he told Juzi to go too far into the mountain, not to walk the roads that he hadn't walked before, come back quickly if you can't find Mr. Wang, don't stay in the mountain for too long, etc.

Kikuko agreed and pretended to be obedient. When she left the door, she smiled so hard that she couldn't even close her mouth. She went to an acquaintance to borrow a sled-like transportation tool, and the three of them left the village and entered the mountain.

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Chapter completed!