Hello 1983

  Chapter 775 Dad, you are back!

  The passenger ship finally berthed at the pier, and everyone finally set foot on this magical continent.

   "Hello, Commander Wu!"

  The guards who came up saluted Xiao Wu.

  Everyone cast surprised eyes on Xiao Wu: This is all about the commander, no wonder they are thinking about this side?

  After Xiao Wu returned the gift, he explained with a smile: "It's normal, it's normal, you can do whatever you want here, no one cares."

   "Mr. Liu!" The guards quickly recognized Liu Qingshan, and immediately saluted with excitement.

  Liu Qingshan waved his hand: "Comrades have worked hard."

   "Serve the people!" These veterans answered with a uniform voice.

   This is true, it really serves the African people.

   Several off-road jeeps drove over from a distance, and then the old squad leader and Zhang Long got out of the car and ran towards Liu Qingshan quickly.

  These two are wearing camouflage uniforms, and now they don’t care much about trade matters, and they are in charge of security guards here.

  As the stalls here get bigger and bigger, and more and more investments are made, it is absolutely impossible without an armed force.

   "Brother Dalong, old squad leader!"

  Liu Qingshan warmly hugged the two of them, and then looked at the two of them. Except for the tan spots, the whole person became more energetic.

   These veterans, what they like to do the most is of course their old job.

   "Qingshan, I have heard that you are coming, why did you arrive?" Zhang Long's broken arm was equipped with a prosthetic, at least from the outside, it is not so obvious.

   If not, you should install an iron hook here, and then you can become a pirate leader directly.

   "It's so popular, and there are a few more performances, come, let me introduce you." Liu Qingshan briefly introduced the employees under the big tree and its singers.

  The old squad leader was also full of joy: "I'm bored here, and I listen to your tapes every day. Now it's good, I can give a live concert to my brothers."

   "No problem!" The little stool leaned forward to make a guarantee, and then pestered the old squad leader to touch the real gun.

  In the end, she took the pistol handed over by the old squad leader, her arm sank, and she almost dropped the gun to the ground. It was so heavy.

   "Let's go, go back to our residence first, Qingshan, you haven't been here for several years, but it's changed a lot." Zhang Long greeted everyone to get on the car.

  There were a lot of people, and even a few jeeps couldn’t fit in them. However, the pier sent two large trucks, and everyone just stood in the back of the truck.

  The wharf is not small, except for some loading and unloading equipment, the most are rows of warehouses.

  When the convoy left the pier, the scenery in front of it changed immediately. Looking around, it was all the vast Gobi.

  On the Gobi, there is occasionally a lonely tree.

  Even those places with shrubs are very sparse.

   "Wow, so desolate?" Everyone couldn't help exclaiming.

  But even in such a desolate place, there is life. Not far away, you can see a group of camels grazing leisurely next door.

  Although the environment here is a bit harsh for humans, it is acceptable for camels.

  The convoy kicked up dust and moved forward. Gradually, the surrounding scenery changed again.

  Green, pieces of green, finally appeared in people's field of vision.

  After just experiencing the desert, the green color comes into the eyes, and it feels so kind.

   "It seems to be growing corn?"

  The convoy entered the green ocean, and there were fields more than ten meters away from the road, and the speed of the car was relatively slow, so someone recognized it soon.

   It is indeed corn. This kind of crop has tenacious vitality, and it can still grow even on barren land.

   And judging from the growth, it is very lush.

   After all, it is a land that has never been cultivated. The fertility of the soil is good. As long as there is water for irrigation, the yield is not low at all.

  The crops grown here rely entirely on artificial irrigation, so every few miles you walk, you can see a motor-driven well, connected to a series of plastic small white dragons the thickness of an arm, which continuously transport water out.

  In addition to corn, there is another crop that is much shorter than corn.

  I don’t know some singers who grew up in the city, but Liu Qingshan is familiar with it. Isn’t this just potatoes.

  Potatoes are more suitable for growing in sandy land. It is just right here, and the yield is really not low.

  If there is food and vegetables, at least it can be guaranteed that no one will starve to death.

  According to the old squad leader, three crops can be planted here, but in order to raise the land, everyone only planted two crops, with a two-month break in between.

  The feces of cattle, sheep and camels here are good things to make fertilizer.

  Because the farmer grows a bit tall, all the shoveling has been done, and no large machinery can be seen in the field.

   Only occasionally I can see a few people weeding in the field. Farmers call this big grass.

   This is very necessary, because if the weeds are allowed to set seeds, the land will be barren when the next crop is planted.

   The harvested grass should not be wasted. Livestock such as cattle, sheep, and camels would not be able to eat these fresh and tender weeds at all.

  Liu Qingshan also had to sigh: We Chinese people are definitely the most hardworking and deeply affectionate people in the world. As long as there are Chinese people, we will be able to reclaim arable land.

   Everyone was looking at something new, when they heard a bang, and another gunshot sounded not far away.

   "The enemy is coming again, is this place really dangerous enough?" The little stool shrank in fright.

  The old squad leader quickly waved his hands: "This is the sound of foreign guns, not a war, but the guards of the farmland, firing guns to scare wild animals."

   These farmlands, in the eyes of those herbivores, are simply paradise, so there are often people who come here to steal their mouths.

  Liu Qingshan also laughed: "Unexpectedly, here, I still have to look at Qing."

   Gradually, everyone also found out, and some people were guarding around the farmland.

  Most of them are local aborigines, with big whips in their hands, and some with guns.

  Using the words of the old squad leader: the locals don’t know how to farm at all, so they can only do some farm work that suits them.

  The further you go, the less wasteland there is, and the more cultivated land is reclaimed. Even between the farmland, a few rows of small trees are planted every few hundred meters.

  When it grows up, it is an excellent windbreak forest.

   This is what the local aborigines admire the most: from this, it can be seen that people come here not to destroy, but to really build.

   This place has been in chaos for so many years, they are used to seeing too many people who come here to make a fortune and run away.

  The convoy traveled for dozens of miles, and finally saw a tall building in front of it, cylindrical, with white steam steaming from it.

   This guy is no stranger to him, he is the boiler of the power plant.

  Liu Qingshan was also a little shocked: "Has the power plant been built?"

  Xiao Wu nodded triumphantly: "This is the No. 1 power plant, and the No. 2 power plant is almost finished, but it's on the side of the tribe in Evera."

  Liland is rich in coal resources, so all thermal power plants are built.

  With water and electricity, the basic life will be guaranteed, and industrial and agricultural production can also be carried out in an orderly manner.

  Seeing the power plant, everyone noticed that on the side of the road they came from, there was a cement pole with wires on it, leading to the port.

  The power plant is located on the edge of the settlement, and if you walk in, you can see rows of buildings.

  The road surface is no longer a sandy road, but has become a wide and flat cement road.

  There is no shortage of cement here. For example, the port of Berbera in the west has cement exports.

   There are not too tall buildings, most of them are two-story buildings. There is no need to consider heat preservation here, so the building materials are very economical.

  Most houses are painted white, which is also the custom of the local people and related to their beliefs.

  The singers under the big tree don’t think anything, this place is similar to a county or a big town in China.

   But in Liu Qingshan's eyes, it was very different, because he clearly remembered that when he came last time, there was no decent house here at all, and these were all newly built.

  Even the residences of Chief Adu at that time were all dilapidated small mud houses, which are not as grand as they are now.

  With joy, Liu Qingshan simply got out of the car and walked, and the others naturally followed, looking around curiously.

  Beside the road, you can see some little black kids with bare buttocks running around, all of them look like little black loach.

   "Why don't they wear clothes, can't they afford it?" Amao curiously asked the old monitor beside him.

   "These brats are used to it." The old squad leader also shook his head helplessly. Some habits are really not easy to change.

  Everyone also gradually discovered that although the little black children don’t wear any clothes, or just wear a small vest on their upper body, they all wear shoes on their feet.

   This is also very different from before. When Liu Qingshan was a guest in Chief Adu's tribe, those little guys were all barefoot.

  You can also see some women wearing headscarves and loose and bright dresses. Seeing these people, they all avoid them.

   "Aren't we welcome?" The little stool was a little curious.

  Zhang Long explained to him that this is the ethnic habit of the local people, and everyone understood it.

  On the contrary, some local men I met along the way would come up to say hello very enthusiastically, sticky and chatting endlessly.

  These men were mostly wearing uniform work clothes, Yoshiko couldn't help asking curiously: "Could it be that there is also a factory here?"

  The old squad leader nodded: "Of course, there are several factories now."

   "There is a canning factory, which mainly produces canned camel meat and canned fish, which are exported to countries in Eastern Europe and West Asia. They are very popular."

   "There is also a grain processing factory, a potato starch processing factory, and a potato chip factory."

  Everyone couldn't help but be amazed. They never thought that such a backward place could also set up a factory.

   "What are potato chips?"

  Yanzi heard this word for the first time, and was a little confused.

  The old squad leader chuckled: "I can taste it in a while."

   On their side, potatoes and corn are mainly grown, and the potato planting area is the largest.

   Potatoes are relatively easy to preserve, but it is too hot here, and it is easy to sprout, so Liu Qingshan gave a trick: process potato chips of various flavors.

   Everyone was walking forward when they saw a little black boy in a tank top and shorts running up ahead, waving his two little arms while running, and shouting excitedly:

   "Father, you are back!"

   still uses Mandarin, although the accent is a bit strange, but still understandable.

   Everyone looked at each other with strange expressions, because there were no local aborigines in their group.

   But Xiao Wu strode forward to meet him, opened his arms, hugged Xiao Wazi in his arms, and then raised it high into the air:

   "Haha, little Dilly, do you miss your father?"

  I don’t know why everyone was dumbfounded, and I don’t know who mumbled: “This guy, Xiao Wu, really married a local woman as his wife!”

  Liu Qingshan smiled and shook his head, this little black boy looks like he is five or six years old, and it has only been a few years since Xiaowu came here.

Soon Xiao Wu came back with the little black boy in her arms, and everyone saw clearly that it was still a girl, with a dark and shiny face, a pure smile, and two little girls tied on her head with black hair, watching Also quite cute.

   "This is my adopted goddaughter, Dilly."

  Xiao Wu happily introduced to everyone, but he did not introduce Di Li's life experience. Of course, there is no shortage of orphans in this chaotic country.

   "Di Li, this is your Uncle Liu, these are your uncles and aunts." Xiao Wu hugged the little girls and introduced them to everyone one by one.

  Most people saw the little black boy for the first time, and they all went up to tease him curiously.

  The little stool also distributed the snacks brought to Xiao Di Li.

  Liu Qingshan patted Xiao Wu on the shoulder, then took out a piece of white jade from his bag, and hung it around Xiao Di Li's neck.

   "Thank you uncle." The little guy showed a sweet smile and kissed Liu Qingshan on the face.

   This also caused Liu Qingshan's heart to tremble, thinking of when his younger sister was young.

Little Dili took a big bag of food and drink, happily slipped out of Xiaowu's arms to the ground, then ran to the group of little black children, and started to distribute food, cheerful laughter sounded from time to time .

  Children's happiness is sometimes as simple as that.

  The way everyone looked at Xiao Wu changed a little bit. At first they thought he was a bad boy, but now they all showed some respect.

  Liu Qingshan noticed a detail. When Xiao Dili was playing with her friends, she ran to the trees planted by the roadside and squatted there to relieve her little hands.

  For a five-year-old boy, of course, there is no need to shy away from this.

  Seeing that the little guy put on his shorts quickly and played with his friends again, Liu Qingshan nodded and asked Xiao Wu: "Did Li not have a circumcision?"

  Others are a little clueless. There are many ladies at the scene, and it is difficult for Xiao Wu to explain.

  He is still the old squad leader, and he briefly explained it to everyone.

   In this country, girls are not valued very much.

   Circumcision will be performed shortly after birth, and there is no anesthesia, no disinfection, just cut and sewed up so simply and roughly.

  Yes, circumcision is not only cutting, but also sewing, leaving only a very small hole.

  Even when it is convenient, it is very inconvenient. It takes more than ten minutes to urinate, not to mention waiting until the time of development, when the aunt comes, it will be even more miserable.

  The only purpose of doing this is to ensure the so-called chastity.

  Women who do not practice circumcision, no one dares to marry back home. Their final fate can only be reduced to the kind of people who sell their bodies.

   When the old squad leader finished speaking, look at the girls present, all of them turned pale.

"How can you do this!"

  The little stool spoke angrily, and then remembered something: "Oh, will little Dilly..."

  Xiao Wu raised his eyes immediately: "My daughter, whoever dares to bully you in the future, I want him to look good!"

  (end of this chapter)