On December 1st, 1884, the railway from the west to the east from the port of Chambord, which was the original port of Port-au-Prince, finally intersected with the railway bed from the north to the south from the Great Slave Lake. In the cold wind, the young people worked with a kind of fanaticism.
The weather last year and this year was good, and there wasn't too much snow, which made the railway laying work a lot easier. The reason why everyone worked so hard was because the army said that as long as the two railways were connected, not only would this year's work be completed, but next year's railway repair would be handed over to the railway soldiers. The army would also let everyone have a good rest. Thinking about the rest in the next few months and the possibility of family leave in the future, everyone worked hard to finish as soon as possible.
In the evening, everyone finished work, and the comrades discussed whether to eat hot pot or spicy hot pot for dinner. The fat beef in the US was extremely delicious. After using the beef shaving machine, the meat slices could be cut extremely thin. The problem was that even if it wasn't annoying after eating for more than a year, it wouldn't be as fresh as it was at the beginning. However, pork and mutton became the priority. If they ate pork, everyone felt that spicy hot pot was more appetizing.
When they arrived at the cafeteria and sat down, the comrades talked about the meaning of work while waiting for the hot pot soup to boil. Just when they were about to start eating, Li Guangzu, who was sitting at the same table with Lieutenant Qi Rui, suddenly stared blankly at the cafeteria door. The comrades at the same table looked over together and saw a man and a woman standing behind the cotton curtain. They looked quite young, dressed in farmer's clothes, and didn't look like soldiers. A soldier stood next to them, a bit like a receptionist.
"That guy looks a bit like you!" A comrade next to him said. This reminder was very good. Everyone only had a slight feeling, but now they all looked at the young man at the door and Li Guangzu.
"That's my brother, right?" Li Guangzu said with a suspicious tone.
"When did your brother say he was coming here?" Lieutenant Qi Rui asked.
"He never said he was coming to North America." Li Guangzu was more and more puzzled. He even wondered if he was seeing things, or if he missed his hometown too much. Li Guangzu's family was the same as ordinary families in the suburbs of the county. At most, they had been to the county. It was beyond imagination to expect them to sail across the ocean to North America.
Li Guangzu was restless. He simply stood up and said to his comrades, "I'll go take a look first. If it's not my brother, I'll come back."
The group of comrades sat at the table and continued eating hotpot. Everyone guessed that Li Guangzu had mistaken them for someone else. To travel from Asia to the Americas without knowing anything was too big of a leap. No one looked at Li Guangzu. Everyone buried their heads in their food. According to the latest progress, the railway could be completed in five or six days. Instead, the construction of the urban area would take some time. It was already a very good thing that they didn't need to be exposed to the wind and snow in the wilderness. There was a warm house in the city and a stove. This winter was very good.
As for whether they could apply for home leave, no one was too optimistic. Family leave was only one month a year. It would take a month to travel from America to Asia and back. The ordinary soldiers were waiting to retire, and the officers were waiting for the big break that happened once every three years.
"It would be good if there was a faster means of transportation. If it could be twice as fast, even if it was twice as expensive, it would be fine." Instructor Lian sighed.
Lieutenant Qi Rui silently ate the hotpot. He was relatively optimistic about this matter. He was born into a family with a unique understanding of shipbuilding. Vézé had once tried to let his eldest son into the shipbuilding industry. A large ocean liner that could travel at more than 22 knots was not a dream. This was the future development direction.
They chatted while eating. Everyone was half full when they realized that Li Guangzu hadn't returned at all. When they looked again, Li Guangzu wasn't even at the door. The man and woman dressed as farmers and the receptionist were also gone.
"What's going on? Why is Li Guangzu gone? "The instructor asked doubtfully.
Everyone also felt it was quite strange. However, no one wanted to move at this time. When they were half full, the most they wanted was to quickly eat their fill. At this time, everyone was also tired. They just wanted to go back to sleep after eating. As for Li Guangzu's safety, no one was worried. At this time, North America was a place where the number of soldiers was much higher than ordinary civilians. It was impossible to be unsafe in such a large military camp. As a result, when the meal was almost over, Li Guangzu came back with a stern face. Everyone asked him what the hell was going on, but Li Guangzu didn't answer. He just poured a few plates of meat into the hotpot and began to eat.
Lieutenant Qi Rui felt that something was wrong. He asked tentatively, "That should be your brother right?"
"He is not my brother. I don't have such a brother." Li Guangzu said angrily.
Lieutenant Qi Rui didn't continue to ask, but the instructor was ready to continue to ask. Lieutenant Qi Rui touched the instructor with his leg, signaling him not to be so anxious and to wait until after the meal. During the ward rounds in the evening, Lieutenant Qi Rui and the instructor called Li Guangzu out, "What the hell is going on? Tell me. If you keep it in your heart, it will only make you anxious. "
Li Guangzu was really depressed, and he couldn't avoid it even if he saw it. "Bastards nowadays are really bold!" Li Guangzu cursed angrily as his opening remark.
The man and woman were Li Guangzu's brother and his sister-in-law. But the problem was with this sister-in-law. Li Guangzu recognized her as another family that had some feuds with the Li Family. She was junior high school and high school classmate with Li Guangzu's younger brother Li Yaozu. It was unknown how the two of them got together. More importantly, the two of them eloped to North America. Now the country encouraged immigration to North America. The love affair of these two children was obviously not recognized by both families. After graduating from high school, they secretly signed up to join the immigration group and followed the team to North America.
After listening, the instructor didn't know how to deal with it for a while. There were a lot of things about elopement in novels and dramas, and stories related to elopement were even more common. In those works, elopement seemed to be a very interesting thing, but when you really encountered elopement in reality, all the romantic feelings disappeared completely. Not to mention how the eloped parties felt, the family members of the elopers were as bad as Li Guangzu.
Lieutenant Qi Rui and the political commissar exchanged glances, and he asked, "How old are your brother and the woman this year?"
"My brother … is 19 this year. The woman is half a year younger than him." Li Guangzu didn't remember very clearly.
"You said they have registered their marriage with the government?" Lieutenant Qi Rui continued to ask.
After listening to this question, Li Guangzu couldn't help but curse again, "This brat is really bold! They dare to say they are married! He still has the face to see me, his brother. If the receptionist didn't stop me, I would beat this bastard to death today! "
"But you can't beat people!" The instructor said quickly. If the army beat the people, it was against the discipline.
Knowing the ins and outs of this matter, Lieutenant Qi Rui and the political commissar could only let Li Guangzu go to sleep first, but the two of them couldn't sleep as if nothing happened.
The instructor said unhappily, "This matter is not easy to deal with. Immigration is the most important job in North America, and the Immigration Bureau is very protective of immigrants. Li Guangzu wants to take his brother back, but I don't think it's possible. But I'm afraid Li Guangzu just wants to bring his brother back. "
Lieutenant Qi Rui frowned and said, "His brother is legally married, why does Li Guangzu want to take his brother back?"
"Legally married?" The instructor obviously didn't agree with this. He looked at Lieutenant Qi Rui in surprise for a while and said, "Listening to Li Guangzu, his brother's marriage is not agreed by his family. How is it legal?"
Lieutenant Qi Rui also didn't understand the political commissar's statement. He also said in surprise, "There is a marriage law for marriage. It is clearly stated in the Universal Marriage Law that marriage has nothing to do with whether the family is willing or not. As long as you meet the national conditions for marriage, you can get married. Marriage is also protected by national laws. What's illegal about this? "
The political commissar was tongue-tied for a while. He sorted out his thoughts and continued, "Is this legal or not!"
Lieutenant Qi Rui shook his head again and again, "As long as this matter is legal, then the people can't control Li Guangzu's brother. Oh, it should be said that they can't control the couple. And they have come to North America, what else do you want? "
In this regard, the political commissar's view was the same as Lieutenant Qi Rui. He sighed, "The Immigration Bureau doesn't care so much about this matter. As long as it is legal, as long as it is voluntary to immigrate to North America, they will protect it no matter what. So we have to keep a close eye on Li Guangzu recently and don't let him cause trouble. The rating is coming soon. If something happens, we can't handle it. "
The rating was a big deal. The commanders and political personnel of each army had been working hard for more than a year. Building the railway was very hard. Everyone was scattered along the entire line, doing surveying and mapping, repairing the roadbed, and there were only a small group of people for dozens of miles. Now there were finally thousands of people distributed on more than ten square kilometers of land, which was why it was bustling for a long time. Humans were really social animals. Living alone was really against human nature.
But when people gathered together, there would be trouble, especially this group of young and vigorous boys. They were not afraid of anything in the army. Because of women and the migrant farms along the way, there were cases where people died in fights. The soldiers who killed people were shot to death, and the commander and political commissar of the army were fired.
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