Time travel! Regrets will never happen again!

Chapter 206 Counterattack 1

"Come on, come on! Everyone, come here and press your fingerprints! You can get 30 kilograms of food! Then we will send you on board the ship to Yichang! There you can get another 20 kilograms of food!"

"Please rest assured! This time the government has prepared enough food and warm clothes for you!"

"Not only will we distribute food for free, but we will also distribute food and rice seeds next year! Everyone must remember, when you return home, you must find General Wang of the 78th Army!"

A junior employee of the Ministry of Civil Affairs stood on a grain-transporting truck, holding a tin loudspeaker, and shouted to the refugees who were noisily preparing to receive relief grain below.

At the same time, in the Kuomintang-controlled areas across the country, all civil affairs staff and police began to mobilize the northern refugees who had fled to the local area to return home.

The only difference is that in the mountain city, each refugee can receive 30 kilograms of grains for travel expenses, while in other places, half of that is deducted.

"Everyone, please don't push, line up one by one, everyone will have a share, and whoever cuts in line will not have a share!"

"Also, remember where you are from. When the time comes, we will send you back to your hometown!"

"When you go back, work hard on your farm and don't beg for food anymore!"

"Everyone line up now. When I call your name, please come forward and press your fingerprint to receive the food!"

The staff of the Civil Affairs Bureau maintained order while shouting loudly.

"Li Erniu!"

"it's here!"

"Come here and put your fingerprints!"

"Okay, take your food! Next one, Zhao Sanya!"

In this way, one refugee after another came forward, pressed their fingerprints, and took away their share of food.

After receiving the food, some refugees showed happy smiles on their faces, while others seemed hesitant and reluctant.

They don't know if they can survive when they return to their hometown, but at least now they have a little hope.

"Okay, everyone follow the arrangement and board the ship to Yichang!"

Staff from the Civil Affairs Bureau directed the refugees to board the ship in an orderly manner.

Some refugees carried their own luggage, while others came empty-handed.

They looked at the river in the distance, their hearts filled with anticipation and anxiety about the future.

At the same time, similar scenes are playing out in other cities and regions.

These low-level government officials realized that if these refugees continued to stay in the South, they would become a factor of social instability.

This time the government decided to take action against them and let these refugees return to the north.

However, this decision was not supported by everyone.

Some people believe that refugees should be given more help and care rather than simply being repatriated, especially now that the north has just been pacified and the government is so eager to drive people away.

They are only given a few dozen kilograms of food and no follow-up work. How are these refugees supposed to live after they return?

This is simply a disregard for human life, but when some people who raised objections were dismissed, those low-level officials shut their mouths.

Although I am very resistant to such a decision in my heart, I still need to support my family. In this chaotic era, I just need to take care of my own affairs. For those refugees, I can only sympathize with them spiritually.

But no matter what, this work still needs to be carried out, even if it involves coaxing, deceiving, threatening and intimidating.

After a period of "effort", most of the refugees have decided to leave the South and embark on the journey back home.

For these refugees, although their future is uncertain, they still hold a glimmer of hope in their hearts.

Perhaps, after returning to their hometown, they can start their lives again and find their own happiness.

Originally, they had to live on the streets and could only rely on begging to survive, and the government provided them with porridge every two days, so they could have something to drink.

Now the government doesn't want them to stay there any longer, and is driving them back to the north just as winter is approaching.

The only thing that is consoling is that the government really distributed some food this time, and the young Commander Wang.

Almost everyone in China knows him now! They all say that he is a star from heaven who came down to earth to save the poor people.

Some people who came from Shanxi Province to recruit workers also publicized how happy and fulfilling their lives are now. Indeed, some people around them went back early.

In recent months, those who have returned have written to ask their relatives to return to northwest Shanxi, and have also sent a considerable sum of living expenses.

Nowadays, RMB is a hard currency in Shanxi Province, and some foreigners are using this new money.

"Mom! Will we be able to eat as much as we did today when we go back?" A boy who was only seven or eight years old was barefoot and chewing a roasted sweet potato in his hand.

While swallowing big gulps, he raised his head and asked his mother in a vague voice.

The woman in front of the child looks like she is in her 28s or s, but in fact she is only years old.

It was just because she fled all the way from Peiping to Wuchang with her two children, and then the Japanese attacked Wuchang, and finally she fled to the mountain city.

The child’s grandparents had died on the way to escape long ago, and the child’s father was moving goods at the dock. Since he had never done physical work since he was a child, he slipped and fell into the Yangtze River and never came ashore again.

The two of them, an orphan and a widow, were left to depend on each other. The dock owner felt sorry for them and arranged a job for them to do laundry.

From then on, Qian E took on the burden of the family alone and made a living by helping people wash clothes at the dock every day. Although life was hard, she watched her two children happily eat some food every day and believed that as long as the family was together, there would always be good days.

On this day, Qian E brought her two children to the riverside as usual, waiting for her employer to deliver the clothes to be washed. Suddenly, a group of people came to the dock and began to investigate these people who had fled from the north.

They finally found a job that allowed them to eat half full, but an order came down from above, forcing the three of them to set out on the journey home again.

However, the young section chief felt sorry for them and secretly gave them a few more sweet potatoes. The son, who was already eleven years old at this time, looked only seven or eight years old due to long-term malnutrition.

Wei Hai carried his younger sister Wei Wei, who was less than three years old, on his back, but as long as he could keep eating sweet potatoes, he would be willing to walk for another lifetime.

The sack behind Qian'e contained the rations given to them for the journey. Originally, there were more than 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes when they boarded the ship.

Then I got off the boat in Yichang and walked all the way to the border between Hubei Province and Zhongyuan Province, with less than 40 kilograms left on my body.

This is because her two children, especially the little girl, who is less than three years old, can't eat too much. Although her son is 11 years old, he looks only seven or eight years old, so naturally he can't eat as much as an adult.

This was what allowed the mother and her two children to persevere until now, and they also secretly saved a lot of money, which were now all wrapped in a torn quilt by Qian E and carried on her back.

Moreover, they didn't dare to take them out to eat during the day. They would only wait until it was dark, such as now, and then secretly take out the sweet potatoes that they had secretly buried under the fire last night and roasted them for their son and daughter.