32 No rest 2

The night enveloped Liujiamiao Station, surrounded by torches and hunting. This is a ruin and a busy construction site.

It was not until it was completely dark that the workers stopped their work and had dinner around the bonfire. One by one, he was honest and honest, and his face was full of vicissitudes of life with a long smile of contentment. There is no other reason. It's just to work here. It's a day's wages, and there is no arrears. Today's salary has been paid before dinner, with twenty pieces of copper in my arms, which is described in two words in my heart: down-to-earth. I'm not worried about the foreman's escape! What's the embezzlement of public funds! What kind of court does not allocate funds! There is nothing to worry about when you pay for a day. The salary here is twice as high as that for any foreign bank, and several times higher than that of the official railway.

There is also food and accommodation here. Although it is only the marching tent of the revolutionary army, everyone has two quilts. There are only two straw mats at home. Such a soft, white and warm quilt. He took the quilt with his tired hand all his life, and there are two five fingerprints on it. The fellow villager pointed to the five fingerprints on his quilt and laughed. He also pointed to the five fingerprints on the quilt of his fellow villagers and laughed. It's all the same. You are not cleaner than me. In the future, you have to wash your body when you sleep on this quilt. It has never been covered at home. Such a comfortable quilt is more than enough to make a wedding dress for the eldest girl. Winter is coming. With such a quilt, you can have a comfortable winter in your life.

"I really want to whistle this quilt home and make a wedding dress for my sister. My sister's life is really hard. She devotes herself to my house. Not to mention new clothes during the Spring Festival, she doesn't even have a red head rope.

"My sister is not the same. When she got married, the clothes she wore were still patched. If you send the quilt back, what will you cover? Winter is coming. Do you still want to cover the straw mat for the winter?

"Winter is crowded with you, and it's over."

"This can't be done!"

"In the past, didn't we all squeeze through the winter together? Why not now?"

"I carefully cover this quilt. After this winter, it won't be very old. I want to give it to my sister."

"You are so reluctant to cover it. Let's just squeeze through the straw mat."

"Follow the revolutionary army, save enough money, and buy anything. You can not only buy a quilt, but also buy a house and get a beautiful wife.

"I heard that there are ten silver dollars a month to participate in the revolutionary army. For ten years, you can buy a foreign-style house in the concession."

"I'm not recruiting now. It's full this morning."

"There will be a chance in the future."

Three meals a day here are not other construction sites with porridge. The meals here are all rice, and the rice without any miscellaneous grains is enough. This is in my hometown. I can't imagine that some people in my hometown don't grow up well, and they don't have enough sweet potatoes and yam. When the year is good, you can leave a little rice. The cooked rice is ginsorghum rice, corn, sweet potatoes, yam... In the end, you can't see a few grains of rice. Like the Liujiamiao construction site, pure rice without miscellaneous grains for three meals a day is only for those villagers who are slightly more prosperous and eat it once every New Year. What's more unbearable is that there is braised pork on the construction site. After a bite, the fat squeaks and goes straight in the mouth. These hard-working people who buy hard work have not eaten as much as the first day of work here as they have eaten all year round. I can't even eat in my hometown, let alone eat meat. It was because I couldn't live on five mu of land at home that I came out to work.

"I'm herding cattle for the landlord's house in Jingshan. You know what my old boss eats every day?"

"I've seen your old boss. He is really fat and rich. He has to walk his dog in the village after eating every day. I saw that he still had a mouth full of oil after dinner. There must be braised pork every day, and chicken, duck and fish are eaten in turn!"

"You're wrong about this. What you see is just the illusion he showed to the village. This is a secret that no one knows in the whole village. Only I know it. I dare not talk nonsense about this at home for fear of being killed by my employer.

"This meal can be fake, so what is the truth? I really want to know, you tell me, I... give you this braised pork."

"Then I'll tell you that one day, there was no firewood in my kitchen, so I was asked to send some."

"Are you the secret you found in the kitchen?"

"Don't stop! Our owner always tells the villagers that he eats big fish and meat every day. I'm also greedy. When I get into the kitchen, I just want to peek and have a good time.

"What do you see? What do you see?"

"See... There are sweet potatoes, yam, corn and sorghum rice in the rice. There are a lot of grains piled up in the kitchen, only a small bag of rice, which can't be seen like chicken, duck and fish."

"You can't see it. Your owner hid it for fear that you stole it."

"You know nothing! At that time, I was also puzzled that every time our owner had dinner, his mouth was full of oil. I secretly took a peek when I was eating at my boss's house.

"What does your owner eat?"

"For every meal of miscellaneous grains and rice, he wants to eat five bowls. Dishes, sometimes stir-fried black beans with green pepper, sometimes stir-fried pickled vegetables with green pepper, sometimes stir-fried pickled cabbage with green pepper. During the Spring Festival, a piece of bacon will be steamed on the rice, as thin as a piece of paper.

"Then how did the oil on your owner's mouth come from?"

"Our owner has a piece of meat with a knife. Every time after dinner, he touches his mouth with oil. You were deceived by him like this.

"I didn't expect to work for the revolutionary army, and my life is more comfortable than that of the local rich man. I eat braised pork and rice every day for a year. I'm richer than your boss.

"It's better for the revolutionary army. In these troubled times, there is only a way to live with this revolutionary army."

I thought that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, demons were rampant, such as fox spirits, red sheep spirits, python spirits, toad spirits... These demons and monsters all came out to harm the world. The revolutionary party is now fighting everywhere. The Liu family temple is bombarded as a flat land, and the nearby houses pretending to be poor people are cleaned up with less war. The fate of their poor people will be more It's miserable. When they were about to despair for the world, the Jade Emperor finally heard the wailing of the world and sent a great immortal to save the world. Now the legends in Wuchang City have spread to Hankou. They are all about the legends of Li Xiang. The more they spread, the more divine they become. Legend has it that in the year of the Yangtze River flood, it was caused by Huanglong, who was demoted by the Jade Emperor and thought about it on the wall of Dongting Lake, sneaking into the Yangtze River to make waves. The flood flooded, and the Jiujiang River collapsed. The water had spread to the gate of Wuchang. General Li calculated that it was Huanglong who made waves. He raised his sword and killed Huanglong in anger, and the flood finally subsided. Such legends about Li Xiang are spread everywhere in Wuchang and Hankou. In addition to his superb martial arts, Marshal Li is also romantic and unrestrained. The romantic affair with Miss Tang is now circulating all over the street. Many people in Wuhan now believe that Li Xiang is a pure-yang real person who comes down to earth, collecting monsters and Western and Western demons who are evil to the land of China.

Of course, not everyone believes these strange legends. But they have a clear understanding of Marshal Li and his revolutionary army. The arrival of the revolutionary army has brought them tangible benefits. This is the court of the Qing Dynasty and the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Don't take it out. I have heard from the party members preach the revolution to them before. What kind of republic? What democracy? What kind of national independence? They don't know what it is and can't be eaten. I don't know what those scholars are talking about. Until today, after direct contact with the revolutionary army of Marshal Li, this is the revolution that these poor people want. They can eat rice with their belly, eat braised pork with a big mouthful, and sleep in a comfortable quilt in winter. This is the revolution they want. They believe that with Marshal Li to do the revolution, this life will only get better and better.

I want to go to the New Year, but I haven't got the money for the Hanchuan Railway yet. The group of corrupt officials in the Qing Dynasty should have been killed by the revolutionary party. I heard that the revolutionary party even wants to change the life of the emperor. This... it's time to change! The emperor doesn't care about the lives of the people. What else is he doing? The revolutionary party is good in the world! Marshal Li, sit in the world! The restoration of Liujiamiao Station is the money paid by the Revolutionary Party, which is paid by Marshal Li. They are uneducated, they are illiterate, and they recognize their parents.

The workers are very reluctant to lose this job. They have no other idea, just follow Li Dashuai to have meat. I heard that the Beiyang Army was going to fight. It was the rotten and smelly Manqing court that sent to eliminate the bandit party. If the revolutionary army is really defeated by Beiyang, what will they do? Back to the beginning, I ate bad water every day, soaked a yellow vegetable leaf, and ate porridge that was thinner than rice soup. I couldn't see an oil star all year round. Still sleeping on the tattered mat, curled into a ball and trembling in the corner in winter. Maybe he couldn't survive this winter and was frozen to death. Everything you have today, and fantasize about a better future, are you regarded as having a big dream? How can this work! It's impossible! Marshal Li is a god. How can he lose? Destroy the Beiyang, destroy the Qing Dynasty, and drive away the foreign ghosts. The people all live a good life with Li Dashuai. Even if the Beiyang army is strong now, there is nothing to be afraid of. As long as Marshal Li gives them a gun, they will follow Marshal Li to the revolution and block the Beiyang army. As long as we can keep the revolution and Marshal Li, we will keep a happy life in the future.

The night is getting darker and darker, and the workers are fantasizing about the future. A row of troops came from Hankou, with neat steps, the sound of the vibration of stepping out of the rumbling land, and rolling up a turbulent black wave at night. This spirit of the elite, where it is headed, the ground shakes. A band of scratching broke out among the workers and stood up one after another, looking towards the revolutionary army with a faint fire. The revolutionary soldiers guarding Liujia Temple immediately came out to maintain order and prevent chaos. They shouted, "It's all the revolutionary army from Hankou. Please don't be afraid!" Please stand where you are and don't run around." Although the workers were no longer panicked, they still put their toes on their feet and looked in the direction of the revolutionary army. This revolutionary party controlled the new army, and it was no longer the Eight Banners Green Camp, which disturbed the people everywhere and was defeated in every battle. This is not clear in the night, but it can clearly feel the iron will of the revolutionary army to move mountains and fill the sea. The shock of the revolutionary army to the workers is really great.

The black torrent is divided into two strands, one goes straight to the northeast Fangdan Pool, and the other turns to the Liujiamiao wharf in the southeast.