Chapter 114 Forced to Liangshan

The sailboat crossed the mouth of the Yangtze River into the sea and kept moving forward in the sea. The endless sea was glittering white in the moonlight. The workers who were not sleeping on the deck could not see the island or the ships coming and going, and there was a dead silence on the sea.

Some people who are not asleep on the deck have to sit in a daze and have a white dream that no one knows. There was also the danger of seasickness, lying there like a dead pig, with white saliva on his face purring out from the corners of his mouth, and a large area around him was also soaked. The chin was covered with sticky and smelly rice grains and vegetable crumbs, and the air in the room was disgusting.

The deck is full of vomit residues. There are piles here and there. I don't know whose masterpieces are. Some talk to themselves, and some look sad. When they look at the endless sea, they look like the end of the world is coming.

The sail was blown by the sea breeze, and the shaking oil lamp emitted a dim yellow light, reflecting everything on the board. Wu Shenglan stood on the cabin like an iron toon. His clothes floated, and his strong figure was unwavering in the sea breeze.

"Why do you want to go to sea?"

Looking at these people on the deck of the ship who had long become like dead pigs because of seasickness, everyone was selected to participate in the mine protection team. However, after more than ten days of training in the mine, they suddenly gathered on the sailboat. The ship went out of the sea along the Yangtze River. Almost everyone was seasick, but the surprising Wu Shenglan was not seasick.

"That's the lighthouse!"

Looking at the light on the sea that can be seen more than ten miles away, Wu Shenglan spoke in her heart, and the ship turned in another direction.

"Damn it, I knew me... vomit!"

Ma Youcai, who spit out bitter gall, was lying on the side of the boat and scolding, which was also the joy of being selected for the mine protection team at the beginning.

"Brother Zhang, you have to take it easy later. Don't get rid of my boat!"

Liao Youfu, who stood next to Zhang Renkui, smiled. Although the ship was a foreign sailing ship bought by the owner, he may be in front of the captain of the sea ship, but Liao Youfu walked in front of the people and raised his chin.

"Don't worry! If you buy it in this shipping company, it will be of great use! No, no! Lao Liao! How far is it!"

"It's almost ten nautical miles!"

"Then wait!"

After a while, the sun rose from the sea level and sat back in the chair. Zhang Renkui casually put the cowhide military boots on the boat, embedded with the bottom of thirty-six copper-headed square nail boots with metal light in the morning sun.

Looking at the sea red by the morning sun, Zhang Renkui has a feeling of being separated from the world. Maybe the fate of people is like this undulating sea. Two years ago, he was still a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, but now he is going to rebel. No, he wants to take back the Han people's world and return the Chinese land to the universe.

"Brother Zhang, the ship is still two miles away from the island!"

Looking at the hundreds of people lying on the deck like dead pigs, and looking at the shadow of Shengshan Island, Zhang Renkui sneered, stood up from the chair and lowered his voice first.

"Regone!"

The roar sounded on the boat. As soon as the command came to her ears, Wu Shenglan quickly stood up straight. Even those who had been lying on the deck with soft feet heard it, they forced themselves to stand up. The military stick of the past ten days was not in vain.

Wu Shenglan stood staggering on the deck and looked at the person on the stage who had bulged his military uniform. The scars on his face made him look even more ferocious. These two days were on the boat, but everyone who saw him did not dare to gasp. It will be the same.

"Take off your clothes!"

With a bang, the people standing on the deck talked in a mess. This is another play of drinking!

"Take off your cotton-padded jacket and cotton-padded trousers! Remember the time!"

As soon as Zhang Renkui's words fell, the people next to him looked at the time with a pocket watch, but more than a dozen people standing behind him were put on the gun and looked at the group of people with a sneer.

The look of the sentence should not be heard, and they still have the surname to remember this. As soon as I heard this time, I dared to hesitate there. I took off my cotton-padded jacket in a hurry. After a while, there was only the underwear sent by the company on my body. As soon as the sea breeze blew, I shivered on the deck at the same time. The scene was a gratifying scene.

"Good! Very good! Now, ..."

He nodded and praised Zhang Renkui's mouth, but his right hand opened the holster at his waist. He looked at these people coldly. It was time to wake up these dizzy ducks.

"I'll jump into the sea for all three of them!"

What!

Aren't you going to kill people?

I'm not doing it anymore!

The people who were originally excited to join the mine protection team suddenly shouted like a bomb.

"Ban!"

A gunshot sounded in their ears. The noisy people looked up and saw the evil-faced man pointing a foreign gun at them in his right hand, and the muzzle next to them was also aimed at them.

"One, two..."

Counting sounds like heavy drums in Wu Shenglan's ears. When the man shouted until two o'clock, the person who was still hesitating shouted and jumped into the cold sea like dumplings.

The people who jumped into the sea went up to the island without saying hello.

"There is a cheap surname in my bones!"

He sneered. He didn't wait for Zhang Renkui to turn around and heard the extremely unnatural words of the people around him.

"Captain Zhang, Zhang, someone can't get water!"

As soon as he opened his eyes, he hurriedly looked into the sea. No, several of them were stretching out their hands and fluttering in the sea.

"Throw the life buoy to this group of shore ducks!"

He roared helplessly and got on the boat with the people who got off the boat.

More than ten minutes later, the beach of Shengshan Island was full of people trembling and their lips were blue and purple. When they were blown by the sea breeze, they felt that the sea water on their bodies seemed to make ice edges. Wu Shenglan hit her upper and lower teeth, held a ball in her arms, and stood in line with the people looking at the high platform. The man was dressed in black military uniform and a foreign gun around his waist. .

"... We are all Han people. After entering the customs in 257 years, we left our hair and shaved our heads, which made our ancestors ashamed to see our ancestors... In the two hundred and fifty-seven years, the steel knife shaving order of the head of the captives once killed our blood and surnames. In the first month, we did not shave our heads and thought about the old, and the dead were in the coffin. Why did we develop it? Wear Chinese-style clothes in braids, in order to see the face of the ancestors, in order to change flowers with Yi..."

When Zhang Jing said this, the people in the team were at a loss. Although in the past ten days, Zhang Jing and the people around him talked about the atrocities of Yangzhou Shitian, Jiading Santu, Kunshan Datu and so on when they entered the customs like a storyteller, but what Zhang Jing said at this time was not something that everyone could understand. It has become a habit.

As for the "in the first month, don't shave your head; shave your uncle in the first month." This ballad has been sung for more than 250 years, and the years have long been hazy. How many people know that this ballad is not a prediction that people will definitely die if they shave their heads in the first month of the lunar month, but to curse the "shaving order" forcibly promoted by Manqing with a steel knife and a hard crossbow with the helplessness of "no shaving the head in the first month - thinking about the old". . Similarly, it is also with loyalty in this month.

"The Chinese have become Yi, and it is better to die than to live... In those years, Yan Dian, the loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, once said that he was loyal to the people of the Taizu in the 17th Dynasty. One hundred thousand people guarded the city together and stayed 300 miles in the Ming Dynasty. Although we are not as loyal as Yan Dian's history, I won't be a slave full of captives. I will be a slave or a man. I choose to be a man, and you have also chosen to be a man! But when you see the pig's tail behind your head, you remind me that you are still doing this slave. Now, there is no other meaning, that is, you have chosen to be a human, so you can cut the pig's tail of this slave!"

Listening to the words of the officer in military uniform on the stage, Wu Shenglan, like everyone else, couldn't help opening her eyes wide. Her eyes were full of incredible appearances, and she even took a cold breath. Some of them may not understand the meaning of his speech. There was a contrary in these words, and the braids were even more like making. On the contrary, although the matter of leaving a hair has faded now, he said that and asked the big guy to cut off his braids by himself. Isn't this just to rebel?

Like other people, Wei Ze's heart trembled, and even there was a panic in his eyes. He vaguely understood that what kind of mine protection team is there. It is simply in the name of the road protection team to gather troops to rebel!

Rebellion!

The word

made him afraid, but he looked around. Those soldiers with live ammunition stood around them. After being thrown into the sea and almost drowning a few people, no one dared to speak now. Even the plain smiling Ma Youcai didn't say anything at this time.

When everyone was nervous, several people pushed the cart over. There were clothes on the car. Black, like them, they were all Western-style military uniforms. The dry and warm clothes were more attractive than the silver in the eyes of this group of people with cold lips.

"If you cut off the braids, you are a good man who is willing to be a Han man. Just put on this dress. If you don't want to, you want to continue to be a captive slave, and you will never force it! But please leave!"

It sounds good, but on the thief's boat, Wu Shenglan felt the sea breeze blowing behind her. Can she still walk when she wants to?

Ma Youcai, who was standing next to him, shivered but came out and smiled in front of him.

"This...this dog slave... just left...'s braids,... he would have felt that it was in the way! Sir, lend me your knife!"

When he spoke, he was so talented that he couldn't speak. He cut it hard, and the thick braid was cut off.

The braids fell to the ground, and the hair spread. After the hair spread, Ma Youcai almost flew to the front of the cart. First, he took off his soaked underwear, and put on his underwear, sweater and black cotton-padded jacket after a few efforts.

At this time, several people were so cold that they came out and shouted that they should not be slaves. They cut the braids with a knife, and after a while, forty or fifty people cut off the braids.

Ma Youcai, who changed into dry clothes and warmed his body, regained his true colors. He smiled and touched the broken hair of his neck, looking at the man who was still shivering, his face was full of joy.

"Hey! Brothers, don't say that the braids have been cut off, and the head is relaxed. I think that there always seems to be something uncomfortable on my body. After a long time, this uncomfortable root is here!"

Most Chinese people have the mentality of following the crowd. As a slave for hundreds of years, their bones are tame. If someone takes the lead, someone will respond. Then someone comes out to cut the braids, but the monkey ran to the back of the wooden platform and proposed a bamboo basket. The basket was full of scissors. The first people who cut off the braids picked up the sors one after another. Zi laughed and cut the braids for those who took the initiative to come out.

After a while, in the laughter, dozens of braids were piled up on the ground. There were more and more people cutting braids. At first, there were only dozens of people, and then hundreds of people. The scene in front of him made Wei Ze couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and finally finished what the boss ordered!

"Kap!"

The sound of cutting behind his head and the lightness of the moment only made Wu Shenglan's heart tremble. At the moment when the braid fell to the ground, he only felt that something seemed to have been cut off in his heart.

"Why should I stand up!"

Picked up the braids on the ground and looked at the braids in his hand and muttered repeatedly in his heart. He looked around and cut off the people with different expressions, some were happy, some had complex expressions, and Mr. Lin Lin always had all kinds of expressions.

Not everyone is willing to cut the braids. When Wu Shenglan looked at the complicated expressions of the braids in her hand, she heard some words everywhere.

"This...this braid is really...does it really want to be cut?"

"I...my...no..."

"Cut or not!"

When the shouting sounded, the scissors in the hand of the man who had already cut off the braids opened and closed up and down. He looked at the braids in his hand, looked at the short hair scattered by everyone, and then looked at the hesitation of those people. Wu Shenglan gritted his teeth and walked over, grabbed a pair of scissors, grabbed the person who didn't want to cut the braids, and suddenly grabbed the braids, and clicked. It's cut! Then he threw his braids to the ground and said, "Cut all their braids for me!"

When he shouted this sentence, Wu Shenglan sighed in his heart. Looking at this person who seemed to have lost his soul, he said not to blame me. The reason why he did this was to save their lives. As a scholar, he naturally knew that such a broken business. As soon as it opened, there would be no way back. In the end, he would not Those who cut the braids are willing to sacrifice the military flag.

At the moment when the braids fell to the ground, the man sat on the ground as if he were paralyzed and grabbed his braids.

"My braids..."

The crying sounded, and with the shouts of begging for mercy, the braids of the dozens of workers who did not want to cut their braids were forced to be cut, but several of them grabbed the braids as if they had lost their souls.

The scene in front of him flashed a cold color in his eyes, and he turned his head and whispered to Xu Shikai beside him.

"Remember all their names for me!"

"How to deal with them!"

Xu Shikai's face was a little cold. He hasn't smelled blood on this island for too long.

"Since they haven't been enough slaves, let them continue to be slaves! This kind of people are cheap in their bones. If you don't beat them off their cheap temper as slaves, it won't work!"

When he spoke, Wei Ze had already turned around and left, and his words also determined the future fate of these people.

Only Wu Shenglan and Ma Youcai, who had different looks after cutting off the braids, were left. The people who put on new cotton-padded jackets were no longer shivering, but stood there with the extremely ugly yin and yang head scattered in the back of the head.

"Brother Lan Xin, don't be sad. Look at where we are. There is a sea around, and it's not far away!"

When he spoke, it seemed to be showing off. Ma Youcai stepped on the leather boots and kicked down the sand.

" Maybe, maybe, we can really kill a rich man at that time!"

Rich and noble! Wu Shenglan sighed in her heart, can this wealth really be killed? When his father went out to be a soldier, Xu also thought about it, but after being a soldier for more than ten years, what did he end up with? Could it be that the Wu family is really the life of a grain.

When the people under the stage who had just cut their braids with the "thief ship" were thinking, Chen Moran, who was wearing a black military uniform and a military hat, stepped on the stage and looked coldly at the 560 people under the stage. These 560 people were sent from Ma'anshan. Three days later, 3,000 people will be sent to the island.

The password sounded, and the people who had been scattered, who thought they were food, hurriedly lined up. Whether they had forced them to jump into the sea with guns before, or almost wanted to freeze them to death, they all told them that the people here would definitely kill when they were cruel.

"In the past, you were all slaves of the Qing Dynasty, and you were dog slaves who were despised by anyone!"

Chen Moran's words fell, but the people under the stage had different faces. Most of them were numb and did not respond. Only a few people's faces changed, which showed that they were unwilling to accept the title of "dog slave", and Wu Shenglan even clenched his fist.

"The greed and cruelty of the Qing Dynasty was unprecedented in ancient times. In 258, the misery of aliens and the poison of the tyrant [***] made me Han people unbearable, and I will never forget it for nine generations! We would rather be shattered and stained with blood, rather than live under the suppression of aliens. Now, you put on this military uniform! There is only one goal here, which is to overthrow the slavery of the Qing Dynasty, restore the Han people, and realize the great cause of national liberation!"

Take a deep breath and look at these people under the stage. They may not know what nationalism or patriotism are at all. The reason why they are standing here now is that they have no choice. They don't need to understand all this now. They just need to complete the training.

"You may say that you have accepted your life, you have become a soldier, and the life of that food. What I want to say is that being a soldier does not mean that you are a soldier. Soldiers are the only choice to achieve this national liberation! As a soldier, you may want to make a living. Just take care of yourself. It's not so complicated. However, as a soldier, you have to shoulder the country and the people on the other. The responsibility is so great that it can be compared with the chaotic grain? Ask yourself whether you want to be a dignified Han man or an alien slave! Well, who has a problem now!"

Silence. After Chen Moran asked, everyone was silent. They mostly looked at the beach under their feet, all looking down.

"Is there any way out?"

No!

Wu Shenglan gave herself an answer, but he gritted her teeth and hesitated to raise her hand, and then said a word to the man on the stage.

"Sonor, do we have military pay?"

(to be continued)