Signing in during the Republic of China: Starting from a foot patrol

Chapter 219

In the early morning, it was dim

and a dozen women were already busy in the dormitories of the textile factory site.

The leader is a woman in her early forties, because her husband's surname is Zeng and the third in the family, so everyone calls her the third sister-in-law, and now she is older, and some juniors have begun to call her the third grandmother.

I saw that the third sister-in-law of Zeng stirred the gruel in the pot with a rice spoon converted from a water scoop, and said to the other women:

"This pot is ready, quickly bring the porridge pot!"

Soon, a large wooden basin for bathing was brought by the women, and the gruel in the pot was filled with heaps of gruel.

The third sister-in-law turned and walked to the cage drawer, stepped on the high stool to lift the top floor, and a burst of white heat rose.

But the third sister-in-law didn't seem to feel hot, so she directly reached out and grabbed a piping hot wild vegetable bun and pinched it, and said in her mouth:

"This drawer is hot, take the dustpan!"

As buckets of gruel, dustpans of wild vegetable dumplings, and chaff nests were brought to the counter, there were already captive workers in the shed not far away who came out to cook, and the third sister-in-law found a bench to sit down.

"Third sister-in-law, drink saliva!"

A daughter-in-law in her twenties came over and kindly served a bowl of hot water.

The third sister-in-law took the hot water, looked at the little daughter-in-law in front of her with a smile and asked: "Huaishu family, do you feel tired of doing this job for the first time today?"

The little daughter-in-law said with a smile: "What's so tired about this, isn't it just getting up early to cook, isn't it also doing this at home."

The third sister-in-law nodded, and then instructed: "Then you have to do a good job, the county elder is benevolent, you just cook, three meals a day of pure dry food, and you can still get 20 pounds of sweet potatoes every month."

"If it weren't for your man being shot by the captive while helping the county magistrate capture the prisoner, and almost lost his life, such a good errand, would it have been your turn?"

The little daughter-in-law nodded repeatedly, saying that she would definitely do a good job, and then praised the third sister-in-law

in turn: "Third sister-in-law, or your life is good, five sons, except for the youngest son who entered the foreign school run by the county magistrate, the remaining sons entered the team, and one son went to the water police."

"I heard that when I first looked for the head of the management site house, the county magistrate ordered you to be the leader, saying that you will give him all four sons, and he will take more care of you."

The third sister-in-law was also a little proud, but she still said modestly in her mouth: "Haha, that's the county magistrate and his old man benevolence, otherwise, will this good errand get me?" "

As the third sister-in-law of the female leader of the construction site, she can get 40 pounds of sweet potatoes every month.

Moreover, the county magistrate also said that as long as he did a good job, when the factory was built in the future, he would let himself be the head of the factory house, and not only take grain every month, but also pay back the salary.

He also asked his husband to stop farming at home, but went directly to work in the factory, and still gave him money and grain every month.

As soon as these words came out, not only the third sister-in-law was excited, but even her four sons who joined the army also vowed to give the county magistrate a desperate effort to repay the county magistrate's kindness.

Saying that, she pointed to the other women and said: "We people, including the ladies of other construction sites, are all because we have sons and husbands carrying guns for the county magistrate, which is why we have this good errand."

"County Magistrate Renyi, we also have to know to repay grace, if we are lazy and slippery, it will not be our own face, but also the face of our grandfathers."

The Huaishu family quickly nodded, and seeing that there were already many captive workers coming to eat, she quickly got up and went over to help with the meal.

These prisoner workers were very honest, lined up one by one, even if they were hungry, they patiently followed the team and slowly moved forward.

Before, a few prisoners who were arrogant on weekdays directly cut in line to eat, but they were beaten half to death with sticks by the guards on the side.

Since then, everyone has a long memory, and everything they do is honest.

In the middle of the group, a somewhat short boy who looked only sixteen or seventeen years old was slowly moving forward.

Liu Qizi, because his father and mother owed Hong Tianwu the rent and could not pay it, sent his son who was just thirteen years old to Hong Tianwu's house to work, which was regarded as the interest on the rent.

The interest is gone, the principal is still there, Liu Qizi's father and mother have sold their homes, and they can't pay it back.

Therefore, Hong Tianwu threw Liu Qizi's father to the Hong family's brick kiln as a slave laborer, and half a year later vomited blood and died.

Liu Qizi's wife was sold by Hong Tianwu to a trafficker, and her whereabouts are unknown.

Encountering such a ruthless and ruthless person as Hong Tianwu, in the past three years, Liu Qizi's life can be imagined, he is sixteen years old, and his weight is almost the same as when he was thirteen years old.

But Liu Qizi did not feel bitter, or rather, he no longer knew what suffering was, after all, he had lived in suffering since he was a child, and his nerves and thinking had long been numb.

Later, Hong Tianwu gathered people and horses to fight Jiangdu County, and in order to make up the numbers, Liu Qizi was also pulled in.

Pull it in, pull it in, anyway, it's different everywhere, aren't they all hungry and scolded!

Liu Qizi followed the team to Jiangdu County in such a confusion, and then saw that the people in front were fleeing, although he didn't know why, he also fled with the flow.

Eventually, he was caught in a pile by several Jiangdu youths and twisted to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Knowing this, he understood that Hong Tianwu, who was comparable to the emperor in his mind, had failed and was captured by the magistrate of Jiangdu County.

Like Hong Ye, he also became a prisoner of the magistrate of Jiangdu County.

Be a prisoner, listen to your companions, it will be miserable to be a prisoner.

But how miserable can it be, is it miserable before it?

It doesn't matter anymore.

After a few days of starvation, Liu Qizi was escorted to the textile factory site, where the commanders of the Jiangdu army announced that letting them work here would be considered atonement.

Dare to feel the misery of this captive, is it to work?

It's nothing miserable!

Liu Qizi was a little happy.

When the morning work was over, Liu Qizi put down the hoe in his hand and went to the kitchen to eat under the guidance of the guards, and everyone was given a rough bowl halfway.

Liu Qizi was secretly happy again, working in the morning and eating at noon, which was the same as when he worked as a long-term worker in the Hong family.

One person has a coarse porcelain bowl, drinks a bowl of porridge when the time comes, and then works in the afternoon.

It seems that this so-called prisoner came from the Hong family to this Jiangdu County Magistrate's house to work as a long-term worker, and the days are exactly the same.

With this thought, Liu Qizi came to the counter of the gang room, stretched out the coarse porcelain bowl, and inside a very white-looking young woman made a bowl of gruel for herself.

Liu Qizi was about to leave with porridge, after all, when he was in Hong's house, his lunch was also a bowl of porridge.

However, just as he was about to turn around, he heard the young woman shouting: "Hey, you, get the dry food and leave!" Saying

that, the young woman put four steaming wild vegetable dumplings on the counter, and seeing Liu Qizi stunned and not moving her hand, she frowned:

"What are you kid stunned, hurry up and take the dry food and leave, don't delay the people behind."

"And dry food?"

This was the only thought that Liu Qizi had in his mind at that time.

At this time, a guard next to him saw Liu Qizi grinding and chirping, and directly walked over to stuff four wild vegetable balls into his arms, and then pulled him away.

Liu Qizi walked to the corner, sat on a stone, looked at the four wild vegetable dumplings in his arms, and was stunned.

On weekdays in Hong's house, it is good to be able to eat one wild vegetable dumpling every day, and now, I have given 4 for one meal.

Is this a long-term worker for the county magistrate?

Is this punishment?

Liu Qizi didn't understand.

But hunger made him not have the heart to think about so much, 4 wild vegetable dumplings ate clean in three bites and five bites, and after a bowl of gruel, Liu Qizi felt a strange sense of comfort.

That feeling is called full.

But after eating, Liu Qizi regretted it, because he saw that several prisoners next to him deliberately left two vegetable dumplings uneaten.

In their words, lunch is so good, it will definitely not be eaten in the evening, and the remaining two can be used as a filling belly.

Liu Qizi was remorseful, and he suddenly had the urge to snap his throat and want to spit out the wild vegetable dumplings.

After lunch, there was a short rest for an hour, and the crowd began their afternoon work again, until the sun was about to set, and the guards ordered a rest.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and they were going to go back to the shed to sleep, but who knew that the guard's words made everyone stunned.

"Line up and go to the room for dinner!"

And dinner?

Liu Qizi looked surprised, and when he came to the room, sure enough, there was another bowl full of gruel and four chaff nests.

Another solid dry food!

Living to this age, it was the first time he experienced a day when he had dry food for three meals a day.

Are county elders really punishing themselves?

No way!

When pigs fly!

I have never heard of anyone's punishment, which is to give dry food three meals a day.

Maybe only today, tomorrow may be the same as the Hong family.

With this thought, Liu Qizi waited until breakfast the next day.

Then, it was still a bowl of gruel and four pieces of dry food.

Lunch is still the same, dinner is still the same.

This is true for several days a day.

Liu Qizi felt that he was not being punished, but enjoying happiness.

That county elder is also too benevolent!

Everyone is against people, and he is so good to everyone.

Liu Qizi was suddenly a little moved.

Therefore, when he did the heavy work, he also spared no effort, and he felt that he had to repay the grace and repay the grace of three full meals a day.

And with Liu Qizi, there are many people who have the same idea, for these poor children who have lived in suffering since birth, a full meal is enough to make them pay any price.

Of course, not everyone is like Liu Qizi.

Some people think that this county magistrate is a soft-hearted person, so can he be lazy and slippery.

Then they find out that they were wrong, and they were wrong.

As seven or eight unrelenting, lazy and slippery captives were stuffed into sacks and hanged, and then beaten to death with sticks by the guards in front of everyone.

Everyone understood in their hearts that the county chief was kind-hearted, but it did not mean that the county chief was not ruthless.

Such a tyrannical method had the effect of both grace and power, and the prisoners worked harder when they worked.

By now, Liu Qizi has been working here for a long time.

Although he was tired from work every day, Liu Qizi was actually a little fatter, and even seemed to be growing a little longer.

The age of sixteen or seventeen is the time of development, and before I couldn't even eat enough, where did the nutrition grow meat.

Nowadays, although the meals are poor, they fill the belly, and the body naturally reacts benignly.

Liu Qizi now feels that life is very good and happy.

Of course, it would be better if the mother who had been separated for many years could be found.

Moreover, when I heard that Hong Tianwu died, he was sent to Hong Tianwu's enemies by the county magistrate, tortured alive for three days, and finally thrown into a pit and buried alive.

The father's feud, the county magistrate helped himself to avenge.

Liu Qizi was very happy, he was glad that he was a prisoner of the county magistrate.

After gobbling up breakfast, Liu Qizi followed the captives and began to work on the construction site.

Today, the foundation of the textile factory has been basically laid, and there is some finishing work, Liu Qizi worked very hard, and sweat appeared on his forehead not long after.

Just as Liu Qizi got up and wiped his sweat, he only heard someone next to him say: "Look, the county elder is here!" "