Chapter 22 Deserters (2)
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A strange color flashed in Wang Xiaoshan's eyes. He said calmly: "Report to the commander, Bei Zhi has never beaten them. If the commander doesn't believe it, you can ask the brothers in the class." After pausing, he said: "After we arrived here, we have never beaten soldiers, whether on the training ground or under the training ground. If the commander doesn't believe it, you can ask Platoon Commander Hu."
When Zhuang Jihua heard this, he looked at Hu Zongnan. Hu Zongnan nodded and said, "Yes, I have never seen Squad Leader Wang beat soldiers. I'm afraid you're not thinking about it."
"Well, that's good. What do you think they usually mutter together?"
"They are very careful and always mutter on their backs. Once I heard them talking about their homes or something. I thought it would be something to do with their homes." Wang Xiaoshan said.
"Oh!" Zhuang Jihua thought of some of his previous life's actions at this time, and he seemed to have some idea. So he said to Hu Zongnan: "Brother Shoushan, you and Squad Leader Wang gathered the soldiers in the squad for a meeting, ask them, ask them if they know what happened to their family. And what these two people usually say."
Hu Zongnan agreed and took Wang Xiaoshan away. Zhuang Jihua said to Song Xilian and Du Yuming again: "You should go back and continue training. Pay special attention to the soldiers' ideological situation and tell them not to think about it."
"Yes." The two of them left too. Song Xilian was hesitant and wanted to say something before leaving. Du Yuming pulled him away when he saw this.
As soon as a few people left, the company was empty, leaving only Zhuang Jihua and Cao Yuan. The clerk Li Anguo had the strength to run out long ago.
Cao Yuan found a bench and sat down, then asked Zhuang Jihua: "Cultural Revolution, are you just trying to kill a warning to a hundred people?"
"Of course not, I will think about how to turn bad things into good things and open up the current lifeless situation." Zhuang Jihua said in thought.
"Lifey? The atmosphere in the past two days has been good, and the training has also begun. Why is it so lifeless?" Cao Yuan asked in confusion.
"Hmph, what's good? It's far from that. Didn't you see them just passively accepting it? Is there anything else in the company besides training? Soldiers are not machines, they also have ideas, but look at them now..."
"You are criticizing me, but you are not criticizing and wrong, and I am not doing my ideological work well. It is my responsibility."
Cao Yuan had actually thought of many ways to do ideological work. He taught soldiers every night, talked about opposing imperialism and warlords, and was preparing to run a blackboard newspaper. But the problem was that the results of these tasks seemed to be not very good, and the soldiers did not respond much. Sometimes he even found that he was talking on the stage, and there were many soldiers dozing off below. He didn't understand why when he was in a military academy, the students always resonated with each other and always inspired their revolutionary enthusiasm.
"I'm not talking about anyone's responsibility." Zhuang Jihua interrupted Cao Yuan: "I'm thinking about how to use this incident to open up the ideological work situation."
"Use this incident to open up the ideological work situation?" Cao Yuan was a little suspicious. What could be used for this incident? The best hope was to be confined. The first battalion of the teaching regiment was stationed outside the island when it was first formed, and it was moved to the island because of deserters. The deserters they captured were shot. As the troops formed one after another, soldiers had escaped, and the intensity of the treatment was also reduced a lot, but the lowest was also whipping.
"Yes, you can watch it." Zhuang Jihua was quite sure. The old senior in his previous life had done it a long time ago, but now... it seems that it is not enough. It seems that it has been summarized.
Then Zhuang Jihua ordered the kitchen team to prepare food for the two of them, and specifically told them to have meat. The beef squad leader of the kitchen team accepted the task with a heavy expression; when he returned to the class, he asked someone to buy meat and wine to prepare "behead rice". The news soon came out. The squad leader took the opportunity to teach the soldiers a lesson again, and the soldiers were frightened. Zhuang Jihua forgot that in this era, there was something delicious before beheading, and there was wine and meat. This was the rule, and it had been passed down for hundreds of years.
When Team Leader Niu brought the "behead rice" into the company headquarters, Zhuang Jihua unexpectedly found that there was wine, so he asked Team Leader Niu: "What's going on? How come there is wine?"
The squad leader Niu said honestly: "Company Commander, there is wine and meat, this is the rule."
"What rules?" Zhuang Jihua was surprised, and Cao Yuan was also a little confused.
"The rule of beheading rice is to eat and drink before you go on the road, and be a full devil."
"I'm down," Zhuang Jihua blurted out. He understood what Squad Leader Niu said. If he didn't understand, he would become a fool: "Damn it, who said he wanted to kill them? Get out, get out, get out." Zhuang Jihua was worried, and this kid came to make things worse. Looking at the "loyal and kind" face of Squad Leader Niu, Zhuang Jihua wanted to pull him out with one kick.
After the messenger walked into the confinement room with a "behead rice" in his hand, Han Wensheng Zhao Goudan's face looked like a dirt. The meal was very rich, very similar to the legendary behead rice. Then Zhuang Jihua came in and asked someone to untie them.
"Sit down and eat, you'll be hungry after running all night." Zhuang Jihua's face was quiet, his voice was not tinged with a hint of color.
The two sat at the table tremblingly, unable to hold the chopsticks. Suddenly, Han Wensheng turned over and knelt down, and said, "Company Commander, spare my life, I will never dare to do it again."
Zhao Goudan was not Zhao Hanjie, and even said the same thing. Zhuang Jihua felt a little sad, but he still scared them first, so he said lightly: "Why, if you dare to be a deserter, you won't dare to eat."
"Corporate Commander, I will never dare to do it again."
"I have an eighty-year-old mother in the company commander,..."
Zhuang Jihua interrupted them and cursed angrily: "Ji xx, I didn't even change my lines."
After saying that, they slapped the table and stood up. The two of them were so scared that they immediately got up from the ground.
"Wipe the dog's urine, damn it, is it still a man?" Zhuang Jihua shouted: "Sit down."
The two of them sat down quickly.
"Have a meal."
Grab the chopsticks and stuff them into your mouth.
"Don't choke, slow down." Cao Yuan came in at this time. He heard Zhuang Jihua's roar outside and hurried in to take a look. Seeing the two of them, he felt uncomfortable.
The two of them held the bowl and dashed it into their mouths, but they didn't dare to put it down, just looked at Zhuang Jihua.
"I want to choke to death, but it's not that cheap." Zhuang Jihua said coldly.
The two of them were even more scared, put down the bowl, looked at Zhuang Jihua pitifully, and wanted to kneel down again. Seeing their appearance, Cao Yuan was amused and angry, and said, "Sit down, kneel down at any time, without any bones."
"You are committing death penalty. You can spare you if you kneel down. You are brainless." Zhuang Jihua continued to intimidate them.
The two of them didn't dare to cry now, and they didn't dare to kneel down, sitting there in a daze.
"Company Commander, the matter has been done. Kill me and keep your life." Han Wensheng suddenly said.
"Drink, there are still good men." Zhuang Jihua said sarcastically.
"What I said is true. Goudan and I are from the same village. I encouraged the escape."
"Why do you want to encourage you to escape?" Zhuang Jihua asked. In fact, this was his purpose, but Han Wensheng was still a little unexpected to him. His original intention was to scare the two of them first, then relax, talk to them, and learn about their thoughts.
"There is no other meaning. We came out to join the army, just to earn some money for our family. After coming to Guangzhou, we heard that someone sold piglets to Citiland. There was gold everywhere in Citiland. I was moved and wanted to sell piglets to Citiland. We both came out together. When we came out, the old man at home said he wanted to go together, so I advised him to go with me." After Han Wensheng calmed down and stopped trembling.
Zhuang Jihua was speechless. The Citiland was the United States. He sold piglets to Citiland. The Citiland was full of gold. I can really think of it, but there were people who really believed it.
"Who else is there in your family?" Cao Yuan asked. He didn't expect these two people to escape for this.
"I have another brother in my family, two younger brothers. He is the eldest in Goudan's family, two sisters and one younger brother." Han Wensheng replied.
"Why are you joining the army?" Zhuang Jihua asked.
"The family can't get rid of the pot anymore. In August (the old calendar), the autumn floods were flooded, and the land was flooded, and I had to pay rent and taxes. My family originally had two acres of thin land. Now my brother wants to sell the land, but my father doesn't want to sell it. I want to sell it. What should I do next year? You are here to recruit soldiers? There are twenty yuan for the settlement fee. I gritted my teeth and got here."
"Goudan's family is even worse, and there is no land at all. His father wants to sell his sister, but the dog-good human trafficker only gives five dollars, and the fourteen-year-old daughter only gives five dollars. Goudan robs his sister back, and runs to join the army and leaves the family expenses for the family."
Han Wensheng wiped his tears, and Goudan sat there with tears falling like rain. Zhuang Jihua's hands were trembling and his heart was trembling. He sold more than 300 yuan per watch and could buy 60 such girls.
Human life is like paper, but human beings are not as good as dogs.
"Company Commander, you can kill me. I have a brother in my family, and Goudan's family depends on him."
"Company Commander, spare us, we will never run away again. Brother Wensheng, he is a good person..."
"You eat, I won't kill any of them." Zhuang Jihua could no longer hold it back. He left the words, pushed the door open and went out, afraid that he would cry on the spot.
Cao Yuan's eyes were a little red and said to them: "I didn't want to kill you, the company commander just scared you, so let's have a meal with peace of mind."
Back to the company, Zhuang Jihua lay on his bed. The words of the two made him feel uncomfortable. When he came to this era, he did not really understand this society. He saw a little bit of superficiality and plagiarized the achievements of his predecessors. He was also very proud. In fact, he was nothing and knew nothing.
After a long time, Zhuang Jihua calmed down. During lunch, everyone was silent. Hua Chun, who was usually a little terrified, was scolded by Zhuang Jihua as soon as he said a few words. So the others did not dare to speak loudly anymore, and even took the action of grabbing vegetables lightly.
Cao Yuan also had a dark face and just lowered his head to eat. The documents, messengers, and troopers of his deskmates were not used to eating with his superiors. Now he was even more careful, for fear that the louder chewing sound would arouse Zhuang Jihua's anger.
In the afternoon, Zhuang Jihua brought Han Wensheng and Zhao Goudan to the entire company and asked Han Wensheng to say why he said what he said in the morning. After Han Wensheng finished speaking, he noticed that most of the soldiers in the entire company, including the squad leader, lowered his head. He asked loudly: "Now I want to ask you, why are you joining the army?"
Silence. After a while.
"So too, my family has no choice,..."
"..., if you can survive, who will come out to join the army..."
“…, I want to support my mother.”
"Anyway, it's death, it's better to be beaten to death than to starve!"
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"You can't survive and come out to join the army, but have you ever thought about why you can't survive?" Zhuang Jihua asked loudly. Silent...
"You may think it is because of natural disasters, floods, droughts; it is God, no, it is not natural disasters, it is not **; it is because the rent collected by the landlords is too heavy, and the tax collected by the government is too heavy; but why are there such heavy rents and such heavy taxes? I tell you that it is the warlords, foreigners, and imperialism."
"We in China are rich in resources and foreigners are jealous, so they come to snatch them. The warlords are their lackeys. They collect taxes cruelly, regardless of the lives of the people, the rent and taxes they collect, they handed them to the imperialists through various means, so we are so poor, so we can't survive."
"Han Wensheng Zhao Goudan and the others want to sell piglets to Citi. I want to tell you that Citi is not a paradise. I came back from Citi. I know Citi more than all of you. Citi is also called the United States. In the United States, Chinese people still engage in the lowest and most dangerous jobs, but they get the lowest salary. Let me tell you the fact that Citi has a railway that crosses the east and west of the country. This railway is tens of thousands of kilometers long, but there is a Chinese soul under each sleeper on this railway."
"Selling piglets, what are piglets? They are not humans, but animals. Brothers, we are humans, but why are we sold as animals? Why are we so despicable and so despicable? It is because of imperialism, warlords, and feudalism. It is because these three mountains are pressing on us. If we don't overthrow it, we will always be pigs and dogs."
"How can we overthrow these three mountains? There is only one road, pick up the gun and fight with them. When we join the army, we have to go to the battlefield and we may die, but we are worth it. We are for our sons and grandchildren to be sold as animals, and we are for our daughters and grandchildren to be sold out, so we are worth it." Zhuang Jihua's emotions became more and more excited.
"Maybe some people say, let others fight and let others die; yes, you can avoid it, you can ignore it; but have you ever thought that if each of us is like this, then our son will be sold as animals, and we will still sell our daughter for five dollars in the future because we can't survive, our grandson will also be sold as animals, and our son will also sell his daughter for five dollars. Maybe our descendants will repeat this tragedy. Brothers, are you willing?"
"I don't want to." All the soldiers were infected by his emotions. All the soldiers' faces were flushed and shouted loudly at the top of their lungs.
"No."
"Yes, we want to change this situation, how to change it." Zhuang Jihua picked up the gun prepared in advance and raised him hard: "That is to pick up the gun, go to fight, shoot at warlords, and imperialism!"
Cao Yuan raised his arms and shouted loudly: "Down with imperialism."
"Down with imperialism!"
"Down with warlords!"
"Down with warlords!"
"We will never be slaves!"
Chapter completed!