Section 134 Triangular cloth

"You don't have to use this set of tactics in Iraq? I heard you were in Iraq. Yu Zhiqian suddenly asked.

"If there was no thing called 'shijie public opinion,' if there was no so-called 'political correctness' formed by the Nuremberg trials, if there was no gang of old Europe who only talked about the self-proclaimed moral saints, if there were no group of ......all-pervasive journalists," Xue Ziliang said, "we would have let go long ago." ”

"Actually, I still did it."

"Can it be the same thing to be restrained and unscrupulous?" Xue Ziliang smiled, "I love Lingao, I love the Senate." I love this plane, too. ”

Chen Lianjian limped one leg and slowly walked towards the construction site with a large rattan basket on his back. The basket contains today's lunch: "steamed buns" made from sweet potato flour and rice flour and pickles. His wife carried a burden, one in front and one in the back, two large tin buckets with lids.

At an infrastructure construction site in Zhonghe commune, newly relocated villagers from Wangpu village are working under the supervision of earth. All of them, both men and women, had their heads shaved and wore straw hats for shade. He was wearing a standard labor uniform made of recycled fabric, and he was wearing a blue triangle cloth on his chest. The people of the commune did not know the meaning of the blue triangle. But in the political order of the Empire, the blue triangle means "the need for public oversight."

They were told that they could not tear off the triangular cloth at any time, otherwise they would be punished as gangsters. The crime of banditry is terrifying no matter what era it is.

Since arriving at Zhonghe Commune, the villagers, both men and women, have been busy on the construction site every day, and their faces are covered with dust. The 12 hours of continuous earthwork a day and the daily quota of earthwork per person made the newly moved villagers of Wangpu feel extremely difficult - it was even more tiring than when the farm was busy.

All the young men in the village were arrested within a few days of their arrival here - as soon as they arrived at the commune, Australians came to register and select, and all the young men aged 18~25 were taken away as long as they were not missing arms and legs.

"You don't have to be afraid, you are going to be a soldier for the Australian chief. Being a soldier is the most glorious, with food, drink and military pay, and retirement pay is also paid. ”

After an Australian in a straight-fitting coat blew loudly about how it was good, the young people of the village were tied one by one, tied up by their arms, and taken directly to the port and sent to the ship.

Many people cried - if they were captured, they would never come back. Although every family where someone was taken away was given a stack of colorful pieces of paper: Australian money.

Australian money was indeed able to buy a wide variety of things in Zhonghe Commune, and families whose families were taken away to serve as soldiers soon bought a wide range of goods from the cooperative outlets in Zhonghe Commune, from household goods, tools and daily necessities. The pain of his son being taken away to serve as a soldier is also a little less.

But an even greater calamity struck. No one expected that it would be the turn of the village children next. All the children between the ages of seven and seventeen, both men and women, were taken away.

Heart-rending cries rang out everywhere, but the bright bayonets shook in front of the villagers' eyes, this was not the original village, the villagers were unfamiliar with the terrain, and no one could hide in the makeshift shacks. The children were all taken away.

The Australian who came to arrest the soldiers last time came again this time, and gave the following comforting words to the villagers: "You can rest assured, the children have food and drink when they arrive at Lingao, and they can also study and distribute pocket money." Where to find such a good day? ”

"Master, the little ones don't want their children to study, they just want to be able to stay around-"

"The young children are still young, and there is no one to take care of them when they go to school alone."

……

The Australian's face sank and he reprimanded: "What are you crying and crying, your children will naturally come back to see you when the New Year comes." Who can no longer be verbose and tomorrow the earthwork indicators will be doubled"

Everyone was silent - now they can only barely complete the workload every day after working for six hours a day, can they still survive if they double it?

The call to call it a day finally sounded on the construction site. The villagers and laborers of Wangpu Village came down from the construction site one after another to eat and rest for a while. The whole time does not exceed half an hour.

"Don't ask us to farm, let us dig up. That's what it's like. Immediately the imperial grain national tax will not be paid? "Some people complained while eating mixed noodles steamed buns.

"Anyway, I dug the ground in Danzhou, but I didn't get you to Lingao to dig the ground."

"The Australians are here, and they still pay the royal grain national tax" A man in his forties patted his buttocks, picked up a piece of salted radish and munched on it.

"Don't Australians want to levy food? I heard that it was also obtained at Lingao last year. ”

"We have taken all our land for them, and what we have to pay for it."

"I don't know what happened to our daughter?" A man sighed. "I won't sell it to the Australians. I knew that I would have given her family affairs first, and I could also pay a bride price. ”

"Your daughter was taken in by an Australian lord."

"If only that were it. I don't think there's anything like that."

"If the girl wants to go, forget it, weishenme will get half of the children away?"

"Don't you know Brother Che? Maybe Australians are good at it. ”

……

Chen Lianjian didn't say a word -- after he arrived at the Zhonghe Commune, all three daughters of the family were taken away. He thought that his wife would not be spared, but Australians are obviously not interested in **. Because he has a disability, they let the husband and wife be responsible for cooking for the entire Wangpu labor team.

Chen Lianjian and his wife's triangular cloth was blue with black trim, and if he knew what this meant, he would have been terrified - this is what "potentially dangerous" means. Theoretically, such a person can be killed at the slightest movement.

Although he didn't know what the triangular cloth meant, he could guess that it was a mark. There are many people in the center, including local military families and migrated from other places, but most of them have not been sewn with cloth triangles.

At first, he couldn't figure out whether the markings were good or bad, until he discovered that not all the sons of the other villagers were forced to serve as soldiers, and that a few of them were also local soldiers and militia members of the "garrison company". The children were not forced to go to Lingao - with the exception of a few orphans and children from families with many children, most of the children went to the national primary school run by the commune itself. Chen Lianjian realized that they had been put into a separate book. The reason why I wear this distinctive blue triangle is obviously related to being a bandit in the past.

Needless to say, as long as there is a slight disturbance, he will be pulled out and beheaded. Thinking of this, Chen Lianjian was so heartbroken that he almost wanted to escape immediately.

Of course, it is impossible to escape. Not to mention that his legs and feet are inconvenient, even if he can escape, what will he rely on to survive? Besides, all the houses in Wangpu Village have been demolished, and the crops in the field have not been cleaned up, and they have been ruined long ago. All that remains of the village's homestead is a number of bamboos with rotting corpses hanging from them.

Someone from the village secretly ran back to their original village, but they were all arrested. These people were then put on blue triangles and worked with their village to dig and haul wood.

A few days ago, he met another laborer wearing a blue-triangle with black trim on the construction site, and he was stunned when he saw him. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, Chen Lianjian made a cut to the bandits. The two of them immediately went online.

It turned out that the other party was also a household bandit, and the team found him out when they went to the village to conduct a large-scale household check.

"It's miserable. Lao Tzu's little family wealth was all copied from them. The bandit said as he looked around in horror.

"My wife and children are all right?"

"My wife is fine. Several of my sons were taken away from them. He said he was going to 'study'. Alas," the former bandit sighed, "Who knows what they were going to do when they caught it, and if it wasn't good, they had already been sold to Australia"

"Sold to Australia?" Chen Lianjian gave a cold war, which he didn't expect.

"yes, why don't they catch the little boy for what?" He sighed, "It's also considered that Lao Tzu suffered retribution as a bandit"

Chen Lianjian looked around: "How are the shopkeepers now?" ”

"Li Manzi was killed a few days ago, he took a few cronies down the mountain to get grain and salt and was arrested, this will be with the head of his subordinate leaders is hanging at the gate of Danzhou City."

"What about the others?"

"I heard that they were hiding. Recently, Australians have been killing people and killing people crazy......" he craned his neck to look around, and said hurriedly, "There are many heads hanging outside Danzhou City." It doesn't matter if you're a big shopkeeper or a small minion. If you catch it, you kill your head. We've killed a lot of them. ”

Chen Lianjian felt a chill on the back of his neck. Hurriedly asked: "Weishenme wants to kill?" ”

"If you want to kill, you can kill - you don't know, the Australians have engaged in 'liquidation' in every village, as long as ten villagers bite you are a bandit, pull you out and kill them. Grandma's, it's all crazy. Anyway, it's not easy to get into trouble if it's usually so popular......"

"They dare to bite?"

"Don't dare in front of you, bite in the back, who wouldn't dare? Australians are hell to die."

As he spoke, he saw infantry coming, and quickly blinked his eyes and slipped away. Chen Lianjian's already worried heart became more and more uneasy. The Australians suffered a loss in Wangpu Village, and this time they had to get it back a thousand times and a hundred times. It is inevitable that a pond fish like himself will suffer.

In the evening, when he and his wife were brushing the pot, several wigs wearing blue collar badges suddenly came to the big kitchen on the construction site.

"Are you Chen Lianjian?"

"Yes—the little ones." Chen Lianjian looked at their murderous faces and the Australian revolver in his waist, and felt bad in his heart, and his legs and stomachs were weak.

"Come with us right away."

"This, weishenme......" Chen Lianjian stuttered.