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"Four hundred green dragons!"

"Ahem...... Open...... It's here!"

The dealer opened the lid of the box and sang with sweat. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Heavenly Gate...... The horn is back......! People and halls are there......! Take the copper coin and ......!"

"One hundred-one hundred and fifty!"

Under such a song, Ah Kou's money gradually entered the waist of another sweaty character. He finally had to squeeze out of the pile, stand behind and watch, worry about others, until the end of the field, and then return to the land temple, he has no home, lives in the land temple at the head of the village, and has no fixed occupation, only does short-term work for others, cutting wheat and cutting wheat, and scooping rice and rice. For him, who has no land, carrying work is the foundation of his livelihood, but even so, he rarely contributes, eating and drinking all day long.

In fact, Ah Kou has a family, at least before his father died, he had a family, after his father died, but two years of hard work, he lost a few acres of thin fields and a few dilapidated houses in the family.

Despite this, he still does not change his nature, he is a gambler, and he is lazy to eat. Of course, I can't eat it now, and sometimes I even have to think about stealing a melon and a vegetable in someone else's vegetable field, otherwise I'm afraid I'll really starve to death.

Although it is a good bet, but Ah Buckle has not won a few times in his life, if he wins, it is also in a dream, in which he can hear the shouts of the dealer. On the gambling table, he won and won, and the copper coins became horned oceans, and horned oceans became oceans, and oceans became stacks and piles. He was so happy that he rewarded and drank.

And then - the gambling stalls were gone, the people were gone, the pile of foreign money that was very white and shiny - was now gone!

As long as he is in a dream, he will win!

"Turtle son's, dreaming again!"

Wake up Ah Kou scolded in his mouth, looked at the sun rising in the middle outside, stood up lazily, he looked at the clay pot in the corner of the broken earth temple, which was already empty, and then looked at a few cabbages on the broken bricks on the side, which would also be yellow.

Grunt......

The sound of the drum in his stomach made Ah Kou rub his belly and mutter.

"When you are a son, you don't know how to honor Lao Tzu, the current world is really not presentable......"

He scolded those people in the village, and only after scolding like this would he be satisfied and relieved.

"Why don't you go to Widow Sun's vegetable field and stop by something......"

Thinking of Widow Sun's vegetable patch, he naturally thought of Widow Sun's "Chinese cabbage", and all kinds of thoughts surged in his heart when he thought about it.

"A buckle who has cut off children and grandchildren!"

Ah Kou heard this sentence in his ears again, this is the words he was scolded when he peeked at his little daughter-in-law taking a bath. Thinking of being scolded like this, he thought to himself: Yes, there should be a woman, and there will be no one to provide a bowl of rice if she has no children and grandchildren,...... There should be a woman.

"Woman, woman ......"

Ah Kou's heart was thinking, thinking of women.

Just when he was thinking like this, the sunlight in front of the temple gate was blocked by the shadow, Ah Kou raised his head and looked at the person who came, the person had the light on his back, and he couldn't see the appearance clearly, but he could see the cold light shining in the sun.

"You're Ah Buckle?"

"Ah......h

Ah Kou, who hadn't recovered from that fantasy, was still a little confused.

"I am, you are ......"

Before he could finish speaking, the man snatched him down violently, and after being captured, Ah Kou was a little sober, and shouted loudly.

"What's wrong with this, what's wrong with this, why are you tying me up ,......"

It wasn't until he was dragged outside the temple by the five flowers that Ah Kou saw clearly that it was two people wearing blue uniforms, no, they were Qiu Ba in military uniforms.

"Jun, Jun, I, what happened to me?"

Could it be that peeking at the little daughter-in-law taking a bath will also be taken by the government? At this time, he only saw that the villagers around him were pointing at him, and there was a person tied to him, compared to his bearded beaten nose and swollen face, it took him a while to recognize that person as a black egg, and he was counted as fierce and fierce in this neighboring ten miles and eight miles. Seeing that he was also taken, Ah Kou's shout suddenly weakened, and he dared to shout again...... As for what the people in the village are saying, they naturally say that Ah Buckle is bad, and being taken down by the government is evidence of his badness: if it is not bad, why should it be taken away by the government?

By the time they entered the city, it was already evening, and the tied Ah Kou and the black egg were entered into a broken yamen, turned five or six turns, and then pushed into a hut. As soon as he stumbled, the fence gate, made of whole wood, closed with his heels, and the other three sides were walls, and when he looked closely, there were a dozen people in the corners.

Although he was a little apprehensive, Ah Kou was not very depressed, because he broke the house in the Land Temple, and he was not more clever than this house. Gradually, the heads of the house were talking there, asking about their situation, and Ah Kou had the feeling of finding a soulmate—they were all like him, they were all singles who fed the whole family without hunger, and they were all poor without even half a cent of land, and no one was higher than anyone there.

Thinking of this, Ah Kou glanced at the black egg, only to see that the black egg was still full of anger. They asked Ah Kou.

"Here, how did this guy get in?"

Looking at the black egg, Ah Kou replied a little nervously.

"I—I don't know."

"That's it, we're all so poor that we can't even wear pants, what are we doing with this government, we can still squeeze oil out of the stones......"

You can really fry the oil!

The hot sun above his head couldn't open his eyes, the sweat seemed to be dripping like rain, and around him, there were people like him, who were cleaning up the roots, these hundreds of years old forest, although a fire can burn clean, but the roots need to be cut off little by little.

For the past month, Ah Kou and the others have been doing this day and day, desperately cutting off the roots and filling in the holes, a work that can never be done, and behind them there are carefully planned plantations, some of which have been planted with pineapples, tobacco, and rice.

Even now, Ah Kou still didn't react, what happened, that afternoon, Ah Kou and everyone else, were taken to the hall, even if it was a black egg like an iron tower, looking at the adults sitting in the hall, the kneecaps were also loose, and knelt down.

Then he could not remember what the official had said, but he remembered that after he went to court, someone brought a piece of paper and a pen to him, and wanted to put the pen in his hand. Of course, he was surprised, almost "gone": because it was the first time he had taken a pen. He doesn't know how to take it; But the man pointed to a place and taught him to draw a monogram.

"I ...... I...... I don't know how to read. ”

Ah Kou grabbed the pen and said in fear and shame.

"So, let's make a mudra!"

The mudra was pressed, and then what? Everyone was tied up and detained to Guangzhou, then detained to the ship, and then came here across the ocean.

What is this place?

At first he didn't know it, but now he knows that this is the South Seas, it's North Borneo. They were exiled here because they had sinned...... Transformation, that's right, is transformation!

As for how to transform it, it is to work and keep working.

If anyone stops......

"Ouch!"

Suddenly, the hot pain in his back made Ah Kou almost cry, and when he looked up, he saw a vicious face.

"Ah Kou, don't work soon! Isn't it ...... to be smoking?"

Even if it is a fellow villager, the black egg who is the squad leader is also extremely ruthless, although he is the squad leader, but his work is not less than others, saying that the work he does in a day is not up to standard, and then he will be punished by the big guys.

"This is it, this is ......"

Ah Kou hurriedly dug up the roots of the tree again, not daring to have the slightest idea of stealing, the reason why this is so is not that he is diligent, but because he is afraid of being beaten. Although the beating is "a son beating Lao Tzu", it is also painful to hit Lao Tzu.

When Ah Kou and the others were buried in their bodies to work, when these thousands of laborers were constantly encroaching on the "mulberry leaves" of the rainforest like silkworms, on the road in the middle of the newly cultivated fields, Li Guolan, who was standing in the carriage, looked at these "exiles" who were working, and said that they were exiles, but in fact, most of them committed "lazy crimes".

"My lord, can you transform them in a year?"

Unlike Li Guolan, the "manager of the North Borneo Company", Wang Linshan was ostensibly a "security chief", but in fact he was a major of the Rebel Army, leading a battalion of troops here to protect the colony.

"I don't know if they can be transformed in a year, but after a year, each of them will be assigned 40 acres of land, and the annual rent per mu will be paid.

People don't like to work when they're lazy, but North Borneo doesn't support idlers, after all, the company bears their ferry tickets and living expenses, which are all to recover their costs, in fact, a year, it is just barely recovering costs.

"You say these people, if they work hard at home, how can they fall to such a state......

Wang Linshan shook his head, as if he had a lot of sympathy for these people, but he was just talking.

"This is also a good thing, otherwise where would we get so much labor, I heard that the governor plans to immigrate 300,000 people here within two years, and use five years to cultivate 50 million acres of land, plant 20 million acres of rice, and open 30 million acres of plantations......

Yu sighed at the ambition of that clan uncle on his lips, but Li Guolan shook his head and sighed lightly.

"This is 300,000 young people, so many young people are left here, it will be a real trouble when the time comes......" (To be continued.) )