At the head of the north city of Hangzhou, Qiu Jin's eyebrows couldn't help but tremble, and the roar of the new army under the city could be heard clearly in the city. All of them were northerners, and Qiu Jin, who had spent time in Beijing, clearly judged this fact. Linked to the attire of the New Army, their identities are already revealed.

"Beiyang New Army!" Qiu Jin clenched his teeth and squeezed out these words in a low voice.

The Guangfu Army death squad beside Qiu Jin didn't hear the words "Beiyang New Army", and these people's attention was attracted by the Beiyang New Army. Everyone's expression was different, and the more the death squad fighters who had experienced fierce battles, the more solemn their expressions became. It was because they had experienced the test of life and death that they could feel the strong murderous aura emanating from these new troops under the city. These new troops under the city have not only killed people, but what is even more terrifying is that they know how to kill, and they have a strong desire to fight.

With a smoothness that the Shanghai New Army could not match at all, the new officers and soldiers under the city of Hangzhou began to check weapons and organize queues. The officers on horseback retreated only slightly. They were not trying to leave the battlefield and hide in a safer rear, the officers on horseback simply made way for the first platoon of the new troops to attack. The soldiers of the Restoration Order Death Squad saw one of the officers draw his saber and raise it high in the air. With this action, in the array of the fresh army, the standard-bearers raised their heads and chests, and at the same time raised their military flags high.

"Phew!" Ji Ye's hoe hit a stone under the soil layer, and because Ji Ye used too much force when she swung the hoe, her hands were numb with the force of the counteraction. Letting the hoe cut crookedly in the soil, Ji Ye, a seventeen-year-old girl, suddenly raised her hand to cover her eyes and cried.

The work of the Li Jiaji team in Guangde County has finally made progress, and after cutting down 10,000 bamboos a few months ago, a large clearing has been cleared from the mountain. While arranging for the villagers to learn the skills of raising earthworms and raising chickens, ducks and pigs, the team began to plant mulberry trees in this large open space.

Moso bamboo is a plant with extremely tenacious vitality, and it is not enough to cut down the bamboo on the ground to stop the growth of moso bamboo. The huge root system that has been deeply embedded in the ground is intricately intertwined, and it is necessary to dig deep to get rid of these root systems. Otherwise, it is difficult for the mulberry root system to compete with Moso bamboo. Raising chickens and ducks has quick results, and the masses naturally prefer this science and technology. Less than fifteen families are willing to participate in such labor-intensive activities as mulberry planting. Even among these fifteen families, five are weak labor families. They didn't put the family's main energy on Maozhu either, but just sent some people to help. Even so, many of the people discharged were half-grown boys. Children are not lazy, but their attention is too easily attracted by other things, and when they see something dug out of the soil, they will swarm around to watch. Or snakes and other animals appear in the fields, and the children immediately scream and pick up their farm tools and go up and beat them.

Regardless of whether the attitude of the people is positive or not, the rest of the work team spends the rest of its time working every day, except for teaching, imparting agricultural knowledge, and helping the masses solve sudden problems. Where did Ji Ye have such heavy labor experience, she was a little girl with blood blisters on her hands, and the blood blisters broke and grinded the cocoon, because it didn't hurt too much after having the cocoon, so she used too much force when she waved the labor tool, and as a result, new blood blisters were ground on her head under the cocoon. Ji Ye suddenly came to his sorrow and cried loudly.

The children who came to help were not on the mountain now, and the comrades of the task force just looked up to see if Ji Ye was injured. Seeing that Ji Ye was not injured, everyone immediately buried their heads and continued to work. More than half a month ago, students from two base agricultural schools came to the work team, and they brought some materials on bamboo and mulberry trees compiled by the base agricultural schools. Seeing that more than a dozen acres of land on the mountain have finally been cleared. Some mulberry saplings brought from the base have already been planted. The slogan of the task force is "Work hard to complete the first phase of the project as soon as possible." ”

After crying a few times, Ji Ye put down the hand covering his eyes, sobbed and continued to swing the hoe. Soon, the sobbing was gone, and the grievances in Ji Ye's chest turned into a kind of grief and indignation, and the grief and indignation turned into strength again. The seventeen-year-old girl swung her hoe and scraped it on the ground.

The arm that raised the hoe high was grabbed by someone, Ji Ye turned his head to see that Li Shouxian, the leader of the work team, was standing beside him. Li Shouxian sighed, "Comrade Ji Ye, take a rest." ”

These warm words calmed Ji Ye's grief and anger to a certain extent, but then I heard Li Shouxian say: "It's inefficient for you to work like this." ”

I heard that Li Shouxian was not concerned about his own grief and pain, but about the efficiency of his own work. Ji Ye suddenly wanted to clamp Li Shouxian's neck with both hands, and strangled Li Shouxian like a chicken in the struggle to shake.

But this kind of thing is just to think about, not to mention that Li Shouxian's height and weight have too much advantage over Ji Ye, in Li Jiaji's heavy work, Li Shouxian has trained a strong body and developed muscles. Even so, Li Shouxian was still not satisfied, and he kept holding the People's Party's "Exercise Manual" and urging everyone to keep exercising every day. Li Shouxian claimed that heavy physical labor is not the same as exercise. Comprehensive physical training and paying attention to physical adjustment are the right ways to maintain a strong and revolutionary body.

Ji Ye actually wanted to scold Li Shouxian, "If you practice so strong, then go to war." What are you fooling around with a bunch of villagers in the village?! ”

But everyone was working, and Ji Ye felt that it was too stupid to lose his temper like this, so he held back his anger, and Ji Ye picked up the hoe and continued to work. After all, after a few months of labor experience, the training of the people's party's task force is to teach everyone how to work repeatedly, and the effect is quite good when Ji Ye calms down and works. Maybe it was just a vent that relieved the emotions. In addition, after removing and cutting the root system, it is necessary to be careful of stabbing the feet with sharp rhizomes. Ji Ye's attention soon returned to the labor itself. When the sun was about to set, Ji Ye looked up and found that there was not much left to complete.

"Call it a day! Tomorrow is dry. Li Shouxian shouted.

Ji Ye couldn't help but replied: "Just work harder and finish today." ”

"The problem is that we can't finish it today. Such a piece of land will have to be dried until tomorrow afternoon. Let's not push ourselves too hard when it's time to relax. After everyone goes back, we have to have a good rest, we still have to gather the people who plant trees, and tomorrow will be very busy. Li Shouxian replied.

Ji Ye immediately recalled that Li Shouxian discussed opening a mill a while ago, needless to say, when the mulberry trees are planted, the next step is to start the mill. Guangde County is not only rich in bamboo, but also rich in chestnuts. Chestnuts will dry up if you eat too much, but chestnut noodles mixed with white noodles can steam the nest head. And chestnut noodles are mixed with some other things, and what else can be done "mixed pellet feed". It is said to be a very useful thing. There are chestnuts near Lijiaji, moso bamboo, and mulberry trees. Li Shouxian thinks that if he continues to do this, he will be able to make Li Jiaji look new in a few years.

Thinking of this, Ji Ye asked, "Captain Li, how long are we going to be in this place?" ”

"How long do you do it?" Li Shouxian didn't quite understand.

"Does that mean we're going to live in this place from now on?"

"It depends on the organization." Li Shouxian replied easily.

"If the organization ignores us, will we continue to work in this poor mountain and remote place?" Ji Ye was frightened by Li Shouxian's words of sticking to the principles of the organization.

"How do you call it a backcountry? It's a nice place. Li Shouxian replied a little strangely.

Ji Ye looked down the hillside and saw patches of dilapidated thatched huts standing in the setting sun, and the black and yellow dried bamboo with the roof as a roof beam peeking out of the thatched grass in tatters. Although there was smoke, the people who came in and out of the house were in rags. Children and dogs frolicked outside the door. The only decent thing is a bamboo aqueduct that the team built not long ago, bringing a spring directly from the hillside to the village.

Because of his work as an educator, Ji Ye suddenly remembered a problem in math class, "The upper and lower pipes of the pool are opened at the same time, how long does it take to fill a pool." "Such a magical exercise has become a reality in Li Jiaji. At the end of the water pipe under the mountain is a newly built multi-level pool. If you look at it from above, it looks like a concentric circle. There are several stairs that provide access to this layered pool. The spring water is poured into the top of the pool, and the overflowing water fills the layers of water below, until the water flows into a pond dug out of the ground. When the pond was filled with water, it flowed into a distant stream along a ditch dug far away.

Not only does this ensure that the villagers always have access to clean drinking water from the upper pools, but the lower levels of the basins can be used to wash their clothes, and when they don't need clean water, they can use buckets to fetch water from below. The pond that took so much thought was mostly watched by the villagers when it was built. As a result, after the completion of the result, there is no need to explain, and the villagers will naturally see the way. When they get their drinking water, they always do so from the highest pool.

The gutters also work during the rainy season, as the rain rolls down the gutters and there is no accumulation at all. The villagers are not stingy with praise, but they are stingy with their physical strength. As long as they are working for the welfare of their own affairs, the villagers are absolutely enthusiastic, and if they do something for the work team or the collective interests of the Li family, there are very few followers. It is only when it is "judged" that the villagers can think of the work team. Every "commentary" is an almost maddening chatter and quarrel.

After only staying in Li Jiaji for a few months, Ji Ye felt as if his energy had been drained clean by this impoverished mountainous area. She really couldn't see where "this place is nice".

"Captain Li, are you going to be in this place for the rest of your life?" Ji Ye said with obvious dissatisfaction.

Li Shouxian and everyone packed up their tools and replied casually, "For a lifetime? How can you think so far, organizationally let me do it here, I will do it. Organizationally told me to go somewhere else, and I went. Think so much about what to do. ”

These words choked Ji Ye enough, and she paused for a while before continuing to ask, "Then you don't have anything you want to do yourself?" ”

"What do you want to do?" Scraping off the soil sticking to the hoe with the bamboo chips on the ground, Li Shouxian replied, "I used to want to do a lot of things, but I didn't say anything about it, and my family almost starved to death." Now follow the organization, and you can do anything. The bamboo is cut down, and the mulberry tree is about to be planted. In the near future, if the mill is built, we will be able to provide food to the county. This chestnut tree all over the mountain, how many chestnut noodles have to be grinded. In exchange for cloth, salt, and iron, we have taken advantage of the boss. ”

"That bargain didn't fall into your pocket." Ji Ye really wants to raise the bar with Li Shouxian.

Li Shouxian's brows furrowed imperceptibly, but he quickly smiled: "How can you say that it didn't fall into my pocket?" The chestnut noodles made from the best chestnuts have to be tasted first. The golden brown womb made of the best white noodles and chestnut noodles is steamed, and the duck meat is added and the salted bamboo shoots are added. By the way, fried big fat meat with bamboo shoots, it is very delicious. Once the mill was finished, I went to the county and asked them to prepare a few pigs. The spices also have to be prepared, don't you know, we have eaten the stewed pork made by Chairman Chen, and I will drool when I think about it. Not only will I have these dishes, but I will also get some wine, and everyone will have a good time eating and drinking. ”

After all, Ji Ye is still a seventeen-year-old girl, and after listening to Li Shouxian's vain work, she also felt that her tongue was full of relish, and her stomach began to growl. When the other comrades around him heard Li Shouxian's description, they couldn't help but applaud.

"Let's go, go back to dinner!" Li Shouxian saw that everyone had finished packing up the tools, so he picked up the largest bundle of tools and carried it on his shoulders, and walked down the mountain first.

After labor, it is natural to have a great appetite. The comrades of the People's Party are very attentive to personal hygiene, and the public facilities in the village have bathhouses in addition to the aqueducts. However, only showers are provided. The bamboo tube is connected to a water pipe, which leads directly to a large black thin iron bucket above the bathroom, and when filled, it slowly flows into a pool below. On a sunny day, the water in the big iron bucket is hot every day, and after some mediation, you can take a hot bath happily. However, such preferential treatment was only available in the first few days when the People's Party task force tried it out, and then the people spontaneously took the advantage of washing first.

Fortunately, it's only October, the weather is not too hot, and it won't be cold when you take a cold bath. After taking a shower, everyone is sitting at their desks and munching. I was just halfway through my meal when someone came in. When everyone saw it, it was the county's correspondent. The correspondent was a very cute-looking boy, less than twenty years old, and he spoke very funny, and everyone liked him very much. The correspondent sat down to eat together, and the correspondent said while eating: "This time I came to inform the comrades of the Liberation Society, Mr. Xu Xilin called you back. ”

Ji Ye looked at the correspondent's gobbling up, she was still smiling, but when she heard the news, the smile gradually faded from her face. Zhao Ziyong, a comrade of the Restoration Society who came with Ji Ye, his face became very solemn.

"What's wrong?" Ji Ye hurriedly asked.

"I heard that the Liberation Society repelled the Qing army in Shanghai. There is no news for anything else. Not only Li Jiaji, but all the comrades of the Liberation Association in other areas must return to the county. It seems that this time it is possible to let all the comrades of the Liberation Association gather and return to Zhejiang together. The correspondent was still gobbling up and running for dozens of miles, and he was really hungry.

Returning to the Restoration Society is Ji Ye's dream all along. Once again, you will be on the battlefield with your comrades, and you don't have to be with these unruly and difficult villagers. Ji Ye has hoped for this day countless times as soon as possible. She knew she should have smiled happily, but why didn't she seem to be smiling on her face, but she wasn't happy at all? Ji Ye didn't understand this very much.

After the meal, Ji Ye took Zhao Ziyong, a comrade of the Restoration Society, to a secluded place to talk about the matter, Zhao Ziyong usually doesn't like to talk, and in the face of Ji Ye's inquiry, Zhao Ziyong finally squeezed out a sentence, "Let us go back, let's go back." ”

Ji Ye was angry when she arrived, she thought about it for a long time, and suddenly asked Zhao Ziyong in a low voice, "Brother Zhao, do you want to go back?" ”

Zhao Ziyong didn't speak this time, but sighed after a long time. The talks ended without a word.

Lying on the bed, Ji Ye couldn't fall asleep over and over. If you go back, you will have to participate in the war, and Li Jiaji's current situation is ...... Peace? Thinking of this, Ji Ye felt that what he couldn't understand suddenly became clear, and when he first arrived at Lijiaji, Ji Ye couldn't enter a peaceful life because of the war. And now, no matter how boring this peace looks, it is difficult for Ji Ye to return to the battlefield. Thinking of this, Ji Ye felt that his body couldn't help but tremble a little, and if he returned to the battlefield again, he would face death again. She didn't want to die.

This world is very big, when Ji Ye followed her brother and the team of the Restoration Society to many places in Zhejiang, she thought that this was already a very broad space, but in addition to Zhejiang, there are Jiangsu, Anhui, and more and broader worlds. When the members of the working group talked about Fengtai County, the core base of the People's Party, they talked about the factories and schools, the vast fields, the flocks of ducks, and the scenery on both sides of the Huai River. If you get on the boat from Fengtai County, you can reach the vast Hongze Lake to the east. Ji Ye heard them talk about these and wanted to go and see them.

Not only the vast world, but also so many delicious foods. Even if you can't eat the delicious food from afar, just the sumptuous banquet after the completion of the mill described by Li Shouxian, Ji Ye wants to eat it very much. But once back on the battlefield, these are all extravagant hopes.

In this wavering, Ji Ye suddenly remembered his brother. The elder brother was killed in the war with the Manchus, who had not yet been defeated. Ji Ye once vowed to overthrow the Manchu Qing and avenge his brother. At the very least, the city of Nanjing must be breached. But the current situation is far from that time. Thinking of his brother's death, fear disappeared from Ji Ye's body, and a strong emotion of being forgotten suddenly appeared, peace is nothing, and fear no longer seems to be meaningful, as long as you can take revenge! Ji Ye is willing to go to the battlefield again.

Without doubts, Ji Ye quickly calmed down. Maybe the excitement consumed too much energy, and of course, the day's labor also accumulated enough tiredness, and Ji Ye fell asleep not long after.

With a flick of his left leg, Ji Ye woke up suddenly. I don't know what time it was, but it was pitch black outside. Ji Ye felt that the sleepiness had disappeared. The habit of getting up early these days made Ji Ye unable to lie down, so he turned over and got off the bamboo bed. Ji Ye got dressed and walked out. As soon as he left the gate, he heard someone in the darkness ask, "Who!" ”

"Yikes!" Ji Ye was so frightened that he screamed. looked closely, but saw a figure in the moonlight, and carefully identified it as Li Shouxian.

"Captain Li, it's me!" Ji Ye patted his chest with his hand and replied.

"Oh, Comrade Ji Ye." Li Shouxian said with a smile.

"Captain Li, what are you doing when you get up so early?" Ji Ye felt that his heart was still beating with fright.

"You're leaving soon, I'll get you something to eat for the road."

Hearing this, Ji Ye felt a warm heart. Although he wanted to strangle Li Shouxian to death yesterday, Ji Ye himself had already forgotten about his unhappiness. She smiled, "I'll help you." ”

"Okay, let's fetch water together." After Li Shouxian finished speaking, he handed a few bamboo tubes in his left hand to Ji Ye.

The moonlight was bright, and there was no one by the pool. As a public living facility that is convenient for the masses, the enthusiasm of the masses to participate is still there. With bamboo pillars and thatched roofs, a simple shelter resembling a pavilion was finally completed with the participation of the masses. The inside and outside of the pool are cemented with cyan stone chips, so it feels good. The villagers said that this is the place where the water is spitted, and they don't know where to get a hollow faucet, put it on the bamboo tube, and the cool and sweet spring water will be spit out of the dragon's mouth continuously.

"Captain Li, I originally came here to learn the revolution from you. But I didn't study well, and I still don't know how to make a revolution. Ji Ye said with some regret.

"The party organization said about it. I think you've pretty much learned. Li Shouxian replied.

"What do you mean?" Ji Ye asked in surprise.

"The almost meaning is that you are unwilling to accept these revolutionary principles now, but you have heard all the revolutionary principles."

"What exactly is the revolutionary principle?" This is the question that Ji Ye doesn't understand the most.

"I think the main reason you lack now is the lack of a method of understanding, that is, how to do things. Take this pool, for example, the pool we saw took only one-tenth of the effort to build. Nine tenths of the effort is to prepare materials and prepare manpower organization. It would be a mistake to look at the labor of repairing the pond alone, or to think that only the actual construction that can be seen is the whole thing. Anything that requires a lot of preparation. Without these invisible preparations, there will never be any results that you can see. ”

Ji Ye is also a smart child, and she personally participated in this project, she thought for a while and suddenly realized, "Captain Li, as you said before, there are a hundred links in one thing, and none of them can be missing." None of them will do. That's right. ”

"That's it." Li Shouxian replied, "I know that the comrades of the Liberation Association are very curious to know how our People's Party does things. In fact, our People's Party has not done anything remarkable, but we have personally done all these 100 links. Please note that it is done by yourself. Rather than letting someone else do it for us. ”

"Then we have a lot of things that we are exchanging with the group." Ji Ye asked.

"That's right, what we exchange with the masses is also our own doing." Li Shouxian replied.

Ji Ye forgot to fetch water, she carried the bamboo tube and thought about it, everything the team got from the masses was what the team actually owned. Everything is the fruit of the work of the task force. Looking back on the style of the Restoration Society, Ji Ye found that there were very few tangible things that the Restoration Society could actually come up with.

"Why are the comrades of the People's Party able to come up with so many things?" Ji Ye asked.

"Because we are laborers. The laborer is the creator, and we create a lot of things through labor, and of course there are products that can be exchanged. ”

Seeing Ji Ye fall into thinking again, Li Shouxian said: "I have also heard of some factions of the party. How to put it, if you want people to believe, the best way is to use what you have now to make a voluntary exchange with the masses. If the masses are not willing to exchange, it is already bad. If you don't have anything, you draw a big pie out of thin air and say you give me something, and I will definitely let you have this big pie in the future. What do you think this looks like? ”

"Haha, this is a charlatan." Ji Ye said with a smile. But as soon as she finished laughing, she understood what Li Shouxian really wanted to point out. Ji Ye immediately suppressed his laughter.

After a long while, the fever on his face caused by shame subsided, and Ji Ye continued to ask: "But we don't have so many things in the Restoration Society." If we didn't get support, we wouldn't have been able to fight the Manchus at all. ”

"It's not that the Restoration Society doesn't have anything, it's that the Liberation Society doesn't know what the people want. Before we came to Lijiaji, what the people here wanted was a better life, if our team left now, no longer staying in Lijiaji, what the masses wanted was a better life. This is what the masses need. ”

Listening to Li Shouxian's words, Ji Ye immediately became excited, "Yes, yes." If the Manchus were overthrown, the people would be able to live a good life immediately. So now we have to defeat the Manchus first. ”

"Haha, Comrade Ji Ye. Your opinion is wrong, if you don't defeat the Manchus, the Manchus will come and kill us revolutionaries. The overthrow of the Manchus was for the sake of the immediate survival of us revolutionaries. What does this have to do with ordinary people? ”

"Huh?" Ji Ye had never heard such strange theories, and he was stunned for a while.

Seeing that Ji Ye had no way to figure out these truths, Li Shouxian changed his angle, "Let's put it this way, everyone says that the Manchus are bad, corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and extort tyranny." This is true, but our People's Party has conquered Guangde County, and there are no corrupt officials and corrupt officials, no arbitrary expropriation, but where has the people's lives changed? ”

Ji Ye was silent, in Lijiaji for so many months, the people lived very hard and poor. This is why Ji Ye called Li Jiaji a "poor country".

"Aren't they getting better now?" Ji Ye replied almost a little tricky.

"Now it has become better because the masses have labored, and the fruits of labor have been obtained by the working masses. Then life will naturally change for the better. In the future, the more you work, the better your life will be. ”

"That's what we say." Ji Ye's words were very unconfident.

Li Shouxian unceremoniously exposed Ji Ye's last hole card, "That's what your Restoration Society said, but your Restoration Society has never done this." ”

Ji Ye was silent, although he really wanted to come up with a child's unique way of rebutting when he reasoned with others, that is, "You are not as good as me." But the fact that they worked together made Ji Ye unable to even say this.

Li Shouxian did not chase after him, "Comrade Ji Ye, our People's Party believes that the revolution should build an alliance of workers. What is a laborer, you and I are laborers. For example, the masses who took the initiative to participate in cutting bamboo for the first time were laborers. Revolution is to unite such workers. ”

Ji Ye couldn't help but nod slightly, because she also likes to work with these people, if the problem with these people is only "suffering", then with other people, you have to be with all kinds of disgusting and angry things.

"Comrade Ji Ye, if the Manchu Qing Dynasty returns to Guangde County now, we will flee in the wilderness. Do you think the working masses will lead the Manchus after us? ”

"Definitely not."

"What if the Manchus offer a reward of one hundred taels of silver?"

"This ......," Ji Ye thought for a moment before saying, "I don't think so." ”

Li Shouxian lowered his voice and said, "What if it's those second-rate people in the village? ”

"Haha." Ji Ye laughed.

"So, our friends are laborers. Comrade Ji Ye, if you go back to Zhejiang, you must remember this matter clearly. Who is our friend and who is our enemy is the first question of the revolution. ”

After daybreak, everyone had breakfast and prepared their luggage. Ji Ye and Zhao Ziyong went to the county with Li Shouxian. Along the way, I hurried up, and when I arrived at the meeting point agreed by the county, I had already seen many comrades of the Liberation Association there. Ji Ye smiled and said, "Captain Li, if I can come back, you want to treat me to a meal of chestnut noodles you mentioned." ”

"Okay, I'll definitely choose the best chestnut noodle wotou, and I'll invite you to all the other meals I've said." Li Shouxian replied with a smile.

The three shook hands and said goodbye, Li Shouxian did not go back to Li Jiaji directly, he went to the Guangde County Party Committee of the People's Party.

After the director of the county party committee saw Li Shouxian, he handed Li Shouxian an appointment order. "Comrade Li Shouxian, in view of your outstanding achievements in Lijiaji, the Organization Department has transferred you to work in the three towns of Wuhan, Hubei. This is an appointment. You go back and get ready, and set off immediately. ”

"Yes!" Li Shouxian replied in a loud voice.