"Uncle Lai, I saw that Huapi was with the people of the government! ……”

The young soldier pulled at the veteran who took care of him with surprise, telling him about the astonishing discovery.

"Shut up!!"

The man who was called Uncle Lai by the young man reprimanded the young man in a low voice, so that the young man's words behind him were all blocked, and after looking around, he whispered to the young man:

"There are some things, look at what you should see, don't look at what you shouldn't, show it to you, you have to watch it if you don't see it, don't show it to you, don't see it, you don't see it, understand?!" (Note: Does this sentence sound familiar, hehe, the answer is at the bottom of this chapter.) ）

The young man who was admonished by Uncle Lai nodded a little blankly, and the young man could only understand half of what Uncle Lai said, but this half was enough for him to understand something, that is, some things should be treated as if they were not seen......

In fact, many people have already seen what the teenager saw, but one of the reasons why everyone didn't say it was - is it useful?!

Since Liuzhou City was conquered by Huapi in the autumn and winter of last year, many things in Liuzhou City have been a little weird, a group of fresh faces have filled some of the dead official vacancies with lightning speed, and the disappearance of a large number of military households and their families also shows that some things are not as the prefect said; What's more important is that the remaining military households inside and outside Liuzhou City now understand very well that Liuzhou City is no longer the original Liuzhou City!

In this era, the concept of the country is actually not strong, taking money to do things and standing guard with guns is more like a profession than out of patriotism**, especially the military families who have been very poor belong to the group struggling on the line of life and death, in this case, you still ask them to work hard for the country...... I can only give you a hum......

Deng Shifeng also grasped the psychology of these remaining military households, who received that little food and salary with everyone, and followed the government not only to not have enough to eat, but also not to be angry, but to follow those flower skins at least to be half-full, and people don't beat or scold and don't want you to work hard...... There are those flower skin soldiers in front of you, where can you find this kind of good thing that is picked up for nothing......

The young man didn't seem to understand anymore, and looked at the other people on the same boat, these people were also like Uncle Lai, their eyes looked around, but they didn't turn to the dock, it seemed that everyone already knew it......

The speed of loading the ship was very slow, and at night, even if the merchant fleet on the river was clean, the officers and soldiers of the water battalion still could not withdraw their posts and were still guarding the South Gate Wharf on the river. And don't look at the warm sun during the day today, but at night, the cold wind of early spring still makes you shiver with cold......

Just as everyone was cursing in their hearts, two small boats floated upstream, small but very conspicuous, because there was a pole on the small boat, on which hung a glass gas dead wind lamp that was commonly used by flower skins. This thing originally everyone thought it was a treasure, bright enough and not afraid of the wind, after the flower skins laid down Liuzhou City, several commercial houses in the city gradually appeared this kind of glass wind lamp, the price of twenty taels of silver apiece, and the oil money burned to be counted separately, many large households, old money and merchants like Huancai Pavilion have bought a lot of back for lighting.

But the ship coming at this time tonight could be seen from a distance, and it was not an ordinary civilian boat, but a small boat with a flower skin, because the brightness of the glass wind lamps used by the flower skins, especially those of the flower skin soldiers, was far brighter than the ones on the market!

Although the young man and the old man didn't understand what the flower skins were going to do, everyone didn't have any sense of fear, if the other party really wanted to do it, they wanted to resist by themselves...... Looking for death......

After several times of contact with Huapi to receive food and salary, they found that Huapi was actually a human being like themselves, and he spoke politely and had no official pretensions, but the other party, from soldiers to officers and those in civilian clothes, had a spirit that they did not have, which made them ashamed of these casual and accustomed military households.

"Sir Liu, what kind of wind blew you here tonight......

A small boat with a flower skin approached his boat leisurely, and it was still about twenty meters away, and the oldest man on the ship recognized at a glance who was coming on the ship, that is, a flower skin chief who paid everyone every half a month...... Hearing Uncle Lai beside him speak, the young man couldn't help but be a little surprised, this Uncle Lai's eyesight was stronger than his own, and he recognized who the other party was so far away......

"It's not a big deal, but I remembered that the brothers in Shuiying couldn't go back to dinner on duty, and it was a little cold, so I got some food and hot ginger syrup for everyone to pad their stomachs to ward off the cold......

With the help of the glass wind lantern on it, several officers and soldiers of the people's water battalion saw that the small boat was carrying a basket of steamed bread and cooking cakes wrapped in quilts, as well as hot water kettles and porcelain bowls that only a dozen rich people and flower skins could afford......

"One person, two steamed buns, two cooking cakes, and two bowls of ginger syrup, I can't get anything good in a hurry, and I don't know if I can satisfy everyone's appetite, so I can only grieve everyone and ......"

Chief Liu's words were full of shame, but when they took out the warm steamed buns and cooking cakes from the baskets insulated with quilts and brought them to everyone, the officers and men of the five water battalions on a boat only felt that their noses were a little sour, and although the residual temperature of the steamed bread and cooking cakes in their hands was not hot, it seemed to have a magical power to warm the whole heart...... And the ginger syrup is still hot when poured out of the thermos pot of flower skin, and the rich ginger spicy flavor and brown sugar flavor bring some other things to everyone's hearts when they drive away the cold in the body......

The officers and men of the water battalion have not experienced this kind of temporary duty at night, but they can only resist hunger and cold every time to change shifts, and those who have mothers-in-law or relatives at home will try to ask someone to bring some food, but there is no other person at home...... Then you can only stick to the hard top or the brothers in the same boat to pad their stomachs...... And those of their own commanders, they ate and drank spicy food on the shore, but they never thought of sending some to the officers and soldiers who were on duty on the river...... Sometimes, people are not comparable, and this comparison is ...... It's easy to breed a lot of undeserved thoughts in people's hearts......

"Chief Liu......" The young man timidly looked at the flower-skinned chief in civilian clothes in front of him when he poured the ginger syrup for the second night, and his mouth kept chatting, as if he had something to say.

"I remember that your surname is Liu, and you have the same surname as me, right...... What's up? Say it boldly! Chief Liu was still very impressed by the teenager in front of him, and encouraged the young man after helping him carefully pour the second bowl of ginger syrup.

"I ...... I want to ask...... Can I join you ......?"

The young man, that is, Liu mustered up the courage to say this sentence made the faces of several military households on the same boat change, especially Lao Lai even sprinkled the hot ginger syrup on his body with a shake of his hand, but the young man's words have come out, even if he wants to stop it, it is too late, he can only look at the chief Liu in front of him, for fear that something will happen because of the wrong words in the novel.

It's just that Chief Liu didn't seem to have any surprise at Liu's hope, he looked at the thermos pot with a smile and asked:

"Why would you want to join us? Aren't you doing well in the water camp now? ”

"Not good! Although there is food to eat, Yuzi always feels that there are shortcomings in the emptiness...... I went to Xiying for a look yesterday when I was off duty, and I saw your flowers...... Those people walk together and list **, I feel a special spirit, and I want to be like you......"

At first, he was a little timid, but the courage of this thing can increase with time, and when he said that the speed of speech in the back was not only getting faster and faster, but he also took advantage of this momentum to spit out all his inner thoughts, and looked at Chief Liu with a blank eye after saying his inner thoughts, hoping to get an answer from the mouth of this chief who wanted to hear the most.

"Do you know what we're doing?" Chief Liu put away his smile and looked at it with a straight face.

"Know!! It is to rebel with a gun and fight a beautiful world where everyone has food and everyone is equal!! ”

Without hesitation, he said the usual propaganda slogans in the army in the mountain villages, these words are used by the mountain villages to publicize and educate the army and the people under their rule, although they have been spread in other places under their rule, but the city of Liuzhou has not yet popularized this kind of propaganda of public surnames, and it seems that it is indeed a matter of time to observe and learn.

"Then since you know that it is a rebellion, then you know that if it fails, it will be killed!" Chief Liu waved his hand in the void to signal the action of cutting off the head.

"I'm not afraid, didn't you say that instead of living like this for the rest of your life, it's better to unite and create a new world together!"

"Yo...... I can't see if you've really put in some effort......"

Looking at that serious look, Chief Liu was amused by it, and the two flower skins who were in the same boat with him also laughed.

"How? Can you take me? Seeing that the other party was in a good mood, he hurriedly asked.

"This ...... No way!! I don't have the right to recruit any soldiers, it's our discipline, and if you really want to join our ranks, I think you'll have that opportunity soon. ”

"Really?!"

"Really!"

Chief Liu put away his smile again, patted his shoulder lightly and said:

"If you want to join our ranks, of course we welcome you, but after joining our team, you can no longer be as easy as now, you will face endless training and encounter all kinds of difficulties and tasks, if you really have the heart to come, I hope you have a good attitude before this opportunity comes."

"Mentality?" I don't understand the word.

"Yes, mentality! You are still young, and the brothers on the same ship are also not the kind of old people who can't move, a person must have a little spirit to live, and this spirit does not come from training, but from the mentality, and only by maintaining hope and never extinguishing the heart of forging ahead can there be such spirit. Look at your current appearance, soldiers are not like soldiers and bandits, since you are a soldier, then you must have a soldier!! ”

"I understand, just like the soldiers standing guard in the West Camp, they stand straight and upright no matter the wind or rain."

"That's right!! To be a soldier is to have the appearance of a soldier, even if you are doing the most inconspicuous thing, even if no one can supervise you, it doesn't matter, because the best supervision comes from your own heart, only people who are strict with themselves and always have a serious attitude can become one of us!! ”

Complimenting the flexibility of being able to draw inferences so quickly, Chief Liu untied the ropes that bound the two boats and prepared to leave for the next boat, and when the two boats separated, Chief Liu's words came again.

"It's easy to join us, do your own thing, as you said yourself, and don't make yourself feel like you're missing something......"

Chief Liu's boat quickly went down the river to the other boats, leaving only a few other officers and soldiers of the water battalion in a boat. When Chief Liu left, Lao Lai didn't beat and scold, because he was also chewing and reminiscing about the key point in Chief Liu's words: do your own thing.

Leaning slightly, the face looks like Lao Cheng's seemingly stupid old man tried to straighten his perennial rickety waist and back, trying hard to make himself stand straighter and more majestic like those flower skins, and several other people did not make a joke about Lao Lai's behavior, because they were also trying to stand up their chests that had collapsed for many years like Lao Lai, trying to get back something they had lost in this life......

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After the next day, you will see that on the river surface of Liujiang, there is a small boat in the water camp, although several people on it are wearing tattered mandarin duck battle jackets, from their upright body and serious attitude regardless of big or small things, these people have made it difficult to recognize them as the former water camp military household who can only pump water......

And as this little episode gradually spread in the water camp that night, more and more officers and soldiers at the bottom of the water camp coincidentally joined the team of these people. And on the shore, the few remaining military households in Liuzhou City have also received some stimulation from the water camp, and what is beginning to change like the water camp......

Soon after, when the mountain village officially took over Liuzhou City, the water battalion and the land battalion had already completed the ideological transformation of these personnel in this process of self-transformation, and the officers and soldiers who were able to hold on to it all smoothly entered the system of just expanding the army, while those who did not persist were ...... It's regretting it late...... (To be continued.) )