The sailboat crossed the mouth of the Yangtze River into the sea, and kept moving forward in the sea, the endless sea reflected in the moonlight, and the workers who sat on the deck did not sleep, neither the islands nor the ships passing by, and the sea was as silent as death.

Some of the people on the deck who were not asleep had to sit there in a daze, dreaming in vain that no one knew. There were also seasickness stakes, lying there like dead pigs, with white saliva foaming from the corners of their mouths gurgling out, and a large area around them was also soaked. His chin was covered with sticky, fishy rice grains and vegetable crumbs, and the air in the room was disgusting.

The deck was littered with vomited debris, here and there, and I don't know whose masterpiece it was, some talking to themselves, some with sad faces, looking at the endless sea, all as if the end of the world was coming.

The sails were blown by the sea breeze, the swaying oil lamps emitted a dim light, reflecting everything on the board, Wu Xinglan stood on the cabin with his feet like iron tsubaki, his clothes fluttered, and his sturdy figure was unwavering in the sea breeze.

"Why go to sea?"

Looking at these people on the deck of the ship who had long been like dead pigs due to seasickness, everyone was selected to participate in the mine protection team, but after training in the mine for more than ten days, they suddenly gathered on the sailboat, and the ship went out to sea along the Yangtze River, almost everyone was seasick, but surprisingly Wu Xinglan did not get seasick.

"That's the lighthouse!"

Looking at the lights on the sea that could be seen more than ten miles away, Wu Xinglan said in her heart, this is the boat has turned in another direction.

"Damn, you already knew about me...... Vomit! ”

Ma Youcai, who spit out bitter bile, will lie on the side of the boat and scold, and he will still be happy to be selected for the mine protection team.

"Brother Zhang, you have to take it easy for a while, don't lose my boat!"

Liao Youfu, who was standing next to Zhang Renkui, smiled, although this ship was a foreign sailing ship bought by the owner, maybe in front of the captain of this big ship, but Liao Youfu walked in front of people with his chin raised.

"Don't worry! If you buy it in this shipping company, it will be of great use! No, no! Lao Liao! How far away! ”

"Almost ten nautical miles!"

"Then wait!"

After a while, the sun rose from the horizon, and sitting on the chair, Zhang Renkui casually put the cowhide military boots on the ship, embedded with thirty-six copper-tipped square nails, and the soles of the boots reflected the metallic light in the morning sun.

Looking at the sea that was reflected red by the morning sun, Zhang Renkui had a feeling of being separated from the world, perhaps the fate of people is like this undulating sea, two years ago, he was still a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, but now he is going to rebel, no, it is to recapture the world of the Han people, and return the land of China to a bright future.

"Brother Zhang, the ship is still two miles away from the island!"

Looking at the hundreds of people lying on the deck like dead pigs, glancing at the shadow of Shengshan Island, Zhang Renkui sneered, got up from the chair, and lowered his throat first.

"Stand upright!"

The roar sounded on the ship, and as soon as the command came to his ears, Wu Xinglan hurriedly stood up straight, even those who were originally lying on the deck with soft feet heard it, and they also stood up strongly, and the military stick in the past ten days was not in vain.

Standing on the deck staggeringly, Wu Xinglan looked at the person on the stage who was holding up the military uniform with pimples and flesh, the scar on this person's face made his already ruthless appearance even more hideous, these two were on the ship, but everyone who saw him did not dare to gasp for air, and it would be the same.

"Strip naked!"

With a bang, the people standing on the deck began to talk unkemptly, this is the drama of drinking again!

"Take off your jacket and pants! Keep the time! ”

As soon as Zhang Renkui's words fell, the people next to him looked at the time with pocket watches, but the dozen or so people standing behind him loaded their guns and looked at this group of people with a sneer.

The look should not be heard, and the punishment is ten, and they still have this surname. As soon as I heard this time, I dared to hesitate, and I hurriedly took off my padded jacket, and after a while, only the underwear issued by the company was left on my body, and the sea breeze blew, and the deck shivered at the same time, and the scene was a gratifying.

"Good! Very good! Now ,......"

Nodding his head, Zhang Renkui praised his mouth, but the holster on his waist was opened in his right hand, and he looked at these people coldly, it was time to wake up these dizzy ducks.

"I'll count three and jump into the sea for me!"

What the!

Aren't you asking for a human life?

I'm gone!

Originally, the people who were still excited to join the mine protection team suddenly shouted like a nest.

"Bang!"

A gunshot rang out in their ears, and when the noisy crowd looked up, they saw the evil-looking man with a foreign gun pointed at them in his right hand, and the muzzle of the gun next to him was also aimed at them.

"One, two......"

The sound of counting was like a heavy drum in Wu Xinglan's ears, and when the man shouted to two, the person who was still hesitant shouted like a dumpling and jumped into the icy sea.

The man who jumped into the sea did not have to say hello to him, and swam towards the island without saying his life.

"I have a cheap surname in my bones!"

sneered, and before Zhang Renkui turned around, he heard the person next to him say something very unnaturally.

"Zhang, Captain Zhang, someone doesn't know how to water!"

As soon as his eyes opened, he hurriedly looked into the sea, but no, a few of them were stretching out their hands and fluttering in the sea.

"Throw a lifebuoy to these shore ducks!"

He roared helplessly, and followed the man who got off the boat and got on the boat.

Ten minutes later, the beach of Shengshan Island was full of people who were shivering all over their bodies and their lips were purple, and Wu Xinglan, who was blown by the sea breeze and felt that the sea water on his body seemed to be about to form ice edges, and his upper teeth were beaten with his lower teeth, and his arms were huddled, and he stood in a line looking at the high platform.

“…… We are all Han Chinese, and our heads are tied with long braids for the two hundred and fifty-seventh years of the Manchu people, leaving their hair without leaving their heads, and shaving our Han heads, so that our generation is ashamed to see the face of our ancestors...... Two hundred and fifty-seven years, the full steel knife shaving order, can have killed all our blood surnames, the first month does not shave the head to think about the old, the dead are buried, why develop braids to wear Han-style clothes, in order to see the face of the ancestors, in order to change the Hua ...... with Yi"

When Zhang Jing said this, the people in the team were at a loss, although in the past ten days, Zhang Jing and the people around him talked like a storyteller about the atrocities of the Manchu Qing Dynasty when they entered the customs, but these words of Zhang Jing are not understandable to everyone, and it has long become a habit to keep braids.

As for the "first month, do not shave your head; In the first month, he shaved his head and died of his uncle. How many people know that this ballad is not at all a prophecy that people will definitely die if they shave their heads in the first month, but they are using the helplessness of "not shaving their heads in the first month - thinking of the old" to curse the "shaving order" forcibly promoted by the Manchu Qing Dynasty with steel knives and crossbows. In the same way, it is also during this month that allegiance is issued.

"The Chinese have become razor, and it is better to live than to die...... At that time, Yan Dianshi, a loyal minister of my Han Dynasty, once said that he was loyal to eighty years, and he was a figure of the 17th Dynasty of Taizu. 100,000 people defended the city with one heart and left 300 miles of rivers and mountains in the Ming Dynasty. Today, although we are not as loyal as Yan Dianshi, but full of slaves, I will not do it, whether to be a slave or a man, I choose to be a man, and you have also chosen to be a man! But seeing the pig's tail behind your head, it reminds me that you are still doing this slave, this time, there is no other meaning, that is, you have chosen to be a man, so you can cut off the pig's tail of this slave! ”

Listening to the words that came out of the mouth of the commander in military uniform on the stage, Wu Xinglan, like everyone, couldn't help but widen his eyes, his eyes were full of incredible appearance, not to say, and even gasped, some of them may not understand the meaning of his speech, there is anti-intent in these words, this braiding is even more like rebellion, although now this matter of keeping hair without leaving a head has faded, but this will say those words, and let the big guy cut off his braids by himself, isn't this just a rebellion?

Like everyone else, Wei Ze's heart trembled, and even with panic in his eyes, he vaguely understood what kind of mine protection team was going here, and it was simply in the name of the road protection team to gather troops to rebel!

Rebel!

The word frightened him as he looked around, and around them stood the soldiers with loaded guns. After being thrown into the sea and almost drowning a few people, no one would dare to speak, even the horse Youcai, who was usually smiling, would not speak.

When everyone was nervous, a few more people came with carts, and on the carts were clothes, black, and like them, they were all Western-style military uniforms, and the dry and warm clothes were more attractive than the silver in the eyes of this group of people with blue lips and cold lips.

"Those who cut off their braids are good men who are willing to be men of the Han family, so they wear this dress, and those who don't want to continue to be full of slaves will never be forced! But please leave! ”

The words are good, but on this thief ship, Wu Xinglan felt the sea breeze blowing behind her, can you still walk if you want to go here?

Ma Youcai, who was standing beside him, trembled, but walked out and smiled in front of him.

"This ...... This dog minion ...... to stay...... of braids,...... I've been in the way for a long time! Sir, borrow your sword! ”

As he spoke, Ma Youcai, who was almost speechless from the cold, cut it hard, and the thick braid was cut off.

The braids fell to the ground, the hair was scattered, and after it was scattered, Ma Youcai almost flew to the front of the cart, first took off the soaked underwear on his body, and put on the underwear, the thread coat and the black cotton jacket in a few strokes.

There will be a few more people who are too cold to hold on, and come out and shout that they should not be slaves, and cut their braids with knives, and in a while, forty or fifty people cut off their braids.

Ma Youcai, who changed into dry clothes and warmed his body, will return to his true colors, hehe smiled and touched the broken hair on his neck, and looked at the face of the person who was still trembling with joy.

"Hey! Brothers, don't say it, this braid is cut off, and the melon seeds in the head are relaxed, I just wonder if there is always something uncomfortable on this body, and the root of this discomfort is here after a long time! ”

Most of the Chinese have a herd mentality, they have been slaves for hundreds of years, and their bones are tamed, even if someone takes the lead, someone will respond, and then someone comes out and cuts the braids, but the monkey runs behind the wooden platform and proposes a bamboo basket, the basket is full of scissors, and the first to cut off the braids pick up the scissors, laughing and cutting the braids for those who take the initiative to come out.

After a while, in the midst of laughter, dozens of piles of braids were piled up on the ground, and more and more people cut braids, only a few dozen people at first, and then hundreds of people, this scene in front of him made Wei Ze can't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and finally do what the boss ordered!

"Click!"

The sound of the cut at the back of his head and the momentary lightness only made Wu Xinglan's heart tremble, and the moment the braid fell to the ground, he only felt that something seemed to have been cut off in his heart.

"Why should I stand up!"

Picking up the braid on the ground, looking at the braid in his hand and muttering in his heart repeatedly, he looked around, and the people after cutting off the braids had different expressions, some were happy, some had complicated expressions, and there were all kinds of expressions.

Not everyone is willing to cut their braids, and when Wu Xinglan looked at the braids in his hand with a complicated expression and various thoughts, he couldn't hear some words coming from everywhere.

"This ...... This braid is really ...... Do you really want to cut it? ”

"I ...... I'm ...... Not ......"

"To cut or not to cut!"

When the cheers sounded, the scissors in the hands of the person who had already cut off the braid opened and closed up and down, looking at the braid in his hand, looking at the short hair that everyone was spreading, and then looking at the hesitation of those people, Wu Xinglan gritted his teeth and walked over, grabbed a pair of scissors, grabbed the person who was unwilling to cut the braid, grabbed the braid violently, and cut it with a click! Then he threw his braids on the ground, "Cut all their braids for me!" ”

When he shouted this sentence, Wu Xinglan sighed in his heart, looking at this person who seemed to have lost his soul, and said in his heart Don't blame me, the reason why he did this is to save their lives, he naturally knows that such a broken head business, once it is opened, there is no turning back, and if it is not kept until the end, these people who do not want to cut their braids will be sacrificed to the military flag.

The moment the braid fell to the ground, the man sat on the ground as if he was paralyzed and grabbed his braid.

"My braids......"

The cries rang out, accompanied by cries of begging for mercy, and the braids of the dozens of workers who did not want to cut their braids were forcibly cut, but several of them clutched their braids as if they had lost their souls.

A cold color flashed in his eyes at the scene in front of him, and he turned his head and whispered to Xu Shikai beside him.

"Write down their names to me!"

"How do you clean them up!"

Xu Shikai's face was a little cold, this island hadn't smelled blood for too long.

"Since they haven't been enough minions, let them continue to be minions! This kind of person is cheap in his bones, and if he doesn't beat them off his cheap temper as a slave, it won't work! ”

As he spoke, Wei Ze had already turned around and left, and his words also determined the fate of these people in the future.

Only Wei Ze and the surrounding Wu Xinglan, Ma Youcai, and others with different expressions after cutting off their braids, and the people who would change into new cotton jackets were no longer trembling, but they just kept the extremely ugly yin and yang hair that was scattered to the back of the head like long hair.

"Brother Lan Xin, don't be sad, look at what kind of place we are, there is the sea all around, and it is not far away!"

As he spoke, as if to show off, Ma Youcai kicked the sand with his leather boots again.

"Maybe, maybe, we can really kill a rich man by then!"

Rich! Wu Xinglan sighed in her heart, can this wealth really be killed? Back then, my father and his old man went out to be a soldier, Xu Ye was thinking, but after being a soldier for more than ten years, what did he end up with! Could it be that this Wu family is really the life of a grain child.

When the people in the audience who had just cut their braids and forced them to the "thief ship" with frozen belts were making their own ideas, Chen Moran, who was wearing a black military uniform and a military hat, walked up to the stage and looked coldly at the 560 people in the audience, these 560 people were sent from Ma'anshan, and three days later, 3,000 people will be sent to the island.

When the password sounded, the people who were originally scattered and "thought they were the food for their lives" hurriedly lined up, whether they forced them to jump into the sea with guns before, or they almost wanted to freeze them to death, they all told them that the people here were ruthless and would definitely kill them.

"In the past, you were all Manchu minions, and you were dog minions that no one looked down on!"

As soon as Chen Moran's words fell, the faces of the people in the audience were different, most of them looked numb and did not react, only a few people's faces changed, obviously unwilling to accept the title of "dog slave", Wu Xinglan even clenched his fists.

"The greed and cruelty of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is unprecedented, in the past two hundred and fifty-eight years, the cruelty of the alien race, the poison of the tyrant [***], so that my Han people are unbearable, and the ninth generation will not forget! We would rather have our bones broken and blood stained than be oppressed by aliens. Now, you're wearing this uniform! There is only one goal here, that is, to overthrow the Manchu enslavement, restore the Han nationality, and realize the great cause of national liberation! ”

Take a deep breath and look at these people in the audience, they may not know what nationalism or patriotism is, they are standing here now because they have no choice, they don't need to understand all this now, they just need to complete the training.

"You may say that you have accepted your fate, you have accepted this as a soldier, and you have become a soldier, but what I want to say is that being a soldier does not mean that you are a soldier, and that being a soldier is the only choice to achieve the liberation of this nation! As a soldier, you may be in order to mix up the bowl of rice to eat, just take care of yourself, it's not so complicated. But as a soldier, you have to carry the country and the people on one shoulder, and the people of Li on the other, the responsibility is so great, how can it be compared with the chaotic grain? Ask yourself, do you want to be a dignified Han Chinese, or a slave of that foreign race! Well, now who still has a problem! ”

Silence, after Chen Moran asked, everyone fell silent, most of them looked at the beach under their feet, all of them looked like they were resigned to their fate.

"Is there a way out?"

No!

Wu Xinglan gave herself an answer, but she raised her hand hesitantly as soon as she gritted her teeth, and then said a word to the person on the stage.

"Sir, do we have a salary?"

(To be continued)