In the lush rainforest, the birds flew in the flames, the animals were scared away in the smoke of the flames, and in the depths of the rainforest, between a firebreak that had been cut out, the dark faces of dozens of ragged laborers were all smiling, and the choking smoke smelled like the world's delicacy at this time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Hey, after more than a year of hard work, this job is finally over!"

Holding a straw hat in his hand, Shi Er sighed while fanning the sweat on his body. He speaks authentic "Cantonese", but in just one year, he has completely integrated into this special group.

"It's still early, Erlang, burning in this forest is the first step, and you have to get rid of the roots, you have to get the roots out, and you have to lie out of the roots, so you can ......"

Liu Cunshan told on the side, among all of them, what he admired the most was Shi Er, who came here last year, this guy is different from others, he knows some words, and he does not have the "pride" of a literate person, and he is extremely serious about his work.

For many people, this Nanyang, which has no four seasons, is like hell in any life, and this kind of life will even take the lives of less than half of the people, but Shi Er, this guy is a happy look, although the excessive physical labor makes his appearance darker and thinner, but he is still the monk-style bald head, and his beard is also shaved, if on the surface, compared to August and September ago, he suddenly became more than ten years older when he first came, but his face is always full of anger, Not like everyone else, lifeless.

"Brother Liu, I know that there are still roots that have not been finished, and the roots have to be prepared after the roots. Only then can rubber be planted. I mean. Isn't this a rule that we have to pay 30% of our wages......"

Although most of the workers in the field are indentured laborers, there are also freelance workers, such as Shi Er and Liu Cunshan, who are all freelancers, but the wages here are different from those in other places, where wages are based on monthly festivals, and wages here are negotiated according to the process of work. After leveling the land, it will be two percent, as for the remaining three percent, it will be cleared after the rubber seedlings are planted, and a job will be completed, which will take a year for a short time and a few years for a long time.

"Hmm,"

Liu Cunshan nodded, and glanced in the direction of Kun Xun with some expectation.

"Brother Liu, count the days, sister-in-law, they should arrive!"

Shi Er's words, Liu Cunshan laughed.

"It's coming. It's coming, it's just these two days. Just these two days......"

For every man who goes to the South Seas, what really torments them is not the heavy slave-like labor, but more importantly, their bodies and minds are suffering from their longing almost all the time, especially the thoughts of their families, they are eager to change their destiny through their own efforts, and then bring their families to Nanyang, open up a small field in the rainforest, and then whether it is planting rice or pepper, it is always better to live in the country. Although the vast majority of them are slave-like indentured laborers, who need to toil in the mines and in the rainforest for five or six years to be free, it still does not prevent them from imagining the future in their hearts and planning their future life every day.

They would even assess every environment they had worked in order to choose a place to settle in the future, and in the midst of this lush rainforest, there were thousands of such villages of a few or as many as a dozen Chinese workers, some of whom even exchanged cotton cloth and the like for natives to help clear the land.

People always have hope, and only with hope can they persevere in this harsh environment, and like Liu Cunshan, the news of the imminent arrival of his wife and children is a hope in the darkness for the people here.

Wish!

Every steamboat that sailed into Pontianak was full of hope for the workers, and the reason couldn't be simpler: in addition to the new indentured laborers, there were also their families, who had traveled from Tangshan to Nanyang, and for many people, it was their life's hope.

However, it was obviously difficult for the Dutch and indigenous staff at the customs to understand this, and they were always accustomed to shouting that the Chinese workers who came to pick them up were not allowed to enter the port to pick them up, and could only wait for their families far away from the docks.

In the sound of the whistle, the petite Ah Fen nervously held her little daughter's hand with one hand, carried the burden with the other, and kept asking her eleven-year-old son to hold his sister's hand tightly, don't let go.

For this small-footed woman who has never even entered the city, this is her first trip to the far side, if it weren't for the death of her in-laws, I'm afraid she would have stayed in her hometown in Guangdong, instead of coming to Nanyang by foreign ship.

"Mother, what does Abba look like?"

Ah Hui watched with wide eyes, but she was only six or seven years old, and she didn't know how many times she had imagined Abba in her heart, she had never seen Abba, in fact, it was just him, her eleven-year-old brother, and she couldn't remember what Abba looked like.

"O Abba of you......"

As she walked, Ah Fen looked ahead, trying to find the man's shadow, but the result was disappointed, they were all people who had just disembarked like them.

When she finally arrived at the immigration hall, Ah Fen was startled, she saw a foreign devil, thinking of the rumors about foreign devils, her heart suddenly tightened, and the whole person suddenly became nervous.

But fortunately, the foreign devil only turned around for a while, and then went to other places, leaving only the native staff who looked like monkeys, shouting words that no one could understand.

The people in front of them, after checking, were constantly driven to the big house, where they waited for the guarantor to receive it, fortunately, according to the principle of separation of men and women.

"Ah Qiang, you have to wait for Abba, don't get into trouble......"

When separating from his son, Ah Fen shouted loudly, and then nervously took his daughter's hand and walked towards the big house, fortunately, at the place of registration, he met a person wearing a horse coat and braids, handed over the "signature paper", waited for a while, and after counting the names of the three people, he continued to walk inside, outside the door of the big house, but stood waiting for a long time for the inspector, they were all natives.

On the ship, Ah Fen had already been told by others. These inspectors are there to check for any prohibited items such as large cigarettes. Don't rebel against them. Otherwise, he will be shackled and deported when the steamer arrives.

“…… ￥%￥”

Although she didn't know what the inspector said, Ah Fen obediently put the burden on the table for it to check, but as a woman, she was sensitive to notice that the eyes of one of the inspectors seemed to be staring at her all the time, and while the other person was checking the baggage, the man came over. Pointing at Ah Fen and saying a series of words that she didn't understand,

"Liu Wang, the adults suspect that you are carrying contraband, so you have to go to the examination room for a separate inspection......"

When the interpreter translated this sentence, his eyes swept away a little helplessly, and he didn't notice the meaning in the half-blood inspector's eyes.

"Contraband, no, really no ......"

He pleaded with it, but he was afraid that he would be expelled and would never see her husband again. He handed his daughter to the woman he already knew on the boat beside him, and then followed the adult to the other side of the passage. There is a staircase on the side of the big house, and a hut on top of the big house.

"Master Xu, look, this is going to trouble you again!"

Although Liu Cunshan is five big and three coarse, but his mind is very detailed, this is not while he thanked Xu Liang, who guaranteed his wife and children to come to Pontianak, while quietly stuffing a 20 dong banknote, this is the rule, in fact, this is the rule of every "Jiabidan" to make money - for the workers and their families to guaranture, ten guilders in advance, twenty guilders afterwards, and this money is paid in front of the important person.

"Well, Cunshan, I heard that you have opened more than a hundred acres of land in the forest, what kind of things are this......"

Obviously, Xu Liang's interest is not only in this guarantee fee, as he also has the power to collect taxes, but most of the time, he will turn a blind eye to the villages in the forest, but this is done on the premise that he will sell him what is produced in the land, perhaps the business name he designates.

"It's not still some pepper or something, this land hasn't been cleaned up yet, it is estimated that in the past few years, it will be planted some rice, first make a living, I'm afraid the rest will have to wait, when the time comes, I still have to trouble Xu Ye, you......"

Liu Cunshan, who knew the goal of Xu Liang's question, naturally did not lose his face, but made the most beneficial and extremely obedient choice like others, from more than ten years ago, the last Chinese company was accepted by the Dutch after the Lanfang company, which barely survived by cooperating with the Dutch to attack other companies, this "Jiapitan" is the emperor of Pontianak, there is no need to offend them, and of course they can't afford to offend. If you don't call the police, what awaits others will definitely be evicted.

"Well, Cunshan, you know, it's not easy for us Cantonese people to live in this place, although I say that I want to do this Jiabidan, but I have to make decisions for us, you say, if you sell things to Dutch ghosts, what price can they give you, maybe they will trick you into not knowing Dutch, change the contract, and then you will lose all your money......"

Xu Liang's words are very reasonable, in fact, I don't know how many of them will sell things to his firm at a low price even if they listen to his words, and feel that this may be no way. Who told them to send them under the fence?

Of course, it is in this taming that they become very introverted and become extraordinarily honest, even if they farm, just like in China, they work at sunrise and rest at sunset. They seem to be slowly becoming one with everything around them. will not think about anything else, as for the so-called little loss, in their opinion, it is worth it, after all, foreign devils are too unreassuring.

This kind of taming is naturally what the Dutch need, and it is also their original intention in establishing "Kapitan" -- to tame these immigrants who are far more numerous than the Dutch through the method of "governing China with China", and after they get used to the taming of "Kapitan", they will naturally become accustomed to the "taming" of Dutch rule.

"That's, you've bothered for a long time!"

Liu Cunshan's waist had bent to his abdomen with his words, but Shi Er, who was standing on the side, sighed in his heart, he had witnessed too much weakness to be bullied, and sometimes, he even wondered if his choice was a wrong choice, relying on these people who didn't know how to fight, could he really complete the task?

"Cunshan, do you have enough money? If that's not enough, just talk to me, after all, this family has just arrived, and there are many places to spend money......"

Suddenly, the words were suddenly held to his lips, and Xu Liang watched in surprise as a person jumped from the second floor of the big house where the guarantor was held and waited, it was a woman!

With the woman's screams and blood splashing, people saw the woman who jumped off the building, her clothes were torn, revealing the body that should have been covered, when the woman's body twitched in a pool of blood, the people outside the big house were all nervously looking at her, those five big and three thick, the men who were oppressed by heavy labor and did not have much energy looked at her even more nervously, for fear of seeing their familiar faces.

“…… Ah Fen! ”

Squeezed through the crowd of onlookers, screams burst out from Liu Cunshan's voice, and he hurriedly rushed over and picked up the woman in the pool of blood.

"Ah Fen, it's me, it's me, I'm Ah Shan......"

Liu Cunshan shouted, as if to awaken the woman's consciousness, the woman opened her eyes as if she heard his shout, but her gaze had already dispersed......

"Ah Fen, Ah Fen ......"

When Liu Cunshan was holding the woman and crying, looking at the woman's almost half-fruited body being torn apart due to her clothes, Shi Er hurriedly took off the clothes on her body and covered her, and then frowned thoughtfully.

"Hey, look at this, this thing ......"

Xu Liang was also stunned by the scene in front of him, feeling that people's eyes were looking at him, looking at him, Jia Bifan, from the torn clothes, he knew that he was scolding those inspectors in his heart, while trying to make a big deal small......

"Cunshan, this person is dead, I, I will personally go and talk to the foreigners, it will definitely be ......"

What can be discussed? I couldn't talk about anything, and in the end, it was he, Jiabidan, who came up with some funeral expenses.

"This, there must be some misunderstanding in this, don't worry...... Yes! ”

Before he could finish speaking, a miserable scream came out of his throat, and Shi Er, who knocked Xu Liang to the ground with a punch, roared angrily.

"Surnamed Xu, are you blind? At this time, I still speak with a clear conscience......"

If you want to provoke an incident, you must first knock down the authority, and the authority is Xu Liang, after Xu Liang was knocked down, Shi Er shouted loudly and unceremoniously.

"Brothers, you have seen what is happening in front of you, Brother Xu's family has come here with their children to join the garden with the eldest brother, but now the good people are jumping from the upstairs so plainly, what is the reason for this, today, no matter what, I have to let them make it ......clear" (To be continued.) )