Seasickness!

The more than 1,000 laborers crowded in the cabin and deck of the "Christie" ship, during the voyage one night and one day, most of them vomited, and only a very few people still kept their senses during the bumpy voyage, although most of them vomited, but Su Wu seemed to have not been affected by the wind and waves, and his face was much better than yesterday, maybe because of yesterday's full meal, of course, it could also be a piece of bread thrown to him by the kind foreign sailor.

"Brother, eat some, this steamed bun is sweet, but it's sweet......"

Holding the bread in his hand, Su Wu looked at his pale brother who was spitting, and lured him softly, but Su Wen was lying there and said without strength.

"No, no, if I stay at sea any longer, I will faint to death......"

Just when his words fell, the hull of the ship seemed to fall somewhere and sank violently, which is the inevitable entry into the estuary, caused by the difference in the density of sea water and river water, if you go to sea, I am afraid that there will be a feeling of carp jumping over the dragon gate, and because of this, it will be called "jumping the dragon gate" by the old boatman.

"Jumping the dragon gate......"

A middle-aged man in his forties on the boat said casually.

"It's almost there!"

When the ship entered the Datong River, the sailors began to put away their sails, and for a time the mast was full of sailors walking around, and under the impetus of the steam engine, the Western-style sailing ship headed towards its destination, and after entering the estuary, there was no longer any bump on the calm river.

"Brother, we're almost to Incheon!"

Actually, this is not Incheon, and the mining areas in Pyongyang are now more in need of labor than the special zone where land is leveled. Plus another two or three months. The Datong River will freeze. Although the Nampo Mining Port is not a special zone or a Chinese concession, because of its direct subordinate relationship with the "Pyongyang Local Affairs Office," they are free from the DPRK Magistrate's Office, and even the DPRK Magistrate's Office does not bother to inquire about the Nampo Mine Port, so as not to cause any trouble to themselves. After all, disputes between the local government and the government office often end with the dismissal of the local official.

For the people on the ship, they thought they had arrived in Incheon.

An hour later, beyond the shelter of the hills, a small city on the north bank of the river came into view, and the Nanpu Mining Port distributed along the coast, although it is a mining port outside the treaty port, suddenly looked at it as a busy construction site, along the road along the river, more than a dozen buffaloes dragged huge stones back and forth to ram the road. On the side of the road, you can see unpainted wooden houses.

"Toot ......"

With the sound of a whistle. The "Christie" slowly approached the wooden floating dock, which swayed from time to time when the ship docked, and it was a wooden sailing ship of less than 800 tons, and if the steel ship was afraid that the dock would be washed into the river.

"Get off the boat, get off the boat!"

As soon as the ship docked at the port, the sailors on board immediately shouted loudly, and in the shouts of the sailors, thousands of laborers began to get off the ship, and they all looked at this strange land with a curious eye, for them, they did not know where Inchon was, most of them just came to this place for the salary of four oceans a month, as for Incheon, no one knew.

When they got off the boat, while someone was counting, these people were surprised to see a few foreigners counting, as if they were counting heads, although no one cared, but the appearance of foreigners made everyone nervous.

Under the "deterrence" of foreigners, the laborers lined up on the wharf, and then looked around blankly, and around them, more than a dozen officers and soldiers dressed as black foreigners could be seen holding foreign guns, scattered on the wharf and guarded everywhere.

Looking at those people, Su Wu whispered to Su Wen.

"Brother, aren't we on the thief ship!"

Su Wen clasped his brother's hand and said in a low voice:

"Why don't we run away?"

Su Wu looked at it, shook his head again and said:

"Where to run? Don't die! We don't know where this place is, brother, let's not come nonsense! ”

Compared with the eldest brother, although Su Wu said that he was young, he was clever, and although he looked around, although there were more than a dozen officers and soldiers holding foreign guns, but there were people working everywhere on the construction site, it should not be a thief ship.

Su Wu thought like this, but his eyes were seen by the construction site in the distance, he had never seen such a big scene, along the road of the river, thousands of people were like a large group of ants, the ox dragged a one-person high stone roller and rolled the road, the people in blue cloth were working there with tools, looking at those people carrying heavy bamboo baskets full of dirt on their shoulders, Su Wen and Su Wu brothers, all of them had bitter faces, it seemed that their brothers really couldn't do this work.

Just as the brothers were grim-faced, a man in a dress in the front row pointed at the two brothers.

"You two ......"

Although these two children are hidden in this group of laborers, Xi Zhimo still sees it.

"How old!"

"Ten, Fifteen......"

Nervous, Su Wen hurriedly falsely reported his age.

"Fifteen, I think you'll be twelve or thirteen years old at most! This is your brother, not yet ten years old! ”

Xi Zhimo shook his head, when he was a student in the church school in Shanghai, he also went with the priest to give alms, like the children who fled to Shanghai from all over the country, they ...... Looking at the panic on the faces of the two of them, he sighed in his heart, and said.

"It's all here, just stay!"

"Thank you, Lord, Lord's great kindness......"

Without waiting for Su Wen to thank him, Xi Zhimo said with a calm face.

"Don't thank me yet! Maybe you'll be scolding me in a while! ”

was scolded, for Xi Zhimo, he was used to it, and after the thousands of laborers lined up and the ship was handed over to the office, Xi Zhimo, who was standing on the stage, looked at the unkempt laborers with a cold face and shouted.

"Raise your hand for literacy!"

Literate?

The brothers Su Wen and Su Wu, who were standing in front of the team, listened to each other and looked at each other, literate, how many words are considered literate? In previous years, he and the two of them had also studied with Mr. Song in the village for a few years.

"There's a word list here, and if you can know half of it, you're considered literate!"

Xi Zhimo said coldly.

"When everybody comes. The wages have already been agreed. Four oceans a month. That's literate, illiterate, three oceans a month, and one ocean of food is deducted every month......"

"What......"

Xi Zhimo's words just fell, and the audience suddenly became unkempt as if it had exploded.

"Didn't you talk about eating and living well, four oceans a month! Why is this a change of mind! ”

"That is, words can't be counted!"

Just as the men tried to reason, the policeman in black uniforms at the edge of the crowd raised his rifles. Pulled the trigger at the sky. After a deafening gunshot, the originally unkempt crowd instantly quieted down, and looking at the muzzle of the gun pointed over, everyone's faces changed, and they hurriedly stopped the sound.

"Who speaks doesn't count, four oceans a month, a lot of yours, as long as you can know 1,500 words, it will become a ......"

With a cold face, Xi Zhimo continued.

"As for food and shelter, I didn't say that I wouldn't charge money!"

It doesn't matter if it's strong words, or it's okay to play tricks. The people who are pointed at gunpoint can only consider themselves unlucky, compared to the long sighs of others. Su Wen was relieved, the salary was less, and he deducted the food money and the house money, which finally made him believe that he was not on the thief ship. And then, with the words of the fake foreign devil on the stage, it only made the idea of the thief ship in everyone's hearts thicker.

“…… Those who are unclean will be fined ten cents! ”

“…… Those who dismiss anywhere will be fined 50 yuan! Ten sticks! ”

……

Listening to the Shangbang rituals that the people of the "Heavenly Empire" need to abide by, the Su Wen and Su Wu brothers suddenly felt that their hair was numb,

My obedient man, according to this rule, that is, the salary will not be confiscated, and the ass can be opened.

The two brothers were so frightened that they stuck out their tongues, and the adults next to them were all pale with fright, and they looked like they wanted to escape.

"Grandma, I'm on a thief ship now!"

Song Jia'an muttered in his heart, his face became bitter, but it wasn't that he got on the thief ship, this is a fine, and he was beaten, no, he can't stay in this place!

Muttering like this in his heart, when his eyes looked around, he looked at the officers and soldiers around him who were wearing black dresses and holding foreign guns, thinking that they had put their guns there just now, and their hearts were slightly cold.

If they had run, those people would not have fired their guns, would they?

Just when he was muttering like this in his heart, he only saw that someone on the side cast his eyes towards him, and there seemed to be ruthlessness in those eyes, only for Song Jia'an to quickly withdraw his inquiring eyes, and he dared to escape again.

"Here, after taking a shower in a while, put it on, and throw all your old clothes into the bucket!"

Looking at the complicated expressions of the laborers who were walking in line towards the bathing place under the shouts of the police, Xi Zhimo's eyes narrowed into a thin slit, and the horn made of cardboard in his hand was also casually placed on the box.

"Aren't you afraid that they will escape?"

Wang Defa, who was following Xi Zhimo, the director of the Nanpu Mining Port Police Station, looked at the faces of those people and said worriedly.

"Or, tonight, I'll send a double post?"

This laborer is recruited by the government, and one person is worth a few oceans, and he can't afford to run dozens of them, and he, the head of the police station, can't afford it.

"It's okay, you can rest assured, in a few hours, they will figure it out!"

When he spoke, there was a smug look on his face.

"When you finish taking a shower and change into labor clothes, everyone knows that it is our people, out of this territory, which is the place of the North Koreans, the clothes are different from ours, run, as soon as you go out, let the family take it back, we don't need to teach him this, others will tell them! Director Wang, besides, this training thing still depends on you, and there are still people waiting for you in the mine! ”

"Look at what you said, it's all for adults, can I do my best!"

Saying that, Wang Defa looked into the distance.

"Clerk, this is the day you say, this mine should be about to produce coal!" (To be continued......)