Jiang Guolin was exhausted by the turbulence of the boat for several days, and he and Zhou Qibin were arranged in a cabin that was empty except for two wooden beds and bedding. Three meals of food and water were brought every day, and there were two Taiping guards outside the door, but they had not seen anyone else since they got on the boat.

"Brother Yu Nong (Jiang Guolin), where did you say Changmao was going to send us?" Zhou Qibin's heart was hairy, after being captured, Zhou Qibin thought about killing himself for Martyrdom Day, but in the end he was held down by several soldiers of the Taiping Army who were like wolves and tigers, and after being tied up for two days, Zhou Qibin's suicidal courage gradually dissipated.

Jiang Guolin stood by the porthole with his hands in his hands, looking at the turbulent waves outside, and just said lightly: "Long Mao is going to send us to Jinling City to offer prisoners and invite merit!" Compared with Zhou Qibin, Jiang Guolin's thoughts of suicide are heavier, and he wanted to commit suicide several times after being captured, but he was stopped by the Taiping soldiers guarding him.

Zhou Qibin sighed lightly and said: "Long hair is also a lot of moves, let me wait for myself to kill myself, won't it be over?" Why do you have to go all the way to Jinling? ”

Jiang Guolin's thin and eternal face was not wavering: "The long-haired famous general Four-Eyed Dog told me personally, they want to send us captured generals to their old nest Jinling to ask for merit, if one of us commits suicide, they will kill us and kill hundreds of people to vent their anger." ”

Only then did Zhou Qibin understand what Chen Yucheng said to Jiang Guolin, "These dogs with long hair are really despicable and shameless!" Brother Ke Yu Nong. If they rebel or kill them, we don't know. ”

Jiang Guolin said lightly: "Chen Yucheng made a promise in front of many generals under him, forgive him and dare not break his promise, otherwise he will lose the trust of the general." ”

Zhou Qibin frowned and said worriedly: "I don't know how Longhair will execute us after the prisoners." ”

Jiang Guolin snorted lightly and said, "It is difficult for eternity to die." It is okay to sacrifice prisoners, just look at what these traitors have ruined the Jiangnan Huahua World Realm, and then scold the long-haired dog King Xi when offering prisoners, and then calmly take justice, and don't care about how to die. ”

Zhou Qibin shook his head, his face turned a little pale, and he snorted: "I heard that Changmao caught a big official like us to light a sky lantern." That kind of torture doesn't just kill you all at once, if that's the case, I'd better have a good time early! ”

Jiang Guolin looked at him for a long time and didn't speak, and only said after a long time: "I'm not afraid." Even if I have ten thousand blades, I won't frown! ”

At this time, the hatch opened, and the three Taiping soldiers who delivered the meal came in with a food box, and the Taiping Army soldier with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes said with a smile: "The two old men have eaten." ”

The meal was laid out. Three dishes and one soup, a large bowl of rice. Jiang Guolin sat down and ate without saying a word, Zhou Qibin always couldn't swallow the bowl, and the three Taiping Army soldiers also stood aside and waited for them to take away the dishes and chopsticks, also for fear that they would hide the utensils privately.

After two mouthfuls of food, Zhou Qibin finally couldn't help but ask: "Little brother, you have long hair, oh no, how will the Taiping Army execute us?" ”

The Taiping soldier smiled and said, "I don't know if it will be executed." We are not the Criminal Department of the Criminal Department for convictions, but we have to talk about the way to die. The death penalty in heaven is beheading and hanging. I heard that the Criminal Department has recently been soliciting the opinions of the military and civilians in the Guangfa Court Council to see whether the punishment of beheading should be abolished and replaced with two types of execution: shooting and hanging. Execution is the use of a musket to kill a person, and this method of death is also considered a painful death. ”

Zhou Qibin was stunned for a moment and said, "There is no other torture besides this?" ”

The soldier shook his head and said: "No, before the King of the West entered Tianjing, there were some kinds of torture on the Tianjing side that lit sky lanterns and laughed, but now they are gone, and they all use the criminal law established by our Su Fu New Deal." ”

Zhou Qibin breathed a sigh of relief, his appetite for eating was better, and he said with a smile: "It's good that there are no humiliating ways to die." ”

The soldier also looked at the two with some interest and said with a smile: "Two masters, you two are really strange, the big officials in other places are thinking about how to live, the two of them are good, just ask how to die." ”

Jiang Guolin put down the dishes and chopsticks at this time and said lightly: "Others are disloyal and unrighteous and pray for a living, but the two of us will never turn their backs on the Lord and join the enemy to survive, and death is heavier than Mount Tai......"

Speaking of this, the soldier interrupted: "You have to get it, I know the way, heavier than Mount Tai, lighter than the feathers, the two are as verbose as the trainers in our army, and the battle is to die, how can there be so much reason?" Let's eat quickly, eat well and sleep well, and I guess we will be in Shanghai tomorrow. ”

Jiang Guolin was choked a lot, but he also secretly wondered, did Long Mao also teach these sages in the army? Didn't they believe in the God of the West?

The soldier turned around and smiled at his companions: "Today's salary, tomorrow in Shanghai, Captain Wang said that we will take turns to go ashore to rest for a day, I heard that there is a Kunqu Opera Theater in Zhabei, I heard that this troupe has sung for Emperor Xianfeng Dog, do you want to go to the opera together?" ”

Jiang Guolin was furious, slapped the table heavily and said angrily: "How dare you insult the emperor without a king and a father? ”

The soldier frowned and interrupted: "Yes, lord, put away your set, that is your emperor, not ours, why should we respect him?" ”

Jiang Guolin was speechless for a while, and then he remembered that these soldiers were all thieves, and they had long been people without a king and a father.

After the meal, the three Taiping soldiers packed up the dishes and chopsticks and left, still talking about where to spend time after arriving in Shanghai tomorrow, Jiang Guolin was depressed and slept in his clothes, and Zhou Qibin sat in a daze without saying a word.

I don't know how long it took, a long whistle woke up the two, Jiang Guolin stood by the porthole and looked, but it was several British steamship sail cargo ships passing by, and the whistle sounded on the ship, as if to pay tribute to the fleet of the Taiping Army. With more and more ships appearing in front of you, an endless stream of ships of all kinds are vying to advance, and there is quite a scene of thousands of ships competing for the current.

At this time, the hatch opened, and it was still the soldier who delivered the meal, and this time they brought a few sets of clean robes in addition to breakfast, and the soldier said, "Let's change into this robe after breakfast, and we will go ashore later." ”

Jiang Guolin took a look at the clothes, shook his head and said, "This is the color of the anti-thief suit, I only wear the clothes of Zhengshuo." ”

The soldier sneered and said: "Look at the two of them are also Han Chinese, this is the orthodox Han family dress restored by our West Wang Niang according to the description in the previous book, hehe, when you get to the two of you, it has become an anti-thief uniform?" I really don't know if your sages will jump out of the coffin in anger when they hear this. ”

Jiang Guolin was furious, his face turned red, and he trembled with anger and pointed at the soldier, but he couldn't say a word of rebuttal. Zhou Qibin pulled Jiang Guolin and said: "Brother Yunong, our official uniform has long been worn, whether it is good to change clothes, this is the nest of anti-thieves, where can we find our clothes to change?" Be specific. ”

Jiang Guolin stopped talking, sat down angrily to eat breakfast, and after eating, he picked up the robe, and did not take off the old clothes, so he put them on top of the old clothes, and said: "I just don't change it, so the country's clothes are still worn inside." ”

The soldier couldn't help laughing: "Master, the August weather in Shanghai is very hot, you don't wear a lot of it?" It's really a shame to die. ”

Jiang Guolin ignored it, stopped his work, straightened his braided hair, and sat there with his eyes closed. Zhou Qibin originally planned to get rid of the old clothes, but seeing Jiang Guolin like this, he had to follow and put the new clothes outside.

After a while, another Taiping soldier came: "It's almost time to dock at the port, let them come up." The Taiping soldiers in the cabin answered, and asked Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin to follow them to the deck.

A gust of wind blew on the deck, Jiang Guolin only felt that the feeling of depression was slightly dissipated, and when he looked around, he saw that the fleet had entered the Huangpu River, and the wharves, warehouses, and shops on both sides of the river were lined up one after another, and there was an endless stream of ships coming and going, and the straight road on the shore led to the urban area of Shanghai, and there were horse-drawn carriages, mule carts, pedestrians, and horseback riders on the road, among which there were foreigners in various dresses, Chinese in suits, pedestrians in Hanfu robes, and beautiful women dressed in flowers, foreigners and Chinese women.

Zhou Qibin was stunned to see the great changes on both sides of the Huangpu River, stunned and speechless, this place is more than ten times more prosperous than the thirteen neighborhoods and ports in Guangzhou, and there are more than ten times more pedestrians coming and going.

Jiang Guolin frowned and pointed at the Chinese women who were wearing foreign clothes and exposing their snow-white arms, and said angrily: "What kind of system is this? Under the rule of anti-thieves, it is really obscene, and it is really morally degenerate! ”

The Taiping soldier glanced at it but said with a smile: "Those sisters are the female students of Morrison Memorial School for Girls, that is the school uniform of others, the whole school wears it like this, what kind of system do you want to become?" And the rules of people's girls' schools are strict, and men are not allowed to enter, so where is the lewdness? ”

Jiang Guolin said in surprise: "What? You even let your own girls go to a foreigner school? Not afraid of losing face?! ”

The Taiping soldier shrugged his shoulders and said: "This old man is really rare and strange, foreigners have no less than twenty church schools in Shanghai, what is so strange about studying in church schools?" There are also a lot of foreign teachers in our own elementary and junior high schools. ”

Jiang Guolin suddenly exclaimed sadly: "You are really going to destroy my Chinese thousand-year-old culture......

The soldier asked strangely: "Master, do you mean the official uniform you wear inside by the thousand-year-old culture?" It's that kind of culture, I'd rather not. ”

Jiang Guolin was stunned for a moment, and glanced at Zhou Qibin, both of whom were speechless. (To be continued......)