Chapter XXXVII

He took the basket off his shoulders and stood up heroically. Number 2 looked at him in surprise.

"I'm not doing it anymore!" Deng Ke announced very calmly, and the few people who were working hard beside him all raised their heads and looked at him in horror. "I can't do this job at all!" he said, inexplicably excited. "It's unreasonable that I'm forced to come here and to be forced to do inhuman labor here! I have personal freedom and the right to choose how I want to live. I don't belong here, I don't want to stay here anymore, I'm going back to land!" he said, raising his voice. "When Brother Bird comes back, you tell him that I won't do it! After saying that, Deng Ke limped in the direction of the mine.

"Don't do that!" No. 2 ran over and grabbed him. "Put the basket on your back, or you'll suffer!"

"What is better than working here?" he shook off No. 2's hand, "You can just continue to work here in silence! I won't do it, it's unreasonable, you know? No one can take away our freedom! No one!" Deng Ke was about to walk back angrily, but he didn't expect Brother Bird to come over and bring someone he didn't know. Deng Ke was a little scared, he didn't know what would happen next, but he didn't flinch, puffed up his chest and waited for Brother Bird's arrival. No. 2 nervously looked at Brother Bird and then at Dengke, and finally he returned to his previous calm and walked back to his original position. Everyone else continued to bend over and work, but their ears were still sticking up.

Brother Bird walked over with the man talking and laughing, and they were all surprised at the sight of the basket thrown on the ground, and then they looked at the lamp, and he was standing in front of them with his head held high.

"What's going on?" asked Brother Bird, suppressing the flames of anger, while the people next to him looked up and down.

"I'm quitting!" Deng Ke spat out these four words heroically. No. 2 lowered his head, and the surrounding depression people involuntarily stopped working.

Brother Bird's face suddenly sank like a depression in the sky, and he twisted his face and shouted:

"What? will you tell me again?"

"I said, I'm not going to do it!" Lamp Ke angrily sprayed these four words on Brother Bird's face. Brother Bird was so angry that he couldn't speak for a while, and his hand pointed at the lamp Ke like a cramp.

"Hey, Brother Bird, you don't have to be angry. The man next to him smiled and said, "Little brother, you have to think clearly about what you just said, have you really decided not to do it?" he asked. The people in the depression all looked at the lamp.

"Of course!" Lamp Ke affirmed, and Number 2 covered his face, and the other Depression people let out a burst of exclamation.

"Okay!" Brother Bird pointed to the lamp Ke and said, "That's what you said! Today is in front of the supervisor, and it's useless for you to deny it." Brother Bird said viciously.

"Who wants to deny it!" Deng Ke shouted loudly, "I said it, I won't do it! How about it? I have the right to choose what I want to do and what I don't want to do, why do I have to listen to your arrangement! Obey your orders!" Deng Ke's blood boiled, his face flushed, it was the first time he spoke in front of so many people in this tone.

Brother Bird was so angry that he rushed up and was about to beat Deng Ke, but as soon as the field supervisor stretched out his hand, he immediately stopped the violent behavior.

"Since you have made up your mind, then I'm sorry little brother, we can only hand you over to the Lengshan people to deal with. The field supervisor was not angry, "When you get to them, you see if your big truth can still make sense." But I wish you success, and I hope they can give you the most basic authority as a person. ”

"Hmph!" Brother Bird seemed to be less angry, and he could actually tilt his chin and smile hideously.

"Let's go, little brother. The field supervisor called out to the lamp Ke and turned around at the same time.

"Then I'll hand him over to you, and you can do whatever you want, without looking at my face. Brother Bird said to the field supervisor with a bad face, and the field supervisor nodded heartily.

Deng Ke raised his eyebrows and looked indifferent, and he followed the field supervisor in the direction of the mine. In the afterglow, he stole a glance at the people around him, their faces seemed to be full of sympathy and fear, which made him doubt his own approach. But at this point, he could only let it go, thinking that he puffed up his chest again. On the way, he met Yasi and others who were about to go back to work after breakfast. They were surprised to see him with the field supervisor, so they collectively came over to greet them.

"Good field!" they said politely in unison.

"Hello!" the supervisor responded to them in a friendly manner.

"Dengke, do you want to eat with the field supervisor? I said why didn't I see you in the cafeteria just now. Yasz said happily. The field supervisor smiled and looked at Deng Ke, who didn't know how to explain for a while.

"Hey, Dengke, why don't you have your shoes on? Shi Ting, when he saw Lamp's foot, cried out in surprise.

"And your pants, they're all red with blood. As soon as Lou Yu said, Yasi looked at Deng Ke's leg distressedly.

"Oh, you must have suffered a lot this morning. ”

Deng Ke's eyes were red, and tears were about to flow.

"You guys go to work, I still have something to do with Dengke. Let's go. The field warden said that he wanted to get rid of Yass and them, but they had no intention of leaving.

"Deng Ke, what did Brother Bird let you do this morning?, how did you get like this?" Lou Yu asked with concern, and Deng Ke blinked and withdrew his tears.

"He told me to pick up a basket of stones and carry them to the convoy. I can't even carry it!" the tears that Lamp Ke tried to retract flowed again. "Halfway through, I fell down and threw stones all over the ground. I was so angry that I decided not to do it!" Lamp Ke said as he wiped away his tears.

"What?!" exclaimed in unison, their expressions resembling those of the Depression People.

"Dengke, are you crazy?" Jass couldn't believe it, she was about to cry. "Oh my God, you are a great sin, and the people of Lengshan will kill you. ”

Deng Ke was shocked, he didn't expect the consequences to be so serious, he began to be afraid.

"Field supervisor," Shi Ting's face turned and he said happily to the field supervisor, "You don't know, he just likes to talk nonsense, and he always says crazy things when he has nothing to do, so don't take it seriously." ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Lou Yu then said, "He just came, and he was still very childish, and what he said can't be counted." ”

"Yes, field supervisor. Yasi also begged: "He just said it, he didn't take it seriously, it can only be regarded as a joke at best." ”

The field supervisor turned his head to look at Deng Ke, "Tell them what you just said again, and see if it's a joke." ”

Deng Ke gritted his teeth, it was better to die than to live like this. Besides, didn't he still have a living shroud? it would have protected him from any harm, but why did his legs and feet still hurt so much? He made up his mind that he would not look back.

"I'm not talking crazy, I'm not joking. I've decided, I'm not going to do it. Even if they kill me, it's better than being tired to death!"

"Yasi, Shiting, Lou Yu, thank you for taking care of you these days. I know you're doing it for my good, but I can't just put up with it anymore. Ever since I came here, I have always felt that it was a nightmare that I had made, that everything was so unreasonable, that we should be at the mercy of others, that this was not the old society! What age is it now, we have personal freedom! We have the right to choose our own way of being! instead of sitting back and waiting, working hard and complaining. Anyway, I've decided and I won't regret it. Take care and try to get back to land as soon as possible. And," he paused, "I'm glad to meet you. With that, he bowed his head and walked forward.

"Dengke, you have to take care too, but you must not die!" Yasi cried, while Shi Ting and Lou Yu were silent.

"Don't worry!" he turned, "but if I'm really dead, please tell Aunt Hua when you get back to the land, and tell her to stop worrying about me." She lives at No. 106 Haibin Road, Huandao City, Dongzhou, and must tell her that I miss their family very much. After Deng Ke finished the last sentence, tears finally burst out of the embankment, and he was brought to the captain of the Cold Mountain Escort Team crying all the way.

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