Chapter 3 The Choice of Life and Death
Catch the rapist in bed, just these four words can arouse the interest of the vast majority of people.
It is full of infinite reverie such as ethics, sensuality, love and hate.
But if you are the person concerned, you will often only be outright angry.
After all, there are still very few of the very few who can play music on the sidelines.
"What are you doing?"
The bearded overseer was blood gushing at this moment, and with a roar of rage, it woke up the man and woman who were studying the matter.
The woman screamed in horror, grabbed the quilt to cover her, and shrank in the corner of the bed.
This gesture fell in the eyes of the bearded overseer, adding to the anger, you fucking stripped naked with this wild man, but you have to hide it in front of Lao Tzu?
The man on the bed only panicked for a moment, then calmed down and put on his clothes slowly, "I didn't expect you to come back early, your woman tastes good and moist." ”
The overseer was furious and rushed forward, but the other party directly reached out and grabbed his fist and kicked him in the chest.
Can't beat it!
The overseer's heart welled up with humiliation, and there were few things for a man more unacceptable than being overturned by an adulterer at such a time.
"Second brother, what's wrong?"
But at this moment, seven or eight men suddenly poured in outside the door.
The face of the man opposite changed suddenly, and the overseer suddenly became angry, "Kill that dog!" ”
Two fists are hard to beat four hands, let alone a dozen hands.
The man who had been invincible just now could not escape, and finally his face was knocked to the ground with blood on his face.
A fellow man rode on the man's back, his eyes crossed the bed regretfully, pressed the man's head tightly, and snorted, "Damn, I really have some ability, if it weren't for the fact that there were a few brothers, I almost couldn't take this dog thing!" ”
"Second brother, you are really blessed by God today, call a few brothers to come over, otherwise you will really suffer a big loss!"
The bearded overseer, who was panting with red eyes, brought a kitchen knife from the kitchen, and received the bearded supervisor who was about to cut off the adulterer's head with a knife in his hand, and remembered Xia Jingyun's words.
......
In the dirt dump, Xia Jingyun carried a basket of soil, like a walking corpse, mechanically and numbly.
He no longer felt tired, just as a hungry person no longer felt hungry.
Such a state is extremely dangerous, because it may fall in the next second.
Xia Jingyun couldn't help but wonder last night, if this picture was fulfilled on the fifth, sixth, or even seventh days, would he die of exhaustion in this place before he succeeded.
But when he didn't see the bearded overseer who was in charge of this place early this morning, he began to look at it.
It is precisely this longing that squeezes out a bit of strength from his muscles and bones, and endures another day of high-intensity work that does not treat people as human beings.
When the gong sounded again, it was time for lunch.
Xia Jingyun got up strongly, planning to get a nest head and a bowl of gruel, but he was knocked down twice while walking on the road, and when he slowly moved to the place, the nest head was gone, and a bowl of porridge with clear soup and little water received from a broken wooden bowl was the only supplement after a few hours of high-intensity fatigue.
This is enough for anyone to eat!
People really don't care if you have enough to eat, and for the managers of the labor camps, these convicted laborers are consumables.
If one dies, a group dies, and even after they die, no one will hold them accountable.
They only need to worry about whether they can accomplish the above instructions;
It only takes Daxin to be able to earn the money that should be earned from this fat shortage.
Under the scorching sun at noon, Xia Jingyun directly smothered the gruel in the bowl, and after wanting to have another bowl and was ignored, he slowly moved to the shade of a tree where people gathered.
There was his cousin, and their respective fathers.
Xia Jingyun's father Xia Hengzhi looks thin, and Xia Yunfei's father Xia Mingxiong is stronger, but now that he is getting older and pampered for many years, he has suddenly undergone this kind of intense oppression, and his beard is already messy and haggard, and the faces of the two similar faces all reveal a gloom of running out of oil.
Seeing Xia Jingyun dragging his steps over, Xia Yunfei hurriedly got up and helped him over to sit down, and then took out half of the nest head from his arms and handed it over.
Xia Jingyun didn't twist, reached out to take it, thanked his cousin, and then broke half of it and handed it back as usual.
"Dingyuan, Gao Yang, you two come over for a while." On the side, Xia Jingyun's father, Xia Hengzhi, spoke weakly.
He called the two of them.
Xia Yunfei, the word is far away;
Xia Jingyun, the word Gaoyang.
Hearing this, Xia Yunfei helped his cousin to the two middle-aged men sitting together.
Xia Hengzhi stretched out his hand and gently stroked the faces of the two.
The hands were rough, covered with blood scabs and dirt, but the face was not much better.
"You're all good boys, but we hurt you."
Xia Yunfei hurriedly shook his head, "Second uncle, don't say that, we are innocent, we were just framed." ”
"It doesn't matter anymore." Xia Hengzhi shook his head, "Staying alive right now is the most important thing. ”
He picked up the hands of the two of them, stacked them and pressed them together, "From tomorrow, Dingyuan doesn't need to give us the food to be grabbed, the two of us will get it ourselves, and all the food we receive will be given to you, you must live." Remember, brothers work together to survive this difficulty, and there will be no day in the future that will shine on my Xia lintel. ”
Xia Yunfei and Xia Jingyun were stunned, they immediately reacted to the meaning of this sentence, but they were shocked for a while.
Xia Yunfei's father, Xia Mingxiong, also echoed on the side: "That's what I mean. Dingyuan, you have more strength, your body is better, as a brother, you have to take care of Erlang more, and survive together in the future, you will be one writer and one martial artist, and then pass on the ancestors of my Xia family, continue the incense, and my two brothers will have the face to see the ancestors and ancestors. ”
Xia Yunfei hurriedly said: "Father, second uncle, there is no need for this, we can get through it together." I'm going to grab some more nests tomorrow! You have to hold on, if you are gone, how can I explain to my mother, aunt and little sister! ”
Xia Hengzhi shook his head, "Our own bodies know by ourselves, it's only a matter of a few days whether we can carry it or not, this high platform can't finish the work in a month, and if we drag it any longer, we will only drag you all to death, we can't all die here." ”
After speaking, he looked at Xia Jingyun, "Gao Yang, if you can survive, you must remember the kindness of your uncle and cousin for the rest of your life, if you ......"
He paused, and a trace of sadness appeared in his eyes, "If the cousin can't bear it in the end, you ...... Don't blame him. ”
Maybe it was because of the fusion of memories, after hearing these words, Xia Jingyun's heart swelled with outright sadness, and he only felt that his heart was almost out of breath.
Just as these two pairs of father and son were making a painful choice, a strong man walked over, "Big man, let me show you a way out?" ”
Xia Yunfei hurriedly said, "You say? ”
The man spoke, "What you two elders said is right, the most urgent thing now is to live. But if you want to live, you have to do it more thoroughly. ”
After speaking, he pointed to Xia Jingyun, "Like this kind of burden, it will fall when the wind blows, whoever takes it will die, it is better for you to cooperate with me directly, the two of us will work together, come down and grab food together, and ensure that we fill our stomachs every day, so that we can definitely get out alive!" How is it? ”
Xia Yunfei's expression suddenly turned cold, "Strength is precious here, I don't want to hit people, you'd better disappear immediately!" ”
The strong man sighed, "Look at your strength, I didn't expect to be so rigid, guarding that false benevolence and righteousness, waiting to die of exhaustion!" ”
The strong man shook his head and left, with a posture of "good words are hard to persuade damned ghosts".
Xia Jingyun looked at his cousin and said, "Cousin......"
"Jiro doesn't have to say much!" Xia Yunfei directly interrupted him and said firmly: "I will not leave you!" You and I will live together, and we will die together! ”
"Ahem!" Xia Jingyun coughed twice, "No, I mean, we don't necessarily die." Including me, including my father and uncle. Maybe we'll get better tomorrow. ”
Xia Hengzhi smiled freely, with a calmness in his eyes that let go of life and death, "Gao Yang!" For the sake of the Father and the Uncle, you don't need to comfort us with such unrealistic lies. As long as you can live, it doesn't hurt us to risk our lives. ”
"Yes, Erlang, you and Dingyuan just take good care of yourself."
Xia Yunfei looked at Xia Jingyun and remembered the time he went to see the overseer yesterday, but he didn't know what his cousin said to the overseer.
He always knew that his cousin had no other ability than to read and learn calligraphy, and he didn't believe that he could subdue the overseer in a few words.
But at this moment, looking at his cousin's expression, he couldn't help but have some unrealistic hopes in his heart.
What if.
As he spoke, a gong sounded, and the overseers began to whip and shout again, and the laborers, after resting in a pitiful tea hour, were driven into the middle of the field and began another round of toil.
Repeat the cycle until you die of exhaustion.
Xia Jingyun only drank a bowl of gruel at noon, half of his nest head, his stomach was like thunder, and he was smoked by the sun at this time, he only felt dizzy, and the basket in his hand weighed more than a thousand pounds, and he couldn't help but stumble under his feet and fell to the ground.
The overseer not far away, whose eyes were like eagles, immediately jumped down from the stone, whipped it over, and shouted, "Get out of the way!" ”
The whip broke through the air, and suddenly a shout came from behind him, "Fourth, stop!" ”