Chapter 22: The First Friend
Dahan walked into the workshop and continued to walk inside, this workshop was rectangular. As he walked inside, he saw two rows on each side, all of them standing teenagers ranging from ten to sixteen years old, and two or three adults with whips on each side, walking back and forth between them.
There were about a hundred of these teenagers, and their hands moved quickly and nimbly, stitching and sewing the soldiers' clothes for battle, but they were all generally emaciated and glazed. Even as he struggled and shouted intermittently, no one turned their heads to look at him. It's like a puppet with a string, unable to speak or hear others, just staring at the suit in his hand, afraid of making a mistake. I gave up after seeing their expressions intermittently, feeling that I had gone to hell and would never go out again.
Walking through the workshop to one of the rooms, the big man threw the break on the ground and said to a man with a whip, "Here comes another one, and I'll give it to you." With that, he turned and went out.
This person in this is not a good person at first glance, with a sharp beak and thin eyes. The voice was still cold: "You also saw it when you came in, and you did the same thing with them later, is there any reluctance?"
Although he was dissatisfied, he was not stupid and said, "No." ”
"Come, I'll teach you three times, and if you can't learn something so simple three times, then you can stop doing it. He said with a smirk.
How could there be such a good thing, intermittently thinking of the conversation outside before, I realized that I would not do it, I would be thrown outside to feed the wolf, so I looked carefully at what he did. After three times, I did it, but it was just a little handy. It had only been about a quarter of an hour before he was called out to the workshop and began to work.
Standing next to a girl intermittently, seeing that she was already very skilled, she made one by herself, she had to make three or four pieces, and soon several parts of the suit were spliced together to become a complete dress. When it is done, it is put aside, and a larger teenager collects and puts in the new loose clothes.
I just stood and did it all the time, and I didn't rest for a few hours, even if I went to the convenience of it, I was limited to death, and I would be whipped when I came back a little later.
Finally, when it was time to eat in the afternoon, they lined up to eat, and the people who served the rice were free to serve a little porridge to the teenagers, and then add a steamed bun to replace the next person. And the teenagers always followed cautiously, for fear that they would not catch themselves or fall to the ground, otherwise they would only starve, and they would suffer a lot of whips because they had no strength.
There was a teenager's steamed bun in front of him that fell to the ground, and he skillfully bent down to pick it up and left, and none of the others would laugh, because this kind of thing has basically happened to everyone. Intermittently carrying a bowl of porridge and holding a steamed bun walked towards the crowd, and saw that they were all sitting on the ground eating, and some of them were still licking the bowls after eating.
Looking at this porridge intermittently, where it looks like it is eaten by people, it is not much different from pig food. But fortunately, I have also lived a hard life for two or three years, but I don't feel anything, but the amount is too small, and I barely make a bottom, and I can't count as full.
Just when he was still looking at where he hadn't eaten clean, he suddenly saw a slender hand stretched out in front of his eyes, holding a steamed bun in his slender five fingers, and a very beautiful voice came out: "If you haven't eaten enough, this is for you to eat." ”
Sitting on the ground, Intermittent looked up at her, it was the girl next to her when she was doing her work. The first year is slightly shorter and shoulder-length, and the front also covers her forehead, although her face is a little dirty, but you can still see the delicate and white skin from the clean part. With clear eyes, three-dimensional facial features, a straight nose and a small mouth, and a paw face, she is simply a little fairy who has fallen into this hell. Dressed in wide gray linen clothes, it is indeed a little dirty, but which of the teenagers here is not. is nearly 1.5 meters tall, and looks like a thirteen or fourteen-year-old mother.
At this moment, she was bending down and smiling intermittently, innocent, and innocent, as if she wanted to melt the thousand-year-old cold in this hell, and also ended the intermittent fatigue.
He looked at her intermittently and asked, "What about you?"
The girl said, "I'm a girl, I have a small amount of food, and I've been here for half a year, so ...... It's okay. ”
Intermittently really hungry, and asked expectantly, "Is it really possible?"
The girl smiled and said, "Well, you can eat." ”
Intermittently took the steamed bun: "Thank you." ”
Seeing that he took it and ate it, he also sat down and said, "My name is Mingyue, what is your name?"
"Intermittently. He had steamed buns in his mouth.
Mingyue smiled and said, "Well, let's be friends." ”
"I'm afraid of bringing you bad luck, and they all say I'm a broom star or a solitary star." ”
Mingyue still smiled and said, "Doom? In this situation, where else can the bad luck go? So, you don't have any friends?"
"Hmm. ”
"Then we're good friends, and I don't have any friends. ”
Intermittently surprised: "Don't you have any friends either?"
"Well, maybe there used to be, but I don't even remember. I guess I was sick once, and when I woke up, I couldn't remember anything but my name. ”
"Okay, then let's be each other's first friends." ”
Mingyue was very happy, nodded and said, "Hmm." You have to be careful here, don't act smart, or you'll be taken care of later. Don't get seriously ill, if it costs a lot of money to cure your illness, they will throw you directly into the mountains to feed the wolves. ”
When they had eaten everything, they went back to work. During the work, everyone remained silent and focused on what they were doing. When he looked at Mingyue again, he found that Mingyue at this time didn't look as clever as before, and at a cursory glance, he was like everyone else, like a marionette.
I didn't finish work until late, and after finishing work, everyone fell asleep as soon as they returned to the dormitory, and this intensity made the interruption of the hard life a little unbearable. They slept in a mixed room, but the house was probably divided into two piles, and they didn't have the energy to see who they were, so they kept their spirits up and tried to carry it through the next day, otherwise they might not be the next one to be thrown out to feed the wolf.
Intermittent and Mingyue can only run faster when eating and line up in front, so that they can have a little more time to rest. They can only say a few words during this time, but after a long time, they will gradually get to know each other. It's really rare to have a friend in this kind of place, so both of them cherish it very much.
In the early days, Mingyue also divided steamed buns to eat intermittently, but after slowly getting used to this hunger, she no longer ate her portion, which was not much, and no matter how small the amount of food was, she couldn't eat very much. The teenagers licked the dishes clean at every meal, saving them the work of washing the dishes.
In this way, more than half a year passed, and during this period, he tried to escape once, but failed, and was beaten once in public. If he hadn't seen that he was already familiar with it, he might have been directly crippled and thrown into the mountains.
Now I'm a little over eleven years old intermittently, and I haven't made any new friends except for Mingyue, a friend. Almost all of them have become puppets, with numb expressions, dull eyes, no interest in everything, have given up resistance, and only live in front of them.
It was another day when I had lunch at noon, and I said to Mingyue intermittently: "I think this workshop is a black factory, and the battle clothes they make are also of inferior quality. ”
Mingyue said, "Well, you also found out. They also have a place where they are also making this kind of clothes, where the clothes are good, and then they mix what we do here into it, shoddy and profiteering. You can see how dark their hearts are from how we get in. ”
"But we are doing this kind of suit day by day, and I feel sorry for them, and I feel guilty. ”
Mingyue said: "Then what can I do, if you don't do it, you will be killed directly and thrown into the mountains, and they will buy two more children to continue to do it, which will have no effect on them." Rather than this, it is better for you and me to take it on the back and save those two children from their sins. Unless we leave alive, not only will we die meaninglessly, but we will also kill two other people. ”
Intermittently said: "Last time, I wanted to escape and report to the officials and let them solve this place, but I failed. ”
Mingyue said: "It's useless, they have officials here, and if you go to report to the official, you will enter the tiger's mouth again." ”
"I'm really unwilling, but I didn't give up, at least, I'm going to send you out. ”
Mingyue felt the care and warmth of her friend, and although she knew that it was basically impossible, she still nodded happily: "Hmm." ”