"Are these two thousand oceans enough? If it's not enough, take some more?"
Lin Xudong put the heavy cloth bag into the cab, turned around and asked An Yi, and when Huzi handed him a cigarette, he declined: "Thanks, brother, I don't smoke."
An Yi looked at the pale sky, took Beard's cigarette and lit it with a match: "That's enough. I'll probably run out of them when we're done. How about Xiaojiu and the others? Have the corpses been properly disposed of?"
"It has been tied up with big rocks and sunk to the bottom of the river downstream. The third junior brother and a few old uncles in the village who are good at accounting are counting the treasures we have brought back. When I left just now, I asked, and the twelfth uncle in the accountant gave a rough estimate.
It's about between 700,000 and 720,000. It's a pity that we can't move those porcelains, otherwise it would be much more than this... Why don't you leave after the calculation is done, what are you in a hurry for?" Lin Xudong said.
An Yi shook his head: "No, I still don't know how scared the two or three hundred migrant workers at Jiangyue Pier are. If I don't go, it will be difficult to deal with the seven veterans and Ah Shen's militia. I'll come back after I'm done.
You, go find Hans and order some good boats together. But Fourth Brother, you have to hurry up and send people to various docks to occupy the vacancies left by the Sihai Gang first. We will wait for A Biao to come back for the rest. I will do as you say.
, let A Biao come forward for everything, the village can secretly send a group of people to help him, and take advantage of the fact that there is no one in Guangzhou city to take the first step, otherwise he will be squeezed everywhere."
Lin Xudong nodded: "I understand, go ahead and get busy."
The Chevrolet truck that removed the party flag and put on the civilian plate slowly drove into Jiangyue Wharf. Many fishmongers immediately gave way to a wide road. An Yi drove the car to the entrance of the wharf and stopped. There was a mass of black people sitting on the ground.
The migrant workers immediately looked at the truck in panic. More than 300 militiamen with guns in their hands, led by seven of their own veterans, formed a large circle and closely guarded the truck.
When Qu Tongyuan, an old Sichuan man, saw An Yi and Hu Hu get out of the car, he trotted forward and saluted: "Reporting to the commander, Qu Tongyuan, the acting squad leader of the seventh platoon and the first squad of the third company, is leading the team to perform a task. Please give me a lecture, sir."
"Well done, I thought your drunken grandson wouldn't wake up." An Yi returned the salute and walked towards the migrant workers.
Old Sichuan followed An Yi and giggled: "Company Commander, didn't I just drink a few more sips? I haven't had a drop of wine in months, I'm so greedy! I didn't dare to drink more at night, so I took a boat with the militia in the middle of the night.
Coming here, hehe!"
An Yi nodded and looked around, then walked to the edge of the crowd and pointed at Lao Qi, who had his head drooping inside: "Brother Qi, it's me, come out quickly, hurry up!"
When Qi Hui saw the majestic An Yi in military uniform with a shell gun hanging on his waist, he did not dare to recognize him at first, and then stood up as if he saw a savior: "Xiao Yi, is it really you? Oh, it scared me...
Brothers, please give in... please give in..."
Qi Hui stumbled out and reached out to grab An Yi's hands: "Xiao Yi, what's going on?"
When Old Sichuan saw Qi Hui's dirty hands grabbing his commander, how could he be okay? Just as he was about to step forward to scold his mother, he was caught by Huzi: "Didn't you realize that this man is an acquaintance of the company commander? After so many years in the army, he still
Don’t you know how to brighten your eyeballs?”
"Oh...yes, I forgot about it for a moment, thank you Deputy Hu Lian for reminding me, otherwise I would have been scolded again."
"It's okay. Everyone in the Sihai Gang has committed serious crimes and has been arrested by the National Government. You're okay." An Yi said kindly.
Qi Hui stayed where he was and said nothing, while the workers behind him were already excited.
An Yi thought that these people would have to smile no matter how they stood up for liberation. Unexpectedly, the migrant workers stood up one after another and shouted for wages. An Yi shook his head repeatedly and had to shout loudly: "Listen, everyone
Sit down for me, if you don't sit down, I will turn around and leave, leaving you grandsons to ask the Sihai Gang for money."
When everyone heard this, they immediately became quiet, thinking to themselves that the Sihai Gang has been arrested by you, who can I ask for money from? But I really made this easy-to-talk officer angry, and I am afraid that the last hope is gone. Go to the government? I will die.
No one cares about you, the government will care about you? Thinking of this, all the migrant workers squatted down and sat down.
An Yi felt uncomfortable looking at these suffering brothers, and suddenly came up with the idea of inviting a few revolutionary young women from the Women's Normal University to give a speech to see how they could do politics for a group of ragged migrant workers begging for wages.
Ideological work will definitely be very interesting. But after thinking about it, An Yi still has to solve problems. This is his first capital from joining the army!
An Yi's mind turned around, he looked around and said loudly with a dark face: "What should I say to you? A few days ago, I was at the upstream fishing pier and saw you all either soaking in the water or carrying them on the shore.
Stone and wood are so tired that they are half dead. Why don't you see you grandsons asking for wages from the foreman of the Sihai Gang? It's okay now. I'm afraid that you will be accidentally injured and captured by other warlords, so I will send people to protect you before dawn. You guys
Not only was my grandson not grateful, he asked me for wages. Is there anyone in the world who is like this? Ah? If it weren’t for the fact that Brother Qi was once my neighbor, I wouldn’t be sleeping in the bed? If I turned around now, I would
Come on, who in the world will care about the lives of you people?"
Two to three hundred migrant workers were scolded by An Yi, and they all lowered their heads in shame. An Yi called Qi Hui and his soldier Qu Tongyuan over, took out a few oceans and handed them to Qi Hui, pointing to the two migrant workers on the edge of the pier.
A small boat selling Tingzi porridge:
"You two go over and ask the boatmen selling porridge to bring all the porridge to the pier. It is not enough for the boatman to call a few more boats selling porridge to come over and let these squatting and sitting poor brothers eat their fill first.
, If you don’t have enough money, ask me for more. These confused grandsons are full of resentment when they have nothing in their stomachs. They will come to talk to me when they are full. Go!”
A group of migrant workers looked at An Yi in surprise, but An Yi and Hu Hu went to the side to smoke and chat. An hour had passed after the two hundred and seventy-six poor brothers had eaten, and the scorching sun slowly climbed higher and spread its heat.
Perhaps a few bowls of delicious rice porridge really squeezed out the grievances in the migrant workers' stomachs. Everyone sat on the ground, eagerly waiting for An Yi to come over and lecture.