Walking on the dark street, Dong Yongnian, who was in his twenties, felt strong uneasiness. At this moment, a light appeared in front of him and a group of men in flying fish uniforms were patrolling the street with lanterns. Dong Yongnian hurriedly leaned to the street and asked the team of police to go over.

The police looked at Dong Yongnian's short hair and did not come up to ask him. When the police walked over, Dong Yongnian sighed and began to boldly move forward along the street. The streets inspected by the police are still safe for the time being. Even if Dong Yongnian was threatened by people sent from Mongolia, the existence of the police still made him feel safe.

When he returned to the dormitory, Dong Yongnian collapsed on his bed with his head resting on a buckwheat pillow. The subtle sound made Dong Yongnian feel his mind even more confused. Dong Yongnian is from Huangzhou, Hubei. A few years ago, because Dong Yongnian's second uncle's boss had a business with Zhao Jiaren, he learned that Zhao Jiaren's shop in Lin'an needed manpower, so Dong Yongnian inexplicably joined Zhao Jiaren's commercial base. Because he was skillful and knew carpentry work, he transferred him to work at Jiaxing Shipyard.

Dong Yongnian, who had retreated to Fuzhou, was now a staff member of the Gunpowder Bureau. He never expected that an official from Hubei would come here to threaten Dong Yongnian's family in Hubei and ask Dong Yongnian to steal the gunpowder formula. What should he do? Dong Yongnian couldn't understand it at all. According to the man, the Mongolians had already set their sights on Dong Yongnian's family. If Dong Yongnian was disobedient, his family would be killed. When he thought of his family under the butcher's knife, Dong Yongnian felt his heart was burned.

'Do you think Zhao Taiwei is really capable of fighting the Mongolians? If he could do it, wouldn't he have done it long ago? Commander Zhang now thinks it's better to just talk to the Mongolians, and we will stay in Lingnan in the Song Dynasty. Your family is all in Hubei. At that time, your family is in Mongolia. Wouldn't it be better to leave more roads for your family?"

When Dong Yongnian thought of the words of the Mongolian spy, he felt even more desperate. After thinking about it, Dong Yongnian was so cruel that he decided to cooperate with this Mongolian. After making such a fierce decision, Dong Yongnian only felt the buzzing sound in his ears, coupled with the rustling sound in the buckwheat crust pillow, he half-awake all night and slept bitterly.

The next day the Mongolian spy did not come to find him, and Dong Yongnian felt that he could finally breathe a sigh of relief. The same was true for the next two days, and Dong Yongnian began to hope that such a life would continue like this forever.

On the fifth day after meeting the Mongolian spy, after get off work in the afternoon, Dong Yongnian went to the night school as usual to attend classes. Classmate Wu Minsheng asked him: "Is there anything wrong tonight?"

"Want to treat me to dinner?" Dong Yongnian said jokingly. Wu Minsheng is an old worker in a textile factory. He is about the same age as most people of his age. Wu Minsheng, who has a large family to raise. He got a lot of money, but there are only a few left in his hands. The few times the two went out to have dinner together were basically Dong Yongnian paid for the payment.

"Please please." Although Wu Minsheng's voice was bold, he showed timidity as soon as he opened his mouth.

Dong Yongnian smiled slightly. He was alone in Fujian. In the past, he sent money to his family, but now there is no such way. He has been in great mood these days. Dong Yongnian didn't want to be alone, so he smiled and said, "Forget it, I'll invite you this time. If you ask me, let me wait for the next time."

After class, it was already dark, and the two of them went to the nearby "One Thousand Bowls" chain store. They ordered a new beef noodle set meal under the recommendation of their friend, and they ordered some more spirits. After Zhao Jiaren and Zhao Taiwei took office, they lifted the restrictions on killing cattle. This action did not trigger a boom in slaughtering in the Song Dynasty, but instead increased the sales of beef.

The cold dishes were prepared, and the two of them sipped in the liquor and ate the cold dishes. When the beef noodles came, the aroma of curry and beef made both of them feel very excited. Just drink the fragrant noodle soup first, and then they felt comfortable. The hot soup was in the stomach, and the previous liquor, and it felt like they were getting hot from the inside.

After eating and drinking, Wu Minsheng tried his best to use standard official words: "Brother Dong, I want to ask you, is the Gunpowder Bureau still recruiting people now?"

"I haven't heard of this." Dong Yongnian replied in a soothing tone. This is not because he is pretending to be profound and eating warmly. He feels that all his worries are left behind and that he feels lazy when he speaks.

After hearing this answer, Wu Minsheng sighed, "Brother, do you know that my family and I work in a textile factory. Now that the war is coming, the cotton in Jiaxing Mansion has been broken. Seeing that the cotton stored is about to be used up, we and my wife don't know what to do next?"

Dong Yongnian spent some time thinking about the problem of the textile factory shutdown. His feeling about the textile factory is that the place where cotton is produced is, how can it be related to Jiaxing Mansion? Fortunately, he worked in the shipyard in Jiaxing Mansion. When he remembered the white flowers everywhere in the fields of Jiaxing Mansion's cotton harvest, he suddenly understood the logical relationship.

Even if he figured it out, Dong Yongnian didn't know what to say. War was not something he could decide. The shipyard in Jiaxing Prefecture has twenty docks that can produce large ships. If you don't say it, just turn it off. As one of the personnel of the shipyard, is there anything else that Dong Yongnian can do other than obey the orders?

Seeing Dong Yongnian's expression of a bit drunk, Wu Minsheng didn't expect that Dong Yongnian had already had many thoughts in his mind. He continued to ask: "Brother Dong, you used to be in the shipyard, so why didn't you transfer to the Gunpowder Bureau? What do you need to know if you want to transfer to the Gunpowder Bureau?"

"I used to work as a carpenter when I was at home and learned to calculate in shops in Lin'an. I was very careful when I was a planer, and the board could be made flat. After I arrived at the shipyard, I would process the boards used on the ship. I learned to process iron plates when I was in the shipyard. Now I have to use iron substrates to divide the screening machine of the Gunpowder Bureau, so I will do this." Dong Yongnian told his classmate Wu Minsheng about the process of being selected into the Gunpowder Bureau without reservation.

After hearing this, Wu Minsheng's face became increasingly ugly. He silently picked up the wine glass and took a sip. He sighed: "Brother Dong, I just want to ask how I can go to the Gunpowder Bureau. You said so much to me, is it because I laughed at how I don't have the place you went?"

Dong Yongnian was stunned. He never expected that Wu Minsheng on the other side would say such resentful words. What he said was the truth. Dong Yongnian would not tell his own experience on weekdays. Since Wu Minsheng showed coldness, Dong Yongnian was unwilling to make trouble for himself. He also drank all the wine in his glass and shouted to the friend: "My man, check out."

When Wu Minsheng heard that Dong Yongnian was leaving, he hurriedly said, "Why, are you still angry with me?"

Dong Yongnian heard this very rude, and he replied unhappily: "You said that, can't I be angry?"

Seeing that Dong Yongnian was really annoyed, Wu Minsheng quickly smiled and said, "Brother Wu, don't care about me. I'm also anxious. We have been working hard to make money over the years. If the factory collapses, what can we eat?"

Dong Yongnian rolled his eyes and said unhappily: "You are a local, and at most you go home to farm. What's there to be afraid of?"

After saying that he would go home to farm, Dong Yongnian couldn't help feeling uncomfortable. It was not his intention to go to the Gunpowder Bureau in Fuzhou. Wu Minsheng still has his hometown to go back to, but now Dong Yongnian wants to go home to farm but cannot. Dong Yongnian's family's life and death are unknown on the territory of the Mongolians, and he is always concerned about the news about his relatives at home. Dong Yongnian, who is under such great pressure, did not complain. What qualifications does Wu Minsheng have to complain in front of Dong Yongnian?

Thinking of this, Dong Yongnian just wanted to leave immediately. However, at this moment, Wu Minsheng suddenly sighed and said pleaded: "Brother Dong, let's have another two drinks. Even if you scold me, I want to find someone to talk to you."

This begging touched Dong Yongnian's mind again. He was alone in a foreign land and was actually trying to find someone to talk to. Seeing Wu Minsheng's expression, he didn't want to leave immediately. After asking for two more glasses of wine, Dong Yongnian slowly started drinking.

Wu Minsheng drank half a glass of wine in one sip this time, which was so hot that he sighed "ah" and gasped, and then said comfortably: "Brother Dong, you said you would go home to farm. Am I going home to feed wild boars now?"

"How do you say it?" Dong Yongnian asked in confusion.

"Our hometown is in the poor mountain valley in Longyan. After I came out, all the poor people who could come out of my hometown had already come out. Especially when Zhao Taiwei got so much land in the south, we trusted Zhao Taiwei, and the poor people left, and even the few people in the family left. On New Year's Day this year, I went home to visit the grave, guess how do you find it?" Wu Minsheng told the story later, and even kept it a secret.

"What's wrong?" Dong Yongnian couldn't guess what would happen in the mountainous areas of Fujian.

When talking about that, I didn’t know whether it was because of excitement or because of alcoholism, Wu Minsheng’s face became radiant, “I thought that when we left, the rich could occupy all the land on the local area. Unexpectedly, Unexpectedly, the rich moved too.”

"Why?" Dong Yongnian's original idea was that if the poor were exposed, the rich could use the land in the village as they wanted. Therefore, he could not understand the rich people's escape. He even felt that Wu Minsheng was making a fool of himself.

"Hmph! Without our poor people renting his land to plant, their family is only a few people, so how could they plant so many mountains?" Wu Minsheng said with a sneer.

Dong Yongnian initially wondered why the rich could not grow so many mountains. He took some effort, and it was not until he followed Wu Minsheng's words that he suddenly realized the truth. Farming is a very hard thing. One person has two cows, his wife and children are warming up the kang. The whole family can only grow twenty or thirty acres of land. Without anyone helping, the family can't grow hundreds of acres of land on their own. The poor people who rented the landlord land left, and the landlord couldn't hold on.

Dong Yongnian felt a little ashamed that he couldn't understand such a simple truth. But after thinking about it, he left home since he was a teenager and had not done farm work for many years. Dong Yongnian felt that he didn't know the countryside, so it was understandable that he didn't understand these things.

Then Dong Yongnian heard Wu Minsheng continue, "Brother Dong, after I go home, I see the mountains and deserts are like that. Even if I go home, I can't do anything. Moreover, I have been in the factory for so many years, and I actually know that the factory is much better than the countryside. I don't want to go back!"
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