Chapter 208 Salary (thanks to Lin Linhong for getting up, book friends 2018974
Yan Xiaosi leaned against the dark wall, his eyes empty and his heart even more empty. In the past few days, he had replayed his experiences from childhood to adulthood three times before his eyes, even running to the river to steal
He still had the memory of watching the widow take a bath, but today, his head was filled with only one thought.
"Please! Let me out! Even find someone to talk to me for a while!"
"Captain Li! Let me out! I surrender! I plead guilty!"
"You are not so caring! You might as well just kill me! Woohoo!"
He curled up his knees softly and sat on the floor, rubbing his legs vigorously. Every joint in his body seemed to be rusty. The toilet next to him still stank all the time. This smell was really too much.
It's so frustrating, so uncomfortable.
There was light in the opening under the door panel of the solitary room, and then a coarse porcelain bowl was stuffed in, with two biscuits and pickled mallow in it.
Xiaosi didn't even look at the coarse porcelain bowl on the ground, and knocked on the door wall hard: "Brother! You're not leaving! Say something, I know you don't want to say it, and you're afraid that the captain will know, it doesn't matter, you keep your voice down, I
You can hear it!”
His only answer was footsteps walking away. Xiao Si knelt on the floor and beat with his fists like a drum: "Brother! Send a message to the captain for me, saying that Xiao Si has been convicted and begs to be let go."
! From now on, I will never dare to cause trouble or contradict for no reason again! Please give the captain a message!"
The lonely Xiaosi sighed quietly, curled up on his side on the floor, and forced himself to close his eyes.
I don't know how much time passed, but the copper lock on the door of the confinement room made a clanking sound. Suddenly, the door panel opened wide, and dazzling white light poured in. He lay on his side and stretched out his hands to block his eyes. There was still light coming in from the edge of his palm, like the sun.
The food was like a halo that could not be looked directly at, which made him burst into tears.
The visitor threw a ball of black gauze on him and said in a joking voice: "Tie this around your eyes. Don't let the sun blind your eyes."
He was pulled out of the solitary room by the armpits of his soldier Kubani. His legs were numb and he could hardly walk. He staggered and was allowed to walk by Kubani.
Many brothers from the Eighth Regiment gathered around him and looked at him with curiosity and sympathy.
Yan Xiaosi was very excited at the moment: "It's great. It's out. Brothers, I miss you so much! It's been so long since I last saw you, it feels like three autumns. It's so good. I don't even know what to say..."
Cheng Jichang looked at him closely and asked, "Yan Xiaosi, why have you become so talkative?"
A soldier followed him and asked: "Captain Yan, how does it feel to be in solitary confinement?"
When Yan Xiaosi heard this, tears kept flowing down from under the black gauze. He shook his hands vigorously and said: "Can't see, have no voice, can't speak, can't move, it's very uncomfortable! It will kill someone!"
"It will kill people!"
In Yan Xiaosi's last pale cry, the soldiers tasted the horror of the dark house. It did not harm the body, but could cause psychological torture to people.
"These are the four impossibilities." The soldiers gave this terrible confinement room a new name, which sounded very down-to-earth.
Yan Xiaosi was brought into Li Siye's duty room. The light in front of his eyes dimmed slightly, and Kubani pulled the black cloth off his head.
Li Siye sat cross-legged in front of the desk and looked at Yan Xiaosi. His overall mental state was extremely poor. It seemed that the effect he had expected was achieved.
"Yan Xiaosi, how does it feel to be in solitary confinement?"
He plopped on the ground, crossed his hands and begged for mercy: "Captain Li, I don't want to go in anymore! Xiao Si has changed his past and will never contradict his superiors or violate military discipline."
Li Siye held the case in his hand and said jokingly: "Did you think that the fifteenth day has arrived? In fact, it has not arrived yet. You have only been detained for ten days. Can you last until the fifteenth day?"
"Have mercy, Captain! Xiao Si will never dare to disobey the Captain's military orders in the future. If he does, I will be beaten with a hundred, not two hundred, military sticks!"
Li Siye stood up from the ground with his hands on his hands, walked slowly to Yan Xiaosi, and said with a stern expression: "You are a tough guy, with rough skin and thick flesh. You are not afraid of military sticks, but confinement is more effective. You are convinced now."
But I may not be convinced in my heart. Aren’t you still waiting for me to pay the military salary? If I can’t pay the military salary, don’t I have to resign as a school captain?”
Yan Xiaosi leaned forward on his knees and said to Li Siye with a smile: "The military salary owed was embezzled by the previous captain for corruption and had nothing to do with Captain Li. It was Xiaosi who was confused for a moment and didn't know what to do, which angered the captain."
, deserves to be punished.”
Several soldiers from the Eighth Regiment lay outside the window and watched secretly. They couldn't help but sigh with pity: "Even a tough-minded man like Yan Xiaosi has his knees bent. The 'four incompetents' are so terrifying!"
Li Siye stretched out his hand and said, "Bring him the money!"
Two soldiers came forward, one of them was holding a wooden plate in his hand, with bunches of money piled on it.
"Yan Xiaosi, your official position is team leader, and your salary is one thousand two hundred yuan plus six buckets of rice. The Eighth Regiment owes you four months' salary in total, which is exactly four thousand eight hundred yuan, plus twenty-four
Dou rice, based on the current price of grain in Qiuci, each dou rice is 30 yen, totaling 720 yen. This plate is your four months’ salary. Take it quickly, lest you say behind your back that the captain will deduct your salary.
!”
Yan Xiaosi's eyes widened, and he was at a loss and couldn't believe what was happening in front of him. Colonel Li had actually raised the money for his salary? He was actually so rich that he could pay for the army out of his own pocket?
"Go down. Go back and reflect!"
He nodded gratefully and walked out of the check-in room with the copper coins in his arms.
Fujimu opened the door to the check-in room and walked out, knocked the copper cymbals hanging on the shelf, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Colonel Li has been running around in recent days, raising money on his own, and collecting enough wages for the brothers. Starting today,
Official pay will be paid out starting from the first person in the right brigade and right team. Please line up by yourself! No crowding or making noise!"
The whole camp of the Eighth Regiment exploded, and the soldiers excitedly ran to the school grounds to wait in line. In an instant, the entire camp was deserted. Only Brigade Commander Yuan Tao was sitting in front of the building, making leather belts with tanned cowhide.
The last soldier ran towards the school grounds excitedly. When he saw Yuan Tao sitting in front of the room, he turned around and asked in surprise: "Commander Yuan, why don't you go and collect your pay?"
"If I don't go, you can go yourself."
When the soldiers saw that the brigade commander had a bad look on his face, they did not dare to answer any more questions and left alone.
A dozen of Yuan Tao's brothers returned to the camp with money in their arms. They immediately came to Yuan Tao, squatted in front of him and said cheerfully: "Now that the salary has been distributed, only a few hundred brothers are left."
The money is enough to drink two measures of wine at the wine shop in Dialhuang City tonight. The remaining money will be left to the orphans and widows of the dead brothers, and we can accommodate each one."
"Commander of the Brigade, I see there is no one queuing up on the school grounds. You should hurry up and get the money."
Another person laughed and said: "The Brigade Marshal doesn't need to queue up. The Colonel will send someone to deliver it in person later."
Yuan Tao felt suffocated in his heart, and the short knife in his hand suddenly went sideways, destroying a good leather belt. He threw the ruined leather aside and said coldly: "I don't take the salary, he is
Where did you get it from? Others don’t know, so don’t you still know?”
Several brothers looked at each other, with an angry look on their faces. One of them squatted in front of him and patiently persuaded him: "Marshal Yuan, if you don't go to collect the salary, how will we arrange the ladies, and how will we be worthy of our brothers?"
them?"
"I will not collect ill-gotten gains. Although I can't control others, I can be myself."
The man chuckled and persuaded: "Commander of the Brigade, when Lieutenant Li distributed this money, he did not tell us where he came from. We don't know where his money came from. It can be regarded as a payment from the imperial court."
With the salary, can you accept it peacefully?"
Yuan Tao said with a cold face: "Aren't you deceiving yourself?"
Several people looked at each other and realized that they could not persuade Yuan Tao, so they had no choice but to bow and leave with their hands folded.
Xu Zheng hour,
The stars at night overlook the surrounding fields. When you look up, you can see the Milky Way running through the sky. Under the stars, the camp of the Eighth Regiment is bustling with activity. These military men spend their first night after being paid to buy wine and get drunk. Soldiers from all walks of life gather in adobe houses.
Inside, an oil lamp the size of a soybean was lit, and people were drinking wine with their bare backs, and the sounds of rough drinking orders could be heard one after another.
However, Li Siye walked out of the duty room at night. He carried two roasted lamb legs in his hand and two jars of Sanlejiang in his right hand with a hemp rope. Behind him were soldiers Kubani and Zhang Yong, each holding a wooden plate in his hand.
There are bunches of copper coins stacked on the plate.
He was going to personally pay the two brigade commanders who had been kicked off. He also gave a jar of wine and a leg of lamb as a sign of sympathy for his subordinates.