Traveler Major League

Chapter 214 Hope (Don’t Subscribe)

A burst of loud singing sounded. The lyrics were modified based on "Unity & Strength". The familiar melody caused Wang Zenglun to turn his head and look out the window. It was a team of young people, a small half of whom were trumpeters carrying suonas, leading the group. Several of them wore cowhide belts with pistol cases hanging on them.

"Who are these people?" Wang Zenglun asked Li Kefu. Those soldiers were uniformly dressed in military uniforms, but the clothes were not that fitting. They were basically one or two sizes larger. The sleeves could even hang down to the knees, and the hats symbolized the simplicity of the alliance. The badge is paired with the brim of the hat to give it a military feel.

"They are all in the training company, and they are all relatively young."

"What can you do at such a young age?" Wang Zenglun asked again.

"Most of them were reorganized from the camp of the Ming Dynasty. There was a famine in Shaanxi. Poor families sold their sons and daughters. Some of them were slaves and servants and followed them after they were liberated. Some of them joined the army on their own initiative because their families were too poor. Now They do whatever they can in the team, such as correspondents, orderlies, and suona players, and learn new knowledge. They are equivalent to our reserve cadres. They are easier to educate than ordinary adults and are the seeds of our future." Li Kefu seemed to envy these children very much. But he forgot that he wasn't much older than these kids.

These soldiers took turns singing songs as a class, competing in games, and waiting for lunch.

"Can I go over and see them?" Wang Zenglun asked.

Li Kefu stretched out his right hand in a gesture of invitation. Several people packed up their finished tableware and stepped out, "Xiao He."

Upon hearing Li Kefu's shouting, the leader of the soldiers, carrying a gun, immediately ran over and saluted with a military salute and said vigorously: "Hello, division commander."

"You've grown taller again. Come here, this is Professor Wang, the investigator sent here. He has some questions to ask you."

"Yes." Xiao He's back was straight, and his childish face matched his resolute military temperament, but there was no sense of disobedience.

"Professor Wang, do you have anything to ask me?" Xiao He was not afraid of strangers at all, but was very proactive.

"Xiao He, how old are you?"

"I'll be 15 in one month."

"You joined the team at such a young age?" Wang Zenglun found it difficult to understand his behavior. He was at the age when he was in junior high school.

"I joined the army two years ago. I was herding sheep for a landlord outside Yijun County. Our team had a great victory and was chasing the remaining enemies. They said we were a team of poor people, so I led them to raid the village. He lived with a landlord, and then joined the army.”

"You herd sheep for the landlord? Is it hard?"

"Bitterness." Xiao He fell into memories, and a word popped out of his mouth, and then continued: "The drought at home has long been out of food, all the grain seeds are eaten, the family has no land, and the rent is more than [-]% , I can still eat some food while tending sheep at the landlord's house, but my parents have no choice but to go up the mountain to dig grass roots and peel bark to eat. They starve every year, and my younger siblings have not had enough to eat since they were children."

Wang Zenglun's experience of hearing this kind of real suffering is completely different from that of reading history books. Without a deep understanding of their past, he will never be able to understand why these people follow Liu Ze so fanatically. It is not difficult to understand why they hate and persecute the upper class gentlemen. , "Are you all so miserable? How are you doing now?"

"It's good. The team taught me how to read and write. Only then did I understand why I suffered in the past. Only then did I realize that so many people are still suffering. Only then did I realize how big the world is. I want to follow to liberate them." Xiao He spoke clearly and coherently. , polite and polite, obviously different from the adults Wang Zenglun had met before. The most obvious point is that he can use the word 'I' instead of 'I'.

"Everyone in the company comes from a poor family. I am used to it. I didn't know the hardship before. Only when I joined the team did I realize that there are people begging for food and escaping, and there are apprentices and servants from the county. They live in a hazy way. They feel hungry, beaten and scolded as a matter of course."

"Now, hum." Xiao He patted the pistol on his waist, his eyes widened and he gritted his teeth. "where is your family?"

"They are all dead. My father died in the battle in Sanyuan County. My mother and younger brother and sister were attacked by Xiang Yong in the back camp. They are all dead." Xiao He tightened his cheeks, and his red face became angular. Only his bright eyes His eyes betray his emotion.

"Child." Wang Zenglun wanted to comfort this young man who touched his heart, but he didn't know what to say. "How many people are there in your team?"

When Xiao He heard the question, he immediately retracted his softness and replied loudly, full of pride: "Our training company currently has 140 people, 76 of whom are veterans."

"veteran?"

"They are all veterans who participated in the battle in Yijun County. I also captured two prisoners." Xiao He shared his glorious experience. What Wang Zenglun couldn't imagine was that in the cold weapon era, these teenage children, He could actually hold up a three-meter long spear and chase the officers and soldiers without feeling their fear at all.

No need to ask, Wang Zenglun also knows why. In the society of the Ming Dynasty, the power of Liu Ze suddenly appeared, allowing these people to receive equal treatment for the first time, to be respected as human beings, not to be bullied at will, and no longer even hungry. , is such a temptation, even men, women, old and young in modern society are attracted, let alone these ancients.

When Wang Zenglun was deep in thought, Xiao He asked curiously: "Professor Wang, can everyone in your world have enough to eat?"

"My world? Do you know where I come from?"

"You come from a world with highly developed material civilization, similar to our world a few hundred years from now."

"how do you know?"

"There is no one like you in the Ming Dynasty in the first world. The spring and autumn side of the second world here are all red-haired barbarians. The third world is yours. They are all dressed like you, just like him." Xiao He pointed to the side. Old Zhou said. Old Zhou adjusted his glasses. Those personal items from modern times also exposed him in Ming Dynasty clothes.

"Soon there will be something like this here." Lao Zhou pointed to the half-frame mirror on the bridge of his nose and said. The products of modern civilization will soon change the world here as time goes by, just like those LEDs and radio stations. network.

"Xiao He, what's your full name?" Wang Zenglun felt that he had the responsibility to record this boy. This was the child who made him feel most distressed after arriving at Spring and Autumn.

"My name is He Qun, Professor Wang. Is there anything else you want to ask? Otherwise, I have to go to dinner." He Qun pointed to the team that had finished cooking and gathered around to eat.

"No, I wish you good luck. Let's go eat." Wang Zenglun waved his hand, as if he felt guilty for delaying his lunch. He took out a black pen from his arms and handed it over, "This is a writing pen. Here’s to you, thank you for answering my question.”

He Qun quickly refused and refused to accept the gift. He did not accept it until Li Kefu spoke.

"What a good boy." Wang Zenglun raised the camera lens that had been hanging on his chest and took a close-up of He Qun, leaving his first photo.

Wang Zenglun knew that they would meet again in the future.

(End of this chapter)