Chapter 8 Chapter Seven Escape (Part 1)

The passage between the huts was extremely narrow. At this time, someone had already come out of the huts, and the gong came slowly.I don't know when, the gong has become a tool for message transmission in China, and no matter where it is, there is the same method of message transmission, similar to the "drum language" of the Indians.The unhurried sound of the gong represents the convening.If there is a rush and chaos, it is an emergency. If many gongs are struck together, it is a happy event. Anyone who is familiar with rural life in China can naturally accept the message conveyed by the sound of gongs.

Those who came out of the huts naturally came out after hearing the call. The sky was very dark, and in the narrow passage, even the glimmer of the stars and the moon were covered, making it look extraordinarily gloomy, so the people who came out seemed to be just many swaying figures. In Modi, there was a small group of people, carrying torches, and the leader was beating the gong, shouting: "Our 'Golden Come' has won the battle, hurry up to the river beach to gather, the whole section of the river is full of gold nuggets, wait for it!" us." There are about seven or eight people in this small group, all of them are dressed in the same color, and they look very mighty, holding a torch in one hand, and on their raised arms, there are bright short knives clasped on their belts. Two iron rings connected with iron chains, as they passed by, in the darkness, ghostly figures moved out of the way together.

This group of people is one of the special characters by the Jinsha River. Like here, there are more than 30,000 people gathered. Naturally, there are people leading them. The organization is the same, there are twelve halls, and each hall has a helm. Below the helm, there are layers of organizations. And these organizations, the power at the helm, and the supremacy of the leader are maintained by these swordsmen. This is a traditional way of human leadership: force is the guarantee of leadership, a set of rules is established, and force is used to ensure the implementation of these rules. If anyone feels that his head is harder than a sharp steel knife, he will You can try it out.

However, in the history of mankind, there has never been an example of a head-to-head winning a steel knife. To win a steel knife, there is only a sharper steel knife.Time after time, human civilization has progressed, from stone to iron, from iron to firearms, and even today's rockets, cannons, and nuclear bombs. The tricks have been refurbished, and science has progressed, but the principles have always existed and have not changed. In each hall, there are about ten sword teams like this. Their task is to maintain order, enforce rules, and a very important one is to prevent escape. The one who fled would naturally not be the leader of the Hall Master, but a hard worker panning for gold.

Didn't hard labor come here on your own will?On the river beach, under the turbulent river, there are countless gold nuggets, so many attract people, attracting thousands of people from thousands of miles away, everyone thinks that they are suffering here, but they are very In a short period of time, after a year and a half, you can leave here with a whole bag of gold nuggets, bid farewell to suffering, go back to your hometown to buy fields and houses, marry a wife and have children, and your life will change from then on. Once here, they found that life has indeed changed, but not according to their own wishes, but the wishes of other people, the rules set by those people, and suddenly, with irresistible force, At the beginning, the simple, simple-minded peasants who came from the countryside didn't know what was going on, only that everything was like a dream, completely lost.

Humans have weaknesses, and in the midst of extreme loss, apart from bearing silently, there are few other reactions.But gradually, when the environment is familiar, and after the extreme panic passes, and slowly calm down, some people will start to think about it, thinking that if this continues, they will never have a bright future in their lives, so naturally, there will be people escape. One of the important tasks of the knife team is to prevent the escape, especially the escape with gold nuggets. The labor of the gold diggers allowed the gold nuggets to enter the warehouse from the bottom of the river where they had been lying tens of thousands of years ago.Therefore, toil for gold is equal to gold nuggets, equal to wealth.In the countryside where gold nuggets are rumored to be found everywhere, the poor peasants are mostly skeptical, and it is by no means easy for the peasants to make the greatest determination to leave their homes.

Therefore, in order to recruit hard workers for gold panning, teams of people went to various villages to lobby and publicize. Propaganda has been around since ancient times. What is white becomes black, what is square becomes round, nothingness becomes existence, suffering becomes happiness—a lie is told a thousand times and it becomes the truth. Simple-minded, How can rural people who live in poverty withstand such temptations?Moreover, the conditions promised are heart-pounding: after departure, all the expenses on the road will be paid by someone else, and when they arrive there, they will take care of food and shelter for the first month, and when they find the gold nuggets, they will naturally take care of themselves Yes, there are plenty of big fish and big meat there, even all the beautiful women in Chengdu go there, and everyone there is pregnant with gold nuggets.

After working for a year and a half, I have accumulated a lot of gold nuggets. I am afraid that I will drive you back, and I will not come back. Those kind of words are so beautiful that the young man's whole body becomes hot, and he wakes up from his dream in the middle of the night with joy.It seems that the left side of the body is full of gold nuggets, and the right side of the body is cuddling with such a beautiful little girl that the country people can't even imagine in their dreams. For generations, human beings have been deceived by beautiful lies. Even the same lies can be used repeatedly and still be effective. The most important reason is that the deceived people are their own mistakes and refuse to explore the backside of the beautiful promise. something is hiding.At a certain stage, the liar can even stop, and the deceived will continue to deceive himself. At this time, even if someone speaks out and exposes the truth, the deceived will not believe it.

Because the deceived have been caught in the beautiful dreams they have woven, intoxicated with illusory hopes and imaginations, in this case, they cannot escape from the nets they woven. Go to the Jinsha River, where there are gold nuggets, good wine, fish and meat, beautiful women, everything. The young and strong moved forward enthusiastically, while the old and frail were still sad that they could not be selected. As a result, crowds flooded into the banks of the Jinsha River. Naturally, some became members of the knife team and "gold came", but most, the vast majority, knew the truth behind the beautiful promise.

One thing, at least, is true, and that is: there is certainly plenty of gold, gold that shines. When people who come here pick up a piece of gold among the stones for the first time, they will naturally cheer: gold!Yellow and heavy gold.Gold represents everything. A piece of gold the size of a fingernail represents ten or twenty buffaloes, a field, a house, blowing and beating, and a sedan chair carries a bride through the door.More gold naturally means more of everything.That moment of happiness makes one feel ecstatic, and even the bone-chilling river water will become warm—the river water is always so cold, and it is all because of the melting of the snow on the top of the mountain that can be seen from above.

Happiness is too stingy for human beings, it is just such a short moment. Next, they discovered that no matter how many gold nuggets they found in a day, they ended up with nothing.In my hometown, I can exchange a buffalo's gold nuggets, but here, I can only exchange a bowl of rice. Moreover, I don't know when, I have owed a lot of debts. The big blue brick house is worth money. A debt that will never be paid off for a lifetime, it is rare to save a little gold nugget, put it in a small leather bag, and hide it close to the meat, I would rather let the hard gold nugget hurt my body when I sleep But this little gold nugget is not yet his own. One-third of the people can't refuse the temptation of gambling, and half of the remaining two-thirds can't refuse the temptation of nephrite jade and fragrance. She is really a little girl from a big place, and she can make you paralyzed just by looking at you Then, when she flung herself into her arms, the gold nuggets in the small leather bag naturally transferred from the big rough hands to the soft ones, and what was exchanged was the big rough hands, which could freely touch the fine skin. Rubbing the tender meat, in the ecstasy, I forgot why I came here. Half of the two-thirds is one-third, and the remaining one-third has nothing to do with it. Opium has become their spiritual food. Everything is controlled by each hall, and there is a dragon head at the helm. If you come in, if you can’t get out, you don’t have to go out. People are lazy. At most three to five years, no matter how strong a young man is, he will become a step and a breather , that is of course useless, and the whereabouts of useless people are naturally unknown, and no one will investigate their whereabouts. However, some people will still flee. Most of the fugitives started to act after thinking that if there is hell in the world, this is (repeated three times). A thorough body check, but when one wants to hide something, there is always a way to do it. When you have enough gold nuggets in your mind, you will start to flee. Among the mountains and mountains, there are only a few ways out, and those few ways out are guarded by sword teams, and flies can't fly through them. Therefore, the fugitives have to choose A path that is not traveled by, that kind of path, it is impossible to know what will be encountered next. I don't know if anyone has ever escaped, but they are often captured, and naturally they will be severely tortured. After the sword team with torches passed by, in the darkness, figures began to move towards the edge of the river beach again.Perhaps because there is no hope for life, the moving crowd, from beginning to end, gives people a feeling of deep love.Just now, under the light of the torches, the faces of several people could be seen clearly, all with blank expressions and empty eyes. Then, suddenly came to a shack. The shack looked quite spacious, and there was actually a bed, and the quilt on the bed looked soft.What is even more surprising is that under the light of three candles, there is actually a one-foot-square mirror on a table. The mercury on the back of the mirror has peeled off a lot, so the face reflected on the mirror also looks a bit incomplete. However, what was reflected in the mirror was an extremely pretty face. Even though the candlelight was not bright, the bright eyes on the pretty face were enough to make up for the lack of light.Such a pair of clear and bright big eyes can feel their existence even in the dark.It's a pity that there is an unconcealable tiredness in the eyes, and when the eyelids droop, there is a sense that they never want to open them again. The pair of hands reflected in the mirror, with fair skin, looked very attractive. At this time, one of these hands was holding a small pair of tweezers, and the other hand was pressing on the forehead, using the With small tweezers, he is carefully plucking his eyebrows, so that the eyebrows that are originally slightly thick at the tip of the eyebrows will look thinner, so that when the eyes are flowing, they will become more charming. In this kind of place, there is such a woman who can be seen at a glance and obviously does not need to do rough work, and she is so pretty, so it is natural to know her identity. Just when she was concentrating on trimming her eyebrows, there was a light knock on the door. Her shack actually had a door that looked quite solid. She turned around and glanced at the door, with a hesitant expression, she extinguished a candle with the tweezers in her hand, and said in a lazy voice: "Let's go, not tonight." There was a little silence outside the door, and a hurried and deep voice sounded: "Open the door, it's me." She was obviously very familiar with the sounds outside the door. The auditory nerve part of the human brain can distinguish various sounds, and each person's sounds are different.She had just trimmed her slender eyebrows, and she bent them movingly: "Come in, the door is unlocked." The door was pushed open, and a person entered in a flash. It was a rather tall figure. When he entered, the candle flame suddenly rose up. His movement of entering was very fast, driving the flow of air, the flow of air The wind is formed, and the wind can make the flame flicker, and the flame itself is an anomaly of the air. As soon as the man came in, he picked up a pole and pushed it against the door before turning around. It was an honest-looking guy, about twenty-three or fourteen years old. At this moment, on his extremely ordinary face, there was an unconcealable and strange excitement. She raised her eyebrows again—she must know that this action of hers is very attractive—and she leaned back slightly. She was wearing a thin padded jacket that wrapped tightly around her body, making her look attractive. He gasped involuntarily, and quickly approached her. She undid the second button of the collar (the first one was not buttoned), but he made a gesture and opened his cotton jacket, pointing to her. Wearing a belt around the waist that looks swollen. She immediately showed a very puzzled expression, stretched out her hand to pinch the belt, and her expression was even more surprised. He lowered his voice extremely low: "It's a total of thirty catties, which I have tried to hide in the past three years." She stood up abruptly, and extinguished another candle. It was dark immediately in the hut. In the darkness, she was facing him, and she could see both of their chests rising and falling, which was naturally due to Their nervousness is the cause of their shortness of breath. Her voice trembled a little: "You want to die!" He immediately said: "I don't want to die, I want to take this gold, take you, and run away together." In the darkness, the word "escape" spit out from his mouth, it was really shocking, as if the biggest secret in the universe had been punctured by these two words.That is an absolute prohibition, must not be violated, and one cannot even think about it, but actually admitted it from his mouth and said it, what is more surprising than this? She didn't make a sound, he said angrily, he didn't feel that he was about to violate the ban and would be caught in the net: "I've been waiting for this opportunity for a long time. 'Gold Come' has won a new section of the river, and the leader summoned everyone , Announcing this matter will let everyone rest one day..." When he spoke here, he suddenly stopped, and then asked in a trembling voice: "What's the matter with you? You're not listening to me, what are you thinking?" Asking others "what are you thinking" is probably the most stupid question in the universe. This is a question that can never be answered correctly because one cannot really tell what another person is thinking.As long as the answer to this question can be obtained, it can never be judged whether it is true or false. She didn't answer, but her breathing became more rapid. He stretched out his hands and grabbed her arms tightly. She didn't struggle, but raised her head slightly to look at him. In the darkness, one can see her pretty face with a calm expression. She is not very old, she is in her early twenties, maybe younger than him, but her maturity level is obviously higher than his. At this time , his expression was flustered and anxious, he shook her vigorously, like a willow branch in a strong wind, she swayed softly back and forth with his shaking. His breath became more urgent: "I know what you are thinking, a 'Jin Zi Lai' has returned from victory, you are thinking...you want to be chosen by him and become his woman, you are thinking about this." "Jin Zilai" survived the massacre and brought victory to the gang, which would raise his status to an unprecedented level and earn the infinite respect of the gang. The winner, he can get all the gold nuggets found in the Xinjiang section on the first day, which may exceed one hundred catties, naturally it may be more, or it may not be enough. He deserved the gold, because before he set off, he knew that the chance of surviving was only one in sixty, and the death of fifty-nine people was exchanged for his victory. How could this be a fluke? In addition, naturally, he can also get a woman──Since ancient times, in a male-centered society, three things are indispensable, just like for plants to grow luxuriantly, there must be nitrogen, phosphorus, Potassium is the same as the three elements, what men want is: power, gold and women. The woman he gets is chosen by himself, all the women within the sphere of influence of the gang he belongs to are free to choose, without going through any process, as long as he points out: this. The woman, then, was his, as if the woman were not a thinking creature, not even alive, and henceforth belonged to another person, which was his prerogative. Of course, there are also women who are willing to be chosen by the victorious "Gold Come", and the land at this time is obviously like this, so when he accused her, she raised her full breasts very high: "Yes, so what Sample?" He seemed to be discouraged suddenly, his hands hung down, and he murmured: "He...will pick you...you are so beautiful...but don't follow him, they...those'gold come', just They are full of murderous knives, they are the same as the knives in their hands, they can only hurt people, not... my lover, with me... I have enough gold, as long as we can escape, we can live a good life." Her two slender eyebrows raised several times when he spoke, and then they frowned again: "Yes, as long as you escape, do you know what will happen if you can't escape?" Hearing this, his body suddenly trembled like chaff, opened his mouth wide, and made a strange "cluck" sound from his throat, and his face was pale in the dark, as if coated with a layer of chalk. Same. But her voice was very fast: "You don't even dare to think about it, do you? Don't say that you escaped and were arrested. Even now, if someone finds out that you have hidden so many gold nuggets, and how heavy the gold nuggets are, you have to To cut off the same amount of flesh and blood from your body, how many catties did you say just now? Thirty catties, is it enough to chop off one of your legs?" He trembled even more, but she continued, and her voice sounded ruthless: "If you escape with thirty catties of gold and are caught, the thirty catties of gold will be yours and will always be yours." of--" He finally said a word: "Stop talking." But she stretched out her hand and pushed him back a step: "They will melt thirty catties of gold into juice and pour it from your mouth, and the thirty catties of gold will belong to you forever." He trembled more violently: "There are also... escaped." She sneered mockingly: "It's just that I didn't catch him back! Who knows what cliff he fell to his death? Who knows what leopard wolf chewed it up? Who knows whether he froze to death or was killed by bandits?" He suddenly stopped trembling: "I have been waiting for this opportunity for several years. Everyone flocked to the river beach, and a new hope was born in everyone's heart, thinking that the new section of the river would give them gold nuggets, but I I have seen it through, I want to take this opportunity to escape, and I want to take you with me." She shook her head slowly but resolutely, and he suddenly knelt down, wrapped his hands around her legs tightly, leaned his face against her lower abdomen, and choked: "If you don't come with me...even if I can escape , what's the point? Are you willing to stay here forever?" He raised his head, his eyes were full of deep expectations: "Here, do you think you are living a human life?" She closed her eyes, two crystal clear tears burst out from her trembling eyelashes, and then they became two strings of teardrops, her chest heaved: "You don't need to remind me that I live a life that is not human." She opened her eyes suddenly, lowered her head, looked at the sincere and resolute face that was also staring at her, and took a deep breath: "Okay, let's go, the big deal is death!" She burst out these words Afterwards, he suddenly laughed, very sadly. When he heard her promise, he couldn't believe it at all. Although this was what he had been begging for, he also showed a bit of bewildered expression, a little unbelieving My plea has been promised. However, it was only a very short moment of bewilderment, he immediately understood what had happened, he stood up, and hugged her tightly in his arms, her reaction seemed very natural, and she hugged him too. That was her natural reaction: when a man hugged her, she would hug her back, expressing enthusiasm, even though her heart was cold. Of course she didn't know what "absolute zero" was. It was at least 40 to 50 years later. In 1954, the 10th International Congress of Weights and Measures confirmed minus 273.16 degrees Celsius. degrees is absolute zero.But what she knew was that her heart was colder than anything in the world, so cold that no power could change it. No matter how hot she looks on the outside, only she knows that she is cold, the ice of ice, the cold of cold. At this time, can his pleading and his enthusiasm change the coldness in her heart?Of course not, because she already knew that there was no one she could trust in the world. The voice uttered from the mouth of a person has become a lie after thousands of years of habit, and it is the most unreliable voice.When you hear the rushing sound of the river rushing, you can be sure that the spring flood will begin; when you hear a dog barking, you can tell whether it is out of alarm or welcoming its owner; From the whining sound, one can also know why this tiny creature makes a sound. Only human language, however, is utterly elusive, utterly ignorant of the true meaning of these sounds.The most beautiful words are actually the beginning of the most vicious and ugly plots. With a cold heart, she let out a quick breath: "Let's go, don't be mother-in-law." He nodded again and again: "If you have anything to bring, take it with you." Her voice was dull: "Is there anything I should bring? It has been seven years and three months since I came here. The gold nuggets left beside my pillow weighed hundreds of catties at least. Of course, the hall took them all away. " He squeezed her hand very sympathetically, and hurried to the door, and listened to the door for a while, there was a sound of chaotic footsteps outside the door, when the footsteps went away, he beckoned to her. He waved and opened the door.When the two of them flashed out the door, he heard him whisper: "Go openly, everyone is outside, so don't be afraid of anything." Then, the door closed and they started fleeing.