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Chapter 113 Keep this attitude
"Hey, sister, were we forced to come here by you?" At dawn, standing in the farmland of Sheung Shui in the northern New Territories, Xie Hushan asked the pale-faced Li Hongmei in fluent Cantonese:

"You heard me, I've been pleading with uh...your partner who threatened to commit suicide for forcing us to come here."

"I kept telling him, 'Go ahead, boss, no! Stop! Go ahead, boss, no, stop!'

Li Hongmei didn't understand why the other party kept emphasizing that they were forced. Now that they were already in Hong Kong Island, there was no need to be so hypocritical.

What's more, he didn't shout like this when he was swimming across the river just now. What he shouted was: Go forward, don't stop!

But in this situation, Li Hongmei didn't dare to say more. She could only shiver, hug her arms, tremble as she knelt in front of Xie Hushan, crying and begging for mercy:

"Yes, yes, yes... We forced ourselves to do this. We are not human beings, not human beings. Comrade, please let me live. They made me do this! It's none of my business! It's really none of my business!"

This young man was really cruel. He tied up living people and used them as rafts to cross the river.

The leader of his gang, Wang Qianjin, and three other men were tied together side by side, with their scapulas pierced and foam boards, plastic bottles, basketballs, ping-pong balls and other things attached to them. They were thrown into the Pengcheng River like a raft. Then two men and one woman from the other side stood on them, stepped on their backs, and paddled the human bamboo raft, just like leading themselves as they doggy-paddled like dogs in the water, and thus they crossed the Pengcheng River.

And then they said they were forced.

The Pengcheng River is more than 30 meters wide, and three of the four people who were using it as a bamboo raft were choked to death.

The remaining one was not freed and given a chance to live. The young man turned around and kicked the bamboo raft back into the river. He was probably drowned by the time he was found.

No matter how good a swimmer they were, they could not escape. Iron wire strung the four men's scapula together, and their hands were tied so they could not lift their arms at all. When they were in the water, the four men relied on frantically kicking the water and constantly raising their heads to float to the surface to breathe. The one who survived was almost out of strength, and once he was too exhausted to lift his head, he could only despair and suffocate to death with his face buried in the river like the other three.

"Alas... why did we have to get into this situation, right?" Xie Hushan squatted in front of the woman with an innocent look on his face and opened his hands:

"In order to force us to come here, this big guy named Wang Qianjin even died. I said all along that I didn't want to come to Hong Kong Island, I didn't want to come to Hong Kong Island, but you guys still brought me here."

Han Hongbing, who had just changed into a set of Hong Kong-made sportswear and sneakers and looked like a morning exercise athlete, was holding two Type 54 rifles in his hands. One was Xie Hushan's broken gun that couldn't fire, and the other was a real weapon seized from the broken gun.

At this moment, the muzzle of the gun was pointed at the back of Li Hongmei's head, and her eyes were looking around in the darkness:

"Xie Siling, why don't we row this bitch back?"

"I bought some foreign goods at the guesthouse and took them home. Is this Hong Kong Island? I looked around for a long time and it's not that great. I can't see any light. If capitalist society is so dark, please be kind and let them go. Don't steal it!"

Ever since Xie Hushan told him that they were now in Hong Kong Island, Han Hongbing had been looking around for a long time, only to find that all he could see was wilderness. Not to mention foreign ghosts, there wasn't even a single Chinese ghost to be seen.

There were no electricity, telephones, cars or buildings.

He is now suspecting that those who fled here from the mainland before may have done so because they had little land at home and could not grow crops, so they came here to open up wasteland and cultivate the land.

If they were really going to reclaim wasteland, there would be no need for him and Xie Hushan to stay. The farm work in Zhongping Village was tiring enough, and it was not worth it to go to Hong Kong Island to reclaim wasteland and help the capitalist society shine.

"I'm going to change my clothes now. If you still can't figure out why you survived, I'll row you back to Pengcheng." Xie Hushan patted Li Hongmei's face and said with a cold smile:

"Li Hongmei, isn't she May? I can speak English and Cantonese. Sister May, you live in the Kwun Tong Industrial Park. How many people are there in your family? Are they all waiting for you to come home for dinner? Can I take you home?"

At this time, Zhu Youjun had already followed Xie Hushan's instructions and taken off all her clothes. She changed into a full set of Hong Kong women's clothing that she had bought from the guesthouse. She tied her hair into a ponytail, wore a white T-shirt, jeans, and sneakers.

Except for her unnatural expression, she looked like a fashionable girl in Hong Kong. Seeing Xie Hushan walking to the side, she walked over with a bag of Hong Kong-style clothes. Xie Hushan did not take it, but took off his clothes first. Zhu Youjun quickly closed her eyes.

Xie Hushan stripped himself completely naked before putting on his clothes piece by piece, starting with his underwear.

When Zhu Youjun opened his eyes again, he saw a young man in front of him wearing a T-shirt, jeans and a fancy jacket.

The clothes of the three of them were specially bought from the foreign goods vendors who sold cheap Hong Kong shirts at the guesthouse before Xie Hushan took action. Each of the three of them had a set of clothes, which were packed in a bag and carried by Zhu Youjun. They were used to change clothes after being forced and abducted to Hong Kong Island.

Zhu Youjun no longer knew what to say to Xie Hushan. Except for the time when he stepped on those bad guys to cross the river, his methods were a little scary. At other times, the arrangements made by Xie Hushan made her feel unreal, as if this man was taking her for fun, and while playing, she stood on the land of Hong Kong Island.

No one stopped her, and no one caught her. She was "hostage" for more than three hours in the middle of the night. Suddenly, Xie Hushan told her that she was safe.

If it weren't for a few bad guys who sacrificed four of them in order to force them to cross the Pengcheng River, Zhu Youjun felt that he might still be near Sungang Railway Station, because everything he saw nearby was no different from near Sungang Railway Station.

"Comrade May, if you want to know why you didn't drown, I would be so kind as to hold your hand and bring you here." Xie Hushan pulled out his bayonet and looked at the woman who used the alias Li Hongmei:
"Hurry up, I'm in a hurry to ask for directions home, three..."

"Money! I have money! I have a lot of money, I have 50,000 yuan at home..." Li Hongmei said immediately.

"Alas~" Xie Hushan looked at the other person disappointedly: "People like you who grew up in a capitalist environment don't understand why militia soldiers are not corrupted by money."

Then the bayonet was thrust through the woman's thigh, and then slowly pulled out as blood gushed out:
"It's not that easy to die, but if you don't see a doctor, you will definitely die."

"I tore up your pass. You are from Hong Kong Island. If you go north from here and run back to Pengcheng Caiwuwei to find someone to rescue you, it will only take an hour. But if you go east to the nearest Hong Kong Island Shangshui Village, it will take at least two hours."

"I want to know, when you are in trouble, what will you choose, socialism or capitalism."

Xie Hushan used the bayonet to wipe the blood off the woman's clothes, stood up, and walked towards the east with Han Hongbing and Zhu Youjun.

The woman screamed while covering her bloody thigh, then struggled to stand up. Without thinking, she shouted for help while stumbling towards Pengcheng in the night.

"They have cheated so many people from the mainland, and yet they have the nerve to go to the mainland for help when they are in trouble. The women in Hong Kong are so fucking shameless." Han Hongbing turned his head to take a look and said.

Then he looked at Zhu Youjun and said, "You must behave like this in the future. Otherwise, when Xie Siling and I are gone, other militias will come sooner or later to eliminate evil and enforce justice."

Xie Hushan took out a box of Marlboro and gave one to Han Hongbing, then lit it up and took a puff. The foreign goods dealer in the guesthouse still had a conscience and did not sell him fake cigarettes:
"She can't get there no matter which way she chooses. How can I give her another chance to hurt someone?"

Han Hongbing took a puff of his cigarette and looked around, which was almost impossible to identify. "Xie Siling, where are you going next? Did the information I gave you say where to go?"

Xie Hushan shrugged and looked at Han Hongbing:

"Of course I wrote it. Five miles to the east is Sheung Shui Railway Station. We were going to buy train tickets back to Pengcheng, but because we were unfamiliar with the place, we took the wrong train and accidentally ended up in Tsim Sha Tsui."

"Then we were thought to be runaways, and somehow got a Hong Kong identity, and then we could take advantage of them. In seven days, no matter how much we got, we both had to leave."

"Tsk, what's there to gain from this shabby place? There's no wool to be found, just grass. Is the information I gave you out of date? Capitalist society is finished." Han Hongbing said with disdain as he looked at the desolate surroundings.

Xie Hushan laughed and said, "Very good, Chief of Staff Han, maintain this rebellious attitude and don't let the next few days of wool-pulling trip confuse your eyes."

(End of this chapter)