Naturally, the people in Gotham Village don't know that even if their surnames are different, after so many generations of intermarriage, the blood relationship is no different from that of a family. If they continue to intermarry, it is inbreeding...
In addition, people in the village especially like the inbreeding routine of cousin marrying cousin, so it is even more stupid.
In the past hundred years, there have been many things in Gotham Village, but many fools... In fact, there are more newborns with various physical defects such as missing arms and legs, cleft lips and noses, etc. However, these newborns with physical defects are often born with Abandoned, few outsiders know.
Only fools who seem normal when they are born, but gradually discover that their IQs are abnormal when they grow up, have a chance to be known to the world.
Gao Zheng's deceased father and mother were both fools in the eyes of outsiders, but Gao Zheng knew that his father and mother were not really stupid. They were just slower at learning. As long as they taught them patiently, they would do a lot. Things, especially his father, were no worse than others in doing farm work, and even worked harder.
The cloth his mother weaves is so good that even traveling merchants from other villages who come to buy cloth will praise it.
Gao Zheng's younger brother is a real fool. At the age of fifteen, he is still like a four or five-year-old child. He likes to chase the chickens in the family. One day, the chicken he was chasing in front of him fell into the manure pit. , this fool also jumped into the pit... and eventually drowned in feces and urine.
The year before last, Gao Zheng was also a fool in the eyes of outsiders. He was usually honest and arrogant, smiling silly at everyone, but after working in the farm all his life, his father wanted to support the family even if he died of exhaustion, because he was collecting rent with the Song family. The stewards argued, saying that the Song family's rent-collection struggle was getting bigger than last year. The Song family's rent-collection steward slapped him hard with a stick, hitting him in the head, and he fell to the ground on the spot.
After being carried back, Gao's father lay in bed in a daze for a day and died the next day.
Last month, his mother contracted a cold.
Someone told him that there was a doctor in the Song family village outside the mountain. Maybe if he went there to see the doctor, he could save his mother's life.
For this reason, he once carried his seriously ill mother on his back for more than 20 miles on the mountain road to Songjiazhuang, but he knelt in front of the doctor's door in Songjiazhuang for a day and a night, until his mother died, and he could not get the doctor to come out and take a look...
Because he couldn't afford the consultation fee, let alone the medication, and he didn't even want to sell himself to save his mother.
He could only carry his mother's body back, personally dug a shallow grave for his mother next to the graves of his father and brother, and buried his mother with the help of several neighbors.
There was no coffin, no firecrackers, no paper money or playing music, only a tattered straw mat and Gao Zheng’s tears!
After burying his mother, Gao Zheng often sat alone on the stone pier in front of his house, not talking or even paying attention to others. He just sat quietly and looked at the entrance of the village in front of him...
He often did this when he was a child, sitting at the door of his house with his younger brother, looking towards the entrance of the village, waiting for his father and mother to come back from work...
After more than ten days, some people in the village said: Poor guy, Gao Zheng has become a fool...
Until one day, the recruitment team of Baoxiang Camp came to Gaotan Village.
Gao Zheng immediately saw these people wearing uniform gray military uniforms and carrying swords and other weapons arriving at the entrance of the village.
But he still didn't react much at that time, but just watched quietly as before, without speaking.
But when the soldiers from the Baoxiang Camp began to put up recruitment flags at the entrance of the village, they shouted loudly: "Baoxiang Camp is recruiting!"
"The Baoxiang Camp is a team of our own people in Funiu Mountain, aiming to protect the villagers from being bullied by the government and gentry!"
"The selected candidates will have three meals a day, and they will be fed every meal!"
"The selected candidates will be given two sets of military uniforms and solid thick cotton-padded jackets."
"In addition to taking care of food and clothing, the selected candidates can also receive at least three hundred cash as pocket money every month."
"As long as you pass the physical examination, you can have a big meal immediately."
The soldiers of the Baoxiang Camp shouted at the top of their lungs to publicize the Baoxiang Camp's recruitment policy to the villagers.
Gao Zheng also heard it. After hearing that the Baoxiang camp in front said that they were recruiting troops, his originally dim eyes regained their brilliance.
A few seconds later, Gao Zheng was seen standing up and running towards the Baoxiang Camp recruitment station ahead. When he was about to run there, he was already shouting: "I, I want to be a soldier."
While shouting, he also addressed the Baoxiang camp soldiers in front who were shouting: "Brother Gouzi, it's me, Gao Zheng, I want to be a soldier too!"
Gao Zheng also knew about the Baoxiang Camp. Last month, these Baoxiang Camp people had just come to the village to collect food and recruit soldiers. He knew that they were a group of rebels outcropping in the mountains, and they were engaged in rebellion.
But no one cared about whether they rebelled or not. When Baoxiangying came to Gotham Village for the first time, many people didn’t even know what Baoxiangying was, but there were several young and strong people whose families were poor and had nothing to worry about. He followed these people from the Baoxiang Camp, and Gouzi Ge, who he had grown up with since childhood, was one of them.
Not for anything else, just for a bite to eat.
Gouzi who was shouting looked at Gao Zheng who was running over, and immediately grinned and said: "It's Gao Zheng, you want to be a soldier too. Your mother is willing to let you go, but I'm telling you, if you come to be a soldier, you have to leave your head." There's no guarantee that you'll die that day outside the business you're buying and selling on your waistband. Who will take care of your mother if you die?"
Gao Zheng was already in front of Gou Zi and said in a deep voice, "My mother is no longer sick."
Gouzi obviously didn't expect this answer. He was silent for a while, and then spoke after a few seconds: "Life or death is determined by fate, so you don't have to be too sad."
After saying that, Gouzi glanced at Gao Zheng again: "Are you alone now?"
Gao Zheng nodded: "I'm the only one left!"
Gouzi said: "In this case, then come with me for a physical examination. Anyway, we are alone. One person can eat enough and the whole family will not be hungry. If you go to be a soldier, I dare not say anything else. At least you can have enough to eat every day."
Gao Zheng asked: "Brother Gouzi, will we fight out in the future?"
Gouzi didn't know the strategy from above, so he could only say casually: "I should be able to do it!"
Gao Zheng asked again: "Will you go to Songjiazhuang?"
When Gouzi heard this, he knew why Gao Zheng asked this. He was present when Gao's father was beaten to death by the Song family's rent-collecting steward.
At that time, there were more than 20 guards with knives on the Song family side who had already drawn their knives, and there would have been men from Gaotanzhuang hitting them with hoes and poles.
Gouzi did not answer casually this time, but thought for a few seconds and said: "Our Baoxiang Camp is getting stronger and stronger. Logically speaking, we will fight out sooner or later, and Songjiazhuang should also fight."
Gao Zheng clenched his fists after hearing this: "Then I want to be a soldier!"
Gouzi didn't say much, but nodded slightly: "Okay, come with me, I will take you for a physical examination."
Gouzi took Gao Zheng all the way to the temporary recruitment station where the recruitment flag was erected. At the temporary recruitment station, more than ten people had already come to sign up first and were queuing up for a preliminary physical examination.
Gouzi said: "You go and line up for the physical examination first. After passing the physical examination, you can register. With your strength, there should be no problem in passing the physical examination."
Gao Zhengdao: "Well, I'll go then."
When Gao Zheng was queuing up for a physical examination, Gouzi also walked to the temporary table next to him, picked up a bamboo water bottle on it and took a sip for himself.
As soon as I was drinking, a strong man next to me hurriedly shouted: "I said Gao Gouzi, that's my fucking kettle."
"I bought the tea in it from the grocery store, and it cost me more than forty yuan!"
Gao Gouzi put down the bamboo kettle with a smile, and said with a grin: "I didn't just eat a whole bag of tea at your expense. Why are you in such a hurry? Why don't I just take a sip of your tea? As for this Are you yelling?"
Fei Datou had already stepped forward, picked up the kettle, looked at it, and then put it back on his waist: "I like to drink tea, so go buy tea. There are a lot of them in the military sales station, and it's not like you don't have subsidies. "
But Gao Gouzi chuckled: "Don't you understand this? The tea you bought yourself is not as fragrant as the tea others drink."
Fei Datou: "You... forget it, you are thick-skinned and I don't bother to argue with you."
"By the way, you knew that kid just now, why did you bring him over for a physical examination in person?"
Gao Gouzi said: "Well, it's just because I was young. No, even after my family died, I wanted to become a soldier."
Fei Datou said: "It's so miserable!"
Gao Gouzi said: "It's so miserable. There are so many brothers whose families are dead in our Baoxiang camp. Even if their family members are not dead, they still can't survive. Otherwise, they can come here and do this business of losing their heads." ah!"
Fei Datou chuckled and said: "That's you. My whole family is here, and I can't survive. I just like to be a soldier."
Gao Gouzi chuckled: "You don't even blink when you brag. If you didn't become a soldier, how could there be any extra food in your family for you to eat? With your appetite, you would eat all the food in your family by yourself. You My parents, brothers and sisters will all starve to death.”
While the two people were chatting on the side, Gao Zheng also started a physical examination.
The person in charge of arranging the physical examination was a young man who looked similar to Gao Zheng, but he spoke very maturely. He pointed to the wooden bar next to him and said: "Go over and do pull-ups like the guy next to you, and do ten indivual"
Gao Zheng immediately obeyed and started doing pull-ups. The first few were pretty good, but the later ones were a bit difficult, but they were still pretty good. Gao Zheng could do them.
I didn’t come down until ten were finished.
But the soldier pointed: "Learn how he does squats. Just stand up, squat down, stand up again, and do twenty."
After successfully completing the squat, the Baoxiang Battalion soldiers asked him to rest for a while, and then ran in circles with the others.
After the run, the soldier told him that he was physically fit and asked him to go to a room next door for a health check. He took off his clothes to see if there were any acne or anything like that.
After the basic physical examination was completed, Gao Zhengcai was brought to a man who looked like an army officer for registration. The officer looked up at him and began to ask his name, age, and what specialties he had. And other issues
After Gao Zheng answered one by one, the officer finally asked: "Why do you want to come to our Baoxiang camp to serve as a soldier?"
