Seeing the applicant opposite him crying, Lin Sanqi could only hand him a handkerchief and pat him on the shoulder.
Lin Sanqi had never swam across the sea. He always used a plane to sneak across the sea, and it only took a few minutes to reach the shore, so he could not understand the pain.
Qi Kezhi quickly calmed down and comforted his wife who was crying beside him, forcing a smile and saying:
"We later learned that Typhoon Detti made landfall in Hong Kong on the night we stowed away, and the Hong Kong Meteorological Observatory hoisted the No. 9 typhoon signal for the first time in two years.
I can only say that my wife, I, and seven other companions are lucky to have survived with great difficulty. We are unwilling to spend the rest of our lives in a refugee camp.
Boss, give me a chance. Don't worry, as long as you accept us, the lives of me and my lover will be sold to you. We will be loyal to you for the rest of our lives and will never have second thoughts. "
Lin Sanqi nodded, but the test still needed to be conducted, so he took an English newspaper and said:
"I'll just take the foreign language test. You read this news report, and the female comrade will read another one."
Lin Sanqi was thinking that even if the other person spoke English fluently, he would just have to speak haltingly. As long as he had a foreign language foundation, he would be able to speak English quickly after practicing.
After Qi Kezhi took the newspaper, he finished reading it smoothly and fluently. Judging from his accent, it was British English. I guess his family must have a background in this area.
Zhou Hanzhang also took the newspaper. He was a little nervous when reading it and paused from time to time, but he finished reading an article smoothly.
After reading the newspaper, both of them looked at the big boss Lin Sanqi with hope.
Lin Sanqi took two pieces of paper from the side and handed them to the young couple:
"Qi Kezhi, Zhou Hanzhang, welcome to Lingnan Pharmacy. You can go fill out the forms over there, then pack up and leave Tiu Keng Leng with us after the interview.
As for your Hong Kong ID card, the company will take care of it and you don’t need to worry about it.
Don't worry, we are a formal enterprise. We will let you engage in formal drug sales work and will not sell you to Portland Street.
Chinese people don't lie to Chinese people. In Hong Kong, we mainlanders should unite and overcome difficulties together, rather than stabbing each other in the back."
Everyone around chuckled, knowing that someone had just been beaten for this joke.
Qi Kezhi and Zhou Hanzhang jumped up excitedly, then hugged each other and burst into tears.
Obviously, during the year in the refugee camp, the mental world of the two people has been on the verge of collapse, and this is a kind of emotional release.
This scene once again caused the crowd to sigh.
At the same time, many people have missed the opportunity to work at Lingnan Hospital, because they have to read English newspapers on site, which is really impossible to do without the ability, and they can't even slack off.
We recruited two talented people right from the start, and both Lin Sanqi and Lin Liushu were very satisfied.
At the same time, I also realized that although this was a refugee camp, the atmosphere in the country at that time would probably lead to a large number of intellectuals traveling to Hong Kong. There were definitely many hidden talents in this refugee camp.
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the crowd, and everyone was cheering towards a young man who was running towards them on the opposite hillside.
Lin Sanqi was a little surprised: "Why are you all looking at this person?"
A young man smiled and replied:
"Boss, we knew that Shisanlang would definitely come to apply for the job. He wouldn't miss such a good opportunity."
Lin Sanqi was thinking of a movie from that year, Nanhai Shisanlang, and thought that anyone who could choose such a name and make everyone cheer must be no ordinary person.
By the time the man ran to the recruitment booth, he was so tired that he was out of breath and even barefoot.
Lin Sanqi observed him and found that the man was about twenty-five or twenty-six years old. He was dark and thin, but his eyes were bright and vivid, and even through the thick glasses, they were still unforgettable.
His body was covered with cotton yarn fragments, and he looked very dirty, which made Lin Sanqi a little dissatisfied. He liked clean people.
"Boss, my name is Liu Mengxiong, and I'm here to apply for a job."
After Liu Mengxiong finished speaking, he noticed the dissatisfaction in the boss's eyes, and then he smiled and said:
"Boss, it's not that I don't like to clean up. I was just working in the cotton mill and heard my coworkers say Lingnan Pharmacy was hiring, so I dropped my work and asked for leave from the foreman and came here. I didn't have time to change clothes."
There are many labor-intensive factories next to the refugee camp, such as textile factories, yarn factories, plastic flower factories, garment factories, etc., and the workers employed are all mainland refugees from Hong Kong.
This is also encouraged by the Hong Kong Eagle government. After all, everyone needs a way to make a living. Without a job, there is no way to make a living, and it is easy to become an unstable element.
Lin Sanqi understood immediately after hearing this and thought to himself, no wonder, who could expect to work in an illegal factory and still wear a well-ironed suit.
"So you're working now. It seems you haven't been defeated by life."
Liu Mengxiong smiled heartily:
"That was when I worked in a cotton mill during the day and the night shift at the shipyard in Sai Wan Ho. I only had four hours of rest each day. I knew that if I wanted to succeed, I had to rely on myself. If I didn't work hard, Hong Kong dollars wouldn't fall from the sky."
When Lin Sanqi heard this, he clapped his hands and said:
"Okay, well said. We should maintain a spirit of revolutionary optimism, haha. By the way, I just heard them calling you Shisanlang. Why do you have that nickname?"
As soon as this question was asked, the crowd of onlookers burst into laughter again.
Liu Mengxiong was also a little embarrassed and said:
"This is all a joke among my compatriots. The main reason is that I have escaped to Hong Kong thirteen times. The first twelve times, because I was inexperienced, I was caught by border control and deported every time.
But I didn't give up. When I ran to the border for the thirteenth time, the border guards all knew me. One leader acquiesced and turned a blind eye to me. That's how I came to Hong Kong.
Oh, but I didn’t swim in the sea. I can’t swim. I took the center line and cut a hole in the Luohu wire fence to get through.”
Lin Sanqi thought to himself that he should thank himself for this. After arriving in Bao'an County, he felt great sympathy for these refugees and asked the border guards to turn a blind eye and not to shoot at will.
Of course, the main reason why he dared to let it go was because of the tacit approval of a superior leader.
Especially after the large-scale exodus to Hong Kong in 1962, when many unspeakable things happened, some senior leaders felt that they were all compatriots and should not be treated like that. This led to the subsequent relaxation and acquiescence.
Lin Sanqi was in high spirits, as he saw that his kindness had helped these refugees to reach Hong Kong safely.
"Oh, you're lucky then. I heard that taking the middle line is very dangerous. After all, it's a land border and is the most strictly patrolled. The chances of escaping are not high."
There are four routes to escape to Hong Kong.
They are Dapeng Bay on the east line, the land route on the middle line, and Houhai Bay on the west line.
Most people choose the east route because it is least likely to be discovered when swimming at sea at night, and the distance to the bay here is also the shortest.
A small number of wealthy people take the eastern route, which is the line from Yantian to the New Territories, because they can rent a boat or find a human snakehead to lead the way, which is safer, but you have to be rich.
The middle line has the least number of people chosen, and the border guards are not pushovers. They generally won't allow you to go in and out under their noses. That would be dereliction of duty and you will be punished.
Besides, a machine gun like this can fully provide fire coverage. If we really want to prevent people from escaping to the port, not even an ant can escape.
There is another route to escape to Hong Kong, which Lin Sanqi took when he first went to Hong Kong.
That is to run to Zhongshan County (Zhuhai) first, and then swim to Haojiang River. The coast here is very narrow, like a river, and the difficulty is very low.
Finally, transfer in Macao and then find a way to take a boat to Hong Kong.
However, there is also a huge risk here. Once the Macau government catches a smuggler, it will definitely send you back to the mainland and will never take the initiative to send you to Hong Kong.
Hearing Lin Sanqi's words, Liu Mengxiong smiled bitterly and sighed:
"Yes, boss, you're right. I was really lucky. When I crossed the border wire for the thirteenth time, I thought I had reached heaven and escaped.
As a result, after passing the barbed wire, it was still a hell in the New Territories, because the Hong Kong police were also arresting people. As long as they caught illegal immigrants, they would send them back to the mainland, leaving you no chance to reach the city.
Boss, you don’t know that the death rate on the central line was no lower than that on the western line, because once you crossed the border you had to run, run hard, but we didn’t even have anything to eat at that time, so where would we get the energy to run?
So many people died after being hung on the barbed wire, and many people also died after being trapped in the mud over there. The most terrifying thing was the Luohu culvert.
Originally we wanted to go through this culvert first, because it was the most secluded place and could reach the barbed wire. However, the air in the culvert was narrow, and the people in the front were stuck, so the people behind could only be pushed in.
I saw with my own eyes a 5-year-old girl being stuffed into a culvert. She fainted halfway through climbing out. When she came out, her face was blue and purple and she was no longer breathing. Her parents didn't dare to shout and just left the body behind and ran away.
I couldn't bear it, so I dug a shallow hole in the mud nearby and buried her in it. I... (End of this chapter)
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