I looked down at myself, wearing burlap clothes and bare feet. The soles of my feet were covered with blood blisters and calluses from worn out blisters. This is not me. Yesterday I was nodding and bowing to customers at the sales office. Why am I... Today?
The memory was like something being forced into my brain, it was messy - Ji Beichen, a laborer who built the Great Wall, escaped twice and was caught and given eighty lashes. Because he knew a little bit about arithmetic, he was promoted to squad leader and was in charge of twenty people. The supervisor Wu Zixu whipped him yesterday, and he developed a high fever that night.
