36 Brothers

San Francisco is surrounded by water on three sides. Because it is bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the city has vast beaches on the outside. This warm California sunshine and pleasant spring-like climate, this West Coast city, named by the French, has become a livable city that many Americans yearn for.

However, San Francisco's romantic charm is usually in spring and autumn. For example, at the end of August and early September, the city is extremely hot. Even the sea breeze blows in this season brings unbearable heat, and the whole city is trapped in a hot mist.

It was noon at this time, and the scorching sun shone on the asphalt roads in the city, making the hard road surface a little soft. When people walk on it, they actually feel like walking on the beach. In this kind of ghost weather, naturally no one goes out. The American imperial people who believe in hedonism stay in the air-conditioned room, enjoying the coolness brought by technology and sleeping soundly.

But not everyone is like this. At least in an ordinary training ground in Tian Delong Community, there are two slender and thin children fighting in a concentrated bullfight.

The Tian Delong community is the urban area with the most slums in San Francisco. It is collectively known as the two cowhide boots of Golden City, together with the fantasy ballet community that Shirley was born. Unlike the fantasy ballet that constantly produces high-quality dancers, Tian Delong is the standard slum where there are only darkness, stench, hunger, violence and crime.

This situation turned to the 1950s. Because San Francisco's gold mining industry was developed, a large number of poor Americans and Europe, Africa and Asia poured into the city, dreaming of getting rich all the time. Faced with the arrival of madness, especially low-income people and even homeless people, in order to resettle residents and facilitate the management of the community, the government built a batch of public housing in the city center where every inch of land was valuable.

At that time, most of the people living in these low-rent housing were Chinese, African and Mexican immigrants. The infrastructure was poor, and there were too few rooms to be in short supply. In the 1970s, the government invested again to build more than 26 low-rent housing units. Later, this public housing community with more than 400 low-rent housing units was called the Tian Delong Community in San Francisco.

The location of Tian Delong Community is absolutely good. It is located in the plain area on the south slope of Nob Mountain, with Union Square shopping area to the northeast and Municipal Central District to the southwest, including 6 streets, Post Street to the north, Mason Street to the east, Market Street to the south and Vanice Avenue to the west.

However, due to the quality of the house and the simple supporting infrastructure, the poor people live in this urban area. In addition, because drunk people are often seen on the roads and corners of Tian Delong, white Americans gave this community a nickname called "Winery".

The Tian Delong community is quite famous in the United States and is a model of the "poor zone" that many sociologists focus on research. The movie "When Happiness Comes Knocks" starring the handsome black man Will Smith was filmed in the Tian Delong community. The cathedral that appears many times in the film is the Grade Memorial Church in the Tian Delong community that specializes in providing food and other social services to the poor.

However, what really made the city famous was not the movie "When Happiness Comes Knocks the Door", but the public housing movement, one of the famous resistance movements in modern American history: On an ordinary night in 1977, a young Chinese female worker returned home after working night shifts. When the power broke out in Tian Delong community, she had to drag her tired body to climb back to her home in Building B.

However, in the corridor, she unfortunately encountered a rape by a drunk man. The drunk man even threw her off from a high building. Seeing that she was not dead, she left her again...

This bloody murder completely angered the residents of Tian Delong community. In order to protest the government's poor management of the community and incomplete facilities, this group of people from the bottom who usually tolerate gathered together and launched the rent-off campaign, which is the famous San Francisco public housing movement. The initiator of the campaign was Li Mengxian, the human rights lawyer at the time and the current mayor of San Francisco.

As someone once said, all resistance movements are activities initiated by some people for their own ambitions to take advantage of the ignorance and stupidity of citizens. The public housing movement has been launched for thirty years, but the infrastructure of the Tian Delong community is still very incomplete. Take this stadium as an example. There are forty or fifty potholes on the small stadium, just like the face of a leper. If you want to play in such a stadium, you will not be able to do without a good ball control technique.

The two children who are playing basketball are both good at skills. They are about thirteen or fourteen years old and are about 1.7 meters tall. Perhaps because they grow too fast and cannot keep up with nutrition, their bodies are very thin. However, although they are thin, they are not weak. They run and jump like dragons and tigers, like two sharp javelins.

One boy broke through with the ball, and the other went back to defend. The basketball was beating vigorously on the rough asphalt road, making a sound like a healthy heart. The boy holding the ball suddenly stopped and threw away the opponent and then accelerated again. The boy defended the boy caught off guard. Although he wanted to return to defense, he had no chance. The boy holding the ball put away the ball and stopped and took action. With a crisp sound from ‖, the ball fell into the ring briskly.

"Hey, look at my quick stop jump shot, do you look like a mad dog West? I want to add a tattoo on my back and embroider a Deronti West's avatar?" The young man who scored the goal said enthusiastically, his head was shining with clear straponses and his head was shining with a faint blue light.

Another boy curled his lips and said disdainfully: "Don't do this, Bruce, my dear brother, if you look like West, then I'm still like 8pE."

As the boy said, the person who held the ball and attacked was brothers, and the two looked almost exactly the same: big eyes, a high nose bridge, a wide forehead, and a thick lips. They looked quite handsome. However, the skin color of the two men showed a strange gray color. If Chamberlain understood here, they were a pair of mixed-race twins, and a mixed-race between black and yellow.

The brother's sarcasm obviously made the eldest brother very upset. He threw away the ball and started chasing him. The two teenagers were running on the pothole-burning field in the scorching sun, and the joyful laughter filled the simple and dirty field.

When they were tired of running, the two of them found a place to sit down. The younger brother wiped the sweat from his forehead and licked his sticky lips with his tongue and said vaguely: "Brother, I'm thirsty, damn it, I really want to have a can of iced Pepsi now."

"Wait, I'll get the water." The elder brother among the twins ran out and looked at the kettle under the basketball rack. When he ran back, he looked depressed and said, "Michael, you drank too much water just now. Damn, I'll fill two pots of water next time."

After hearing this, his younger brother Michael said dissatisfiedly: "What does this have to do with me? It seems that the water I have with me is not as good as you yet, right?"

Brother Bruce touched his bare head embarrassedly, looked up at the blue sky and sighed, "I heard that 8pE has a training camp where food and accommodation are in charge. Those lucky guys don't drink Coke in the training camp, only Gatorade Michael. You said that it would be great if we entered the training camp as well."

Michael spread his hands in frustration and said, "This is a dream, Bruce, we have been doing so many bad things and have just been released from the juvenile control center. The training camp will not welcome us. Let's not talk about going to train, we can't even go in and take a look."

As he said, Michael looked full of longing and said, "It would be great if he could go to the training camp. Even if he couldn't train, he could even see 8pE with his own eyes. And I dare say that West and Billups must be in the training camp."

Although he likes to bully his younger brother, it is obvious that Bruce, the older brother, loves him deeply. Seeing the longing expression on his younger brother's face, he lowered his head guiltily and did not dare to look at his younger brother's expression.

But after a while, he suddenly jumped up excitedly and shouted, "Hey, brother, do you want to go and see E West, right? Brother, I have a way, I have a way."

"Really?" Michael looked at Bruce in surprise, who nodded heavily and said, "Is the training camp in St. Lawrence Middle School? Last time I went to steal the manhole cover with Old Larry, the greedy old guy told me a sewer that could lead directly to St. Lawrence Middle School."

After hearing this, Michael was depressed. He scratched his head and said, "What a good idea? In this way, we can also climb over the wall. Why do we need to climb the sewer?"

When his younger brother questioned, Bruce obviously felt that he couldn't stand his face. His face turned red and shouted: "But my sewer leads directly to the gymnasium. If we climb the wall, we will be driven away before we see them. But if we can climb into the gymnasium, even if we are caught, we will be caught by E West and the others."

Michael tilted his head and thought for a while, reluctantly accepted the proposal, and said, "Okay, it doesn't matter if you can see it, even if you climb the sewer, by the way, how long is that sewer?"

“It’s very short, less than a mile”

"Damn, what are you kidding, a mile? Are you sure it's a mile or not a hundred meters?"

"What's wrong? Can't you endure this hardship? If so, then you don't want to go to see 8pE"

"Fake, what a joke, I can't bear the hardship? I feel that it's not good to see you in a stinky way."
Chapter completed!