"Brother Rat, there is a kid who wants to eavesdrop and let the stupid pig find out!" After a while, the lazy dog ​​came in from outside, holding someone in his arms.

"Is he the only one?" Hong Tao also took out his gun, but Tiger was faster and had already blown out the oil lamp.

"Well, the stupid pig is still watching from the outside and hasn't noticed anyone else. This little guy is very cruel. He almost stabbed me with a small shovel in his hand!" The lazy dog ​​pushed the figure in his arms to the ground and used a

He stepped on it with one foot and cursed in a low voice.

"...Wait, everyone who shouldn't be here should leave first!" Hong Tao stretched out his hand to stop the tiger from lighting the lantern, and asked the skinny monkey, water snake and fat sheep to leave first. So far, they have not found anyone watching, which means it is very big.

Maybe he hasn't been exposed, so he has to continue to lurk.

"Hey, it's pretty fast... Boy, let me ask you, who sent you here?" The man left, the oil lamp was lit, and the tiger acted as the leader again.

He took the knife and looked at it. He didn't know what it was sharpened with. He looked down at the person being stepped on by the lazy dog ​​and smiled. It was a little boy. His dirty face and clothes were almost indistinguishable from color.

But his eyes are bright.

"I did it myself... bang..." The little boy clenched his fists and pushed the ground to try to exert strength, but he couldn't bear the lazy dog's big feet. He suppressed his blush and said five words before he was slapped on the head by the tiger's big slap.

superior.

"You came here by yourself, and you brought a knife with you. What are you planning to do sneakily at night? Don't think that because I am young, I don't dare to do anything. Believe it or not, I will stab you here with a knife and let you watch your blood drain out.

!”

Tiger didn't like to talk as much as Hong Tao, and he was even less willing to talk nonsense. He picked up the knife and put it on the little boy's neck, staring with big eyes and growling.

"I...I want to get some more wires..." As the saying goes, one thing will bring down another. The appearance of a tiger may be called majestic in the eyes of adults, but it may be called terrifying in the eyes of children. Although the little boy endured it with all his strength,

But tears still flowed out involuntarily.

"Wires..." Tiger was a little confused. He had indeed brought back many wires from the red zone in the past few days, but when he took them away in the morning, they were wrapped in something and pressed at the bottom of the tricycle. During the day, there were fat sheep watching in the house.

Now, how did this child know?

"...Hey, it's true that the mantis stalks the cicada before the oriole stalks the cicada. You are a thief, right? Tell me honestly how many times have you stolen? Who else stole with you? When we catch a thief, we usually cut off one finger.

, but if you tell the truth and I beg for mercy, maybe we can stop cutting!"

Hong Tao also felt quite puzzled. He got up and looked at the place where the wires were placed in the corner of the house, and couldn't help but laugh. The four walls of the shed were all covered with canvas, which was buried in the soil underneath and weighed down with a few big rocks. Now there is a

A small hole was dug in the place, and the wires were probably pulled out from here.

"I just took a small roll... If you hire me to work and pay back with wages, it's not considered stealing!" The little boy was obviously sensitive to the word stealing and struggled desperately to be reasonable.

"Then tell me first why you need to... take the wire?" Hong Tao motioned to the lazy dog ​​to move his feet, lifted the little boy and put him on the bed, bared his teeth at him, and planned to cooperate with the tiger, one of them would be a red face and the other would be a red face.

Singing a white face.

"..." But the little boy didn't cooperate very well. He only glanced at it and quickly moved away from Hong Tao's face. Tears fell again, but he didn't dare to cry out. The big snot that he had held came out.

"Huh... kid, you've hurt me deeply! But I don't care, come on, see, it's fifty cents. If you tell the truth, I'll hire you, five cents a week and two meals. If you

If you continue to hurt me, I will cut off your fingers and send you to the security team."

Everyone in the room smiled and laughed at Hong Tao for overestimating his abilities and trying to pretend to be a good person. Hong Tao took a deep breath and touched the scars on his face. Without getting discouraged, he took out a steel pipe from his pocket.

He put the 镚 in his hand and continued to induce confession.

"...Sold for fifty cents..." I don't know whether it was the money that was more attractive, or the threat of being sent to the security team, but the little boy confessed with a pout.

"Oh, from now on when you are hungry, come to us to work and earn money. Don't steal it. I won't cut off your fingers this time, but you have to work with us tomorrow. You will be paid five cents per week, and you will pay me ten cents per week.

Do you know how many weeks it will take to repay the money?"

In fact, Hong Tao could guess what the little boy was doing after stealing wires. What else could he do? Go to the market, sell them and buy steamed buns to eat. New refugees would come in every now and then in the New Sixth District. If you were in good physical condition, you could still go there.

Even if the old, weak, women and children do not starve to death, they will definitely not have enough to eat.

This child looks to be only seven or eight years old. It is a time when his metabolism is strong and he does not have the energy to go out to earn money. He will inevitably think wrongly when he is hungry.

Although I never went hungry when I was a child, I always felt hungry when there was no oil or water in my stomach. Then I followed my uncle and the others to the copper pipe factory to steal scrap copper, and to the subway construction site to steal steel bar ends and exchange them for candies and popsicles. Comparing my feelings, this

I'm afraid the child will be stronger.

"...Five weeks!" When the little boy heard that he was getting paid, he wiped his nose and tears with his sleeve, bit his lip and counted hard.

"Then after five weeks, apart from paying back my fifty cents, how little money will you make in total?"

"Two dollars!"

"Oh, you got all the answers right! Come on, give me a piece of dried fish as a reward... Eat it, you earned it by studying hard, and you deserve to earn a living by relying on your skills. But you still have to tell me who taught me these things.

?”

This answer surprised Hong Tao. Children of school age in the safety zone are allowed to study in schools by the alliance. There is no tuition fee but they have to pay for food. Even though it only costs 80 cents a month, there are still many refugees who are unwilling or unable to pay.

rise.

Judging from this child's age and living standard, it is estimated that he has never been to school, but his mental arithmetic and logical thinking abilities are not low at all, and he must be at the level of the second or third grade.

"My uncle...he knows a lot. He tells us stories every day and even buys us pancakes for our birthdays." As soon as the delicious food appeared, the little boy's resistance was significantly weakened and he started to talk more.

"Well, you have a good uncle. But didn't he tell you not to steal other people's things?" If this happened in the past, Hong Tao would definitely have given the little boy some food to take home, and maybe even give him some.

money.

But not anymore. Wandering around Xinjiang Province for more than eight years not only allowed him to develop the skills of survival in the wild, herding, and fishing, but also hardened his heart.

If a person watches tragedies every day, he will soon regard tragedies as comedies. The lives of the refugees in Xinjiang Province are much more miserable than here. Let alone steamed buns and fried cakes, if they can only eat wild vegetable porridge every day, they are well-off.

Not only was Hong Tao hard-hearted, Tiger and the others also showed no sign of it while they were listening. To say that these people were even more hard-hearted. Not only had they seen many such scenes, they had also experienced it themselves.

"...I'm not stealing...I want to buy a pair of shoes for my uncle. His birthday is the day after tomorrow, and he never gets a birthday gift. I can work, and if I get paid, it doesn't count as stealing!" But the little boy was still very worried.

I am so persistent that I don't want to admit the fact of stealing even to death. For this reason, I would rather not eat dried fish than explain the truth clearly.

"..." As soon as these words came out, there was a sudden silence in the shack, everyone froze their bodies and expressions, and stopped talking for a long time.

"Fuck... If my son could be as sensible as him, I would die from exhaustion! What size are your uncle's feet?"

scalper began to reminisce again. Before the zombie disease broke out, he not only had a son, but two. When thinking of the past, the man in his early forties burst into tears. He strode to the bedside and took out his backpack from underneath.

"No. 43..." The little boy was a little frightened. He didn't quite understand why the dark uncle was crying. He quickly put the dried fish down and poked it in the distance with his hand.

"..." The scalper stopped and turned his head to look at the tiger. He was quite stocky, but had small feet and wore shoes of size 41, or at most 42. Obviously, he couldn't donate generously.

"Here!" Although the tiger didn't shed tears, the flesh on his cheeks kept moving, probably because he was gritting his teeth to endure it. Most of them had families and children before the zombie disease broke out, and they thought it would slow down as time went by.

I gradually forgot about it, but finally the little boy broke his guard with just one sentence.

"Here, take the shoes. Remember, these shoes cost one yuan, which will be deducted from your salary in the future. Also, do you know what to say to your uncle when you go back?" Hong Tao took the shoes and stuffed them into the little boy's arms.

inside, but didn't let go.

"..." The little boy hugged his shoes tightly, his eyes full of confusion.

"You said you bought it from the market and earned the money by working on our construction site, do you understand?" Hong Tao helped the little boy make up a lie.

"..." The little boy still shook his head.

"Otherwise, your uncle would definitely not want it. He would have thought you were stealing it. Remember, if your uncle asks you what you do for a living, just ask him to help straighten and coil the wires. Come on, repeat it and I'll listen."

Hong Tao has always been quite conceited when it comes to making up lies. He not only completes the set but is also responsible for the training.

"Okay, take your shoes and go home. Remember to come here to work tomorrow afternoon!" It wasn't until the little boy repeated it several times and truly remembered all the key points that Hong Tao personally sent him out.

"I forgot to ask his name..." The atmosphere in the shack was a bit depressing, with everyone lowering their heads and smoking. Tiger wanted to break the atmosphere, but what he said was still related to the little boy.

"What's the point of calling me? My name is Birges, Yoro, or Chow Tai Fook, and you believe me?" No matter what I say at this time, I can't ease everyone's hearts, let alone persuade. Who doesn't understand the truth?

But people always have emotions, and philosophers will also become depressed when emotions arise.

"Okay, don't be sentimental. We don't have the qualifications yet. We are all ready to leave early today and try to move more times!"
Chapter completed!