Chapter 3 It turned out to be a nightmare, but it's okay
"Don't sleep, you have work to do, get up first." The fat man answered the phone and pushed Li Feng and shouted!
Li Feng looked confused, I just lay down, good guy, what happened again?
"what?"
"The old ghost who lived in a subdivided apartment over there on Beihe Street has died."
"Dead?"
Li Feng shivered, this fat man was still doing the job of carrying corpses, so why should he not do it?
"Hurry up, the body collectors will be here soon, don't let those rats get the first chance."
"What a bad boy, he will die."
"Aren't we going to collect the corpses?"
"We don't have a share in this job."
Fortunately, Li Feng breathed a sigh of relief and walked five or six meters along the corridor, which was less than 60 centimeters. When he opened the door, there was a lot of noise, and he was scolded by many residents.
"How many people live in this house?" Isn't this curse a bit too much?
"Not many, less than sixty people."
Pfft, Li Feng thought this guy was joking. After asking, he found out that similar to a coffin house, a cage house is only a few tens of square meters and can accommodate dozens or hundreds of people. It is considered normal, and the maximum can even exceed 200 people.
Li Feng's scalp felt numb as he listened, and he always felt countless pairs of eyes staring at him when he walked down the aisle.
After walking down the stairs that were less than one meter wide and dark with a damp, musty smell, I was just about to take a rest when the fat man pulled Li Feng and started running.
"Hurry, I see those bad guys." He trotted all the way to Beihe Street. When he arrived, the car was parked downstairs.
Li Feng took a look, and quickly followed the fat man up the stairs, like an ambulance. The lame man was not slow at all. He squeezed through the crowd at the door and walked into the subdivided room. This unit was about fifty or sixty square meters, with eight good rooms separated.
Subdivided housing.
The deceased old man lived in the innermost room. The staff was carrying a shelf out of the narrow passage. Li Feng quickly moved out of the way, but the fat man rushed in regardless. I have to say that Hong Kong Island is really efficient.
While Fatty and the other rats were fighting for the spoils, Li Feng looked around at the other subdivided room residents. Some of them were looking at the excitement with their heads stretched out and didn't express much.
The door of one of them was slightly opened, and two little heads stuck out. There was some fear in the dark eyes. Why are there two children here who are not adults? Li Feng paused and blocked the sight of the two children.
"Don't look."
"Quick, don't just stand there."
The fat man handed Li Feng a rice cooker and rushed into the subdivided room to continue fighting for the relics.
"Take it." As soon as Li Feng reacted, the fat man thrust the shoes to Li Feng again, and Li Feng almost threw them away.
This is something for dead people. Li Feng blocked the little girl who wanted to stick her head out. "Come into the house quickly. Are there no adults in your house?"
"Mom goes to work, it's just me and my brother."
The girl looks seven or eight years old, the boy is younger and may not be able to talk. "Take your brother to sleep."
The residents here have calm eyes and don't have much emotion. Most of them have things that don't concern them, and no one like Fatty cares about the dead.
These people are fighting over the relics. Li Feng wants to remind them that if there are descendants, they will sue you for robbery. Unfortunately, at this time, Li Feng has no right to speak.
"Damn, these damn rats."
"But it's okay."
The fat man took out an induction cooker with a proud look on his face. This guy actually stuffed the induction cooker into his pants. What a talent. "This is worth at least fifty mosquitoes, the rice cooker is worth at least thirty mosquitoes, and these shoes are still new."
"Someone really buys these things. They were used by dead people."
The fat man laughed loudly after hearing this. "You can buy things in the market, but you still care about this. As long as the dentures in the mouth of the corpse are cheap, people will want them. Damn it, I'm late. Maybe that old boy really has dentures."
Seeing the annoyed look on Fatty's face, Li Feng thought to remind him, "Aren't you afraid that their descendants will come to your door?"
"Descendants?"
The fat man curled his lips and shook his head carelessly. He knew better than anyone who lived here.
"I'll take a call first."
While we were talking, the phone rang, and the fat man cursed several times. Li Feng didn't understand Cantonese very well, so he only knew how to curse. "Go back, fuck, they came to my house."
"oh."
"You guys go back to bed quickly and don't come out."
Li Feng waved to the two little heads and quickly followed with the rice cooker in his arms. Li Feng planned to ask the fat man later if he had experienced life. He wanted to leave this place as soon as possible. It was too depressing.
On the way back, Li Feng knew why the fat man was angry. It turned out that the relics on the third floor had been robbed by others. This was just a piece of grass in the fat man's nest. Isn't this irritating to him? As expected, he almost started a fight when he went back. After a long time of commotion, he finally divided a few pieces of clothes.
"What bad luck."
The fat man looked through several pieces of clothing, but only one was decent. The others were basically trash and worthless. "Are you hungry?"
"Kind of."
Don't tell me, Li Feng ate a little early and is really hungry now.
"Come with me, I'll take you to a free meal."
Free meals, Li Feng murmured, there is such a good thing, if you eat for free, you must eat it. Li Feng decided to ask the fat man, sister, and girlfriend what was going on during the meal. It is best to experience life by yourself, of course the most important thing is,
Still trying to find a way to go back.
I quickly followed the fat man all the way to the entrance of a company. I looked up and saw Jiaxi Elderly Care Center Co., Ltd. There were free meals here, no joke.
"Stop looking and change your clothes quickly. You and I can't come in." Li Feng changed clothes in a daze.
"It's three-thirty now, and there will be free meals at five-thirty."
What the hell, Li Feng didn't understand. He finally understood when he entered the kitchen. This wasn't just working in exchange for food. It was called a volunteer. The fat man could actually cook. As a chef, Li Feng was responsible for washing the vegetables and helping out. It was a busy day.
"Drink porridge."
There are side dishes, rice porridge, and of course three steamed buns per person. Unfortunately, they are too small. Li Feng is still hungry after finishing the meal. Let’s drink porridge. After finishing the porridge, he will continue to work for a while. He is really sleepy.
"Go back to bed?" The fat man looked at Li Feng and shook his head.
"No, let me help you find a place to sleep."
"Why?"
"I just rented out the bed."
Pfft, Li Feng spat out a mouthful of tea. Why are you renting out that miserable place in the coffin room?
"Thirty mosquitoes at four hours in the morning."
"Twenty mosquitoes at four hours in the afternoon."
The fat man was quite proud. You must know that ordinary people have no way to rent a bed temporarily. They might encounter someone who doesn't follow the rules and just pack up and run away.
"Is this rented every day?"
Yesterday, Li Feng remembered that he slept there. Could it be that he slept with him.
"Three or four days a week."
The fat man pointed to a corner. "You can sleep here. I need an hourly help at noon. I have made an agreement with the kitchen. Don't forget to open Hongchang Tea Restaurant at four o'clock in the afternoon."
"I have a job?"
"Temporary worker, four to eight."
"Fifty mosquitoes an hour."
The fat man patted Li Feng on the shoulder and was about to leave after speaking. Li Feng hurriedly grabbed the fat man and asked him about his girlfriend.
"Oh, you owe your girlfriend 100,000 yuan."
Li Feng was dumbfounded, and asked his sister again, and finally got the information that was almost confirmed. He was not a rich second generation, and he was not experiencing life.
No, after the fat man left, Li Feng remembered that the fat man had just said that he had picked him up after he had been in a car accident.
Half a month ago, wasn't this when I had a car accident in Shanghai? Is there any connection?
"For half a month, the fat man said that I have been working as a temporary worker at Hongchang Tea Restaurant recently, four hours a day, and Fifty Mosquitoes an hour."
"Then why do I only have more than five hundred yuan with me?"
Logically speaking, two hundred a day, three thousand for half a month, and a meal in a tea restaurant at night. If you save money during the day, it shouldn't be more than a hundred. Besides, at night, you should help the fat man sell goods, grab jobs, and move, which shouldn't be the case.
Only this little money is left.
"You won't be tricked by the fat man, will you?"
Li Feng muttered, forget it, find a place to sleep for a while and see if he can go back. As for the fat man's coffin room, Li Feng didn't want to stay there for a moment. It was too depressing. He couldn't get up or turn around, and the darkness all around pressed into his mind.
It felt too scary.
There was no light at all, and the depression was maddening. It was like listening to the noise of a shovel scraping against the cement floor. The surroundings were completely imprisoned.
Although there are no beds in the nursing center, there is light and the space is pretty good.
After finding a place, Li Feng pulled up a chair and got ready to sleep. He didn't have any rest that night. I have to say that this pace of life is too scary.
After a while, Li Feng fell asleep, and the light beads appeared in his mind again. Li Feng tried hard to control himself to touch the light beads.
As if he had been holding his breath while diving for a long time, Li Feng suddenly sat up and took a few breaths.
"It is indeed a dream."
Looking around, Li Feng breathed a sigh of relief.
"I just had a nightmare."
"Hey, where are the oranges?" Li Feng was stunned for a moment with the orange in his hand.
A picture flashed in my mind, that of an old woman while cooking.
"Young man, eat the orange!" Li Feng trembled. When he looked up, he saw a hand stretched out and he hid behind him in fear.
"mom?"
"Eating oranges?"
"Mom, this orange?" Li Feng was startled, picked up the orange on hand and asked carefully...
"Didn't you just call for oranges? I got them for you. Are you okay? My head hurts again. Let Mom take a look."
"It's okay, it's okay. Maybe I was a little confused when I woke up. Mom, I have something to tell you." Fortunately, Li Fengxin said it was just a dream.
