"Have you heard?! We are going to be renovated here too!!!" A child rushed into the cellar, waved the newspaper on his hand and said, "Look! We are on the first phase of the plan!"
Other children gathered around and said, "What transformation? What transformation?"
The child opened the newspaper and said: "It seems that we are going to build an overpass here, but in order to build the overpass, we must first change the buildings here into... It is... a living hell. Have you been to it? That's the kind of house where all the houses Put them all in one building, and then connect them with passages, making it very tall and everyone can have a house!·
"Really? I have long heard from my uncle that the houses in the living hell are very expensive because everyone there can have a single room to live in, and some rich people can even have a living room!"
"If it really turns out like this, can we also have a room to live in?!" A girl said excitedly: "There is also an overpass, is it the same as the one next to our street?!"
"Come on, that bridge over the stinky ditch. How can it be compared with the overpass? If you have been to the city center, you will know that the overpass there is taller than the buildings here!·
"I like that place in the living hell very much!" A little boy raised his hand and said, "When I went there to deliver things, the people there were very arrogant, but that's right, they live in new houses and drink... Clean water, a shopping store downstairs, and even the children there are dressed cleaner than us!"
"Great, if that really happens, I will definitely live in a room with a window that can see the outside, and I will also raise a pot of flowers..."
The children were very excited and thinking about the future scene. At this time, a sleepy voice came from the next room. He said: "What's wrong? Is it noisy?"
"Oh! Boss, come and see, read today's newspaper!" The children immediately gathered around and said, "Boss Jason, look, we are going to renovate here!"
Jason tried hard to open his eyes. Last night, he read too late and only slept for four or five hours. He was still very sleepy now.
He took the newspaper and saw that it said that the second phase of Gotham's road reconstruction project was about to be put into construction. The second phase of the plan included their street, and the content of the reconstruction included building reconstruction. And transportation renovation, construction renovation will start in three days.
"Boss, you are well-informed. Do you think this place will become like a living hell? Everyone lives in a big house, and everything can be bought in the house. You don't have to get wet in the rain anymore." Don’t you have to worry about water accumulation on the streets?”
"Can we also have a house with windows? Well, it can be a room for four people, or a room for six people. As long as there is a window, I can grow a pot of flowers...·
Jason's expression gradually became serious, because he not only paid attention to the news of the start of the transformation, but also the method of transformation.
This renovation is no longer jointly funded by the gang and the Wayne family, but is led by the government, with the Wayne Group injecting capital and contracting the project. From design to construction to putting into use, everything is controlled by the Wayne Group, without the gang having to invest a single person.
, pay a penny.
Jason is different from these children. He can understand more clearly how much investment is required for such a large project? Is Wayne Group crazy?
In the last transformation of the Living Hell, in addition to the Wayne Group, the Falcone family and the government also participated, and the heads of the Twelve Families also invested, and the final results were quite good.
The side industry there is quite prosperous, providing a lot of supporting services for the logistics industry. And after the people there become rich, the gangs who rule there can pay more protection fees.
But this time, the transformation costs are completely borne by the Wayne Group, but the gangsters can use the buildings and roads here completely free of charge. No matter how you look at it, it looks like sugar-coated bullets.
The books Jason had just finished read told him that you should never expect capitalists to be merciful, but as soon as he finished reading these books, the biggest capitalist in the city became merciful and planned to improve the lives of everyone here.
And no compensation is charged.
Jason narrowed his eyes and looked a little wary. He said in a deep voice to all the children: "Buck up, there may be big changes recently. Go and ask those people who are running around outside to come back quickly..."
"Boss! Boss! Oh no! Six-fingered sister has a head injury. Sister Cookie has brought him back. Go and have a look!" A very young child rushed in and screamed, Jason's face turned red
It sank immediately.
Jason hurriedly ran out and saw that Sister Cookie was bandaging her arm for Sister Six-finger's head. The smell of blood filled the air. He walked up, looked at the wound on Sister Six-finger's head and asked, "What's going on? How did you do it?"
"It's okay, I got into a fight with someone and accidentally scratched it." Sister Liuzhi turned her head to the side, and then said, "Did you hear the news? This place is going to be renovated recently, and I think we should move to another place.
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"Why?!" Another child raised his voice and said, "It's because of the renovation. We should stay here. We will be assigned a house!"
Sister Six Fingers showed a painful expression on her head and said: "Have you read the resettlement plan? I'm afraid we have to leave here in order to survive..."
Jason turned back, picked up the newspaper he had just put down, and continued reading. He saw that the resettlement plan was unexpectedly generous. All residents here, regardless of whether they had a driver's license or not, could get a room.
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The minimum standard for a room is a single room without a kitchen or bathroom, but with windows, a minimum of three hours of sunshine per day, and good furniture.
However, if you want a better single room, such as one bedroom and one living room or with a kitchen and bathroom, you need to pay more.
If you don't pay extra, it will be a single room that can barely fit a bed, but the floor where the single room is located will have a public toilet and an open-air kitchen.
But this is an extremely advantageous living condition for these children. After all, they are now 20 or 30 people crowded in the basement. Not only do they have no windows, but they are also subject to draft and rain from time to time.
As for the bathroom, not to mention the kitchen, even the bed in the room was made of crates. Jason’s small bed had a mattress that was picked up, and others had other mattresses on it.
Some mattresses are even covered with a thin layer of sheets.
It's written in the resettlement plan. Each room comes standard with a bed, a mattress, a lamp, a small bedside table, a flower pot on the bay window of the room, and even a hanging painting beside the bed.
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Jason saw that the contractor for the building renovation and decoration part was Wayne Decoration Engineering Company. This company was the company that decorated the Wayne Hotel. The materials used and the level of sophistication can be imagined.
But Jason's expression became worse and worse, because according to the gang's rules, these things were not something they could own.
At this moment, there was a "bang" sound, and the cellar door was pried open. Several gang members jumped down, pointed guns at all the children and said: "Get out! Hurry! Get all on the ground.
, you are not allowed to stay here anymore!”
The children all climbed up tremblingly, and when they reached the ground, they stood close to the wall, including Jason.
The leading gang member said: "I'll give you one afternoon to move out. You are not allowed to appear on our gang's territory again. No matter who asks you, you must say that you have never been here. If anyone asks you, you will
Just say it was moved from someone else’s place, do you understand?”
The six-fingered elder sister covered her arms with her head and said bitterly: "You only gave us one afternoon to move, and we couldn't even take our things with us!"
"This is not my business, it's the boss's order. In short, you must leave here before tonight. After all, work will start in three days. If those rich guys see you here begging for food, you don't know what to say.
what!"
The gang member flicked the barrel of the gun with his finger and said: "You'd better be smarter. It's already fun for you to stay here for so long. Get out of here!"
After several gang members left, the children all turned pale. The younger sister of the Cookie sisters asked: "Why do we suddenly want to move away from here? Why do they want to drive us away?"
Sister Liuzhi knelt down with tears in her eyes, covered her arms and said, "Don't you know? A single room in living hell can be rented for a high price of 10 US dollars a week..."
"There are more than 20 of us here, and we can be allocated more than 20 rooms. If we don't stay, the gangsters here can earn more than 200 US dollars a week, which is close to 1,000 US dollars a month..."
"As long as we are driven away and the houses we are assigned are rented out, they can earn three times more money than before without doing anything every month. Everyone knows how prosperous the living hell is now.
It will be the same here..."
Jason held the newspaper tightly in his hand and said, ""As long as we can make money, they won't care about anything. They won't care where we go, how we live next, or whether we die on the street.
superior……"
Jason's arms began to tremble continuously. He took a deep breath and then said: "Pack up your things and prepare to move.·
There were tears in the eyes of all the children. There is nothing sadder than despairing after gaining hope.
But Jason became calmer than before. The six-fingered sister looked at him and said: "Jason, you have changed a lot. If it were the same as before, you would be very angry and say something to cause trouble for them."
"Because, I have learned a truth recently." Jason's tone was so calm that it was scary. He said, "It's useless to just talk. No one will be afraid of me because I yell louder."
After saying that, he pursed his lips and walked towards the entrance of the cellar. Before going down, he said to the six-fingered eldest sister: "If there is such a situation, we must not be the only one. The three nearby streets must be renovated. In other words, all the streets must be renovated.
The kid gang will all be kicked out."
The six-fingered elder sister heard some bad premonitions, and she asked: "What do you want to do? Jason! Jason... don't do stupid things, we can also go to other places to live..."
Pressing the manhole cover of the cellar, Jason smiled, and then said: "Go to other places? What if other places have also been transformed?"
"If the entire Gotham was to be transformed into a city like this little by little, into a city where everyone has a place to stay, do you think this would make our lives better?"
"No. Even if those houses can accommodate everyone, people with money and guns will occupy them. Even if they leave the houses empty, even if they let us freeze to death in the streets, they will not let us live in them."
Jason closed his eyes and said: "In Gotham, we can't live on other people's pity... and we don't need pity anymore."