In the evening, Shi Zhijian and Shaqiang took a rickshaw back to Shek Kip Mei.
It was time to get off work at the moment, the whole road was noisy, rickshaws were running wildly, and trams were crowded with people.
Some outsiders who had just fled to Hong Kong were carrying a load in ragged clothes, with a baby squatting on the load, and all their belongings including bedding and clothes on the other end. They stood confused on the black and white zebra crossing. The traffic lights did not distinguish between going forward and going back.
No, it provoked the Indian policemen and some patrolmen to blow their whistles and curse: "I'm going to attack you, a foreigner from the street, you're just standing there looking for death!"
Not far away, there are many high-rise buildings and flashing neon signs. Fashionably dressed Hong Kong men and women are swaying on the streets, eating abalone, drinking foreign wine, potbellied, and smelling of money. They are in sharp contrast to the sallow and skinny refugees.
This is Hong Kong during the colonial period----
There are countless displacements!
There are countless people who are obsessed with life and money!
When we arrived at Shaqiang's house, Shaqiang's grandma was sitting on a small horse outside. She was old and had some dementia.
"Grandma, what are you doing sitting outside?" Shaqiang went up to help the old lady back into the house.
The old lady looked at Shaqiang, her old eyes suffering from cataracts could not see clearly, "Who are you? Why don't I recognize you?"
"I am your grandson Aqiang?"
"Aqiang? Why are you so fat and so dark? My grandson is not that ugly!"
Shaqiang was a little embarrassed, pointing to his head and explaining to Shi Zhijian: "She has a problem here."
"Her eye disease seems to be getting worse. Why don't you take her to the hospital?" Shi Zhijian looked into the old lady's eyes and asked.
"We don't have any money! Those crazy doctors said they would need to perform an operation, which would cost at least six to seven hundred!"
In the previous life, cataract was only a minor operation, but in Hong Kong of this era, it is a fatal disease. Without money, the only option is to go blind.
Shi Zhijian took out his wallet from his arms, took out a thousand Hong Kong dollars and gave it to Shaqiang: "Take it and use it first!"
"Well, I can't have these!" Silly Qiang refused.
Shi Zhijian handed it to him without saying a word, "Take it as a brother! You don't have to pay it back, you helped me a lot today!"
Although Shaqiang's acting skills were terrible and he almost betrayed the gang, he really helped Shi Zhijian a lot.
Shaqiang looked at the thousand yuan in his hand and was a little at a loss.
He didn't envy Shi Zhijian's 300,000 yuan win at the racecourse. Shi Zhijian paid for that with his life! Now Shi Zhijian gave him 1,000 yuan, but it was all for nothing!
Shaqiang was extremely grateful, but Shi Zhijian bent down and said to the old lady: "Grandma, it's getting dark, come inside!"
The old lady became more awake and said, "I'm not going in. You have to turn on the lights when entering the house. The electricity bill is very expensive!"
The famous slum in Shek Kip Mei charges 13 cents per unit of electricity. The Kowloon Electricity Supply Department is even raising the price because there is insufficient electricity in Hong Kong and the electricity consumption is too high.
The poor cannot afford such high electricity bills. Many times people would rather light kerosene lamps than turn on electric lights.
"Stop saving that money! You're almost going blind!" Shaqiang directly picked up the old lady and entered the house.
The old lady entered the house and said to Shaqiang: "Oh, I remembered, that was A Jian just now, right? What a handsome guy, much more handsome than you! By the way, you used to steal other people's things.
Eat! Where’s A Jian, why don’t you invite him into the house to sit?”
Silly Qiang turned around, but Shi Zhijian had already left.
…
Shi Zhijian left Shaqiang's home and bought Bao'er's favorite roasted goose leg from a roadside food stall.
When they got home, Shi Yufeng and Bao'er were not at home. They probably went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, or to be precise, they went to pick up vegetable leaves.
Shi Zhijian knew that at this time, the old lady who could live well would go to the nearby vegetable market on time to "sit down", bargain with the vegetable vendors, and bring back some vegetables at the lowest price. If she was lucky, she would also get some vegetables.
I can pick up a lot of green vegetable leaves that others don’t want.
This is how Shi Yufeng made money bit by bit, and this is also her unique secret to helping her younger brother Shi Zhijian become a policeman in Shek Kip Mei.
Shi Zhijian put the roasted goose legs on a plate, covered it with a cover, placed it on the dining table, then took off his suit and went outside to line up to take a shower.
At about seven o'clock, Shi Yufeng came back with Bao'er.
The door opened and Jiang Meibao's voice came out: "Mom, it smells so good, I seem to smell the smell of roasted goose legs!"
"You greedy cat, your family is so poor, where do you get the money to buy roasted goose legs? Just bear with me a little longer, and I will buy you a whole roasted goose when I get my salary!"
"No, I really smelled it!" Bao'er sniffed like a cat and soon saw the roasted goose legs covered on the dining table.
"Mom, it's true! There are so many delicious foods here!" Bao'er was almost overjoyed.
"How can it be?"
But when Shi Yufeng dragged his lame leg in and saw the roasted goose legs clearly on the dining table, he was also stunned.
"Pick, damn it! This is..."
"My uncle didn't buy it, right?" Bao'er pointed at the roasted goose leg and blinked, asking curiously.
"How is that possible? Where did he get the money?" Shi Yufeng shook his head, "This guy, could he have borrowed loan sharks again?"
"Please, don't make blind guesses!"
"Oh! I'm going to die!" Shi Yufeng was startled, and then saw Shi Zhijian coming in from the outside with a towel wiping his wet hair.
"Why are you outside?"
"Take a shower!"
Shi Zhijian felt that the elder sister's question was silly, "There is only one shower place outside, and I queued for most of the day. It was so miserable!"
Shi Yufeng was speechless.
How could she not know that for this reason, she would rather delay taking a shower in the factory after get off work than come back to squeeze into a bathroom.
"Meibao, my uncle bought this roasted goose leg specially for you! How about it, will my uncle kiss you?" Shi Zhijian squatted and asked Bao'er.
"Dear! Mei Bao loves uncle too!" Bao'er chuckled and gave Shi Zhijian a "click" on his face, looking cute and cute.
Shi Yufeng's sharp eyes caught another glimpse of Shi Zhijian's new suit hanging on the hanger, "Where did you get these clothes?"
"I bought it!"
"Did you buy it?" Shi Yufeng limped over, took off the clothes, looked around, and pulled the fabric with her hands, "Isn't this cheap?"
"Absolutely, just a few hundred yuan." Shi Zhijian lied.
"Whoosh!" Shi Yufeng took a breath, "Just these shabby clothes cost hundreds?! Where did you get so much money?" His eyes widened.
Shi Zhijian hurriedly changed his mind: "Ahem, I remembered wrong, it seemed like it was only a few dozen yuan!"
"You think I'm stupid!"
"Yes, uncle, do you think your mother is a fool? She is very smart and can even do my math problems! By the way, uncle, where did you get so much money? Did you sell Meibao?
?" Baoer had a sudden thought.
Shi Zhijian almost laughed, stretched out his hand to pinch Bao'er's little face: "Even if my uncle sells himself, he won't sell Meibao! You eat this roasted goose leg first!"
"Well, it looks delicious!" Bao'er felt reassured and sipped her saliva fiercely. She was almost greedy to death.
Shi Yufeng raised her eyebrows, grabbed Shi Zhijian's collar, and said viciously: "Don't change the subject, where did the money come from?"
Seeing that elder sister Shi Yufeng wanted to "torture a confession", Shi Zhijian laughed and said: "Today I went to Da Daxiong to get the money I owe! Sister, please stop worrying about me!"
"Tch, you're swaying me again! How can Dao Daoxiong's money be so easy to ask for? Seriously, did you follow Shaqiang to the dock to work as a coolie?" Shi Yufeng let go of the younger brother, not believing that Shi Zhijian could get back the debt.
"If it's too hard, don't do it. I will find a way to pay back Jin Ya Bing's money! A Jian, you are the only male in our Shi family, so you must not let anything happen to you!"
Although Shi Yufeng was fierce, she loved her younger brother very much. She would rather endure hardships than suffer any harm to Shi Zhijian.
Seeing Shi Yufeng being so nervous about herself, Shi Zhijian felt warm in his heart for no reason, "Sister, believe me, what I say is true! I want the money owed by Dao Daoxiong back. If you don't believe me, you can ask Shaqiang, he is the best
Be honest and won’t lie!”
Shi Zhijian does not plan to tell anyone about his horse racing winnings for the time being.
First of all, Shi Yufeng dislikes men gambling the most. Bao'er's father was hacked to death in the street because of bad gambling.
Secondly, the money in the bank had other uses. If Shi Yufeng knew about it, he would definitely confiscate it all and then help him buy a house and marry him a wife.
"Are you really coming back?" Shi Yufeng looked unbelieving.
Shi Zhijian directly took out two thousand yuan and handed it to Shi Yufeng, "Hey, this is the money collected, take it!"
"Huh? So much?!" Shi Yufeng looked at the money in her hand and was dumbfounded.
"Not much, he owes five hundred, and the rest is three years' interest!" Shi Zhijian said with a smile.
"The interest is so much? Then Dao Daoxiong changed his gender?" Shi Yufeng looked surprised. She had the impression that Dao Daoxiong was not a good person.
"People change, after all! Especially when Daoxiong said he would send money tomorrow to make up for the shortcomings!"
"You're still giving me money? He's crazy!" Shi Yufeng felt that she didn't have enough brains to pay two thousand for five hundred. This loud voice either didn't know how to settle accounts, or he just had a funny brain!
But everything in front of her was real, and the two thousand yuan was really in her hand.
Shi Yufeng put her palms down, lowered her arms, took a deep breath, and tried to calm herself down.
Shi Zhijian was a little lucky that he didn't tell the story about winning 300,000 yuan by betting on horse racing. The two thousand dollars alone made his sister almost crazy. If he really told it, wouldn't he go crazy?!
"Ajian, I've thought about it clearly. You might as well take the money and return it to Jinya Bing first, lest he cause trouble again!"
Shi Zhijian put the towel around his neck and walked towards his room, saying: "I will solve the Jin Ya Bing matter! You use this little money first! Believe me, you will make more money in the future.
, when the time comes, not only will you live in a big house, but Bao'er will also go to a good school!"
Shi Yufeng didn't hear clearly at first, but when Shi Zhijian entered the room, she realized what she was doing, rolled her eyes and said, "This bastard is talking nonsense again!"
Bao'er was chewing on the roasted goose leg and said vaguely: "Mom, is what my uncle said true? Can I go to a good school in the future? I don't want to go to this school. People here always laugh at me, and the teachers also
Always urging me to pay tuition!"
Shi Yufeng dragged her lame leg and prepared to go into the kitchen to take a knife and cut open the roasted goose leg - good things should not be eaten all at once, but should be eaten slowly. This younger brother still likes to be extravagant.
"Meibao is obedient, my uncle is joking! I will pay your tuition fees tomorrow!" Shi Yufeng was afraid that the greater her daughter's expectations, the greater her disappointment. It is not that easy for poor people in Hong Kong to turn over.
At this time, Shi Zhijian started to take out his coat and put on clothes. Shi Yufeng turned around and asked him, "What are you doing?"
Shi Zhijian put his arms around Shi Yufeng's shoulders and said affectionately: "Beautiful girl, Meibao has roast goose legs to eat. Of course you and I are going to have a big dinner!"