Chapter 2

Zhao Wenye got off from the Tsim Sha Tsui wharf and went directly to the cargo station to start work. Since his cousin failed to be admitted to the police, he had to continue to work hard.

Song TIANYAO stood on the shore of the wharf and watched his cousin go to the cargo station. He took off his coat, naked his upper body, went to the chip guy and whispered a smile. He took out a cigarette to light it for the other party. Then the chip guy waved his hand and asked Zhao Wenye to carry the sack behind him.

The hard work at the wharf is the first choice for many poor children from the bottom after failing to pass the examination to the police. Although toys, plastic flowers, clothing and other industries have prepared to build factories in Kwun Tong, North Point and other places, not many young people go to the factory to work, because they earn a monthly salary once a month, while the wharf is settled on a daily basis, so they get money faster. The most important thing is, If the children of poor people don't want to be bullied and go to the wharf to work as coolies, it's easier to find the prefix to join. Once they have the prefix, they pay a little membership fee every month or are willing to help when the prefix convener fights and grabs the wharf. Then, when they are bullied, the prefix people can also support themselves.

Song TIANYAO walked slowly along the road to the wooden house area of Jialin side road. When passing Zhongxiao street, he stopped to eat a piece of intestinal powder in front of the street stall. He then sat down on the street and enjoyed the "beautiful woman" (referring to a beautiful woman) who swayed through the street from time to time, wearing cheongsam, silk stockings, high heels or broad Tang skirt, bared a pair of jade feet and clogs.

When they returned to the dilapidated and congested wooden house area, people in the noisy street saw song TIANYAO appear in sight. They all calmed down, stared at Song TIANYAO and watched him walk towards his home.

When song TIANYAO walked far away, these slum men and women pointed to each other and whispered:

"What a pity, Tianzi. The most striking young boy in this street."

"Yes, I wanted to wait for ah Yao to be admitted to the police to take care of me."

"Even if he's a servant, he won't take care of you. With his parents, he wants to take advantage of money? Save it?"

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Song TIANYAO walked through the alley and heard his mother arguing loudly with others before he got to the door of his house. He frowned and walked slowly. A group of neighborhood women were blocking the broken wooden door of his house, while his mother was blocking the door. One hand crossed his waist and the other halberd finger. She was spitting and quarrelling with everyone, which was quite like a group of Confucianists.

"Sister-in-law Zhen! Anyway, ah Yao didn't get admitted to the police. The money must be paid back. I'm really in urgent need!" a middle-aged woman said to Zhao Meizhen in a sharp voice: "it's natural to pay off the debt!"

Zhao Meizhen immediately raised the key to her and pressed down the other party's voice: "fine eye Ling! Which eight woman took the initiative to enter my house yesterday, put down 200 yuan and said she didn't have to pay it back. It's all the intention of the neighborhood. Wow, your intention is really long. It's not enough to take it back in a day and night?"

"Sister-in-law Zhen, fine eye Ling is voluntary. I'm not. You borrowed it from me. Now my husband is seriously ill and waiting for money to fill the medicine." seeing that fine eye Ling is pressed down, another woman opened her mouth and said to Zhao Meizhen.

"Sister Ru, I borrowed money and promised to repay you for half a year and pay you 3% interest. Now you come to the door to collect the debt? I'll give you a calendar card to let you see the time. Is your husband seriously ill? Is your husband sick? It's windy right away. I just saw him holding Sanwei chicken and scolding. It's safer for you to keep the money with me than to let your man have sex!"

"My grandson will pay the tuition..." an old lady crowded to the front and said bitterly to Zhao Meizhen.

For the old man, Zhao Meizhen's tone is still tough: "your grandson has read for two years and doesn't even know how to write his own name. Pay the tuition? Buy a watermelon knife and kill the teacher!"

"Then give me back the money and I'll buy a watermelon knife!" the old lady almost didn't stumble by Zhao Meizhen's words, but she immediately opened her mouth to fight back and still asked Zhao Meizhen to pay back the money.

Where would Zhao Meizhen be frightened by such words and patted her chest with her hand: "Wow, aunt Cheng, you can speak such words, OK!"

From behind the door, he picked up a kitchen knife and patted it in the old lady's hand: "go, cut people first, and ask for money after cutting people!"

Song TIANYAO stood near his house and looked coldly at the neighbors pressing for debt at his door. A large part of the three thousand Hong Kong dollars in his pocket was heard that he was going to test the police. These 38 neighborhoods took the initiative to send them. When they sent the money one by one, they patted their chest and said they didn't have to pay it back. Now that they knew that they had lost the election, they immediately turned their face and didn't recognize anyone.

In fact, these people don't come to the door, and song TIANYAO isn't ready to really default. They are all poor people. It's not easy to save some money, but he's very upset that they turn over faster than prostitutes take off their clothes.

"I'll give you the money back in three days. Now, get out of here." seeing that these eight women were ready to squeeze their mother and rush into the house, song TIANYAO rushed over, grabbed the kitchen knife, chopped it on the wooden door, and the blade was cut into the wooden door for half an inch!

Song TIANYAO's words combined with the kitchen knife nailed to the wooden door made the neighborhood in front of him lose consciousness for a moment. Some people who wanted to speak again were swept by song TIANYAO's gloomy eyes and immediately lost their voice.

"Money, you don't have to come to my house to collect debts in three days. I'll go back one by one. If I want to make trouble in my house again, although I didn't pass the exam for the police, I met several friends who have passed the exam in the police school today. Do you want me to bring them to trouble with you in half a year?" song TIANYAO said, taking out cigarettes from his pocket, Holding a light in his mouth, he shook out the match: "hmm?"

"I'm relieved to have you. Yao Zi, I'm really in urgent need. You said it yourself. Aunt believes you most in three days."

"Sister-in-law Zhen, it's Yao Zi who said three days. We believe in Yao Zi."

The neighborhood said the scene words disorderly, and then scattered in twos and threes. When these people dispersed, Zhao Meizhen held the wooden door and took a heavy breath. She looked at her son with her face. Suddenly, she stretched out her hand to beat the cigarette in Song TIANYAO's mouth, picked song TIANYAO's collar and went into the house and inserted the wooden door with a bolt.

"If people fail in the exam, you also fail! If people can pass the exam, you can't pass the exam?" when the wooden door is closed, Zhao Meizhen roared at Song TIANYAO: "now the whole wooden house area is watching your mother's jokes! How did you pass the exam!"

Song TIANYAO tidied up his collar: "just take the exam like that. The interviewer is aimed at me. What can I do?"

"Add money! Give me as much as you want! Originally, you went to the dock to start work today. As a result, when ah ye returned to the dock, you were rushed back. If you failed the exam, so now I went to the street to set up a stall to repair shoes with a black face. I didn't go to work all day. I wanted to show off to these eight women when I heard the good news. I knew that I would go to the teahouse to wash dishes and earn money One day's wages. "

"Three thousand yuan is not enough. How much do you have to give? You just fail in the exam. Is it the end of the world? I'll get a job if it's a big deal." song TIANYAO sat on his old bean's bed, moved his ankle and said.

Zhao Meizhen reached out to song TIANYAO: "where's the money?"

"To the interviewer."

"Which interviewer pours on the street like this? He won't let you pass the exam after collecting money?" hearing song TIANYAO's words, Zhao Meizhen almost fainted with anger: "I'll throw you an idiot! If he doesn't let you pass the exam, won't you ask for the money back? What will you take back to the neighborhood 38?"

"I said I'd give it back to them in three days. It's not your business." song TIANYAO said, taking out the cigarette in his pocket and trying to light another one.

Zhao Meizhen went over and grabbed the cigarette, lit one by herself, and then packed most of the rest into her pocket: "Jump on the street and know how to buy a bag of lottery. You old bean only buy double happiness and save some smoking. I'll take this bag of cigarettes. I'll see your uncle tomorrow and just give it to him to see if he can help me find a way to collect 3000 yuan. You're such an idiot. I'll be angry with you and your old bean sooner or later."

When song TIANYAO heard that Zhao Meizhen was going to find her uncle to borrow money to pay off her debt, he turned his eyes: "no, they all said I would deal with it myself. I said yes, there must be."

"You say you're the governor of Hong Kong. Will you take office tomorrow?" Zhao Meizhen said dully. She turned around and stepped on the creaking wooden stairs and climbed to the Attic: "cook porridge at night and help me make a fire. Tomorrow you go to the wharf and ask ah ye to take you to see a job. The big man he talked with takes good care of him. You should be smart and can't be wrong."

Song TIANYAO moved his ankle and said, "I'm not eating at home tonight. I've made an appointment with a friend. Wait..."

Before she finished, the wooden door was knocked. Zhao Meizhen, who was climbing the stairs, jumped down quickly, stood in front of the wooden door and looked through the crack of the door before taking off the bolt.

Outside the door is the neighborhood of the song TIANYAO family. Li Chengcheng, who sells stewed and pickled vegetables, Li Chengcheng, his wife, aunt Hong, and his daughter Suzhen.

"You don't have to sell stewed meat on the street today? Just in time, I said I would cook porridge and fry pickled fish in the evening. Now that I'm here, I'll eat it together. You'll have to open fire to save me." Zhao Meizhen stepped aside and invited the three people into the house.

The main reason why he is so close to the Li Chengzhen family is that Li Chengzhen's daughter Su Zhen and song TIANYAO grew up together. Last year, they made an engagement. Li Suzhen is the daughter-in-law of the Song family.

If it were the usual, Li Chengcheng and aunt Hong would have promised. Li Chengcheng would cut some pickles. Aunt Hong and Suzhen would help cook. Then the two people would eat around a table, and the man could have two drinks.

But today, Li Chengcheng was submissive and didn't open his mouth. Aunt Hong smiled awkwardly. Li Suzhen shrank behind her mother and lowered her head, afraid to look at people.

Song TIANYAO, who was sitting on the bed wearing shoes, turned his mouth. Sure enough, he had never seen any relatives who helped in the snow, but there must be some neighbors who fell into the well.

Zhao Meizhen also noticed the abnormality of the family at this time, and her face sank: "what? Are you going to get back the 300 yuan sent the day before yesterday?"

"No, no, the three hundred dollars have been given to ah Tian. How can they come back? They are all neighbors." aunt Hong smiled at Zhao Meizhen with a salivary face. "Today, the main reason is that ah Quan of the fruit store plans to marry Su Zhen next month. Let's inform him and remember to have a cup of happy wine."

"I'm your aunt..." Zhao Meizhen stared angrily at the back of aunt Hong's words.