MTL - Rebirth: Rising Hong Kong-Chapter 11 Eat big meals to improve life
In the evening, Shi Zhijian and Sha Qiang took a rickshaw back to Shek Kip Mei.
It was off-duty time at the moment, the whole road was chaotic, the rickshaws were running wildly, and the trams were crowded with people.
Some foreigners who came to Hong Kong as a refugee, carrying burdens in ragged clothes, with dolls squatting on the burden, and quilts, clothes and other belongings on the other end, standing on the black and white zebra crossing with a confused face, no distinction between traffic lights, forward or not, back. No, it provoked the Indian policemen, and some patrolmen slammed their whistle and scolded: "The out-of-towner who rushed to your street, standing there looking for death!"
Not far away, there are high-rise buildings, neon signs flickering, fashionably dressed Hong Kong men and women swaying on the street, eating abalone, drinking foreign wine, potbellied, and smelling of money, which is in stark contrast to the yellow-faced and skinny refugees.
This is Hong Kong in colonial times...
There are countless ups and downs!
There are also countless intoxicated fans!
When they arrived at Sha Qiang's house, Sha Qiang's grandmother was sitting on the pony outside. The old man was old and somewhat demented.
"Grandma, what are you doing sitting outside?" Silly went up and wanted to help the old lady back to the house.
The old lady looked at silly, her old eyes with cataracts could not see clearly, "Who are you? Why don't I know you?"
"I'm your grandson Ah Qiang?"
"Aqiang? Why are you so fat and so dark? My grandson is not so ugly!"
Silly Qiang was a little embarrassed, and pointed to his head to explain to Shi Zhijian, "She has a problem here."
"Her eye disease seems to be getting worse, why didn't you take her to the hospital?" Shi Zhijian asked, looking into the old lady's eyes.
"There's no money! Those ghost doctors said they would need an operation, and the minimum cost is six or seven hundred!"
Cataracts in my previous life were only minor surgeries, but in Hong Kong in this era, it is a deadly disease. There is no money, only blindness.
Shi Zhijian took out his wallet from his arms, took out a thousand Hong Kong dollars and stuffed it into Xiao Qiang: "Take it and use it first!"
"Uh, I can't ask for these!" Shi Qiang refused.
Shi Zhijian said nothing to him, "Accept it when I'm a brother! You don't need to pay it back, you helped me a lot today!"
Although Shao Qiang's acting skills were terrible, and he almost broke through, he really helped Shi Zhijian a lot.
Silly Qiang felt a little overwhelmed when he saw the thousand yuan in his hand.
He didn't envy Shi Zhijian's 300,000 winnings at the racecourse. That was Shi Zhijian's life in exchange for it! Now Shi Zhijian gave him 1,000, but he picked it up for nothing!
Silly Qiang was very grateful, but Shi Zhijian bent down and said to the old lady, "Grandma, it's getting dark, come in the house!"
The old lady became more awake, "I don't want to go in. I have to turn on the lights when I enter the house. The electricity bill is very expensive!"
The famous slum in Shek Kip Mei costs 13 cents per unit of electricity, and even the Kowloon Power Supply Department has to increase the price, saying that the electricity in Hong Kong is insufficient and the electricity consumption is too high.
With such high electricity bills, the poor cannot afford it at all. Many times people would rather light kerosene lamps than turn on electric lights.
"Don't save that money! You're almost blind!" Silly Qiang picked up the old lady and went into the house.
The old lady entered the house and said to silly Qiang, "Oh, I remembered it, that was Ah Jian just now, right? He's so handsome, he looks much more handsome than you! By the way, you used to steal other people's things. Eat! As for Ah Jian, why didn't you invite him into the room to sit?"
Silly Qiang turned back, but Shi Zhijian had already left.
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Shi Zhijian left Shaqiang's house and bought a roast goose leg, Baoer's favorite, at a roadside food stall.
When they got home, Shi Yufeng and Baoer were not at home. They might have gone to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, to be precise, they went to pick up the leaves.
Shi Zhijian knew that every time the old lady would live at this time, she would go to the nearby vegetable market on time and on time to "squat", haggle with those vegetable vendors, and use the cheapest price to get some vegetables back. You can pick up a lot of green cabbage leaves that others don't want.
This is how Shi Yufeng's money was dug out. This is her unique secret to helping Shi Zhijian become a poor man in Shikipwei.
Shi Zhijian put the roasted goose legs on a plate, covered it with a hood, and placed it on the dining table, then took off his suit and went outside to line up to take a bath.
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 roast goose legs!"
"You greedy cat, your family is so poor, where do you get the money to buy roast goose legs? Just hold on, wait until I get paid, I'll buy you a whole roast goose!"
"No, I really smell it!" Bo'er sniffed like a cat, and soon saw the roast goose legs covered on the dining table.
"Mom, really! There's a lot of delicious food here!" Bo'er was almost overjoyed.
"how is this possible?"
But when Shi Yufeng dragged his lame leg in and saw the roast goose legs on the table, he was stunned.
"Choose, **** it! This is..."
"Isn't it my uncle who bought it?" Bao'er asked curiously, pointing at the roast goose's legs and blinking.
"How is it possible, where did he get the money?" Shi Yufeng shook his head, "This guy, he must have borrowed loan sharks again, right?"
"Please, don't guess!"
"Oh! I'm going to die!" Shi Yufeng was startled, and then saw Shi Zhijian come in from outside with a towel wiping his wet hair.
"Why are you outside?"
"Take a shower!"
Shi Zhijian felt that the old lady asked stupidly, "There is only one place to take a shower outside. I waited in line for a long time, it was miserable!"
Shi Yufeng was speechless.
How could she not know that, for this reason, she would rather spend more time taking a shower in the factory after get off work than come back to squeeze a bathroom.
"Meibao, this roast goose leg was specially bought by my uncle for you to eat! How about it, does my uncle kiss you?" Shi Zhijian asked Baoer squatting down.
"Dear! Meibao loves little uncle too!" Bao'er giggled and slapped Shi Zhijian's face with a "click", looking charming and cute.
Shi Yufeng's eyes were sharp, and she glanced at Shi Zhijian's new suit hanging on the hanger, "Where did you get this dress?"
"I bought it!"
"What did you buy?" Shi Yufeng went over with a lame leg, took off the clothes, looked left and right, and tugged at the fabric with his hands, "It's not cheap, right?"
"It's almost a hundred dollars." Shi Zhijian lied.
"Whoosh!" Shi Yufeng sucked in a breath of cold air, "Is this ragged clothes costing hundreds?! Where did you get so much money?" His eyes widened.
Shi Zhijian hurriedly changed his words: "Cough, I remembered it wrong, it seems to be only a few dozen dollars!"
"You think I'm stupid!"
"Yeah, little uncle, are you a fool to be a mother? She's very smart, she can even do my math problems! By the way, little uncle, where did you get so much money, didn't you sell Meibao? ?" Bao'er suddenly thought.
Shi Zhijian almost laughed and pinched Baoer's little face: "Even if my uncle sells himself, he won't sell Meibao! Eat this roast goose leg first!"
"Well, it looks delicious!" Bao'er was relieved and took a deep breath, she was dying of hunger.
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 the old sister Shi Yufeng wanted to "severe torture to extract a confession", Shi Zhijian laughed and said, "I went to Daxiong today and asked for the money I owe! Older sister, don't worry about me anymore!"
"Che, you're shaking me up again! How important is Da Daxiong's money? To tell the truth, did you follow Si Qiang to the pier to work as a coolie?" Shi Yufeng let go of the slender man, so she didn't believe that Shi Zhijian could pay back the debt.
"If it's too hard, don't do it. I'll find a way to repay Jin Yabing's money! Ah Jian, you are the only male in our Shi family, so don't let anything happen!"
Although Shi Yufeng is savage, she loves her younger brother very much, and would rather suffer and suffer than Shi Zhijian be hurt in the slightest.
Seeing Shi Yufeng so nervous about himself, Shi Zhijian felt his heart warm for no reason, "Sister, you believe me, what I said is true! I've got the money owed by Da Da Xiong, if you don't believe me, you can ask Xiao Qiang, he is the best. Be honest, don't lie!"
Shi Zhijian doesn't plan to talk about his winning money by betting on horses for the time being.
First, Shi Yufeng disliked men gambling the most. Back then, Baoer's father was hacked to death in the street because of bad gambling.
Second, there are other uses for the money in the bank. If Shi Yufeng knew about it, he would definitely confiscate it all, and then Zhang Luo would buy him a house and marry a wife.
"Are you really coming back?" Shi Yufeng looked in disbelief.
Shi Zhijian directly took out 2,000 yuan and handed it to Shi Yufeng, "Hey, this is the money you received, take it!"
"Eh? So much?!" Shi Yufeng looked at the money in her hand, dumbfounded.
"Not much, he owes five hundred, and the rest are three years of interest!" Shi Zhijian laughed.
"There's so much interest? So Da Da Xiong has changed?" Shi Yufeng looked surprised, in his impression Da Xiong was not a good person.
"Everyone can change! Especially that big man said to make up for the deficiency, and he will send money tomorrow!"
"He's still giving money? He's crazy!" Shi Yufeng felt that his brain was not enough. Five hundred for two thousand, this loud man either didn't know how to settle accounts, or he was just showing off his head!
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Shi Yufeng put her palms down, her arms sank, and took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down.
Shi Zhijian is a little fortunate that he didn't tell the story that he won 300,000 bets on horses, but the two thousand are enough to stimulate the old lady to break the power. !
"Ajian, I've figured it out clearly, you might as well take the money and pay Jin Yabing back first, so that he won't come back for trouble!"
Shi Zhijian put the towel around his neck, walked towards his room, and said, "I will solve the matter of Jin Yabing! You use this money first! Trust me, you will make more money in the future. , not only let you live in a big house, but also let Bao'er go to a good school!"
Shi Yufeng didn't hear it clearly at first, but when Shi Zhijian entered the room, she realized that she rolled her eyes and said, "This poor boy is blowing water again!"
Baoer nibbled 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 to go into the kitchen and took a knife to cut open the roasted goose leg----you can't eat all the good things all at once, you have to eat them slowly, this younger brother still likes to be extravagant.
"Mebao is obedient, little uncle is just kidding! I'll pay your tuition fees tomorrow!" Shi Yufeng was afraid that the bigger her daughter's expectations were, the bigger her disappointment would be, and how easy it would be for the poor in Hong Kong to turn over.
At this time, Shi Zhijian began to take out his coat and put on clothes. Shi Yufeng turned around and asked him, "What are you doing?"
Shi Zhijian grabbed Shi Yufeng's shoulder and said affectionately, "Beautiful girl, Meibao has roast goose legs to eat. Of course you and I are going to have a big dinner!"
