The service at Su Ji Pawnshop is very attentive, and a waiter specially sent 50 kilograms of brown rice to me.

By the time he returned to the courtyard, the smell of rice had already spread.

The people in the yard gathered around the simple stove like a group of vicious dogs, all of them staring at the broken pot with green eyes.

"Looking at how cowardly you guys are, will you be able to do it if you keep staring at me?" Zhao Tietou muttered.

"Do you know, I heard that the Central Military Army eats these rice and white noodles every day. They get whatever they want. It's a great life, tsk tsk!"

"It's a waste, it's a waste. Just make some porridge and eat it. If you have to eat dry rice, how about tomorrow?"

"You're blind, didn't you see those two big bags? You can eat them for at least three or four days!"

"Then it won't matter from now on!"

"We'll talk about the future later. Maybe we'll die tomorrow. Who cares about the future!"

The crowd was chattering and making noise, and seemed to be full of energy, completely losing their original lazy appearance.

Until everyone discovered Li Jinglin, they had no intention of giving way.

Xu Dayong stepped forward and said with some embarrassment, "These poor people were waiting impatiently, so they cooked the rice first." Then he turned around, kicked and hit everyone around the stove, and shouted in a low voice, "Everyone is waiting."

What the hell are you pretending to be? It's a piece of shit that needs to be cut! Why don't you come and thank Chief Li!"

Li Jinglin knew that Xu Dayong was embarrassed. After all, this was his personal property and he had taken it openly.

But he didn't care, he had no intention of eating alone.

After everyone reacted, they rushed forward in a chaotic manner, all kinds of flattery. Although some of the words were clumsy and made people feel sick, the feeling of being admired by the stars came back to him again, and Li Jinglin still enjoyed this feeling.

"Okay, okay, everyone is eating in one pot now, so there is no need to cook so much. When the big three come back, we can order some soup and it will be ready for dinner."

After finishing speaking, he handed Xu Dayong two oil paper bags and whispered, "Brother Xu, these are three kilograms of pork and eight kilograms of salt. You can make arrangements."

Although the voice was low, everyone's eyes had already been fixed on the oily paper bag wrapped with meat.

Then I heard the sound of everyone swallowing.

"A bunch of dog noses, stay overnight and eat the whole meat at night!"

By the time the big guys came back, everyone had already eaten the rice. Da Banya, the Henan guy who cooked it, was obviously not very good at cooking, and even cooked some rice.

"There's something to eat! Erxiao, there's something to eat!"

The big man pushed aside the yelling Gou Chun, grabbed his wooden bowl, and rushed forward, "If you have some leftover, give me some!"

Erxiao growled low, like a wolf, he had already pounced on the stove, grabbed the rice with one hand and stuffed it into his mouth.

"You little bitch, have you washed your hands?"

The second kid didn't care, picked up the rice and continued stuffing it into his mouth.

Only Gou Chun was squeezed outside, "Second kid, help me fill the bowl... Big guy, help me fill the bowl..."

Li Jinglin couldn't stand it, "Don't be too crowded, everyone will be fed today, and everyone will have a share. Don't cook until you are full!"

The people around him were swallowing hard and muttering unevenly, "Chief Li Renyi!"

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The next day, Li Jinglin took the money and planned to go out to see if there was any way to make money. He thought that with the eyes of future generations, he could easily deceive these natives.

Just say that his high imitation watch was sold in a lot of money!

In fact, this is really what he wanted to do. Although the watch is a high imitation, the workmanship is real. In the 1930s and 1940s, it was nothing for a watch with this kind of workmanship to be worth two or three hundred oceans.

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As soon as he walked out of the door, the big boy and the second boy followed him.

Li Jinglin turned around in surprise, "You two want to go out too?"

The big man touched his head and said with a smile, "Brother Dayong is afraid that you will suffer alone, so he asked us to follow you so that we can take care of you."

Erxiao nodded hurriedly.

Li Jinglin was a little puzzled, "What's the disadvantage?"

The second child rushed to say, "Mr. Li, I don't know. The shelter is full of rioters who don't have enough food to eat. They are all hungry and crazy. I'm afraid you will suffer a loss by yourself."

Li Jinglin knew what it felt like to be hungry, and he also knew that in extreme situations, unexpected things might happen, so he nodded silently and went out.

The shelter in Xingou Town is a large area at the east end of the town, and Li Jinglin's small courtyard is not far from the exit of the shelter.

This time Li Jinglin did not go to the town, but walked towards the shelter.

Because he had inquired when buying salt yesterday, all kinds of military supplies could be exchanged for money, and even cans could be exchanged for 1 cent, which meant that they could be exchanged for half a piece of cornbread.

Due to the influx of too many broken soldiers, the later broken soldiers had no place to live. Some people just lay on the street and made a pile of straw as a place to sleep.

Li Jinglin walked step by step, looking at the numb expressions of the defeated soldiers. Some of them were lying on the street, like wild dogs that were about to die.

He understood why the defeated soldiers did not want to move. He had also been hungry a few days ago and knew that if he wanted to live longer, he should try not to do things that wasted energy.

Li Jinglin passed by them, but he rarely caused others to react. Occasionally, he would glance at the military uniform on his body.

Later, Li Jinglin found out that it was not that there were no members of the Central Army in this shelter, but they were very few.

Especially those with the rank of captain, most of them were from around the 10th phase of Huangpu, and they were the only ones in the entire shelter.

A lame man in a tattered military uniform limped out of a room. The uniform was already black and greasy, and the collar badge had long been torn off. He raised his eyes and glanced at him.

Then he spat hard on the ground.

"Chop suey!"

Li Jinglin was stunned. He was sure that the other person was scolding him, but he had never seen him before.

The big man instantly stood in front of Li Jinglin and stared at him fiercely.

"Looking for a beating!"

The second child quietly turned around, picked up a wooden stick from somewhere, and leaned towards Li Jinglin.

The originally quiet street suddenly became lively, with heads sticking out from various places.

I don't know whether it was the big man's stature that frightened the opponent, or whether the opponent was too hungry to fight anymore, so the lame man didn't continue to provoke him and limped towards the yard.

Some of the people around him sighed, and some kept booing, as if there was no excitement left to watch. What a pity.

The big man was like a victorious general, with his head held high and his belly raised, as if he was silently saying to Li Jinglin, "Am I good?" The other person was scared away by his labor and management because of his bearish appearance!

Li Jinglin suddenly felt inexplicably sad. He didn't know where this sadness came from.

Is it the numb eyes of those around me? Or is it the fighting nature of the defeated soldiers?

Thinking about the achievements of the motherland in later generations, he felt a fire burning in his heart.

No, we can't live like this anymore, we must do something!

At this time, a flatbed truck came creaking from the street, and an old man laboriously dragged the truck tremblingly.

The surrounding soldiers involuntarily leaned to the sides, making way for the old man, and continued to lazily bask in the sun.

No one helped, and no one glanced at the cart, as if he would be lying on that cart soon.

It was a cart transporting corpses. Li Jinglin saw the corpse wrapped in two broken straw mats, although only two pairs of feet were exposed.

Yes, this is not a set, not a fake corpse, and not a prop.

But they were once two living people!

Life is so fragile!

Death is so close to him!
Chapter completed!