Chapter 2: The appearance of neighbors and sentient beings

Zhao Wenye got off the bus from Tsim Sha Tsui Wharf and went directly to the freight station to start work. Since his cousin failed to pass the police exam, he had to continue working as a coolie.

Song Tianyao stood on the shore of the dock, watched his cousin go to the goods station, took off his coat, and walked naked, walked to the scouter and laughed softly, took out a cigarette to help the other party light it. Then the scouter waved his hand and signaled that Zhao Wenye would go to the back to carry the sack.

The coolies work at the wharf is the first choice for many poor children from the bottom after failing to get into the police exam. Although factories are now being built in Kwun Tong, North Point and other places, there are not many young people working in factories, because when they go to the factory, they earn monthly salary and pay once a month, while the wharf is daily, so they get money faster. The most important thing is that if children from poor families do not want to be bullied and go to the wharf to work as coolies, it is easier to find the word "head" to join. Once they have the word "head" and pay a little membership fee every month or are willing to work hard when they are gathered to fight and grab the wharf, then when they encounter bullying, the word "head" can support themselves.

Song Tianyao walked along the road toward the wooden house area of ​​Jialin Road. When passing Zhongxiao Street, he stopped to eat a rice noodles in front of the food stall on the street. He sat on the street, eating and enjoying the "Jiao Po" (referring to a beautiful woman) who swayed past the street from time to time, wearing cheongsam stockings, high heels, or a wide Tang Dynasty skirt, naked with jade feet and wooden clogs.

When they returned to the dilapidated wooden house area, people on the street that were originally shouting were silent, and their eyes were staring at Song Tianyao and watching him walk towards his home.

When Song Tianyao walked out of the distance, the men and women in these slums pointed at each other and whispered:

"It's a pity that Tianzai, the most eye-catching young man on this street."

"That's right, I wanted to wait for Ayao to pass the exam and the police to take care of me."

"Even if this punk boy is a policeman, he won't take care of you. With his parents here, he wants to take advantage of him if he doesn't have money? Save?"

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Song Tianyao walked through the alley. Before he could reach his home, he heard his mother quarrel loudly with others. He frowned and walked slowly over. A group of neighbors were blocking the broken wooden door of his house, while his mother was blocking the door, with one hand on his hips and the other hand on his halberd fingers, and was quarreling with everyone, with a verbal fight.

"Sister Zhen! No matter what, Ayao failed to pass the police exam, so the money must be paid back. I am really urgent!" A middle-aged woman said to Zhao Meizhen with a sharp voice: "It is natural to pay back the debt!"

Zhao Meizhen immediately pulled the door high to her and suppressed the other party's voice: "Xiyanling! Which goblin took the initiative to enter my house yesterday and put down two hundred yuan, and said he didn't have to pay it back. It was all the neighbor's wishes. Wow, your intentions are so long, not enough to be taken back one day and one night?"

"Sister Zhen, Xiyanling is voluntary. I'm not. You just borrowed it from me. Now my husband is seriously ill, waiting for money to get medicine." Seeing Xiyanling being suppressed, another woman spoke to Zhao Meizhen.

"Sister Ru, I borrowed money and promised to pay you back half a year and pay you three cents of interest. Now you will come to collect the debt? I will give you a calendar card to let you see if you can see the time clearly? Is your husband seriously ill? How is your husband sick? It's about to be in the wind. I just saw him holding Sanwei Chicken and flirting. You can keep the money here with me, which is safer than giving your man a romantic life!"

"My grandson waits to pay the tuition fee..." An old lady squeezed to the front and said to Zhao Meizhen with a bitter face.

When dealing with the elderly, Zhao Meizhen's tone was still strong: "Your grandson has been studying for two years and doesn't even know how to write his own name. Pay the tuition fee? Go buy a watermelon knife and kill the teacher who teaches!"

"Then you give me the money back, I'll buy a watermelon knife!" The old lady almost fell into trouble by Zhao Meizhen's words, but she immediately started to fight back and still asked Zhao Meizhen to pay back the money.

Zhao Meizhen was not scared by such words, and slapped her chest with her hand: "Wow, Aunt Cheng, you can say all these words, okay!"

From the back of the door, I picked up a kitchen knife and patted it into the old lady: "Go, go and chop people first, and come and ask for money after chopping people!"

Song Tianyao stood near the door of his house and watched coldly as the neighbors urged their debts at their doorstep. A large part of the 3,000 Hong Kong dollars in his pocket were heard that he was going to take the police exam. These neighbors from Sanba took the initiative to send money. When they all gave the money, they patted their chests and said they didn't need to pay it back. Now that they knew that they had lost the election, they immediately turned against each other.

In fact, if these people don’t come to the door, Song Tianyao is not going to really rely on debts. They are all poor people, and it is not easy to save some money, but this behavior of turning against each other faster than a prostitute taking off his clothes made him very upset.

"I'll give you money back in three days, a penny is a lot. Now, get out of here." Seeing that these eight wives were about to squeeze out their mother and rush into the house, Song Tianyao rushed over quickly, snatched the kitchen knife, and slashed it on the wooden door with one knife. The blade was chopped into the wooden door half an inch!

Song Tianyao's words and the kitchen knife nailed to the wooden door made the neighbors in front of him lose their mind for a moment. They came back to their senses and wanted to speak again. Song Tianyao's gloomy eyes swept over and immediately became hoarse.

"Money, you won't have to come to my house to collect debts in three days. I will send it back one by one. If I want to make trouble at my house again, although I didn't pass the police exam, I met several friends who had passed the exam today at the police school. Do you want me to bring them to trouble everyone in half a year?" After saying this, Song Tianyao took out a cigarette from his pocket, held one in his mouth and lit it, and shook the match: "Hmm?"

"I feel relieved with you. Yaozai, I am really urgent. You said it yourself. In three days, Auntie believes in you the most."

"Sister Zhen, it's Yaozai who said three days, we believe in Yaozai."

These neighbors were talking in a mess, and then dispersed in groups of three or three. When these people were dispersed, Zhao Meizhen held the wooden door and breathed heavily, turned her face to look at her son who was holding a cigarette, and suddenly reached out to knock the cigarette from Song Tianyao's mouth away, picked Song Tianyao's collar and inserted the wooden door with a bolt.

"If you take the exam for the police, you will also take the exam for the police! If you can pass the exam, you won't get the exam?" After the wooden door was closed, Zhao Meizhen shouted at Song Tianyao: "Now the entire wooden house area is watching your mother's jokes! How did you take the exam!"

Song Tianyao sorted out his collar: "I took the exam like that, what can I do if the interviewer targeted me?"

"You're adding more money! I'll give you as much as you want! You Laodou went to the dock today to start work, but when Aye returned to the dock, you Laodou was driven back. You said you didn't pass the exam, so now I'm rushing to the street corner to set up stalls and repair shoes. I haven't been to work all day. I wanted to wait for good news to show off to these gossips. If I had known, I would go to the teahouse to continue washing dishes and earn a day's salary."

"Three thousand yuan is not enough, how much do you have to give? It's just a bad guy who won't pass the exam. Is it the end of the world? At worst, I'll go and work." Song Tianyao sat on his old bean's bed, moved his ankles and said.

Zhao Meizhen stretched out her hand to Song Tianyao: "Where is the money?"

"For the interviewer."

"Which interviewer is so frustrating? Hearing Song Tianyao's words, Zhao Meizhen almost fainted in anger: "I'll throw you out, you idiot! He doesn't let you pass the exam, won't you get the money back? What are you going to give to the neighbors' group of 38?"

"I said I would give it back to them after three days. I will definitely pay it back, you don't have to worry about it." Song Tianyao said, took out the cigarette in his pocket and wanted to light another one.

Zhao Meizhen walked over and took the cigarette, ordered one, and then put most of the remaining ones in the bag: "Fuck, I still know how to buy a bag of good lottery. You Laodou only buy double happiness, and you have to save some smoking. I will accept this pack of cigarettes. I will go to see your uncle tomorrow and just give it to him. See if he can help me find a way to get three thousand yuan. You are such an idiot. I will be angry to death by you and your Laodou sooner or later."

When Song Tianyao heard that Zhao Meizhen was going to borrow money to repay the debt with his uncle, he rolled his eyes: "No need, everyone said I would handle it myself, I said there must be."

"You said you are the Governor of Hong Kong, will you take office tomorrow?" Zhao Meizhen said depressedly, turned around and climbed towards the attic on the squeaking wooden stairs: "Cook porridge tonight and help me make fire. Tomorrow you go to the dock to ask Aye to take you to the worker. The boss he followed took care of him very much. You should be smart and you shouldn't be wrong."

Song Tianyao moved his ankles and said, "I won't eat at home tonight, I'll make an appointment with a friend, wait..."

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

Outside the door is the neighbor of Song Tianyao's family, Li Laoshi's family who sells braised food and pickled vegetables, Li Laoshi, his wife, Aunt Hong, and his daughter Suzhen.

"Don't you have to go out to sell braised food today? It just so happened that I said I would cook porridge and stir-fried fish fillets in the evening. Since I came here now, I will eat together, so I will save you the fire." Zhao Meizhen moved her body away and invited the three of them into the house.

The main reason why they are so close to Li Lao Shi's family is that Li Lao Shi's daughter Suzhen and Song Tianyao's childhood sweethearts grew up together and got married last year. Li Suzhen is considered the Song family's unfamiliar daughter-in-law.

If it were the usual, Li Laoshi and Aunt Hong would have agreed. Li Laoshi went to cut some braised dishes, and Aunt Hong and Suzhen helped cook with each other. Then the two families gathered on the same table to eat, and the man could drink two more glasses.

But today, Li Hushi refused to speak in a timid way, and Aunt Hong smiled embarrassedly, and Li Suzhen hurried behind her mother and lowered her head and did not dare to look at others.

Song Tianyao, who was wearing shoes on the bed, raised his lips. Sure enough, he had never seen relatives who helped him in time, but he would definitely be inseparable from neighbors who were in trouble.

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

"No, no, I told A Tian all the three hundred dollars. How could I come back? They are all neighbors." Aunt Hong smiled at Zhao Meizhen with a salivation and said, "Today, it is mainly because A Quan, who is from the fruit business, plans to marry Suzhen next month. Let's notify me and remember to go and have a drink of wedding wine when I get it."
Chapter completed!