Chapter 358: Survival in Hong Kong (3)
After Xiaoju settled her residence in Hong Kong, her mood was even more relaxed and happy! When you first arrive in a strange place, as long as you have a foothold and a sense of stability, then the other qiē can slowly integrate and become familiar.
In addition to sending telegrams and spending a day there, Xiaoju spent another two days on Hong Kong Island and took a good look around the place. I also have a preliminary understanding of Hong Kong Island. As for Kowloon and the New Territories, which both belong to Hong Kong, Xiaoju decided to wait until she settled down and then went to see it.
In the past two days that Xiaoju has been wandering around Hong Kong Island, her originally happy mood has gradually become a little depressed. Because the city showed Xiao Ju the distinct hierarchical life difference of his class. The contrast between the contented foreigner and the dark-skinned Chinese coolie in the subtropical sun is stark. There is a world of difference between the lives of many lower-class Chinese and a very small number of upper-class Chinese and expatriates.
After two days of careful understanding, Xiaoju learned that in the past, foreigners and Chinese in Hong Kong had their own exclusive settlements. On Hong Kong Island, the Mid-Levels of Hong Kong Island used to be inhabited by Europeans and Americans, but now there are many wealthy upper-class Chinese and wealthy businessmen and politicians who have migrated to the island from the mainland in recent years.
Naturally, these wealthy Chinese will choose to buy land and build luxury homes in the Mid-Levels of Hong Kong Island, where they live in a beautiful and safe environment. As a result, property prices and rents in Hong Kong have risen rapidly in recent years. But at the same time, it also broke the living environment of foreigners and Chinese. At the same time, it also broke the disintegration of Chinese and foreign life and cultural circles, and these two different races not only began to infiltrate each other in terms of culture and life, but also began to slowly form an upper class society that was different from the previous Chinese and foreign distinctions. This is also the reason why Xiaoju was able to buy a house in a European and Portuguese exclusive settlement.
However, in the squatter houses inhabited by the lower Chinese at the foot of the hill on Hong Kong Island, the living environment and living environment are very bad. In Xiao Ju's opinion, the conditions in the shantytowns where the slums were concentrated in the previous life were ten times worse. It's all a place of rotten wood, planks and plastic that can be built randomly to shelter from the wind and rain. Not only are the sanitary conditions extremely poor, the sanitation facilities are extremely rudimentary, and the water and electricity used by the family are extremely inconvenient.
When Xiaoju saw the living conditions of the working class, who make up the vast majority of Hong Kong's population, it was impossible to have no idea in her heart! The gap between the lives of the rich and the poor is so big, the lives of the poor are so hard, and the lives of the rich are so luxurious. This extreme polarization made Xiaoju feel the impact of money for the first time.
Not to mention that Xiaoju was touched, but the excitement of Wu Tai Lantau and Wu Xiao Yu when they first visited Hong Kong Island, to the silence when they left Hong Kong Island to return to the fishing boat hidden by the sea in the East of the New Territories, all show that these two brothers also have their own ideas about these two different lives, and because of this experience on Hong Kong Island, the lives of these two brothers have been different from their father's life trajectory.
When Xiaoju and the others returned to the fishing boat, the five people who remained on the boat were about to have dinner. Yang Liu rested for three days, and when he learned the good news that he had arrived in Hong Kong, most of his heart disease was gone. So when Xiao Ju entered the cabin. She is helping Xiao Ju Niang to set up the dishes and chopsticks on the temporary dining table. Dreams of the Republic of China 358
Xiao Ju's ears were tipped, and the various attitudes and dissatisfied words of these people who thought they were noble people were clearly transmitted to her ears, in order to avoid trouble, Xiao Ju told the other five people to speed up their pace, so that they could quickly return to their own residences and clean up their respective ones, otherwise it would be boring to be driven away by those dog-eyed administrators or Hong Kong police!
It may be that this ghetto has never been a real refugee dressed like a refugee like Xiao Ju and the others have come in, so before the administrators and the Hong Kong police can react, Xiao Ju and the others have already come to the building where Xiao Ju bought. The administrator guarding the first floor saw Xiao Ju and them, and before they could stop them, they were picked up by Xiao Ju casually, and several other people rushed up the stairs with tacit understanding.
The two apartments that Xiaoju bought are in the same building, but one is on the third floor. The other is on the fifth floor. Xiao Ju considered that Yang Liu was weak and had difficulty climbing the stairs, so she arranged for the three of them to live on the third floor, while her own family lived on the fifth floor.
When Yang Liu's mother and son entered the residence on the third floor, they were stunned by the comfortable but comfortable layout in each room. To their surprise, the corners of the two bedrooms were piled up with suitcases, which they found when they looked closely and found that they were the same ones they had taken with them when they set off from Shanghai.
"How is this possible? Mother, this isn't a dream, is it? How did all this luggage end up here? Shouldn't they sink into the sea with the ship? "Chang Gong is so young, how can he calm down? The first shouted in disbelief.
"Shut it up! It's such a big person, can't hold your breath at all? Shut up about this, no one is allowed to ask, no one is allowed to be curious! Don't even ask! Hear no! Yang Liu was just stunned for a while, and immediately said sternly.
"Hmmm! I know! Although Chang Gong's curiosity in his heart was like a cat's scratch, he also knew that he couldn't ask more about this matter. Xiao Ju was able to risk her secret being "revealed" and return the suitcases they thought they had lost, and the only thing they could repay each other was to keep their mouths shut!
Yang Liu counted the suitcases and found that the things brought out of Shanghai were the same, and now she seemed to understand Chang Baogui's strange request for her to hand over her valuables to Xiaoju for safekeeping before leaving. It's just that Baogui, how did he know that Xiaoju could have the ability to help her keep her luggage? In any case, with all these money and goods brought out from Shanghai, there is no need to worry about her livelihood for the time being.
Xiao Ju saw that Yang Liusan's mother and son came out of the bedroom, although the expressions on their faces were a little weird, they didn't ask anything, which made her heart secretly relieved. You have to know whether to take those suitcases out of the small space at that time, which also made her do a lot of ideological struggle. But in the end, she decided to take a gamble, and now it seems that she has won.
However, Xiaoju was still a little uncomfortable, so she hurriedly told the two brothers Chang Gong, and after looking for something on the fifth floor, she took her mother and Zhuang Zhuang to say goodbye and leave.
On the fifth floor, Xiao Ju took out the key to open the door, Zhuang Zhuang was the first to rush into the room, you must know that on the third floor, he visited the room where Chang Gong's two brothers lived, it was very envious, and now he found that his room was also the same furnishings as Chang Gong's two brothers, all of which were a large wooden bed, a desk, a chair, and a row of large wardrobes against the wall, so he came out of the bedroom he identified with satisfaction.