It was already dark, and Zhu Qiu took Donna by his arms, walked across the gangplank, stepped on the shore, and stepped on the snow.

After walking a few steps, Zhu Qiu suddenly turned around and shouted at his father, "When does my father plan to go back?" Mother misses you very much, and your younger siblings haven't seen you yet. ”

Zhu Yizhou stood on the bow of the boat and replied: "I still have some things here, and when the matter is over, I will go back, don't worry, it's only a few months." ”

Zhu Qiu asked again: "Crown Prince Victoria will be in the United States in a few days, are you ready to meet?" ”

Zhu Yizhou knew what his son meant, so he shook his head and said, "It's gone, so as not to make your mother angry." ”

Zhu Qiu nodded and shouted loudly: "Father, take care, see you in Hawaii next day!" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Yizhou was inexplicably a little emotional, and said: "Qiu, do things in the future, think carefully." Father won't be able to mention you every time. ”

Zhu Qiu nodded again, waved his hand, took Donna in his arms, turned around and strode away.

It's not a long walk before you enter the Manhattan neighborhood. It snowed last night for most of the night, and although the sun had risen, it was still very cold, and occasionally a gust of wind blew, as if to take away the last bit of heat from the body. Fortunately, the clothes on Zhu Qiu and Donna were very cold-proof, and the two of them did not feel too cold.

Turning a street corner, Zhu Qiu suddenly pulled Donna and stopped, protecting her behind him. A white man in front of him, thinly dressed and holding a dagger in his right hand, slowly pressed towards the two.

"What are you going to do?" Zhu Qiu asked coldly.

"Take your clothes off!" The white man shouted.

Zhu Qiu frowned, glanced at the white man coldly, didn't say more, shook his body, and then came to the man's approach, raised a foot, and kicked directly on the white man's lower abdomen, the man bent down in pain, Zhu Qiu immediately slashed at the back of his neck, and the white man fell to the ground softly.

Juqiu turned around and grabbed Donna again, and continued towards Jacobbi.

"Why don't white people grow up like this now, even children have to move*!" Zhu Qiu pouted and said.

"He's lying here, will something happen?" Donna asked softly, "It's so cold, and he has so little clothes on him, will he get frostbitten?" ”

When Zhu Qiu heard this, he glanced at Donna deeply, smiled bitterly, let go of his hand, and walked back by himself. He took a large ball of snow from the corner of the street, got to the white man, lifted the ball of snow, and smashed it the man's face.

The white man was agitated by the ice and snow and suddenly woke up. Zhu Qiu didn't say much, took out a few dollar bills from his pocket, threw them in the man's face, turned around and left.

"Don't come out alone in the future." Zhu Qiu instructed Donna.

The two quickened their pace, turned a few street corners, and saw that they were on Wall Street, the famous financial center of the world.

Along the way, Zhu Qiu secretly felt strange in his heart. From time to time, there were some black outlines in the corners of the streets, although most of them were covered by snow, but obviously, some frozen corpses. The closer you get to Wall Street, the more frozen corpses there are on the side of the road.

Step out of the alley and you'll be on Wall Street. On weekdays, Wall Street is already full of people at this time, but today it is very quiet. As soon as they got out of the alley, they saw the scene in front of them, but the two of them froze. I saw that the crowd on the street was crowded one after another, and the black pressure was full of human heads. Surrounded by buildings on all sides, the street became more and more gloomy, and this Wall Street was like an uncovered can of salted fish, crowded between people without the slightest gap.

But the canned food is constantly pulling out some salted fish that have expired. Many of those who had been queuing here at night had not resisted the snow of yesterday, and like those on the road when they came, they had been lying in front of the bank forever in their sleep. When the sun rose, the new arrivals kept putting the bodies aside, but no one was willing to leave the line to collect the bodies. The grumpy kicked him away, and when he was kind, he moved his hand aside, and gradually around the procession, a wall of frozen corpses was erected.

What Zhu Qiu and the others saw was such a tragic scene in the world.

If anything, there's a little bit of anger here, which is the seven or eight-year-old kids huddled around in the crowd, looking for customers — they're doing the work. Queuing for guests, at the end of the day, can make a lot of money.

Donna had lived in New York for several years, but she had never felt that New York City was so scary. She grabbed Zhu Qiu's hand tightly and shrank straight behind Zhu Qiu. Zhu Qiu shook his head, finally understanding why the man was robbing them just now.

Now in this New York City, people are like ants, with a bite to eat and a piece of clothing, it may be life; One less bite to eat, one piece of clothing, may be a goodbye to death.

Zhu Qiu hugged Donna tightly, turned around and walked backwards—it was impossible to cross this Wall Street. Fortunately, I didn't walk back a few dozen steps, and I met Situ Meitang of An Liang Hall.

"Childe, are you alright?" Situ Meitang asked worriedly from afar.

Zhu Qiu said with a smile: "It's okay, I originally wanted to go back, but there were too many people crowded on the street in front of me, and the road was blocked, so I had to go around, but I didn't expect to run into Yibo." ”

After Zhu Qiu finished speaking, he suddenly remembered something, and said to Situ Meitang: "How many people in the hall can move now?" ”

Situ Meitang immediately replied: "If you use it immediately, there are only about a hundred people in the hall at present, and if you are not in a hurry, you can recruit about three hundred people in the afternoon." What is Childe going to do? ”

Zhu Qiu lowered his head and thought for a while, and said, "A hundred or so people are enough." I was on Wall Street just now, and I saw the heavy snow last night, which froze to death many people who were queuing in front of the bank. Now the whites are busy queuing up and have no intention of picking up the bodies. The dead are the greatest, no matter how they do to us Han people, we must not let them expose their bodies to the streets. I thought about it, and some people in the church should go and put up the corpses, and if they had any marks on them, they would notify their families according to the address. Everyone is poor, so let's do our best! ”

Situ Meitang nodded and said, "What Gongzi said is that this is a good thing to accumulate virtue and do good, and we should do it in Anliangtang." After speaking, he instructed his son Situ Jingyun in the back: "You go back to the main hall, gather people, and let everyone come over if they can move; Tell the women of the house to cook some white porridge. If you still have breath, drink some porridge and warm up, maybe it will be a life! ”

Situ Jingyun agreed, and the horse galloped away.

By the time the sun was halfway up, there were already more than 200 men in Hongmen Anliangtang, all of whom had put down their livelihoods and came along the street to collect the bodies of the white people who had frozen to death last night. You know, when these white people were alive, they didn't scold and curse them.

I don't know if I don't close it, it turns out that it is around this Wall Street, radiating around, and there are dozens of corpses frozen into ice on each street. Soon after, the people of An Liangtang strangely discovered that these corpses had a similarity: their heads were all rushing in the direction of Wall Street.

It's really a man dying for money, and a bird dying for food!

"When I was in China, I often saw those foreigners on the beach, and I thought that this America was a rich place. I didn't expect to be here today, and the people were struggling to make a living! The people who froze to death on the streets this night will not be much less than those under the roots of the imperial city of Beijing! ”

Zhang Yuanji looked at the carloads of corpses and couldn't help but sigh.

Next to him, who was working with his partner, was a sturdy young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, who claimed to be surnamed Liu, Xinger. When Liu Er heard Zhang Yuanji's exclamation, he was stunned.

Liu Er said to Zhang Yuanji while pulling the car: "Mr. Zhang, I, Liu Er, am a rough person, not as good as you and Gongzi, I have a word, if it's not right, sir, don't be angry." I came to America when I was sixteen, and it's been five or six years now. When I came, I heard from people in the village who had seen the world that this America was full of gold! But when I got here, I saw that it was the same as ours! It's just a yellow earth that can be blinded by stomping on the dust. After five or six years in the United States, I have understood it all.

This poor man, wherever he goes, as long as he is poor, is the same;

This rich man, wherever you go, as long as you have money, it is the same;

Then again, as long as this person can have a bite to eat, it is cold or hot, as long as he has a mouthful, it is the same everywhere!

It is said that this American is anti-Chinese, but my current neighborhood is really good to me.

Look at the corpses along the street now, what is the difference between the year of the disaster in my hometown?

There is a bite to eat, and you are not bullied, for us little people, this is it! ”

Yes, there are so many Han people, who have left their hometowns to come to this strange place where they don't understand the language, and are discriminated against and abused, what are they for? Isn't it just for three meals and not to be bullied? Where I go, it's just a house with two acres of land, facing the loess with my back to the sky, getting some crafts in my spare time, exchanging some pocket flowers, and working hard all my life with my hands. As long as they can live, for the Han people at this time, no, it should be said that for all the poor people at this time, it is already a great luxury.

Zhang Yuanji listened to Liu Er's words, and was even more emotional, and after thinking about it, he asked Liu Er: "Do you know what you Zhu Gongzi did in Hawaii?" ”

Liu Er smiled and said, "Of course I know." Sihai Hongmen is a family, we Han people are out of the house, if we don't form a group, we will be bullied miserably. After speaking, he looked around and saw that there were no outsiders - in fact, he was also careful, this America, those who could understand what they were talking were all from the Hongmen - Liu Er lowered his voice and said: "Don't hide it, sir, in fact, our Anliangtang is secretly preparing to go to the street and create some incidents to echo Hawaii." It's just that when I heard that everything was going well, I didn't do it. ”

Zhang Yuanji was taken aback, thought about it carefully, and suddenly felt that this Hawaiian thing, just the Hongmen methods he saw, was already very incredible, but how many did he not see?

Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered the joke that Zhu Qiu said to him that night:

Born in troubled times, life is not as good as a dog; In the hustle and bustle of the century, people are like ants. This Hongmen is to gather the power of ants, for this hard-working people, to support a heaven that allows them to earn from their hard work!