Chapter 15: Opium II
Philfax often went to Hades' house, and the guards quickly found him. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Hearing that Filfax asked him to bring opium over, Hades' eyes lit up, and he took out a box from his study and followed the guards back to Filfax's house in a hurry.
As soon as he saw Hades, Philfax, who was originally bald and expressionless, saw Hades, and immediately seemed to see God, and shouted urgently, "Hades, give me opium, I want opium!" ”
In the past, Hades shared the opium he brewed with Filfax for free, but today Hades said with a sad face, "Fax, we can't enjoy opium anymore!" ”
Hearing that he could no longer smoke opium, Phil Fax panicked, if there was no opium, then how would I live in the future, no, absolutely not, I can't live without opium. I will never be able to endure the pain of the day any longer.
Philfax hurriedly said, "It happened, Hades. Tell me, what the hell is going on? ”
Hades sighed and said, "Fax, I spent all my savings to buy these opiums, and now I am poor and cannot afford to buy opium. ”
Hearing that it wasn't that the opium was gone, but that Hades had no money to buy it, Phil Fax breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I thought it was something, you don't have to worry, Hades, you just have to buy it again, and I'll pay for it." How much does it cost to buy opium? ”
Hades rolled his eyes and said, "A pound of opium costs nearly 30 shillings." ”
Filfax was shocked when he heard it, "So expensive! ”
Filfax's salary is nearly 1,000 shillings a month, which is the highest salary in England.
Philfax estimated that he now smoked nearly a pound of opium a day, and that he would spend nearly 900 shillings a month on opium. But he is not alone, and he has a family to support, and in addition to these, there are also those servants and the like who have to pay wages.
After a period of estimation, Philfax found that he could not support the cost of opium unless he let his family live in poverty and let the servants out.
Filfax didn't want to spend so much on opium, but the stinging pain in his body and the desire for opium in his mind made Filfax unable to control himself at all.
Philfax took out a bag of shillings from the study and tossed it to Hades.
Hades took it, opened it and saw the golden coin, and his eyes lit up.
Putting the money bag in his pocket, Hades took out a box of opium and handed it to Filfax.
As soon as Filfax saw the opium, he snatched it up, hurriedly asked the servant to light the cigarette lamp, cut off a piece of opium with his own hands, put it into the smoking gun with a cigarette stick, and smoked it greedily.
Phil Fax lay on the bed, burying her body in the clouds, unwilling to think about those troubles anymore.
Phil Fax threw everything away, what money! What task? What family? Forget about it.
Everything in this world is garbage, just this opium!
All I need is this opium!
Philfax indulged in the clouds of opium, no matter what others tried to persuade him.
Phil Fax promised at first, but as soon as the drug addiction came up, he didn't care about anything, and ran to Hades' house with the money.
For a while, in order to quit drugs. Filfax had himself shut up, and the doors and windows were all planked shut.
As soon as the drug addiction came up, Phil Fax couldn't open the door, so he jumped directly from the second floor in a hurry.
Limping, Philfax had to run to buy opium.
Unable to quit, Phil Fax did not have the confidence to quit opium, ignored his wife's pleading, and no longer paid attention to his daughter's sad gaze, Phil Fax completely gave up on himself.
He gave up on himself, and his addiction grew, and a pound of opium a day could no longer satisfy him.
Two or even three pounds would be needed to fill his physical and mental cravings for drugs. The cost of drugs also rises from 900 shillings to 1,000 shillings and 1,200 shillings per month...... 1800 shillings.
The slaves were sold, and the servants were dismissed, and they sold all that was valuable.
But even so, Filfax's salary can't support the purchase of drugs.
He began to find all kinds of reasons to borrow money from his colleagues, and even cheekily borrowed money from his own guards.
At first, everyone saw that Philfax was an executive of the East India Company, and they were willing to lend him money.
Later, I saw that Phil Fax had been borrowing money and not paying it back, and others no longer believed him.
The drug addict was gone, the salary was spent again, and Filfax went around without borrowing a penny.
Phil Fax couldn't run to Hades' house, and said with a smile: "Hades, you're addicted, let's get a pound of opium first." “
Hades smiled and said, "Thirty shillings for a pound!" ”
"Haha, I just don't have enough money today, I promise, tomorrow, just tomorrow, I will definitely give you the money!"
When he opened the door and saw Filfax, Hades was still smiling, and when he heard that he had no money, Hades immediately turned his face.
Hades said coldly, "Do you think my opium is a common commodity? It's a gift from God, and you can't buy it without money! ”
After saying that, Hades had no interest in looking at Filfax anymore, and turned around to close the door.
Philfax grabbed Hades' leg and pleaded, "Hades, my good brother." Please, give me a pound, just a pound, and I'll give you money tomorrow. ”
Hades pushed Filfax away and shouted, "No money? You can steal and rob! As long as you have money, you can buy opium. Don't come if you don't have money, get out! ”
A kick knocked him away, and with a bang, Hades slammed the door shut.
The addiction came back, there was no opium, Philfax first had a runny nose, he felt very cold, shivering and shivering.
There was a haunting sound of mosquitoes and ants flapping their wings in my head. "Buzz! Buzz! ......" grew from small to large, and gradually escalated into a huge roar.
It felt like something was squeezing out of the veins and almost bursting the body.
Then it seems that there are tens of thousands of ants crawling all over the body, and no matter how you scratch it, you can't get rid of the itch, so you can only shake your body and try to rub the bones by shaking the skin and flesh to try to stop the itch.
Then the ant seemed to gnaw at his bones, and Philfax rolled in pain in front of Hades' door, wailing.
Hades ignored it, still suffering from a drug addiction outside the door from a young age.
Just outside the door of his own small hair, Phil Fax was in pain for a long time, and the pain slowly subsided.
Looking at the door that had been closed, Filfax wanted to be deflated and dragged his tired body down the road.
The people on the road saw Phil Fax as if they were ghosts, and hid far away.
The originally tall Philfax had been taking drugs for a year, and the clothes that originally fit him were like being draped over a thin straw body, and the whole person had been completely deformed.
The eyes and the frame of the eyes seem to have been completely separated, and the eyes are like two pits, sinking deeply. The height of 1.81 meters is only 85-90 pounds, and the whole person is like a hanged ghost.
When Phil Fax returned home, he saw his fourteen-year-old daughter, Phil Marilyn, watching him cautiously.
Her mother, her own wife, stood at the kitchen door watching.
Phil Marilyn whispered, "Father, I'm hungry! ”
Looking at his daughter's emaciated cheeks and wistful eyes, Philfax searched all over her body and found not a penny.
Phil Fax looked up guiltily and wanted to find something of value to sell and buy a piece of bread for his daughter.
But when he inspected the house, he found that the valuable things in the house had long been sold, and there was nothing else except the structure of the house, the two chairs that no one wanted.
In the disappointed eyes of her daughter, Phil Fax hid in the study without a desk full of guilt, and tears could not help but flow.
As a father, he can't even buy a piece of bread for his daughter so that she won't go hungry, and he is a father in vain!
In the midst of endless remorse, Filfax committed suicide! (To be continued.) )