2148 Slums

Lin Yuan smiled, put down the seat under the cockpit canopy of the armored transport vehicle, and then sat on it, so that he could poke his head out of the hatch and see the scene on the side of the street, Shen Wanqing also poked his head out of the armored transport vehicle, at this time, the convoy had already marched to the slums of Calcutta, which was very similar to the slums of Lin Yuan's time, only to see that there were large areas of low adobe houses everywhere on both sides of the road, and there were no bricks and tiles on the houses, only tattered thatch.

Next to the adobe house, surrounded by a deep ditch, the ditch was full of black water floating with all kinds of debris, and a large group of naked children were playing on the edge of the ditch, and when they saw Lin Yuan's convoy coming, they ran over and looked curiously.

Shen Wanqing took out a handful of fruit candy from her pocket and threw it at the children, Lin Yuan saw it and hurriedly shouted, "Don't give it to them!" ”

But Lin Yuan's words were too late, Shen Wanqing's candy had already flown to the children, Shen Wanqing looked at Lin Yuan in surprise and asked, "Why can't you give them candy to eat?" Look at how pitiful these children are. ”

Lin Yuan sighed softly, pointed to the child and said, "You will understand in a while." ”

Shen Wanqing looked at Lin Yuan's fingers, and saw that those children had already fought for candy, a few of them were crying, and a few children who had eaten candy were pressed to the ground by other children and beat up, and they kept screaming.

Lin Yuan said helplessly: "Do you see it?" That's what happens when you give them candy, and if you don't have the ability to give everyone a piece of candy, don't give them a single piece of candy. ”

Shen Wanqing was gloomy for a while, and said sadly: "These children are so pitiful. ”

At this moment, Chen Fei's voice suddenly came from the communicator: "Lin Da is in charge, Puglish said that the room in front is her home, we should stop." ”

Shen Wanqing didn't wait for Lin Yuan to speak, then picked up the communicator and said, "Okay, order the troops to get out of the car, and all the streets leading to Gresh's house are blocked." ”

Chen Fei said with a smile: "Obey, Mrs. Zhai!" After Chen Fei finished speaking, he led the troops to get out of the car, and Paglish's house happened to be on the side of the road, so Chen Fei took people to the back of her house, but soon Chen Fei found that Shen Wanqing's method of blocking the street did not work, because behind Paglish's house was a large area of low houses, these houses were very, very dense, so dense that there was only a small crack in the middle of the house that could be passed, and there were so many small cracks that it could not be blocked at all.

Chen Fei immediately told Shen Wanqing about the situation, and Shen Wanqing was also helpless, so he asked Chen Fei to only surround Paglish's home, Lin Yuan took Shen Wanqing and his entourage to get down from the armored transport vehicle, and under the leadership of Pagorysh, there was a small courtyard in front of her home, and through the low courtyard wall, you could see that the yard was piled up with hills of debris.

Pagrish pushed open the courtyard door, only to see a dozen or so children running out of it, all of whom looked like they were seven or eight years old, without clothes, Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment, and asked Pagrish: "Didn't you say that your child is only two years old?" ”

"They are the children of my relatives and we live together," says Paglish. ”

While he was talking, the group of children gathered around Pagrish and shouted loudly, Zhang Han said to Lin Yuan on the side: "Listening to what these children call Paghrish, they should be Pgarish's nephews and nieces. ”

Pagrish took out the candy and other snacks in the bag and distributed them to the children, at this time six or seven adults came out of the house, there were men and women, these people were very excited to see Paglish, came to hug Pagrysh, a few women also cried, Zhang Han said to Lin Yuan: "They are all members of Pagrysh's family, the oldest person is her father-in-law, there is no Pagrish's husband among these people, maybe her husband is dead." ”

After Paglish finished meeting with her relatives, she introduced her relatives to Lin Yuan, and Lin Yuan greeted them one by one, at this time the oldest old man walked up to Lin Yuan and said, "I am the head of this family, my name is Luradino, distinguished guest, please come and sit at home." ”

Lin Yuan smiled and nodded, but when he walked to the door, he found that the house was pitifully small, the ground was full of messy things, and there was not even a place to stay, so Lin Yuan had to say, "Let's talk in the yard." ”

Luladino was also full of shame, and agreed, Lin Yuan asked, "Old man, do you have any wishes for the future?" ”

Luladino shook his head and said, "I don't have any wishes, if only I didn't starve to death." ”

These people were so tortured by life that they no longer had any wishes, Lin Yuan couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness, and then asked, "Old man, what are you and your son doing in Kolkata?" ”

Luladino sighed and said: "There is nothing to do, every day is to eat according to the faces of the British, if the British have work for us to do, we will not starve to death, now that the British in the rich areas have fled, we have nothing to do." ”

Lin Yuan thought for a while and asked, "Since you can't stay in the city, why don't you go to the countryside to farm?" ”

Luladino shook his head and said: "We are from the countryside, we have no land, we can only rent the landlord's land, but the rent is too high, it is better to eat in the city." ”

Lin Yuan suddenly realized that India in this era is a country that implements private ownership of land, that is, in his own era, India is also a country where land is privately owned, and many Indian farmers have no land and can only go to the city to live, but they can't afford to buy a house in the city, and can only live in a temporary simple shack, so there are so many slums in India, the second largest in the world and the first in Asia, the Haddawi slum is in India's second largest city, Mumbai.

Lin Yuan thought secretly in his heart, it seems that the reform of India still needs to start with the reform of the land, and distribute the land equally among the people of all castes, so that they are economically equal, and only when they are economically equal, can they be equal in other aspects.

Lin Yuan was thinking about it, when suddenly a warrior ran in, knelt beside Lin Yuan and whispered a few words, Lin Yuan frowned, and asked in surprise: "Who is he, why do you want to see me?" ”

The warrior whispered, "We don't know, you told us that we need to learn more from the local population in a foreign land, so I will come to you after he comes to make a request." ”

Lin Yuan thought for a while and said, "I agree with him, you let him go directly into the courtyard, and I will talk to him face to face." ”

The warrior nodded, turned around and ran out, the voice that the warrior whispered to Lin Yuan just now was very small, no one heard it except Lin Yuan, everyone saw the warrior running out and hurriedly asked Lin Yuan: "Lin Shuai, who wants to come in to see you?" ”