Chapter 35: Platform 75
Platform 75 is just a small station on the Yulin Line, connecting the two cities of New Yulu and New Linfen. The railway is dotted with one small station after another. The cotton collection and storage company used these small stations as nodes to purchase cotton from the entire colony and export it to the port of New Linfen.
Over time, the area around these small stations attracted a large number of intermediate buyers, stevedores settled in, and a thriving town developed.
However, these settlements are not registered in the Governor's Palace. There are no police and no laws here. Some middlemen often fight for the supply of cotton, and bloodshed occurs almost every seven or eight days.
Here, human life is worthless, and the corpses are dragged outside the town and devoured by wolves in one night, leaving no bones left.
There was not a trace of clouds in the sky, the vast wasteland, the scorching sun unscrupulously swayed the heat on the hot gravel, and the steaming heat distorted the scenery in the distance. As far as the eye can see, you can only see yellow barren grass and low-hanging shrubs.
Three people appeared on the dirt road in the wilderness, a young man and a woman and a little girl, it was Li Mu and the three.
The wounds on Li Mu's body had scabbed, and his clothes were stained with blood and sweat. He pursed his chapped lips and shook his sister awake from his back.
"Guanxuan, it's here, wake up."
Li Xuan's feet were burned by the scorching sand.
"Brother, I want to drink water."
"When we get to the place, we will have water to drink."
They had been walking in the wilderness for five days, and had drunk all the water they had with them half a day ago.
Li Mu's eyes were bloodshot, his pupils were constricted, and there were yellow spots on the whites of his eyes, which was Jet's withdrawal reaction. They were later overtaken by the Bilisian lizardmen. In the fierce battle, Li Mu injected an overdose of Jett to suppress the lizards who kept pounced.
Under the withdrawal reaction, his vision is a little red, his nerves become very sensitive, and the slightest stimulation of irritability and irritability can make him react greatly.
In the tavern in the town, Boss Wang dozed off on the counter. At this time, there were only a few people in the tavern, and business was very light. It doesn't come alive until the evening, when the workers who load and unload the cotton get off work.
In the corner of the tavern, an oil-stained TV series is playing a TV series from Zhongzhou. The hero and heroine say the sour lines of you and me.
"Hey, this Zhongzhou person is really hypocritical, one sentence has to be broken into two sentences."
Liu Mazi has a stack of melon seeds in front of his seat, he is an idler, specializing in talking and buying and selling to farmers and buyers who sell cotton, and drawing commissions. There is also a group of people under him, who run errands, send messages, and read prices for him. At this time, he also had this time in the Nest Tavern.
The rich have their own place to have fun, and they don't come here.
Just then, the door to the tavern was suddenly pushed open, and three people walked in. At the head was a red-eyed young man, and a delicate girl followed behind him with a girl on her back. They found a table in the corner and sat down.
Liu Mazi's eyes lit up in vain, and he was also a trafficker addict. He has seen a lot, but his daughter-in-law and daughter are good-looking and can sell for a good price.
"Boss, return a pot of wine and five bowls of somen noodles."
Li Mu sat down, he didn't order meat dishes, there is no industrial and commercial bureau here, and the ghost knows what kind of meat the boss will use to fool around. There is a bottom line for using sick pigs and dead pigs as conscientious bosses, there is a bottom line for using rotting wolf corpses as pork, and those who use human corpses are born sons without assholes.
In this lawless place, there are still more people who have sons without assholes.
Boss Wang raised his eyes, he was guarding this tavern at the station, and the guests who came and went from the south to the north saw a lot, and his eyes were very poisonous. There was a sinister aura in the man's eyes, and he was not a person to be messed with, so he motioned to the man with his eyes and asked him to drink less water.
The guy understood and ran into the back kitchen.
Li Mu didn't even look in the direction of the kitchen, he knew that it would affect his appetite a lot. Closing his eyes, he began to resist the addiction.
Jett's first addiction is easy to quit, just don't contact Jett again within five days, which is not a difficult thing for Li Mu, who has a will attribute as high as 2.8. But the strange itch that rose from his bones still made him feel uncomfortable.
Li Mei wiped the cup with a handkerchief before pouring a glass of water for Li Xuan. She was already thirsty, and she held the glass of water and drank it all the time.
"I drink alcohol, and drinking alcohol relieves my symptoms."
Li Mu pointed to his reddened eyes.
Soon, wine and noodles came up. Li Mu poured himself a cup and poured it down. The wine in the tavern is made from cottonseeds, and the taste is very strong, and it is rare that it is not mixed with water.
After taking a drink, the itching on his body began to ease, and Li Mu closed his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief. Suddenly, he tapped his sister's head with his finger, and Li Xuan was secretly picking up the wine bottle and preparing to pour a little into his water glass.
"Whew"
With tears in his eyes, Li Xuan put the bottle back in its place.
Because the food provided was sold to workers who did heavy labor, the amount of noodles in the tavern was amazing, and the bowl of noodles could be used as Li Xuan's basin. Li Mu was already hungry, so he picked up the bowl and pulled the noodles into his mouth, and ate three bowls in a few bites.
The people in the tavern were stunned, they had never seen such a person who could eat so much.
He put down his chopsticks, and a warm current poured out of his body as his stomach digested the food, giving him a sigh of relief.
Suddenly, a hand was placed on his shoulder, and Liu Mazi pulled out a pack of locally produced cigarettes in the colony.
"Brother, smoke a cigarette."
Li Mu frowned, the perfume on Liu Mazi's body was too choking.
"I don't smoke, what's the matter with you?"
He pushed away the cigarette that was handed him.
Liu Mazi was a little surprised, there are addicts who don't smoke. He snapped out one, lit it, squinted and took a deep breath.
"Big brother, my wife and children are very beautiful and cute."
Li Mei's face was a little bad because of Liu Mazi's spitting out cigarettes, but after hearing his words, her clenched fists loosened again, and she lowered her head a little shyly to eat noodles. But Li Xuan was a little angry.
"And then?"
Li Mu's tone was cold, he didn't bother to explain the relationship between the three of them to him, frowned and poured himself a glass of wine, he just wanted to let Liu Mazi go as soon as possible.
Liu Mazi looked around, took out a box of crumpled Jett from the mezzanine of his clothes, and said to Li Mu in a low voice.
"Big brother, give these Jetts to you, and sell them to me for your wife and daughter."
There was a bang, but it was Li Mu who was shocked and slammed the cup in his hand on the table, he looked at Liu Mazi and laughed out loud.
"Hey, what are you laughing at, although this box of Jett has expired, but the effect is still there, if you don't want to add one box, two boxes of Jet, this is already the highest price!"