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Since he wants a daughter, Haluka can only work harder, but the harder he works these days, the more money he loses, so Haluka has not dared to eat fresh fruit for a few days, and the cart is full of leftover fruits. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

As Haluka waved away the flies flying in front of him, a nightmarish scene conjured up before his eyes: a heartbroken man dumping piles of rotting fruit in front of a garbage can in the market. Haluka was startled, and when he lowered his gaze to see the crumpled and rotting fruit on the cart without sympathy, he couldn't help but grieve. Haluka knew that if no one cared about the fruit again, the man he had just seen in a trance was doing what he had to do when the stall closed today—dumping a cart of rotten fruit into the trash. Haruka didn't know what to do when he woke up tomorrow morning to convince himself to stick to the fruit business, but if he didn't sell fruit, what would he rely on to make a living?

In the past, when he couldn't make ends meet, Haluka could also find close friends to borrow some money to maintain the family's life, but now those friends who can open their mouths to borrow money have been borrowed, and the old accounts have not been repaid, how can Haluka open his mouth and borrow new accounts; not to mention that the poor people are mostly poor friends, and the economic conditions of those friends of Haluka determine that they can not provide much help to the embarrassing life of the Haluka family, so now the only hope of the Haluka family is to live on a little income obtained from the fruit business, and there are many fruit sellers in the market, and Haluka has always been industrious and does not lose anyone, because in addition to supporting his family, he also wants to make more money to pay off the debts。

But the cruelty of the reality in front of him, this always strong African man wanted to find a place where no one was there and cry loudly.

"Are you Haluka?" A pair of black shiny leather shoes and ironed straight gray trousers suddenly jumped into the eyes of Haluka, who was looking down and secretly sad, and heard someone asking, Haluka looked up, and he saw that the most famous tour guide named Santos in the Nilagongo Scenic Area was asking in front of the cart.

Santos is famous because he has studied and worked in Europe and the United States for several years, and then due to the financial crisis, he couldn't get mixed abroad, returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and became a tour guide in Niragongo, with his own advantage of mastering several languages, Santos accidentally mixed up in the local tour guide industry in Niragongo, he has made a lot of money in recent years, on weekdays, Santos loves himself and clings to the local magnates, and never looks at poor people like Haluka, even if he occasionally interacts, when he speaks, he is also arrogant, There was no one in his eyes, so seeing that Santos was not only bowing his head and talking to himself, but also with a rare kind attitude, Haluka was surprised in his heart, and when he nodded, he saw that behind Santos, there were four men and one woman and five Asians who looked like tourists with bags on their backs.

"You're lucky to have met me, you can close the stall early today, because my guests are going to buy all the fruit in your car. Santos looked back at the Asian tourists behind him, and after a brief conversation in English, Santos turned back to Haluca.

Someone wants to buy fruit enough to make Haluka happy, not to mention that he can't believe his ears when he buys all the fruits in a truckload.

"You name a price?" Santos looked impatient when he saw Haluca stunned.

Hearing Santos's inquiry, Haluka was afraid that the customer would change his mind if he said the wrong price, and after some calculation, he was ruthless and told Santos that the price was only a little better than the situation if the fruit was rotten and dumped as garbage, although Haluca also hoped to sell it for a good price, but in addition to worrying that the business would not succeed, he did not want to deceive the customers due to his simple and kind nature, and half of the fruit in his car was afraid that it would rot before he could eat it.

"The price you said is unacceptable to the guests. Santos spoke to a few tourists, then turned and shook his head at Haluca.

When Haluka heard this, his heart was cold.

"Because these guests insist on paying so much money for your fruit. Santos shifted his words and gestured, uttering a number that Haluca couldn't believe.

"No, no, no, don't say that a lot of the fruit in a cart has rotted and can only be thrown away, even if these fruits are fresh, they can't be sold for such a high price. Haluka waved his hand in a hurry.

"Your guests know that they bought your fruit to give you time to take them back what their friend had entrusted to your father, Tilla, a few years ago. Santos said disapprerovingly.

Haluka's face suddenly calmed, and his eyes looked at the tourists behind Santos, "Please ask these guests from afar on my behalf, who are their friends, and what things were left with my father back then?"

"You tell him that we are friends with Dr. Edson, and that since the Doctor died in an accident, we have to retrieve the stones that were stored with his father on the Doctor's behalf. One of the most unfriendly-looking men among the tourists must have seen Haluca's confusion and said to Santos.

The man with this fierce face is Xiao Shilong, and behind him is Wei Ran, who has an indifferent expression, and the person next to Wei Ran who is looking up and down Haluka with suspicious eyes is Gao Xin, "The shocking secret left by Xue Runan and Edson, the two dead ghosts, is really related to the person in front of him?" Gao Xin was undecided, just because the African selling fruit in front of him looked really poor, and he wondered how Edson could trust those precious Masili to such a person for safekeeping.

Lin Xu supported the weak Lin Feng to stand in front of Wei Ran, "Are the stones left by her husband still in front of you?" Lin Feng looked at Haluka with a flushed face, and his heart was excited, he learned from Lin Xu's mouth that Edson had left such a major discovery during his lifetime, and he was also determined to make this discovery as a gift for the love testimony of the two At that time, Lin Feng hated to see the stones called Masili left by his husband as soon as possible.

Lin Xu looked at Haluka worriedly, even if he didn't want to, but led Xiao Shilong and Wei Ran, the two robbers, to Nilagongo, and found Haluka, the son of Tila, through Santos, there was only one reason, no one would pay attention to such a hot weather, but Wei Ran's hand was always in his trouser pocket, that was because Wei Ran was holding the remote control in his hand, as long as he pressed his fingers lightly, the bomb tied to the legs of Lin Xu's aunt and nephew and Gao Xin would explode, and Lin Xu had no choice but to lead the two here.

"Are these people Dr. Edson's friends?" Haluka muttered with a puzzled look in his eyes, as he could see that the Asians had very different expressions.

"It's up to you to explain. Xiao Shilong turned around and motioned to Lin Feng.

"I'm Dr. Edson's wife, and I'm my nephew, and these three gentlemen are Edson's life...... Good...... My friend, they have traveled thousands of miles to accompany me to Niragongo to retrieve some of the stones that my husband had stored with Tila back then. Lin Feng said.

In front of him, Lin Feng looked seriously ill and had no hypocrisy on his face, Haluka naturally believed her words, and this simple man wondered in his heart why Xiao Shilong's attitude towards Lin Feng's aunt and nephew was obviously a little arrogant.

"The stones that Dr. Edson had entrusted to his father must have been so important to his wife that she had crossed the ocean to come to Nilagongo, despite her ill health. In silence, Haluka recalled his father, Tilla's deathbed confession.

Haluka's father Tila was also a tour guide during his lifetime, his wife died early, Tila in order to make money to raise the six Haluka brothers and sisters, in addition to serving as a tour guide for tourists, for some adventurous tourists in order to find the secrets, ask Tila to be an unconventional travel route guide invitation, Tila is often disrespectful, although he knows that those tourists ask to go to places are usually inaccessible, and there are often unpredictable dangers on the way, but for those tourists to pay much higher than when he was an ordinary tour guide, Tila will always grit his teeth every time at the expense of his life。

When Tila talked to Haluka about his work during his lifetime, he often self-deprecatingly compared his act of accompanying tourists into danger to dancing on ropes suspended from high in the sky, and if it weren't for the accident two years ago, perhaps Tila would still be continuing his life's unique dance steps on the ropes, or perhaps Haluka would have followed in his father's footsteps and worked as a tour guide like his father.

I still remember that hot afternoon, when Haluka was informed that his father had led three tourists from Europe to explore a fissure in a valley on Mount Nyiragongo, because the rock used to hold the climbing rope loose, Tila fell down the valley while climbing, and although he was rescued, it seemed that Tila would die before he could be taken to the hospital.

On the way up the mountain, he happened to bump into his father who was lying on a makeshift frame made of ropes and branches, and was being carried down the mountain, and Haluka was crying and knelt down in front of the stretcher, and Tila on the stretcher was already dying, and when he heard Haluka's call, he tried his best to open his eyes, and then explained two things to Haluka: the first was that when Dr. Edson hired Tila as a guide, he entrusted him with the coal-colored stones stored in the house, and unless the doctor came to take them, Haluka must not use Tila to deposit them in the bank, the money that Dr. Edson used to pay for the custodianship.

Although Tila was poor all her life and was dying, she was so poor that she still had a handful of hard bones left, and Haluka naturally agreed to her father's request with tears.

Another thing is that Tila asked Haluka to promise never to work as a tour guide in the future, Tila took the tourists to risk her life just to make more money and make the family live a better life, but now there is an accident, her life is gone, and she still talks about a good life, Tila regrets that she chose the wrong career in the first place, so he will never allow Haluka to follow in his footsteps.

When he saw Haluca nod in agreement, Tila closed her eyes and died.