"Tell me what the cigarettes are for, and the noodles will be yours." There was a lesson just now, Hong Tao didn't dare to show a smile at all, and deliberately spoke with a straight face.

“…… Sell for money, five ...... a dime" The little girl thought about it, felt that the deal was quite fair, and finally told the truth. But when she pulled the two hand-rolled cigarettes out of her pocket, tears welled up in her eyes. Both cigarettes were broken, and the tobacco was scattered.

There was an instant silence at the table, and although the tiger, the cow, and the pony did not shed tears, the muscles on their cheeks were all squirming. Their hearts are as strong as iron, and they kill without blinking, but they are all broken by the silent tears of the little girl.

"Don't cry, didn't you say it just now, tell me what the cigarettes are for, these two cigarettes are yours!" is worthy of being a hero, Hong Tao still has no expression, took out two cigarettes and handed them over.

"Thank you, uncle, I'm going back, my mother hasn't taken medicine yet......" The little girl licked her lips and raised her face to smile at Hong Tao. Even with tears on his face, he still smiled sweetly.

Then he took out an identical small iron box from his arms, and after opening it, there were some tobacco shreds inside, which should have been removed from the cigarette butts. Judging from the color, she dismantled it very carefully, without the slightest trace of burning, and the two cigarette rolls were also carefully put in.

"Your mom is sick?" Hong Tao took out two more cigarettes and put them on the table.

"Well, she was very sick and vomited blood...... The grandfather at the grocery store on the street said that he would spend money on medicine to eat. Mom doesn't have any money, and I don't have ......" This time the little girl didn't reach for the cigarette roll, even though her eyes were full of longing, she still stood up, put the noodles into the small tin box, and stuffed them into her arms.

"I like your little tin box for tobacco, and if you're willing to give it to me, I'll give you some pills, maybe it will cure your mother's illness!" Seeing that the cigarette rolls were not very easy to use, Hong Tao came up with a second deal.

"......" little girl's logical thinking ability seems to have developed faster than her age, and she has not been fooled.

"......" Hong Tao glanced at the scalper.

"Can two tin boxes be exchanged for two pieces...... I can wash the box clean! When the scalper took out the anti-inflammatory pills sold by the alliance from his pocket, the little girl's eyes suddenly lit up. She obviously knew the medicine, or had seen the packaging, and immediately pulled out the two small tin boxes.

"That's great, I just like a couple. It's just that you go back with the pills, what if they snatch them halfway? Hong Tao finally smiled, as if he had picked up a big leak in the antique market.

But he quickly frowned again and pointed behind him. There was no need to look back, the ponies had already hinted with their eyes that the children hadn't gone far, just hiding in the shadows across the street.

"......" This time the little girl really has no tricks, or maybe she is not old enough for her to think too carefully.

"Why don't you go back like this, we'll send you back. When I get home, the pills are for you, and the tin box belongs to me, how about it? It was only then that Hong Tao came up with what seemed like the only reasonable solution. The little girl naturally fell into the trap, even if she was still not very happy to take a stranger home, but the temptation of two pills was too great!

"Hide halfway and follow those children......" Hong Tao whispered in the tiger's ear as he got up to leave.

The little girl's house is really not close, and it takes more than 50 minutes to walk north from Fifth Street, almost 3 kilometers. This is still Hong Tao's excuse to go back early to give his mother medicine, and leave quickly with her. If she uses her short legs and physical strength to rub slowly, the time it takes to get home will be doubled.

In addition to being far away, it is also very broken! In fact, the further north you go, the more dilapidated the houses on the side of the road become. This is not too strange, the innkeeper has introduced that the living environment of Jinmen Port Industrial Zone is distributed in order from south to north, from rich to poor.

To the south, near the Haihe River, the richest area is inhabited by military families, managers and skilled workers in various factories, and their families, as well as many foreign merchants who have been doing business here all year round.

With TEDA Plaza as the dividing line, to the north is a residential area for ordinary workers and their families. Further north from Ninth Avenue is the slum area, where small traders and hawkers, temporary workers, recent homeless people, the elderly, the sick and the disabled, and the lowest level of society live here.

How to evaluate it, that is, it is a little more regular than the outcast area outside the Redeemer base, there is a street lamp not far from the main road, and there are still people who dare to wander outside after dark, and there is basically no difference in the rest. The doors and windows of the houses are in tatters, the streets are full of sewage and mud, and the smell of urine and fills the air.

The tiger disappeared before it came out of the market, and it is not clear where it was. The first is the pony, seven or eight meters behind the diagonal is Hong Tao holding the little girl, and the scalper is at the end.

It may seem random, but in fact this formation is the most advantageous way to defend in the city. The view of the three people will not be blocked by their companions, and they can draw their guns at any time to shoot at the targets in front and behind, left and right, and at the same time, they will not be knocked down by the dense fire from either side.

It's a pity that the people here don't know much about the goods, and they looked blankly at the three men who were dressed and obviously didn't belong here, holding a little girl who obviously belonged here, and there was neither surprise nor doubt in their eyes, or even curiosity.

"It's here...... Second floor! "Fortunately, there is no need to drill into the alleys and alleys that are too complicated and dark, the little girl's home is on a house not far from the street. That's right, it's above, she said the second floor, but where is there a building here, it's nothing more than a layer of iron sheets and wooden boards on the roof, saying that it is a pigeon cage.

"Mom...... Mom...... I've got medicine......" The staircase hangs at the back of the house, and it is made of steel pipes and angle iron welded shelves and then covered with wooden planks. The little girl struggled to climb up on her short legs, shouting as she crawled.

"Whoever has suffered a thousand cuts, howling! Go back and tell your mother that if you don't pay for the room, don't stay. If you want to die, let me die outside, don't spoil the feng shui here. I...... I...... Who are you looking for! ”

The little girl had not yet climbed to the roof, and as the stairs trembled, a fat old man with a scruffy beard appeared at the top of the stairs, crossed his waist to block the way, and cursed loudly. Just as he was about to reach out to grab the little girl, he suddenly found that there was someone below, and he was immediately stunned.

"Looking for her mother...... Are you a landlord here? The other party is obviously not a child, and there is no need to coax, Hong Tao can finally laugh, and asks with a smile with two and a half front teeth.

"Yes, yes...... Oh no, I'm here to help the third master look after the house. Her mother is afraid that she will not be able to come up with the money, no, she has not paid a penny of rent for two months. I'll tell you, I'm afraid she won't make it, coughing up blood every day, skinny and skinny......"

This smile made the old man feel as if he had seen it darker in the night, and he stammered a little when he spoke. Even so, it is not less to say, it can be seen that the problem of chatterbox really does not change depending on whether the situation is urgent or not, and the more nervous it is, the more severe it is.

"If you live to see people, you must die to see corpses, this is the rule! Either you get out of the way, or you lead the way, I don't have that much time for nonsense! Obviously, the old man regarded himself as a debt collector, and Hong Tao didn't explain, so let's get off the donkey down the slope.

"It's okay with me, it's really okay...... Go, dead child, lead the way! When the old man heard this, he immediately retracted his body, and flashed aside to make way of the staircase.

"Come, girl, take your uncle to give your mother medicine!" The passage on the roof is narrow, and two people will stagger their bodies. Hong Tao didn't plan to go too deep, so he stayed at the top of the stairs. The scalper took out the pill box and pulled the little girl inside, and the pony was even more ruthless, so he simply went down the stairs and shrank into the shadows behind the house.

"What does this child's mother do?" Seeing the fat old man staring at the back of the scalper, Hong Tao knew that he also recognized the medicine box.

"Hi, surrogate. When the child was born, because it was a girl, the family was not happy and did not give the final payment. Later, I gave birth to another one, and I had a little money in my hand, and then I went to the factory to do odd jobs, and my life was quite good. When the old man heard the question, he quickly took his eyes back, and turned around to leave after a perfunctory sentence.

"And what is wrong with her?" Hong Tao made a mistake by half a step, which happened to block the way in.

"W-this...... I don't know, I'm pretty sick anyway......"

"Mommy, Mommy...... Woo woo woo ...... "At this moment, a little girl's heart-rending cry suddenly came from inside the passage.