Chapter 3 I'm back
Life in the Starfall is not much different from life in the old days. A good thing like pie in the sky wouldn't have happened in the old days, and it wouldn't have happened in the Starfall era. If you put in a little effort, you will have a penny to eat, unless you are a soldier who has retired from the desert battalion, but the share of supplies they can receive after retreating is after layers of deductions, and the rest can feed a cat, and it is too difficult for a strong man to feed a person.
However, human beings will never be forced to die by life, as long as you are willing to die hard, there will always be a job suitable for you. For example, if you don't have the strength to mine and scavenge waste, then the owner of the Yonge Street Hotel on the 30th floor of Suyang will show you a way to make money lying down, and he will be very kind enough to charge only 50% of the commission.
But she didn't want to do any of these jobs, she couldn't do mining and scavenging, and she didn't dare to go to Yonge Street. Feng Su knew how attractive her face was to the hunters and merchants on Yonge Street, who were no different from the hyenas in the wilderness, and a child like her, who didn't have a strong backstage to support her, would never get out once she entered.
Yang Ling, who used to live next door to their house, was like this, her mother got radiation sickness because she had been working as a coolie on the upper street for a long time, so after her father's life in the wilderness was used up, she followed the group of father's "friends before death" into Yang Street without hesitation, and never came out again.
Her mother died of starvation. When she died, Feng Su and her brother had been hungry for three days, but they still didn't let the poor woman who didn't know until she died that her daughter had died on Yonge Street on the first night.
The anesthetic in exchange for cold steamed buns and iron ore can't save that woman's life, life is a very fair thing, it doesn't look at how much you pay, it only looks at whether what you pay is worth the money. Everything you think you give is actually worthless in front of life.
After burying the woman, the brother was silent for a night, went out for a long time the next day, and did not return until the evening. After coming back, he led the seal to Su Street, not far from Yang Street, and had a barbecue. Feng Xu remembered that during the meal, he vaguely heard someone say that a hunter died at noon on Yang Street, and the death was particularly tragic, and even the soldiers of the Huangshi Battalion, who were used to seeing dead people, couldn't help but vomit on the spot.
Feng Su looked at his brother who was sitting opposite him calmly cutting his meat, and suddenly felt extremely relieved.
So Feng Su also wants to make his brother feel at ease. She wasn't afraid to go to Yonge Street to serve the hunters, she was only afraid that if she didn't return, then her brother would have no one to take care of. Yang Ling's mother at least has her brother buried, if she can't come back, who will help her brother add a shovel of soil?
Phew...... Children's words are unscrupulous, and children's words are unscrupulous. Feng Su shook his head vigorously while silently reciting this sentence in his heart, not thinking about these things anymore. Twisting the door slightly, looking back at the bedroom, my brother's breathing was very steady, without a trace of ups and downs.
With a sigh of relief, Feng Su slipped out of the room wearing the radiation suit that was almost a person's height for her. She made an appointment with the employer that she must not be late, and her brother had never taught her this, but he had never been late, so she must never be late.
Now that I'm satisfied, my brother has woken up, but he just needs time to recover. You just need to keep going. However, my brother has just woken up, and his body is still very weak, so I have to work harder, so that I can have money to buy supplies to let my brother recover quickly.
In Suyang, sustenance and resupply are two different concepts. The latter is the ration of veterans, and the former is the welfare of soldiers on duty, and the content contained in it is naturally much richer than the supply of only cold steamed buns and a bottle of 500 ml of third-class pure water, and even a calcium tablet.
This type of provision is also sold to the Suyang people, and one copy usually fluctuates around ten yuan. In the past, when my brother was not injured, he would bring a copy back to himself every weekend, and the smell made the seal unexpected. In her little head, which was not really big, the taste of the food was second only to the barbecue that her brother took her to eat that day.
The 40th floor of the Suyang Underground City is divided into areas, and the bottom 10 floors are the slums of Suyang City, which are inhabited by the poorest part of the Suyang people. And more than a third of these people are kicked out of the place every year because they can't afford to pay the 50 yuan rent, and they live on the upper streets, becoming homeless. For this kind of place where there is not much oil and water to squeeze, the Suyang City Lord's Mansion is naturally unwilling to waste the funds for repair and management. Therefore, it is in the dark all year round, and there is no flashlight or anything like that when you come out to walk, there will definitely be an accident.
Naturally, she can't afford a flashlight, but luckily since she moved here four years ago, her brother has consciously trained her to be familiar with this dungeon, and she can find the elevator entrance with her eyes closed - although there is not much difference between opening and closing her eyes here.
It was exactly eight o'clock when I left, and when I got to the tenth floor, it should be eight or eight o'clock, and then I walked to Rising Sun Street, which took about ten minutes, and it was two minutes away from the agreed time. After calculating the time to make sure that he would not be late, Feng Su took a small breath and leaned his back against the elevator, but his body was always ready to rush out of the elevator. Every night, there will be some homeless people in ambush near the elevator door, taking advantage of the time when the elevator opens and closes to rob people - regardless of men, women and children, as long as it is a person, they will rob, several big men rush up, even adult men, it is easy to catch the road if they can't react for a while.
These things were taught to her by her brother, who always seemed to be worried that someone was going to hurt her, so he always talked about these things that her parents rarely mentioned.
But fortunately, except for the first month when Feng Su encountered such a robbery, she has not encountered anything similar in the past two months, which makes Feng Xu happy and faintly worried, she is afraid that the group of people will not come to trouble her, but they will be brewing a greater revenge. So every time I go out, I sharpen the small folding knife very hard.
The elevator stopped on the tenth floor, and the calf of the seal was violently forced, regardless of whether there was an ambush around, and rushed out of more than ten meters in one breath, after making sure that there was no danger, he let out a sigh of relief, shook his little head that sat in the elevator for a long time, and after confirming the direction, he took a step towards Rising Sun Street. The ten-story dungeon is mostly inhabited by the families of ordinary soldiers of the Desolate Battalion, and the security is much better, at least walking here without worrying that someone will suddenly come out and take them away or snatch away their radiation protective clothing.
The boy who liked to wear a white military uniform was already waiting on the streets of the rising sun, and Feng Su subconsciously quickened his pace, walked in front of him, and carefully took off the radiation protection suit.
The boy smiled and looked at the little face that was red because of walking, his smile was exceptionally clean, just like his brother's smile to himself, without any mixed emotions mixed in it, laughing just laughing, which is why Feng Su agreed to his request to rent his radiation suit after seeing the boy for the second time.
"Give you a radiation suit." Feng Fu gently patted the radiation suit that had dried in the afternoon, indicating that it had not been stained with anything dirty because he had worn it all the way, and then handed it to the boy.
The boy took the radiation suit with one hand and a bill with the other, and his smile was still the same: "Actually, you don't have to show me that the radiation suit is clean, I said from the first day I met you that I don't have any cleanliness." ”
Feng Su took the ten-yuan bill and shook his head vigorously: "You can't say that, my brother taught me, saying that once rich people like you are poor, you will become more and more eager for your previous life, and if you can't ask for it, you will be more and more demanding in ordinary details." You may not have a cleanliness habit now, but the days are so long, who can guarantee that you will not have a cleanliness habit in the future, I rarely meet such a customer as you, in case you don't rent my radiation suit, I won't lose a lot. ”
The boy could only smile and nodded: "You're right, I was wrong." ”
Feng Su said proudly: "That's right, my brother is the smartest person in the world, what he said must be right." She subconsciously regarded the boy's approval as her brother's approval, and the eyes of this "old customer" became more and more pleasing to the eye.
"That's it, remember to return the radiation suit here next week, the time ...... It's set at half past seven, how about it? ”
The boy nodded in agreement, and the idea of changing the meeting time at any time was given to Feng Su, and after knowing that Feng Su had escaped from a robbing outcast, he gave Feng Su, who was afraid of retribution, an idea. This idea was also one of the reasons why the two were able to negotiate the lease agreement.
The deal was done, and there was no longer a reason for Feng Su to stay here, so he waved goodbye to the boy, and then prepared to trot all the way back.
"Why don't you let me send you back, it's safer." The boy suggested.
"No need!" Feng Su's smile tonight was particularly bright, and he gave the boy a thumbs up, "My brother is awake, in case he sees you, it will be very troublesome to explain, and since there has been no trouble before, then there will be nothing wrong tonight, not to mention," Feng Su made a wrist cutting gesture of the head of the underworld elder sister, and said arrogantly, "The old lady has a knife...... Eh! ”
Before the sentence "Be careful of the stones under your feet" could be shouted, the mighty eldest sister Feng Su fell to the ground firmly, got up with a disgraced face, scratched her head a little embarrassed, pushed away the boy's outstretched hand, jumped up and down a few times to show that she was okay, and then ran away in a panic - it was really embarrassing.
The boy smiled and looked at the back of Feng Su as he left, until he could no longer see it, then turned around with a smile, and the two guards quietly stepped out of the shadows and stood behind him.
"Have all the rotten people near the elevator been cleared?"
One of the guards nodded silently, and the boy smiled and said, "It's hard work, the reward will be given when I get home, I came out a little anxious tonight, so I brought ten yuan." ”
Hearing this, the guard hurriedly raised his head: "The subordinate is the young master's personal guard, and it is the subordinate's duty to do things for you, so there is no need for a reward." ”
The boy scratched his head: "Actually, I'm just polite, Brother Lei, I'll be embarrassed if you take it so seriously......"
The guard surnamed Lei was stunned for a moment, looked at his colleagues and smiled, and bowed down together: "Since you have said so, young master, then your subordinates will not dare to refuse, so thank you young master for the reward." ”
The boy smiled helplessly, stopped talking, and walked into the brightly lit Rising Sun Street.
Feng Xia sat up from the bed, supported his body with both hands, shook his legs slightly, and his body recovered faster than he imagined, and he was barely able to walk on the ground in less than five hours.
Holding on to the wall all the way to the door, Feng Xia looked at the empty room, his eyes flickered, and after hesitating for a moment, he still gently pushed the door open.
Feng Su thought that his action of going out was already very light, but he didn't expect that his brother was not asleep at all.
Feng Xia didn't plan to do such a meaningless thing as going to find his sister and coming back, as if he didn't stop her when he heard her go out. He was suddenly in a coma for three months, and relying only on that supply and his savings for four years was definitely not enough to support his daily consumption of third-class purified water and pure air.
Don't care about what you can't manage, don't help what you can't help, don't save what you can't save. Feng Xia figured out this truth three years ago when he buried the woman who didn't even know her name, so since he had no way to change the status quo, he could only watch his sister leave, and any obstruction or inquiry would only hurt the sensible child and cause her more burden and even harm.
So Feng Xia was now just leaning on the lintel and watching the cigarette fireworks at the elevator entrance not far away, and the familiar smell made him easily guess the identities of the two people guarding the elevator entrance.
After making sure that the vultures who lived by robbing people would not appear under the guard of the two guards of the Desolate Battalion who stayed here for some reason, Feng Xia turned around and closed the door and returned to the bedroom.
After a while, the familiar sound of the door opening sounded again, and the footsteps of walking were very brisk, and it seemed that the owner was in a very good mood.
The bedroom door that had just been closed was pushed open again, and the cheerful girl who looked like a kitten ran in, and then quietly stopped, ran to her brother's side, and whispered in her brother's ear: "Brother, I'm back." ”
The sleeping boy didn't seem to hear this, the sound of breathing was still steady, and Feng Su, who was lying next to his brother, listened to the sound of breathing that had accompanied her for twelve years, and the sleepiness gradually came up, and he fell asleep unconsciously.