Since the Governor of Hong Kong took office in the 70s, the British Government has been building public housing, commonly known as housing estates.

The buildings in the estates are generally seven storeys, which is a little stronger than the Walled City, but it is not much different.

Tenants share toilets, cooking needs to be in the corridor space outside the gate, and hundreds or thousands of families live in the tube building, which is cramped and cramped.

In addition to the public housing commonly known as "seven-storey buildings", the Government has also built resettlement areas such as Wong Tai Sin, Tiger Rock and Lee Cheng Uk in Cheung Sha Wan on Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, and built a large number of simple wooden houses for residents to live in.

Except for Xiang Yan and Ke Zhixiong, who inherited the family business, the rest of the people on Hong Kong Island are almost all from poor backgrounds living in public housing, including Xiao Yin, a white-powdered driver.

After receiving Luk Chung-ho's assignment, Shrimp Boy took a taxi to the Tiger Rock Resettlement Area in Kowloon City.

He and Xiao Yin are young, the two have lived here since they were children, and later Shrimp Boy went to the city to rent a house in order to take care of his sister to go to school.

It is a complex of buildings at the foot of the mountain, with various dilapidated wooden houses lined up one after another, and the dirt roads are lined with garbage, and people walk in them, and flies "buzz" and fly non-stop.

Xiao Yin's home is a steeple-roofed wooden house built in the fifties, eroded by wind and rain, the paint on the wooden boards has long since peeled, and the industrial butter applied to it has solidified, stained with wind-blown debris and the corpses of flies.

Waterproofing with discarded industrial butter is the "local method" of the residents of the housing estate, so that they can save the money to buy tung oil and buy a few catties of rice.

Although Hong Kong Island's economy is developing rapidly, the vast majority of the people living in the estates are like dust forgotten by the world.

The shrimp boy knocked on the door for a long time, but no one responded, and was turning to leave, but the door behind him "creaked" open.

An old man in his seventies, with gray hair and age spots on his face, leaned on the door frame and looked out: "Ah Xi, are you back?" ”

"Grandpa, I'm a shrimp boy!"

Shrimp Boy saw Xiao Yin's grandfather open the door, and turned back: "Xi Zai, is he at home?" ”

"Oh, it's a little shrimp!"

Old Man Yin recognized the shrimp boy, so he nodded and said, "I'm just behind my ears, and I'm not blind in my eyes!" ”

Shrimp Boy was a little speechless: "I didn't say you were blind, I asked if Xi Boy was at home!" Has he been back in the past few days? ”

The old man nodded: "Thanks to you, my health is not bad!" ”

The shrimp boy scratched his head in a hurry, looked over the old man's body, and looked at the small space where he could see it at a glance: "Forget it, you can rest!" ”

"Shrimp Boy, you wait!"

The old man saw that the shrimp boy was leaving, so he hurriedly called him: "Ah Xi hasn't come back in the past few days, is something wrong with him?" ”

When the shrimp boy heard this, he leaned into the old man's ear and shouted, "He hasn't come back for a few days?" ”

"It's been four or five days."

The old man looked out of the door, as if he wanted to see through the layers of wooden houses, and fixed his eyes on his little grandson: "Ah Xi's father left early, it is not easy for my old man to pull him to grow up, and the society on Hong Kong Island is so chaotic, I am afraid that he will go on a crooked path." Fortunately, Ah Xi was filial, he was afraid that I would worry, so he went to the restaurant to learn how to cook...... No matter what happened to him before, he had never been home for more than two days! Shrimp boy, you came to me, is it really not that Ah Xi has an accident? ”

"Grandpa, don't guess! I usually work on the outlying islands, and it's hard to see Xizai, and today is just a holiday, so I came to play with him! ”

The shrimp boy looked at the half bowl of rice soaked in water on the bedside of the house and a piece of dry pickles, took out the money in his pocket, and stuffed it into the old man's hand: "I owe Ah Xi this money, come and return it to him today, you can take it for him!" When he gets home, remember to ask him to give me a call! ”

"Forget it, it's not easy for you to raise Ah Mei alone, take this money back and buy some nutritious things for Ah Mei, the child is growing up!"

The old man pressed the hand of the shrimp boy, and also shouted: "If you see Ah Xi, you must let him come home to see me, I have always had chest tightness and dizziness recently, and I am afraid that this old bone will not be a few days away!" ”

"Be quiet, I'm not deaf!"

The shrimp boy was shocked by this throat and his eardrums hurt, so he couldn't help but stuff the money to the old man: "Forget it, you rest, I'm leaving!" ”

When Shrimp Boy, who couldn't find Xiao Yin in the housing estate, was holding a cigarette and was wondering where to find someone, a young man walking with a plastic bag on the opposite side stopped him: "Shrimp Boy, why are you here?" ”

"Ah Hao? Didn't your family move away? How did you get back to the village? ”

The young man opposite Shrimp Boy is called Xie Jiahao, and he is also one of his childhood playmates, and the news of today's code gang attack on Holly was passed on by Xie Jiahao to Shrimp Boy.

"I bought some lo-mei and vegetables, and came to visit Grandpa Yin!"

Xie Jiahao gestured with the food bag and looked in the direction where the shrimp boy came: "You also came to see the old man?" ”

Shrimp Boy's eyes lit up: "Do you know where Xiao Yin is?" ”

"If I knew, I wouldn't have come! It's not that Xiao Yin's grandfather's legs and feet are inconvenient, and his health is not good, I can't get through to his phone for three consecutive days, this kid is like disappearing from the world! I'm afraid that the old man will have no one to take care of, so I'll come and deliver something to eat. ”

Xie Jiahao paused, then looked at Shrimp Boy and asked, "Shrimp Boy, I heard that you have a lot of relationship with the newly appointed Red Stick Hao Brother in Yau Ma Tei, and I want to return to the club, did you tell him?" ”

"I mentioned it, but I haven't told him anything about it yet."

Shrimp handed over a cigarette: "You have betrayed Xinyi'an and defected to the Code Gang, and now you want to come back, aren't you afraid that the Code Gang will find you trouble?" ”

Xie Jiahao rolled his eyes: "What you say is really ugly, I'm just a blue lantern, and I haven't joined the club, what is betrayal?" When the flag was planted by the code gang on the street before, Bai Fan Qiang didn't care about us, Xiao Yin helped you get a job to fight for a shift! But I'm alone, if I don't go to the yard gang, I can't wait to starve to death, right? Shrimp boy, we are brothers from childhood to adulthood, and now that you are mixed, should you be going to kick me? ”

In the structure of the club, the lowest level of the second master is called "Sijiuzai", and he is not allowed to be promoted within three years.

The so-called "blue lanterns" refer to non-staff personnel who have not joined the association, temporary workers who belong to the association, and the society asks them to do things, and they are all paid one at a time, but they will not be provided with any shelter.

When the shrimp boy heard Xie Jiahao's words, he felt that he couldn't find Xiao Yin for a while, and thought for a while: "I'm about to go back to see Brother Hao, you come with me!" ”

Xie Jiahao patted the shrimp boy's arm excitedly: "Good brother! Righteous enough! You wait for me here, I'll go and deliver something to the old man first, and then let's go together! ”

……

Kowloon Walled City.

Lu Zonghao walked into the ward and looked at Yu Dongqing, who had been stitched up and bandaged like a mummy: "The doctor said that you are very lucky, you didn't hurt the tendons and bones, and it will be no problem to recuperate for a while." ”

"It's a little injury, it's nothing to me."

Yu Dongqing smiled and sat up from the bed: "Hey, let's talk about you?" ”