Tuen Mun, New Territories, is almost 40 kilometers away from Shek Kip Mei in Kowloon, and since he has opened up the joints to go to Kowloon to work as plainclothes, there is no reason for Du Yongxiao to stay in the New Territories anymore.

Carrying his luggage, Du Yongxiao first spent five yuan to take a rickshaw and two yuan to take a tram, and finally came to the famous Shi Kip Mei for almost three hours.

Shek Kip Mei is now known as one of the three major slums in Hong Kong, the other two being Shek Tong Tsui and Hanging Neck Ridge.

Walking along Shek Kip Mei Street with your luggage, you can see all the low-rise wooden houses and mottled and leaky tin houses, which are in stark contrast to the eight H-shaped public housing estates not far away.

In fact, the eight H-shaped public housing estates were built as a result of a fire.

It was a fire that broke out on the night of December 24, 1952, the night of some people's revelry on the eve of Jesus' birth. Shortly after nine o'clock, a fire broke out in the Shek Kip Mei wooden house area. Although it was rescued, this ruthless fire burned fiercely until the afternoon of the next day, when the wooden houses in the six villages in that area were completely burned to ashes, and then extinguished. More than 100,000 people were killed overnight, 50,000 of whom were left homeless.

In order to resettle the victims, the British government decided to build a seven-storey H-shaped building in the disaster area of Shek Kip Mei, and by the end of 1954, eight H-shaped buildings were finally completed, becoming the first generation of public housing estates.

Du Yongxiao's home is better, at least living in these public housing estates, which are simply "paradise" compared to the dilapidated wooden houses and tin houses in front of him.

"Let's go! Please give it a go! A rickshaw carrying a cheongsam girl wearing stockings and long legs ran past Du Yongxiao.

"Moo----!" A cow barked, and an Abel walked by with a big yellow cow in tow.

A bare-bottomed kid shit on the side of the road, holding a stone in his hand, tense his little face, and shaving his butt with a stone after pooping.

"Twist flower, hemp flower!"

"Fine Rong, delicious Fine Rong!"

Next to the child are all kinds of vendors, shouting and soliciting business.

Du Yongxiao's appearance made the shouting around him stop temporarily, and everyone turned their heads to look at him with different expressions.

Du Yongxiao doesn't have to guess to know what they are thinking, the speed of mouth transmission in this era is faster than the speed of his job.

After Du Yongxiao left his sight, everyone turned their heads to each other: "I heard that this decrepit boy changed careers to be plainclothes?" ”

"Yes, you see that he is dressed like this, and he is already very dragged before he is developed!"

"I'm so envious, that crazy woman has such a good son!"

"Don't let Sister Lian hear this, beware of slashing you with a knife!"

When he came to the public housing estate, Du Yongxiao went up to the seventh floor, many women wore Tang costumes and trousers, stepped on clogs, squatted at the door of the house to make rice, holding a big pu fan and fanning, making soup with honeycomb coal, cooking porridge, cooking smoke, mixed with the smell of radish soup, and the taste of thin rice soup.

The children ran around in the corridor on bamboo poles, and a few naughty ones even climbed onto the railing and slid down, and when they saw Du Yongxiao, they stuck out their tongues at him, and shouted: "The bad guy catches the thief!" ”

Before Du Yongxiao arrived at the door, he heard a noise: "Sister Lian, your family is going to be developed this time!" Ah Xiao became a plainclothes policeman, and you can follow the fragrant food and spicy food in the future! ”

"Yes, Sister Lian, in the future, we will have your family Ah Xiao covered! You should definitely take these eggs! ”

A group of men and women blocked the door of Du Yongxiao's house, carrying various gifts in their hands, chickens, ducks, salted fish, and a basket of eggs, flattering the Du family.

Du Yongxiao's mother Li Cuilian is Chinese New Year's Eve this year, she was a famous beauty when she was young, known as "a flower in Chaozhou", and now she is still outstanding, even if she wears a very ordinary Tang shirt and pants, she can't stop the beauty in her bones.

Just now, Li Cuilian was wearing a water skirt, holding a kitchen knife and cutting vegetables, and suddenly so many gift-giving neighbors came, which made her confused.

The plainclothes of this era are remarkable, and I heard that they are like the ancient brocade guards, soaring into the sky.

At this moment, Li Cuilian smiled from ear to ear, but she was unwilling to accept those gifts.

Du Yongxiao's father, Du Cannon, probed his brain behind his wife, and pulled his wife from time to time: "Take it!" Everyone's thoughts! ”

"Accept it and let you exchange it for money and then gamble? Think beautifully! Li Cuilian turned her head and scolded her husband.

Du Cannon immediately shrank his neck and retreated.

"I'm sorry, I can't accept these gifts!" Li Cuilian brandished the kitchen knife aggressively, "It's not certain whether our family's Ah Xiao has a job or not, everyone sent so many gifts, I don't dare to accept it!" Taking a step back, even if Ah Xiao really takes up his post, I can't accept these gifts! The reason is very simple, everyone is a neighbor, and they should help when they encounter something, but as for this gift or something, it's too affectionate! ”

Li Cuilian's "righteous anger" speech made everyone at the scene admire.

"Sister Lian is still righteous!"

"Yes, it's much better than her husband, she only knows how to gamble!"

Du Cannon coughed, "If you give gifts, you will give gifts, and mention me as a beggar?!" ”

"Sister Lian, you don't have to accept their gifts, but you have to accept my one!" An old man stood up with a bundle of sugar cane, and at the same time stood up a girl wearing a floral Tang dress, stepping on clogs, and having big black braids.

The girl is sixteen or seventeen years old, with willow eyebrows and big eyes, smart eyes, and looks quite beautiful.

"Ah Shuibo, what do you mean by that?"

"My meaning is very clear, our family Ali and your family Ah Xiao are childhood sweethearts. Last time, Ah Xiao saved our family Ali on the road, otherwise Ali would have been ruined by that drunk! Therefore, Ali has long been determined not to marry your filial piety! Ah Shuibo, who usually sells sugar cane on the street, spat and was impassioned.

Li Cuilian was stunned: "Why haven't I heard of it?" ”

"Of course you don't know about the children! In short, I brought Ali over this time to ask you to have a good word, and if you can, you will set their marriage today! ”

Li Cuilian was stunned again, but she didn't expect that something good would come and a daughter-in-law fell from the sky.

"Ali, what do you mean?" Li Cuilian had a little more heart and asked Ali.

Ali played with the big pigtails hanging on her chest, didn't even dare to look at Li Cuilian, lowered her head and said shyly: "I listen to Daddy!" ”

"You see, the children all say they want to listen to me!" Ah Shuibo opened his mouth, revealing his smoky yellow teeth, "Na, if you have no opinion, just take this bundle of sugar cane first, and make sure it is juicy and sweet!" Even if it is a little bit of our Ali's heart, we can make a marriage contract---- I didn't ask for it because you Ah Xiao was in plain clothes, mainly because I didn't want to break up this young man! ”

"Uh, this ----" Li Cuilian was a little tempted, after all, this is Shi Kip Wei, and many bachelors can't marry a wife, not to mention that Ali's girl can also look good, with a big buttocks, and she is guaranteed to have a man.

Just when Li Cuilian wanted to say yes, there was another commotion in the crowd.

"Get out of the way, get the out of the way!"

"We do things in the righteous group, and we are afraid of death!"

Three big men squeezed in from outside the crowd, all of them with their backs and faces full of meat.

When everyone saw it, they immediately hid to the side.

Ah Shuibo jumped with a monkey, and he didn't even want the sugarcane he was holding, and threw it directly to the ground.

The three of them are the subordinates of the righteous gangster "Golden Tooth Gui", and Golden Tooth Gui is the famous "Usury", specializing in prostitution and gambling, usury, taking out murder and arson, and doing all kinds of evil.

As for the money that Du Yongxiao borrowed before, it was his.