Lunch.

White Star Shipping Company London Branch.

"Whoa—"

Foreman Klenell tossed his kit aside and beckoned everyone to come and rest,

"Don't do it! Let's all have lunch! ”

As he spoke, he kicked the ass of a worker who was still riveting,

"Tell you to stop it!"

"Yes, yes, yes! Listen to Boss Clay! ”

The kicked worker hurriedly put his tools aside.

The crowd gathered,

While wiping their sweat, they discussed,

"Grass damn it! Those bastards don't know what they think, they say that they are going to build some kind of Olympian fart class ship with a displacement of 40,000 tons, isn't that bullshit? ”

"Hey, hey! Maybe it can be done? Imagine a ship that can accommodate more than 2,000 people! ”

"That's none of our business! Listening to their plans, the name of the ship seems to be 'Titanic', which is unlucky! If it sinks, White Star will definitely have to go out of business, and maybe it will be completely bought by Liverpool's Canard. ”

"There's nothing to worry about, at least five years to start construction~"

……

The arguing goes on and on.

Klenell was a little annoyed,

"Don't push Lai Lai too much. Today is the day of the serialization of "The Lord of the Rings", so you should quickly call Nansen over and ask him to read to us. ”

"I'll go!"

Immediately, a worker responded to the call and ran away.

Klenell stretched and took out his lunch box,

Inside is a few slices of toast, toasted to a crisp, the sides of the toast are neatly cut, and then divided into four strips, with a faint layer of yellow and white attachment on top, which looks like the residue of fried eggs, exuding a slight eggy smell,

Underneath the toast, there are a few pieces of smoked fish, as well as half a sausage.

The little worker next to him came over,

"Boss Clay, your wife's craftsmanship is really good."

Klenell's face darkened,

"Want to lick food again?"

The little worker smiled, pointed to the toast and asked curiously, "What's that?" ”

Klenell glared at the other,

"The boy still has a little conscience. If you dare to ask me for sausages or smoked fish, I'll have to kick your legs off. ”

As he spoke, he handed the side of the toast over,

"Let's eat this thing as a snack. I've rewarded you~"

The little worker smiled more honestly,

"Thank you, Boss Clay."

He took the edge of the toast, lifted his chin, and then tilted his head, ready to slip it into his mouth.

At this moment, a loud noise suddenly came from outside,

Bang –

The little worker was startled, and the side of the toast fell to the ground.

He hurriedly bent down to pick it up, "Huh~Huh~" blew off the dust on it and stuffed it into his mouth.

Crane Fire Avenue on the other side: "What the hell is going on?" ”

As soon as the words fell, someone ran over and reported: "Boss, it seems that the people from the flour mill next door are doing something and put the cannon in the iron bucket to light it." ”

Guns in the flour mill!?

Klenell doesn't understand dust explosions,

But as a front-line worker, he has a very full understanding of the danger of doing that.

“Fxxk！ Those bastards are dead!? ”

The workers reported: "I don't know...... They seemed to have something going on, and they all rushed out of the factory. ”

"Tsk......"

Klenell couldn't help but be stunned and muttered, "A bunch of psychopaths!" ”

After speaking, he picked out a piece of smoked fish in the lunch box, wrapped it in toast, and didn't care about the fish bones, just put it in his mouth, and then chewed it in a big gulp.

The large fish steak is chewed up and makes a "click" sound.

Just then, Nansen arrived.

He took off his glasses to wipe his sweat and said, "Today there is a number that took four times to match, and it was too late." ”

As he spoke, he took out the "Mirror News" from his body,

"I'll start here."

Klenell waved his hand,

"Well, you have some snacks first."

He was referring to the side of the toast coated in egg wash.

The workers next to him also took action and brought their lunch boxes in front of Nansen.

"Let's have a bit!"

"I've got a little ham mixed with cabbage here, and I don't like it."

"That's it, read it when you're full!"

……

Nansen nodded silently.

The workers always repay him in the most simple way for reading the newspaper,

He is used to all this, but he still can't avoid being moved when he encounters the same thing at noon every Wednesday.

This is also the reason why he is willing to follow Klenell to drink on May Day.

He said: "I ate first, and by the way, I flipped through the newspaper to familiarize myself with the contents. Otherwise, if you encounter an unfamiliar word for a while, you will have to get stuck. ”

Klenell nodded and said, "That's fine." It just so happened that we took the opportunity to eat first, so that you would not have to read there, and we would have lunch there, which would be rude to you. ”

Nansen couldn't help but laugh,

"Boss Clay, do you know it's rude?"

Klenell glared at the other,

"Alright, you hurry!"

He began to eat his lunch again.

Nansen grabbed a piece of toast, brought it to his mouth and chewed it carefully, and then began to flip through today's Mirror.

As a result, before turning to the version, the interview version stopped him.

He couldn't help frowning,

"Your Majesty?"

Klenell's mouth was full, and he asked vaguely, "Dead?" ”

"Poof! cough cough cough cough ......"

Nansen coughed violently and said, "What!? ”

Klenell shrugged,

"I heard that the king's life is not very proper, and he likes women very much, and it is not incomprehensible if he really has any disease."

Nansen: "......"

I really don't bother to refute it.

He shook his head,

"It's okay, this is an interview about education."

Klenell asked, "Elementary school?" Compulsory education? Can my son get on? ”

Seeing that his eyes were full of anticipation, Nansen really didn't know how to answer, thinking about how to divert the topic, his eyes swept around the interview version without focus,

Suddenly, his gaze stopped,

"It's ...... What is it? ”

Klenell said, "What's wrong with you? Shocked. ”

Nansen said: "Boss Clay, do you have any impression of the Tafu Valley case? Is that the case of the railway workers' strike? ”

Klenell tilted his head and thought for a long time,

"No, I'm not impressed."

This one doesn't blame him,

Even if we don't talk about the global scale, just the UK, there are too many similar incidents.

What's more, the Tafu Valley case was in 1900.

Nansen frowned for a moment,

"I ...... I'm going to read it to you, I think this interview is more meaningful than "The Lord of the Rings". ”

Klenell was speechless for a while,

What he fears most is that Nansen says words like "meaningful" and "connotative".

The text is crepe, too off the bookbag.

But he still cheered and said, "Okay, you can read it." ”

Nansen nodded,

"Listen carefully."

……

Reporter: Hello, you are ...... No, please introduce yourself.

Andersson: I'm Chrétir Andersson. I'm a railroad builder...... Forehead...... I'm a railroad worker, but I haven't worked for half a year.

Reporter: I noticed that your left leg is ......

Andersson: Yes, I broke my left leg. There were stones falling at that time......

……

When Nansen read this, Klenell waved his arm a little violently and shouted, "I remember! I remember! The Tafu Valley is in Wales, right? South Wales! This case is because of the collapse of the tunnel! ”

This reminded everyone.

All kinds of chattering followed,

"I also remembered that the river and the canal were 1,900 yards apart, and there was a valley in between, and the project was complicated."

"Ah, is that a tunnel project?"

"Although often referred to as a 'tunnel', it should technically be a very long, inclined railway bridge, half down the hill and half up the hill."

"You know this?"

"I don't know, but my brother is a railroad worker, and he once said that this job was difficult to do, and it's no wonder that it eventually collapsed due to improper use of explosives during backfilling."

……

Talking nonsense, they have basically restored the whole picture of the cause of the incident.

Klenell nodded to Nansen,

"Go on."

Nansen said: "The brothers are right. So, I'm going to skip the part you know about? ”

Everyone nodded in unison,

"Yes, you can."

Nansen continued to read.

……

Reporter: So, that leg was broken by a stone?

Andersson: That's right...... Not...... In fact, it was ...... Well...... It was the stone that pressed on it, and because there was no rescue, it was ...... I don't know what to say. Can this be considered a smash?

Reporter: You mean to say that you have been waiting for help for a long time?

Andersson: Yes.

Reporter: The conditions are very difficult, aren't they?

Andersson: There was water to drink, but nothing to eat. Little Joe bit off his toes in a daze because he was so hungry, but I think he ate the grass and had hallucinations; Bull has always been able to find rats to eat, and we don't know what method he used; Ryu is very hungry, and he always jokes that he is a beef knee with no meat......

Reporter: That's okay.

……

Klenell: "That's it. ”

The crowd couldn't help but be quiet.

The little worker's teeth chattered, and he asked, "Boss Clay, are these true?" ”

Klenell glanced at him, his eyes full of coldness,

This look is the best answer.

Suddenly, someone said, "Those flour mill people suddenly went crazy and fired cannons, could it be because of this?" ”

This is a very high probability.

Klenell was silent for a while, and then suddenly said, "I remember there was paint behind the security door, you can get a wooden board and write something on it." ”

The workers looked at each other,

"Writing?"

They looked at Nansen.

Klenell shook his head solemnly and said, "Don't pull Nansen into the water. ”

Someone said, "But we can't write." ”

Klenell snorted coldly,

“‘Fxxk！’ Can't write? ‘Shiit！ 'Can't write? ”

The crowd understood.

Isn't it the ultimate bad breath?

Of course these words will!

Several workers ran in the direction of the security door to look for paint.

Another moment of silence,

“……”

“……”

“……”

Klenell looked at Nansen and said, "There should be more in the back, right?" ”

Nansen nodded,

"Yes."

Klenell said, "Read it up." ”

Nansen's gaze returned to the interview section of the Mirror.

……

Reporter: So, you went on strike because of this?

Andersson: No. There are a lot of such things on the construction site, and we know them all. We are striking because of Barry...... Yes...... We work for the Bari Railways Railway. We went on strike because Barry didn't give a pension.

Reporter:......

Andersson: What's wrong?

Reporter: Please continue.

Andersson: Well, who would have thought it would be like this. We went on strike for a pension, and we ended up paying Barry instead. They actually found the king......

Reporter: It's the court, not the king.

Andersson: All in all, they were going to sue us that we had lost money to the company by going on strike. We didn't get a pension and we could lose money as a result. Alas, this ......

……

I don't need to read the rest of the content.

Klenell clenched his fists, looked in the direction of the security door, and said, "You guys! Okay, no!? ”

"That's it!"

The workers returned with planks on their shoulders.

Sure enough, the above are very short but very defensible words,

Fxxk！

Shiit！

Highlight a principle:

can scold people, absolutely unreasonable.

Klenell looked at Nansen,

"You ......"

Nansen took off his glasses and interrupted the other party: "I'll go too!" ”

Klenell said, "You must not go!" We've got a couple of lads over there, and you've got to keep an eye on them! ”

Nansen couldn't help but be stunned,

Long

"I see."

He knew that the eldest was talking about the twelve or thirteen-year-old children.

Klenell waved his hand,

"The others come with me!"

A group of workers walked out of the factory.

As a result, it was not as lonely as they imagined.

On the street, there is a sea of engine oil, carbon black, tooling, and construction hats.

Countless workers are squeezing forward.

Someone shouted: "Boss! Boss Clay! Where are we going? ”

Klenell shook his head,

"I don't know!"

He instructed his workers: "Don't look around, lift the planks up as high as you can!" ”

The worker shouted: "Yes! ”

Klenell looked around,

Flour mills, lumber mills, gas companies, wagon unions......

Everybody,

There are all kinds of brands, all of which are better than the shipping company's "Fxxk! "and 'Shiit!' High.

Klenell Fire Boulevard: "Pan! You little, don't lift a plank! You give the planks to the tall guys! Let him take our eagle owl 'Fxxk! 'Into the mouths of those old men.' ”

As soon as these words came out, rough laughter immediately sounded around them.

They walked forward together.

On the side of the road, several patrol officers hid in the shadows,

The patrol captain leaned on the street lamp, took out a cigarette, and lit it casually.

"Whew~"

He let out a sigh.

Beside him, a young patrolman asked, "Sir, should we do something?" ”

The captain sneered,

"What do you want to do?"

A rhetorical question will not be done directly to the young patrol officer.

The captain sighed and said, "Use your brain to think, now this kind of thing, is it the turn of a small soldier like us to go up and send him to death?" In my opinion, it is better for our prime minister to die. And ......"

As he spoke, the captain secretly pinched the "Mirror" in his hand,

"Some people deserve to die."

None of the other patrolmen squeaked.

The captain stuffed the cigarette holder into the mouth of the old patrol officer who asked the question just now, and then said, "Okay, today is a day off." Let's all go back now, and wait until we come out in the evening to check the street lights or something. ”

After saying that, he took the lead and left.

(End of chapter)