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Chapter 2 Two Ways to Get Started

After sitting in this cage for a while, Zhang Jin quickly obtained his current identity from the system. He is a stowaway who has just been in Xiangjiang for half a month and lives in a cage in the Kowloon Walled City. There is no formal job, just relying on part-time jobs to make ends meet.

Knowing his identity and situation, Zhang Jin was about to get out of bed. Judging from the height of the opposite window, he should be on the upper bunk. Unexpectedly, as soon as he stretched out his foot, he felt that he had stepped on something round and hard.

"Ah Jin, you don't have to step on my head every time you get up, do you?" An aggrieved voice came from below.

"..." Zhang Jin turned his body sideways and poked his head out, and saw a young man patting his hair with both hands. It should be the person he accidentally stepped on, and the name of the other person popped up in his mind, "Sorry, I Didn't notice, not next time."

"Trust me, you say that every time." The young man raised his head and showed a simple and handsome face.

"..." Zhang Jin looked at this young man named Ayou, and said to himself, friend, you look familiar.

After getting out of bed to wash up casually, and drinking a bowl of porridge that showed his face, Zhang Jin went out to work with Ah You in an old shirt with a vest.

It was just dawn at this time, and the two stood in the corridor and looked up at the direction of the roof of the city wall. A ray of sunlight fell on the gray wall, looking very warm.

"The charter woman is really inhumane. She asked us to get up and start work at dawn." Zhang Jin said.

Ayou turned his head and glanced at the door behind him, and reminded: "Hey, shut up, be careful not to be heard by the charterer. Let's go, let's get up early to start work!"

Zhang Jin asked as he went downstairs: "A friend, you look like a friend I know, what's your last name?"

"Is it expensive or not? I'm just like you, and my surname is Zhang."

"Surname Zhang? Then what's your full name?"

"Zhang Shuiyou."

"..." Zhang Jin froze for a moment, "Are you talking about the water in the river, or the learning?"

"Of course it's the water of the river. I'm from southern Hokkien. I grew up by the sea. My parents gave me this name. I hope I can go to sea safely." Ah You said with a smile.

Zhang Jin heard that the terrain of the Kowloon Walled City is complicated, the alleys and dark alleys are criss-crossed, and all kinds of illegal structures are even worse than the urban villages of later generations. Only when he came here personally, did he realize the truth I really feel the disorganization of this walled city.

Sometimes it is obviously a downward staircase, but when you walk, you will find that you have reached the top of the building.Sometimes there is a dead end with no way forward, and it is only after turning over the iron gate that there is a bright future.

In addition to poor civilians, the people living here are stowaways, murderers, drug dealers, etc. Therefore, there are also many fan stalls, gambling stalls, chicken stalls, and dog meat stalls here. bigger.

Whoa!

A basin of water suddenly fell from the sky and sprinkled on the open space to the right of the two of them.

"Aren't you mistaken, watch when you're splashing water, there's someone down there!" Ah You raised his head and shouted upstairs in dissatisfaction.

The response to him was: "Pounce on your mother!"

"It's too much! It's worse than the grandmother in my hometown, and there is no courtesy at all."

"Come on, the people living in the walled city are struggling even to survive, what kind of etiquette do you expect from them?" Zhang Jin said.

Ayou quickly put this matter behind him, and said excitedly: "Hey, Ajin, I heard last night that today's water bearer will be re-selected, let's go, if we can be selected I have a stable job."

"I know what you're thinking. For such a promising job as a plumber, there must be as many people fighting for it as cockroaches on the ground. How could it be our turn?" Zhang Jin shook his head, "Let's go to the construction site honestly and start working."

"That's right, it doesn't matter if we don't have money, good things don't happen to us." Ah You sighed.

In the front corner, two people were punching and kicking the people on the ground, cursing while beating: "Pay back the money! When will you pay back the money?"

"Forgive me, I will definitely pay back the money..."

"My elder brother said, if you don't pay back the money, you will take your daughter to pick up the guests!"

"Don't look, let's go, don't cause trouble."

Zhang Jin looked at it for a while, and then was dragged away by Ayou. The two of them kept walking, and had no intention of saving others.In the Kowloon Walled City, this kind of thing happens every day, and the loan sharks and bad gamblers can't be controlled.

Even if you want to take care of it, bad gamblers don’t necessarily agree with you, and may even scold you for being nosy, because bad gamblers would rather be beaten up than offended by usury and charged more interest.

Good people do not necessarily have good rewards, this is the Kowloon Walled City!

The first point of survival here is not to meddle in other people's business. Xiangjiang's law can't control here. The only order here is the law of the jungle from the underground rivers and lakes.

The two walked through the streets and alleys of the Walled City, and soon walked out of the intricate and maze-like Kowloon Walled City, and went outside to start work at a nearby construction site.

Zhang Jin looked back at the Walled City of Kowloon. At this time, the buildings in the Walled City were not too high. Compared with the mid-70s when real estate developers in Xiangjiang entered the Walled City of Kowloon and converted squatters into high-rise buildings, the Walled City really entered a dark era. Lights and candles are turned on day and night, and the population density is the highest in the world.It's only six or three years now, and things are much better.

But even now, the dark and cramped feel of Kowloon Walled City is enough to make people feel uncomfortable.

I don't know what Wu Shihao and his brothers are doing now. When can we meet when we all live in the walled city?

The friend in front turned around: "Let's go, what are you thinking, if you don't hurry up, we won't be able to start work if you get late."

Zhang Jin turned his head and smiled: "A friend, do you want to be famous?"

Ayou said: "Of course I think about it. If I don't want to, I will come all the way from southern Fujian to Xiangjiang to do something! But before that, I ask you to move your feet. I don't want to be late and have no food. Being sent to sleep on the street by the renter, and hanging out with those scrawny fellow Taoists!"

For the next week, Zhang Jin and Ah You went to the construction site every day to start work. Sometimes the construction site stopped working, and they wandered around the Kowloon Walled City, looking for some odd jobs to do, such as carrying water, hunting fish eggs, and salting salted fish. ... Willing to do anything as long as it can make money.

Unlike Ah You who saved the money he earned, Zhang Jin used the surplus other than living expenses to strengthen various people, and soon gained a basic understanding of the current situation in the Walled City.

"Ah Jin, I heard from Uncle Jiu at the door that you plan to learn boxing?" Ah You, who had just returned from work, asked loudly at Zhang Jin who was drinking porridge as soon as he entered the door.

"Yeah, why, are you interested too?" Zhang Jin asked without raising his head.

"What the hell are you interested in! Learning boxing doesn't make any money, and you still have to pay for it. What are you doing this for?" Ayou sat down next to him, and unceremoniously served himself a bowl of porridge.

"Of course it's to get ahead."

Ah You hesitated for a moment: "You want to mix up the prefix?"

"Can't you?"

"You don't do so many good things, but you want to mix up the prefixes? Isn't it safe?" Ah You persuaded.

"How can Ping Anan get ahead? Didn't you listen to the charter woman? If you want to get ahead in the walled city, men will sell their lives and women will sell their lives. There is no other way." Zhang Jin put down the bowl and chopsticks and looked at Ayou who was next to him, "I don't work hard. Are you selling yourself?"

(End of this chapter)