Catastrophe

The Flies Restaurant that Ning Zhe and Fatty Li went to is an inconspicuous little shop on the street. The food inside is also very ordinary, but in the eyes of Ning Zhe and Fatty Li, this is already a rare delicacy. Their food from childhood to adulthood is almost the same, and in addition to the lack of water in refugee areas, they have never seen food such as wontons.

The two of them ate all the things in the bowl like wind and clouds, and only one was half full, but the price of the dishes on the wall made them feel expensive, so they didn't dare to continue to order anything. This meal, I ate two. Twenty-eight dollars for an individual is not a lot for the people in the city, but in the eyes of the refugees who have just entered the city, it is already quite a luxury.

"It's no wonder that so many homeless people have to go into the city with their heads sharpened. The food in this city is so delicious! It's just that the amount of food is too small, but it's too expensive." Fatty Li stood in front of the restaurant, feeling hiccups With the smell of sesame oil, the free chili oil and sesame oil on the table between the two of them just now were completely eaten, which caused the proprietress to roll her eyes again and again. At this moment, Fatty Li still doesn't know that in a top hotel in the administrative district, a A meal can easily cost tens of thousands, and the servings are smaller.

After eating, Ning Zhe's stomach finally felt a little warm, and his tiredness was dissipated a lot. At this moment, there were gradually dark clouds in the sky, as if it was about to snow, Ning Zhe was standing on the side of the street where vehicles came and went. , looking at the rows of buildings on the side of the road, rubbed his palms and said: "Now we can't find Zhang Duo, there is no one to rely on in this city, the prices here are very high, just because the two of us have leftovers It is difficult for us to survive for a long time, and we must find a way to gain a foothold in the fortress!”

"Yeah!" Fatty Li nodded. He didn't have any substantive thoughts or understanding of the concept proposed by Ning Zhe. At this moment, he was like Grandma Liu who had just entered the Grand View Garden, full of curiosity and awe for everything in the fortress.

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Ning Zhe spent 20 yuan for a taxi again, and took Fatty Li to the western suburbs that the restaurant owner said. The suburbs have formed a sharp contrast with the urban areas. Looking around, there are large tracts of cultivated land, and the number of buildings has begun to decrease, replaced by patches of bungalows and tile-roofed houses.

Some scholars once said that the biggest difference between any animal is that human beings have a high degree of intelligence and the ability to learn and adapt to the environment, and Ning Zhe has already begun to learn how to integrate into this kind of life the moment he entered the fortress. When I was in the fortress, I always pretended to be a fortress to chat with the driver, and the content was very scattered. From current affairs to all walks of life, when I encountered a problem that I didn’t understand, I would just find an excuse to cover it up, and at the same time, I recorded the right and wrong in the driver’s words. His useful information, and taxi drivers themselves are a relatively talkative group, and there is no doubt about Ning Zhe after a meal of nonsense.

Within ten minutes of driving, Ning Zhe had a deeper understanding of the non-security area through chatting with the driver. There is no running water in the houses in the non-security area, but there are official water stations in the residential areas. Residents need to use their identity information to go to the street for registration, then apply for a water card, and buy domestic water at a price of ten yuan per ton, and the outer four districts are limited to a small part of the city center most of the time. Electricity, there is no electricity from twelve o'clock in the evening to eight in the morning. The most important point is that the outer four districts have weak public security capabilities, so there are many people who are cheated and cheated. The driver also told Ning Zhe, if you want to go to the west When renting a house in the suburbs, you must avoid black intermediaries.

The destination of Ning Zhe and Fatty Li was located in the urban-rural junction outside the urban area of ​​Xicheng District. After arriving here, Ning Zhe even had the illusion that he had returned to the refugee area. There were low-rise houses everywhere, and the garbage dumps stinked. , the road on the ground is also full of potholes, and the clothes people wear have become more simple, far less clean and neat than those in the urban area, but their life is much better than that of the refugees. Although they live a normal life, at least Don't worry about being frozen to death and starving to death.

Ning Zhe looked around and walked in towards a small shop on the side of the road. He picked out some cheap steamed buns and pure water. Because the western suburbs are also poor people living in the fortress, the prices are relatively low. There are a lot of dead noodle steamed buns for two yuan, pure water for five yuan a bottle, and cowpea pickles that the store owner picks up. One dollar can buy three pieces. Ning Zhe wanted to buy some beer, but learned that the suburbs Don't sell this rare item.

When chatting with the taxi driver before, Ning Zhe had a general understanding of the rent of the house here. In the western suburbs, renting a small independent yard costs about 500 yuan per month. If Just renting a room in the yard, then 200 is enough, but Ning Zhe thought and thought that he and Fatty Li should rent a yard by themselves. Although their appearance is no different from that of the fortress, their way of life is different. There is a big gap. When the two of them first arrived, it is easy to reveal some flaws~www.readwn.com~ So when they were checking out, they asked the store owner in a chatty manner: "Brother, do you know there is nowhere near here? A house to rent out?"

The boss glanced at Ning Zhe and pointed to the street outside: "You walk along the main road outside to the intersection, there is a real estate agency over there!"

"I've come to the western suburbs to rent a house. Do you think I can afford to pay the agency fee?" Ning Zhe took the change from the boss and said with a smile, "Is there no place to rent houses around your store?"

"Our street is covered by scumbags. The business of housing rental has been monopolized by them. Everyone doesn't want to offend them for the intermediary fee of dozens of dollars, so if you want to rent a house, you can only go to him. There!" The boss thought for a moment: "But there are exceptions. Some houses that are not easy to rent will not be charged. If you go out to the west, there is a single-family house in the fourth hutong, and the monthly rent is only 350 yuan, but that house is lost. Excessive fire, I heard that a family of three was burned to death in it. Everyone said that the house was a haunted house. If you are not afraid, you can ask. The owner of that house also lives in the same alley, and the third family is! "

"Okay, thank you!" Ning Zhe immediately decided to rent this house after hearing the boss's introduction. He didn't know why the fortresses were so taboo at places where people died, but for him, who was used to seeing life and death in a refugee area, he didn't believe it. What a haunted house.