“It’s okay, just tell me where to go next.”
Su Yun said softly, and did not mean to blame him. He had been in Jinling for a few months, and he knew some of the situation here.
Wu Si thought for a while, and after a while, he said, “Just go in the direction of the north of the city, boss!”
Hearing this, Su Yun frowned slightly. The north of the city didn’t seem to be a good place, because there were slums there. Although it was not comparable to the three major slums in Jinling City, the living environment was not good.
“Don’t you have any brothers at home?”
On the way to drive, Su Yun asked casually.
“There is also a big brother at home, and the second and third brothers died of illness!”
Wu Si said softly, and his face was a little gloomy at the end.
Su Yun shook his head slightly, not to mention the underdeveloped medical technology in this era, and seeing a doctor is simply not something that ordinary people can afford.
In this era, the average family member is sick, and if they have no money, there are only two situations.
Minor illnesses get over, until the body produces antibodies to recover on its own.
If you are seriously ill, you can only wait for death. This is the tragedy of this era.
Whether it is Western medicine or traditional Chinese medicine, it is not a place where the poor can go to see a doctor.
After a while, he was about to reach the north of the city, but Wu Si still did not say the specific location.
“Where exactly is your home? Come on, it’s almost to the north of the city.”
Su Yun asked, turned his head to look at Wu Si, and at this time he saw a trace of panic on Wu Si’s face.
“I… The environment at my house is not very good, the shopkeeper, why don’t you go?”
Wu Si said, a little embarrassed, and seemed to be a little reluctant.
“Tell me about your position, or your salary will be deducted this month.”
Su Yun said lightly, these words made Wu Si panic.
“Treasurer, you…don’t deduct my salary. My home is on the Qinhuai River in the northwest of the city, not far from the Yangtze River!”
Wu Si could only say the location of his residence. The salary of twenty yuan a month here was something he could not give up.
In the entire Jinling City, only Xinyue Restaurant and Shengqing Restaurant would offer such high salaries to waiters and commuters.
Those who run to other restaurants, that is, the chefs of later generations, can drive out eight or nine yuan a month, which is a super good treatment.
Of course, the reason why the protagonist charges such a high price does not violate the rules of the system, that is, these serversThe clerk is trained to provide high quality service to the guests, otherwise he would not be able to give them such high salaries.
“Qinhuai River, there are slums there!”
Su Yun knew where it was as soon as he heard it.
There are three major slums in Jinling City, and the first among the three major slums is the two sections of the Qinhuai River. These two sections of Qinhuai River are slums in Jinling City.
In the impression of many people, Qinhuai River is a place where people are drunk with money, but many people don’t know that Qinhuai River in the center of the city is naturally a place where people with money go to spend.
But what if it is not in the center of the city, or even in a non-prosperous area? That is the existence of slums.
Why did the north and south sections of the Qinhuai River become slums? Because of the needs of life, a special way of living was born on the Qinhuai River.
The people who live here do not settle down on the banks of the Qinhuai River in the north and south, but live in a completely different way.
The reason why this slum is famous, and even one of the three major slums in Jinling City, is because the people here live in a special kind of house.
To be more precise, they lived on a boat, a kind of boat jokingly called a ���� boat.
���� Ship, I believe everyone has seen such words in some old people’s articles. For example, in the book of Mr. Shen’s second half of his life, the ship was mentioned many times.
Mr. Shen said in the article that he was very pleased with those who fished for themselves on the Huangpu River.
But people don’t know that Mr. Shen’s happy boat is in Jinling, but it is a lingering nightmare for ordinary people.
Why is it a nightmare? The reasons are complex, but also simple.
The people here use boats as their homes and live on the Qinhuai River. The reason for this can be described in two words – cheap.
The Qinhuai River is divided into two sections, north and south, outside Jinling City, one section is very close to the Yangtze River, and northwest of Jinling City, not far from the Yangtze River.
The second section is the Qinhuai River outside the city. In the Qinhuai River in the city, the most prosperous area, there is no such boat, because it is not allowed.
On the edge of the city, that is, in the city, there are also such boats. The north and south sections of the entire Qinhuai River are collectively known as one of the three major slums in Jinling.
For these things, Su Yun has heard others talk about it, but he has never seen it with his own eyes.
The car drove in the direction Wu Si pointed, and soon came to a boat under the leadership of Wu Si.
There were sticks around a small boat, ropes hanging from the side of the boat, and it seemed that the boat was fixed here.
The outside of the boat is covered with thatch, which is the boat in the article, which is slightly different from the boat on the Huangpu River.
The boats on the Huangpu River are used for salvaging fish and shrimp, and the boats in Jinling are for people to live in.
Looking at the thatched boat, there was not much thatch left, and part of the hull was exposed.
Such a residence may not even be as good as the shed of the previous construction team outside the city.
“Is this your place?”
Looking at the boat in front of him, Su Yun asked softly, he couldn’t associate such a place with people’s residences anyway.
“Yes, it is!”
Wu Si lowered his head and said in a low voice.
Su Yun’s cheeks twitched slightly, and her lips were filled with naphthalene.
Lifting the foot onto the boat, the boat swayed slightly, stretched out the straw curtain in front of him, and the layout was very simple.
There are only two futons, depending on the situation, it should be a mattress and a bed cover.
Under the cabin, there was a piece of tattered clothes, which Su Yun recognized at a glance. It was the clothes he wore in the summer and autumn before.
Next to the clothes was a broken bowl with some water in it.
After getting off the boat, Su Yun looked down at the swaying river and bit his lip lightly.
Walking to the shore, squatting down, reaching out and touching the river.
Biting, cold feeling poured into my heart from between my fingers.
Standing up, kneading his two fingers lightly, the cold wind blowing from the northwest slapped his cheeks, making him reach out and close his collar.
“Has it entered the severe winter now?”
Su Yun looked up slightly at the tattered clothes hanging on the bow of a ship in the distance and asked softly.
“The shopkeeper, it will be New Year’s Day in a few days.”
A voice came from behind Su Yun.
“Is it New Year’s Eve?”
Muttering to himself, his eyes were a little blurry, and he looked down at the boat in front of him, and couldn’t help but let out a sigh.
“The shopkeeper, I…”
Wu Si looked at Su Yun’s appearance, lowered his head and said softly, but he couldn’t continue, and he had some plans.
“Isn’t it cold to live in a place like this?”
Su Yun turned around, looked at Wu Si who lowered his head and asked softly.
“This is not bad, it’s cheap here, only five oceans a month!”
After a while, Wu Si finally gathered up the courage to look up at Su Yun and said with a smile.
The smile on his face was faintly satisfied, as if for him, having a place to live was already very good.
“Five oceans?”
Su Yun said, he couldn’t help sighing again, but a word came to mind – exploitation!
He had heard that these ships were bought by merchants and simply remodeled, covered with thatch, and rented to the poor who came to work in Jinling.
Turning around, I don’t know when, white snowflakes fluttered in the sky again.
Looking up at the sky slightly, the snowflakes fell faster and faster.
“It’s so far from Xinyue Restaurant, what time do you get up every day?”
After a long time, Su Yun said softly.
It’s not close to Xinyue Restaurant. After leaving the city, I still drove for a while.
“It’s very near here, we get up at four in the morning every morning, and we are on our way together, and we can reach the city gate at about seven o’clock in the morning.By the way, just at that time, the city gates were also opened, and we could still have breakfast at the restaurant. ”
Wu Si scratched his head and smiled honestly. There was contentment on his face.
Su Yun looked at the smile on his face, but he didn’t smile. He has never experienced this kind of suffering in future generations, let alone the experience of walking in the ice and snow for three or four hours.
“This is not a good place.”
Su Yun shook his head slightly.
“It’s very close to Xinyue Restaurant, and it’s very cheap. It’s good to live here. Some unlucky people can’t live here!”
Wu Si’s face was smiling, Su Yun’s nose was a little sour.
Reached out and patted his shoulder: “You are working in my restaurant, and it is my responsibility to live in such a place every day.”
Su Yun said and pursed his lips, took out a pack of cigarettes from his arms, and slowly lit one.
He seldom smokes, and only smokes one when he is sad.
“Shopkeeper, it’s none of your business, we want to live here ourselves. You send us 20 yuan a month in cash, and we really appreciate you.
Many people in the city are not paid half as much as we do. Now my rent is 5 yuan a month, and I send 13 yuan to my family. I keep 2 yuan for myself, and I usually buy some gadgets. ”
There was a smile on Wu Si’s face, but Su Yun took a deep breath of the cigarette.
A puff of cigarettes spewed from his lips and his nose, and he looked up at the snowflakes falling from the sky, and his heart was a little broken.
In the snowy winter, living on such a ���� boat can’t keep out the wind and rain, and even lighting a fire to keep warm has become a luxury. Is this a place where people live?
Can people live in such a place? If you hadn’t seen it with your own eyes! If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he couldn’t believe it, nor would he want to believe that someone lived in such a small boat without any heating measures in the freezing winter.
After a long time, he turned to look at Wu Si and asked, “You just said that you are with a few companions every morning? Do they also live in this kind of place?”
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