After sitting in this cage for a while, Zhang Jin quickly obtained his current identity from the system. He was a stowaway who had just arrived in Hong Kong for half a month and lived in a cage in Kowloon Walled City.

I don’t have a formal job, I just rely on part-time jobs to make a living.

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 feet, he felt that he had stepped on something hard and round.

"Ajin, you don't have to step on me every time you get up, right?" An aggrieved voice came from below.

"..." Zhang Jin leaned forward and half-expected to go out, and saw a young man patting his hair with both hands. He must be the person he accidentally stepped on. The other person's name came to his mind, "Sorry, I

I didn’t notice it, and I won’t do it next time.”

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

"..." Zhang Jin looked at the young man named Ayou and thought to himself, my friend, you look very familiar.

After getting out of bed, washing up casually, and drinking a bowl of gruel that made his face shine, Zhang Jin went out to work with Ayou wearing a vest and old shirt.

It was just getting dark now. The two of them stood in the corridor and looked up in the direction of the rooftops of the walled city. A ray of morning light fell on the gray wall, looking very warm.

"The charter woman is so inhumane. She makes us 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 overheard by the landlord. Come on, let's go, get up early so that you can start work!"

Zhang Jin asked as he went downstairs: "Ayou, you look very much like a friend I know. What's your surname?"

"Is it expensive or not? My surname is Zhang just like you."

"The last name is Zhang? What's your full name?"

"Zhang Shuiyou."

"..." Zhang Jin was stunned for a moment, "Are you talking about the water of the river, or the study?"

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

Zhang Jin heard that the terrain of Kowloon Walled City was complex, with crisscrossing alleys and dark alleys, and various illegal constructions that were even worse than the urban villages of later generations. It was only when he came here that he felt it was true.

I felt the chaos of this city.

Sometimes it is obviously a downward staircase, but as you walk you will find that you have reached the top of the building. Sometimes it is a dead end with no way forward, and you only find the dark side of the road after climbing over the iron gate.

In addition to poor civilians, the people living here are stowaways, murderers, drug dealers and the like. Therefore, many fan stalls, gambling stalls, chicken stalls, and dog meat stalls have sprung up here, and they are getting more and more popular.

The bigger.

Wow!

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

"Is there any mistake? Look carefully when you splash water. There's someone below!" Ayou raised his head and shouted dissatisfiedly to the upstairs.

His response was: "I'll attack your mother!"

"It's really too much! She's worse than my grandma in my hometown. She has no etiquette at all."

"Okay, people living in the walled city are having a hard time living, what kind of etiquette do you expect them to have?" Zhang Jin said.

Ayou quickly put this matter behind him and said with some excitement: "Hey, Ajin, I heard last night that the water bearer will have to re-select candidates today. Let's go quickly. If we can be selected, it will be

I have a stable job now.”

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

"That's right. It doesn't matter if we don't have money, good things won't happen to us." Ayou sighed.

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

"Forgive me, if I have money, I will definitely pay it back..."

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

"Stop looking, let's go, don't cause trouble."

Zhang Jin watched for a while, and then was pulled away by Ayou. The two of them kept walking without any intention of saving people. In Kowloon Walled City, this kind of thing happens every day, and loan sharks and bad gamblers can't be controlled.

Come.

Even if you want to take care of it, bad gamblers may not agree with you, and may even scold you for meddling, because bad gamblers would rather be beaten than be offended by loan sharks and get extra interest.

Good people may not always be rewarded. This is the Kowloon Walled City!

The first key to survival here is not to meddle in other people's business. The laws of Xiangjiang have no control here. The only order here is the law of the jungle that comes from the underground world.

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

Zhang Jin looked back at the Kowloon Walled City. At this time, the buildings in the Walled City were not too high. Compared with the mid-1970s when real estate developers from Xiangjiang entered the Kowloon Walled City and converted the squatters into high-rise buildings, the Walled City truly entered an era of darkness.

People have to turn on lights and light candles day or night, and the population density is the highest in the world. Now it is only 1963, and the situation is much better.

But even now, the dark and cramped feeling 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 each other since everyone lives in the walled city?

Ayou in front turned back: "Let's go, what are you thinking about? If you don't hurry up, you'll be late and it won't be our turn to start work."

Zhang Jin turned around and smiled: "Ayou, do you want to get ahead?"

Ayou said: "Of course I have. If not, why would I come all the way from southern Fujian to Xiangjiang? But before that, I ask you to move your steps. I don't want to be late for work and have no food to eat. I won't be able to work tonight."

I was forced to sleep on the street by my landlord, hanging out with those skinny fellow Taoists!"

In the next week, Zhang Jin and Ayou 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 odd jobs, such as carrying water, catching fish eggs, and pickling salted fish.

...I am willing to do anything as long as I can make money.

Unlike Ayou who saved the money he earned, Zhang Jin used the balance beyond living expenses to make friends with various people, and soon had a basic understanding of the current situation in the walled city.

"A Jin, I heard from Uncle Jiu at the door that you plan to learn boxing?" A You, who had just returned from work, asked loudly to 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.

"You're so interested! You won't make any money by learning boxing, and you have to pay for it. What are you doing for?" Ayou sat down next to him and served himself a bowl of porridge without any courtesy.

"Of course it's to get ahead."

Ayou hesitated for a moment: "You want to mix the prefixes?"

"No?"

"You don't do so many righteous deeds, but you just want to mix them up? Isn't it bad to be safe?" Ayou advised.

"How can Ping Ping'an get ahead? Didn't you listen to what the charterer said, if you want to get ahead in the walled city, men have to work hard and women have to work hard? There is no other way." Zhang Jin put down the bowl and chopsticks and looked at Ayou next to him, "I don't work hard.
Chapter completed!