Chapter 1502: 1502. Chinese Village (1/5)

Chapter 1502 1502. Chinese Village (15)

Zhong Dapao brought his middle-aged bald-headed friend again. This guy looks impulsive, and he is a stubborn guy. He didn't show a good face when he saw Li Du from the beginning to the end.

The car went all the way south, and the dilapidated Pagan appeared on both sides of the road.

There is no road further on. There are too many large vehicles and heavy trucks driving here, and the roadbed has been destroyed long ago. Fortunately, it has not rained recently, so the ground is fairly flat. If it rains, it will definitely be difficult to move here.

At the southernmost part of the town, a series of dilapidated buildings and shacks appeared. This is a residential area similar to a slum. In front of the residential area, there is a sign that reads: Dragon City!

"But if the Dragon City Flying General is here, don't you teach Huma to go to the Yin Mountain?" Li Du smiled casually.

The middle-aged bald man snorted, "Come and beat each!"

Li Du's words were just casual, and the middle-aged bald man's words seemed a bit inexplicable, but if these two sentences are connected, then there is no deep meaning:

"What's the matter? Is there a Chinese residential area in front? Do you want to start from this road and rule the land with the locals?"

Zhong Dapao said: "Yes, the poem you just said is the source of the name of this place. You haven't inquired about the local people in the past two days?"

Li Du shook his head and said, "No, I looked at the word Longcheng and sighed casually. What's going on?"

Zhong Dapao said: "It's nothing, I just took you to see the place where our people live."

The name of Dragon City is very prestigious, but the actual situation is a bit shabby, the houses are dilapidated, people are dressed in rags, pickles and some unknown things are drying at the door of many buildings, and the sewage in front of and behind the houses makes the smell even more pungent.

The car stopped, and after Zhong Dapao got out of the car, the card players around greeted him.

Li Du took a closer look, and found that he had been here before, and he walked from here when he entered the town before, and he saw a lot of disabled people with lame legs and missing arms.

He heard a lot of Chinese when he was in the town center, and even more when he arrived in Longcheng, with mixed accents of northern dialect, southern dialect, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, etc.

Zhong Dapao handed him a cigarette, but Li Du refused: "Sorry, I don't smoke."

So he handed the cigarette to a little old man. The little old man had only one hand. He held it in his mouth and cut it into two pieces. He put one piece in his mouth and passed the other piece to the man next to him.

Zhong Dapao pointed to the people here and said, "They are all compatriots, and they are all Chinese."

Li Du nodded to express his understanding, and said, "Then what? I saw that their condition is very bad. What did you bring me to see?"

Zhong Dapao did not answer, but said to himself: "There are a lot of rich people in the town, and the surrounding land has been dug up, so it is impossible to grow food and vegetables. You only rely on transportation. You see the road conditions, come in The price is high."

"So things are expensive here. A catty of brown rice costs 12 yuan, a catty of cabbage costs 12 yuan, and any fruit costs 20 yuan or more. The price of chicken, duck and fish is even more terrifying. People here eat it all year round. Not a few times."

Li Du said: "In this case, why don't the people here go back to China?"

The bald middle-aged man sneered and said, "Can I go back?"

Zhong Dapao continued: "They can't go back. In fact, you can tell, the poor people must have something to hate. Most of them used to do well in the country, and they all have some money. Then they come here to try their luck and make a fortune."

"What's the result?" Zhong Dapao shook his head and said, "As a result, you saw that one of them said they got rich, and even their lives were thrown here!"

Li Du said: "I have indeed seen these things, and I will get straight to the point and talk about things when I have something to say."

Zhong Dapao said: "We don't have much money now, but we have so many mouths to eat and survive, so we want to make some money. How can we make money here? Betting on stones! So, brother, help!"

Li Du smiled and said, "Let me explain first, I'm a businessman..."

"No profiteering, no business?" The bald middle-aged man asked first, "You want to make money, right? With your ability and our connections, it's not easy to make money?"

Li Du said: "No, I mean, why should I, a businessman, help people here? Just because of sympathy?"

Zhong Dapao looked at him sincerely and said: "Because we are all compatriots, we are not morally kidnapping you, asking you to donate money or something, we want to cooperate with you. You should have investigated in two days here, if there is no reliable person If you cooperate, you will not be able to enter the field."

Li Du looked at the people here and asked, "What happened to them?"

Zhong Dapao said leisurely: "What else can happen? I have money in my hand, and I went abroad to gamble and make a fortune. In the end, I lost all my money, and borrowed money to swindle money to continue gambling. I still lost. In the end, I had nowhere to go. , can only stay here and mess around."

Li Du frowned and said, "That is to say, you think I should help a group of gamblers?"

Zhong Dapao shook his head and said: "There are not only gamblers here, but also many innocent people. Some of them are cheated, and some are children left by previous generations. Someone must help them, otherwise, will they die?"

Li Du asked: "Are you the city owner here? Are you taking care of them?"

Zhong Dapao said: "Take care of each other, I take care of them, they take care of me. In fact, my life was saved by them. They saved me and my friends many lives back then, so I come here to do my part .”

In the past two days, Li Du has inquired about some things. He has long known about the existence of Dragon City, but the locals call it "Chinese Village", and Zhong Dapao is the village head.

Just as he had seen before, Zhong Dapao was a soldier, and the waiter told him that a People's Liberation Army team came here in plain clothes to perform missions more than 30 years ago, but they were exposed when the mission failed.

The waiters didn't know the specific tasks, but what they knew was that they offended the bosses and talkers in various local venues and were violently attacked.

At that time, there was a Chinese village in Pagan. After the villagers learned the identity of the team, they helped them escape from Pagan without hesitation, and suffered heavy casualties.

Two years later, some of the team members who left Pagan came back again. They wanted to lead the Chinese village in Pagan to carve out a world and occupy several venues for development.

But the reality is no different than movies and television, the local forces are complicated, and they failed to win any of the venues.

Fortunately, they were also fierce at the time, forcing the bosses to make a vow not to bully the Chinese and enter the Chinese village at will, which is to help the Chinese lay down a territory, so that the Chinese who come here have a place to stay.

In recent years, China's national strength has become stronger and stronger, and its economy has become more and more powerful. Chinese jade merchants have gradually become the main force in the Pagan business field.

This improves the local status of the Chinese people, but it does not help to improve their quality of life. Businessmen will not come to this dilapidated slum, and those who come will only increase the cost of living here.

Therefore, the situation of Zhong Dapao and his Chinese village is getting more and more difficult.