C22 Slums

Lin Ruoyi helplessly said, "Sigh, you're the same as him. You feel that I'm too young, that I'm just feeling good for a moment."

Without waiting for Lin Ruoyi to continue speaking, Lin Ruo Shuang covered her sister's mouth and said, "Don't even think about it, go to sleep!"

The next day, because of what happened yesterday with Chen Xiu, Lin Ruoyi and Lin Ruoxi unexpectedly missed out on Chen Xiu perfectly.

At the Lin Family's huge dining table, there was only Chen Xiu. It was still alright for Lin Ruo Shuang to go to work, but it wasn't clear where Lin Ruoyi had gone to.

This early in the morning, there had to be a beauty who had to come out to wash her eyes!

"Eh? Auntie, where's Ruoyi? " Chen Xiu pulled a servant who was mopping the floor and asked.

"Second Miss, she hasn't gotten up for breakfast today. How about you send her up, sir?"

Chen Xiu had already arranged for today, so it wasn't convenient for him to take Lin Ruoyi everywhere. It was better for him to go to the Manjiang Medicinal Garden by himself.

"Ah, no, I still have things to do. Let her continue sleeping." Chen Xiu stuffed two steamed buns into his mouth and left while eating.

Chen Xiu rejected all the exclusive drivers the Lin Family had arranged for Chen Xiu. He looked at the routes on his mobile and finally took the subway for an hour and a bus for half an hour before arriving at his destination.

Only Chen Xiu got off at the station known as the Manjiang Medicinal Garden.

After getting off the bus, Chen Xiu followed the navigation system on his mobile phone and walked along a dirt road. He saw a rather dilapidated big sign, "Manjiang Medicine Garden".

After entering the Manjiang Medicinal Garden, at first glance, there were only branches on the trees, and the grass was withered yellow. The small ditch by the side of the road constantly stank, making it difficult for Chen Xiu, who was already sensitive to the smell, to walk further into the medicinal garden.

It was exactly the same as what was said on the internet. It was even more destitute than a poor person's lair. It was not only the scar of Central South City, but also a mass of malignant tumors that had been cut out of it.

The yellowish walls of the simple room were clearly caused by years of disrepair. The numbers of each room were sprayed with red paint, and the numbers on the room were very regular. From the beginning, it was then two, three, four …

If he remembered correctly, Chen Xiu remembered that the old couple lived at around 300. He didn't know where they had gotten the note from, so he could only walk forward slowly.

If each number represented a household, there would be at least 300 families here … As Chen Xiu neared the residential district, he finally heard some voices.

When they had just entered the medicinal garden, Chen Xiu had wondered if this was a ghost city. There was not a single sound, only the whistling of the wind.

Because of today's meeting, Chen Xiu had picked out a few decent clothes from the pile prepared by the Lin Clan. In fact, they were the most common clothes on the streets, but when worn on Chen Xiu, it seemed to be of a higher grade.

Entering the residential district, Chen Xiu received the most unbearable assessment in his history. His appearance was undoubtedly the hottest existence in this slum.

The women squatting in front of the door were whispering to each other as they looked at Chen Xiu. Some of the children who were chasing after him also knew that Chen Xiu wasn't one of them and looked at him strangely.

Looking through the numbers, Chen Xiu finally saw that the old couple had been rescued in the hospital.

Chen Xiu walked up to the woman who was washing clothes with her head down and asked hesitantly, "Big Sis?"

Some of the dirty water in the basin splattered on Chen Xiu's white shoes. The woman looked up when she heard someone calling to her from above her head.

"Hey!" It's you! " The woman who was rubbing clothes stood up and wiped her hands on her apron with clean water. She looked at Chen Xiu and said, "I didn't even see you come. Hey, hey. Come, come and sit inside the house."

The neighbors who lived next to the woman watched with envious and strange eyes as Chen Xiu entered her house.

"Big sister, what should I call you?" There had to be some form of courtesy. When Chen Xiu sat down on a rattan chair, the chair even made an unbearably loud creaking sound, which caused Chen Xiu to not dare to sit too hard or make any big movements on the chair.

"You're still young, why don't you call me Aunt Cui? Why don't you call me sister instead? The neighbors are making fun of you again, hahaha …" "Oh yeah, my family's Old Yang knows that you're coming today, so he went out to buy groceries. He should be arriving soon."

He was even more experienced than his previous home in the countryside. Currently, there were LCD screens everywhere on the internet, and this was the same big-brain television set from more than a decade ago. He reckoned that he would watch the News Channel every day, while the quality of the TV was rather shoddy.

Aunt Cui had cleaned the house quite cleanly. The only difference was that the floor was actually a floor. When he lived in the countryside with his master, it was made of cement.

This was too bad. Chen Xiu simply couldn't imagine it. This place was once wealthy, but since it was, why didn't it leave any wealth for its descendants? It was truly strange!

Chen Xiu took the cup from Aunt Cui and handed it to her. "Aunt Cui, no need to be so polite. I just came to see how your wife is recovering."

"I've recovered very well!" Old Yang, who went out to buy groceries, returned.

Seeing Old Yang at the door, Chen Xiu really felt that he had recovered quite well. He looked full and full, and his entire body was brimming with energy.

Chen Xiu and Old Yang chatted for a while and realized that this Old Yang knew quite a lot. Old Yang even showed Chen Xiu a cupboard full of books, all about growing medicinal herbs and cultivating them.

Every household was preparing their meals, waiting for the day to arrive before dawn to leave for work. The men would return home to eat, while the children would return home to eat after their morning lessons.

The smell of cooking oil smoke rose and fell in these simple rooms, making Chen Xiu actually start to reminisce about his days in the countryside with the old man.

With his stomach rumbling, Old Yang, who was chatting happily with Chen Xiu, paused for a second and changed the subject, "Little Chen, the food's almost ready."

"Hahaha, Uncle Yang, I was carrying the hunger. I grew up in the countryside. Coming to your house really feels like home." Chen Xiu picked up the cup of tea on his watch and took a big gulp.

"That's right, Uncle Yang, have you and Aunt Cui lived here for many years?"

Yes, we have. I have lived for forty to fifty years and have seen the medicinal garden walk from its most prosperous period to its current state. At that time, the people in our garden were all people with knowledge and experience, and they were organized by someone called Wu Maoyun to take the lead and lead them to grow medicinal herbs. At that time, I was still young and always followed behind those aunts and uncles.

When Old Yang spoke of this, it stirred up endless emotions in his heart. He looked out the door with the same expression as if he was looking at the Manjiang Medicinal Garden that flourished forty to fifty years ago.

Chen Xiu listened attentively. "Do you know where those uncles and aunties went afterwards?" And there's also Wu Maoyun. "

"This …"

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