Doomsday rat

Chapter 659 The Benefactor
Two days later, a circle of courtyard walls more than two meters high rose from the ground, and a small half of the ceiling was built with rags and scaffolding inside.After the scalper settled the refugees' wages and closed the courtyard door, Hong Tao started to work again. He actually pointed to the ground under the ceiling and took the lead in picking up the pickaxe.

"Brother Shu, there's construction waste under here. Digging the basement is prone to landslides." The scalper probably guessed what the boss was going to do, and dug a hole to hide things.It really lives up to its name, mice can dig holes, or hit wherever they go.

"Don't talk nonsense, if you want furniture, dig quickly! If you want to go to the red zone to dig gold, dig quickly. Anyone who doesn't dig is not allowed to go, and he is not allowed to ask for furniture!" Hong Tao didn't listen to persuasion at all, and his picks became more and more vigorous.

"...Take the tools, what are you looking at? Brother Shu said he can dig, he must be right, let's go together!" Hu Yang blinked and couldn't figure out what the hell this guy was doing.But as soon as I heard that there was a way to go to the red zone to continue panning for gold, I immediately stopped asking, let's do it!
"Don't, don't be a swarm. Three people dig three people and go back to the building to rest. Pile the soil to the wall, don't throw it outside the ceiling!" But Hong Tao said something else, he divided the people into two groups, and hid Work under the canopy without crossing the line at all.

Although everyone didn't know what he was going to do, Yolo's myth made them follow blindly again. They didn't continue to discuss whether they should dig or not, but started working in an orderly manner.

It can be said that the progress of the project has not been smooth. Just like what Huang Niu said, the soil layer here is very shallow, and it is almost full of construction waste below one foot.Most of the time, shovels and picks have lost their function, and only crowbars and hands can be used to dig out cement blocks of various sizes.

"Brother Shu, something is wrong. There seems to be a wall under here. The cement grade is quite high, and it is very laborious to dig." The digging took a long time, and the scalper became restless when the depth of the pit reached less than one meter. .I thought it was a relatively large piece of cement, but chiseled it a few times with a steel drill, and it turned out to be nothing like that.

"Hehehe... That's right! Don't worry about that wall, continue digging from the south side of the wall!" Hong Tao was not lazy, he was competing with a large cement red brick a few meters away, after listening to the scalper Complaining immediately came over to take a look, with a smile on his face.

"Boom, boom... Brother Hu, brother Hu, I'm Heilong, the carriage you hired is here..." Before the scalper could ask again, there was a shout from outside the gate, and Lu Wei'an came back.

"Carriage? When did I hire a carriage!" Hu Yang was sitting in the gate drinking tea and resting, when he heard someone calling himself, although he got up, his steps were very slow, and he patted his head as he walked.

"I'm here, I'm here..." Hong Tao ran over in three steps and two steps and opened the gate bolt.

"Hey, brother, do you still recognize me?" There was a carriage parked outside the door, and there were two people sitting in it.The dark fat man was Lu Wei'an, and the thin-faced old man was the driver who brought them over from the North Station that day.

"Oh... I remembered... You guys are doing well?" The driver was old, but his eyes were sharp. He only fixed on Hong Tao's face for a few seconds and found the matching picture from his memory.

"If you want to talk about this, I have to thank you...Come, come, drive the car in, and sit down and drink hot tea first."

Hong Tao cupped his hands at the driver, stretched out his hand to grab the reins, and before the horse's head dodged, he put his other hand on the bridge of its nose and stroked it a few times.The gray, shabby-haired old horse followed Hong Tao to the yard without waiting for the old man's order.

"Have you found a job?" The driver didn't stop him, he jumped out of the car and followed, looking around.Looking at a group of people digging a hole, it seems to understand something.

"To be honest, we bought this place. It's going to be winter, and I want to build a septic tank. It's too expensive to hire people, and the brothers are all capable. If it's not too delicate, we can do it ourselves. Come on. , take your seat."

When Bungy came over, Hong Tao handed over the reins to him, accompanied the driver into the building door, sat on Populus euphratica's recliner, picked up the teapot and poured a cup of hot tea.

"Good guy, it's not cheap! Looks like I missed it, you are not ordinary refugees!" The driver was not polite, took the tea and blew it, drank half of it in one gulp, and looked at Hong Tao again with more guarded eyes .

"What's the point of being ordinary and extraordinary? Why don't you have to be busy all day long to make a living? If you didn't mention it that day, our brothers might have been killed." , at least not as comfortable as it is now."

"As the saying goes, if you receive a drop of water, you should repay it with a spring. Your water is given, but I really don't have a spring here, only some vulgar things. Don't be polite, and don't shirk."

"Take it away, even if we know each other in the future, let's see if it's a friend. If you don't accept it, you'll look down on us from the bottom of your heart. It's okay, open the door, and you will follow your own way, and we will not owe you anything!" Hong Tao pulled a bench and sat down Beside him, without even passing a cigarette, he directly talked about today's topic.

While talking, he took out two things from his bosom, held them in the palm of his hand, and brought them to the old man.On one side are a few red bills, on the other side is a black and blue pistol, brand new!

"..." The old man didn't move, he still held the teacup in one hand, and turned to look at Lu Wei'an.

"He's one of ours now, don't worry about the rest, there will be no future troubles." Hong Tao grinned and moved his hand forward again.

"I shouldn't have talked too much back then. Did this save someone or hurt someone? I did a crime..." The old man shook his head lightly, put down his teacup, pushed away the two things brought to him with one hand, and leaned his body completely against the teacup. recliner.

"Since you have heard about it, you should accept it. I still have something to ask for your help, and now only you can really help. If this matter is done well, many people will die here, and it will be a great virtue." It's gone." Hong Tao didn't take back the money and the gun, but directly slapped them in the old man's hand, and then grabbed the old man's hand so that he couldn't let go.

"Wow... It's a good gun, with great firepower! But no matter how many bullets there are, can it still have more bullets than the machine guns on the sentry tower? Listen to my advice, just accept it when it's good. I'm just a driver and I don't have much skill, but Never harming anyone, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you with this favor."

The old man stretched out his other hand to break off Hong Tao's fingers, picked up the pistol and pulled out the magazine to look at it, loaded it with a crash, pointed at Hong Tao in his arms, and didn't even look at Populus euphratica behind him and Lu Wei'an on the other side. Look, the hand is very steady.

"Let's not classify the good guys and the bad guys. In this year, we can't tell the good from the bad. If we don't act hard, I'm afraid we're all lying under the soil and growing maggots. Don't say anything else, as long as those people see These things won't keep us alive."

"Don't be too wary. The help I said is not to let you take risks, but just to ask about the transportation team. Several big guys here sat with us for a chat a few days ago, and they agreed I thought I could do transportation business, and promised to help find acquaintances to rent a license.”

"We haven't been here for a long time, and we don't know much about many things here. We don't know the inside story of this industry, and we don't dare to invest money easily. That's why I thought of you."

"Don't worry, I guarantee that no matter whether this business can be done or not, I won't blame others. How about it, brother, help our brothers one more time, just a few words."

Looking at the old man's hands, Hong Tao knew that he had received military training and was a very strong person in his heart, perhaps because he had seen too much life and death.For this kind of people, forcing them to death has limited effect, so I reached out my hand to signal Hu Yang not to draw the gun.

But this kind of people tend to care more about the life and death of others, not to say that they have reached the realm of self-sacrifice, but mainly because they are not willing to let innocent people suffer because of themselves.Of course, the premise is not to make yourself too uncomfortable.

"...I'll take the gun, please take the money back. Your name is... Zhou Dafu...is this a fake name? Hey, I won't mention the name, it seems that you have offended many people here. Being a transport team...OK Well, I’ll just tell you what I know, don’t take it all seriously, there are some things that I didn’t see with my own eyes, just use it as a reference.”

A few seconds later, the old man unloaded the pistol, closed the safety and put it in his pocket.He didn't see the palpitating calmness from his eyes, but felt it from his hands.It is very difficult for a person to face a loaded pistol at close range without changing his face, believing in him, or keeping his heart beating.

But the guy wearing sunglasses in front of him, his eyes were flustered and he couldn't see clearly, his hand was really steady, and he didn't move a bit when he pressed it on his hand.Since it's not about letting yourself help the tyrant, it's just asking about something, and it's not breaking the law, so why really work hard for it.

(End of this chapter)