Longmen Memoirs

"What can you do better if you do it?"

Known daughter Moruofu.

"..."

She was not sure that she could do better, because she knew that what her father said was better. Perhaps no one in the entire Longmen was sure that they could do better and cure these diseases, not even the Rat King himself. .

Perhaps it is precisely because of them that those who set the rules and are bound by the rules they have made cannot break what they have set.

As for young people, maybe they are powerless.

"Go ahead, Yuxia, just help the people from the Guards Bureau, and go beat up Ah Shen."

"I'm afraid it's too late, dad." Lin Yuxia paused, with a complicated look on her face: "I just received a call. The Anchor Gang has already surrendered to the Guards Bureau. A Shen and his men had one of their hands cut off."

"...whose handiwork?"

"I thought you knew better."

"They crossed a line."

"Didn't our people cross the line first, and the other party just used the same means to retaliate? But in this way, the trouble to be settled will be even greater."

"Go ahead, just say it's what I mean." The Rat King hammered his aching back: "Oh, you're already an old man and you have to suffer like this. It's useless. It's useless."

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The setting sun climbed onto the window sill of the Lin Mansion, the curtains swayed gently in the afternoon breeze, and the tall ginkgo leaves in the courtyard outside the window rustled with the wind.

Chen woke up slowly.

"Well, here is..." She saw the old man Zalak standing beside the hospital bed.

"Uncle Lin?!"

He didn't expect to see the Rat King in Lower City when he woke up, but he soon understood what had happened.

"Don't be surprised, Hui Jie, I sent someone to rescue you."

"By the way, Afa...Uncle Lin, Afa him."

Suddenly thinking of something, he sat up and asked hurriedly. The Rat King showed a kind smile.

"Afa is fine, and so is his mother."

After finishing his words, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, only then did he notice where he was.

"Thank you."

"No need to say thank you, Hui Jie... The Guards Bureau wants to enter the slums, and I won't take action. Do you blame me?"

Chen was stunned.

She just looked at the old man beside the hospital bed. Of course she knew that if the Rat King of the slums was willing to take action, this matter would never have happened today, and the Guards Bureau might not be able to successfully enter the slums.

"I understand your position, and I'm very grateful that you are willing not to take action."

After all, the large and small gangs in Xiacheng District are willing to sell the Rat King's face and recognize the Rat King's status, but everyone's vital interests are involved, and even the Rat King cannot forcefully order anyone to do something.

Cutting off people's money is like killing their parents. There was no time when the gangs in Xiacheng District were not fighting to the death for profit.

As the leader of the gang in Xiacheng District, the Rat King cannot stand on the same ground as the Guards Bureau, let alone openly.

The Rat King of the slums, he is not the Rat King of the Guards Bureau, let alone the Rat King of Longmen.

"Haha, people in Longmen say that Chen Huijie doesn't know how to adapt. I think it's just that you don't want to adapt to their ideas."

"...Thank you for the compliment." She still felt a little reserved. After all, the superintendent of the Longmen Guard Bureau was now in the same room as the leader of the Longmen underground gang.

"If I have time, I would also like to chat with you more, but the Guards Bureau is still on mission, so I will first..."

She got off the bed and was about to find some tactful words to say to leave, when the Rat King suddenly interrupted her.

"You can't go."

She was stunned as she just got off the hospital bed.

"……why?"

"Hui Jie, you know my relationship with Wei Yanwu, so I call you Hui Jie." Zalak said seriously: "The explosion of that magnitude just now should not have caused you to fall into a coma. Do you know why you passed out?"

There was a hint of panic in her expression that was quickly covered up.

"Because I... had too many distracting thoughts at the time and didn't react." She tried to explain.

"There is this reason, but the other reason is..." The Rat King paused and looked at the girl in front of him: "Do you know that you have been infected?"

"..."

Calm, without any panic as expected. Maybe I had some thoughts that I wanted to hide before, but after I was exposed, I was able to accept it calmly.

"It seems you know."

"Yes, I know, and now you know too."

"How long?"

"It's been almost two years since I came back to Longmen."

"Don't you mean..." The Rat King looked at the calm Chen in surprise until he heard her admit it.

"Xiao Mo is also an infected person. She and I, our whole family are all infected."

"Ugh……"

"You don't have to feel sorry for me, Uncle Lin. This is my own choice. I know exactly what I did. I have never felt any regret for what I did back then, even now."

Even if I were not an infected person, many things would not need to be questioned.

Chen certainly knew what consequences everything she did as an infected person would bring to herself, but just like that sentence, she just felt that she should do it and had the need to do it, so she did it, regardless of whether she is infected.

She has no guilt in her heart, so she is Chen Huijie.

"The other reason you mentioned before is that I am an infected person?"

"The physical changes caused by infection with Originium Disease, coupled with the long-term mental and physical exhaustion, you have already become a dynamite barrel. The explosion only detonated this dynamite barrel."

"No wonder, during this period I feel a little unsure."

"How long has it been since you had a good rest, Hui Jie?"

Chen forced a smile.

"To tell you the truth, I haven't had a comfortable day since I started pushing for the ghetto settlement and the infected housing bill."

"You, how can you spell this way?"

"Thank you for your concern."

"I've sent people to the Guards Bureau to help and report the news, so you don't have to worry." Zalak turned around and said, "This is a rare opportunity. Please accompany me, an old man, for a walk, Hui Jie."

Chen only hesitated for a moment, but she didn't refuse.

"……it is good."

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Walking on the streets of the slums seems like a stroll, but the dilapidated, poor and backward neighborhoods really don't have much to offer. Most of the time in the afternoon, you can't even see the sky above your head on the narrow and crowded roads under the messy private buildings. The children who ran by heard the commotion among their parents, some people were quarreling, the cries of children, and the smoke from cooking, which made them somewhat popular.

The light of the setting sun casts a layer of dim yellow on the chalk-painted bricks.

Who would have thought that there is such a side hidden under the prosperity of Longmen, the slums, the Rat King. Because the people living in the slums live like the sewers of Longmen and cannot see the sun, they are called the Rat Kings.

Gantry shouldn't be like this.

Or am I expecting too much from this city?

"Sister Chen!"

The little girl Feilin was much older than Xiao Mo and was still in elementary school. She ran past the street in front of her and seemed to notice Chen so she stopped.

Somewhat unbelievable, more of a surprise, she is more popular with children than imagined.

"Arlene?...Ah, it's time for school to end now."

It wasn't until she saw the schoolbag behind her that she suddenly remembered that it was already the afternoon when she woke up from coma, and a lot of things had been delayed.

"Ah."

"Did you study well today?"

"Well, Sister Chen, please tell me to study hard. I will listen to you."

"Good boy." He touched the girl's head and thought that in a few years, Xiao Mo would be old enough to go to school, but where would an infected person go to school?

Perhaps unknowingly, this also became one of the reasons why she wanted to change Longmen.

"I'm going to take my brother to dinner. Next time Sister Chen comes to my house to play, I'll tell you about the new things I learned. [&@

So he smiled.

"it is good."

Watching her waving her hands and running past her until she disappeared, the Rat King's voice rang in her ears.

"In the past two years, you have used your salary to support more than 20 children in slums. After work, you will also accompany them and teach them principles and knowledge." The Rat King said slowly, he saw it all, Somewhat gratified: "Most of these children have been taught well by you."

"This is what I should do."

"Hui Jie, without what you have done in the slums in the past two years, I would not see you today. You can see Lin in Xiacheng District, but you will never see the Rat King in the slums."

Chen pursed his lips and did not answer.

They walked forward again, aimlessly along the slum streets of Longmen.

"The reason why you are following this path with me is because you are Chen Huijie who promotes the housing plan for newly infected people. You are Chen Huijie who wants to let the Guards Bureau settle in the slums and promote the integration of the slums into Longmen."

"Not Wei Yanwu's niece, Chen Huijie, who was taught his Chixiao swordsmanship and graduated from the Victoria Royal Guards School." The Rat King said seriously and glanced sideways at Chen: "No matter what Wei Yanwu thinks, I will tell you. , you did a good job."

Chen didn't expect to hear such recognition from the Rat King. No matter what she did and how well she did, she had never heard Wei Yanwu say similar words to her.

She was a little lost.

"……Thank you."

"Superintendent Chen, why are you getting together with the Rat King?" someone asked after seeing their figures.

Did not wait for her to answer.

"Just taking a walk with me, an old man." said the Rat King.

"That's it." The man replied, as if he was remembering something, and he couldn't believe it: "By the way, Superintendent Chen, the Originium disease inhibitory medicine you brought for me seems to be really useful. When I got sick last time, After eating a little, I actually feel better.”

"That's good, I..."

"Don't say you'll help me take care of it next time, Superintendent Chen. I can't afford it."

He interrupted Chen hastily, looking a little panicked.

Chen opened her mouth, but didn't know how to speak. She knew that they all had dignity. Even if they were infected, free charity might not last long, but they also had self-respect.

The man showed a somewhat reserved or innocent smile, as if he was afraid that his words would embarrass Superintendent Chen.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to pay back all you brought to me in my lifetime. I'll just save some food."

"I……"

Her words were interrupted again.

"Hey, Superintendent Chen, I heard that the new infected person's residence case was not passed. Don't take it too seriously. In fact, I thought it would be difficult to pass it from the beginning." Their way of showing goodwill has always been this simple. Simple and direct. "However, many people in the slums think you are just sensationalizing and looking for impossible things to make yourself famous, but I don't think so."

"You helped me, and I know you are sincere, so you must be sad. No, I heard that the Guards stationed in the slums today, and I wanted to see you and say something to you. I didn't expect to see you here. arrive."

Chen only felt as if there was a new force gathering in her body. Her body, which had become a little cold, felt warm again.

"……thanks."

"If anything, it's me who wants to thank you. I have to go to the construction site later, so I'll leave first."

"take care."

"There are many infected people in the slums who have received your favor." The Rat King suddenly said: "Their lives are better than other infected people, but the benefits are limited. They can find things to do, and what the infected people can do not much."

"That's why I wanted to fundamentally change something."

"Hui Jie?"