As the capital of the Aluminum Association, Fog City Denglu City is currently the largest industrial city on Tianhai Planet.
The long cylindrical rigid airship floats lazily in the gray sky. From a distance, it looks like a silver whale swimming in a city lined with chimneys.
In the thin haze, several weak and hoarse voices were whispering.
"Have you heard about it? There is some kind of 'mutual aid association for injured and injured workers' in Xiacheng District? Has anyone gone to see it?"
"What mutual help? How can we help each other? Look at my hands. It's good if I don't drag others down..."
"I heard that black bread and water are being distributed there. Really, I swear! I personally saw someone walking out of the mutual aid association with food. The location is..."
"Injury? What counts as an injury..."
A woman covered her mouth and nose with a patched hood and walked quickly across the street. When she heard this conversation, her steps involuntarily slowed down a little.
Mutual Aid Association for Injured and Injured Workers, in Xiacheng District?
Is there food and water?
The woman secretly wrote down the address of the mutual aid club, walked faster, and hurried back to the low-rent apartment where she rented.
Entering the room on the second floor, which was barely airtight, the woman stepped across the ground filled with debris and shouted inside: "Anna? Are you in there?"
"Mother?"
"I...cough!" The woman was about to say something when she suddenly coughed twice violently, and the thing she was holding fell to the ground, exposing her right arm.
A long scar and a hand with only three fingers are so dazzling.
The fourteen-year-old girl hurriedly stepped forward and said distressedly: "You...you should take a rest. You haven't slept for five hours in the past few days!"
The woman turned a deaf ear and put the worn copper coins in her daughter's hand, and warned: "With these, your tuition for this semester should be enough. You go to school tomorrow and study hard. Don't worry about things at home. "
"Mom, I don't want to study anymore!" Little Anna said with a hint of crying in her voice, "I can go to work in a factory now. There is a newly opened weaving factory in the north and there is a shortage of female workers there. I can go there and work..."
"Weaving factory? Don't you know that my right hand was wasted in the weaving factory?" The woman pushed her daughter angrily, "You must study, otherwise you will have to live the same life as me in the future. You will never get ahead, you know? Studying now is for your future life!"
"Mother……"
"This matter is non-negotiable." The woman ignored her daughter's pleading and ordered, "I have to go out later. There is not enough food at home... Anna, promise me not to let me down."
After saying that, the woman picked up the things and documents that had just fallen on the ground, and after repeatedly confirming that the door was locked, she left the apartment with confidence and walked in the direction of the "Injured and Injured Workers Mutual Aid Association."
"It takes two and a half hours to walk to Xiangshan Street in Xiacheng District, and five hours to go back and forth..." The woman came to the street, looked at the public carriage next to her, gritted her teeth, "Forget it, I can save a little. , there should be enough time."
She considered taking the bus not because she was tired, but because she was worried that the mutual aid group that distributed food might close because it was getting late.
…
Two and a half hours later, when it was already dusk, the woman finally walked to Xiangshan Street, bypassing the feces on the ground and the garbage that had not been cleaned for a long time, and came to a small street.
It is only five or six kilometers away from Dihe...
The woman coughed twice, gasped twice, looked around, and followed the flow of people to a small building.
There is a very conspicuous signboard and notice hanging on it, "As long as you have obvious physical disabilities or serious chronic diseases issued by a doctor, you can bring your ID and collect food here. Each person can receive 1,200 grams of black bread every week. And unlimited water.”
Sure enough, all kinds of proofs are needed!
The woman breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time she understood why the flow of people here was not particularly large.
So many layers of identity verification are enough to exclude non-injured workers who want to fish in troubled waters.
Ten minutes later, the woman came to the front of the line. She awkwardly took out her disability certificate from her bag, and at the same time carefully exposed her right arm to the young man and woman distributing food.
No matter what, it is a very unspeakable thing to reveal your scars to strangers and ask for charity from strangers.
But for the sake of life...
"Wait a moment, I'll get the food!" Fei Meng ignored his brother's anger and smiled, "You can register your name here first. If it's inconvenient, my brother can help you."
"Thank you... thank you!" The woman looked at the two busy people and couldn't help but thank her repeatedly.
Fei Zhang glanced at his sister who refused to listen, and finally sighed, turned around and helped the woman register her identity, and while writing her name, he said: "Oh, we only distributed food for one day, and the police checked our documents twice. They When have you ever been so positive?"
To put it bluntly, I saw someone with so much food on their hands and wanted to take the opportunity to extort some money.
The Governor was overthinking it. The two waves of police officers who came over couldn't find any formalities or procedural problems, so they could only return empty-handed.
The vicious security guards from the Governor's District also made them hesitant to use force.
After chatting for a few words, Fei Meng had already brought a sack over.
She handed the bread to the woman and said seriously: "Take it. It's getting late now, so you'd better go home quickly."
"Don't be ridiculous, these breads are a bit hard and may need to be soaked in water to make them easier to eat..."
The woman glanced at the fresh bread in the sack and shook her head vigorously: "Good intentions and kindness should never be laughed at. Thank you for your kindness, thank you."
"..."
…
After distributing food to the last injured worker, the brother and sister locked the door and lay on the bed tiredly.
Fei Zhang stretched out his legs and kicked his sister on the upper bunk, and said in a bad tone: "Forget it for today, you have to leave here tomorrow and go home to take care of your parents."
"Brother, I won't go back, I want to be here."
Fei Zhang had never seen his sister so willful, and his tone was a little annoyed: "Be obedient!"
"I'm not willful! Brother, I think what I did today is so meaningful, more meaningful than my entire life before. If you want to go back, go back by yourself."
"you……"
After arguing all night, the brother and sister fell into a deep sleep in an unpleasant atmosphere.
"..."
Bang bang bang!
I don't know how long it took, but a quick knock on the door suddenly woke the brother and sister up from their dreams.
The brother and sister sat up from the bed almost at the same time. After getting out of bed, they looked at each other, picked up sticks and walked quietly towards the door.
Although the mutual aid association's security force is very strong, they cannot be careless.
After opening the door, I saw a girl with red eyes from crying standing at the door, looking panicked.
"Two...Two, have you seen my mother? She didn't come back all night. Some people said, some said they saw her here last night..."
The brother and sister looked at each other, one immediately went to the room to get the registration book, and the other pulled the girl to sit down and asked: "Don't be anxious first, tell me your name first, and then tell me when your mother left, here How far is it from your home and what’s her name?”
The girl sobbed: "I, my name is Anna..."
"..."
After a while, the three of them looked at the time and quickly found the woman's name on the register.
"I remember her, she did come, and she left with a bag of bread." Fei Meng spoke quickly, "She didn't come back all night? Did you call the police?"
"I reported it, but the law enforcement officers only said that they knew about it, and then asked me to go back and wait for notification..."
ps: Please don’t read the book on Monday or Tuesday. Even if you don’t read it, please open the last chapter and turn to the last page to read it! Begged!
