Chapter 1395 Just Barely Alive

After handing over his gun and being searched before getting into the car, Ah Le sat in the car of the other party as he wished.

Looking at the imposing Chinese man sitting behind the car, and then at the beautiful foreign woman next to him, Ah Le said in his heart, 'Is this a big shot? '

Laws, a foreign bodyguard with a gun, and such a beautiful foreign girl by his side, these signs have one thing in common-cows.

"What's your name?" Li Zitao took out a cigar box from his pocket, threw one to the other party and asked with a smile. "Wow, good thing..." Ale happily put on the cigar, bit off the butt of the cigarette recklessly, and said falteringly: "Ale, sir."

"Ale, since you are plainclothes, how could you be hunted down? Does anyone dare to kill the police these days?" Li Zitao handed him the lighter, then glanced at the almost 2mm cigarette butt in his hand, and said with a faint smile: "You're going to pay $200 for this one bite."

"Ah?" Ale looked at the cigarette butt in his hand in a daze, and looked at the cigar that had just been lit in his mouth. He was suddenly choked by the smoke, and coughed 'cough'. "Mr. Li, thank you...Actually, I don't know what happened. Suddenly someone rushed out to kill me. I saw too many people and ran away."

Up to now, Ah Le is still a foggy head. He had just performed meritorious service before, but he was chased and hacked the next day. Hearing their voices, it seemed that they came from Kowloon Walled.

This made Ah Le even more confused, because his uncle was very strong.

That's right, he is the leader of the Chaozhou gang. Why did his own people come to chase him down and attack him even harder after he reported his name? Ah Le really doesn't understand.

"You said your name is Ale? What's your last name?" Li Zitao asked thoughtfully before getting off the car. "Lu, Lu Le, Li Sheng." A Le scratched his head, and ran away with a simple smile and waved his hands.

"Lu Le, Lu Le, hehe..." He patted his legs with a hearty laugh, Li Zitao really wanted to sigh the wonder of fate.

"Boss, do you want to go back now?" In front of the market was a crowded market, which looked very lively and dangerous. The road was narrow and difficult to turn. Danny wanted to leave as soon as possible.

For bodyguards, the denser the place with more people, the more troublesome it is.

"Get out of the car and walk!" Unfortunately, things always backfired, and Li Zitao suddenly became interested and wanted to go shopping in the market.

"It's been a long time since I bought a bag, just take a look!" Li Zitao said to Tia beside him.

"Okay." Tia followed out with some surprise.

"What do we do now?" the bodyguard asked, looking up.

"What else can I do?" Danny quickly got out of the car and said as he walked, "Don't get too close, just keep up."

Jardine's Place, whose address is Causeway Bay, does not yet see a prosperous future, but it already has a preliminary scale.

There are all kinds of bulk goods, hotels, pharmacies, and tailors.

Seeing the tailor's shop, Li Zitao took Tia in. An old man with thick glasses was measuring the cloth and rushing to make the customer's order.

"My guest, do you need anything?" Hearing the wind chime on the porch, the old man immediately raised his head and greeted him with a smile.

However, the guests who came this time were different from usual.

In the past, the Chinese followed the foreigners, why is it the other way around today, the foreign women behind are really beautiful...

"I want to order a cheongsam and make it for her." Li Zitao pointed to Tia who was standing at the door, a little confused about the situation.

"Okay, then... this way please, I have to measure the size first." The old man made a gesture of invitation to Tia.

At this moment, she finally realized that she still knew some Chinese, but she didn't use it often, and her preconsciousness didn't realize it.

"Okay." Tia stood in the position designated by the old man cooperatively.

The other party shouted into the curtain hanging behind the counter: "Amei, come and measure the size for the customer."

"Your service here is quite considerate." A young girl who looked seventeen or eighteen came out, wearing a blue and white cheongsam, her graceful figure set off the clothes just right.

This is a live advertisement, and it can serve female customers exclusively.

Foreigners are not very easy to serve, and even one of them will be troublesome.

"Yes, foreign guests often come here, after all, the queen is in charge..." the old man was speaking, and suddenly looked at him in awe, afraid that he might have said something wrong.

"It's okay, I don't work for Guilao...I work for myself." Li Zitao smiled, signaling him not to be nervous.

"Then you are really like this... These days, it is rare to let foreigners listen to you." The old man took a few steps forward, deliberately avoiding Tia's sight and whispered.

"How is the business here?" If you want to understand the people's livelihood in a region, what is more authentic than starting from the grassroots.

"Fortunately, apart from the tribute to the gang and the police, the rest is enough to live on." The old man said very flatly, as if this is a normal ecology.

"Is the house my own?" Hearing what he said, Li Zitao looked up and down the shop.

"Yes, it was passed down from the ancestors." Looking at the ancient beams and the fur curled around, the old man's face was full of pride.

This shop has been handed down in their family for three generations. It was not damaged when the Japanese army occupied it, and it was preserved intact. It is still a treasure house for their family to eat.

"That's great! Is it common for the police to recruit members?" Li Zitao is still very unfamiliar with Gangjiang, especially the situation at the grassroots level.

He had seen it all from movies before, what was the situation, was it more serious, or had some kind of processing been done in the movie, he wanted to hear it for himself.

"Normal, why is it abnormal? In the entire Gangjiang, as long as they are doing business, they are selling goods on the side of the road, and they have to pay tolls and protection fees.

Without the protection of gangs and police, it is impossible to survive in this kind of place. "

"Is it peaceful after collecting money?"

"Be more peaceful. If there is a fight, someone will notify you in advance... In short, try to live!"

The old man sighed, someone would have notified him in advance, but the protection fee has been rising month after month, and there is no chance for people to breathe.

Even if something is broken, no one will pay for it, so I can only endure it myself. Occasionally, people from below will come to beat the autumn wind, which is commonplace.

The phrase "Barely alive" is the truest portrayal of his heart. As long as he can live in such a world, what other extravagant hopes are there?

"But from the outside, it's pretty peaceful, isn't it?" Li Zitao was referring to the situation he saw from the outside. Although people are in a hurry, they still have a faint smile on their faces.

He had seen the expression of real despair with his own eyes. After the Great Depression, the streets were filled with that kind of numb, dazed and sluggish expression. He stumbled while walking, like the body of a walking dead.