Chapter 192 - Dilapidated Slums
Lin Yi drove Yushu's yellow Beetle to Kang Xiaobo after making sure that Mengyao and Yushu weren't going out.
Faubert had already gotten the driver's license, and he'd given it to Lin Yi the day before. Lin Yi wasn't afraid of getting mugged by the police now.
The two Misses were watching the Blu-ray of Xu Shihan's concert, the one Lin Yi had bought from the bookstore. They wouldn't be going out for a walk.
Lin Yi gave Kang Xiaobo a call before leaving the house. The cheapest knockoff phone these days was only one or two hundred kuai, and it was normal for high schoolers to have their own phones. Tang Yin was probably the only one who didn't have one …
"Xiaobo, where are you?" Lin Yi asked.
"I'm at home, not leaving yet. Boss, ready to go?" Kang Xiaobo had been looking forward to this day for a week now. Going to the school beauty's house for dinner was a rare honor, and so Kang Xiaobo had woken up early, waiting for Lin Yi's call.
"Where's your house? I'll come pick you up." Lin Yi said.
"You'll come pick me up?" Kang Xiaobo blinked, not understanding what Lin Yi was getting at. "My house's on Ningshi Street. Boss, which way is it? If it's not on the way, why don't we meet at the slums? "
"Ningshi Street … Wait for me then." Lin Yi said before hanging up.
Yushu's car had a GPS system installed, and Lin Yi keyed in Ningshi Street and started driving.
Ningshi Street was actually on Lin Yi's way to school every day, and it was pretty easy to find. It didn't take long before Lin Yi parked the car near the bus stop.
Lin Yi called Kang Xiaobo and told him that he was waiting for him at the station. Not long after, Lin Yi saw Kang Xiaobo, who was dressed very handsomely, running to the station platform. He looked around as he ran, obviously looking for Lin Yi.
"Xiaobo, here!" Lin Yi opened the front passenger door and waved at Kang Xiaobo.
"Hmm? Boss? " Kang Xiaobo looked at Lin Yi and his car in surprise. He quickly ran over and asked, "Is this your car?"
"Hehe …" Lin Yi laughed. He didn't confirm or deny it. For this kind of thing, it would be difficult to explain too much. It was better not to explain at all.
Sure enough, Kang Xiaobo thought that Lin Yi had acquiesced. He got in the car and said, "Boss, I didn't expect your family to be so well-off. I thought you came from a poor village …"
"It's not too bad." Lin Yi told the truth- if the missions were as his old man said, only a few hundred or a few thousand, then his family would only be okay at best. If it were the market price, then his family would be a millionaire a long time ago, or even a billionaire … Of course, Lin Yi didn't want to be too calculative with his old man. If the old man was a miser, then so be it. He didn't lack food or drinks, and he'd just treat it as earning some money for his old man's retirement.
"But boss, why'd you buy a car like this? It looks like a girl's car … Look at the cushions, the interior … "Kang Xiaobo said as he looked at the interior of the car.
"Ha …" Lin Yi smiled. This car was Yushu's, of course it was feminine …
"Eh?" All of a sudden, Xiaobo's eyes stopped on an ornament on the rearview mirror. "That's … Yushu? Boss, no way? You have a crush on her? "
Kang Xiaobo's eyes went wide as he stared at the decoration in disbelief. It was a small photo frame, and it was Yushu in it.
"Eh?" Lin Yi didn't notice it before, but now that Kang Xiaobo mentioned it, he looked at the decoration. He was speechless. "This decoration … It's the owner's …"
"Boss, I know!" Kang Xiaobo smiled as if he knew everything. "Boss, I'm a man too, I know. It's fine, I won't tell Tang Yun!"
"......" Lin Yi took it off and tossed it into the drawer on the passenger seat.
"Yeah, hurry up and hide it. It'll be bad if Tang Yun sees it." Xiaobo nodded in agreement.
Lin Yi sweated and almost crashed the car.
Slums referred to the single-story houses in the built up areas of the city. The houses were old, the quality was poor, the average floor space was small, the infrastructure wasn't complete, the transportation was inconvenient, the security and fire hazard were high, and the environment was dirty, messy, and bad.
Many developing cities had such shantytowns. Of course, not all of the shantytowns were bungalows. There were also some buildings, but these buildings were three-story red brick houses. They were not much better than bungalows. There were no gas pipes, no network engineering, and so on … Some didn't even have a kitchen vent.
Lin Yi's old house was mostly this kind of dilapidated house, so he didn't think much of it. Kang Xiaobo, on the other hand, had only passed by the slums before and had never seen it. He was completely shocked when he saw it today. He didn't expect Tang Yun to live in such a terrible environment. Dirty coal piles, firewood piles, smelly garbage, and smelly drains … It was a horrible environment.
And in this horrible environment, Tang Yun, the commoner beauty of First Middle School, was born.
"Boss, this environment …" Kang Xiaobo couldn't help but close the window. He couldn't stand the smell.
"The place I used to live was pretty much like this … …" Lin Yi said with a smile, not thinking much of it at all. There was one more thing he didn't say- it was the battlefield, much worse than this. He could hide in the gutters and swamps for days … …
Lin Yi found Grass Alley and turned the car in. But after turning in, it was difficult to drive in. Every door was full of junk.
Lin Yi had no choice but to park the car at the entrance of the alleyway. The residents in the alleyway looked at the brightly-colored, obviously expensive car, a little surprised.
Under normal circumstances, there were very few cars coming to Shanty Town. In addition to taxis, there were almost no residents here who could afford a car. Since they could afford a car, they did not live here. They had already bought a house in a better place.
Lin Yi and Kang Xiaobo got out of the car, locked the car, and followed the number on the door to Tang Yun's house.
The third door should be here. Lin Yi looked at the dilapidated door and sighed slightly … He guessed that Tang Yun's family's condition was poor, but in this slums, Tang Yun's family's condition should be below average.
Tang Yun's yard was obviously a lot more dilapidated than the others, and it probably hadn't been repaired in a long time. He didn't know if it was because of the lack of time, or because of the lack of money, but Lin Yi felt a little sad looking at it …
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