Chapter 192 — The Ruined Shantytown
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"Huh?" Wei Zhao hadn't noticed before. Only after Kang Xiaobo mentioned it did he look at the ornament, and several black lines immediately appeared on his forehead. "This ornament belongs to the car's owner—" "Boss, I get it!" Kang Xiaobo wore the look of a man who knew everything, and chuckled. "Boss, I'm a man too, I understand. It's fine, I won't tell Tang Yun!"
"..." Wei Zhao casually plucked the ornament off and tossed it into the passenger-side drawer.
"Yeah, hide it quick, or it'll be bad if Tang Yun sees it." Kang Xiaobo nodded with deep conviction.
Wei Zhao nearly crashed the car when he heard that.
The shantytown actually referred to areas within a city's built-up zone characterized by dense clusters of single-story houses, long years of use, poor housing quality, small per-capita floor space, incomplete infrastructure, inconvenient transportation, major security and fire hazards, and filthy, chaotic, and dilapidated environmental sanitation.
Many developing cities had shantytowns like this. Of course, not everything in a shantytown was single-story houses — there were some buildings too, but these were three-story red-brick structures, not much better than the single-story houses. No gas pipelines, no network infrastructure, and so on... some didn't even have kitchen exhaust vents.
Wei Zhao's hometown was mostly full of these broken-down houses, so seeing them didn't faze him much. But Kang Xiaobo had only ever walked past the shantytown before and had never gone inside to look. Seeing it today, he was thoroughly shaken. He never imagined Tang Yun would actually live in such a poor environment. Filthy piles of coal and firewood, garbage heaps and open sewers reeking of rot... a completely wretched environment.
And yet it was in this wretched environment that Tang Yun had been raised — the commoner school beauty of No. 1 High.
"Boss, this environment..." Kang Xiaobo couldn't help but roll up the car window. He could hardly stand the smell.
"The place I used to live wasn't much different from here," Wei Zhao said with a smile, completely unbothered. There was more he didn't say — that on the battlefield, there were far worse environments. He had lain in ambush for days in open sewers and swamps...
Wei Zhao found Green Grass Alley and turned the car into it. But once inside, it was hard to drive any further — every household's doorway was piled with all sorts of junk.
Wei Zhao had no choice but to park the car at a spot near the alley entrance that wasn't cluttered with junk. The residents in the alley all looked at this brightly colored little car — clearly not cheap — with some astonishment.
Normally, cars rarely came into the shantytown. Aside from taxis, almost none of the residents here could afford a car, and anyone who could afford one wouldn't still be living here — they'd have bought a house somewhere better long ago.
Wei Zhao and Kang Xiaobo got out, locked the car, and followed the house numbers toward Tang Yun's home.
The courtyard gate of Tang Yun's house was noticeably more dilapidated than the others. It had clearly gone unrepaired for a long time — whether because there was no time or no money, Wei Zhao couldn't tell. Seeing it made his heart ache...
Let alone Kang Xiaobo beside him.
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