third chapter(1/2)
When Tao Xi saw that the cloth had been completely soaked by the "trauma medicine", Tao Xi picked up a piece of wood from the ground, bit it on his mouth, and slapped the cloth on his back~
Numb~
Cool~
There's still a little sting~
But Tao Xi just snorted!
However, Tao Xi sighed inwardly. Fortunately, Marco and Hill were not here, so Tao Xi no longer had to pretend that he was not in pain at all.
I don’t know how much time passed, but Tao Xi lay on their wooden bed and fell asleep again~
When Tao Xi woke up, sunlight was already shining into the sewer where he was.
When Tao Xi looked at the sunshine around him, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and with a sudden excitement, a carp came up and was about to jump~
"Hiss~"
"I'm really not used to it!" Tao Xi slowly stood up, supporting the ground with one hand and the wall with the other.
Tao Xi deliberately slowed down his movements in order to prevent his own body from being too painful, but fortunately Hill was considerate enough and put all Tao Xi's clothes on the wooden bed when he left.
Tao Xi casually washed his face with the remaining water in the bucket and didn't care whether the radio he was thinking about was good or bad~
Tao Xi conveniently picked up the jar filled with cigarette butts, and then hummed a song that Tao Xi had learned from the sewer in front of the video store and wandered through the complicated sewer~
Along the way, Tao Xi was walking, jumping and crawling~
When Tao Xi saw that the sewer he was about to pass was filled with sewage at some point, Tao Xi pointed at a section of drainage pipe exposed along the manhole cover not far away and yelled at the empty sewer: "You guys
Aren’t these damn capitalists afraid that your children might drink this wastewater?”
Tao Xi, who pinched his nose, kicked away a mouse that was trying to swim through the sewage, sighed, rolled up his trouser legs, and waded towards the sewer in front of him that was already filled with sewage~
This piece of sewage looks like it has been drained for a long time, and only half of Tao Xi’s body is left in the deepest part. Fortunately, Tao Xi’s water quality is pretty good!
But he never thought that Tao Xi would turn around and curse as soon as he passed through this sewage area: "You damn capitalists are really immoral! Don't you know that the Olympic Games will start soon! Spending some money to install drainage facilities is not as good as yours
Is it much better to discharge sewage casually?"
Tao Xi ran for who knows how long and finally found a water pipe~
Tao Xi skillfully found a valve. After he turned it clockwise, water flowed out of a water outlet.
Tao Xi quickly put his whole body under the water outlet. Tao Xi cleaned the sewage on his body while drinking the water flowing out of the water outlet~
"It's so far! If this group of people can't give me enough benefits this time, I'll leave them alone for a week!" A gray vest was tied around his waist by Tao Xi. Tao Xi, whose upper body was naked, looked up at the people not far away.
A drain hole only the size of his head sighed.
Looking along this drainage outlet, there seem to be a lot of people up there, and you can hear slogans being shouted from the crowd of figures~
"Tsk! Hurry up and hurry up. You're not late. They haven't finished running yet." Tao Xi hurriedly took out the can filled with cigarette butts that he had kept in his pocket.
Tao Xi carefully placed the cigarette butts in the can one by one parallel to the drain outlet~
Just when Tao Xi was taking advantage of the sunshine to pat the butt of his cigarette, a whistle of "didi-didi" suddenly came from directly above the drainage outlet~
"Hey, is today's running exercise over so soon?" Tao Xi muttered in a low voice before quickly getting up and running towards a wooden stick standing at the drainage outlet~
This wooden stick looks very smooth, and it seems that someone often plays with it~
And there is a small pocket bent on the top of the wooden stick~
Tao Xi held a wooden stick in one hand and stuck it in his waist with the other and kept staring at the movement of the drain~
"Hey! Brat, as usual, I want the best cigarette butt!" Along with these words, half a human face appeared in the size of the drain outlet.
Tao Xi was not surprised by the appearance of this man. Tao Xi directly brought the wooden stick with the pocket in his hand to the drainage outlet and replied: "Old rules."
When the half-faced man heard Tao Xi's words, he disappeared directly into the drain and stretched his hand in~
At this time, he was still holding a 1-cent coin in his hand. When Tao Xi saw that the 1 cent was placed in the pocket of the wooden stick, Tao Xi said crisply: "Shall I pick it for you?"
"Come on, come on! Whatever! I've been holding it in all night. You really don't know what it's like to not smoke in prison."
Tao Xi didn't say anything to this person. Instead, he lowered his head and picked up 10 relatively long cigarette butts from the ground, put them in the pocket of the wooden stick and handed them over.
The guy above is also very neat~
He took out all the cigarette butts from his pocket and walked away, but soon another person approached his face~
Tao Xi served more than a dozen people very skillfully. When there were fewer and fewer cigarette butts on the ground, a timid voice rang out~
"I...I heard...you can smoke here, right?"
"Yes sir, no credit is allowed for small business, 1 cent for 10 cigarette butts."
"I...I have no money~"
When these words were heard, a burst of noise suddenly came from the drain~
"Go away! You are queuing up even if you don't have money. Don't you know that we have a tight schedule for our day off? Do you want the guards to stop us?"
Tao Xi nodded in agreement when he heard the words from the drain, but the person who finally got in line did not give up~
Tao Xi first heard a muffled sound, and then the sound of someone dragging on the lawn~
Tao Xi nodded with satisfaction when he heard the noise and secretly decided to give this voice an extra cigarette butt next time~
But the man who was dragged away obviously did not give up: "Please, if I don't have a cigarette tonight I will die! Please!"
As soon as Tao Xi heard this man's words, he immediately guessed how he ended up in prison. He was either selling drugs or taking drugs, or he might have been sent to prison just after successfully detoxifying.
"Okay, okay, I'll give him a few. We are all poor people. Forget it this time. Next time, you must ask your family to give you enough money. You will be very miserable in prison without money!" Tao Xi
As he spoke, he bent down and picked up the cigarette butt.
Tao Xi didn't know what happened above, but the man kept muttering "Thank you, thank you" when he came back again.
"Hey! Little Taosi!"
"You are becoming more and more like your grandpa!"
Upon hearing this voice, Tao Xi changed his previous coldness and immediately responded enthusiastically: "Uncle Bolton! How are you recently? Last time I heard your subordinates said you were sick, and I told Marco that I would take the time to go to Chinatown to get you some.
Here’s the medicine!”
The person called Bolton's training had a very rough voice. Although he couldn't see his face clearly, he could tell that Tao Xi was very familiar with him~
"Hey! I don't need the medicine anymore!"
"Give me some cigarette butts too, the taste in my mouth is a bit dull!"
Tao Xi heard Uncle Bolton's words and obediently put the cigarette butt he had left in his hand into his pocket and sent it up.
Bolton, who was sitting at the drain, looked very capable in prison. He lit up his cigarette butt and started smoking. No one in the shadowy figures around him came to disturb him~
After all, those people who came to buy cigarette butts just now planned to smoke secretly at night~
The smell of tobacco from the conversation drifted in, and Tao Xi sniffed the smell carefully~
Bolton, who heard the commotion in the sewer above, made a joke instead: "Hey! Little Tao Xi has grown up? He actually wants to smoke!"
When Tao Xi heard this joke, he shyly slapped the back of his head and explained: "No, I just want to smell what the smoke is~"
But Bolton, who was sitting at the drain, did not answer Tao Xi. Instead, he said to himself: "A few Mexicans have come into the prison recently. They are a little restless and things are a little troublesome."
When Tao Xi heard this, he asked directly: "Will uncle use me to get you the things you deposited here?"
"Not a few Mexicans!"
"Just take some time to help uncle buy something from outside."
After Bolton said this, a big hand with a tattoo of a skull stretched out~
"Didi didi"
A whistle sounded, and the originally black shadow of the drainage outlet also lit up~
A beam of sunshine shines in the sewer~
Tao Xi picked up the note on the ground and the dollars wrapped in a rubber band, put them in his pocket and left~
This hole was the reason why an old man dared to take in two little guys who escaped from the orphanage in the sewer seven years ago~
This drainage outlet is also the only place for foreign “trade” in Los Angeles’ largest prison, Prison No. 86!
As for the guy Tao Xi just called Uncle Bolton, he is the underground king of this prison!
Although Uncle Bolton never told him why he went to prison~
But Tao Xi can guess it more or less, and Tao Xi can no longer remember the years of cooperation between his "uncle" and his grandfather Lao Naer!
But Tao Xi has served Bolton for seven years, but his "uncle" not only has no intention of being released from prison, but as time goes by, his name has become bigger and bigger in Prison No. 86!
Tao Xi and his three brothers also rely on this drainage outlet. Not only does it allow them to stutter when they can't find work on the street, but occasionally when something big happens in the prison, the third brother can also have a good meal~
Of course, this meal is just for three people to eat a hot dog without meat~
After turning around and leaving, Tao Xi once again saw the sewer filled with sewage. When Tao Xi saw that the water in the sewage outlet had reached his neck, Tao Xi frowned and instinctively wanted to take a detour!
But the moment Tao Xi turned around~
To be continued...