Shadow of great britain

When Arthur and others were walking in the deep alley outside St. Giles Church, the aisle here was very narrow and not large enough for two people to pass side by side.

Even a strong adult man can only shrink his shoulders as much as possible to ensure that his shirt does not touch the wet and moss-covered wall.

They could only line up in a row, with Officer Tony at the front, Arthur at the end, and Dickens, Tom and little Adam being protected by them in the middle.

Everyone was walking, but Adam suddenly stopped. He stopped in front of a shack made of wooden boards and wire extensions.

Tom pulled Adam's arm without looking back until he found resistance. Then he turned back to look at Adam who had stopped and asked in confusion: "Kid, what's wrong?"

Adam blinked, pointed at the house that was sewn together with iron wire and wooden boards and could no longer see its original appearance, and said, "I want to go back and see my friends."

Arthur glanced at the door number, which had only one nail hanging crookedly on the door panel and was covered in red rust.

It read 27 Church Lane, Adam's home for nine years.

Arthur turned to Dickens and asked: "Charles, are you not busy today?"

Dickens smiled and said: "I have been staying here for the past month. This is my job. It doesn't matter whether I am busy or not."

"That's good."

Arthur turned around and accidentally rubbed mud on the shoulder of his coat.

He raised his hand and knocked lightly on the door, then asked, "Is anyone home?"

Unexpectedly, after a long time, no one responded.

At this time, Adam stood up and said, "Mr. Hastings, you don't need to say hello when you enter here. There are four families living here, and this door is shared by everyone."

After saying that, he came to the door, held the lower edge of the door panel with both hands, and lifted it to his head, opening a gap of several feet from the bottom.

Little Adam's face turned red, and it could be seen that he was exerting all his strength.

"Please hurry in, I can't hold you for long."

Upon seeing this, Dickens hurriedly stepped forward to take over his work. Unexpectedly, he exerted force and heard a thud, and the entire door was removed.

"This..." Dickens held the door in his hand and looked confused: "I...did I break something?"

Adam shook his head and said: "No, it itself is bad. We usually just use it to block the wind."

Dickens was relieved when he heard this: "That's good."

He put the door panel aside, and everyone was able to see what was inside the shed.

The first thing that catches the eye is a semi-open-air corridor that is not too long. The reason why it is said to be semi-open-air is because the top of the corridor is simply built with wooden boards to keep out the rain.

On both sides of the corridor are stoves made of rubble that can be seen everywhere in the dilapidated houses in St. Giles.

There was a cylindrical iron pot with a blackened bottom on the stove. Some of the rainwater from last night had accumulated in the iron pot. There were also several corpses of unidentifiable black flying insects floating on the water.

There was still some gray and white charcoal left in the stove, and on the edge of the stove was a table leg picked up from somewhere.

When Adam saw the iron pot, he was stunned for a moment, and then murmured: "This must have been done by Kyle. He finished making tea and forgot to take the pot and the remaining fuel back. If his father found out, it would probably be a disaster." He needs to be beaten severely."

When Arthur heard this, he picked up the iron pot and poured the water outside, and said, "Then let's go get it back for Kyle. Is Kyle the friend you are looking for today?"

Adam shook his head as he led them into the stairwell and walked up: "No, don't take it for him, I'm happy to see him get beaten."

Arthur was stunned when he heard this: "Why?"

Adam said: "I have a grudge against Kyle. He is two years older than me, so he often fights with me because he is taller and stronger than me."

Tom also became interested. He wanted to know more about his son: "Why did you fight?"

Faced with his father's questions, Adam did not conceal the grudges between him and his enemies.

He said: "There are too many conflicts between us. Sometimes it's because of the penny in the crack of the brick. Sometimes it's because I stole the newspaper he planned to sell on the street. Sometimes it's because of him and his Help my minions look down on me."

"Look down on you?" Tony laughed and said, "Adam, relax, there will always be people who look down on you in this world. I patrol every day, and I am looked down upon by others every day."

Adam said seriously: "Kyle doesn't have the guts to look down on the police, he only dares to look down on me.

He said he could get six pennies a day for working in a factory, but I could only get five pennies.

But he didn't think about it carefully. He got six pence not because he did a better job than me, but because he had an aunt who was a foreman in the factory.

He is a man who doesn't know it, but thinks that his rudeness is masculine.

I used to work with him in a textile factory. When he was free, he always liked to pick up Robin's skirt with a stick and tease her by saying: 'Hey, let's take a good look at how white your thighs are. ’

Robin was made to cry by him, and I couldn't stand it anymore, so I hugged Kyle's head from behind, threw him to the ground, and then sat on his body and beat him.

Kyle's nose was bleeding from my blood. He covered his face and cried, just like a cowardly mangy dog.

I was almost winning, but his gang of bastards came up to me like crazy and beat me with their fists and feet, just to get an extra penny from Kyle's aunt. Kicked me in the stomach, trying to separate us.

But I just didn't let go, I had to give him some color.

Until his aunt ran over with a stick. She called me "little bastard" and hit me hard on the back with the stick.

It was so painful that I had to let go, and since then I have been banned from working in the factory..."

When Adam said this, he suddenly fell silent.

Seeing him like this, Arthur suddenly thought of the information he got when chatting with Adam earlier.

He asked: "So this is the reason why you were kicked out on the street by your family and were not allowed to go home to sleep unless you begged five pennies a day?"

Little Adam nodded with tears in his eyes.

Arthur smiled and stretched out his hand to rub his head, then patted Tom on the shoulder: "I have to say, Tom, you have earned it. This is a pretty good boy."

Tom also smiled and nodded: "I think so too."

He knelt down and wiped away his son's tears with his fingers, hugged him and sat on his neck.

Dickens also smiled and encouraged: "Boy, this is nothing. The reason why they want to kick you out of the house is not because you are not doing well, but because they are jealous of you and jealous that you have them with five pence a day." The thing you can’t buy is your character and conscience!”

Adam smiled, wiped the corners of his eyes, and said, "Dad, you'd better put me down."

"What's wrong?"

"I still have to dig out my hidden treasures from the ground. Although I no longer need it, I want to give them all to Robin. Robin also lives here, and she needs these things more than me now. "

Tony whistled and joked: "Oh! Adam, can't you see that you are still a romantic child? Robin, I remember this name, is it the girl you rescued from that little bastard Kyle? You This ghost is clever."

Little Adam blushed, neither admitting nor denying. He just raised his finger and pointed at the roof: "She lives on the second floor, in the third room off the stairs."