HP's Chinese Parents

Tom asked, "Is there going to be a war?"

Nick sighed, "Never stopped."

They waited for the crowd to pass by with mixed emotions. After walking out of the store, Nick asked, "Do you really want to go to the slums?"

Tom said in amazement: "Of course! Why do you ask that?"

Nick paused, and suggested on a whim: "Then let's go to the biggest one. Speaking of which, I've never been there."

This is the truth. He had secretly laughed at Tom for becoming ignorant of suffering, but in fact his own impression of the poor was only derived from various news and literary works.Looking back on his more than 20 years of life, he has seen whales turn over and expose their belly before jumping out of the water in the Arctic Circle, and he has also been to the most luxurious wine party to deal with the exhaustion of clothes and temples. He once looked up at the stars under the aurora and lay in the snow thinking about his thoughts , and often participate in top academic conferences in various countries and brag with the bigwigs.

But he has never been here, the largest slum in London - the East End of London.

Since they hadn't planned to go this far, they hired a car at a premium and persuaded the driver to wait a block away for their return.After a long journey, they finally reached the East End.Nick heaved a sigh of relief and got out of the car, and the next second, he looked at the scene in front of him and opened his mouth, and made a bad joke: "Ah, Tom, I'm so sorry, I don't think we might be able to find a supermarket here. "

Tom also stood dumbfounded by the scene in front of him for a long time, until he realized that everyone around him looked at him like a fool, he let out a breath and said a strange: "Oh."

Where is the poorest place Tom has been to?It was the orphanage where he lived as a child.The building of the orphanage is a stone building with a sense of age. The walls are cold to the touch, and there are moss growing in the crevices of the stones.

Four years have passed, and in fact, most of his memories of those days have become blurred, but hunger is the most memorable.Breakfast and dinner in the orphanage only consisted of a bowl of porridge or bean soup, and lunch had half a slice of bread more than breakfast and dinner.In the beginning, the orphanage would find them various jobs and help the staff manage their older children to eat more for themselves. They often found various excuses to cancel their lunch while working.But then, around the time Nick was coming to him, people suddenly didn't want to pay them to work.So he lay on the plank bed most of the time, feeling the pain of hunger, looking at the slag ceiling and quietly waiting for the meal.At that time, most of the children lived in cold and damp north-facing rooms in order to free up the south-facing rooms for offices and reception rooms.I can’t see the sun all year round during the day, and never turn on the lights at night to save electricity, so when I think about it now, it seems that even the memory has turned gray and white.

But no matter how tough those days were, he still had a shelter from the elements.In winter, the cold wind blows in through the window, making him shiver under the quilt, but he still has windows.

And what kind of houses are these endless houses?

"Inhabited cowshed." Nick thought of the description of the East End in the news, and when Tom looked over suddenly, he realized that he had said it inadvertently.

Standing on the dirt path, Nick and Tom dared not go forward.Nick lamented the magic of mechanics.This area may be many crumbling illegal buildings crowded together, or it may be just a random shack where many people live.Who knows?Anyway, the house here will give you this illusion - make you feel that you can find any material here, and they are all put together in a magical way.The water company will not connect the water pipes here, let alone wires.Human excrement and soil were mixed together and covered the path regardless of each other, and scattered garbage was dotted on it, exuding a pungent smell.

In the narrow space without a door, the eyes of the ragged people are completely blank.They were so skinny that they packed the hut to the brim, and there was a child basking in the sun sitting at the door.

An old man wearing only his underwear came out from under the shack driven by hunger. He rummaged through the garbage dumps in front of each house, looking for something to eat, but apparently found nothing.

London's erratic weather rescued the two standing still, and the sudden downpour gave them an excuse to return. They walked a block as if fleeing for their lives, and found the driver who was thinking about breaking the contract.

After returning home and taking a shower, Nick apologized to Tom: "Sorry, I didn't expect this to happen. Your homework hasn't been finished yet. Let's go to the reserved place tomorrow."

Tom was sitting at the dining table, playing with a croissant in one hand, and resting his chin in the other in a daze. Hearing Nick's proposal, he answered submissively, "Oh."

Seeing that he seemed to be in a bad mood, Nick sat across from him and looked at him with his chin in the same position.

Tom was amused by him: "Oh, Nick, what are you doing?"

Nick blinked: "Well, I was wondering what you were thinking."

He had expected Tom to say something like 'the poor people in the ghetto' or 'the houses look dangerous' or something like that.Of course, if, God willing, Tom could come up with a little idea of ​​trying to help those people, Nick would wake up laughing from his dreams.

Who knows, Tom tilted his head and replied: "Well, I was thinking that I should not mention the slums in my homework. It suddenly occurred to me that the math teacher seemed to look down on the poor."

The author has something to say: Hey, I received a notice to return to school at the meeting in the afternoon. This time it was real, and I was really upset.The happy holiday is over, thank you for your support, the update after returning to school may be unstable.

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