An urban village is a product left by a city in the process of urbanization.
Generally, it is a small village close to the city border or the center of the city, or a gathering place for migrant workers.
Among the high-rise buildings with bright windows, urban villages seem a bit out of place with the big cities, with crowded buildings, potholes on the roads, and poor environment.
Susie took her father's hand, looked up at the buildings and the buildings and saw the messy wires. People here have no time to take care of so many safety issues in order to survive. These messy piles of wires look extremely dangerous.
Wade just watched the surveillance video of the girl being electrocuted to death by high-voltage electricity, and then looked at these messy wires, and felt even more dangerous.
Kellen was calm and composed, holding Susie with one hand and putting the other in his pocket, walking casually until he came to a small alley between two self-built houses.
The two self-built houses are very close to each other, so the alley is very small, and it looks a bit dark and damp when the sun is blocked.
"Is it here?” Susie asked.
Kellen nodded: "The second floor."
The residents who passed by looked back at the big and small children strangely. Lucy and Zion failed to follow, and Alana forced them to stay and do their homework.
Kellen's tall stature and the two overly beautiful little boys and girls, as well as the different temperaments of their clothes, made them seem out of place.
A middle-aged aunt opened the door with an access control card. Seeing that Kellen was about to bring the two children in, she asked cautiously, "Who are you looking for?"
Kellen smiled slightly: "We're looking for Jose on the second floor, who is the electrician. We are his friends."
He thought the middle-aged aunt didn't know, but she said oh: "You are looking for Jose!He never heard him mention that he has friends like you?"
Kellen snorted: "He doesn't like to talk, it's normal if he didn't mention it."
The middle-aged aunt nodded: "That's true."
Susie asked curiously, "Auntie, are you familiar with him?"
The middle-aged aunt smiled and said, "Yeah, he is very nice. He is an electrician himself. He will directly help the neighbors to solve any problems encountered by the electrician. We say that he doesn't want to give him money, and we say that it is all paid by the neighbors.” What."
Most of the people living here are couples who can’t afford a house. They have children and their families come to help take care of them, and the rent is cheap.
Or those who work in the city or do business nearby...
"The landlord of our building is very kind, so many of them are old tenants. Everyone knows each other after living for a long time. They usually say hello when they go downstairs to buy vegetables or take a stroll."
Susie exclaimed, "That's great!"
Kellen: "It's pretty good. The neighbor relationship in the city is not as good as in the village. Your relationship is pretty good."
The middle-aged aunt had already reached the second floor during the conversation, and the middle-aged aunt nodded: "That's... well, when we arrive, the one at the end is their home."
Susie thanked her aunt, and the middle-aged aunt continued to walk up.
Kellen raised his hand and knocked on the door.
After a while, someone will ask, "Who is it?"
Kellen said, "Check the water meter."
The door creaked open, and a middle-aged woman poked her head out and asked strangely, "Why check the water meter? Didn't you just pay the rent?"
The rent and water and electricity are paid together, and the woman is very surprised.
It was even more strange to see the glamorous Kellen and the two children again.
"Who are you?” she asked warily.
Two children ran out of the house babbling, tilting their heads and looking at Susie and the others curiously.
Soon there was an old voice inside: "Who is it?"
An old man came out tremblingly, leaning on a cane.
Kellen's eyes drooped slightly, and he glanced into the room, only to see an old woman inside the room, who was putting food on the table, and a younger child sitting on the children's dining table chair, holding a piece of green vegetables and eating.
That Jose is not there.
Susie said politely: "Hello, auntie, we're looking for Uncle Jose, is he at home?"
The woman asked, "What are you looking for him for?"
Kellen said: "It's like this. We are his employers. Isn't he working behind the scenes during this time? Today we checked the water meter a little bit abnormally, so we couldn't contact him, so we came to have a look."
The old woman in the house also came out, and said, "So it's Jose's boss, come in and sit down!"
The old man was very enthusiastic, and the middle-aged woman hurried to boil water.
Kellen brought Susie and Wade into the room and sat down on a chair.
While looking for tea, the woman said, "I'm sorry, the house is a little messy."
"In the past two days, Jose took an order and went to the surrounding villages and towns. Isn't the shopping mall over there closed...so he took private work..."
It seemed that she was worried that the boss would be unhappy with Jose's private work, so she spoke a little awkwardly.
Kellen said: "It's okay, you guys also know about the shopping mall, right?"
The woman nodded, and her voice couldn't help lowering her voice: "It's spread all over the Internet, and I've seen a lot of it too. It's really... hey, it's so pitiful. I asked Jose if he was working there that night, if he saw it, but Jose won't let us talk about that."
Kellen's eyes flickered slightly.