I ran for president with scumbag money

In big cities, some people live in high-end apartments, while others live in basements.

In state A, people who can't even afford to live in a basement will live in a "box house".

"Box house" refers to a cuboid house with an area of ​​less than eight square meters and separated by iron sheets and wooden boards. Due to its shape and conditions, it is also called "coffin house". Holes are used as small windows, at least to a certain extent, to ensure "personal privacy".

Approaching the box house, the inside is divided into many small parts, usually the kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom are combined into one, and there are three, four, or even five people living in a family.

In this kind of bedroom, people can only lie down, like lying in a coffin, and when they turn over, they have to hit the iron wall.

This is a gathering place for the homeless, and there is only a river across from the luxurious high-rise buildings.

Oscar bought a five-day accommodation right in one of the "box houses" for only 40 yuan.The "box people" who received the money immediately said that they could go to sleep under the overpass, and staggered away without even asking their identities.

Leon called him to stop, and the two stood on the side of the road chatting.

"I admire him, we can talk about it." Oscar saw this scene and commented.

"He has a mind of his own," Edith said.

The air was filled with excrement, garbage, sweaty smell, and the sultry smell of iron sheets. After chatting with the box dwellers, Leon couldn't bear it any longer. Brings a little freshness.

He searched all over his pockets but couldn't find the cigarette case, so he had to sulk with himself.

"I guess you're looking for this."

Someone next to him stretched out a hand, holding a cigarette case in his hand.

Leon took it over and smiled at him, "You came out too?"

"Yeah." Edith nodded, and stood side by side with him, looking at the neon lights outside the river bank, "The night view is beautiful."

The river water is connected to the starry sky, and the starry sky and the neon lights reflect each other, and it is brightly lit from a distance.On the other side is a land of gold.

"This side is..." Leon unpacked the package flexibly, took out a cigarette and lit it, turned his head, looked at the residential area formed by stacked "box houses" behind him in the distance, and smiled wryly, "The end of the world Like."

Just like the scenes that only appear in wasteland novels, a catastrophe falls, the world is instantly reduced to ruins, people are homeless, unaccompanied, and have to wander around.

"House prices in state A are too expensive, and many people can't afford a bedroom in their lifetime." Edith said slowly, a little distracted.

"James is probably the only one who likes this place?" Leon remembered that when he first arrived here, the programmer wearing glasses yelled and ran around excitedly, looking like a lady experiencing farmhouse fun.

"He likes it because he knows he can leave if he wants to." Edith said lightly.

"If you are not used to this place, you can say so," Leon said.

He felt sorry for Edith.

"How could I not get used to it?" Edith regained her senses and blurted out, "Where do you think I lived in my childhood?"

After all, he knew he had made a slip of the tongue and quickly shut up.

Leon knew that he didn't like to talk about the past, so after taking a puff of smoke on the river, he changed the subject: "Your face is stained."

Edith smiled: "Aren't you the same." After a pause, he seemed to mention casually, "Leon, these have nothing to do with you. You..."

"Well, but I want to run for office, so they have something to do with me, and I still have to face the problem." Leon looked at this lawless place, the fireworks were on and off, and after a long time, he flicked the ash and said with a smile.

"The original goal is really simple, the more you go, the more you will find that it is not the case." Edith said seriously, "I will give you all the money in my hand, go to another country, Leon , Country X is hopeless."

Leon suddenly discovered that Edith's mental state had changed a lot in just one day. Compared with the muddleheaded and half-asleep appearance before, after committing suicide, he became much more conscious. Eyes that are always fogged by rain and fog also seem to have the meaning of seeing the light through the clouds and fog.

"It feels like you're in a good state of mind recently?"

Leon didn't accept this request, and Edith was not surprised, and said softly: "Go out for a walk, get some air, it's much better. Besides, compared to the extravagant scenes, these make me feel like going home. No matter how good those places are, they are still..."

He said to himself: "So that's the case. At that time, I'm afraid that Naita En thought so too..."

"Edith?"

"You've heard about it, too. When Netann and Oscar were around, they had doubts about their own environment."

"I heard what Oscar said in his speech." Leon responded.

Edith stood for a long time, feeling a little exhausted, so she simply spread the windbreaker on the ground, sat down, and continued: "At that time, they went to a rally."

"assembly?"

"The labor movement, five years ago." Edith curled her lips.

Leon let out an "ah" and suddenly realized, "Anthony."

Before Leon took part in his first campaign speech, he learned from the information given by Binny: Five years ago, there was a workers' strike to ask for wages in State A, and the organizer was Anthony.

This labor movement ultimately failed, ending with Anthony's suicide and the legalization of gay marriage in State A. Both the Hawke family and the spectators were satisfied from top to bottom.

"You mean, Netann was also involved at the time?" Leon was speechless.

It was a movement of workers to strike across the board to protest the serious exploitation of the Hawke family.As the eldest son of the Hawke family, Nathan was directly involved in it?

"But now..." Leon didn't understand, since he had such an experience, how could Naitaen return to the family now, and torture innocent people even more?

"This is something I don't understand." Edith closed her eyes and murmured, "Maybe I can't understand it. After all, the gap between the rich and the workers is bigger than the gap."

A moment of silence surrounded the two of them, and Leon suddenly asked, "Anthony, what kind of person are you?"

Edith opened her eyes and looked at him: "Forgot."

"forget?"

"People's memory is very short." Edith said lightly, "I can't remember so many things."

Leon didn't speak, but stood up and walked towards the river. Edith felt that her words were harsh, and wanted to stop him, so she opened her mouth, but said nothing.

He knew that if Leon decided to do something, he couldn't stop him.

Leon threw off his coat and wig, threw them aside, and jumped into the water. His figure was submerged in the water, and soon sank out of sight.

Edith was startled, and stood up and ran towards the river. In the wind, the river that flowed me would rush to the bank from time to time, and he searched nervously.

"Edith!"

Someone was calling him from behind, but Edith didn't answer, the man ran over and grabbed his shoulders, seeming to be intimate, but actually pulled him back from the river bank calmly: "What are you doing here? Woolen cloth?"

It's James.

"I'm looking for Leon. He's gone into the river."

"Huh? This kid?" James let go of his shoulders with a sigh of relief, "I'll go and see."

He leaned over to look at the river, half of his shoe almost went out: "Where? Where?"

A person suddenly appeared in the water, stretched out his hand to grab his ankle, and pulled it down hard.

"Wow!"

Before James could react, his body had been dragged into the river, struggling with all his hands and feet, screaming.

Leon emerged from the water, squinting his eyes and smiling: "Is it irritating?"

"I'm going to wash you!" James roared in shock, clasped his hands together, and threw a big wave of water on Leon's head, "Why don't you drag Edith?"

"I'm different from you. Look at you, you have rough skin and thick flesh. If you drag it into the water, it's like a wild boar jumping into the river..."

Before Leon could finish his teasing words, he heard a "plop".

The two turned their heads and saw that Edith also jumped into the river, and they were immediately anxious:

"It's so cold, are you crazy?"

"What if I get sick? Go up!"

"Who knows how dirty the river is? What if you get sick?"

"Yes, especially with James in the water, it must have become a huge source of disease spreader!"

"You wait, Leon, I'll wash you now!"

Edith smiled gently, opened her arms and swam half a circle in the water. James had already held Leon down, rubbing his wet hands on the blond head angrily.

Until Oscar found them, the fight had developed from two people to a two-on-one water fight. Edith was more like an underwater sneak assisting Leon. When James was not paying attention, she came out of the water and attacked him. .

"You guys are too bullying." James covered his face hypocritically, "How can you bear to treat me who is so young and helpless?"

"James, if you don't come up again, I'll go down and grab you." Oscar stood on the shore, his dantian depressed, and shouted.

"It's not my business?"

"It must be you who took the lead, otherwise who else?" Oscar said angrily.

"Yeah," Leon chimed in, looking at him with a smile, "otherwise who else?"

James chased Leon ashore, and the two chased and fought back and forth by the river.

Just as Edith landed, Oscar picked up the windbreaker on the ground and put it on him: "Be careful, don't get sick."

"The windbreaker belongs to Leon."

"I don't think he needs it anymore." Oscar snorted, "He was infected by James today, two psychopaths."

"I talked to him about your past."

"What happened to me and him?" Oscar wondered.

Edith paused, and said, "You and Nathan...and...."

Oscar didn't speak.

"What happened at that time?" Edith asked slowly, "At that time, I thought you..."

Oscar touched his nose and walked away sideways: "It's all a thing of the past, why mention him? I'll go wash it too, I'm annoyed by the chemicals on my face."

As he spoke, he really walked to the shore, jumped into the water, and plunged into the water.

Edith pinched her dripping hair and sighed.

Over there, Leon had had enough trouble, and sat on the windbreaker, while James simply wrapped himself in the windbreaker and fell to the ground: "Ah, I'm so sleepy."

Edith came over smiling and sat down beside them.

"Sing a song, Leon." He begged frankly.

Leon scratched his head. He knew that Edith had a different preference for singing, so he said modestly, "I really can't sing."

"What are you afraid of? I'll come first." James sat up straight and raised his voice, "Ha~Lelujah!"

Leon covered his face, and Edith, who was embarrassed but polite, listened to this song from the dead house.

James was singing vigorously, and suddenly he kicked him on the back of the neck from behind.

"Who?" James was taken aback, turning his head in a daze.

Oscar stood there with contempt in his eyes like a king: "It's too ugly."

"I'm sorry." James hesitated.

The four of them were walking back, their feet were drenched and uncomfortable, Leon threw off his shoes and socks, and walked forward with James, while "you punch me, I kick you", the two of them rushed back to the box house happily .

Oscar chased after him, and growled in disbelief: "Are you two primary school students?"

Back in the house, Leon's feet were covered with mud, James laughed at him: "Look, it's for nothing."

"I just want to use river water to remove makeup." Leon explained.

Really hardcore makeup remover.

When looking for clothes, Leon found a small bag from his luggage, which was given to him by the doctor.

He was about to see what kind of necessities the doctor had given him, and he opened it with great interest. There was a bottle in it, and the three big characters "makeup remover water" were prominently written on the bottle.

Leon stuffed the makeup remover back with empty eyes: he didn't see anything, he didn't know anything.

Edith took out a towel and wiped his hair. He did it very politely. James looked at it and said to the other two, "Look at how I do it!"

After finishing speaking, he held the towel, pressed it on his head and rubbed it wildly, until he straightened the messy hairstyle into a Super Saiyan shape.

Seeing this, Edith smiled and walked out of the box house slowly.

Leon changed his clothes, and when he saw this, he was about to embarrass James. After laughing, he suddenly found a few people outside the door poking around.

Looking at their clothes, they were the aborigines here. Oscar, who was closest to the door, walked over and asked with a straight face, "What's the matter?"

Several people pushed and muttered, and finally someone took the lead, pointed at Leon and asked, "Is that Leon Morton?"

Hearing his name, Leon came over and approached, and several people exclaimed again:

"so similar."

"Exactly the same, it's him."

"It's the same person at all!"

"You've got the wrong person." Leon denied.

"No, it's impossible to admit your mistake. You gave a speech on TV before. I watched TV. I remember it well!" Another person said incoherently, "It's him, right?"

He looked at his companion for help.

His companions nodded.

He added: "You spoke for the workers on TV before, now you, are you here to help us?"

Seeing that Leon didn't answer for a long time, several people pulled him, and told them all about them like peas in a bamboo tube. For a while, the words "demolition" were all in Leon's ears.

"It's useless for you to say that. Leon is not yet the representative of State A, so he can't be the master." Someone said at the door.

Leon looked up and saw Edith walking back at some point, looking at them with a smile.

"That's not easy," one of them shouted suddenly in the sudden silence. "We just vote for him!"

"Yes," everyone was incited, "we vote for you."

In an instant, the noisy situation resumed in the box house.

Gradually, more and more box dwellers gathered. The place was originally small, but when they heard that a representative candidate came here, and he was a candidate who had spoken out for the workers. Not going back, just ran here.

Leon was slowly led out by the crowd and pulled to the open space outside.

He stood in the center of the crowd, and no matter what the Boxers said, he listened with a smile and nodded patiently.

This made the box dwellers even more excited. Their grievances, their sufferings, and their humbleness would be heard by a "big man" one day, which is something beyond dreaming.

"This kid, the canvassing has actually come here." Oscar stood above, arms folded, looking at the real crowd.

"Isn't that great? Anyway, he will satisfy the demands of the box dwellers, just as he treats the workers." Edith said.

Without knowing what Leon had done in advance, he still cooperated successfully, and successfully guided the topic of the box dwellers from "demolition" to "election voting", which was an assist.

After hearing this, James laughed, shook his head and said, "I don't know anything else, what are the box people's demands? Isn't that just to touch the 'cake' of the real estate agent? It's against the sky."

"The poor people's election is against the sky." Edith leaned on the door frame, and said a little tiredly, "A person with nothing in his hands can carry it up to now with people like Heinz Netann, who knows what will happen in the future? result?"

"One day we want to see this kid standing on the stage and making remarks about the success of the state representative election?" Oscar sneered and shook his head, "I don't believe it."

James listened, made a face at Edith, and smiled triumphantly.

Both of them knew that what Leon wanted was more than just a "state A representative".

"What are you laughing at?" Oscar looked at him displeased.

"It's very strange. Nothing special has happened to us for so many days, but unconsciously, I just think he can do it." James said.

"Oh, what do you know?" Oscar shook his head again.

Leon was listening to these people talking, occasionally raised his head, and saw three companions standing above, he narrowed his eyes and smiled at them.

Oscar turned and walked into the room. James grabbed the railing and waved at him repeatedly, and Edith responded with a weak smile.

So he was relieved.

In the dead of night, the last confidant held Leon's hand and left reluctantly. Leon went upstairs and found that Edith was still sitting at the door, wrapped in a blanket, waiting for him.

"Edith?" Leon leaned over to make sure he was asleep.

Edith suddenly opened her eyes, looked at him, then rubbed her eyes, and said softly: "Leon, come with me to see someone tomorrow."

"Huh? See who?"

Edith touched the lock on her collarbone and said calmly, "Jessica Hawke."

Leon's pupils constricted in surprise: "You want to listen to Baal?"

"I want to investigate what happened five years ago." Edith looked up at him and said, "Maybe Nathan's crimes have always been there, maybe just five years ago."

The author has something to say: the anti-theft badge is set, 50.00%, and the time is six hours... I haven't used it before, does it mean that after six hours, I can read the text normally?Or set some too much?too long?