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"I encountered an incident yesterday and was touched." Mingzhu was a little depressed.

Lu Ming didn't interrupt, waiting for her to continue.

"Yesterday afternoon, when I was about to get home, I saw someone selling a child on the street. It was a little girl, as dirty as a mud monkey, and she looked like four or five years old. Her father was sick and was dying. Waiting for money to go to the hospital to continue his life, as long as For 50 yuan, her mother plans to sell the child. I have seen many such things before, and I don’t care at all. Yesterday, it may be because of my sister’s affairs. When I saw that little girl, I seemed to think of my own and my sister’s childhood. , I gave the money as soon as my heart softened." Mingzhu said.

"You bought that little girl?" Lu Ming was taken aback.

"Why, why would I buy a little girl and go back? I don't know how to take care of the child. I was afraid that the money I gave would not be enough for medical treatment, so I turned around and sold the child. I just gave her mother some more money, and the child would not be happy. Will be sold again. I gave that woman all the five hundred yuan you gave me."

"You gave her 500 yuan!" Lu Ming exclaimed.

"I knew I was wrong, but when I softened my heart, I gave it all to her." Yuan Mingzhu said a little annoyed.

Lu Ming laughed and said, "I'll give it if I give it, isn't it just five hundred yuan? It's a good thing to do good deeds and save people from suffering."

"You really think so, I'm still afraid that you will scold me?" Mingzhu became happy again.

"Really, but don't do this in the future." Lu Ming sighed.

"I know, didn't I miss my sister yesterday, as if I lost my soul." Mingzhu laughed at herself.

In fact, she herself feels distressed, 500 yuan is a lot of money for her.Her parents only gave her 1000 yuan a year for living expenses, and she gave away half of it as soon as she let go, which is indeed generous enough.However, she usually eats and drinks almost half of her godmother's food, and she doesn't feel the importance of money to a person.

Lu Ming was not thinking about these things, but thinking that Mingzhu might have harmed that family.

500 Yuan Dayang is a huge sum of money for ordinary people, and there may be unscrupulous people who will do anything for the 500 Yuan Dayang, killing people and stealing money. There are many cases in Shanghai every year.

Lu Ming often saw beggars and prostitutes on the street, and he rarely cared about them. Sometimes he would throw some dimes, and sometimes he passed by in a hurry.

Most of these beggars, who sell their children and sell their daughters, are men in the family who are addicted to drugs or gambling. In order to smoke opium or enter the casino, they lose all their money and force their wives and children to beg on the street. , and even sell their wives and children, just to take a few more mouthfuls of opium and go to the casino again.

Despite the chaos and gangsters, Shanghai is still the best-developed city in China. As long as a family is willing to work hard to earn money, they will never starve to death, let alone sell their children or daughters, except for natural disasters and man-made disasters.

Poor people must have something to hate, and this is what they are talking about.

Lu Ming seldom talks about these things, let alone tell Mingzhu. He doesn't want her to know the dark and cruel side of this society too early. It is his responsibility as a man to keep Mingzhu young and beautiful with a pure heart. .

Lu Ming took out a silver note of 1000 yuan and handed it to Mingzhu.

"I don't want it anymore, it's not that I don't have money to live on." Mingzhu pushed his hand away.

"Take it, the detective is meritorious, this is the bonus for discovering the poisonous mushroom." Lu Ming laughed.

"I heard from my elder brother yesterday that the people at the bottom of Shanghai can live on 50 yuan a year, and some only spend 20 yuan a year. How do they live?" Mingzhu asked suspiciously.

"There is a poor way to live, buy a certain amount of stick noodles every month, steam steamed buns with some bran, and then go to the vegetable market to pick some rotten cabbage leaves. In this way, it really doesn't cost much a month." Lu Ming sighed.

"The whole family never eats meat...?" Mingzhu couldn't imagine what kind of day it was.

Lu Ming smiled bitterly. Emperor Jin Hui laughed at the hungry people, saying that they would rather starve to death than eat meat porridge. It was not that Emperor Jin Hui was really that stupid, but that he had never seen how the hungry people lived.

Speaking of which, he, Mingzhu, Sheng Muyi, and Shengdi are all flowers living in a greenhouse, and they belong to the type of people who may say "why not eat minced meat?"

"Then you went to the United States, and other countries in the world, are they really rich?"

"Well, the United States and most European countries have completed industrialization, but we are still an agricultural country, which is completely behind an era. They earn money from the world through exporting products, so they are very rich." Lu Ming simply explained.

"Then do you think our country can be as rich as theirs in the future?" Mingzhu asked with concentration.

"It's too far behind, and it's very difficult to catch up. The government must be reborn." The problem is too big, and Lu Ming doesn't want to talk about it.

Compared with the European and American powers in the period of the Republic of China, the gap between China and the European and American powers was so great that it made people feel desperate. Even compared with Japan, its neighbor in East Asia, China fell behind by a large margin.Lu Ming was also asked the same question when he was studying in the United States. How can the ancient China with its splendid civilization catch up with Japan?

China's Westernization Movement was almost synchronized with Japan's Meiji Restoration, and at a certain stage, it even took the lead. But in the end, Japan completed industrialization after all, while China's industrialization was stillborn.

Why is that?

Lu Ming thought about this question when he was studying, and consulted a lot of information, but he didn't get a satisfactory answer.Later, when he read Mr. Lu Xun's "Scream", he suddenly understood that in Chinese society, not only the state system and the upper-level structure had problems, but also the spiritual consciousness of the entire people.

Does industrialization mean advanced machinery and equipment?Absolutely not, machines and equipment are only external factors, and human spirit is the internal factor.If we want to change the situation in China, we must first transform the spiritual consciousness of the people. If China’s subjects are not transformed into citizens, China will never achieve industrialization and can only sleep in the backward agricultural era.

Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered that shortly after returning to China, he really saw Mr. Lu Xun outside his residence on Xiafei Road. What he saw was not the thinking giant he imagined, but a man with piercing eyes, who was as thin as a bone elder.

He didn't go over to chat, just watched from a distance, and finally left silently.

He realized that what Mister needs is not a visitor, but rest, and Mister's health is too important.

Seeing that he was not enjoying the conversation, Mingzhu stopped continuing this topic. In fact, she also caught a glimpse of a corner of the lower society by chance yesterday, and she was touched by chance, and she lost interest afterward.

After dinner, Mingzhu drove back. Lu Ming didn't want to take the car, so he just walked home slowly. Sometimes he likes to walk slowly on the street alone, watching the shops on both sides of the street, watching the people walking on the street, quietly Taste this world of mortals.

Certain streets in Shanghai Bund are as prosperous as New York. Its charm lies in the perfect combination of East and West. Walking through the gorgeous neon lights of the streets, you may walk into an alley in the Kangxi and Qianlong era.The ancient mottled atmosphere and the hustle and bustle of the new era blend together, giving people a dreamy sense of interlacing time and space and turning back time.

As Lu Ming was walking, he suddenly felt a strange feeling. He leaned against a wall and looked behind him, only to find that a figure quickly disappeared at the corner of the street.

Even with a quick glance, he still recognized that figure was the female assassin who had attacked him at the detective station a few days ago.

He had experienced the skills of this female assassin before, she was like a poisonous snake in the dense autumn forest, abrupt and fast, making people caught off guard.Lu Ming thought of what happened that night, and felt a chill down his back.

After waiting at the wall for a while, another group of people came along the street. He hurriedly joined the group of people, walked forward quickly, turned the corner, and just saw a taxi. He jumped into the car and told the driver the address of the apartment. , Let the coachman drive with all his strength.

He looked back every once in a while, and his vision quickly covered both sides of the street, but the frightening figure never appeared again, maybe the other party knew that he had been exposed and gave up following him.

He didn't dare to relax his vigilance. When he arrived in front of the apartment building, he hid inside the gate and quietly observed the street outside for a long time. He didn't find any doubts before going upstairs to his room.

As soon as he entered the house, he locked all three locks on the door, and then took a sharp knife from the kitchen and kept it at hand.

After being attacked last time, he encountered a lot of things, and his brain automatically produced a choice mechanism, and the female assassin was automatically excluded.Afterwards, he thought that it might be a single incident, and it would never happen again, but today he suddenly woke up: the crisis still exists, and there is no slack in the slightest.

The appearance of the female assassin may be related to the disappearance of Sheng Muyi that he is pursuing. If the two are connected and analyzed, the matter is far more complicated than imagined, and the level of danger has also been greatly increased.

Could this female assassin be...

Japanese?From Frank to Sheng Youde, connecting their speeches together, if it is not a coincidence, they point to the same target: the Japanese.Lu Ming shivered involuntarily.

He suddenly felt that he lacked the respect and trust he deserved for his teacher, Frank. He called from afar, which can be said to be persuasive, but he was perfunctory, thinking that a detective can do a lot, shit!That's ridiculous!

Lu Ming felt that he had to rearrange his thinking and consider the case of Sheng Muyi's disappearance in a larger context. In fact, Sheng Youde had already hinted at him. The background of this matter was complicated and the consequences were serious.

Reminiscent of the dolphin toxin in the mushrooms of Sheng's family, he suddenly had a feeling that the Japanese had already set their sights on him, and their immediate purpose was obvious: to prevent him from looking for the missing Sheng Muyi.

But from another point of view, this is also a good thing. Since he is prevented from looking for it, it means that Sheng Muyi is still alive.

Lu Ming has never dealt with Japanese people before, but he met a Japanese student during his study abroad. They learned each other's language in their spare time. After a few years, his spoken Japanese was not a problem to communicate with, but after returning to China, it was no longer a problem. Have any interaction with the Japanese.

Lu Ming sat quietly beside the table, with the sharp knife in hand, although not as handy as the paper knife in the detective agency, it was enough for self-defense.

He sat with his ears up until midnight, got up several times and lifted the curtains to check the situation outside. He didn't find any suspicious signs before going to bed.