Chapter 149 The Last Train to Hong Kong

"This has happened every year in recent years." Uncle Sun looked ahead and spoke with emotion. "In recent years, the crackdown on illegal immigrants has become increasingly severe. I have seen it before. Once, more than 30,000 people fled to Xiaohua Mountain near the city. After that, hundreds of thousands of citizens with official identities brought water and dry food to the mountain to cover them..."

"I heard that about half of the illegal immigrants escaped to the city under the protection of the citizens, and even many police officers turned a blind eye to it—" Uncle Sun sighed, "There is nothing we can do. After all, those people are their relatives, friends, and fellow villagers..."

"Even if there is an order, it is hard for people to have the heart to arrest them - the law is nothing more than human feelings!"

After listening to Uncle Sun's explanation, Su Yun finally understood why the citizens on both sides of the surrounding area threw dry food into the team.

They were afraid that their relatives, friends, and fellow villagers would suffer from hunger on the road, so just like they had carried things up the mountain for cover before, they threw food and water to the people in the team.

The escorted team continued to move forward, and was taken one by one by the police to the buses that had been prepared on the roadside.

Every time a car was filled, the wailing in the street became louder.

"Let's get in the car and wait. Let's go back after they pass by." Su Yun sighed and called Mei Yanshuang to go back to the car with her.

But before the two of them could get on the bus, something absolutely unexpected happened up ahead.

In the blink of an eye, amid the cries of people, a large group of citizens suddenly jumped out from the crowd on both sides and rushed to the middle of the road. A few people gathered into a heap, stretched out their legs and lay on the ground, blocking a bus that was about to start.

Immediately afterwards, the crowds on both sides burst into tears and shouted, "Get out of the car!"

At that moment, people kept jumping out of the windows of every bus, and the excited citizens on both sides finally broke through the police line, crying and rushing into the crowd of people jumping out, mixing with the illegal immigrants who were about to be deported and acting as their cover.

Seeing more and more people running towards them, Su Yun hurriedly pushed Mei Yanshuang, who was standing there in shock, back into the car.

After settling Mei Yanshuang, Su Yun was about to retreat back into the car to avoid the influx of people when a short and thin boy who was running towards this side in a panic did not notice the open car door and was immediately knocked to the ground.

The young man had a very short buzz cut and looked a little younger than Su Yun.

He didn't care about the consequences and just struggled hard, covering his chest where he was hit, trying to get up and continue running away.

Su Yun saw several figures in green uniforms coming towards her from afar. She couldn't help but glance at the short and thin boy. Her face was filled with a complex emotion of fear and unwillingness.

If he had not been knocked down by her open car door, the boy would have been able to escape this pursuit.

Su Yun thought for a moment, then stood up again and pulled the short and thin boy up. Then he opened the trunk of the car and whispered, "Hide inside!"

The short and thin boy was stunned, then turned his head to look at the figure behind him, gritted his teeth, and had to obey Su Yun's instructions, turned over and jumped into the trunk of the car.

After making sure that the short and thin boy had hidden himself, Su Yun closed the trunk tightly, turned around under the worried gazes of Mei Yanshuang and Uncle Sun, and sat down in the back seat as if nothing had happened.

With a "bang", the car door was closed from the inside by Su Yun.

Soon, two policemen in green uniforms walked out of the car, raised their hands and knocked on the window.

"Sir, what's the matter?" Uncle Sun lowered the driver's window at the signal of the two policemen and asked with a smile.

"What are you doing? Show me your ID cards." The older policeman in the lead stretched out his hand, then pointed to the two people inside, "Take off your hats and sunglasses."

"Sir, I know that girl. She often sings and performs with her sister in Liyuan. She is a real local." The younger policeman first recognized Mei Yanshuang without any disguise, then his eyes fell on Su Yun's face after she took off her sunglasses, and he couldn't help but shouted, "Mary?!"

"It's me. I just got out of school, so I was planning to go home, but I couldn't pass the road ahead, so I had to wait here." Su Yun calmly gave a business-like smile that she usually used to deal with the media.

"Oh, it's Su Yun?" The old policeman also saw Su Yun clearly at this time and nodded knowingly: compared to Mei Yanshuang, who is still only a little famous, Su Yun, who has been particularly in the limelight in recent years, is obviously more familiar.

However, compared to young people who are used to calling her by her English name, the older generation usually calls her by her movie name or her real name.

Since it was a celebrity passing by, the two policemen's inspection was much "easier". After taking a quick look at Uncle Sun's ID and driver's license to confirm that there were no problems, the two policemen gestured to let their car pass.

"cough!"

A suppressed cough broke the silence. Mei Yanshuang was so shocked that she subconsciously widened her eyes, and Uncle Sun had cold sweat on his forehead.

The two policemen looked suspiciously in the direction of the trunk.

"I'm sorry, one of my classmates is going to perform abroad on behalf of the school team, and her parents are both on a business trip. She doesn't feel comfortable leaving the paparazzi in the care of a careless worker, so she asked me to help take care of it for a few days." Su Yun smiled even more happily, "Do you want to check it out?"

As she finished her words, two more "woof woof" sounds came from the trunk of the car.

The old policeman and the young policeman looked at each other, and the young policeman immediately volunteered to step forward: "Sir, let me check it!"

"No need. There's nothing good about the dog. Besides, he's a big star, there's no way he would hide an illegal immigrant. Let's go search over there." The old policeman waved his hands.

Watching the two men walk away, Mei Yanshuang finally breathed a sigh of relief as if she had escaped a disaster: "Fortunately you are alert!"

"Actually, it's not that I'm smart, they just mean well." Su Yun gestured to Mei Yanshuang to look outside.

Mei Yanshuang looked over suspiciously, and after a while she figured out something from the pace of the police chasing them: "Are they letting them go?"

"That's right, these police officers are really good at running, it's impossible for them not to catch up with us. So many people were able to escape because they secretly let them run away." Uncle Sun recalled while driving, "When my business was not doing well, I also followed the people in the housing estate to set up 'running ghost stalls'. Every time, these police officers let us run away. As long as we ran across the yellow line, they would let us go and not catch us. Otherwise, how could I support my wife and children!"

"So that's how it is..." Mei Yanshuang nodded in sudden enlightenment.

"Of course. Can't those young men who graduated from the school even outrun us uncles and grannies?" Uncle Sun said with a smile.

As he said this, the car was passing a street that had been in a mess before but had now been mostly cleared up.

Looking at those law enforcement officers who were obviously slowing down their pace or pretending to run fast but actually only making large movements of their upper body and having little speed below, Su Yun lowered her eyelashes and smiled knowingly.

They are all people struggling for a living, and if they can avoid killing everyone, not many people are willing to take ruthless action.

After all, they are just ordinary people.

They drove the car back home safely. Before Grandma Su, who was waiting for someone in the small garden, could show her happy smile that her child had finally returned home, the short and thin boy who was dug out of the trunk of the car by Su Yun immediately made her heart startled.

"What is this?" Looking at the child's appearance, he might be...

"My name is Chen Shaozhen, thank you." The first thing the short and thin boy did after he got off the ground and stood up was to subconsciously kneel down and kowtow to Su Yun.

"Hey, hey, hey, we can't do this now!" Su Yun quickly picked him up from the ground again, and then briefly told Grandma Su what happened on the road.

Seeing that Grandma Su was finally relieved, Su Yun turned around and asked him, "Can you speak Cantonese?"

In Hong Kong, people usually refer to Hong Kong-style Cantonese as "Guangzhou dialect", but the most authentic Cantonese is actually the Cantonese dialect of Guangzhou. Generally speaking, people with different Cantonese accents in the province can communicate with each other without any problems. It's just that Hong Kong-style Cantonese has more lazy sounds, more English mixed in, and some unique technical vocabulary, while the Cantonese dialect is equivalent to the most standard Mandarin in Cantonese.

The short and thin boy spoke with a hint of a local accent, and it seemed that he must have smuggled in from a rural area in the province.

And most importantly, this name...Su Yun knew it.

Although he had not fully grown yet, his future appearance was already vaguely visible. Coupled with this uncommon name, Su Yun was 90% sure that this short and thin boy was the person she would meet later.

Almost all children who are fans of Hong Kong movies and TV dramas will recognize him: he played Shan Ji in the movie "Young and Dangerous" and Wei Xiaobao in the 1998 version of "The Deer and the Cauldron".

"I'm from Chenjia Village in Huiyang. Because life there is so difficult, my father and I had no choice but to follow the people in the village and swim to the Xiangjiang River to get food." Chen Shaozhen lowered his head and explained in a low voice where he came from. , "When I walked ashore to the city, my father and I got separated. After that, I wandered around randomly without knowing the road... and I was caught."

"Have you made any agreement on where to meet?" Su Yun asked again.

Chen Shaozhen's eyes lit up: "Yes! My father told me that if I leave the city, I should go to an uncle from the same hometown and seek refuge with him!"

After getting the address of a caged housing area that was even poorer than the housing estate from Chen Shaozhen, Su Yun nodded, called Uncle Sun over and gave him some instructions, asking Uncle Sun to take a detour and take him there when he returned home.

"No problem, don't worry. I have a few old friends who used to live there. They lived in the pigeon cage for many years before they got a turn in public housing. Now they can live in the housing estate with their whole family and have a good life. They don't have to squeeze into the pigeon cage anymore..." Uncle Sun patted his chest to make the promise, and then sighed, "Alas, so many years have passed in the blink of an eye..."

"Or maybe people like him are the last ones to escape to Hong Kong." Seeing Chen Shaozhen thanking them again in a hoarse voice while holding back tears, Su Yun lowered her head and stood beside Uncle Sun, ready to follow Uncle Sun out. She was also very impressed: many celebrities in Hong Kong in later generations were born as illegal immigrants, and it was these people who risked their lives to come here for a living that became the foundation for Hong Kong's rise. Their way of survival is contradictory yet interdependent with the development of this region.

But soon.

Soon, a major turning point in the era will come, and the spring breeze of reform and opening up will blow across the world.

While Su Yun was still reminiscing about the changing times with her family in the garden, an old man, small in stature but with an extremely majestic figure, came to the Nandi fishing village, which was still quite backward and poor.

Looking at the desolate and dilapidated everything in front of him, the old man tightly grasped the law enforcement records in his hand, and said in a gentle and kind tone: "This is our problem. People want to go to the other side of the sea mainly because the living conditions are not good and the gap is too big. Only when we improve production and life can we truly solve this problem..."

As he spoke, he gently drew a circle on the beach with the crutch in his hand.