silent farm

Chapter 172
After agreeing to cooperate with Fernando and the others, Li Sheng felt better about himself.If this cooperation is followed, he will have more initiative when facing Fernando in the future.However, he is not a person with a strong desire for control. He has never thought of completely dominating the cooperative company, so he proposed not to participate in the management of the project.

To put it bluntly, he just hopes to keep Silent Farm [independent], and at the same time, the project can also provide a sales channel for the farm's cattle and pasture.

However, it will take a certain amount of time for this project to actually start operating, and there are still many things to prepare.

For example, when harvesting pasture, he must first limit the cattle to a certain area.Second, he needs to buy more and more efficient pasture harvesting machinery.Finally, he also needs to build a lot of storage space for dry pasture.

Before, he just wanted to make a small fuss and built some warehouses.For those warehouses that have been built, compared to the forage production envisaged in this cooperation, the storage capacity is simply not enough.And these preparatory work are all the requirements of Silent Farm itself, which require his own consideration and investment.And this time he didn't plan to rely on Fernando to help solve it.

Of course, those things are not in a hurry.There is still a whole rainy season.At this time, he didn't need to think too deeply.He took Tia out this time, and he couldn't let her go out to attend a wedding and then go back.He can hope that she will always be innocent, but he can't let her be ignorant of the world.Especially, after his feelings for this girl have changed.

It is only right for a man to protect a woman, but he is not arrogant enough to protect her every second.Moreover, even if they can, it may not be what they want.Therefore, protecting Tia from integrating into modern society is what he must do.

Last time, he took her to a high-end shopping mall and got a taste of the life of some rich people.But this time, he led her to the slums of St. Paul.

The slums of São Paulo were actually famous for a while.For example, during the World Cup in Brazil, there seemed to be some positive news.The Brazilian government has already officially recognized the legal existence of slums and incorporated them into urban planning.But life in the slums is still difficult.

The people in the slums are not beggars, they just live in difficulty.Many of them have no regular jobs, or have regular jobs, but the income is very low, and they can barely survive, or even survive at all.

Slums are quite dangerous for many people.Not to mention the outsiders, even the insiders are the same.

It seems that there was a movie called "City of Angels" more than ten years ago, which alluded to the slums in Rio.São Paulo slums and Rio slums are slums in the same country, and the difference will not be too great.The children in the slums in the movie, before becoming stars and stars, their primary goal is to survive.The reality may not be so cruel, but poverty and crime are indeed the biggest problems here.

It will be daytime, and Li Sheng is just walking around with Tia.At this time, there are no illegal transactions in the dark, and the slums even seem quite peaceful.

They walked around the cobweb-like alleys for more than an hour, and suddenly there was a small open space where a group of children were playing football.Children of very different heights and sizes played football, but more often sat around the clearing and watched.

Dirty kids see them too.The children were very curious about these two people who obviously did not belong to the same world.

Brazilians are very outgoing and outgoing, even with children.Although they just watched from a distance, they didn't show any anxiety or shyness about their appearance.

Some even acted as if they didn't exist, still chasing the ball with bare feet back and forth that had completely peeled off its outer skin.

Tia held Li Sheng's hand tightly.She is no stranger to this kind of scene, when she was in the tribe, she used to play around with other children like this.It's just that she was a little afraid of the oppressive feeling brought by the dense alleys here.

She had always thought that Sao Paulo was the most beautiful city in the world two days ago, but she never thought that there was such a poor place here.

She saw that many children did not have shoes to wear, and even if they did, they were dirty. Although the clothes were not dirty, they were obviously very old.She could tell that the dirt on these children's bodies was not because they were dirty, but because they got dirty after playing.

Li Sheng whispered to her: "This is a slum area. Most people just can fill their stomachs. There are even some people who are often hungry. Some people will do anything to fill their stomachs. [Drug trafficking, robbery] ], stealing, and even betraying himself.”

"But it's so nice outside!" Tia couldn't figure out why a pair of shoes outside could cost tens of thousands of reais in the same city.Most of the children here don't even have to wear shoes of a few reais.

However, what she saw were the innocent smiling faces of the children, as if the fingers in their mouths were the sweetest candies.

Perhaps they have stood outside this "court" for too long.A ten-year-old boy pulled a two or three-year-old girl over.Judging from their skin color, they should be of mixed race with multiple origins.The boy was a little thin, wearing a pair of cropped pants whose original color was no longer visible, and his bare feet were covered with dirt.The little girl has a pair of sandals on her feet, but the original white artificial leather has turned black, and only a little white can be seen between the dirt.On her pouty little face, a pair of big eyes looked at Tia curiously and enviously.

Li Sheng said to the boy who walked up to him, "Hello."

The boy probably didn't expect that a rich man like Li Sheng would take the initiative to greet him, and his originally calm expression showed a trace of bewilderment: "Hello. Excuse me, sir, are you a scout?"

Li Sheng was taken aback.But he immediately understood why he had misunderstood.He and Tia have been here looking at these kids for too long while these kids are playing football.

He shook his head and said, "I'm not."

The boy seemed a little disappointed, but he asked again: "Then Mr. is here to find someone? The road here is hard to find, but I know everyone here, and I can show you the way."

Li Sheng smiled and said, "I'm not looking for anyone either." The kid wanted to do business, but Li Sheng had no business for him.

The boy was very disappointed and was about to leave, but he found that his sister walked up to the girl in the beautiful dress with her fingers in her mouth, and reached out to touch the dress.He hurriedly said: "Vivian, don't." It's a pity that he stopped it too late.The child's reaction was already slow. Before he could finish speaking, the little girl's fingers caught Tia's skirt.

The boy's face turned pale. Although he was young, he had been to the city.Knowing that this beautiful dress is not something he can afford.He tore his sister away and hurriedly apologized to Tia: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Wei Wei'an is ignorant and stained your clothes."

Tia looked at the faint little finger prints on the skirt.She looked at Li Sheng, and found that Li Sheng was smiling and didn't speak.Knowing that Li Sheng wasn't angry, she didn't have to worry about it: "It's okay, it's not dirty. Just go back and wash it."

The boy didn't seem to expect this beautiful girl to be so talkative, so he stared at Tia's face in a daze.Maybe he found that Tia was really beautiful, and he couldn't bear to look away.

Tia smiled at her, squatted down, and said to the little girl who was roughly pulled away by her brother just now: "Your name is Vivienne?"

Vivienne blinked and put her fingers in her mouth again, and nodded.

Li Sheng noticed that other children seemed to have noticed this, and wanted to leave with Tia, but found that she was talking to the little girl, so he had to say to the boy: "What's your name? Just now you asked me if I was a scout. You Are you good at playing football?"

"My name is Bart Almea, and I'm the best football player around." Perhaps speaking of the boy's most confident aspect, he puffed out his chest.

Li Sheng knows that Brazil is actually a very young country.It can even be said that the history of Brazil's founding is actually more than 100 years shorter than that of the United States.Compared with the United States, Brazil is a real national melting pot.In this country, naming is actually very casual.They can take Greek names, they can take English names.It even happens that whenever I like something, I add a string of characters to my full name of up to [-] characters.

Li Sheng smiled, it is a good thing that the child is more confident.But he cared more about Tia and the little girl.

"Vivian, can you tell my sister what I had for breakfast today?" Tia saw that the little girl's face was chubby, and knew that the child was at least well fed.Reaching out to hold her in his arms, he asked with a smile.

Vivienne is not afraid of being hugged. After thinking for a while, she said in a waxy voice, "Bread, beans."

Bart added on the sidelines: "We have bread and pea soup in the morning."

Tia hesitated for a moment before asking, "Then can you all be full?"

Bart's face turned cold, it seems that his self-esteem is still quite strong.Seeing him like this, Li Sheng patted his head lightly, and said, "Tia wants to know about the lives of the residents here."

Although Bart is not very old, but the child of the poor has long been in charge of the family, and he understands Li Sheng's words a little bit.He put away his cold face, thought for a while and said, "If Dad has a job, he will be able to eat enough."

"What does your father do?" Tia didn't feel sorry for these children, because she had also been hungry before, and she didn't think there was anything to be pitiful about being hungry.It's just that she felt a little distressed that this little guy Wei Wei'an might be starving.

"He can do everything. Construction worker, driver ... in short, he has done a lot of jobs."

Tia looked up at Li Sheng, begging inside.

Li Sheng hesitated for a moment, then shook his head slightly.He knew Tia meant to ask if he could get the father of the two children to work on the farm.Although Li Sheng didn't want her to be disappointed, the farm couldn't just recruit people with unknown backgrounds.

Tia saw Li Sheng shaking his head, with a look of disappointment on his face, but she asked again: "Are the other children like that? Have you been living here?"

"They're all pretty much the same. My mom said it's been 20 years since my family moved here."

Li Sheng felt that today's goal had been achieved, so he said to Tia, "Tia, it's time for us to go back."

Tia let go of Vivian and stood up, but she glanced at the little girl who had already run back to her brother, and said in Chinese, "Li, can you give them money?"

Li Sheng nodded and said, "Yes. But, I can only give some small change. Here, having too much money may not be a good thing for them."

Tia also heard from him just now that this place is not complete, and it is really not good to give them too much money.He thought for a while, took out his wallet from his small bag, took about ten reals in change, squatted down and put it in Vivienne's chest pocket, and said, "This is my sister buying candy for Weiwei'an." Yes. Don’t eat your fingers in the future, it will hurt your stomach.”

As she spoke, she gently pinched the little girl's cheek before standing up.

After coming out of the slums, Tia has been listless.He was dragged by Li Sheng all the way and walked slowly.

Li Sheng looked a little distressed, and said, "Don't think so much. With money, there will be poor and rich people."

Tia smiled and said, "I just don't understand why that happened."

Li Sheng couldn't explain why, but he could say one, two, three.

Primitive accumulation, distribution of social resources, and individual social competitiveness.

Although the two of them came out of the slums slowly, they walked in a straight line and came out in about half an hour.Li Sheng saw a convenience store on the side of the road with several sets of one-piece chairs outside, he pulled her over and asked her to sit outside the small store first, he went in and bought two bottles of juice drinks and came out.

When he came out, he found two mixed-race blacks blocking Tia between the tables and chairs. He walked over quickly and pulled the two guys aside.When Tia saw him, the fear on her face disappeared: "Li!"

Li Sheng sized her up and saw that she was fine, and his anger subsided quite a bit, but he still asked, "Did they bully you?"

There was a trace of disgust on Tia's face, and those two people said a lot of bad things to her.

Li Sheng didn't need her to answer, he didn't need to listen to the answer, he also knew that those two bastards didn't accomplish anything, but they didn't do anything good either.The worries in his heart were put down, but the anger began to rise.

"Boy, is this your girl? How about borrowing it for two days?"

Hearing this, Li Sheng's anger broke through his rationality, he turned his head and gave the talking bastard a cold look, an energy field couldn't help rushing out of the talking bastard wrapped in a cloud of air.

The gangster seemed to be performing a sitcom about being hit by a big truck. He bounced back and flew upside down.It didn't stop until it hit the steel pipe pole of the awning a few meters away.The person fell to the ground, unconscious.

The other gangster opened his mouth, not knowing what his accomplice was playing.But soon he found that something was wrong, the accomplice didn't have the ability to jump a few meters backwards, and he didn't stand up to continue acting.

He took a few steps back suddenly, took out a switchblade in his hand, and swallowed: "You, what did you do?"

The moment just now made Li Sheng's anger disappear a lot, and he didn't bother to deal with such trash.He turned back to comfort Tia and said, "It's okay, let's go!"

They lifted their feet and left, the gangster wanted to stop them, but he didn't dare to call out.He didn't go to see his accomplice until the two had gone far away.He lifted his accomplice and found that the situation was not good, and his accomplice had blood on his mouth.

Tia was a little terrified when the gangster flew upside down just now.When the man was flying upside down, she felt a palpitating sense of desolation around Li Sheng.But she was not afraid of Li Sheng, she just felt that Li Sheng was far away from her at that time, even though he was standing next to her, she was separated by an infinite distance.

Seeing her walking silently, Li Sheng thought she was frightened by the molestation just now, and said, "Don't be afraid, it's fine. Let's stop the car and go back to the hotel."

Tia looked at him with complicated eyes, nodded and said, "I'm not afraid." After a while, she asked. "That person will be fine." She thought that the person's sudden appearance of being knocked into the air must have something to do with the aura emanating from Li Sheng's side.

Li Sheng pursed his lips, just in time to see a taxi passing by, he stretched out his hand to beckon him, and said, "Don't worry about him." His shot was a little heavy just now, and he was also impulsive.But he didn't regret it at all.Since they can make him angry, they should bear his anger.

Tia opened her mouth to ask something, but in the end she didn't ask.Now she realizes that Li Sheng seems to have a lot of secrets.It's just that Li Sheng never said those things to her, and this cognition made her a little disappointed.

(End of this chapter)