Chapter Eighteen: Trouble Suddenly Appears

  He and his mother wandered around every big street and small alley with a grayish-brown snakeskin bag, like a ghost.

  Later, it was not just how they happened to meet their fellow traveler Ren Sheng, the three of them naturally formed a team, working tirelessly every day with a shared conviction and goal.

  Perhaps when a person's beliefs are too strong, they really will ignore some important information.

  The three of them didn't think that trouble would befall them, yes, trouble.

  There are always some people in this world who, despite being in the same industry and having no grudges against each other, still can't get along and intentionally look for trouble.

  Just like scavengers, they can be roughly divided into three types.

  One is a German who is obviously very rich but deliberately does so to advocate for environmental protection and greenness.

  One is like Shaoyi and others who are very poor but can't find a way to make money.

  There is also a kind of ordinary people who are unwilling to work or have lost their labor force.

  That day, Lin Ye's body was a bit uncomfortable and didn't go out. Shao Qi still wandered around the streets with Ren Sheng as usual.

  The spoils were still quite abundant, and just as they finished sweeping this alley, and turned to attack the next target point, an unexpected guest suddenly appeared halfway.

  They were a group of veterans who had been wandering on this street for years, and after decades of wind and rain, they had almost lost their other labor forces and devoted themselves to this industry.

  After all, the competition among peers in this world has never been rare. They have already physically degenerated and the money they earn is barely enough to make a living.

  And yet these young people who don't know how to die are still coming to compete with them, it's as if they deliberately don't want them to live a good life!

  So they are surprisingly consistent, and people who have had intense arguments and frictions in the past also reached a surprising consensus.

  These people must be driven out and made to slink away in defeat, never daring to challenge their authority again.

  The little brat actually snatched their food bowl, it's simply reckless.

  "There are quite a few people on the street today, let's go to the business district later..." Ren Shengle chuckled and dragged a large bag, suggesting and discussing with his partner.

  Suddenly, a large patch of black shadow appeared on the ground in front of me.

  "Listen up, kid! This is our turf, so you'd better scram and don't come back trying to steal our business!"

  The two of them slowly raised their gaze from the ground, and what first entered their line of sight was a heap of grayish-black pant legs, then a dense cluster of bodies, and finally some white, flower-like heads.

  That energetic voice just now came from in front of this group of people.

  The speaker was an old lady with silver hair like snow, her chin extremely pointed, her cheeks deeply sunken, and a black dress hanging loosely on her dry body.

  She stood at the forefront of the crowd, like a witch in dark magic commanding an army of demons, tearing apart the enemy in front of her.

  "What for?" Ren Sheng raised his head, arrogant and unruly.

  "What right do you have, we've all been in this line for years..." A stout middle-aged woman walked forward from the crowd, with a disdainful expression.

  "You... you..." Ren Sheng's body tensed up, and the grey snakeskin bag was slammed to the ground with force.

  In the past, it was often seen on TV that an elderly person was hit by a car and kind-hearted people sent her to the hospital, but when the elderly person woke up, she insisted that it was her own fault.

  At that time, I only thought that person was really unlucky, and the old man was really unkind. Sighing at how the world is getting worse day by day, and people's hearts are no longer ancient.

  But now I've encountered similar things myself and realized that it's really inexplicable.

  "What if we don't agree?" He raised his eyelids and looked at the crowd with a calm expression.

  "If you don't listen..." The stout middle-aged woman snorted coldly.

  "We have so many people, every day we can block you, rob you..." As he spoke, the crowd suddenly surged forward.

  No sunshine or moonlight, the earth cracked and split, no slaughter or fierce battle with blood flowing like a river. Two snake skin bags left their hands without any struggle or entanglement.

  Nonsense, although they are young and vigorous, but fighting with these old guys is embarrassing for them, they really can't do it.

  Well, they're doomed to be unlucky then.

  The two were pushed to the ground, and the crowd surrounded them in the middle, where they couldn't see the faces of the people in the shadows.

  All I heard was their scolding: "You young punk, your hair isn't even fully grown and you think you can come out here and make a name for yourself? Spare us!"

  "You look clean and tidy, you can go sell or rob whatever, just stay away from me."

  "Today is just the beginning, I hope you know what's good for you!"

  Watching the crowd leave with their heads held high, the two of them turned iron-green in the face and remained seated on the ground as before.

  "Damn it, why should I give them face?"

  Ren Sheng's eyes narrowed, his muscles tense all over, looking like a fluffed-up turkey.

  "Because there are only two of us, we can't beat more than twenty of them!" Shao Qi frowned and got angry too, his temples twitching.

  Parting with Ren Zheng, Shao Qi walked back home with a normal expression, opening the creaky door of her house.

  In the cramped room there were only two temporarily added beds. Because there were no windows, the light was very dim. Faintly, he heard the sound of teeth grinding.

  "Mom?" His heart skipped a beat.

  "You... are back!" Lin Yu's voice was extremely unnatural, as if he was enduring immense pain.

  He hastily turned on the light with a "click", and his mother was huddled in the corner of the bed, clutching the quilt tightly, making the single bed look like a double bed under her body.

  "Your... " chest felt like it had been hit with a hammer, and was throbbing with dull pain.

  He walked over and hugged his mother tightly, as if embracing a lifelong lover.

  In her arms, Lin Ye's face was pale and tense all over, speaking to him in a broken tone: "I'm fine... really nothing, just menstrual cramps, you... don't be like this, I'll be okay soon."

  His entire body's muscles were like antelopes on the prairie, tense and tight as he ran. Shao Qi gazed at this still dim space with great effort.

  "One day, I will make them pay, definitely."

  Before knowing his condition, he also believed in his mother's excuse that it was a normal phenomenon of dysmenorrhea.

  But knowing all this, how can he still be so calm?

  Lin Tong's entire body stiffened, and his pale, weak hands suddenly burst forth with enormous strength.

  She grasped his hand tightly: "You mustn't go for revenge, I won't let you go, remember, no retaliation!"