After leaving Uncle Zhang's house, Chen Yuan visited several neighbors one after another.

The result was the same as he thought.

At first, these neighbors were very enthusiastic, pulling him to ask long and short questions, and they were very concerned.

When he asked about the smashing of his house, he immediately shut up one by one, as if he was extremely taboo about this topic, as if he was escaping the plague, which couldn't help but make Chen Yuan's heart even more suspicious.

There was still a light rain in the sky, and the muddy ground was littered with pools of water.

Chen Yuan walked past a sand pit and was suddenly attracted by a noise in front of him.

He looked up and saw four or five thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys chasing a boy in the sand the size of a basketball court.

"Kill a thousand knives of miscellaneous pieces, don't run!"

"Little bastard, stop me!"

"...... Son of a bitch, I'm going to kill you today. ”

The boy who was being chased was about ten years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but his body was quite thin, and he was wearing a patched shabby dress, which was stained with dirty muddy water, and several small cuts were torn open.

Although he was thin and small, his movements were extremely flexible, shuttling back and forth among a group of older and burly children than him, and he didn't let the other party take advantage of anything.

Sometimes he stopped to make a face at the gang, and sometimes he got into the crowd, using obscene "yin tricks" to make a few tricks against the other party, causing a group of big children to be angry and scream.

Chen Yuan stood by the sand pit and watched for a while, and finally saw the little boy's face clearly, his face was stunned, and he blurted out: "Little bolt?"

The boy heard someone calling him and hurriedly turned to look.

At this glance, the two eyes immediately showed an excited figure, and said in surprise: "Brother Chen Yuan!"

Just as he was distracted, a tall teenager took advantage of the weakness and smashed a fist into the little bolt's face.

The little bolt fell to the ground with an "ouch" and rolled around covering his face.

The boy smiled "hehe", and raised his foot to kick the little bolt.

Unexpectedly, the little bolt suddenly became difficult, and a "lazy donkey rolling" avoided the opponent's kick, and made a quick move, and the "monkey stealing the peach" went straight to the crotch of the teenager's pants.

The young man's crotch was cold, and he quickly retreated.

The little bolt took advantage of the chaos, raised his thin arm, and punched the opponent in the abdomen with a "bang".

The young man was suddenly hit hard in the abdomen, with a strange scream, he covered his stomach and fell to the ground, and his face instantly turned purple.

"Brother Dong!"

When the other teenagers saw this, they immediately shouted and rushed forward.

Seeing that the little bolt was about to fall into a heavy siege, Chen Yuan frowned and shouted, "Stop." ”

"You are the oldest, why do you command us? ”

"It's a 'personal vendetta', don't be nosy. ”

"That's it, ignore him, beat this stinky boy to death!"

A group of teenagers didn't take Chen Yuan in their eyes at all, and they were about to attack the little bolt with their fists and feet.

Chen Yuan's face sank, he strode forward, grabbed the collar of a leading young man, lifted him over his head easily, and said coldly: "I asked you to stop, didn't you hear?"

"Listen...... When I hear that, let's go," the leading young man's fat face suddenly turned white with fright, and he trembled all over, and he couldn't even speak.

Chen Yuan held the other party with one hand, pointed to the small bolt with the other, and said, "Don't bully him again in the future, otherwise you will ......"

"Understood...... We don't dare anymore......" The leading boy was already crying in fright.

Chen Yuan put down the leading teenager and shouted "Get out", and the group of teenagers immediately pulled up the teenager on the ground and ran away, and after a while, they disappeared into the dense forest next to them.

Chen Yuan helped the little bolt up and asked, "Are you okay?" ”

"It's okay," the little bolt raised his dirty palm and wiped a handful of nosebleeds, and said with a smile, "A bunch of straw bales, five or six people can't catch me." ”

Chen Yuan glanced at the little bolt and smiled helplessly.

Counting the time, the little bolt just turned eleven years old this year.

He was an orphan abandoned by his parents and raised by a lonely old man in the slums.

Since the old man's death, Xiao Bolt has lived alone, relying on the help of his neighbors on weekdays.

The little bolt has liked to follow Chen Yuan since he was a child.

Chen Yuan also felt that this kid was quite aura, and over time, he also acquiesced to the other party's "follower" identity, and took him to integrate into his own small circle.

I haven't seen him for two years, and the little kid hasn't grown much taller, but his "fighting skills" have improved a lot.

Chen Yuan looked at the little bolt and asked, "Who were those people just now, and why did they beat you?"

"Wang Dongxu, the son of the 'Dog King' Wang Dinghua, and his gang of dog legs," the little bolt said: "They pleaded me to help them steal things, but I didn't agree, so they beat me." ”

"'Dog King' Wang Dinghua?" Chen Yuan frowned.

Although he has been away from the slum for a while, he is still familiar with the name "Wang Dinghua".

Nicknamed "Dog King", the younger brother of Wang Dingrong, the owner of "Dingrong Financial Company", has raised a large group of gangsters, and is a well-known "soil bully" in the slums.

The little bolt didn't care about it, and pouted: "I don't care what 'Dog King' and 'Elvis Elvis' he is, and he provokes the little master, even if the son of the 'Tiger King' comes, I won't be scared." ”

"It's kind of like me. Chen Yuan touched the head of the little bolt, and suddenly remembered the "spectacular" scene of the little bolt "fighting five with one", and asked curiously: "Say...... Who did you learn those tricks from just now, it's yin enough. ”

"I learned from you," Xiao Zhuzi said with wide eyes, "When you were a child, you fought with Brother Fat, didn't you use these tricks?"

"Uh......"

Chen Yuan smiled embarrassedly, coughed twice, and said: "Forget about the past, you can't fight so obscene in the future, as a man, the means must be upright and upright......"

Chen Yuan himself said this with a little weakness.

The little bolt didn't realize it, and immediately accepted it humbly, nodded and said, "Well, I listen to you!"

Scratching his head, he asked, "By the way, Brother Chen Yuan, when did you come back, what about Brother Fat, didn't you come back with you?"

"I just came back," Chen Yuan said with a smile, "Fat has also returned, and now he is at his own house." ”

"Oh yes!" the little bolt jumped three feet high happily, and asked Chen Yuan, "Then when are we going to catch fish and dig out the bird's nest, I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

"Don't worry, I'll go again when I'm free. Chen Yuan looked at the excited little bolt and said slowly: "I still have important things to do, and when the things are done, I will take you up the mountain and into the water." ”

"Okay!" Xiao Bolt nodded heavily, and after a while, he suddenly said, "By the way, Brother Chen Yuan, I have something to tell you." ”

"Say, what's the matter? Chen Yuan smiled.

Xiao Zhuzi looked at Chen Yuan with a straight face, and said word by word: "A few days ago, I saw Li Haozi of the 'Dingrong Company' breaking into your yard with a group of people, and after a while, I heard the sound of smashing things inside, I hid far away and didn't dare to go up to see, so I ......"

"Li Haozi?" Chen Yuan frowned, and his eyes quickly became cold.

In his early years, he was a small cadre of the miners' team, and later was expelled from the miners' team for embezzlement of public funds, and he was imprisoned for several years.

After coming out, he was recruited by Dingrong Company and was responsible for the collection business.

"The one who smashed it in my house must be Li Hezi. Chen Yuan's eyes were gloomy, and he pondered carefully.

After a while, his head quickly swept over the sixteen blood-red characters on the wall of his house:

"If you owe money and pay back the money, it is a matter of course, if you don't pay back the money, you will kill your whole family. ”

Thinking of this, Chen Yuan was a little puzzled, "My parents have been working in the mine all these years, although the income is not high, but it is enough for the normal expenses of the family, how can they inexplicably owe the debt of 'Dingrong Company'?"

Xiao Zhuzi stood aside, saw Chen Yuan's gloomy face, and said in a low voice: "Brother Chen Yuan, you must calm down, Li Haozi's gang is not easy to mess with, not long ago, Wang Erhu of Dongcun owed 10,000 yuan to the 'Dingrong Company', and they broke two legs, and now they are still lying on the bed, to deal with them, you have to think of a way to make a decision." ”

Chen Yuan raised his head, saw that the little bolt had a serious face, and said with a smile: "Yes, you kid also know 'plan to move later'?"

"What's this," said the little bolt, "the 'old madman' has taught me these things, and I will memorize them after listening to them too much." ”

Chen Yuan looked at him and said: "Bolt, you are right, when people encounter trouble, they must first learn to 'calm down', and when necessary, they must endure." ”

"But everything must be a 'bottom line', and for me, 'family' is the bottom line. Li Haozi sent someone to smash my house, which is to challenge my 'bottom line', it is a good thing that a person can endure it, but if the bottom line is trampled on and he is indifferent, it is not called forbearance, it is called cowardice. ”

The little bolt said thoughtfully: "Brother Chen Yuan, I know." ”

"You go back first, and I'll find a way to deal with the matter of 'Li Hezi'. Chen Yuan said lightly, thinking of the "collective relocation" of the slums, and added: "Also, I don't go out to make trouble recently, and there will be big things in the slums after a while." ”

"Big deal?" the little bolt blinked and asked, "What's the big deal?"

"I'll tell you when the time is right," Chen said.

"Then I'll go first, brother, be careful yourself!" the little bolt nodded sensibly, turned around and ran away.

Chen Yuan turned around and walked straight in the direction of his home.

Now it has been determined that the culprit of the whole thing is Li Haozi and the "Dingrong Company" behind him.

He finally understood why those neighbors kept silent about their own affairs.

For the residents of the nearby slums, the "Ding Rong Company" is undoubtedly a behemoth that cannot be provoked.

Regardless of the powerful background behind it, just the number 100 gangsters raised by the company are enough to make these honest villagers fearful.

No one will offend a gang-related enterprise that is thriving in the slums for the sake of Chen Yuan's family.

Thinking of this, Chen Yuan's eyes sank, and he sighed secretly: "No matter what, this matter must be solved, for now, first figure out the reason why the whole thing happened, and then consider how to deal with it." ”