On September 1, 2002, despite the rain the other day, Surabaya City was still very hot under the ravages of autumn tigers.

Li Mo wore his conspicuous red vest, gray overalls and green water shoes, held a bamboo pole and hemp rope, and squatted under the street tree outside the bus station in the west of the city with several middle-aged bangbangs.

Surabaya is a mountain city, and where there are mountains, it is rare to climb the slopes, and Bangbang, a type of work that specializes in helping people carry things, came into being.

Although it is also a mountain town, Surabaya City is much smaller than the neighboring city of Jiangzhou, so most of the bangbangs here are only part-time, rather than making a living from being a stick.

Most of them are farmers in the countryside near the suburbs, and they take advantage of the slack time to help people carry things and try their luck to earn some pocket money.

September is the rice ripening season, and there are far fewer farmers coming to the city to work as sticks.

Plus today is the day of the school year.

Li Mo thought to himself, he can always get a few jobs today, right?

He was only in his fourteens, and although he was dressed as an adult, and his skin had become dark from his frequent activities outside, his immaturity and youthfulness were still obvious.

Although the patron who needed to carry things could see that Li Mo was a little stick, he was still not at ease with a half-grown child like him.

In Surabaya City, it is generally large items such as furniture and household appliances that need to be carried with sticks.

Li Mo's age was too young, and the patrons didn't dare to let such a half-sized guy help.

First, I am afraid that there will be a bump and bump and damage the household appliances; second, I am afraid that Li Mo is too young and will have problems with moving things that are too heavy.

Li Mo knew the reason why he couldn't get a job, but there was nothing he could do. The decision is up to the client, and he can't suddenly be a few years older.

Seongseo Bus Station is the only passenger bus station in Surabaya City.

There are both long-distance buses to the outside world and short-distance routes for rural passenger transport.

Li Mo didn't believe that he wouldn't be able to receive an order on September 1, the day the school opened.

But after sitting on a stone bench under a street tree for nearly an hour, Li Mo was a little desperate.

The middle-aged sticks around him have come and gone to change several batches, but he still hasn't received a single job.

Li Mo looked at the crowd shuttling in front of him boredly.

Suddenly, he felt his eyes swell a little.

He closed his eyes vigorously and rubbed them carefully. When he opened it again, he couldn't help but be startled by the sight in front of him.

I saw that the hawkers in front of him who occasionally glanced at him were actually emitting wisps of green gas above their heads.

Li Mo was shocked, and hurriedly closed his eyes to ease his mind, hoping that the green light he had just seen was just an illusion.

But when he opened his eyes again, Li Mo's heart was half cold. Those who occasionally glanced at him still had a green glow above their heads.

Not only that, but the green light flew straight towards him, eventually flying into a transparent ball in front of him.

Li Mo swallowed his saliva and reached out to poke the ball in front of him.

But the hand went straight through the ball.

The ball containing the green gas could be seen, but it could not be touched.

Li Mo looked around in horror, wondering if Sister Xuan hadn't left yet, and was playing tricks on him behind his back.

But after looking around, there was no shadow of Sister Xuan around, and there were no half acquaintances.

Li Mo tried to move his body, but found that the ball was following him like a shadow.

He suspected that he had met a ghost, and of course it was possible that he was too weak or had some kind of brain disease.

bumped into a ghost or his body was too weak, Li Mo was not too worried.

He was a little afraid that he had some kind of disease. But he didn't know how to heal, so he didn't know what kind of disease could cause such hallucinations.

But according to common sense, such a disease should be quite serious.

Li Mo's heart was pinched, and he was afraid that he had some kind of serious illness.

With his family background, he simply didn't have extra money to go to the doctor.

He could only stare at the transparent ball of his eyeball, hoping that it was all just an illusion caused by the heat.

The green gas enters the transparent sphere and begins to liquefy, converging underneath the sphere.

Li Mo looked around, and there was nothing unusual about the people around him.

In other words, he is the only one who can see the transparent orb.

Li Mo sighed, simply closed his eyes and rubbed his temples.

After a while, I heard footsteps in front of me.

Then came a crisp and pleasant female voice: "Are you awesome?"

Li Wei raised his head and opened his eyes, only to see a beautiful girl about the same age as him standing in front of him, looking at him expressionlessly.

The girl has a goose egg face, which is very pure, but she has always had a cold face, giving people a feeling that no one should enter.

She wears a pale yellow short-sleeved shirt and a pair of light-colored jeans, paired with a pair of pure white canvas shoes.

Even more conspicuous is that she carries something in both hands, a suitcase on the left, a black schoolbag on the right, and a dark red piano case on the back.

Li Mo was still looking at the transparent ball and green gas, and when he heard the girl's question, he just nodded blankly.

"Can you help me deliver my suitcase and schoolbag to Kurong Middle School?"

Li Mo was stunned when he heard this, first nodded, and then shook his head hurriedly.

Seeing this, the girl said with a cold face: "Can or can't?"

Li Mo thought about it and decided to say the ugly words in front, "If you move two things to Kurong Middle School, it costs four yuan, do you still need to move?"

He doesn't help a girl for free because she is good-looking, after all, helping people carry things to earn money is his livelihood.

The girl stared at Li Mo and took a closer look, and then without saying a word, she counted four one-yuan bills from her pocket and handed them to Li Mo.

Li Wei reached out to take the money, but at this time, a pair of big hands reached out from the side and grabbed the woman's white arm.

At the same time, a rough voice came, "Little sister, brother, I'll help you move things, don't need money!"

Li Wei turned to look at the owner of the big hand in surprise, and saw a middle-aged strong man wearing a black vest, shirtless, and cheeky.

The man was followed by two young men who were smuggling.

At first glance, the three of them are rogue ruffians who are active in this area.

In Surabaya City at this time, social security was not very good, and the city's economic development was very poor, so there were many young people who had nothing to do and were lazy to do things such as stealing chickens and dogs, blocking roads and robbing people.

Seeing the momentum, Li Mo quickly pulled away the girl's arm, and smiled flatteringly at the strong man:

"Third master, this is my job!"

The sturdy man originally planned to touch the beautiful little girl opposite, but he didn't want to be ruined halfway.

He looked at it with a dark face, and saw a young man who had not dried up milk, thinking that it was a young man who happened to hear his name, and was young and vigorous and did not know the height of the sky, and asked with great interest: "You kid actually know me?"

"Third master, give me a way to live, I haven't opened for a few days!" Li Wei showed a flattering smile at the strong man again.

The strong man is happy, although he has the nickname of the third master, but there are very few people who call him like this.

Now that someone who knows him is called like this, it can't help but make him feel very comfortable in his heart.

"Yes, for the sake of your kid, the third master will reward you with a mouthful of food!"

"Thank you, Third Master!" Li Wei smiled politely at Third Master.

His skin is dark, but he looks clean, and when he laughs, he gives people a feeling like a spring breeze, which makes the third master very useful.

"Let's go!"

Taking the box from the girl with one hand and the schoolbag from her other hand with the other, Li Mo whispered as the girl who was still frowning walked in front.

He didn't worry about the girl walking behind, for fear that the strong man would make something bad if he didn't pay attention.

The woman glared coldly at the strong man, then glanced at Li Mo with disdain, and then left first.

Li Mo's attention was still on the strong man, and after feeling the woman's disdainful gaze, he couldn't help but look at her and followed.

"Hehe, young man, the little girl is very spicy, I don't want your affection!" the three of them laughed as if no one was behind them.

Li Mo stared closely at the top of the strange woman's head in front of him.

Because he saw again the green gas he had just taken as an illusion above her head.

After the two walked for a distance, the woman suddenly stopped, turned around, stared at Li Ming, and said seriously: "What you did just now was wrong!"

"What did you say?" Li Wei was stunned when he heard this, and found that the green gas above the woman's head couldn't help but be much richer at this moment.

"I said you didn't do it right! It's all the same person, why are you so submissive to the man just now?" the woman repeated.

"Okay, okay, it's me who is wrong!"

Li Mo laughed twice, and in the face of himself, the heroine of Party A, he admitted his mistake without saying a word.

The one who gives the money is the uncle, what if she sees that she is not pleasing to her eyes and aborts the transaction? Finally, she finally got a job, and Li Wei didn't want to die halfway.

The girl seemed very unhappy with Li Wei's attitude towards her, and continued to 'educate' Li Mo who had not yet realized her mistake with a cold face.

"You're indulging him by doing so. What age are you still called! Aren't you ashamed?"

Li Mo thought that this girl would only say a word or two casually, but he didn't expect her to be reluctant.

Is he related to him? How is he going to deal with social relations and still need her to educate him?

Besides, ordinary people are afraid that gangsters are indulging gangsters? In order not to indulge gangsters, should they roll up their sleeves and fight with others when they see gangsters?

I'm sorry, Li Mo doesn't think he can win three gangsters alone.

"This girl is stupid to read, isn't she?" Li Mo thought in his heart, but with a smile on his face, he said with a big faceless voice:

"No, I don't think so. You didn't see how happy the third master smiled just now!"

Li Mo didn't plan to reason with her.

She was born to be a big lady with a golden key in her mouth, and she could casually spend four yuan to hire a good guy to help move things.

And he, Li Mo, was often woken up hungry in a long night.

Li Mo knew that he and she were not from the same world, so naturally his truth didn't make sense to her.

He just wanted to fool around and earn the four dollars.

What she cares about is right or wrong, but what Li doesn't care about is how to live.

The third master just now is surnamed Tang, and he claims to be the second eldest in the land of Surabaya County, and he is the third.

Often entangled in a group of unemployed homeless people wandering around the city.

People called him San Ye to his face, and sneered at him Tang San, or Ah San, behind his back.

In the face of these gangsters and hooligans who pick quarrels and provoke trouble, most of them choose to have more than less, and endure it.

After all, there are a lot of hooligans and a lot of time, even if there are not many people bullying you, they can dangle and disgust you in front of you. If you are in business, you will not dare customers come to your door, and if you are ordinary in business, you will ruin your reputation.

Of course, many of the gangsters in this era will beat people.

The woman was obviously dissatisfied with Li Wei's indifferent attitude, and said in a serious tone: "If you treat him like this, you are conniving at him to be evil, which is tantamount to harming him." ”

"Then what do you think I should do? Should I scold him or fight with him?" Li Wei rolled his eyes.

"You should call the police!"

Li Wei was silent when he heard this, and called the police, what should he say to the police when he called the police, saying that someone robbed his four-yuan business?

Or did you rob yourself of a girl who was four or five dollars?

He didn't know if it was illegal for a minor like him to come out to collect money to work as a coolie, after all, he had never even paid taxes.

"Why don't you speak?" the woman asked again.

"I want to be quiet!"

"Who is Jingjing?"

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