Chapter 5: Changed Lives

"Can you give us one?!" Nagato lowered his head, his long bangs still covering most of his face, and he couldn't say anything more when he was begging for help. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Just a little bit, we haven't eaten for almost a day, please, have mercy on us!" A sincere female voice sounded, Xiao Nan looked at the stall owner pitifully, his hands fit, and bowed.

The owner of the fish stall is a thin middle-aged man about forty years old, and the hardships of life and the chaos of the world have made him have gray hair early. For the begging of the young man and girl in front of him, the fish stall owner frowned, and the word 'Sichuan' appeared in the center of his eyebrows, now in the situation of the country of Sichuan, a civilian like him, every family is not easy to live, although these orphans in front of him are very pitiful, but with the recent increase in the number of homeless people, he does not dare to flood his sympathy casually, because once the gap is opened here, there will definitely be more orphans and homeless people flocking to him, so the troubled times still need to be hard-hearted.

"Where are the fish to be given to you, go away, don't get in the way of my business!" the fish stall owner waved at Nagato and Yahiko, motioning for them to go away.

Although they had been prepared for the boss's reaction, the other party's action as if waving away flies was still blocked in the hearts of Xiao Nan and Nagato.

"What, stingy!" said the annoyed Xiao Nan who took a step back and raised his voice to the fish stall owner.

The fish stall owner's expression instantly became gloomy, and anger rose in his eyes, and sure enough, there was no sympathy for these wild dog-like stragglers.

"What do you say, you say it again, you bastard little ghost!" the middle-aged man roared out from behind the stall, if these two little ghosts didn't run away, he would teach them a good lesson, even if there was a little girl among them, he would not show mercy!

"Hmph!" Xiao Nan snorted, made a grimace at the stall owner, and saw that the other party was going to chase her, so he grabbed Nagato, who was standing beside him, and was ready to escape.

Seeing the fish stall owner approaching with a menacing brisk, Xiao Nan's eyes flashed a trace of panic, but it was quickly replaced by composure, she pulled Nagato, while preparing to escape, she continued to provoke the fish stall owner with words, and her eyes occasionally swept over the fish stall behind, behind the fish stall, there was already a figure hidden for a long time.

Seeing that Xiao Nan and the others had successfully attracted the attention of the middle-aged man, Yahiko, who was hiding behind the fish stall tent, seized the opportunity and instantly jumped to the stall with sea fish, picked up the closest sea fish to him on the stall, and hurriedly flashed behind the tent.

Yahiko's movements were very fast, and although he was hunched, his steps were also very light and steady, and the slightest sound mixed with the sound of the rain was insignificant, not attracting attention at all.

"Huh, huh, huh, ......huh" quickly turned a corner, Xiao Nan and Nagato stopped at the same time, put their hands on their knees to support their bodies while leaning against the wall and panting heavily, because of Xiao Nan's provocation, the cautious fish stall owner actually chased them out of most of the street, fortunately the crowd on this street is relatively dense, otherwise they can't get out so easily.

Although he was very embarrassed to be chased, after stopping, Xiao Nan's eyes still had a hint of joy, they led the fish stall owner out so far, then Yahiko's side should be very smooth.

"It's almost time, let's go Nagato, let's go back!" rested in place for a few minutes, and after his breathing was roughly stable, Xiao Nan raised his arms, stretched his waist, and then greeted Nagato beside him.

"Hmm" Nagato responded, keeping up with Xiao Nan's pace, and then the two small figures walked on a path out of the town, little by little, gradually disappearing into the rain.

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"Woo~~ It's so full, sure enough, it's still the best fish that Xiao Ai bakes!" Xiao Nan stroked her stomach with a satisfied face, although the girl's appetite is a little smaller than that of Nagato, Yahiko and other boys, but she can't help but eat more every time she meets Yuehua Ai's grilled fish, although Yuehua Ai's age is young, his skills in grilling fish are really good.

Thinking that he could meet and pick up Yuehuaai half a year ago, now that he thinks about it, everyone has always felt that it is really a kind of luck. For Xiao Ai, everyone was originally just raising a little brother because of pity and compassion, so everyone didn't have any requirements for Yuehua Love in their daily lives, but they didn't expect that as the four of them lived together for a longer time, everyone's lives also changed a little bit, well, it became better and better, as if it existed in a dream.

In Xiao Nan's heart, she has always felt that Xiao Ai has a maturity that does not match her age, different from the stubbornness of ordinary children, he is not only obedient and sensible, but also knows how to care about people, and has experience beyond them for survival.

I remember when they first begged in the town, although at first there were people who would give them a little something, but as time went by, the number of orphans and homeless people in the town gradually increased, and the villagers' faces became colder and their attitudes towards them became worse and worse.

Later, not only did no one come to help them, but even begging, the villagers stopped giving them food, and for orphans of their age, they had no other way to survive but to steal.

The results of stealing at first were still okay, but as the villagers became more vigilant against them, the success rate of stealing food became smaller and smaller, and the failure of stealing gradually changed from the initial warning to the later addition of punches and kicks. Not only Nagato and Yahiko, but even girls like Konan have been injured and taught many times.

Just when their lives were gradually embarrassed, Yuehua Ai was added to their team, and they thought that their lives would be more difficult, but they were changed a little by the arrival of this little child.

After Yuehua Ai joined Yahiko and them, she also went to steal with them in the first few days, but who knew that Yahiko's success rate in stealing food was really outrageous, and several times in a row, not only did they not get food, but they ended up with scars, and even Yuehua Ai also had a record of being spanked and swollen once.

Yuehuaai later felt that it was really not good to continue like this, there was no future at all, no way, for the two rough men of Yahiko Nagato, he was beaten and beaten, but when Xiao Nan was beaten, he was really angry and distressed, such a cute girl, you also went to do it, pitiful, although he was full of anger, but there was nothing he could do. So, he had to find a way to seek change, to find a new way to change the lives of many people.

It took him a week to figure out the living conditions of the villagers in the town and the geographical distribution of the villages and towns, and finally went around in a circle, and Yuehuaai felt that the opportunity for their lives to change would fall on the small river that washed him here. Because he had been drifting in the river for so long, he still knew one thing, that is, there were fish in the river, and there were quite a lot of them, after all, the environment full of water like Kawanokuni was very suitable for the survival of aquatic creatures.

Fishing, for Yahiko, Nagato, these orphans whose parents died suddenly, is a skill that is completely inadequate, but for Yuehua Ai, who is a person in two lives, fishing, that is not a problem at all, and even other ways of fishing, all he can think of, is simply as much as he wants.

The first time he put his idea to Yahiko, he was teased by Yahiko, he had been to that river, he had thought about fishing or something, but the river was turbulent, and they lacked tools and skills, fishing, it was just an idea that had long been bankrupt.

For Yahiko's negation, Yuehua Ai doesn't care, and it is impossible to give up. After three days of patrolling the town, he managed to make a simple fishing rod, and that afternoon, when everyone was secretly anxious about the unknown Yuehua Ai, he dragged a carp half the size of his body into their base, and then he saw the stunned expressions of the three Yahikos.

After teaching people how to fish, their lives changed overnight.

For the fish caught every day, except for a small part for their own consumption, the rest was taken by Yahiko to the town in exchange for some other food and daily necessities, although compared to the price of fish in those shops, the value of what they exchanged for was far less than the value of the fish they caught, but they did not care very much, because, for the gradual change of life, they were already very satisfied, at least, they were no longer thieves who were beaten by everyone, and they were not like those wild dogs who were terrified all day long.

The boys' lives are no longer precarious, so the stealing has also stopped, and the reason why I went to the fish stall to steal fish today is not a whim, but mainly to vent my anger for Yahiko. People often use their own fish in exchange for some daily necessities, which still affects the business of the fish stall to some extent. For these mature people like the fish stall owner, he may not care much, but the other party's son is a little angry with the teenagers because of this, because usually Yahiko takes the fish to ask door to door in exchange, so this makes the fish stall owner's son find an opportunity, he led people to block Yahiko, and also warned Yahiko of a harsh lesson.

Yahiko was still a child who had just turned twelve years old at this time, and in the face of several adults, where was there room for resistance. Everyone was indignant after they found out, and the grievances and anger in their hearts were difficult to vent.

But then again, eating something from the 'enemy's house' is really different from eating something from your own home!