Chapter Seventy-Eight: Encountering a Contemporary Beggar Gang
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Qin Xue took the driver away, Wang Zhuo and Qin Siqing got out of the hospital and got into a taxi, Qin Siqing suddenly had an idea: "Brother Wang Zhuo, let's go to Jinhua Temple." ”
Wang Zhuo was a little surprised: "Jinhua Temple? What are you going to do there. ”
"I want to go and make a wish for my grandfather to be safe. I heard my father say that when my grandmother was still there, I had to go to the temple every month to make a wish for my grandfather. ”
"Alright then, go to Jinhua Temple." Wang Zhuo nodded, he was not interested in military training, it was too boring to stand in a military posture and walk in a straight step, and the firearms training and target shooting in the next two days were worth participating in.
Jinhua Temple is located in a not very prosperous urban area, the car stopped more than 100 meters away from the temple, and the rest is a pedestrian street, you have to walk there yourself.
Just a few steps after getting out of the car, two dirty children blocked up, raised their hands in front of their chests, and looked at Wang Zhuo and Qin Siqing with pitiful eyes.
Qin Siqing immediately felt pity, and when she touched her body, she found that she was still wearing a camouflage uniform for military training, and she didn't bring a wallet. Then he asked Wang Zhuo, "Do you have change?" ”
Wang Zhuo reached out and took out a large handful of coins in his trouser pocket: "Here you go." ”
Jiangzhou's taxis use one-yuan coins as change, and they have often taken taxis in recent days, so Wang Zhuo has a lot of coins on him, and even the taxi driver just now found him three.
Qin Siqing wanted to divide these coins among the two children, but suddenly saw that there seemed to be a few such children on this street, reaching out to pedestrians or tourists to ask for them, she thought about it, and gave the two children five each, which is estimated to be enough for them to eat a full meal.
After getting the money, the two children cheered excitedly, didn't even say thank you, turned around and ran away, Qin Siqing was infected by their happiness, and shook his head with a smile.
These two cheers immediately caused trouble, and the other begging children immediately noticed the place and rushed to the front.
Wang Zhuo felt that something seemed wrong, because a little girl who got the money gestured five fingers to a little beggar running towards her, as if to imply that he had gotten five yuan.
"Sister, sister! Give it to me first, I'm going to starve! Give it to me first! ”
"Sister give it to me, sister, sister give it to me, sister-"
Except for two boys, who were slightly older and looked to be about seven or eight years old, the other children just raised their hands with their little dirty faces up, and said nothing.
Qin Siqing was suddenly taken aback by this situation, and involuntarily wanted to take two steps back, but as soon as her body moved, she was hugged by two children kneeling on the ground and desperately hugging her legs.
"You all come one by one, and you all have a share!"
Qin Siqing screamed and hurriedly distributed the money to the children.
Seeing that the coins in her hand were getting fewer and fewer, a child who hadn't received the money was a little anxious, and suddenly slapped Qin Siqing's arm.
At this beat, the coins in Qin Siqing's hands suddenly flew around like a heavenly maiden scattering flowers, and a child shouted to grab it, and suddenly the ground was full of little beggars squatting on the ground to pick up money, and the scene was chaotic.
Wang Zhuo hurriedly took two steps forward and pulled Qin Siqing aside.
"Where did you get so many begging kids?" Qin Siqing looked at this group of children and counted more than twenty people.
"Maybe it's because it's close to the temple, so it's easier to get money, right?" Wang Zhuozhi frowned, these children are male and female, the eldest is already of school age, and the younger one is only in his early three years, one by one is like picking up from the garbage heap, some are simply barefoot or shirtless, what will they be like in the future?
Qin Siqing was just about to speak, when she suddenly heard a little girl shouting in a clear voice: "That man still has money on him!" ”
This voice suddenly exploded the hornet's nest, and the little beggars swarmed up and surrounded the two of them like red eyes, pulling clothes and hugging their thighs, some reached out to beg for it, and the bold ones simply put their hands into Wang Zhuo's trouser pocket!
Wang Zhuo slapped the little dirty hand away, what kind of hand is this, there are a few old cracks on it in the summer, there are still a few bruises on the back of the hand, the nails have not been trimmed for a long time, and the cracks are full of black mud.
In desperation, Wang Zhuo had no choice but to use two points of strength to push the little beggars away, hugged Qin Siqing by his side, took it out of his trouser pocket, and threw the remaining coins to the ground next to him.
This move is also forced by helplessness, who wants to see a group of ignorant children squatting on the ground like pecking chickens, to grab a few poor change without dignity? But if he didn't do this, if a dirty child scratched Qin Siqing's little hands and face, would he have to go back to the hospital for a tetanus injection? Or rabies vaccine?
The little beggars immediately rushed over to grab the money, and two of them who still wanted to entangle saw Wang Zhuo's gloomy expression, hesitated, and also put them aside and joined the ranks of grabbing money.
"Taxi!"
Wang Zhuo shouted to stop a taxi, and got into the car with Qin Siqing before the little beggar gang regrouped and charged.
Starting, hitting the road, pressing the meter, the driver asked, "Where to go?" ”
"Let's just open it first." Wang Zhuo smiled bitterly, it seems that this Jinhua Temple will definitely not be able to go.
Qin Siqing shook her head with palpitations: "It's terrible." Where did so many poor children come from, they seem to be in a gang? ”
"You're pestered by kids who ask for money, aren't you?" The driver smiled: "They are all organized, you give money to a small child, and the rest will come up." ”
Wang Zhuo's heart moved, and he remembered the gesture made by the first little girl who wanted to get the money, which immediately confirmed his guess.
"Organized? Who organized, the orphanage? Qin Siqing asked innocently.
"An orphanage?" The driver immediately laughed: "Some of these children were stolen, some were picked up, some were bought, some were robbed, and some were rented." Someone is screwing them behind their backs and using them to make money. ”
Yes? Wang Zhuo and Qin Siqing were both a little dumbfounded.
"What's going on, tell me about it." Qin Siqing urged.
"Don't you watch the news? Why don't you even know this? The driver was a little surprised.
Qin Siqing asked incomprehensibly: "I watch the news every day, and I also read the newspapers, but I haven't seen the news in this regard?" ”
"The kind of thing that reports good news but not bad news, it's useless to look at it." The driver complained and shook off the conversation: "Now there are some people who specialize in indulging children to go out to beg for money, doing this to make money, let's say that we Jiangzhou, a child can get thousands of yuan every month, if you can take three children, the monthly income will be tens of thousands." ”
"Huh?" Qin Siqing was surprised, although her understanding of the concept of money was not as profound as Wang Zhuo's, she also knew that the salary of civil servants was only a few thousand yuan.
The driver continued: "Just now the group of children, has been in Changning District for more than a year, every few days to change a place, every day there are people to pick up the car to send it, as if going to work, when I come to pick up at night, I see which child asks for less money, on the spot to beat, kicked to death, I have seen it twice." ”
Qin Siqing was already shocked, Wang Zhuo frowned and asked, "Isn't there anyone who cares about this kind of thing?" Why didn't anyone call the police? ”
"It's useless to call the police-" The driver said earnestly: "Those policemen don't care about this, they have time to catch scoops and catch gambling, that is, they can easily make money with oil and water, who cares about this kind of thing, thankless." ”
As he spoke, at a red light in front of him, a little boy about seven or eight years old ran up and begged from the owner of the car waiting for the red light.
"See, this kid was here last year, windy and rainy, New Year's Day, National Day, day long." The driver shook his head with a wry smile and said: "People have a key in their hands, they pick a private car and ask for money, and if they don't give it, they will paint your car!" ”
"It's been more than a year, and no one cares? Is there still a royal law in Jiangzhou? Qin Siqing felt even more incomprehensible, this is the city managed by his father? An international metropolis with the first song in the country?
Wang Fa? Wang Zhuo scoffed, from the day his father was imprisoned, he didn't believe in Wang Fa.
The little beggar didn't stop when he passed the taxi, and walked straight to a Buick in the back.
The driver smiled, and his tone revealed a little helplessness: "I don't know if there is a royal law, anyway, I know that the police are also human, and I can't afford to make a profit-"
"So what will happen to these children who don't even read books?" Qin Siqing looked at Wang Zhuo.
Wang Zhuo shook his head slightly, he had already thought about the future of these children, but he didn't know how to tell Qin Siqing.
"In the future? What future do they have? The driver picked up the words: "Now I am a little beggar, and when I grow up to be a thief and a young lady, I am nothing more than a male thief and a female prostitute." ”
Qin Siqing frowned: "Aren't the parents of these children worried about their future?" ”
Wang Zhuo smiled bitterly and interjected: "I said little princess, didn't you listen to this driver's eldest brother just now, these children are all snatched, abducted, and bought, their parents may be in Guangdong, may be in Yunnan, may be in Anhui or anywhere, they don't even know where their children have gone, and it is useless to worry!" ”
The driver immediately chimed in: "Yes, who is distressed about other people's children?" Didn't there be news that some beggars with missing arms and legs were not born with disabilities at all, but were deliberately crippled by the indulgence, because they could get more money. ”
Qin Siqing's tears suddenly burst out of her eyes, she thought of the extra money she had just given to a lame little girl, it turned out that the reason why the little girl was lame was to induce an ignorant person like herself to take out more money!