Chapter 3 A Few Inches of People's Heart
In the afternoon, Shi Zuo came to the Tenth Fu Road as usual, boredly observing the flow of traffic.
This is the only way to go home from a part-time job in Anhe City every day.
It was also the sixth day he had been here.
He's waiting for someone here. A person who will appear with Anhe City every day.
A beggar. The beggars in Anhe City have been followed for more than a month.
It was the height of summer and the weather was very hot. Shi Zuocai found a shady arcade and squatted at the mouth of the alley. He threw up his head and poured the last sip of Coke, his surging Adam's apple like a thirsty camel in the desert.
A white arm stretched out, holding a cute electric fan. Liu Yanshi squatted down beside Shi Zuocai, looked at him drippingly, and laughed "giggled".
She said, "You're still looking for beggars here, and you're the most beggar in the whole street." β
"Even if you search the entire city of Guangzhou, you won't find a beggar as suave as me." Shi Zuocai threw the can into the trash can next to him, glanced at Liu Yanshi, was stunned, and looked at her a few more times, looking weird.
"Where did you just go?"
"Just hang out. Anyway, Xiao An hasn't gotten off work yet, so it's boring. Liu Yanshi pouted. She took out a bottle of mineral water from the designer bag she was carrying: "Do you want to drink?" β
Shi Zuocai twitched the corners of his mouth, and laughed at her yin and yang weirdly:
"I can understand if you just walk around. The question is, why do you have to change your body by the way? β
When a woman is stunning to the extreme, the extra gaze will only make people feel the stinging of the gaze. Even when passing by, people will unconsciously turn their heads to avoid eye contact.
At this moment, Liu Yan's vision is like this.
Ball head, crop top, cropped leather pants, black boots. This crowded street was melted by her momentum and turned into a scene for model street photography.
This outfit is completely different from when the two of them first came to Tenth Fu Road half an hour ago.
Liu Yan glanced at him, smiled, and said word by word: "I, happy, willing, ah." β
"You're willing to pay for it." Shi Zuocai's tone was mocking.
Liu Yanshi didn't seem to understand, and tilted his head, "Huh? "Yes. Noticing that Shi Zuocai's gaze stayed on her outfit, he came back to his senses and said with a smile: "Who told you that I spent money?" β
Shi Zuocai sneered:
"Don't tell me, this whole mall is owned by your relatives, and donnakaran's clothes can be worn casually."
Liu Yanshi grinned and asked me:
"When you go to the counter to pick up cosmetics, even if you hold them in your hand, the waiter will only think that you are going to pay for them, right?"
"So what?"
"If you walk to the checkout counter with a mess of cosmetics, the waiter won't be suspicious, right?"
"So what?"
As he finished speaking, Shi Zuocai's brows suddenly furrowed, his heart jumped suddenly, and he stood up:
"You're not, aren't you?"
Liu Yan leaned into his ear like a thief, and gently and skillfully:
"Yes, yes, yes-"
Shi Zuocai had already guessed the ins and outs of the matter.
She must have gone to the cashier and explained to the cashier who didn't know anything about the situation that she had bought those cosmetics a few days ago, and she had not opened the package yet, and now she planned to return them.
According to the normal procedure, the cashier will definitely ask her to show the invoice, and Liu Yanshi didn't spend a penny, so naturally there would be no invoice.
She may take the plan as it is, complain about one or two sentences, "I have only bought it for a short time, and I can't return it", and then I am extremely dissatisfied with the service of the whole store, and say "At least give me a bag?" The cashier who tried to return the goods naturally didn't think much about it, and the rest of the salespeople who saw her take the cosmetics couldn't hear the conversation in front of the counter, so they just thought that she had paid and took the goods and left......
Shi Zuocai pinched his eyebrows with a headache and sighed:
"Women are woe. You willow smoke is the Nicaraguan Falls. β
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Deep in Panyu, a Porsche 718 stopped beside the freshly repaired asphalt road in a deserted town. A high-heeled shoe sticks out of the half-open car door and kicks and taps into town.
Jiang Zhilin is more than 30 years old, born in a villager, and worked as a primary school teacher for several years after graduating from middle school. After all these years of hard work, the rich capital has washed away the local flavor on her body.
Now she is the only successful person in this remote town in her hometown, and her fellow villagers all nodded and greeted her with a smile.
When she was an ordinary elementary school teacher, her five-year-old son was diagnosed with blood cancer, and the family could not save his son's life with all their savings. And she was also burdened with a huge amount of debt left by her husband.
Every time she thinks that the greatest pain in life is nothing more than that, life always humbles her. From a certain point on, various rumors about her began to spread around the town.
This woman was born with a bad life, and whoever touches it is unlucky.
Her little doll suffered from blood cancer at a young age because she was a watery poplar flower with bacteria on her body.
The relatives of her husband's family, who lent her money, were shaken by this, and their trust collapsed, knocking on the iron door in her yard day and night, urging her to pay back. The elderly parents washed their faces with tears all day long, and they couldn't sleep at night.
One rainy night, Jiang Zhilin escaped everything, gambled what little was left, and boarded a bus to the neighboring city of Guangzhou. Since then, she has sold her soul to the devil.
"It's Kobayashi? Oh, on this hot day, how can you have time to come back to us? Are you going to see Lao Jiang again? The meat on the face of the Wang Po behind the fruit stall was squeezed into a ball, all the way out of the fruit stall, picked up an apple, and wiped it on her apron: "Eat an apple to quench your thirst, look at your sweat, I'm afraid it's hot, right?" β
Wang Po's tone was unnaturally enthusiastic.
Jiang Zhilin politely greeted him, but his heart was indifferent, and the corners of his mouth were faintly mocking.
The rumor originated from the three aunts and six mothers-in-law.
At that time, her son issued a critical illness notice and took the lead in spreading the word that Jiang Zhilin was a biao person, and most of this princess also had a share.
Now that rumor has gone away. The attitude of the people in the village towards her is also very different.
Jiang Zhilin knew that it was all because of money.
Jiang Zhilin has done all the evil things in the past few years in Guangzhou. She is not afraid of sin. Because she knew that the greatest original sin was poverty.
Turn a few corners and come to a familiar path. In the yard of the neighbor's house, the yellow dog guarding the door is nibbling on leftovers. Jiang Zhilin weighed the apple in his hand that was forced by Wang Po, and indifferently threw it in front of the yellow dog.
Through the courtyard gate of his house, he saw his father squatting in the corner watering his field, and a burst of sourness poured into Jiang Zhilin's nasal cavity.
She opened the iron door and hurriedly ran to Father Jiang:
"Dadβthey all told you not to move around at will, you always don't listen, what if you can't recover?"
Father Jiang heard his daughter's familiar voice, and turned his head in surprise, both surprised and surprised:
"Why did Arin come back?"
He stood up, stumbling in his steps, and Jiang Zhilin hurriedly helped him up: "You take it easy." β
"It's really getting less and less dexterous in this leg. Our family's field has been deserted, and after planting for so many years, we can now make a memory of this small vegetable garden. Father Jiang smiled. was supported by Jiang Zhilin to sit in the wheelchair next to him.
"If this leg really doesn't get better, you'll feel better."
Jiang Zhilin's tone was full of complaints, but deep down he was more guilty and self-blame.
When she fled from the town to find her husband, her unsympathetic relatives broke into the house to pull Jiang Zhilin's parents to ask for debts, and they broke one of her father's right legs under the surge of emotion.
After paying off the debt, Jiang Zhilin has completely severed the relationship with her husband's family, but this account is still in her heart.
"Arin is back?"
Villages and towns give birth to babies early. Mother Jiang is only more than fifty years old this year, but she is already full of gray hair. She was heartbroken by her daughter's affairs in the early years, and she was beaten by her husband's family in the yard and protected by Jiang's father, which was not a big deal. It's just that the spirit has long been much worse than before.
But when she saw her daughter appear in the yard, she still seemed overjoyed, and suddenly seemed to be a few years younger, and walked up to the broken thoughts:
"You foolish, it's a hot day, what are you talking about outside with Alin? Hurry up and take Alin back to the house, the meal has arrived, I'm cooking, Alin is back, we have to make something good for Alin, I'll go to the market to buy a chicken and come back......"
Jiang Zhilin's eyes turned red.
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"I smell the meat." Shi Zuocai sniffed: "It's from me, I kind of want to taste it." β
Liu Yanshi giggled: "You're just hot and dizzy." β
She moved the parasol in her hand to the top of Shi Zuocai's head and pouted: "I told you not to exercise normally." β
After a pause, he laughed amusefully:
"It's really not like your style, thoughβneither the first personality nor Mr. Demon."
Shi Zuocai turned his head, and the corners of his mouth hooked into a smile: "What do you mean?" β
"Referring to the fact that you have been working diligently as a little security guard for the past few days." Liu Yanshi blinked:
"I think you're both energy-savers, and you won't do anything you don't have to. But just now, I saw that beggar following Xiao An, and you just watched...... In this case, isn't there no progress? β
Shi Zuocai put his hands in his pockets and said with a smile:
"It's not that there hasn't been progress. It's just that the time hasn't come yet - if the beggar is really as the stuffy oil bottle guessed, it is indeed the father of Anhe City. β
Liu Yanshi laughed "poof":
"Every time I hear you call yourself a 'stuffy oil bottle,' I think it's funny."
At the end, she restrained her smile and muttered, "However, Shi Zuocai's master personality is indeed much more reliable than you to some extent. How did he know for sure that the beggar was Xiao An's father? β
"How do I know?" Shi Zuocai spread his hands heartlessly:
"Logic and reasoning are what he's good at. I was created only to help him avoid trouble. β
"Or create more trouble at the right time." Liu Yanshi added with a grin: "There are still thirteen days before Shi Zuo Cai's family goes bankrupt, but you are still following the beggar on the tenth road. Mr. 'Stuffy Oil Bottle' is already burned, right? β
"Miss Smoky, do you know how to fish?" Shi Zuocai suddenly asked thoughtlessly. He smiled meaningfully:
"Even if the fish has already bitten the bait, you can't rush to reel in the line. Swing the rod little by little to create the illusion that the prey is about to run away, and only then will the fish chase the bait more fiercely...... Until the hook completely pierces the gills, the fish has nowhere to escape. β
"The kitten's father is inextricably linked to the events of the entire Enobayain, but what really cares about me and makes me find interesting is the 'motive' of the beggar."
"Motivation?" Liu Yanyan tilted his head: "Does it mean that he is following Xiao An?" β
"Not bad." Shi Zuocai hugged his waist with one hand, pinched his chin with the other, and pondered:
"Confirming the motive of that beggar's stalking is a crucial thing. There are only a few I can think of. β
"One is that the kitten's father was deceived and bankrupt and had no face to face Jiangdong's father, even if he was living on the street, he didn't want to go home, so he had to sneak a look at Xiao An every day when he got off work and chatted for comfort. This is the most boring and the most reliable possibility. β
The second is that An Yiwen suffered a serious mental blow after going bankrupt, became a beggar, and lived on the streets. He followed Xiao An because the flesh and blood connection between father and daughter had a familiar feeling. Although I have already contacted him and determined that he does have a mental problem, this speculation is too fortuitous, and the TV series does not dare to act like this, it only exists in theory. β
And the last one ...... is my favorite possibility. Shi Zuocai suddenly laughed weirdly, like a demon baring its fangs.
- An Yiwen may have tried to remedy the situation after his bankruptcy, such as...... borrowed loan sharks to turn around, hoping that he could make a comeback. β
"The results of borrowing to support loans are predictable. This explains why he was covered in wounds, even disfigured with sulfuric acid, had one hand broken, and became mute. β
As for his motives for stalking the kitten...... If it is related to 'loan repayment'...... It was the best I could think of. β
Shi Zuocai licked his lips, and his peach blossom eyes bloomed with a bewitching look:
"The so-called family affection, in the cruel reality, is just a bargaining chip...... I can't help but get excited just thinking that innocent kitten will be sold by my own father one day sooner or later......"
"Hey-" Liu Yanshi sighed, patted his forehead lightly, and pouted:
"You're a complete demon."