"Hehehehehe," looking at the other party's every move with a fighting intent, Li Yashen, who was sitting inside the body, was the old god, he leisurely lit it rhythmically with his index finger, and even shook his feet, and said with a smile: "If you want to defeat me, wait until you have tasted so many hardships I have tasted......

When he said this sentence, which should have been very domineering, Li Bashen suddenly felt bitterness coming from his heart, and a gruety bitterness seemed to emanate from his guts, giving him goosebumps all over his body.

In the past, the sad and terrible years that he had tried were suddenly surging from the door of memories like a tide, and Li Yashen's arrogant head slowly lowered, and tears of shame and shame slipped down his face.

That year, Li Bashen was eight years old and An An was seven years old.

In Li Yashen's eyes, An An is a very cute and beautiful girl. Among all the orphans in their batch, An An is the best-looking and tallest, and what is even more rare is that An An and the young Li Yashen always have endless words and topics to talk about because of their surnames.

At that time, they were all the subordinates of the knife boss.

The knife boss is a middle-aged man over fifty years old, his hair is not bald, not even white. Every time in front of this group of children, he always stood tall and held a copper cigarette stick. In Li Yashen's impression, the knife boss is either smoking or beating people, and there seem to be only two simple things in his life.

Every day Li Yashen and they will be sent out to steal things, if the harvest is rich, the knife boss will happily smoke his dry tobacco, if the harvest is not good, the knife boss will beat people. The knife boss didn't seem to need any excuse for beating people, just scolded like "you are paralyzed, you are paralyzed", and then swung his hot pipe straight at the children under the age of ten.

Everyone who was beaten did not dare to scream, and if they did, the knife boss would be even more angry, and the attack would naturally be heavier.

This is the life of Li Yashen and An An and a group of orphans.

Sometimes, as soon as they get out of bed with the fatigue accumulated from the day, they can fall asleep in the blink of an eye. Li Yashen was still young at that time, and he didn't dare to resist at all, and he didn't want to resist. The knife boss is an incomparably powerful existence relative to him, just like the Five Finger Mountain on Sun Wukong's body, no matter how great your ability is, it is impossible to break free.

Until that day, after getting on a very crowded bus, An An, who was on a mission with Li Yagami, suddenly said: "Yagami, have you ever thought that one day you will escape from the control of the sword boss......

When the girl said this, Li Bashen's hand, which had already stretched out, immediately retracted the habitual and effective arc formed by the bending of the index finger and middle finger...... He coughed in a daze, and when everyone looked over, he quickly sat down a little.

"Why do you ask?" After waiting for the eyes of others to dissipate, Li Yashen suppressed his flustered emotions a little, and asked in a calm manner.

"Recently, I've been watching TV on the bus," An An said like a knowledgeable reading woman, "The adults on TV say that each of us is an individual who reads, and we should all have our own thoughts and our own lives." In this case, it seems that we should also go to our own place, so that it is good. ”

At this time, An An was a little girl who was only seven years old, black, and so thin that she could almost see her bones. But it is meaningless, but she has planted the pride called "freedom" in her bones.

This kind of thing is like an "ideal", something that is unstoppable once it sprouts.

Li Bashen took a deep breath and looked at An An in front of him with some surprise. Only then did he know that this girl, who was still one year younger than himself, had actually grown up unconsciously.

"It's all a lie on TV," Li Yashen looked at an uncle by the car door and muttered, "Hmph, if you can believe those things, the world won't be chaotic." For some reason, he spoke unusually loudly, as if he wanted to win a little bit of victory from that volume.

At this time, the car had just crossed the river, and after crossing the bridge, it entered a fairly prosperous urban area. The streets are wide on both sides, and there are not many pedestrians after night. Although the greening here is very good, because it is a new industrial city, when the evening comes, the people who go to work return home early, and this thriving place during the day becomes a beautiful lonely city at night.

Except for the occasional person who returns late from overtime, standing alone next to the bus stop sign and waiting for the car that has not come for a long time, there are hardly any people wandering the streets.

It is also based on this background that this place is listed as one of the "best locations" by the knife boss.

According to the rhythm of their work, after arriving at the first few stops of "Ximentang Street", it should be the time to start doing things, otherwise, the car will soon arrive at the terminal, then this more than an hour of observation and monitoring, it will completely lose its economic value and interests.

"Hey, I'm working, otherwise be careful when I go back at night and be careful that I don't have anything to eat." Seeing that the time of 8:25 was displayed on the car, Li Bashen pushed An An and urged the girl to hurry up.

Unexpectedly, today's girl is so stubborn, I saw her mouth crooked, sat in the last row and said: "I don't care, anyway, today, I'd rather be hungry." ”

Li Yashen ignored him and sighed leisurely. After thinking about it for a while, he finally felt that the fear in his heart was still more terrible, so he also took a few steps forward and sat down on the seat of the old and young women and the disabled.

In front of him was an old woman with pale hair and a white knitted bag on her back. Grandma didn't look wealthy, and the bag contained some food and daily necessities that she had bought in the vegetable market today.

Li Yashen has been staring at this "fat fish" for a long time. He looked around a few times, then slowly reached out and explored the bag with his index and middle fingers, which he had practiced for many years. Finally, he felt a somewhat hard leather product, judging from the feel of the simulated PU leather, it should be the cheap wallet used by the old lady.

Li Yashen took out the object, and when he saw it in front of him, it was indeed a long red wallet. He pulled up his shirt slightly, tucked his wallet between his trousers at his waist, and just as he stood up, he saw a pair of young men staring at him. Oops, this little couple was still kissing hotly just now, and now they are looking at themselves so dumbfounded, they must have visited the scene of their own hands just now.

"Look at what you see." Almost without thinking, Li Yashen pretended to have a rather vicious expression, glared at the pair of young people, and drank again. In the end, in the stunned of the couple, he quickly got off the bus through the back door after the bus stopped.

Li Yashen walked along the road, the night was already deep, and the wind was blowing slowly from under the trees next to him, and it was actually a little comfortable to hit his face. But for some reason, he felt that the suppressed and somewhat panicked emotions in his heart could not be calmed down.

Behind him, there was a sound of footsteps "buckle buckle". Li Yashen didn't look back until An An quickly followed.

An An walked to Li Yashen's side, he didn't speak at first, the two just walked forward without a sound, they didn't have to talk, because they knew each other's tacit understanding that the road they were walking at this time happened to be the direction of "going home".

It's just that there are no parents in this "family" who give birth to them and love them, but there is only one knife boss who raises them but also relies on them to raise himself, that's all.

At this time of the day, Li Bashen, who got off work, would feel very relaxed, and following An An to go such a journey, his mood was also mixed. After the day's work is done, he is waiting to go home for dinner, and he can chat with An An for more than ten minutes on the way, which is undoubtedly a very happy thing for Li Yashen. But as soon as he thought that he would return to that annoying "home" in ten minutes, his mood would be inexplicably sad again......

It's the same today, Li Yashen took out the red wallet, opened it and took out the more than 200 yuan inside, put it in his pocket, and then threw the wallet with the documents into a flower garden on the side of the road.

Dangdangdangdang, the small pebble made a crisp sound on the road, and this sound made Li Yashen feel even more impatient.

After thinking for a while, Li Yashen stopped. He turned around, looked at An An solemnly, took out a hundred yuan from his pocket, handed it to the girl, and said, "You will say in a while that you 'picked up' it back, so that the boss will not beat you." ”

The task given to them by the knife boss is to pay at least 100 yuan a day, otherwise, they will be beaten when they come back.

Although the more than 200 yuan today was all brought back by Li Bashen, he also knew that as long as the money was divided into two halves and handed over to the knife boss, he would definitely not care about these trivial details.

Boss Knife is a man who "can be used as long as he has money", and his utilitarianism is both hateful and simple and true. When the money was returned, he smoked happily; If you don't have the money to get back, he will smoke you angrily, and this is his philosophy of life.

Li Bashen obviously didn't want An An to be beaten, and it was precisely because of this that he gave up the fruits of his labor wholeheartedly.

But when An An saw the scene in front of him, he sneered and slapped Li Bashen's hand away with disdain.

The red renminbi loosened from the palm of his hand, and after a few turns in the air, it was still like Li Bashen's self-esteem, although it was arrogant, but it was only scattered in the end.

In the night, Li Yashen's ashamed face burned red.