Chapter 13: Everyday Failures
"Xiyue, do you think this can work?" Tang Li, who was walking outside the Summer Palace, lowered the brim of his hat and looked around cautiously outside the garden, looking sneaky. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Behind her, Xi Yue, who was also dressed in civilian clothes, looked more like a normal tourist, although according to common sense, normal tourists would not use the ability of gravity to carry a few invisible large cardboard boxes above their heads.
"Maybe it can be done. Xiyue said very perfunctorily behind Tang Li, to be honest, he actually didn't think Tang Li's plan was fundamentally feasible.
After making sure that there were no staff around, Tang Li carefully took off a crossbody bag from his body and pulled the zipper, revealing the iced mineral water hidden in it.
The reason why these mineral waters are chilled is naturally with the help of the power of Xiyue's cooling law, through the inspiration of drinking mineral water yesterday, Tang Li remembered that when he used to visit most of the domestic scenic spots, the price of mineral water would be much more expensive than the usual ones bought outside, in this hot weather, if you can supply tourists with cheap chilled mineral water, you will definitely get a good income.
But this is just Tang Li's simple idea, this society is actually more complicated than she imagined.
Relying on her own outstanding appearance, when she first started selling iced mineral water, Tang Li did attract a small part of the business, and even many tourists took photos of Tang Li, which made Tang Li very embarrassed.
Xiyue has always kept a certain distance from Tang Li, and only when he needs to replenish mineral water, he will take out a certain amount of mineral water from the box floating in the sky, and after cooling it, he will secretly hand it over to Tang Li's crossbody bag.
If Tang Li's work of selling water can continue smoothly like this, she may really be able to complete the 500 yuan target proposed by Schneider in the afternoon, but the good times will not last long, and Tang Li, who has been cautiously paying attention to the inspection staff, would never have thought that it was another group of people who took the lead in interfering with her unlicensed operation.
"Little girl, who allowed you to sell water here?" A sturdy man who looked a little like a thug wore a tight-fitting white vest, a cigarette in his mouth, and several men in colorful clothes and hair surrounded Tang Li's vicinity and dispersed all the tourists.
After smelling the choking smell of smoke, Tang Li instinctively frowned, looked directly at these guys who were obviously here to find fault without fear, and said righteously: "What, I sell water here, do I still need your permission?"
Tang Li didn't think that in essence, it was indeed an illegal act for her to sell water here, not only that, in addition to violating the express regulations, Tang Li actually violated some unwritten rules in the market.
There is actually a division of territory for selling things near scenic spots, and some places may even have to pay protection money to gangs, or the hawkers near these scenic spots, many times, are originally run by these small gangs themselves.
When outsiders enter their territory and prepare to divide the interests, there will be such a group of people uninvited, at first, it may be just a verbal warning, if you don't listen to persuasion, you will inevitably suffer a little bit of flesh and skin, selling things near the scenic spot, in fact, it is not as simple as Tang Li imagined.
For these common sense, Xiyue is very clear, he has heard that some schools in the summer to organize students in the summer to carry out special social practice in other places, encourage students to use a certain amount of principal to make money to solve the cost of room and board, from the report at the time, Xiyue has heard that some students in the sale of water violated other people's territory, was chased several streets.
It's a pity that we don't have this kind of interesting social practice in high school, Xiyue shook his head not far from Tang Li, as if he was very sorry, although even if Modu High School really had such a social practice, he wouldn't sign up for it.
"This little girl, her scalp is very strong, seeing that she looks pretty good, I originally wanted to send her a horse on this, just warn her, fifth brother, now like this, if you don't give her a little hardship, how can the brothers suppress this in the future." Behind the man in the lead, a small man who looked like a thief was encouraging him.
The man he called the fifth brother, although he looks like a gangster, but he can be the eldest brother in this group, his head is much clearer than these subordinates, at the foot of the imperial capital, some daily small frictions can still be controlled, if the nature of the incident is a little more vicious, a little more exposure on the Internet, then it will only be them who are the little people at the bottom who will be handed over, but having said that, although it is really difficult to do it, it is still okay to let this little girl suffer a little.
Just as the man, known as Fifth Brother, was about to slap Tang Li, a half-eaten apple fell on his head without warning.
"Ah, I'm sorry, I was careless, you go ahead, just treat me like a front-row apple eater. Xiyue's familiar words at this time seemed to have been heard somewhere before.
"You kid, are you in the same league as this chick? Brothers, don't be polite to me, copy the guy. "The fifth brother who was hit by Apple's face can't care about any big trouble now, if he doesn't get this face back, how can he continue to mix on this road in the future.
"Hey, it's not good to be rough. Xi Yue looked at the crowd rushing towards him with a smile on her face, without the slightest fear on her face.
Tang Li, who was thrown down by the group of thugs, also looked eager to try, as if he wanted to move his muscles and bones and practice Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu that he had not used for a long time under them.
Just when this "big war" was about to break out, the staff of the Summer Palace received reports from tourists and moved closer to Xiyue and others, seemingly trying to calm the commotion that was happening in front of the park at this moment.
Fifth brother, a group of thugs, has usually dealt with this group of staff, and they also know that their behavior at the moment has crossed some of the bottom lines that have been promised, but some things cannot be measured by reason alone.
Just when the scene was in chaos, Tang Li's little hand was suddenly grabbed by someone.
"What are you waiting for? Run, it's just a glow I've left behind. ”
"Huh?"
Under the morning sun of July, the boy took the maiden's hand and began their run......