Chapter 208: Sharpening the Knife

A slightly shady place with a pile of barrels covered in grease.

The smell is mixed and very unpleasant.

This is the place where leftovers from the restaurant are piled up, and although the smell is unpleasant, it is a favorite treasure spot for beggars in the city.

A bunch of beggars, dressed in tatters, were constantly scooping up leftovers from wooden barrels.

As long as you can get a slice or two of meat and a few pieces of cold and hard steamed buns, you can make these beggars have a full meal.

If you can catch one or two chicken legs and duck legs, it will already be a gluttonous feast for them.

But ordinary beggars can't come here to get food.

It's also the biggest restaurant in the city, and even the leftovers are good in the eyes of beggars, much better than some small restaurants.

There are so many beggars in the city.

Although a large number of beggars die on the streets every day in this winter, there are more and more beggars in the city.

They are either refugees displaced by the fighting, or remnants of soldiers who have lost their arms and legs after scavenging a life in the war.

Those who can come here to get food are all the hardest characters among the beggars.

Among them, there are several people with limbs gathered and athletic, and little beggars like Yun Cang generally walk around here, otherwise they will be seen by these beggars who have nothing to do except for food, and they will have to be teased.

Although Yun Cang was only standing in the corner of the wall now, several beggars in front of the barrel saw him.

These days, the beggar looks pitiful, but who knows how many fierce characters there are?

When Yun Cang saw the scar-faced beggar in front of him holding a cold roast chicken and gnawing wildly, he looked at him, and he felt bad.

This guy is also one of the most ruthless characters among the beggars in the city, and the beggars who want to snatch food from him don't know how many have been killed by him.

In these years, a steamed bun can make people fight for their lives, not to mention this chicken, duck and fish.

Seeing Yun Cang, a playful smile appeared on Scarface's dirty face.

Yun Cang was just a fourteen or fifteen-year-old beggar, because of congenital malnutrition, he was extremely thin, and his strength was not as good as that of some ten-year-old children, and these beggars could beat him with even one hand.

Not to mention Scarface, the most ruthless of them all.

And this scarface still has an old enmity with Yun Cang in this illusion.

"It's you little one."

Yun Cang turned to leave, but Scarface's hoarse voice rang out, and at the same time, a greasy object smashed into the back of Yun Cang's head.

Yun Cang was stunned for a moment, turned around and looked down to see a chicken leg lying on the ground.

Yun Cang swallowed a mouthful of saliva, to be honest, his physical condition was really not very good in this illusion, he was hungry and hungry, and a greasy chicken leg was enough to make his index finger move.

But he didn't look down to pick it up.

"Huh." Scarface smiled.

"Take it to your sister to eat, or you won't know when you'll die." Anyway, it's also a little beauty, and you've fallen into the same field as us, so you must be heartbroken, right? ”

Although Scarface said this, Yun Cang still didn't bow his head to pick it up.

Scarface didn't seem surprised, and continued to throw over a chicken leg, saying, "After eating this chicken leg, give your sister to me, this soldier is following you in a hurry, and I can't afford to eat a full meal."

I'm a little ugly, but I won't starve my daughter-in-law. ”

A sneer squeezed out of Yun Cang's yellow-skinned face: "You think beautifully." ”

Yun Cang directly raised his foot and crushed the two chicken thighs fiercely, and the greasy chicken thighs separated and mixed with the sludge on the ground.

"Fuck little bastard!" The beggars beside Scarface instantly scolded.

The expression on Scarface's face also got a lot colder.

A beggar beside him who was observant and observant immediately said: "Toast and don't eat and drink, don't even want the face given by Brother Xu, give me a beating!" ”

As he spoke, a group of beggars stepped forward and pushed Yun Cang into the corner of the wall.

Scarface also laughed and said, "That's right, let's fight, kill me and take care of your sick sister for you." ”

The fists rained down on Yun Cang's thin body, and he had to protect the vital point with both hands.

The beggars vented their anger on Yun Cang, and then picked up the two chicken legs on the ground that were no longer in shape, and devoured them.

The fourteen or fifteen-year-old sick and thin beggar can withstand this raindrop-like fist.

Not long after, Yun Cang was already bleeding from his mouth and nose, and his nose was blue and his face was swollen.

When the beggars saw the blood, they secretly said that they were angry, and they walked away from the corners.

Scarface finished nibbling on a roast chicken, nibbled on a few cold steamed buns, stood up and left, stretched out his foot and kicked Yuncang when he passed by the corner, and found that there was no movement, so he sneered and left.

In this world, as long as the fist is big, the beggar can still be powerful, but the object can only be a lower level than him.

This happiness of bullying is cruel, but it is one of the few pleasures of beggars.

After the beggars left, Yun Cangfang wiped the blood on his face, and then staggered to his feet.

There was no expression on his face, as if he hadn't been the one who had been beaten before.

Picked up some barely clean cold steamed buns and leftovers from the barrel and grilled them coldly.

He left the place, gathered some firewood as he passed a dead wood, and returned to the alley where he had been.

The alley is sheltered from the wind, and there is a bed of tattered cotton wool, which makes this winter a little better.

Originally, the thing that could make a fire with a finger was somewhat stopped by Yun Cang in this illusion without the slightest power.

I used all my strength to knock on two flints, lit a small piece of rotten cotton wool, and then lit the firewood I had gathered.

The warm flames reflected a little fire on the cold green bricks of the alley, which woke up the somewhat dazed Dong'er.

"Eat." Yun Cang handed over a piece of roasted steamed buns and said.

Dong'er took the steamed bun, but it was scalded, and she withdrew her fingers in a trembling manner, and the steamed bun fell to the ground.

Yun Cang picked up the steamed bun and put it in front of Dong'er, who lowered her head and slowly nibbled on it.

Flames, steamed buns, and a few other scraps make for a barely good dinner.

Dong'er also seemed to have regained some strength, she looked at Yun Cang and said, "Brother, let's go, my disease can't be cured, you can live alone." ”

Yun Cang smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'll cure you." ”

He squatted on the ground, meticulously grinding something against half of the green brick.

Dong'er, who was facing away from Yun Cang, couldn't see what it was, but now the wisp of momentum emanating from Yun Cang's body made her feel a little strange, but calm.

In Yun Cang's hand, there was a rusty piece of iron, to put it appropriately, a rusty spearhead.

Under the polishing, the rust fell off little by little, and the slight cold light on the surface reflected the solemn face of the clouds.

Outside, Ji Dong and the others were puzzled, it stands to reason that Yun Cang brought the food back to Dong'er, which should be regarded as a completion of the test.

And now that the illusion continues, what does Yun Cang want to do?

They all saw the spearhead that was gradually sharpened as a blade, and a chill spread to the hearts of the three of them.

Finally, as if the polishing was finished, Yun Cang stood up, lightly covered the bed of tattered cotton wool for Dong'er, and then walked out of the alley against the cold wind.

Darkness shrouded the earth, and a small shadow was gradually leaving.

The direction in which Yun Cang went was the largest pharmacy in the city, and when he went there, he would pass by the territory of Scarface's group of beggars.

Revenge without revenge has never been Yuncang's style.