Chapter 4: The Old Man at the Door
Because of getting into trouble with the headhunter gang, Alan Chen was hiding from everyone at the recycling station, for fear of being implicated by him.
Alan Chan is also happy, he walks around with a childlike heart, and wherever he goes, the scavengers retreat like a tide.
They looked at Alan Chan as if they were looking at a walking corpse.
Dididi——
At four o'clock, the garbage truck arrived at the recycling station on time, turned around, and the body slowly lifted, and the fresh garbage was about to pour down.
Originally, there were a large number of waste pickers around the pile of industrial waste, all waiting to grab the first wave of treasures, but when they saw Chen Aaron walking towards this side, the group of people immediately dispersed and insisted on keeping a distance of more than 20 meters from Chen Aaron.
"Giggle......" Tong Xin laughed unconsciously when she saw this scene.
Chen Aaron looked at the childlike heart with a smile: "It's fun, right?" ”
"It's fun!" The childlike heart still retains the innocence of childlike innocence, and the bright little eyes are full of novelty.
He didn't realize that the group of scavengers looked at him with the same eyes as Chen Aaron, a small dead corpse.
As the industrial waste piled up, the trucks retracted their bodies and faded into the night.
Alan Chen squatted down and slowly rummaged through the treasures in the garbage heap, and the scavengers around him were eager to see through it, but they could only stare at it.
"They don't want any, let's find something good for ourselves." Alan Chen gave one glove to Tong Xin, and he wore the other glove.
Tong Xin took the gloves and asked curiously, "Big brother, aren't you afraid of death?" ”
"I'm afraid."
Alan Chen turned over a steel plate, the hardness was good, but unfortunately the impurity content was high, and the plasticity was not good, so he threw the steel plate aside.
"Then why do you want to come back?"
Alan Chen said lightly: "There are always some things that adults can't help themselves, what about you? Are you afraid? ”
Tong Xin shook his head: "Don't be afraid." ”
"That's brave." Alan Chen gave him a thumbs up.
It may be that he is young and ignorant and does not understand the meaning of life and death, so he can say the words "newborn calves are not afraid of tigers". But he was much more daring than the onlookers.
Tong Xin grabbed the corner of his clothes, twisted it a few times, and said tentatively: "Big brother, I want to ask you for a favor......
"Help find your mother's medicine, won't you?"
Childlike was very surprised: "How do you know? ”
"I just heard your conversation, that medicine is important, isn't it?"
"Hmm!" Tong nodded heavily, "Grandpa Wang said that we can definitely find it here, we have been looking for almost a week, but we still haven't found it." I heard that Grandpa Wang said that you are very good at finding things, so I want to find you......"
Grandpa Wang is the old scavenger who abandoned his childlike innocence just now, and he can't see that this old guy is really helping this child, but more like treating him as a free little helper.
Chen Aaron turned out an old tire from the garbage heap, and the bearing part was seriously broken, but fortunately, the rubber can be recycled, so he found a steel bar and inserted it into the hub shell, pried off the rubber skin, and handed it to Tong Xin.
"What does your mother's medicine look like?"
Childlike took the rubber skin and stuffed it into the snakeskin bag, and continued, "A white bottle." ”
Chen Aaron stopped in his hand: "Gone?" ”
"It's gone."
Chen Aaron had a black line on his face and pointed to a pile of domestic garbage in the distance: "There are hundreds of things you said, how can you find this?" ”
"My mother's medicine is very precious, and it was brought from the earth!" ”
"Big brother, no matter how precious your medicine is, it won't shine in an ordinary white medicine bottle, okay?" Alan Chen stared dryly.
"I'm not a big brother, I'm a little brother." Childlike corrected Chen Aaron very seriously.
Chen Aaron was speechless, and he realized that the side quest at hand was a little more difficult than he had imagined.
At the other end of the recycling bin, a man with a sashimi on his arm pushed open the tin door, came out in a daze, and stood in the corner unbuttoning his trouser pocket.
He hummed under his breath to the sound of rushing water, and turned his head to look in the direction of the recycle bin.
"What's the situation?" The man squinted, "What are those old immortals doing there?" ”
After a closer look, he followed the direction of the crowd's line of sight and fixed the frame to Alan Chen in the center.
"I'll go!"
The man woke up all of a sudden, full of energy, and even the water column under his crotch was thick twice.
He hurriedly put away the dick, didn't pull the trouser chain, rushed back to the shed and banged on the door vigorously.
"Boss! Top dog! That guy is coming! ”
The door was knocked on, and Brother Long came out with only a pair of pants, and knocked down the man who knocked on the door with a punch: "You are mourning in the middle of the night!" Knock what knock! ”
The man fell to the ground, his fingers pointing in the direction of the crowd: "Boss, the one who is not afraid of death is here again!" ”
Brother Long looked at it for a while, and he was also in good spirits.
"! How dare you come! Wake up the brothers, copy the guys! ”
More than a dozen people rushed out of the shed, each carrying shovels, sickles, sticks and other guys, and walked towards the crowd in a mighty manner.
In order to squat at Chen Aaron, the gang waited until two o'clock in the middle of the night, and everyone was sleepy, until everyone was sure that Chen Aaron did not have the courage to come to the recycling station in the eastern suburbs again, and then went back to sleep.
They didn't expect that Alan Chen had slept for four hours to recuperate, and killed them when they were lying down peacefully.
At this time, Alan Chen was still asking Tong Xin about medicine: "How did you lose that bottle of medicine?" ”
"My father threw the medicine away, and he threw it out of the window when he was angry, but when he went to look for it again, he found that it was gone."
"Your dad lost your mom's medicine?" Alan Chan wondered, "Why?" ”
"My mom is not in good health and has been lying in bed, and it is my dad who earns money to support the family alone. In the past few days, I have been picking up garbage with Grandpa Wang, and I can probably understand my father's mood, he should be quite tired. Grandpa Wang said that when people are tired, there is a lot of resentment. ”
Chen Aaron pouted: "You are unexpectedly kind-hearted." ”
There was a commotion from the crowd in the distance, and Chen Aaron looked over and saw a group of menacing people walking towards this side, and it was his "old acquaintance" Brother Long.
Alan Chen lifted the snakeskin bag with one hand and pulled the childlike heart with the other: "Let's go." ”
Tong Xin also saw Brother Long and them, and sped up his pace to follow Chen Aaron.
He looked at Alan Chen's back, and a sense of trust rose for no reason.
He told many people about the medicine before, and most of them would only say, "Give up if you can't find it", and even Grandpa Wang would say "I can help, but you have to help me first".
Only Chen Aaron did not give up and patiently asked for the details of the medicine.
The childlike heart felt the warmth coming from Alan Chen's wide palm, and remembered the feeling of being held by his father when he was a child, solid, safe and tolerant, which made his eyes red.
He is a child who can endure hardships, and he does not complain about turning through the garbage for a week, causing a dirty smell. But Alan Chen took the initiative to hold his hand, which made him want to shed tears.
Chen approached the gate of the recycling bin, just a few steps away from the parked tractor, but his uneasiness was even greater.
Sure enough, with Brother Long's caution, someone had already been sent to squat at the door, and when he saw Chen Aaron coming out, several tattooed brothers stood up with steel pipes.
Chen Aaron stopped, and Brother Long also approached with people over there, and he once again fell into a situation of being caught between two breads, only this time the enemy's hatred for him at least doubled.
"You look like you're in trouble." A strong voice appeared on Alan Chen's side.
It was an old man in a dark green military coat, wearing a shabby felt hat, and his eyes were as deep as a well in the dark night in the shadow of the brim.
"Is that you?" Chen Aaron recognized him, he gave the old man an apple yesterday, but he was startled by his eyes.
"You seem to be in trouble," repeated the old man, "I am very good at dealing with clutter, and you can hire me to protect you, and for the sake of the apples, I will charge you that amount." ”
The old man held out three fingers.
"Three thousand? Yes, no problem! Alan Chen was pleasantly surprised.
The old man shook his head: "300,000." ”
"300,000?! Why don't you grab it! "Alan Chan's mind jumped out"
rob while the fire is hot".
Brother Long shouted as he walked: "Run? Why don't you run away? When I get caught, I'll smack you a hundred mouths first! your mouth! ”
Seeing that Alan Chen had nowhere to escape, Brother Long deliberately slowed down, as if he was torturing his prey and challenging Alan Chen's psychological defense.
"300,000, protect you for a month. Isn't your life worth the 300,000? The old man was kind and persuading, "I can also accept installments, 10,000 a day, how about it?" ”
Chen Aaron did not answer, but gave the old man a big bear hug.
The old man was stunned.
Alan Chen patted the old man's back vigorously, as if an old friend was reunited: "Brother, why did you come?" Hahahaha! ”
He hooked the old man's shoulder, pointed at Brother Long and said, "Tell you, they are the ones who bullied me!" You're going to give me a breath this time! ”
Brother Long paused, and looked intently at the old man who suddenly appeared at the door.
The little brother next to him reminded: "Big brother, be careful, there may be fraud!" ”
Brother Long thought for a while: "I said how dare this kid come to the recycling bin again, the feeling is that he has found a helper!" ”
He shouted to his subordinates, "That old man is his helper!" Take him down first! ”
A group of younger brothers picked up the guy and pounced on the seemingly harmless old man.
The old scavengers who were watching shook their heads frequently, feeling sorry for this guy's age, why should he mix with Alan Chen. He is on the blacklist of the headhunters, he is a mortal person, and standing with him can only kill himself.
"Stinky boy, what about using me as a shield?" The old man saw the situation clearly and scolded in a low voice.
Alan Chen smiled: "High-value goods should have a trial period, you want such a high price, how dare I hire you without showing my hands?" ”
After saying that, he pushed his hands behind the old man's back and gave priority to the tattooed boys holding steel pipes at the door.
The old man seemed to have expected this, shook his head and sighed.
"Die, old man!"
The steel pipe fell hard, and the force of this blow would surely break people's bones.
Click!
The sound of broken bones sounded, but it was a tattooed boy who fell and rolled on the ground with his calves in his hands.
The old man's foot was kicking on his shinbone, and even Alan Chen and Tong Xin hugged their legs tightly, as if they felt the pain.
Another steel pipe slashed head-on, and the old man dodged lightly, elbowing the tattooed boy's throat.
The other party clutched his throat, unable to make a sound, and the expression on his face was as white as drowning.
"Oh-"
Chen Aaron and Tong Xin covered their throats again.
There was no suspense in the next battle at all, and Aaron Chen had also practiced a few times, but the old man's technique was definitely not practiced.
He uses fighting techniques, every dodge and attack without dragging, no showmanship, every blow is aimed at the vital point, the purpose of the shot is not to fight, but to subdue or lethal, so that the opponent completely loses the ability to counterattack.
It may be because Alan Chen didn't pay, the old man did have some hands and saved his life for the tattoo boys, as for whether he will have sequelae such as disability, it is not for him to consider.
Seeing that the little brothers at the door had fallen, the road to the tractor was unimpeded.
"Run, get in the car!" Alan Chen dragged his childlike innocence and ran.
When he ran, Chen Aaron didn't forget to turn around and shout at the old man: "Don't die, brother, otherwise I will have to take care of our sister-in-law alone!" ”
Alan Chen also did not forget to add a plot story to the identity of the old man's helper, so that the performance could be more realistic.
The tractor was gone, and only the old man and Brother Long were left at the scene.
The old man shrugged his shoulders: "If I say, I don't know that kid, do you believe it?" ”
Brother Long looked at his brother lying on the ground, and his face was extremely distorted: "Abolish him!" ”
In the dim darkness of the night, a scream rang out from a recycling depot in the eastern suburbs, spreading to the yellow sand outside the country, only to roll up a lonely wind.