Chapter Ninety-Eight: The City of Despair
The rain kept falling, and there was no intention of stopping
"Don't, don't step on it," the little girl lay on the muddy ground, stretched out her hand, and tried with all her strength to touch the puddle in front of her.
"Do you want it? If you want to, bring yourself over! The young man said in a playful tone, his feet still straining against what was underneath.
"Please, don't step on it, woo," the little girl sobbed, crawling towards the thing little by little.
"Boom!" The little girl's abdomen was kicked hard from the bottom up, it was another man next to him, he didn't pay attention to the little girl who was holding her stomach in pain, looked down at his shoes and said, "Cut, if you don't pay attention to kicking this kind of thing, you will have to shine your shoes when you go back." No, I don't think I can wear these shoes. ”
"Leave your stinky shoes alone." The man just now said in a disgusted tone: "Although the buyer said that it doesn't matter if he is killed, but in that case, those nasty policemen should come again." ”
"Afraid of what? What can they do with us? Although he said this, he also grinned and whispered: "But it is annoying to be left in the bureau by them for half a day, and to ask questions." Alright, I'll pay attention next time. ”
The man gave him a blank look, then turned his head and lowered his body, squatted beside the little girl and said with a smile: "If you do something wrong, you have to obediently put on a look of admitting your mistake to be a good child." "He didn't take his foot off the thing a bit the whole time.
"No, I didn't do it." The little girl's head was slightly raised, and her face was covered with water, but she couldn't tell which was rain and which was tears.
Seeing the little girl's miserable situation, the man's smile did not change in the slightest, and he said slowly: "Actually, it doesn't matter if it's you or not." ”
The little girl had already climbed to the man's feet and began to tug at the object under the shoe with her hand, crying aggrievedly: "It's not me, it's really not me, I didn't steal"
"Didn't I say it, don't you care?" Perhaps tired of the little girl's hysteria, or perhaps not wanting her to do that meaningless thing by his shoe anymore, the man grabbed the little girl by the hair with his hand and began to lift it up.
The little girl who was in pain had to follow the man's hand and lift her head, but her hand still did not give up, still trying to grasp the object. When the man saw this, a wave of disgust suddenly rose on his face, and he immediately threw the little girl aside.
The little girl rolled on the ground several times, passing a puddle of water, and her tumbling caused a big splash, but neither the two men nor the little girl felt anything about it. Finally, after several meters of tumbling, the little girl finally stopped. She was about to stand up with her hands on her hands, but the man arrived first.
The man stepped on the little girl's elbow and began to crush it as hard as he had just stepped on.
"Ahh It hurts, it hurts, it's not me, I didn't do that kind of thing. The little girl was twitching on the ground in pain, but she didn't stop arguing, she wanted them to understand that they had misunderstood. However, in fact, it seems that only the little girl herself is misunderstood.
The man kept increasing his strength as he spoke, "Maybe you didn't do it, but it doesn't matter. It's good that the important buyers believe that you did it, as long as those stupid big men believe that you did it, that's enough, we can get the money, and what happens to you after that, that's none of our business! ”
"Click!" After that, the man finally increased his strength, and there was a crisp sound at the little girl's joints.
"Alright, alright." Another man grabbed him from the side, and for a moment the little girl thought that he had a conscience and was ready to spare him, but he was wrong, very wrong.
The man continued, "Don't kill her, it's a good reminder because I've come up with a better way to make money, and we'll let her go today." ”
The little girl and the other man looked at him blankly, and then the little girl opened her mouth first: "Thank you"
As soon as the words of thanks were spoken, she did not finish them, because the "benefactor" she thought gave her a kick again, although this time the force was not great, but it was enough for the little girl to continue to lie on the ground full of muddy water.
"Don't be mistaken, I just said I'll spare you today." After the man said to the little girl viciously, he turned to his accomplice and said, "Maybe today we can say 'some clues', so maybe we can cheat a little more money from those fools." ”
The man on the other side was stunned and said excitedly, "This is a really good idea!" Let's do it! ”
After exchanging views with his accomplices, the little girl was left alone among the remaining participants, who threatened: "We will not hand you over to the buyer immediately, and your life will last a few more days." However, you'd better stay in our sights honestly these days, or else, hum. The man moved his joints and clicked, and the little girl who heard the sound responded with a trembling body.
After doing this, the two of them began to feel that it was a waste of time to be with her in this rain, so they didn't want to stay here for a moment, and turned around and walked to a nearby bar
"Woo woo"
In the silence of the street, only the sound of rain and the sobbing of little girls remained. Although she was beaten all over her body, every part was quite painful, and when the pain in her whole body was combined, she almost suffocated. However, he still used all his strength to stand up, staggered to the object, held it with both hands, gently wiped away the muddy water and stains on it, and slowly put it in his mouth
"That thing" was bread, a stock that had been thrown away by the owner of a nearby bakery.
There are many street children in this city, like little girls, who eat food that others give or throw away all day long, but the little girls are not very good and cannot rob the boys, so they are always hungry. This bread was thrown out by the boss in front of her when she was already hungry, and she regarded it as a gift from God, not only food, but also the backbone of her life, so she would desperately keep it.
In this way, the little girl stood in the rain and nibbled on the unseemly bread that had long been rotten. She had already despaired of the world, but this bread let her know that God had not abandoned her, that she still had a chance and hope