“Boss, it’s her. I saw her steal your chain.”
“You’re fucking asking for death!”
The gang leader grabbed the little beggar and delivered three slaps to her face.
The beggar girl’s face immediately swelled up.
Then came sounds of punching and kicking, and the dull thud of clubs hitting a body.
During his time with the boy, the little beggar was often beaten by them.
Sometimes the boy even felt relieved that the little beggar was there to share some of the harm, and then he would sink into self-loathing.
“I’m just an ordinary person. I don’t know her. Even if she dies outside, it has nothing to do with me!”
Inside the thatched hut, the boy crouched down, hugging his head, pretending not to be there, but his eyes peered through the door crack.
Although they often beat the boy and the little beggar, the boy knew they wouldn’t beat them to death.
If someone died, things would get serious, especially since the boy had signed a contract
with the foreman.
If he suddenly disappeared, the construction site would have to explain it.
So usually, when the gang leaders beat people, they would leave them breathing.
“Hey! Wait! Look at her face. She’s a girl, that’s right! Completely different from you rough guys!”
“Go! Strip her clothes!”
They tore at her clothes.
She didn’t know how to resist.
Suddenly, a moldy steamed bun rolled out of her pocket, and she broke free from their hands, throwing herself to the ground, clutching the bun tightly.
She was completely unaware that her clothes had been torn in several places, revealing exceptionally fair and delicate skin.
The people around were seeing such a sensual scene for the first time, and they all whistled excitedly.
“Boss, right? She’s a girl.”
“What should we do?”
“What else? Of course, sell her to the red-light district in the next town. Look, although she’s dirty, her skin is very good. If she’s still a virgin, I estimate she could sell for one gold coin!”
“Really?”
“Of course it’s true.”
“One gold coin…” The gang leader swallowed his saliva.
He had never seen so much money before.
“Right, let’s wash her clean first and see what she looks like.”
Saying this, he roughly pushed the little beggar to the ground.
Looking at what she was clutching tightly to her chest, he tried to snatch it, but found that the little beggar was holding it too tightly.
At this moment, the boy accidentally pushed the door open from leaning too close.
The group of children turned and saw the boy.
“If you come over, I’ll kill you!”
The gang leader glared at him fiercely.
Thinking of today’s humiliation, the boy’s face turned pale, and his body began to tremble.
In his heart, he repeated: staying alive is fine, staying alive is fine.
After all, he wasn’t that familiar with her, he had only brought her along because of a moment of kindness.
Outside, the gang leader forcefully slapped the little beggar’s face several times, then punched her in the stomach, finally snatching the steamed bun from her hand and throwing it far away.
“Big brother, dinner. Big brother, dinner.”
This was the steamed bun the little beggar had picked up to give the boy for dinner.
Although it was dirty and smelly, the little beggar didn’t understand that.
She only knew that good things should be saved for the boy.
This was the first time the boy had heard her speak, because the little beggar was simple-minded.
Every day, apart from staring at the drawings on the ground and smiling foolishly, she didn’t understand anything.
The words “big brother” hit the boy’s heart like a heavy hammer.
“Living is no better than dying, so it’s better to die.”
The boy picked up the rusty dagger, shouted some nonsense, and charged towards them.
He was met with a fist that knocked him down, followed by the usual punching and kicking.
“Didn’t I tell you, if you come over, I’ll kill you!”
Feeling his dignity had been challenged, the gang leader let go of the little beggar, cursed, and ran over to punch the boy in the temple.
The boy only felt a shock and buzzing in his brain, and the world seemed to turn white.
The gang leader straddled the boy’s chest, grabbed his collar, and punched him hard in the face several times.
At this moment, the little beggar pounced over and bit the gang leader’s shoulder hard.
The leader cried out, raised his hand, and threw her aside, shouting, “Hold her down for me!”
Then the gang leader grabbed an iron rod and began beating the boy violently.
This time he used all his strength.
The iron rod hit the boy’s body with a series of dull thuds.
When it struck the boy’s thigh, the boy let out a scream.
They could hear the sound of the boy’s thigh bone breaking.
“Boss, if you hit him again, he’ll die!”
Knowing that if he really killed someone, things would be difficult to explain, the gang leader spat on the boy’s face: “Pfft! Garbage! Coward, still trying to be a hero? I spit on you!”
The gang leader threw the rod away, turned around, and held down the little beggar who was still trying to run over: “Don’t move, be good and come with us!”
This was worth one gold coin! He couldn’t let her run away!
“I want to go home now. You, you should also go home, come with me, go home…”For the first time, the boy’s hand holding the dagger stopped trembling.
Howling, he plunged the rusty short knife into the gang leader’s back from behind.
“Let go of my sister. Let go of my sister! She’s my sister! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!”
Poof!
Poof!
Poof!
Blood stained the gang leader’s back red and splattered all over the boy’s chest, but the short knife continued to stab into the gang leader’s body.
In an instant, a pool of crimson accumulated on the ground.
The rainwater washed away the red blood, but it was stained red again by the newly spilled blood.
The boy pushed away the corpse.
Holding the blood-stained short knife, he pointed at the people around: “Come on! Come on! All of you come!”
“He killed someone, he killed someone…””He actually dared to kill someone.”
“This has gone too far. He killed the boss.”
Like a little wolf cub surrounded by a pack of hyenas, he limped on one leg, howling at the vicious dogs around him, revealing his tender fangs and pitiful claws, all to protect the little rabbit behind him.
“Bang!”
At that moment, someone hit him on the back of the head with a brick, and the boy passed out.
When the boy woke up, all his wounds had been carefully bandaged.
Although they still caused him intense pain, he still managed to get up and walk out of this strange and exceptionally luxurious room.
Outside in the courtyard, a beautiful boy was drawing.
In the picture, a small wolf with bared teeth and claws was protecting a rabbit, surrounded by a pack of drooling hyenas.
The boy turned around, glanced at the injured boy, frowned, and threw over a sour and smelly steamed bun.
The injured boy picked up the bun and looked at the other boy, asking with a trembling voice: “Where is she?”
“She knocked you unconscious and then led those people away, which is why you weren’t beaten to death… As for her, she fell off a cliff by accident and died on the spot. She couldn’t be saved. Your life was given to you by her, so it’s up to you what you do with it.”
After hastily eating the sour and smelly steamed bun, the boy let out a heart-wrenching cry.
Your life was given to you by her, so it’s up to you what you do with it. It’s up to you. Up to you.
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