Chapter 49 Skills

The man who was selling mountain products at a stall listened to his wife and looked at the stall in the corner.

"Business is really good. There are so many people here. I wonder if there are as many people in front of our stall as well."

"They sell different things, like malt sugar. Who wouldn't want to buy some for their kids?"

"Three cents and two dollars is a bit expensive."

The man was still hesitating.

Although they live at the foot of the mountain, they can go to the mountain to pick some mountain products to sell on weekdays. If business is good, they can earn dozens of cents a day. But sometimes when business is bad, they may not be able to sell all the mountain products even if they set up shop for a whole day.

Sometimes they can’t pick mountain products and they can’t set up stalls.

So they would rather not spend a penny if they can.

I am also very careful with my shopping.

Sometimes they stay in the market here for the whole day, and are reluctant to buy anything at noon. They just bring their own water and dry food and eat whatever they can.

It’s okay if the weather is cold, but if it’s hot, the dry food you bring in the morning may go bad by noon.

The woman said, "Occasionally I buy some candy for the children, and they're happy. Last month, Shuanzi's mother went to a relative's house for a feast, and when she came back she brought a piece of malt candy. The two children were envious for days."

"It's okay if we don't see it on weekdays, but if we do, go buy a couple for the kids."

The woman took out a handkerchief from her pocket, opened it carefully, took out three copper coins from it, and handed them to her man with a little reluctance.

The man felt soft and sad when he thought of the children's eager eyes.

He stood up and walked forward with the three copper coins, determined to buy malt sugar.

The woman looked at the copper coins in her handkerchief and couldn't help wanting to count them.

I am used to being frugal and feel bad when I spend a penny.

But at this moment, a figure ran past her and snatched her handkerchief.

The woman barely reacted, her face pale with panic, "Catch the thief, catch the thief!"

As the woman spoke, she no longer cared about the mountain products and ran directly in that direction.

But because she fell while picking mountain products yesterday, she was still limping when she walked. But even so, she tried hard to catch up.

That was money she had saved for a long time. She also wanted to sell the mountain products to buy medicine at the clinic. The money was used to buy medicine, and it was money to save her mother-in-law's life.

"Stop, catch the thief, catch the thief."

The woman's voice was filled with tears.

Her husband had originally walked into the corner to queue up to buy malt sugar, but when he heard what his wife said, he hurried in that direction.

But because there were so many people outside, there were even more passers-by near the morning market, and it was crowded. He was bumped several times and couldn't run away.

When Jiang Zhiluo heard the sound and saw this scene, her face changed. She jumped up from the corner, stepped on the wall in the corner to gain leverage and leaped through the crowd, then ran towards the thief.

Jiang Zhiluo is very fast.

The thief was very proud of the money he had stolen.

He never expected that he would be caught up. His face changed and he couldn't believe it.

"How could it be, how could someone catch up with us?"

He was very confident in himself and felt that he ran very fast and most people could not catch up with him. In addition, he was familiar with all the small roads in the town and could make people dizzy by running around in circles.

He stayed at the market for a long time.

The couple selling mountain products looked a bit silly.

However, they were a couple setting up the stall, so he didn't think he could succeed. He was still keeping an eye on the people who came to buy vegetables.

Unexpectedly, the man went out to buy something, and the woman saw that she was walking unsteadily, so he tried to rob her of her money.

"stop!"

A sweet but cold voice came from behind.

The thief was stunned. It was just a little girl, so he didn't take it seriously.

Seeing that he was about to go into the alley again, Jiang Zhiluo stepped on the haystack next to her, jumped up, and rolled over to the thief.

"Give me the stolen money."

The thief said arrogantly: "Mind your own business!"

As he said this, he quickly picked up the knife and was about to stab someone.

Jiang Zhiluo narrowed her eyes dangerously, dodged quickly, then kicked the thief's leg and quickly pinched his wrist with force.

“Ah, it hurts!”

The thief's dagger fell to the ground.

Jiang Zhiluo knocked the man to the ground in a few moves and stepped on his hand.

"Lady, please spare me, lady, please spare me, ah, it hurts, it hurts..."

"Give me the stolen money."

Jiang Zhiluo said this as she exerted a little more force with her hands.

The thief felt so much pain that his fingers were about to break.

He knew he had hit a wall.

The girl looked about fourteen or fifteen years old, thin and weak, and it was unexpected that she was a martial artist.

The thief felt severe pain all over his body, especially his fingers. "Lady, please spare me. I'm just possessed by a ghost. I have elderly parents and young children to take care of. I can't do anything..."

“Crack!”

The thief's wrist was broken directly by Jiang Zhiluo.

Seeing that he was still trying to play tricks, Jiang Zhiluo broke one of his wrists.

"Stop talking nonsense. If you don't take it, it will be your other hand."

Jiang Zhiluo is a man of action and never wastes words.

Even though my skills now are not as good as they were in the organization in my previous life, they are enough to deal with such a small character.

The thief's face turned pale. He had never seen such a tough girl.

He looked up at the girl's expression. For some reason, he felt that she exuded a murderous aura, which frightened him so much that cold sweats broke out on the soles of his feet.

It's such a horrible feeling.

He didn't dare to play tricks anymore, "I'll take it, I'll take it."

As he spoke, he took out the money he had just stolen from the woman with his trembling other hand.

Perhaps because he was afraid, his hands were shaking so badly that several purses accidentally fell out of his arms.

He hurriedly tried to reach out and pick it up again, but Jiang Zhiluo's foot had already stepped on him to the ground.

"How many people have you stolen from?"

"No, no, those are all mine."

"Oh, your purse has many patterns and many kinds of fabrics."

After a quick glance at the purses, Jiang Zhiluo understood. There were two purses with rough workmanship and made of linen cloth. Perhaps they belonged to poor families. There were not many things in them, just a few copper coins, but perhaps these were the copper coins that those people urgently needed.

Jiang Zhiluo's eyes turned cold.

Just then, the woman's husband ran over with a yamen runner.

The woman also limped along behind.

The man's surname was Ding, and his name was Ding Zhuang. He looked at the situation and wiped away his tears with gratitude. "Thank you, young lady. Thank you, young lady."

Jiang Zhiluo looked at the purse on the ground and said, "Take a look and see which one is yours."

The man picked up the copper coins wrapped in a towel, which contained more than three hundred coins.

"That's it. These are the copper coins my wife and I have saved for two months. We plan to sell some mountain produce today so we can go to the clinic and get medicine for my mother."

He didn't dare to think about what would happen if the more than three hundred coins were gone.

The man was very grateful to Jiang Zhiluo.

The woman staggered over and when she learned that she had found it, she knelt down and was about to kowtow to Jiang Zhiluo.

Jiang Zhiluo hurriedly supported them.