Failed to show off
Looking up, she saw a flash of light hidden under the brim of her hat.
She looked over and saw that it was a metal earring, which flashed with a cold inorganic light in the sunlight as the boy moved.
"This, you want it?"
The boy flipped it over casually, changed direction, and spoke in a casual tone.
Before she could reply, he took a step forward with his long legs and stopped in front of Jiang Qing.
He came against the light, his outline was not very clear, but you could tell that he was young and full of personality.
Jiang Qing felt a weight on her palm and lowered her head, only then did she realize that a tomato was stuffed in her hand.
She was still confused when she realized that the man had walked away, leaving her with only a cool and unruly back.
No, what's wrong with this person?
Couldn't he see that the old man next to her, with eager eyes, sweat on his forehead, who was struggling to pick fruits, was the owner of the stall?
What do you mean by give it to me? Am I dressed like someone who is setting up a stall?
Besides, just give it, why are you trying to be cool?
She took the tomato in her hand and turned it in her hand like the boy did just now.
You know what, that move does look pretty cool.
Flip the fingertips, snap.
As his fingers flew, tomatoes fell all over the ground.
As if she had been acupunctured and was frozen, Jiang Qing lowered her head blankly, and in front of her was a mixture of red and yellow juice on the ground.
She was timid and didn't dare to look at the old man's face, which seemed to have several deeper wrinkles on it, making it even worse.
The old man standing by paused when he heard the noise.
Alas, the young people nowadays!
He shook his head, looked at the rotten tomato, then looked at the embarrassed little girl, smiled and comforted her: "It's okay, one more or one less."
Jiang Qing touched the tip of her nose, looked at the almost empty bamboo basket, and said embarrassedly: "Please pick up the broken ones, and give me a pound."
It’s all my fault. Why do my hands itch so much?
Now it’s okay, it’s just adding insult to injury.
The old man smiled and said, "No need, you have already helped me a lot."
Jiang Qing knew from the old man's expression that his explanation was unreasonable, so she simply picked out a few broken ones manually without weighing them, and said, "I'll take these."
As she spoke, she stopped taking out the money.
She! Has! No! Money!
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Suddenly I realized that Lin Wallet Nan Yan was not here.
Jiang Qing touched the tip of her nose and turned to look behind her. There were still so many people eating melons. She had no choice but to promise the old man, "Please wait a moment. I don't have any money. I'll find my friend and come over to pay in a while."
Not daring to listen to what the old man said, she turned around and left with a bag of broken tomatoes.
The old man who was left behind looked at her resolute back and stretched out his hand to call her——
The little girl is so pitiful. She looks neatly dressed, but it turns out she is picking up leftovers.
The excuse of not bringing money was a trick he used often when he was young. I didn’t expect that people still use it these days. It seems that the trick doesn’t matter how old it is, as long as it works.
He wanted to call her back and said, "If you want to eat, I'll pick out some good ones for you to take back. It doesn't cost any money and you don't have to pick up junk."
The old man looked at the tomatoes in his hand with regret, then looked at the noisy crowd in the vegetable market. In a blink of an eye, the girl was gone.
Approaching the outer edge of the human wall, Jiang Qing hurried forward several times, but was blocked several times and still couldn't squeeze in.
She was so angry that she almost laughed.
Why are you all so eager to watch the fun? You can't see anything outside, but you're still stuck here and won't leave.
Onlookers: What do you know? Once the atmosphere gets going, it gets intense.
An old man saw a little girl jumping back and forth out of the corner of his eye. He took a distracted look at her and thought, with her tiny arms and legs, what could she do? He looked down on her and couldn't help but advise her, "Little girl, you can't just jump in for every excitement."
"You have a small body," he looked her up and down and concluded, "No way." He shook his head as he spoke.
Can't you see how healthy you are? Even the strongest and fittest can't squeeze in. The little girl has no idea of her own strength. Why is she joining in the fun?
Jiang Qing: ...
It doesn't seem very credible for you to say this since you didn't squeeze in at all.
She smiled politely: "Uncle, you are right."
Picking up the tomato in his hand: "Do you know what this is?"
Uncle: ? ? Aren’t they just two broken persimmons? Uncle, I may be old, but my eyesight is not blurry.
"Please move aside. I will not be responsible if your clothes get dirty." Jiang Qing shouted loudly. She held a tomato high in one hand and led the way. She was trembling and shaking as if she was crazy or had some kind of disease.
The crowd who were eager to join in the fun were attracted by the shouting. When they saw the two rotten tomatoes in her hand, they all squeezed out in an instant.
Oh my God, it’s impossible to win. These people who are just watching the fun are determined to kill someone.
I was afraid that the girl's hand would tremble and someone would really squeeze the plastic bag, and instead of seeing the excitement, she would get stained with red liquid that would be difficult to wash off.
The onlookers hid faster than each other. Jiang Qing faced the old man's surprised gaze and quickly broke out of the encirclement.
Humph, look down on me. I may be short but I have a high IQ.
She pushed through the crowd and saw at a glance that the thief was pinned to the ground by Lin Nanyan in the open space. One of Lin Nanyan's knees was pressed tightly against the boy's back, and a familiar plastic stick was thrown three meters away.
"This young man is really quick. He pinned the man down in one hand."
"Who said it wasn't? That big guy ran so fast that I almost couldn't keep up with him."
"I saw that the thief ran pretty fast, but he was unlucky enough to run into that handsome guy. I thought they were going to have a fight, but who would have thought it was over before it even started."
The onlookers pointed and talked about the scene inside, with expressions of regret on their faces.
The boy's hands were tied and only his mouth could move. His face was pressed hard on the ground, half of it covered with dust.
At this moment, he was trying to lift his body, and he kept yelling: "It hurts, it hurts, brother, be gentle."
Jiang Qing hurriedly ran forward through the crowd, grabbed Lin Nanyan's arm with both hands, and looked at him carefully: "Are you hurt?"
But in her haste, she forgot about the tomato in her hand, and her hand created a gust of wind. Because the boy and Lin Nanyan were very close, with a loud snap, the plastic bag finally couldn't withstand the bumps along the way and broke on the boy's face.
"Sister! Watch out, there's someone down there!" A scream was heard.
Hearing the sound, Jiang Qing looked down and landed on the boy's face, which was red and gray, stained with tomato juice, and was already in a horrible state.
"Oh... sorry, I forgot." She quickly threw away what she was holding.
What's the point of throwing it away now?
Just as the boy was about to accuse her, he felt a sharp pain in his hand. He immediately frowned and was in so much pain that he couldn't say anything.
Jiang Qing's attention returned to Lin Nanyan, who responded, "I'm fine, don't worry about him. This is—"
Following his gaze to the biological weapons on the ground, Jiang Qing suddenly remembered: "Oh, I bought tomatoes, remember to pay for them later."
"What should we do with this guy?" Jiang Qing asked. Now that they had caught him, the follow-up was another problem.
The person under him was still struggling, and Lin Nanyan added a bit of strength to his hands: "The police will be here soon."
When the boy heard this, he stopped struggling and even his eyes lit up. The police are good! At least they won't use violence in law enforcement.
This guy's technique is really not professional at all, and it causes people excruciating pain.
The pain made him want to yell, "Can you do it? If you can't, I can do it myself."
But he didn't respond to anything the guy said. He just kept pressing him down with a cold face, as if what he said was just a fart. He didn't even glance back at him, which made him dare not be too presumptuous.
"Where's your car?" Jiang Qing looked around and found a problem: the car was gone.
Could it have been stolen again? Who was so bold as to ignore this living example of being pinned down?
Lin Nanyan was silent.
Hearing this, the suppressed boy below became excited again. Even if he died in pain today, he still wanted to express his feelings: "This guy wants... a person, not... a car."
I never expected that he is more valuable than the car!
???
Facing Jiang Qing's puzzled gaze, Lin Nanyan explained: "I arrested the person first, and he abandoned the car on the road."
Just when the boy thought that he was under the spell of evil and would be hit by the iron fist of money, after all, it was a high-end product. If it was lost on the road, it would cost thousands of dollars. He felt sorry for him when he thought about it.
But he never expected that this woman was indeed the same kind of person as this man, and she scolded him.
"How can you, a thief, be so unethical? You steal things and throw away the dirt along the way. Isn't this causing trouble for others?"
Jiang Qing couldn't help getting angry when she thought about the possibility that her bicycle might be lost again. It would be such a great thing to catch the thief red-handed. This thief really had no professional ethics. She glared at the boy hatefully.
The boy was so skeptical after being accused that he thought, "No, listen to me, is this even human language?" This was the first time he had heard of a thief having professional ethics.
Crucially, he also heard the man stop pretending to be cool and kindly comfort the woman: "It's okay, we'll ask the police to look for it later. If they can't find it, it's lost. It's just a bicycle, not expensive."
??? That’s all?
He was almost laughing with anger. If you don't care about me, why are you chasing me? And you are chasing me so hard.
He was still struggling to say something, but when he opened his mouth, he felt something sweet and sticky, and he licked it subconsciously.
Shit, he suddenly realized what it was.
Bah! Bah! Bah!
At this time, the police finally arrived, pushed through the crowd and came forward. After asking what had happened, they looked at the miserable-looking thief and couldn't help but cast strange glances at Jiang Qing and Lin Nanyan.
Unexpectedly, these two people look well-behaved, but what they do is more unique than the other.
One is a physical attack, the other is a mental attack, a mixed doubles, a true combination.
Looking at the current situation, it is like a large-scale scene where the victims and perpetrators are reversed.
In order to investigate the situation clearly, several relevant parties had to go to the police station.
Jiang Qing wanted to go with him, but Lin Nanyan calmed her down: "You go home first. I'm just going to take a simple statement. I'll be back soon."
"You prepare at home. Your classmates will be here in the afternoon, so someone has to be waiting at home."
Jiang Qing felt that he was right and responded, "Okay, I'll wait for you then."
Lin Nanyue looked at her. Most of the girl's face was covered by the hat. She raised her head and nodded obediently. The exposed fair lower half of her face seemed to be glowing in the sun.
He reached out and pushed down her hat: "Wear it properly, don't get a tan."
Jiang Qing slapped his hand away and muttered, "I know."
Before leaving, Lin Nanyan did not forget to return the plastic stick to the seafood owner, took away the things they bought, and even went to the place Jiang Qing mentioned to pay for the tomatoes.
Old man: Shocked! It turns out that’s not an excuse.
Before getting into the police car, he took out a hundred-yuan bill from his bag, and then took out a few pieces of pocket money and handed them to Jiang Qing.
He explained carefully: "Use small change on the bus. If there's anything you want to buy, just buy it. Be careful on the way home, and remember to call me when you get home."
"Also, I'll be back soon. Don't do anything when you get home. I'll bring out the barbecue grill when I get back..."
Phew! The onlookers couldn't help but burst into laughter.
The young couple were so sweet and affectionate, it was hard not to smile. They had both been through this age before, so they knew what was going on.
The perpetrator, who was being held aside and under strict guard, couldn't help but roll his eyes and said, "Brother, why are you talking so much and what were you acting like in front of me just now?"
The policewoman next to him couldn't help but tease: "If you are so worried, why don't you two go to our place for tea together?"
Jiang Qing didn't think anything of it at first, but since so many people were laughing, she belatedly realized that her face was flushed.
"Okay, okay, I get it. I'll call." She started to chase him away.
Jiang Qing watched Lin Nanyan carrying large and small bags into the police car and watched them walk away. She touched her hot face and remembered that the thief was secretly rolling his eyes and disliking them for nagging.
Ahhhh, this is so embarrassing, she covered her face.
After the temperature dropped, Jiang Qing turned around and prepared to go to the bus stop to go home. Suddenly, she remembered something and wandered around the vegetable market for another twenty minutes before setting off on her way home.
The vegetable market is not far from the bus stop and she can get there in five minutes on foot.
Sitting on the platform seat, bored, waiting for the blue bus that comes every ten minutes, I wondered if Lin Nanyan's bicycle could be found. If not, if I buy another one, should I change the color?
The beeping sound interrupted her thoughts.
Looking up, she saw that the No. 16 bus had arrived. The door opened in front of her and she lined up to get on the bus and put in her coin.
The carriage was already full of people, so crowded that she didn't even have to move. As the bus stopped and started, she was squeezed to the middle of the bus without realizing it.
She held the hanging ring and watched the tall buildings outside the window flash by her eyes. She wondered aimlessly whether Lin Nanyan had arrived at the police station or when he would be back.
If she had known this earlier, she would have gone with him. Since they could go and come back quickly, going together would save her from having to worry about it.
She was lost in thought when suddenly, her body fell forward uncontrollably. The bus braked suddenly and everyone was drifting. The people behind her were pressing on her, and she was pressing on the people in front.
"Can you drive?"
"Don't drive if you can't. How can you brake like that?"
"My glasses were knocked off."
For a moment, the whole carriage was filled with angry curses.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Amid the noise, Jiang Qing frantically apologized to the young lady in front of her who was being pressed by her. Her elbow seemed to have hit someone's soft flesh, which must have been very painful.
"It's okay." The young lady was beautiful and kind-hearted. She rubbed her arm and didn't care.
Jiang Qing steadied herself again and held the handle tightly, fearing that the driver would brake suddenly again.
Fortunately, the driver was probably scared of being scolded this time, so he was very careful and drove steadily.
Jiang Qing felt relieved, her eyes fixed on the car window, and she began to daydream again. Should she prepare some food before returning home?
Wait, her eyes fixed, staring straight ahead.
That is——
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