Knowing white and keeping black
Early the next morning, Lin Shu left the village again. This time, the Alphas with her were Shuanzi and Guanzi.
Compared with other Alphas in the village, these two Alphas look the most innocent and are more suitable for this operation. If not, there would be no less people who would want to follow Lin Shu.
This time, Lin Shu was no longer confined to the nearby town, but took the two of them to the big city.
"Sister-in-law, I'm scared," the widower said. It was the first time he had gone so far away from home. The shoes he wore looked new, but the socks inside were tattered. When blown by the hot wind, they gave off an inexplicable musty smell.
There are many pedestrians on the street.
People from all walks of life looked at the widower unconsciously, and then whispered a few words to the people next to them. The widower thought they were laughing at him. The more he thought about it, the more he felt so, and the more he felt so, the more afraid he was of being looked down upon. As a result, the widower's mental outlook visibly shrank.
"Be patient. When we have money, sister-in-law will buy you better clothes," Lin Shu said, pointing at a passerby, "That should be him."
The man was quite tall, with half of his face covered with off-white gauze, revealing eyes as strange as the abyss. He had a bib tied around his neck. When Lin Shu and the others walked by, he was walking out of a shabby hotel, facing the rising sun, with his hands in his pockets.
Shuanzi hesitated and said, "This Alpha seems to be hiding its true identity. Can it really help us make money?"
"To do this kind of thing, we have to find people who are involved in the shady business. These people are not innocent themselves and it is not easy for them to betray us." Lin Shu said lightly.
"Sister-in-law, how do you know this guy is a gangster?" the widower asked with a licking face.
"What are you asking? You keep asking, asking, asking, asking, asking?" Before Lin Shu could say anything, Shuanzi, who treated Lin Shu like his property, slapped the widower on the back of his head. "Stop, I've already told you how your sister-in-law makes a living. This is our family's unique skill. Why are you, an outsider, asking?"
The widower, who was hurt by the beating, covered his head and cried out "ouch!". When the pain passed, he resumed his playful smile and said, "Brother Shuanzi, I recognize you as my father. Dad! Can you ask my mother to teach me?"
Lin Shu chuckled, covered her lips and smiled as she looked at Shuanzi.
Shuanzi laughed heartily. "Just ask your 'father' about this. There's no need to bother your 'mother'. Widow, look carefully... That hotel is so shabby, but he's dressed well. What does that mean?"
"How should I know? Dad, please talk to your son," the widower said with a very thick skin.
"Even now, why don't you see the light?" Shuanzi scolded with a smile, "Why did I give birth to such a fool?"
"...," the widower pretended to ponder deeply. After a moment, he bowed like a supporting actor and said, "Dad, please tell your foolish son quickly, right?"
Being held in such high regard by the widower, Shuanzi's confidence reached its peak. He laughed heartily and said, "That proves that the hotel isn't for people to stay in, but for that kind of business."
"Which one?" The widower became increasingly confused.
Shuanzi made a kissing gesture with his two thumbs.
The widower finally understood, gave a thumbs-up and said, "Dad, why didn't I inherit your intelligence?"
"Because you are not my biological child!" Shuanzi raised his foot and pretended to kick the widower's butt.
The widower dodged with a laugh, then changed the subject and asked, "But I still don't understand. How can we tell if he's the kind of person we're looking for?"
The widower asked so persistently that it confused Shuanzi, the type of person who likes to "guess the cause based on the result".
"I'm just guessing. Let's try it. We'll know after we try it," Lin Shushi replied.
"Ah, yes, your sister-in-law is right," Shuanzi, who was almost speechless after being asked, finally came to his senses. "To be able to have fun in such a secluded place, you must have some skills. Let me try to guess first."
"Brother Shuanzi," when it came to business, the widower stopped teasing with Shuanzi. When he looked at Shuanzi, his eyes were full of admiration.
Afterwards, the three of them hid in the dark and watched.
After changing people to follow the man several times, but being thrown away, Lin Shu said with certainty: "It's him."
"Is he the owner of the black market building? He looks quite young with his exposed eyebrows and eyes," Shuanzi said in surprise.
"Not only is she young, she's also pretty," Lin Shu said lightly.
"What did my sister-in-law say just now?" The widower who took the lead quietly pulled Shuanzi's sleeve.
"Nothing, just some emotion," Lin Shu looked at the dilapidated nine-story hotel and casually glanced at the widower and Shuanzi.
The widower looked at Shuanzi next to him. Both of them felt that Lin Shu was a little strange, but they couldn't tell what was strange.
"Brother Shuanzi, my sister-in-law doesn't want to run away, does she?" The widower whispered to Shuanzi.
"How could it be? She dares? Have you forgotten your brother's name? Shuanzi Shuanzi, use the dog leash to tie her up tightly." Shuanzi clenched his fists.
"Brother Shuanzi, come in with me and take a look?"
At this time, Lin Shu, who was standing a few steps away, had a gentle smile on his face. He looked at Shuanzi with dependence in his eyes and asked in a soft voice.
Shuanzi's clenched hands immediately relaxed. He shouted "Here it comes" and used his eyes to signal the widower not to think too much.
Two and a half hours later.
The three people who walked out of the shabby hotel all had smiles on their faces.
"...Is it possible? It's really high," the widower laughed, slapping his thigh.
"Let's go back first and look for the nine people that Boss Lou mentioned. If they are still alive, we will pick them up and sell them to him together." As the person in charge, Shuanzi made the decision naturally.
Boss Lou was willing to buy back the property at a price ten times higher than the price that the broker sold it to their village at that time. Shuanzi and the others were very happy.
At first, Boss Lou was of course not so easy to talk to, so Lin Shu argued, saying: "Since their family has worked so hard to find the goods, they should be willing to pay whatever we ask for, right?" Boss Lou was only willing to pay five times the price, which was not sincere enough...
The boss, of course, wasn't one to be trifled with. His reasoning was spot-on: "You can go and bargain with these people yourself. If you get beaten to death in the street, don't blame me." Here's a piece of advice: A large portion of these people no longer care whether they can recover their money or not. They've held on to their anger for years, just to vent their anger.
When Shuanzi and the others heard this, they immediately became timid.
You can earn money again, but you only have one life.
The negotiations seemed to be in trouble. Lin Shu signaled Shuanzi and Guanzi with her eyes not to panic. She continued to argue with Boss Lou for a while, and during that time she despised Boss Lou for making money from both sides. He must have made a lot of "missing people" commission from the families, so how could he bully people... After this, Boss Lou reluctantly gave in and offered ten times the price.
As for those Omegas who died or disappeared and no one cared, Boss Lou said, "...those defective ones, as long as they're still breathing, I'll take a small loss and buy them back three times the price."
When Lin Shu and the others got on the donkey cart, Shuanzi and Guanzi were still thinking about what Boss Lou had said.
"Those Omegas are very stubborn. Even if they become whores, they will ruin Boss Lou's reputation. What does Boss Lou think?" On the way back to the village, the widower chatted with Shuanzi.
"...I heard that those who run that kind of store all have ways to train people. In any case, they are better than those old and lazy idiots in the cheap right village. I saw with my own eyes yesterday that people from the left village also sneaked over at night..." When he said this, Shuanzi sneered.
"What? How could those cripples from Zuo Village do this? Even though they're ugly and smelly now, they were so pretty when they first arrived. How dare they get away with it now?" The widower was unconvinced. "There are a few of them, and I haven't even had time to sleep yet..."
"No matter how beautiful they are, they are no match for this batch of beautiful women. What's so worthy of your pity for those rotten things? Don't you want to serve us? Well, I wonder which softie will bully them now... Right, widower, hahaha..." Shuanzi laughed loudly.
The widower soon joined in, and the two laughed loudly.
"Brother Shuanzi, you see things clearly. Isn't Omega meant for us to sleep with and give birth to children for us? If I was born an Omega, I wouldn't even have to find someone to sell me. I would be so happy to have someone come to my door... I have a large group of Alphas taking care of me and making me feel so good. I'm so happy that I'm going crazy. I only hate that my mother didn't make me an Omega." The widower's words were getting more and more outrageous.
I don’t know what sentence amused Lin Shu, but Lin Shu also laughed.
"Right? Sister-in-law," the widower turned to look at Lin Shu, who was smiling meaningfully.
"You're right," Lin Shu stroked his lips and agreed playfully.
After saying that, Lin Shu leaned on Shuanzi's back, avoiding the widower's sight, and quietly gave Shuanzi another injection.
The smile on Shuanzi's face froze, and the chaotic and obscene scenes in his mind immediately faded. He lowered his head and glanced secretly somewhere, his heart full of bitterness: Hey, why did it suddenly become impossible?
At this time, the three of them were riding in a donkey cart passing a low bridge in the countryside.
The water under the bridge was shallow and dirty. A male Alpha sat on the bridge looking down, with a strong sense of death all over him.
When Shuanzi was driving his donkey cart past the young Alpha, he looked back curiously.
The Alpha remained motionless and indifferent to everything around him.
Then, as the distance grew, the tall foxtail grass growing on both sides of the country path gradually submerged the man's figure.
“…Brother Shuanzi, there’s something wrong with that guy. He’s not going to…” The widower made a gesture of touching his neck, his eyes showing a reverence for life.
"Let's go back and take a look," Shuanzi jumped off the donkey cart and ran back with the widower the moment his eyes met his.
The two of them trotted quickly, and the moment they waved away the last handful of foxtail grass, they saw the man who was sitting quietly not far away suddenly jump off the bridge.
Shuanzi and Kuanzi were stunned for a moment, then immediately ran up the bridge at a faster pace and lay down at the end of the bridge to look down.
The water was very shallow, and half of the man's body was exposed on the river surface. His forehead was cut by the gravel in the river, and blood was flowing down from his head. The man was completely unaware and did not cry out in pain. He just lay on his side with his eyes closed, as if waiting to die.
"Brother, what's bothering you?" the widower shouted down.
Shuanzi turned back, broke off a branch from the roadside and came back. He stood on the bridge pier, looked left and right, and was thinking about stepping on the gravel on the bridge bank to get closer to the man who was seeking death.
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