"What kind of stone is this?"
The man in black robe picked up the stone and asked the young man.
He could vaguely feel that there was a weak force flowing on this stone.
This energy is similar to the blood of the true ancestors in the blood pool, and a bit like the blood of monster beasts. It is indeed a bit strange.
When the man in black robe asked about this stone, the young man shook his head and said.
"I don't know either. I picked up this stone by the river. I thought it looked good and kept it."
The young man's straightforward answer surprised the man in black robe. If it were a slightly smarter seller, he might have to brag about the origin of the stone in order to sell it at a high price.
"How much does this stone cost?"
Seeing the man in black robe asking the price, the young man hesitated for a moment, and then quoted a price that he thought was very high: "This...this costs 300 yuan!"
"I want it."
The man in black robe took out a piece of broken silver and threw it to the young man.
After receiving the money thrown by the man in black robe, the young man was overjoyed at first. He did not expect that this strange man in black robe would be so generous.
However, the young man frowned again when he looked at the silver in his hand.
"Ah, guest sir, you have at least seven or eight taels of silver. I can't find it."
The man in black robe said calmly: "Then there's no need to look for it."
Unexpectedly, the young man said: "No, no, sir, please wait here for a while, I will give you change, I will be here soon!"
After that, the young man trotted away with the package.
The man in black robe looked at the young man's back, feeling a little surprised, and then left directly.
The man in black robe had just taken a few steps when he heard a burst of noisy shouting.
The man in black robe frowned slightly and looked in the direction from which the sound came.
…
In the dark and damp alley, the young man fell to the ground with a disgraced face. In front of him were several arrogant gangsters.
The leader, a short, fat, bald man, was playing with a piece of broken silver in his hand.
"Give me back the money!"
His silver was robbed, and the young man reluctantly got up from the ground and rushed over to snatch the silver from the fat bald man's hand.
The fat bald man raised the silver in his hand high and laughed to avoid the young man's snatching.
The young man grabbed it several times, but the fat bald man easily dodged it. In the end, his center of gravity became unstable and he fell to the ground again.
The young man fell to the ground, looking at the silver in the fat man's hand with red eyes, and yelled at the fat man excitedly.
"Give me back, give me back the money!"
Seeing the young man's appearance, the fat man chuckled: "Is this money yours? Will it be returned to you?"
A ruffian with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks said with a smile: "Brother Shun, this kid earns dozens of coins a day. Where can he get such valuable silver? Maybe he stole it from somewhere!"
Hearing the other party's false accusation, the young man became more and more excited: "You are talking nonsense, I did not steal anything, please return the money to me!"
Seeing the young man's fierce attitude, the smile on the fat man's face gradually disappeared and he said coldly.
"Boy, please see clearly who you are talking to. If you dare to be so arrogant in front of me, do you believe that I will kill you?"
Hearing the fat man's threat, the young man was stunned. Tears fell unsatisfactorily, and he spoke to the fat man in an almost pleading tone.
"Brother Shun, please give me back the money. This money is not mine. If you take it away, I can't do business with others."
After hearing what the young man said, the ruffian with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks taunted him again.
"Look, I just said he stole it, now admit it."
The young man quickly explained: "No, I really didn't steal anything. This silver belongs to a customer, and I was about to give him change."
"Give me change, that's easy!"
The fat man grinned, and then began to fumble in his pocket.
"Who told me that I am a kind person? I will help you just once."
When the young man heard this, his face suddenly lit up. He thought the fat man really wanted to help him find change.
Unexpectedly, the fat man took out a copper coin from his pocket and threw it in front of the young man.
"After you've changed it, go and return the money to the guests. Brothers, let's go drink!"
After saying these words, the fat man played with the money triumphantly and led the gang of gangsters away, leaving the young man alone looking at the copper coins on the ground in a daze.
"Give me back the money!"
The fat man had just taken a few steps when he heard a hysterical roar coming from behind him.
The fat man looked back and saw a figure rushing towards him and throwing him to the ground.
"Give it back to me, give it back to me!!"
The young man pressed on the fat man, yelled like crazy, and snatched the money from the fat man's hand.
"Get the fuck out of here!"
The fat man cursed angrily, pushed the young man away, and then kicked him again.
"Fuck, are you crazy?!"
The young man tried to get up, but was kicked to the ground by the fat man again.
"Beat them all, until they die!"
Following the fat man's order, the other gangsters immediately gathered around and kept greeting the young man with their fists and kicks.
"Give me back the money!"
The young man was beaten up by the gangsters until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, but he still tried his best to crawl in front of the fat man and hugged the fat man's thigh.
"Let go, you kid, let me go!"
Seeing that the boy was clinging to him like a dog-skin plaster, the fat man became furious and punched the boy repeatedly. The fat on his face trembled as he punched.
"Give me back, give me back the money!"
Even after suffering such a brutal beating, the young man still hugged the fat man's thigh tightly and refused to let go until he was beaten to death.
Just when the fat man was about to use color on the boy, a cold voice suddenly came from the front.
"Give him his money back!"
"Who is it?"
The bald fat man looked up and found a man in a heavy black robe standing at the entrance of the alley. The fat man was delighted on the spot.
The fat man squinted his eyes and looked at the man in black robe, and asked: "Why, are there really people who are not afraid of death? I want to see how you stand up for this kid today."
While they were talking, several gangsters quickly surrounded the man in black robe and looked at him with sneers on their faces.
The ruffian with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks sneered and said: "If you want to be in the limelight, you don't pick your targets. You don't want to ask, what is the fate of all the people in Luoshan City who offend me, Brother Shun?"
The man in black robe glanced at the beaten boy on the ground, then slowly turned his head and looked at the fat bald man.
The cold voice sounded again: "Give him the money back! Otherwise, die!"
From the words of the man in black robe, the fat bald man felt an unprecedented murderous intention, and he couldn't help but tremble in his heart.
"How the hell are you talking to Brother Shun?"
Seeing that the man in black robe was still so arrogant, the sharp-tongued scoundrel yelled and slapped the man in black robe.
"boom!"
Just hearing a muffled sound, the ruffian flew more than ten meters away, vomiting blood, passed by the fat bald man, and fell heavily to the ground.
Seeing his accomplice being beaten away by the man in black robe, the fat bald man became furious on the spot and ordered the gangsters to take action.
"Fuck me!"
Seeing the punches and kicks being thrown at him from all around, the man in black robe didn't even frown. With a quick sweep with one hand, the gangsters around him flew out instantly, causing cracks in the wall behind him.
"Ouch, ouch!"
After just one meeting, these gangsters were all lying on the ground crying in pain.
Seeing the amazing skill of the man in black robe, he knocked down his brothers in the blink of an eye. The fat bald man was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he looked at the man in black robe in front of him with horror.
After dealing with these gangsters, the man in black robe turned his attention to the fat bald man not far away.
Seeing the man in black robe looking towards him, the fat bald man no longer cared about his face, turned around and rushed towards the end of the alley, running away in despair.
Before leaving, a shiny piece of silver fell from his body.
"let's go!"
Seeing that the boss had run away, the other gangsters had no choice but to endure the pain and staggered after the bald fat man.
After the gangsters fled, the man in black robe looked at the young man on the ground.
"Are you OK?"
"I'm fine."
The young man climbed up from the ground with difficulty, wiped the stains on his face, and then said to the man in black robe with a grateful look on his face.
"Your Majesty, thank you!"
The man in black robes who appeared in front of the young man was Lin Yu who had just noticed that something was wrong.
After Lin Yu heard the noise, he immediately came to the entrance of the alley and saw the young man being beaten by the gangsters outside the alley.
Because he was under the surveillance of the old monster from Dongchu, and based on the principle that doing more is worse than doing less, Lin Yu originally did not intend to meddle in others' affairs.
But when he saw the young man fighting the gangsters for a piece of silver, a sense of sadness surged out of his heart like spring water.
At this moment, he seemed to see himself who was bullied by the gangsters a year ago.
Perhaps because of sympathy for the same situation, Lin Yu finally decided to risk his identity and help the young man.
For those gangsters, Lin Yu only punished them slightly and did not harm their lives.
If it kills people, it will also cause some unnecessary trouble.
After getting up, the young man searched the ground and picked up the silver ingot left by the fat bald man. Then he limped up to Lin Yu and carefully presented the silver with both hands.
"Sir, this is your money."
Lin Yu shook his head: "This money has been given to you, there is no need to give it back to me."
"But……"
Just as the young man was about to say something, Lin Yu turned around and left without looking back.
The young man looked at the silver ingot in his hand, and then at the retreating figure of the man in black robe, with a complicated light shining in his eyes.
He lost his father when he was young, and his mother has always been in poor health. He had to make a living since he was a child, and he experienced all kinds of bitterness and pain in the world early on.
Such a difficult life made his world bleak. No matter how hard he tried, he could not escape poverty. He could only barely maintain food and clothing. Even if he tried his best, he could only barely survive, living humbly as the lowest level in the world.
There was no end in sight for such days, and he didn't want to continue to sink in, living in a muddle for that little ration.
At this moment, he had a feeling that as long as he could stop the strangely behaving black-robed man in front of him, his future life might be completely changed.
Thinking of this, the boy's eyes became firm, as if he had made some decision in his heart.
"Guest sir!"
The young man mustered up the courage to shout at Lin Yu.
"Um?"
Lin Yu turned around and looked at the young man with a puzzled expression.
"What's up?"
Meeting Lin Yu's eyes, the young man froze on the spot.
Just now, he was just in a hot head, so he stopped the man in black robe.
But now, the man in black robe looked back at him, but he didn't know what excuse he should make to keep him.
Suddenly, an idea flashed in the young man's mind, and a dark red stone appeared in front of his eyes.
"Stone!"
The young man looked excited and said loudly to Lin Yu.
"I still have the kind of stone at home. Do you want to come to my house and have a look?"
"Just think of it as a thank you gift to you for saving me just now!"
After saying that, the young man lowered his head and no longer dared to look directly into Lin Yu's eyes.
Looking at the young man in front of him, Lin Yu's heart was churning: This young man looked very much like himself when he begged for guidance in front of Wu Yi.
"May I have your name?"
The young man quickly replied: "My name is Hu Yu."
"Let's go."
"Ah?" The young man was stunned.
"Lead the way to your house!"
"Ah, good!"
After hearing Lin Yu's words, the young man excitedly led Lin Yu towards the outside of the city.
