The crowd was roaring around. In front of one stall, a vendor stood on a bench and used a loudspeaker to sell. What he sold was a pile of tattered dead chickens, which were the same chickens that were killed in several gambling stalls.
Aguan felt nauseous, looked up at the sky, sighed, and pushed the stone fire wheel forward.
"Why did you hit my baby brother?" Xiangxiang's voice screamed harshly. Aguan quickly looked at the small vegetable stall about ten meters ahead. Two men surrounded Xiangxiang. Xiangxiang stood with her arms akimbo, while Baodi curled up at Xiangxiang's feet with his tail between his legs.
A man yelled: "Little sister, what are you doing? The dog is not yours!"
Xiangxiang retorted angrily: "It was raised by me, it's my dog!"
Another man pushed Xiangxiang away and reached out to grab Baodi. Baodi whined, but instead of running away, he bit the man hard.
"Fuck, dead dog!" The man was furious, with a ferocious expression on his face, and he was about to pounce on the little local dog with his hands wide open. Xiangxiang screamed, but another man grabbed her arm.
"Hey──" Aguan was surprised and had already caught up. He pushed the two men away and stopped in front of Xiangxiang. He said angrily: "Why are you bullying children?"
The two men stared at Aguan and said loudly: "Who are you?"
"This puppy poops randomly, I want to catch it!"
"Pooping indiscriminately?" Aguan was stunned. He looked at the stall in front of him and saw that there was indeed a piece of dog poop. He couldn't help but feel a little unreasonable. "Where is it? I can just clean it up."
"No!" Xiangxiang pulled Aguan's hand and shouted: "Brother Aguan, they want to arrest Baodi and fight!"
"Fight?" Aguan was stunned. "Fighting with a dog?"
One of the men rubbed his hands: "Damn, what are you meddling in? This dog pooped in my business place, so you have to compete with my dog!"
"What's the point of this?" Aguan laughed dumbly and looked carefully at the stall in front of him. The stall is a table, and behind the table is a store. The store is quite large. It is dim and dark inside, but it is full of people, noisy, and many people have gathered.
Those people surrounded a large iron cage and shouted, and the shouts were mixed with the sounds of sharp barking dogs and fighting.
Only then did Aguan realize that the store was running dog fights. The man's stall was responsible for letting everyone place bets, and those who placed bets went inside to watch the fight.
Driven by curiosity, Aguan took a closer look and saw a group of "black, black, and red" dogs fighting in a big iron cage in the store. "Black" is the color of the dog's coat, and "red" is the color of the dog's coat. "It's the dog's blood.
"Damn it, don't be too meddlesome, anyway..." The man from Gutan patted Aguan on the shoulder, as if "I'm in charge here"; without saying a word, Aguan turned around and slapped the man from Gutan. On his face, by grabbing his face and exerting force, he grabbed out a bunch of evil thoughts.
The man Gu Tan somersaulted and fell to the ground gasping for air.
All the guests on the side gathered around. Some of them seemed to be dressed honestly, but they looked ferocious. They all shouted, "Why are you doing this?"
"You actually hit someone?"
The man in Gu Tan covered his face, struggled in shock, and looked confused. He looked back at his stall and the tragic scene in the store. He stared blankly for a long time, then he started shaking all over, screamed, held his head and pushed away the crowd and ran wildly until he disappeared without a trace.
There was also a commotion in the store, and someone reported the situation outside. A fat man, two meters tall, with a sinister face, pushed through the crowd and walked out of the store, followed by a group of followers and die-hard customers.
The giant man looked at Aguan coldly and said, "What's the matter with you? Why did you hit my man?"
Aguan shuddered and took two steps back. He felt the thick evil thoughts in the strong man - much stronger than ordinary ghosts and mortals with evil thoughts.
The strong man's eyes were sharp, scanning back and forth over Aguan. Aguan didn't dare to reply, thinking that there might be a main camp of gods patrolling nearby, or a newly emerged headquarters of the evil god. No matter what, he didn't want to expand the dispute and attract unnecessary attention.
Several gangster-looking people came up and surrounded Aguan. Aguan was still hesitant about how to respond, and several men started punching and kicking him.
Aguan gritted his teeth and refused to fight back. Although it hurt when ordinary mortals punched him, he would not be seriously injured. He thought to himself that since he still had the effect of the Hidden Spirit Spell on him, the giant man might not be able to feel the spiritual energy on his body, and it would be fine if he punched them one by one to vent their anger.
"You want to pay, take the money out!" Several gangsters shouted, and the surrounding guests also helped to curse Aguan.
The giant man didn't say anything, turned around and left, saying coldly: "If he doesn't have any money to pay, I'll take off his clothes and throw him in to fight together, so everyone can watch dogs fighting men."
Aguan held his head and was stunned for a while, thinking that it was okay. Just as he was about to fight back, he heard Xiangxiang's shouting from behind.
"Don't hit Brother Aguan, I have money..." Xiangxiang hugged Baodi and ran over crying. She took out her wallet from the big schoolbag. There were several thousand yuan in it. She took it all out in one go. , handed it over to the gangster next to Aguan.
"Wow!" The gangsters stopped. They were all surprised that the little girl had so much money on her. She was obviously a child from a wealthy family.
Aguan wiped his nosebleed and stood up straight silently. A gangster refused to give up and punched him in the back viciously.
Aguan was so angry that he couldn't bear it anymore, so he turned around and punched the gangster in the face, causing him to somersault several times and hit the stall, knocking over the stall.
Before the other gangster who was counting the money could react, Aguan snatched the banknotes from his hand and ran away with Xiangxiang in his arms. Xiangxiang shouted, Baodi barked, and ran closely after Aguan.
The hooligans were yelling and chasing after him, but Aguan had already run to Shihuolun, hugging Xiangxiang with one hand, and holding Baodi who was rushing towards him with the other hand, and stuffed the banknotes and Baodi into Xiangxiang's arms.
"Hurry up!" Aguan shouted, the wheels of the stone fire wheel glowed with fire. Before the gangsters could catch up, Aguan had already turned around and rode away.
After riding a long way and going around in circles, Aguan stopped the car on Xiangxiang's way home.
"Brother Aguan...you are riding a bike...so fast..." Xiangxiang said in shock and trembling. Baodi also huddled in Xiangxiang's arms, shaking his body.
Aguan comforted him and said, "It's okay, it's okay...Don't go to that market anymore. The people over there are very vicious. But, baby brother..."
Aguan hesitated. In this situation, he really couldn't take care of a dog anymore.
"I...I'd better take Baodi home..." Xiangxiang said hesitantly.
"Didn't you say that your mother forbids you to keep a dog?" Aguan asked.
"My mother is in a good mood these days, so there should be no problem. I don't want Bao Di to be bullied outside..." Xiangxiang replied.
Aguan still wanted to say something, but saw Xiangxiang already hugging Baodi and turned away. Then she remembered that she was violent with the dog fighting boss, and Xiangxiang saw it, which probably scared her.
At night, Aguan returned to the building where he could see the old Liupo Temple from a distance. He leaned by the window and looked through the binoculars for a long time. Finally, he saw the old temple door slowly opening, and there seemed to be movement inside.
Aguan went downstairs and rode the stone fire wheel, quietly heading towards the Liu Po Old Temple. He concentrated on sensing the movement around him along the way.
He hesitated a few streets away from the old temple. For a moment he thought about making up his mind and hurriedly went to meet Liu Po and Atai; for a moment he was worried that if it was really the mastermind's plan to lure him out, he rushed there rashly. It must be over.
He searched and found an apartment closer to the old temple. The apartment was four stories high. Aguan carried the stone fire wheel to the roof and quietly opened the iron door on the roof.
From this direction, he could see the movement of the old temple more clearly. Aguan took out his telescope and looked down, and saw that the lights were on in the old temple.
Aguan took off his backpack, rummaged around inside it, and found a slingshot, a bag of marbles, a strange pen and a stack of waste paper.
The slingshot, marbles, and strange pens were all prepared by Aguan in the afternoon, but the waste paper was collected from the waste paper basket in the corner of the alley.
Aguan took the slingshot, put a marble on it, took aim for a long time and finally let go. The marbles shot straight towards the old temple and hit the roof tiles of the old temple, making a "pop" sound.
After waiting for a while but no movement, Aguan shot another marble, and then another. He kept shooting until one of the marbles broke a window of the old temple. Only then did he see Artest rushing out of the temple in a rage and looking around in the square.
