But he didn't care. He just wrapped the linen bag tightly around his body and rubbed it to generate a little heat to resist the chill.
Finally, he found a stall near a construction site.
The stall sold some simple lunch boxes and soups, and he used the five yuan to buy a winter melon and pork ribs soup.
It is said to be winter melon and pork ribs soup, but in fact it is just a bowl of winter melon with a few bones floating in it, and some scattered shredded meat on the bones.
But this was good for Fang Pingxi. His cold hunger could be temporarily filled with warmth.
Holding the winter melon soup, he squatted in the corner with the migrant workers who were eating, and rubbed the fire lit by the migrant workers.
He drank and listened to the workers chatting.
"This stall makes a lot of money, right? We come here every day to eat."
"Earn whatever you can. There are seven or eight kinds of lunch boxes. You have to get up early in the morning to prepare food. After all, you are a miserable person like us."
"Don't compare us with others. I heard that the owner of this stall used to be a security guard."
"Huh? Is it that guy who looks so skinny?"
"What? That's a hired worker. The boss may have gone to the toilet."
"Why don't you come here to open this stall if you have a good job?"
"Who knows what happened? Maybe the thunderbolt was fired."
"That shouldn't be the case. Aren't all security guards greedy for 1.8 million? No matter how miserable they are, they can't sell lunch here?"
"Laoguai, don't worry about it. Anyway, isn't it a good thing that the security guard is in such a miserable state? Let these damn morons appreciate our hard work!"
"That's right! How about we add some more food? We'll eat him up!"
"Let's go! Let's go together!"
"..."
Fang Ping watched with amusement as the migrant workers rushed to the stall to add food and food. The skinny young man at the stall was at a loss.
After a while, the food was gone, leaving only a thin layer of oil floating on the lunch box.
The migrant workers munched on it. It was obviously just a simple lunch, but they felt like they were attacking the rich to divide their fields.
A three-wheeler drove up from a distance, and a middle-aged man with a big belly got out of it.
After he walked to the stall, he asked, "Xiao Zheng, how are things going today? Is the sales going well?"
As he said this, he looked at the empty lunch boxes on the stall with a surprised look on his face, "Hey, they're all empty. Are there more people eating today?"
Xiao Zheng stammered without saying anything. The middle-aged man patted his shoulder and pulled out the empty cash register bucket under the stall to look at it.
His brows immediately wrinkled, "Why is there only so much? The liquidation was so quick today, shouldn't it be possible to sell a lot?"
Xiao Zheng told the whole story with a grimace.
The boss looked at the small groups of migrant workers, scolded Xiao Zheng with a dark face, and uttered many unpleasant words.
Xiao Zheng blushed when he was scolded and couldn't bear it, "You said yourself that you can eat whatever you want for ten yuan, and now you think others eat too much, so don't publicize it like this!"
"Now that it's like this, you're still blaming me!" Xiao Zheng took off his waistband and threw it on the stall, "I quit! You can fight them yourself!"
With that said, the young man left without looking back.
The boss yelled at him to come back, but to no avail. He stood blankly for a while and packed up the stall in silence.
His fat body was busy in front of the stall, and greasy vegetable juice splashed onto his sleeves from time to time, making him look very embarrassed.
Fang Pingxi witnessed the whole process, and his eyes were tightly attracted.
Not because of the obvious right and wrong, but because the boss looked very familiar.
He tried his best to identify it, and gradually, the boss's face overlapped with that of the security guard many years ago.
He was quite sure that the man in front of him was the vigilante who caused him to lose his will.
Fang Pingxi had mixed feelings for a moment.
He originally thought that he had become a puppet, but he never thought that after seeing the security officer reduced to this stage, his heart would still be filled with waves.
He felt the joy that he had not seen for a long time. Sure enough, God still has eyes and will not let these evil people go.
He didn't go directly to retaliate against the security officer. The guy was in such a state of desolation that it was no longer worth the risk of being arrested.
Letting this guy live like this is the best revenge.
So Fang Pingxi just used the rusty nails he picked up to deflate the tires of the three-wheeler before leaving.
As you can imagine, when the security guard took the stall home and discovered the condition of the tires, he was furious.
After that, Fang Ping seemed to have found some motivation. He no longer wandered on the streets, but went to some construction sites to do odd jobs.
After making some money, he dressed himself in cleaner clothes and went to work in a convenience store where the salary was higher and the work was less hard.
This kind of life lasted for more than five years.
He slowly saved up a sum of money and planned to open a small shop and a convenience store.
Then, he encountered something that has left him depressed to this day.
After he bought the small shop, he managed the shop well because of his cautious character developed in so many years of poor life.
When elderly customers come to visit, he will also help them deliver goods to their doors for free.
And he never cheats, sells fake cigarettes, fake wine, etc. He has integrity and experience, so slowly, his business is getting better and better.
The next year, he also bought a shop next to the store and expanded the business area.
Just when business was getting more and more prosperous, everything took a turn for the worse.
One day, several young people wearing floral shirts and dyeing their hair in colorful colors came to his store.
Fang Ping was delighted to see them, but secretly thought that these guys were not good people at a glance.
Maybe he was a gangster who came to collect protection money.
When Fang Pingxi saw the Internet cafe owner being charged a protection fee, he felt disdainful and threatened that if his store encountered such a thing, he would not pay the protection fee and would fight the evil forces to the end.
But when this kind of thing was about to happen to him, his original bravery completely disappeared.
Facing this small shop that he worked hard for five or six years to open, he also became the timid Internet cafe owner.
It doesn’t seem that hard to accept that you can buy peace with just a little money.
However, those gangsters never asked Fang Pingxi for money.
They just like to hang out in Fang Pingxi's store. They often come seven or eight times a day and stay for more than half an hour each time.
The later incident was even more outrageous. Several gangsters stood in the store chatting for two hours, and finally bought a pack of cigarettes and left.
Fang Pingxi didn't understand what they were doing, but these guys didn't make trouble or blackmail him, so he could only let them go.
He even began to doubt himself, whether he was too suspicious and it was wrong to judge others based on their appearance alone.
Over the years, I have seen too many evil people, and my heart seems to have become too dirty, making everyone look like a bad person. To change this thinking.
However, the gangsters soon taught him a lesson.
