Chapter 1267 No, I want you to help me save someone!
Hearing Li Xiangnan's angry voice, the man who grabbed the boy's collar looked upstairs, exchanged a gloomy look with the woman, and viciously pushed the boy to the ground, cursing loudly:
"If I see you in this area again, I'll break your legs! Humph!"
After saying this, he kicked the boy hard and spat.
The boy wiped the tears from his face, anger wandering across his face. It took him a long time to suppress the fear in his heart. A stubborn look welled up in his eyes. He quickly sat up from the ground, dug his fingers into the ground, and grabbed a handful of charcoal-black snow.
"stop!"
Master Xia Hongjun hurried out of the guard room at the gate and shouted to the man and the woman.
The man and the woman snorted, ignored him, kicked the bamboo dustpan that was blocking their way, hurriedly ran out of the yard and left the scene!
The patients and their families who were passing by sighed, shook their heads and went into the building.
"Young man, are you all right?"
Xia Hongjun walked over, looked at the boy's expression, pulled him up from the ground, and pretended to brush the mud off his body.
"Uncle, I'm fine!" The boy shook his head, got up, walked over to pick up his bamboo dustpan, and picked up his things scattered on the ground bit by bit.
"Hey!" Xia Hongjun sighed and turned to go back to the guard room. Suddenly he saw Li Xiangnan and Song Yi hurriedly running out of the hall, so he shouted, "Dean!"
"Have those two people left?" Li Xiangnan looked through the crowd and swept across the huge yard, but did not see the man and woman who had just bullied the boy.
"Let’s go!" Xia Hongjun nodded.
Song Yi walked out of the hall quickly, turned around and asked, "Master Xia, who is this child? Who are those two people?"
"I don't know either! I just know that this kid has only recently appeared nearby, selling odds and ends like needles and thread!" Xia Hongjun had seen the kid outside the yard several times, but this was the first time he saw him in the yard.
Li Xiangnan nodded, exchanged a glance with Song Yi, and then walked down the stairs. He saw the boy kneeling in the snow, wiping the insoles he had picked up from the snow mud with his sleeves.
"Are you okay?"
Xia Haiyang turned around and recognized the voice as the older brother who had just called out to stop the fight. He hurriedly stuffed his insoles and socks into the dustpan, stood up hastily, and said with his head down, "I'm fine... Thank you for yelling at me, brother!"
"I'm glad you're okay!" Li Xiangnan nodded, squatted down to pick up the rubber band with snow and water on it, picked up the broken bamboo dustpan beside him and handed it over, and asked, "Who are those two people? Why did they bully you?"
Xia Haiyang's face showed embarrassment. He just shook his head, took the things silently and said thank you.
Li Xiangnan frowned, guessing that the child had some unspeakable secret, and gave Song Yi a look.
Song Yi smiled knowingly and walked into the building.
When only Li Xiangnan and the boy were left around, he said, "My name is Li Xiangnan, what's your name?"
"Xia Haiyang!" the boy responded in a low voice.
Li Xiangnan picked up a pair of black socks from the ground, his eyes lit up, and asked, "Nylon socks? These things are not easy to get. How much is a pair?"
Xia Haiyang turned his head and looked at Li Xiangnan for a while, as if wondering if he really wanted to buy something...
Snapped!
But he snatched the socks from Li Xiangnan and said, "These socks are wet, I won't sell them!"
"..." Only then did Li Xiangnan confirm that the child was a peddler selling things.
But looking at the child's age, he is only fourteen at most. How did he fall to the point of begging for a living?
It’s 80 years now. At this age, you should be in junior high school!
"But I'll give you this pair. Thank you for speaking up for me just now!"
Xia Haiyang didn't sell socks, but he unbuttoned his cotton jacket, pulled out a pair of nylon socks from inside, and handed them over. "I sell these socks for 2.5 yuan in other places, and they are very popular! It's cheaper to buy out-of-season items now, but they won't be this price in the summer!"
Li Xiangnan took the socks and took a look, only to find that there were no less than twenty pockets sewn inside Xia Haiyang's cotton-padded jacket, all bulging with stuff, and there must be a lot of good stuff.
"Thank you!"
"You're welcome!" Xia Haiyang waved his hand, grinned, squatted down calmly, and continued to pack his things.
Li Xiangnan was a little surprised.
The storm just passed a few minutes ago, and Xia Haiyang is now chatting and laughing as if nothing had happened.
This is either a very cunning person, or...
He had long been accustomed to such scenes of being bullied, so there was a tenacious and stubborn quality in his character that supported him.
What on earth did you go through at the age of thirteen or fourteen?
It was only the 80s, and there was still some time before the opening of the market economy, but this kid was keen to start trading in small commodities.
Is this a family business or just a spur of the moment?
If it was a spur-of-the-moment idea, then this guy is quite interesting!
You are quite brave!
Just the speculation alone is enough to get him into trouble!
Li Xiangnan, who was in a good mood, took out a cigarette, but before he passed it to Xia Haiyang, he heard Xia Haiyang shaking his head and saying, "Minors are prohibited from smoking!"
Li Xiangnan's mouth twitched. After lighting the cigarette for himself, he showed no contempt for the teenage Xia Haiyang. He reminded him, "If those two men want to attack you again, you can sell your things outside the yard near the guard room. There is a security department here, and no one dares to touch you!"
Currently, this area is still outside the fifth ring of Yanjing’s urban construction and is not that prosperous.
If patients or family members of Nianwei Hospital want to buy a pair of insoles, they have to walk at least two or three kilometers to the vicinity of the Summer Palace, where there are general merchandise stores and guerrilla vendors.
Xia Haiyang was able to keenly smell the business opportunity and come here shortly after the business opened, proving that this guy is smarter than the average person.
Xia Haiyang was a little surprised when he heard this. He turned around and looked at Li Xiangnan, saying gratefully, "Thank you!"
After he said this, he looked outside the yard.
Li Xiangnan caught this subconscious behavior and immediately guessed what was going on.
It seems that the threat posed by the two men and women to Xia Haiyang made him hesitate.
While deep in thought, Xia Haiyang picked up his two bamboo winnowing baskets on a shoulder pole and walked away staggeringly.
Only then did Li Xiangnan realize that the boy had already cleaned up everything on the ground without him noticing.
The other party didn't say anything, and there was no unnecessary communication. He just left!
Perhaps for him, a kind reminder from a stranger is the greatest act of kindness. As for whether the security department can play a role, he probably doesn't dare to hope for it.
Seeing him standing at the gate of the yard, stretching his head and looking out cautiously, Li Xiangnan felt inexplicably distressed.
"Xia Haiyang!" Li Xiangnan ran out of the yard and shouted.
Xia Haiyang, who had walked a few dozen meters with his load on his shoulders, turned around and saw that it was Li Xiangnan. He asked in confusion, "What's wrong, Brother Li?"
"Can you do me a favor?" Li Xiangnan asked with a smile.
Xia Haiyang nodded, "Brother Li, do you want to buy something? Tell me and I'll find it for you..."
"No, I want you to help me save someone!"
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