The man who raises a dragon has a dragon rider

"Hey, look at that person lying on the side of the road..."

"It's a beggar, isn't it revealed on the Internet that there are many people who specialize in begging for money. Look at the tattered clothes he wears, maybe he will use them all when he goes back!

"But you can see that both of his legs are twisted like that. Even if he is really a liar, it would be too pitiful. I'd better give him a few dollars."

"Forget it, I actually look pitiful, so give him the few dollars I left over from the dress I just bought."

Two girls who looked like students held fashion boutique shopping bags in their hands. After discussing in low voices, they walked towards a beggar lying on the side of the road.The beggar was unkempt, with his head bowed down so he couldn't see his face clearly. His upper body was leaning against the wall, with only a pair of weak legs hanging out. His miserable appearance made people feel horrified at first glance.

The two girls didn't dare to get too close, and threw a few pieces of change into the iron box in front of the beggar far away, and then rushed away pushing each other.The beggar raised his head slightly, revealing a pair of gloomy eyes half covered by greasy hair, staring at the iron box, his eyes seemed to be poisoned, ghastly.

There are people coming and going in the bustling commercial district, some turn a blind eye, some detour in disgust, and some, like the two female students, feel pity, throwing a piece of change or a few coins into the iron box in front of the beggar.When it was getting dark, the iron box was almost full, and the upper body of the beggar who hadn't had any water or rice all day, which had been leaning against the wall, slid down to the ground little by little because of his weakness.

He turned over with difficulty, lay on the ground panting heavily, and made a strange "ho ho" sound in his throat.A kind-hearted little old man came over at some point, stood there looking at the beggar lying on the ground in a panic, muttering something.

After a while, the beggar regained his strength and raised his head, revealing a dirty but immature and delicate face.Facing the gloomy eyes of the beggar, the little old man smiled kindly, approached him, knelt down, took out something from his arms, stuffed it into his skinny and black right hand, and said softly He said: "The number of Dayan is fifty, and nine out of forty are used. Let go of one. My friend, your chance has come, and I hope you cherish it."

After speaking, the old man stood up, turned around and walked towards the intersection, and disappeared into the crowd after a while.The beggar lowered his head and looked at the thing in his right hand. It was a golden dragon-shaped jade pendant the size of an egg.

After only one glance, the beggar quickly withdrew his hand and hid the contents in his clothes.Not long after, when it was completely dark, a tall, thin man with mischievous eyebrows came out from the corner of the street, riding an old tricycle, followed by a skinny boy in his teens.

The tricycle stopped in front of the beggar, and the man jumped out of the car. First, he grabbed the iron box containing the money, roughly counted the money, and spat at the beggar who was still lying on the ground: "I said Dragon Boat Festival, today's harvest is not good." How much? I heard Hou’er say that you just sit there and pretend to be dead all day long, not crying, howling or kowtowing, that’s not okay! Do you still want to eat with such a small amount of money for a day? If you do this again tomorrow, don’t blame your brother I'm not righteous, tell Brother Yang to see if he will break your arms again!"

"Second brother, let's go back quickly, didn't you say that Brother Yang is coming to our place tonight?" The boy Hou'er trotted over following the tricycle said, rolled his eyes at the beggar lying on the ground, and followed He spat: "This guy is dead, and every day we have to work hard to put him in the car and pull him back."

"You little bastard, you complained before I got tired! Did you see... Huh... If you dare to be disobedient and think about running away all day long, you will have to be thrown out with a broken leg just like him beg!"

"Hey, how dare I! Second son, you take care of me like this, and you specially assign me the easy job of watching this guy work, so I don't have to hang around the train station every day like Xiaoliu and the others. If I don't follow you well , I should be struck by lightning!"

"Haha! I think you are running the train with your mouth full! Okay, follow behind, let's go back just in time for dinner!"

While talking, the two had already picked up the beggar and threw it into the back of the tricycle. One rode on the tricycle, and the other ran behind, towards the den in the old street.

In the middle of the night, the four-story old building pasted with the word "demolition" stood quietly in the darkness.In the dark and narrow cubicle, there was a rustling sound.A thin fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy came in from the dark passage, approached the motionless figure, and called twice in a soft voice: "Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival?"

The figure sat up with his arms supporting his body, dragging unnaturally from the waist down, obviously needing no strength. It was the disabled beggar who was begging in the downtown area during the day, a 16-year-old boy named Duan Wu.In the dark, he turned his head to the side of the boy who had just spoken, and made two soft breaths from his throat, signaling for him to continue talking.

"Look, this is the chocolate I picked up by chance today. I secretly hid it and didn't hand it in. I'll share it with you." The skinny Xiao Liu fumbled to stuff a piece of chocolate into Duan Wu's hand, and when he touched the bony hand , and suddenly couldn't help sobbing softly, "Duanwu, they are not human! A bunch of inhuman bastards! I still remember when you first came here, you were the smartest, most powerful and best-looking one among us, but this In just a few years, you have been tormented into this inhuman and ghost-like appearance... Woohoo... Dragon Boat Festival..."

Duan Wu didn't make a sound, fumbled to tear off the wrapping paper of the chocolate, and randomly stuffed the chocolate into his mouth.Dinner was the only food he got today. There was only a bowl of leftovers, which could not fill his stomach at all.

Xiao Liu wiped away his tears with his dirty cuffs, and continued to sob and say, "I didn't complete the task today, and I was slapped twice by Brother Er Zi. You touch it, and my face is still swollen. Dragon Boat Festival, we I want to run too, but I dare not, I am afraid to be like you..."

Duan Wu, who swallowed the chocolate, took a breath, touched Xiao Liu's cheek with his bony right hand, a gloomy cold light flashed in his dark eyes.He is a mute, and his sign language cannot be seen in the cubicle without the lights on, so he used his finger to draw a word on Xiao Liu's palm: "Knife."

"Oh, knife, here you are." Xiao Liu sniffed, bent down and took off the broken sneaker on his right foot, took out a folding fruit knife from the shoe, stuffed it into Duan Wu's right hand, and asked in a low voice : "Duanwu, what do you want a knife for? Don't you...you..."

After hesitating for a while, Xiao Liu didn't say what he wanted to ask.He could vaguely guess what Duan Wu wanted the knife for, and he was very scared, but more of it was anticipation, hoping that Duan Wu could really stab the leader of the gang to death, anyway, Duan Wu was like this, alive...

In the darkness, Xiao Liu's black and thin face was distorted, the muscles at the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and his lips were trembling. Even though he knew that Duan Wu couldn't see his face at all, he subconsciously lowered his head and hid his expression .

Duan Wu tightened her right hand hard, panting heavily, touched her left hand into her arms, and held the jade pendant that the strange old man stuffed into her today.He licked his chapped lips, and stared at the direction of the door with a pair of dark eyes. His eyes were gloomy and cruel, but his delicate face was calm.

Duan Wu didn't understand what the little old man said at all. After all, he was a half-grown boy who was sold into a den of thieves before entering junior high school. He only knew that with this thing, he could lure the leader of the gang, Brother Yang. , when the time comes, when the other party is close to him, he will stab him with a knife...

Suddenly, there was a sound of chaotic footsteps in the corridor.In the poorly soundproofed cubicle, one could clearly hear the people's chattering voices, among which the shrill and flattering voice of the monkey was the harshest: "Brother Yang, the Duanwu kid is in the front cubicle!"

Xiao Liu jumped up suddenly, rushed towards the door, and hid in the next cubicle before those people arrived.Duan Wu was stunned for a moment, bit the tip of his tongue hard to calm himself down, opened the folding fruit knife in his hand, and put the right hand holding the knife behind his back.

Soon, two flashlights came in first, and then the lights in the cubicle were turned on.Under the dim light, the hulking and fierce-looking Brother Yang walked in with the skinny monkey.Because the cubicle was too small, the two of them packed up the rest of the space as soon as they entered, and it was very close to the Dragon Boat Festival, which was leaning against the wall.

"Brother Yang, there must be something good hidden on him, I saw it with my own eyes during the day!" Hou'er said obsequiously, peered outside the door, and said in a low voice: "I'm afraid that the second brother will find out that he is hiding something behind your back." Privately, I waited for everyone to fall asleep and ran to tell Brother Yang directly!"

Brother Yang snorted lukewarmly, looked at Duan Wu with disgust in his eyes, raised his foot to kick the monkey, and said: "Go, look over this dead ghost, if you want something good, you must benefit from it!"

Hearing this, the staggering monkey didn't care about the pain anymore after being kicked, and rushed over to reach out to touch Duan Wu's arms.Suddenly, Duan Wu's eyes widened, and a force surged out of his body from nowhere. He pushed his arm hard against the wall, knocked the monkey away, and rushed towards Brother Yang who was less than a step away from him. The knife in his right hand Straight to his chest.

No one expected that this young man with crippled legs and skinny bones would suddenly explode. Caught off guard, Brother Yang only had time to back away to avoid his chest, and was stabbed into the lower abdomen by the knife.

The sharp pain from the lower abdomen aroused the fierceness of this strong man, he grabbed Duan Wu's right wrist holding the knife, and broke it hard. There was a crisp "click", Duan Wu gritted his teeth and grunted, his pretty face twisted in pain, and all the strength in his body drained, not only could he no longer hold the knife, but his body also slid down limply because of his paralyzed legs.

"Damn it!" Brother Yang had a ferocious face, and even ignored the blood gushing from the wound in his lower abdomen, he pulled out the fruit knife with his backhand, stabbed Duan Wu fiercely, and cursed like a mad dog while stabbing: "Lao Tzu Stab you to death! Damn it! Go to hell!"

One cut, two cuts... blood spattered, and the cubicle was dyed a shocking blood red.The monkey huddled in the corner, shaking like chaff, and tightly covered its mouth with its hands.

After a long time, the sound of the knife stabbing into the person's body finally stopped.Brother Yang, who was splashed with blood all over his face, stood up, covered the wound on his lower abdomen with one hand, kicked the motionless Duanwu on the ground, turned his head and called Houer: "You, come here! Find out if there is anything hidden on him thing!"

The monkey crawled over trembling, his crotch was dripping with fishy liquid, and his face was covered with tears and snot.He groped for a while on the mangled corpse, but found nothing.The dragon-shaped jade pendant that was supposed to be in Duan Wu's arms has quietly disappeared at this moment.