Chapter 19 (1/2)

Translator: Henyee Translations  Editor: Henyee Translations

“What a petty man…”

The beggar shook his ragged bowl and left.

“You haven’t taken my money yet…” Shen Zhe said as he looked at him leave.

“I don’t want it anymore… You can keep it for yourself, sir…” said the beggar without looking back.

“I need to pay you more if I take your four wen. Do you think I’m an idiot?”

“Don’t go…”

Shen Zhe stood up.

He had met many fake beggars, and it was easy to distinguish them: give food to those who asked for money, and money to those who asked for food. There was indeed something wrong with that beggar. However, since he was there, it didn’t matter if he wasted a few wen on him, as long as it could give Shen Zhe more pencils.

Thinking about that, Shen Zhe snatched the beggar.

He would try it whether or not the beggar was faking.

“Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!” cried the beggar as his wrist cracked.

“Bro, I’m only begging for money… You can refuse me, but beating me up is too outrageous!”

“I’m sorry…”

Shen Zhe hurried to retract his hands.

He wasn’t used to the power of the seventh stage of body polishing yet, and he exerted too much strength…

“Sir, it’s not that I don’t want your money… but I really can’t buy what you wanted with two wen. Please let go of me! I’m just a beggar…”

Seeing that his hand was red and swollen, and knowing that it would take days for his hand to recover, the beggar wept.

“I really just want to beg for some money…”

“I wouldn’t have talked to you if you weren’t a beggar!”

Pausing for a moment, Shen Zhe said, “Fine, you don’t need to buy anything. Here are two wen!”

Then, he gave the beggar two wen.

“You’re really giving them to me?”

The beggar found it hard to believe after he accepted the money.

“Yes!” Shen Zhe nodded.

“Thank you, sir…”

Putting the money in his bowl, the beggar left in a hurry for fear that Shen Zhe would regret it.

“Huh? No pencils?”

After doing the good thing, Shen Zhe hurried to concentrate his attention and checked if there were new pencils. But he frowned.

It seemed that assisting a fake beggar was useless.

“Is this… a good thing?”

His face cramping, Wang Qing couldn’t help but ask.

He had witnessed everything. It wasn’t a good thing at all; it was more like a robbery.

Forcing a beggar to accept his gift…

“…” Shen Zhe held his forehead.

Fine. The misunderstanding was completely justified.

…

“He’s too scary…”

The beggar left the restaurant in a hurry.

He was bummed about his wrist being so badly hurt, when he did nothing more than beg for money. However, he didn’t dare stay any longer.

“Unsympathetic and petty… It’s really not easy to earn two wen…”

The beggar grabbed the coins in his bowl and was about to put them in his pocket, when he heard a voice not far away.

“Unsympathetic? Did the young man in school uniform bully you?”

The beggar turned around, only to see a pair of bright eyes and an impeccable face.

It was Ling Xueru, who had followed Shen Zhe to that place, fearing that he would cause trouble.

She didn’t enter the restaurant because she feared they might discover her. She watched the beggar begging for money and when he was captured by Shen Zhe. However, she didn’t hear what they said, due to the long distance.

“Exactly! Are beggars not human beings, and do we deserve no respect?”

Seeing the beautiful and caring girl, the beggar rolled his eyes after being briefly stunned.

As an experienced beggar, he knew that such girls were the most sympathetic, and he would earn a lot if he pretended to be miserable.

“How did he bully you?”

Ling Xueru almost exploded hearing that Shen Zhe took advantage of a beggar.

Teachers, classmates, and even a poor beggar… Did Shen Zhe not let go of anyone at all?

“Look…”

With glittering eyes, the beggar knew that he had tapped the girl’s sympathy. He hurried to raise his wounded hand, which was holding the ragged bowl, because he had just picked up the coins with the other hand.

Ling Xueru lowered her head, only to see a broken bowl with multiple holes. She burst into fury. “He broke your bowl! How outrageous! Are beggars not allowed to use good bowls? This is unbelievable!”

Then, without any hesitation, she grabbed the bowl and threw it to the ground.

Clang!