Strongest Worker

Li Qing got up in the morning and washed his face.

"Hey." he threw the pillow over and woke up Du Huasheng, who was still sleeping in the opposite bed. "He talked in his sleep last night, you know?"

"Ah? Yes?" Du Huasheng turned over and sat up, glanced out of the window and rubbed his eyes. "What did I say?"

Li Qing grinned: "it's a mess. You scream like a fool. I doubt whether you have a spring dream."

"Really? Then why don't I have any pleasure?"

"Give me my shoes."

"What?"

Li Qing said, "I beat you with my shoes last night before I stopped."

Du Huasheng lifted the quilt and found a shoe. He threw it back angrily: "are you sure you didn't knock me out?"

"I don't think so. You were grinding your teeth in the middle of the night." Li Qing caught your shoes and put them on his feet. "Go wash your face. Let's go downstairs for dinner and meet Lao duo."

"He said, it's noon. You're so anxious that you're easy to be hit hard by the old man."

"It's more than eight o'clock. How come it's nine o'clock after dinner? It's not much time! I'm in a hurry and don't care about spending money." Li Qing opened the door and said, "hurry up. I'll call the girl up first."

Du Huasheng shook his head and sneered behind him: "you don't have to call her. You must have run away. The little mute thought we were going to sell her to men for entertainment. It's strange not to run."

Li Qing ignored him and went straight out of the house, across the corridor to knock on the girl's door.

Dong Dong! Dong Dong!

He knocked for a moment and saw no response. He began to mutter in his heart. Did Du Huasheng really say that people had run away?

"Well, I'm not sure what I'll encounter in the future. It's good to go." although I always feel something missing in my heart, Li Qing still nodded his head gently.

He turned and was about to leave when the door suddenly opened.

"Didn't go? I thought you..." Li Qing turned around, raised his eyes a little, and suddenly froze in place.

The girl can be about 1.65 meters tall, with a very upturned nose, a thin small mouth, two blushes on her white face, and her beautiful big eyes seem to be able to speak. The black and bright hair has been well managed, tied behind his head with a thin rope, and a metal butterfly hairpin is pinned on his head.

Her two small hands were twisted in front of her, wearing a dark cyan women's blouse, eight point jeans wrapped around her slender legs, and a pair of brand-new canvas shoes on her feet, revealing her thin ankle with bruises.

Li Qing could hardly recognize it. Was it still the dirty and timid little girl yesterday?

"Hey! Why are you stunned when you stand at the door of someone else." Du Huasheng came over here while putting his clothes on his head.

He suddenly had a meal at his feet, and immediately his eyes widened in amazement: "fuck, where is this fairy floating from?"

Li Qing saw the girl blushing, lowered her head, smiled, raised her hand and rubbed her temples: "I'm thinking about it here, too."

"We've really made a lot of money this time. You have a good eye. It's a good deal." Du Huasheng squeezed over and tilted his head with a smile. "Little mute, come back to ah Mai with me to ensure that you have food and drink, and no one has hit you yet..."

"Go away and don't deceive the little girl here. It's shameless for you to run and be courteous now that you find someone beautiful." Li Qing stretched out his hand and pushed him aside. He couldn't help glancing at the girl's beautiful little face. Then he turned around contentedly, "let's go when you're ready. Let's go to dinner first."

The three people left the room and had another breakfast in the noodle shop.

Du Huasheng sat at the plastic table, looked around, and then pressed the straw hat he bought yesterday on the girl's small head.

The little girl seemed a little unhappy. She gently sipped her mouth, but she didn't make a sound.

"It's a trouble to be too beautiful," Du Huasheng whispered. "Although it's pleasing to the eye, it's also easy to cause trouble. Especially those big headed soldiers, whose heads grow under their crotch, can do anything."

Seeing that Li Qing was still eating with his head down, he didn't say a word. He simply knocked hard on the plastic table: "Hey, did you hear me? You don't really intend to take her?"

"I see what you mean." Li Qing sighed. "There's still a long way to go. If you can find a place for Haosheng, let her stay."

The girl's delicate body suddenly stagnated, and her white hands trembled slightly, but the two guys around her were busy discussing things about Lao duo, and no one noticed her.

After breakfast, Du Huasheng looked at the half bowl of noodles left by the girl and frowned: "hiss, did you really eat too much last night? Why did you have so much left this morning? It's too wasteful. You have to know how many people in this town don't even stutter."

"After all, it's a girl. It's understandable that she has a small appetite." Li Qing saw a beggar next to her, so she brought the remaining half bowl of noodles to them. He didn't know why the girl suddenly lost her appetite this morning.

He got on the bus again and drove back to Laoduo's grocery store. It was already 9:30 a.m.

"Ouch, Mr. Du, you two are here so early." seeing someone entering the house, Lao duo quickly stood up and greeted him with a smile.

"Yes." Du Huasheng nodded, "any news?"

"You're just in time. The front foot of the messenger has just left." Lao duo's eyes are red and bloody. Obviously, he didn't sleep much last night in order to earn this ticket of money.

He spread out a poor map on the table, drew a circle on it with a child's watercolor pen, and then pointed to the circle and said: "There is an armed force of the United Army stationed in this place. The news came from them. After all, they are the army. If there is radio contact, we ordinary people will not succeed. In this broken place of TESAN, mobile phones can't be called out."

Du Huasheng looked closer and said, "it's not far."

"Oh, the road condition is bad. It takes six or seven hours to drive there. Moreover, there are wild animals and mountain bandits on this road. The night road is very unsafe. I sent someone last night and can come back this morning. It's not easy." Lao duo naturally added fuel and vinegar to his complaint, and then began to talk about business.

His thin palm moved on the map, suddenly stopped and crossed with a watercolor pen.

Li Qing leaned over and narrowed his eyes slightly: "here is..."

Du Huasheng hissed, "we'll be in dannan soon."

"Yes, it's past Rava, in a primeval forest outside dannan." Lao duo nodded. "This is the news two days ago, you know? It's timely enough."

"I see." Du Huasheng said, "is there anything more detailed?"

Lao duo narrowed his eyes into a crack: "two days ago in the afternoon, the United Army and the rest of the Kuzhi bandits met in this place, exchanged fire for more than half an hour, and let them run away. The rest of the bandits who fled to our area is just like this. If the woman you're looking for is still alive, she must be here."

Du Huasheng turned his head to look at Li Qing and gently skimmed his mouth: "I haven't been to this place. Dannan just passed by once and didn't stay. I'm completely unfamiliar."

Li Qing pondered for a long time, raised his head and asked, "can you find a guide here? The price is easy to say."

"Well..." Lao duo took a breath of air conditioning and shook his head slowly, "it's not easy. There's a war there. Who would want to go? And even local hunters can't go into such dense forests."

"I know the way."

When Li Qing was at a loss, a cautious soft voice suddenly sounded behind her.

He suddenly turned around and saw that the girl slightly lowered her head and whispered, "I can take you."

Du Huasheng blinked: "you know? How do you know the way?"

The girl pursed her little mouth, but she answered the wrong question: "I know the way."

Her Chinese is not fluent, but it is enough to be heard clearly.

"Eh?" Du Huasheng tilted his head and looked at her, "aren't you mute? And you can speak Chinese? Good..."

Li Qing walked over quickly, grabbed the girl's white wrist and asked seriously, "do you really know the way?"

The little girl seemed to be suddenly frightened, moved back a small step, but said low in her mouth, "I can take you."

Li Qing and Du Huasheng looked at each other and clenched their teeth: "no matter what, we'll go anyway. Let's be a living horse doctor."

Lao duo said: "you have to think well. The place is very chaotic. You have to cross the blockade line of the United Army if you want to enter. Hey hey, Duke, I guess you will come back dead. I can leave all the good things for me. If you don't return in a month, I'll set up a clothes grave for you outside the town."

"Fuck you, if I go west, I'll pull you first." Du Huasheng scolded and counted the tickets in his hand. "We have to bring some food and gasoline. By the way, do you have a gun? Give us some self-defense."

"Hehe, I knew you needed a guy." Lao duo clapped his chin and touched his beard and said with a smile, "as long as you can use it, I have all the medicines for malaria. You two can directly move it to the car. The price is easy to discuss."

Du Huasheng boasted without raising his head: "well, it's good. You're reliable."

Lao duo stared at the money in his hand and suddenly leaned forward: "Duke, if you add a little less, I'll tell you another message."

"Hmm?" Du Huasheng raised his head, looked at Li Qing and turned back, "what news?"

"Last night, a group of strangers came to the town to ask me where you two are. If I'm right, is this brother Li?"

Du Huasheng looked surprised: "looking for us? Who? Do you know?"

Lao duo shook his head slowly: "I don't know. The group was very horizontal, led by a tall and thin boy. It was very scary."

Li Qing put his arm on the counter and asked, "how did you answer?"

This novel has been translated by www.readwn.com and if you are reading this somewhere, they have stolen our translation.