i was my mistake

"The ones you're looking at are the cheapest ones, and they have a bit of a cassette. I suggest you buy the ones next to them. They are smoother. The ones with boxes are the most perfect."

"Is it really useful?"

"Of course." Wan Qing picked up a tape in the box, put it in the well-cared-for tape player she used, and pressed the play button.

The sound of the horn is a bit rough, but it is suitable for playing in such a noisy street market.

The man squatted and listened for a while, then nodded slightly, and then asked about the price of the tape drive.

Wan Qing explained to him excitedly, introducing almost everything on the stall.

He was also very interested in those two pagers, and asked about the price by the way.

She even felt that she was going to get off to a good start today, and sold the most expensive things directly.

However, in the end, he just bought two tapes that were not jammed, but might be a little out of tune.

"You said so much, but he only bought so much..."

"Business is like this." Wan Qing was quite prepared. She unscrewed the lid of the cup, poured the still-warm boiled water into her mouth, and gulped several gulps. "Later, the guests should There will be more, and when you collect money, don’t make a mistake.”

"I try my best……"

"Don't worry, it will definitely not be to the extent that you are too busy."

Night had completely fallen on the city, and the night market with various stalls became more and more lively.

The stir-fry and barbecue stalls are the most crowded, followed by those selling cheap clothes.

Cheap daily necessities will always be bought.

And things like radios and tape machines are not necessary even if they are entertainment items, so although some people came to ask about the price, they didn't really buy them.

Wan Qing wondered if she didn't look like a reliable boss, if a middle-aged man was sitting here, things wouldn't be so hard to sell.

Good-looking, sometimes it may not be omnipotent.

But as she gradually became proficient, other things were gradually sold.

The most sold, or radio.

Because after you buy it once, you don't need to spend money in the follow-up-except for the cost of buying batteries.

"Let's make it cheaper, yours are all old, too expensive."

"My condition is very good. Look at this tape machine. It is produced by a serious state-owned factory, not a brand name."

"20 yuan, I will take it."

"That's impossible. It's not that cheap for me to charge one for 20 yuan." Wan Qing bit the price firmly, and when she saw that the man seemed to want to leave, she relaxed a little, "Then 25 yuan, each Make a step, okay, and I will still give you the battery."

"Row."

This is the most expensive item Wan Qing sold today.

Ye Chen stared straight at the side: "Wan Qing, we've already earned someone else's salary for a month, right?"

"This is the value of technology." She proudly opened the tin cash box and counted the money collected today—of course, the money used for change should be removed, "One hundred and three three! Get rid of us The cost of buying these things is probably a net profit..."

When she said this, she lowered her voice, and whispered in Ye Chen's ear, "I guess I can earn sixty or seventy."

"What if it can be sold out tonight?"

"If you don't count the pager, you can make a lot of money if it is sold out, tsk tsk..."

"How about using this money to buy you a new bicycle? So that you can ride independently..."

"Come on less! Let's just make do with it now. What do you think this little money is? We have to use less and save more, so that when we have the opportunity, we won't be cash-strapped. It's like buying a house for investment." Well, if you don’t have the capital, how can you buy it, it’s a waste of investment.”

"If you say that, it feels like you don't earn much..."

"Take your time, even if it's just to maintain our living expenses, it's not bad."

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in front of him.

Then I heard many people shouting in panic.

"City management, city management is here!"

……

79. Smash and grab

Lend me [-] psychiatrists, and restore me to the mighty South Sudan; the sword points to the west of the Tianshan Mountains, and the horse rides to the north of the Black Sea;

Invincible, gods block and kill gods, Buddhas block and kill Buddhas.

Punching the princes of Monde, kicking the rice wife Citi, going up to the sky to explode satellites, and going down to destroy aircraft carriers.

——Anonymous netizen (deleted and edited, excerpted from an ancient Internet forum that has been forgotten by history)

……

A few beams of particularly dazzling white light shone from the sky, and the roar of the engine could already be heard.

The crowd was in a mess, as if the air defense siren sounded and the nuclear bomb was about to fall.

Before Ye Chen realized what happened, Wan Qing quickly grabbed the two pagers and stuffed them into her pocket.

She's fast enough.

But someone is faster.

The stall owners who rode tricycles didn't display their things, as if they were always ready to run.

At this point, they threw the stool on the truck body and pedaled the pedals so fast that it made people wonder if there was an electric motor installed in it.

Wan Qing cleaned up quickly enough.

But compared to other stall owners, it looks much tender.

Another point is that this is the entrance of the night stall. Although some stall owners have turned around and ran in front, they haven't been able to win much time.

Several motorcycles with their headlights on rushed forward, followed by a white pickup truck.

A total of twenty or so people, like locusts entering the country, overturned the stalls and kicked down the boss, flying and domineering like the army of other countries whose flesh was eaten by countless citizens.

"Where the hell did you get those things!" A hardware salesman was slapped to the ground by a tall and fat man, "Selling 'hospital assets', 'robbing hospital patients', right? How dare you sell them openly here, Who gave you the guts!"

Seeing that the stalls had been smashed, some people turned around and ran away, ignoring the commodities they were selling, and mixed into the bustling crowd.

There are also popular people who stood up and wanted to resist, but were beaten even worse, and were even pressed to the ground with a 'bandage', and they were to be sent to a 'mental hospital'.

That's just ten seconds.

The group of people had already rushed in front of Wan Qing and Ye Chen.

"Don't move! Reselling tape players and radios, they are all old, tell me, where did you steal them!?" The leading man had a beer belly and was holding a black belt in his hand, looking like a landlord.

Ye Chen opened his eyes wide and defended, "Yes, I installed the old parts I received..."

"Buying and selling, speculating, who allowed you to set up a stall here, huh?!" Another tall and thin man rushed up, like a demon god from hell, as if there was invisible fire on his body, he stepped on several times in a row, The radios and tape players that the two worked so hard to repair were all trampled to pieces, "You look like students, right? You didn't learn well at a young age, and you came out to do things like stealing chickens and dogs!"

Everything seems to be right for him.

His tone of hating iron and not steel even made Wan Qing have such an illusion in a trance.

Ye Chen rushed forward: "You can't do this! We worked hard to repair this, and we spent money buying old parts, you——!"

"Damn, what's going on with this thing that doesn't look like a man or a woman? It's disgusting. You're looking for death?" He pushed Ye Chen to the ground and kicked Ye Chen hard twice.

"You, you..."

"...You did something wrong, understand." A look of unbearable flashed across the face of a man who looked calmer, and stood in front of the furious tall and thin man, "You shouldn't have done this, understand ."

"What about the person who runs the store!?"

"They are legal and compliant, and have certificates."

"You...I..." Ye Chen gritted his teeth, he felt the injustice of this world so strongly for once.

But if you really want to say it, he is really doing something that will end up in a mental hospital.

The idea in his heart collided fiercely with reality, making him tremble like an electric shock.

"I'm sorry, my brother is not very sensible." Wan Qing stepped forward with a calm expression, as if she was familiar with these things, "I'll take him away now."

"Want to leave? Do you know who I am! I am the director of the mental hospital!" The tall and thin psychiatrist took a step forward, "Tell you! Even if you are a minor, I can send you to the mental hospital !"

"Forget it, they are all children, there is no need to be so serious." The psychiatrist who seemed to be quite talkative sighed, and glanced at the radio and tape player that had been trampled on the ground, "You guys go, next time Stop doing things like this, do more serious things, and stop being with other people."

"Thank you." Wan Qing looked at the man in front of her, said the two words with a bit of sincerity, then put her arms around Ye Chen's neck, and dragged him into the alley.

The two walked together, walked together, walked together.

It seems to have come a long way.

It seems to be standing still.

The sky that said it wouldn't rain is full of dark clouds.

Light rain fell from the sky, pattering on the two of them.

Ye Chen clenched his fists tightly, with an angry and unwilling expression on his face.

"What's the matter, what are you doing?"

"They... I, we obviously didn't steal it, they slandered us!"

"Just for this?"

"And we worked hard to repair it, very hard, little by little, and slowly repaired! Disassemble the inside and gently clean the dust with a brush... It takes me a long time to repair each one. It's been a long time...!" Ye Chen's eyes were red and bloodshot.

"Heh, that's all you can bear. Now you understand why I turned into something you don't like? People are like this. When you haven't seen it, you think the world is beautiful. Tsk tsk, now you understand Me?"

"I...we really did something wrong." Ye Chen's voice weakened again.

"A worthless guy, don't even dare to say that this rule is wrong."

"But, but even..., we shouldn't attack people and destroy those things so violently! We worked so hard to make it..."

"Are you just talking back and forth?"

"I, I..." The anger and unwillingness on Ye Chen's face turned into grievance, his body trembled slightly, and he wiped his face with the back of his dirty hand, looking even more embarrassed.

"I have experienced things like this a lot. I delivered things on the road on a battery car. Because there was no proof from a normal person, they must say that I was mentally ill, but I couldn't prove that I was not, so my battery car was on the road. I was detained and didn’t even tell me the reason—I think, maybe they think that the main reason for my mental illness is the mental car that I just bought, and there are problems at first glance.”

The veins on Ye Chen's neck were throbbing, he sobbed and looked at Wan Qing, the more and more rain made his face wet.

"There are still too many injustices that have happened among us ordinary people. If I send those things on the Internet in the future, I'm afraid it can only be "scratched to view the content". "

"..." Ye Chen was silent, and then wiped his face vigorously, "It's our fault..."

"Why, do you want to kneel down and repent?" Wan Qing said sarcastically.

"...next time, we'll be more cautious and...and cunning."

She looked at him in surprise: "Hey, a child can be taught."

Ye Chen clenched his lips and wanted to speak several times, but he didn't say anything.

"Oh, I know what you're going to say."

"what……?"

"This content has been blocked." She blinked slightly and smiled happily.

"Pfft..." Ye Chen laughed through his tears, and he immediately put on a straight face, "But I won't blame others like you. There will always be mistakes in the development process, mistakes of the society, mistakes of ourselves...these are very serious. normal."

"Oh?"

"I still love this land, and this will never change." Ye Chen wiped the tears from his face, as if suddenly feeling pain, and rubbed his skinned knee, "These mistakes , will definitely be corrected.”

"That's right, next year the 'saneness of mind' offense will be abolished."

"Huh—" he let out a long breath, and smiled gratifiedly, "Look, I'd say they're trying to correct themselves. Believe in this society, it will definitely get better and better."

"Maybe." Wan Qing didn't continue to tease him, but just patted him on the shoulder, "Okay, the rain is getting heavier and heavier, hurry up and hide from the rain for a while."

The two walked to the end of the alley at this time, and came to the small shop that sold sweet food that they had eaten before.

"Hey, it turned out to be here..."

"Well, eat something sweet to make your body happy."

"When you eat candy, you really feel happier."