「Chapter 2: Three words were written on it with a ballpoint pen: Jiang Yuduo.」

Cheng Ke looked at the young man smashing plates for about ten seconds, he then gritted his teeth and walked over.

When he was about to bend over to pick up the money, someone shouted behind him, “Hey!”

Cheng Ke did not look back, listening to the sound of the engine, he wanted to bang his head on the ground.

Because he was too distracted, he did not notice when the car stopped, and a voice that really embarrassed him to the extreme spoke.

The voice was quite magnetic, he clearly recognized it, it was from that scarred face bastard.

“Do you really need this one hundred?” There was a tint of mocking in his voice, if one was to turn around, one could definitely see a smile on his face.

“Pick it up, hurry,” said the scarred face, “Others will pick it up if you’re too slow.”

Cheng Ke straightened his waist and turned around, “I’ll leave it to someone who needs it more.”

“Huh?” The scarred face leaned on the car window and looked at him.

“Pick it up,” Cheng Ke said, “It’s a waste to come back empty-handed.”

The scarred face smiled, took out a cigarette, and flicked his lighter, “There’s a wallet inside, it’s also yours, right?”

Cheng Ke did not speak.

“I didn’t ask you to dig up garbage,” the scarred face exhaled smoke, “it’s all done while we’re talking.”

“Give it to me,” Cheng Ke said.

“What?” the scarred face looked at him.

“Lighter,” Cheng Ke said.

The scarred face was taken aback, and he handed the lighter over, “it’s illegal to burn money. let alone one piece of paper, it’s not something to brag about.”

Cheng Ke took a cigarette out and lit it, and put the lighter into his own pocket.

The scarred face looked at the other’s pocket.

“Thank you,” Cheng Ke nodded at him.

The scarred face man did not say anything; after searching in his pocket for a while, he handed over a business card to the other, “This young master, who is in trouble, this is my business card. If you need any help, please call me.”

Cheng Ke stood still, not moving.

The scarred face man continued, “My name is Jiang Yu Duo, call me Third Bro.”

Jiang Yu Duo? Third Bro?

Cheng Ke still stood there without moving.

“The ****. This motherfucker? Are your eyes only for decoration, this is the Third Bro! This whole area that you’re in is on Third Bro’s site!” The driver leaned his body over and pointed at the standing man, “Third Bro offered his help, yet what the **** are you acting all indifferent for?”

Site?

Cheng Ke remembered his fight with this Third Bro, a person, who would get into a fight with other people in a dump, actually had his own site?

Are you in charge of the forty-nine trash cans here? One of them was crushed by the boss himself.

Cheng Ke could not help but look up at the Third Bro, Jiang Yu Duo, with thoughtful eyes.

The man did not wear a hat this time, and he looked to be in his early twenties, just an ordinary handsome guy. But the viciousness in that emotionless face made people a little wary, probably because of the scar on his face.

“Keep it,” Jiang Yu Duo pushed the card in between his fingers toward the other, “it’s always better to have a back-up plan.”

Cheng Ke hesitated for a few seconds then took the card from the other.

While he was reading the card, Jiang Yu Duo rolled up the window and drove away.

Cheng Ke glanced at the card and raised his head violently, staring for a long time in the direction of the car.

Does this man have mental issues?

He could not help but look down at the card in his hand.

He had received countless business cards, the designs were exquisite, casual, business, elite, even scholar style…but this was the first time he received a tobacco box business card.

This ‘business card’ given to him by Jiang Yu Duo was literally a cut from a tobacco box, no, to be exact, a torn piece from a tobacco box.

Three words were written on it with a ballpoint pen, “Jiang Yu Duo”.

Below was a phone number.

This level! This style!

He looked an errand boy for some shopkeepers around here, what kind of Third Bro? Owning his own site? I’m afraid that those forty-nine trash cans will account for 20% of the shares!

“Third Bro,” Chen Qing turned to look at Jiang Yu Duo’s face while driving, “Are you okay, you didn’t take his stuff, why do you need to go back?”

“Look while driving,” Jiang Yu Duo said.

“…Look at what?” Chen Qing was quite puzzled, thought about it then nodded, “Practicing my own judgement you mean, a closer look, this person is definitely not some kind of stray and he dressed quite well. He looks more like a little…”

“Look at the road,” Jiang Yu Duo interrupted him.

“Okay,” Chen Qing turned his head to stare ahead. When Jiang Yu Duo reminded him, he had already gone through a red light.

“I’ll give you twenty yuan,” Jiang Yu Duo touched his eyebrows, “You need to have your head check out.”

“What can you check with just twenty yuan?” Chen Qing said.

“Should be enough for your brain to not stop at a red light!” Jiang Yu Duo slapped the back of the headrest, “I think fifteen would be enough!”

“The ****!” Chen Qing swore, “I didn’t pay attention!”

Jiang Yu Duo slapped the backrest again, “Fucker, I’ll give you extra five yuan for breakfast!”

“It’s okay,” Chen Qing thought for a while, “This is Lao Yang’s car, let him pay the fine. Every day, he always gets himself in a traffic violation one way or another, I bet he can’t keep track of them.”

Jiang Yu Duo sighed.

“Go straight home?” Chen Qing asked, “I’ll send you back to your sister’s place so you can play two rounds with her.”

“Uh,” Jiang Yu Duo responded.

“What about the cat?” Chen Qing asked again, “It’s not all that tasty when it’s small, you have to raise them first.”

“How the hell did I grow up with you?” Jiang Yu Duo looked at him, “I should have let you die premature.”

“We’re so close to each other,” Chen Qing laughed, “If it weren’t for you picking me up at the river that time, I would have died by now.”

Jiang Yu Duo did not say anything, and turned to look out the window.

“That young master just now,” Chen Qing said, “do you just want to save him once and then get some use out of him later?”

Jiang Yu Duo still did not speak.

“I’m right, right; look at his person. It doesn’t look like someone sent him to trouble you,” Chen Qing did not need him to respond, then continued to analyze on his own, “But you didn’t ask for his name, what kind of situation is this…or should I ask the others to follow him?”

“Would you like to go directly to him to say it,” Jiang Yu Duo turned his head to look at him.

Chen Qing laughed, “Okay, I get it, it can’t be so obvious.”

Cheng Ke felt that he did not know much about life, to put it frankly, he was just a useless person.

For example, what could he do with just a hundred yuan and an ID card?

Aside from spending hours at McDonald’s, he really could not think of anything else.

Fortunately, there were not that many people at McDonald’s. There were a few travelers with their luggage, three or five students were doing their homework at a table, no one spoke. It was quiet, peaceful.

Cheng Ke looked at a cup of coffee in front of him and yawned.

So sleepy.

Cheng Ke has already washed his face twice. The first time was to wash the bleeding wound from fighting Jiang Yu Duo; the second was due to the heat, he had almost fainted from it.

Cheng Ke touched the corner of his eyes. The wound was quite big, but he was not afraid of pain. When he used to fight with Cheng Yi as a child, the other slammed a stool on his head, causing him to need several stitches on his head. He just swallowed it and didn’t say anything.

But what he found quite surprising was that he did not feel the pain from this wound.

This was not a question of whether he could stand the pain or not, the punch from earlier must have paralyzed it.

Cheng Ke looked at the cup of coffee in front of him, smiling, then laid down on the table.

Or it could be that there was a more extreme pain than the wound on his face, so he did not feel it.

Tonight was the first time Cheng Ke slept somewhere that was not home, and in such a position.

Not only did he fall asleep, he also had a dream.

From a distant memory of his father’s words “respectful and cautious are the other meanings of ‘Ke’,” to the three words “Jiang Yu Duo” written by the blue ballpoint pen.

The dream was supposed to be very long. If he were to title his dream, he would call it “The First Half of My Life”, but since there were a lot of excessive and meaningless plots being omitted from it, after a few scenes it was over.

When Cheng Ke opened his eyes, he could not help but sigh dejectedly If it weren’t for this dream, he would not have expected that his life of more than twenty years had been so boring.

There were now a lot of people carrying their meal trays around, and Cheng Ke immediately met several disapproving eyes when he looked up.

He took a glance at the time, in such a situation, such an environment, in such a posture, he could actually sleep until eight o’clock in the morning, he was not sure if this could be counted as some strange power.

He stood up and walked to the restroom. Even after washing his face, he still felt that his whole body had still not awakened from that dream. His steps felt like they were floating, there was this lingering illusion that he had not completely woke up from that boring dream.

He really had no idea where to go after exiting McDonald’s. There was a little supermarket right across, so he went in and bought a bottle of mouthwash, then he went back to McDonald’s.

He could have just washed his mouth on the side road, but he wanted to differentiate himself from a hobo.

He felt a lot more awake after leaving McDonald’s for the second time.

Cheng Ke stood on the side of the road, and again he suddenly felt at loss like last night, so he stood there, stunned, for a long time.

He was going to make a replacement for his bank card to withdraw money, then he would buy a cell phone and a new sim card…Honestly speaking, he really did not know how much money he had in the account, but there would always be money every time he withdrew. Also he did not plan on a big expense, maybe to buy a meal and two sets of clothes or something.

Cheng Ke suddenly had a thought, what if his mother only put in enough money for a meal and some clothes?

No, no, it would not be so. Even though he was a useless person in the eyes of his whole family and could not even be compared to Cheng Yi’s fingernail, there must be some allowance in his account, right.

Not to the point of…

Cheng Ke turned around and wanted to head to the intersection, planning on finding a bank and asking how to replace his card.

He only took a few steps before immediately bumping his shoulder into someone.

“Are you fucking blind?” the man roared.

Cheng Ke was about to say “I’m sorry” when the man roared at him again, his own words getting stuck in his throat.

He did not say anything, he also did not look at the man, instead he continued straight on.

Before yesterday, the other person would not have been able to complete that sentence.

He was not at all in the mood for that now, not wanting to start a fight, and even not in the mood to scold the other man. He just wanted to do what he urgently needed: withdraw money and buy a cell phone.

His right shoulder was hit hard from behind by someone.

A cell phone.

Cheng Ke staggered forward two or three steps before stopping.

When he turned back to look, there were four people standing behind him.

Those must be drunkards who had been out all night, from a distance they had the same smell as those trash bins in the back door of the bar.

Cheng Ke brushed his shoulder twice, turned sideways, and made a pose of he had to go.

As expected, those people started to attack him. He took up a stance and threw a punch at the face of the man in front with his right hand. The man stumbled at the impact and took a few wobbly steps back before catching his footing.

Even for a strong man, landing such a hard punch, Cheng Ke felt his wrist twinge from the punch.

He was not the type to look for trouble, whatever he did, those activities were usually with a group of his ‘drinking buddies’. Even when they were met with trouble, he did not have to face it alone.

He didn’t know what happened these past two days, seemed like bad luck and annoying incidents found him one way or another.

This punch of his could be counted as the release of his irritation.

He had a fist fight with Jiang Yu Duo but he did not have the upper hand and there were several injuries on his face. Now this punch had made him feel all better.

But the consequences of this impulse had to be dealt with by himself. Three of the other four began to take weapons out of their pockets. No matter what they pulled out, he definitely did not want to be their opponent.

Cheng Ke made a split second decision.

He turned around and ran to the intersection.

There were quite a few people going to work at this time. After a few quick looks, the escape route was blocked. He could only change direction and run to a place where there were fewer people. After all, escape was not his strong point. There was no one chasing him, maybe they had given up.

After running wildly for a while, Cheng Ke was really annoyed. He really underestimated the determination of a few drunkards to pursue such a trivial matter.

Looked like those drunkards were the scum of this area. They were quite familiar with the terrain around here and when Cheng Ke turned three corners and ran out of a small fork, two of them were waiting there to ambush him.

“Fuck!” Cheng Ke was quite out of breath. He glanced back and found out that these four had formed into two groups of two.

Cheng Ke felt that he was actually a person that gives up easily. Any small setback would discourage him and so in this situation there was a moment in his mind when he thought that he would rather stop running and just let them beat him up. No big deal.

Fortunately, he spotted a small alley between two residential buildings from the corner of his eye.

Last one. If he could not get away, he would give up.

Cheng Ke gritted his teeth and rushed into the alley.

There were two buildings on the other side of the alley and another narrow alley. He continued to rush forward.

He froze when he ran out of the alley .

At the back of several residential buildings, was an open small garden in the middle of the street. A very common place, a common place for walking and birds sighting during the day, and square dancing at night.

But now it was not very common.

At a flower bed directly ahead of him sat a large group of people sitting and standing around, at least a dozen of them. In the middle sat Jiang Yu Duo with a cigarette in his hand.

When he rushed out from the alley, all the people in the group turned their heads and stared at him. He could almost hear these eyes shouting in unison “We all are not good people!”

The only difference was that Jiang Yu Duo, regardless of his expression, was very calm. From the beginning, Cheng Ke could see a smile on the corner of his mouth.

In this embarrassing stalemate, the people behind caught up to him.

The one who ran at the front flew forward as soon as he rushed out. Cheng Ke dodged and the man threw himself into an empty space.

Jiang Yu Duo, who had been sitting still for a while, finally raised his arm and stretched his waist.

A group of people around him seemed to have received an order, and charged over.

Cheng Ke was suddenly surrounded by a whole lot of people. So many people in fact that he had no clue where they had come from. But they all quickly disappeared. The group of people along with those four drunkards were gone.

Only he and Jiang Yu Duo left at the scene.

“Such a coincidence,” Jiang Yu Duo took the cigarette out of his mouth and looked at the other with a smile.

Cheng Ke felt that Jiang Yu Duo looked more pleasing during the day than at night but his smile did not suit his face. He felt a shiver run up his spine at the smile.

He cleared his throat and turned his head. Looking in the direction the group had gone. From a distance, he could hear the voice of someone screaming, not knowing whether they were fighting or being beaten.

“They…” Cheng Ke pointed to the direction of the sound.

“A bunch of losers,” Jiang Yu Duo said, “Why are you messing with them? Did you flip the trash can and fight again?”

Cheng Ke looked at him.

“If I were not here,” Jiang Yu Duo pressed the cigarette butt out on the ground, “you would not have gotten out in one piece today.”

“…Thank you,” Cheng Ke hesitated and thanked him, although he could not judge whether the group of people who rushed out just received Jiang Yu Duo’s order to save him or because they had been enemies before.

“Didn’t I say to call me if you’re in trouble?” Jiang Yu Duo said.

“Oh,” Cheng Ke touched his pocket subconsciously and found that the piece of paper Jiang Yu Duo gave him was no longer in his pocket.

“Lost the business card?” Jiang Yu Duo asked.

“…What did you call that thing?” Cheng Ke could not help asking.

“It’s okay,” Jiang Yu Duo pulled out a flat tobacco box paper from under his back pocket, “I’ll give you another one.”

“No need,” Cheng Ke quickly waved his hand, “Really, no, thank you.”

Jiang Yu Duo looked at him and squinted his eyes, the expression on his face somewhat unpredictable.

“Thank you,” Cheng Ke took two steps back, turned around and walked quickly towards the road.

He did not know why this man was so keen to give strangers a cut out of his tobacco box. He only knew that Jiang Yu Duo’s smile disappeared from his lips when he refused to accept the business card again.

Whether he was in charge of the trash bins or not, this man was also a boss who could easily order twenty people with just a nod. The key was that these twenty people were still here and Cheng Ke did not want to get into any trouble.

Withdraw the money, and buy a cell phone.

He never expected that there would be a day when he would be longing for these two items.

“Order someone to follow the kid,” Jiang Yu Duo lit a cigarette and said to Chen Qing who had just run over.

“Which kid?” Chen Qing asked.

“Your father,” Jiang Yu Duo frowned, sarcasm lacing his voice.

“Got it, Chief,” Chen Qing nodded, “let me follow him, it’ll be better.”

Jiang Yu Duo did not say anything, Chen Qing turned around with confidence and walked away.

“On the right,” Jiang Yu Duo sighed.

“Huh?” Chen Qing turned to look at him.

“He went right, you dumbass!” Jiang Yu Duo roared pointing at him, “I give you three seconds to run, after three seconds, I’ll beat the fucking hell out of you!”

“Coincidently, my car is parked on the right…” Chen Qingsaid, immediately running to the right.

Jiang Yu Duo sat down by the flower bed and finished his cigarette. Once done, he got back up and left the garden.

Thinking of what to eat for breakfast everyday was quite a troublesome thought. Jiang Yu Duo likes breakfast from the street vendors, but now it had already passed breakfast time, plus he had been eating from them for more than half a month now, he was quite bored with them already.

“Third Bro!” Someone called him from behind.

Jiang Yu Duo clenched his fist around a pocket knife inside his pocket.

“Have you eaten breakfast yet?” A child named Skinny Monkey ran over asking in a flutter. The kid would blow away with the wind if it were just a bit stronger, “Let’s eat together?”

“Soy milk and fried dough again?” Jiang Yu Duo looked at him with disgust.

“Of course not, at least it’s sauced beef,” said Skinny Monkey, “Inviting Third Bro to breakfast means that there must be at least some meat!”

Jiang Yu Duo followed Skinny Monkey into a newly opened breakfast shop next to them. Seeing that Skinny Monkey had brought over a bunch of food, he asked with a frown “the hell, what did you do last night with whom?”

“No way!” The Skinny Monkey was anxious, “I listened to you and I work as a waiter at a net cafe! I just got paid yesterday! I immediately thought of you…”

“I see,” Jiang Yu Duo picked up his chopsticks, “Don’t order any more, this table of food is worth a month’s salary already.”

“No,” the Skinny Monkey happily patted his pocket, “there is still some here.”

After having a bite or two, Jiang Yu Duo’s phone rang loudly, it was from Chen Qing.

“Come over and eat breakfast,” Jiang Yu Duo answered the call.

“Jaeger has entered a bank,” Chen Qing said, “He’s been talking to the branch manager for a long time, do you think he’s going to take out a large sum of money? Do you think you should call for two more guys to come over and wait for him to come out…”

“Go buy two buns and eat them first,” Jiang Yu Duo said.

“Ah?” Chen Qing froze.

“Skipping breakfast is bad for your IQ,” Jiang Yu Duo hung up the phone.

This troubled young master was indeed a bit strange. When he fought with the other yesterday, he had touched all the pockets on this young master’s body. He had nothing on him but half a pack of cigarettes.

Even if with that one hundred yuan, did he just go into the bank with one hundred yuan and half a pack of cigarettes?

Jiang Yu Duo frowned, he was indeed very strange.

...To be continue... ...

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