Insufficient balance

  "Gambling? Who the hell is going to gamble with you?" The four middle-aged men holding sticks didn't expect him to suddenly pull out a coin and start flipping it in his hand, wondering what he was up to. He might be worried that the 50,000 yuan was too much of a burden, so he went crazy. He thought he could pretend to be crazy to get away with it, but they couldn't let him off.

  A faint, inexplicable smile, sticking out his tongue to make a ghost face. His eyes had a hint of mischief, and suddenly he shook his hand, tossing the coin in it, which landed with a "tingling" sound in front of that child, spinning upright on the cement floor. After spinning hundreds of times, it finally stopped, lying flat on the ground, with its reverse side facing up.

  He smiled and said calmly, "Good boy, don't make trouble. I'll give you a dollar to buy another toy car. Be good from now on." He comforted the child in a soft voice for two sentences, then suddenly changed his gaze, and two cold streams shot out, staring at the child and saying, "By the way, let me tell you something. If I ever see you using a four-wheel drive to extort others again, I'll twist your head off immediately."

  The boy sitting on the ground heard his intimidation and immediately stopped crying, staring blankly at the coin on the ground. What does this mean? Is he really only giving himself one dollar? But what he said was too harsh, and he was really scared. The boy cast his gaze towards the four middle-aged men holding wooden sticks.

  Xiao Xiao saw the child stop crying, stood up and clapped his hands, as if he had solved a big problem. With a relaxed body and mind, he said to Lu Feng: "Let's go, it's none of our business."

  Lu Ping didn't hesitate at all and turned around to leave immediately.

  "Huh?" The four middle-aged men holding wooden sticks saw Xiao Xiao throw down a one-yuan bill and turn to leave. The four of them exchanged glances for a moment. "Leave?" One of them suddenly swung his stick, fiercely smashing it towards Xiao Xiao's head.

  Xiao Xiao had already mapped out the area where this person was, the size of the area that could be attacked with a wooden stick, and had drawn a clear plan for counterattack in his mind. He saw the middle-aged man coming over and smiled: "I've been waiting for you to make the first move." His body didn't move, he raised his hand and grabbed the wooden stick, pulling it back forcefully, and took it away. With both hands grasping the ends of the wooden stick, he used force, "Crack!" The sound was loud as he snapped the wooden stick in two, with each hand holding a piece of the stick, the long pointed wooden thorn facing the four people.

  The four middle-aged men were stunned, not expecting the young man to have such great strength and agility. Facing him with long wooden stakes, they could only hold onto their wooden rods, unable to advance or retreat. Many large beads of sweat appeared on their foreheads, falling scattered to the ground.

  "What the...!" Everyone was stunned, and then they heard a loud shout from the side. A man was kicked to the ground in front of four middle-aged men, and he immediately started crawling like a dog eating shit. The person who fell in front of everyone was also a middle-aged man, dressed similarly to the other four middle-aged men. His collar was torn open, and he was holding a wooden stick in his hand, with a huge footprint on his back.

  A young man with a backpack stepped forward, stood up straight and pointed at the middle-aged man on the ground. "What are you doing? Are you looking for death? Daring to sneak attack my idol from behind?" The young man with the backpack was Zhang Bei, who had just argued with the steel wire woman and pushed each other, causing the onlookers to leave. His action was to make the onlookers leave so that he could take action.

  The middle-aged man who was crouching on the ground and those four people were in collusion, hiding behind Xiao's back in the crowd. When they saw that a fight was about to break out, they tried to sneak up from behind and hit Xiao with a wooden stick. Just as they were about to do so, they were spotted by a passerby heading north, who kicked one of them to the ground with a swift kick.

  Four middle-aged men did not expect that suddenly another Cheng Yaojin appeared, and Xiao Xiao came to help again. Seeing Xiang Beida, he was as tall as an iron tower, half a body taller than the four of them, with a majestic physique, without using force, and intimidating by just looking at him.

  Xiang Bei pulled out two broad kitchen knives from his olive green backpack, one in each hand. The blades shone brightly in the sunlight, looking razor-sharp and capable of chopping through bone and tendon. "Come on, don't even mention you guys, I'll castrate even Xiong Mangzi!" Xiang Bei yelled at the middle-aged men, gripping his defensive knives tightly.

  Four middle-aged men saw this scene, and their momentum was fierce. Their own momentum collapsed. This vote seems to be completely hopeless. Good guys don't eat losses in front of them, and bad eggs even more so. They gritted their teeth and forced themselves to speak, "You have a kind, wait for you." After finishing speaking, they pulled up the middle-aged man on the ground, called the little kid on the ground, and walked away to a distant place.

  "What the fuck are you waiting for?!" he cursed loudly at that group of people heading north.

  The steel-wire-haired woman who stirred up the crowd in the crowd hummed softly, still somewhat dissatisfied, and followed behind that group of people not far away, twisting her fat buttocks, gradually disappearing.

  "Hey, you saucy old hag, don't go!" he jeered at the steel-haired woman heading north.

  "Haha." A loud and clear laughter echoed through the entire Huabei Square, "Thanks." He patted Xiang Bei's shoulder.

  "What? You're my idol, I won't bother thanking you again." Xiang Bei put the kitchen knife into his backpack and turned around to look at Lu Feng.

  Xiao Xiao introduced them to each other, and the two found out they were both students at Nongda University. They immediately shared a warm hug, their faces flushed with excitement, almost kissing. Xiang Bei wanted to take a closer look at Lu Ting's triangular scraper, but Lu Ting quickly put it away in his guitar case. Xiang Bei pushed him, and Lu Ting nearly fell over.

  Xiao Xiao thought that the four middle-aged men dared to collect protection fees, and might have colluded with the police. If they brought in the police, it would be a big trouble. Not to mention fighting, just Lu Feng and Xiang Bei's two people holding knives was enough of an excuse for three people to get into trouble, so he said: "This place is not suitable for staying long, let's find a place to have a drink."

  Xiang Bei and Lu Feng nodded in agreement, tidying up their own luggage and equipment.

  The sun was scorching at noon, with heat waves rising. The exhaust from the cars spewed out thick smoke, and the temperature kept climbing higher and higher, as if it would burn the sky.

  Three people walked through several streets, leaving the area of Huabei Square. They came to a shaded place leaning against a forest, and saw a beef noodle restaurant with a clean facade and delicate decorations. There were two outdoor tables, backed by a large willow tree, with a canopy on top, cool and refreshing. On this hot summer day, it was a great place.

  Xiao Xiao locked his bicycle by the tree, and three people sat at a table under the tree, enjoying the cool shade that blocked out the sun. Refreshed in body and mind, they loudly ordered several meat dishes and asked the boss to bring over a case of beer. The three of them opened their beers with a pop and, without saying another word, drank heavily, feeling comfortable all the way down to their toes.

  Xiao Xiao had just poured himself a cup when his phone rang. He took a look and it was Lan Miao Miao, she called to ask if he had arrived in Tianjing yet.

  Xiao Xiao thought of her lovely appearance and suddenly smiled with joy, feeling pleased in his heart. He told her not to worry, he was on his way to school, and had met two good friends on the road, and they were drinking together.

  Lan Miao told Xiao that she and Hua Jun were going to Tianjing tomorrow, so she wouldn't bother her anymore. After finishing speaking, Meow hung up the phone.

  Lu Deng heard a girl's voice on the phone and looked at Xiao Xiao with interest, asking if it was his wife calling?

  Ruffled his own afro, couldn't give a definite answer, just said: "Uh, sis."

  "First call sister, then call younger sister, cry and call wife. Ding Dong." Lu Peng teased.

  "Hmph." The northern general spat out his beer.

  Xiao Xiao saw Xiang Bei in the north, lowering his head and eating, swallowing half a plate of food with one bite. He must have been starving, so he asked, "Xiang Bei, how long did it take you to walk from Changbai Mountain to here?"

  "In a month." He looked down at his plate, shoveling food into his mouth with his head bowed.

  Lu Peng saw him gobbling down his food and teased him: "Walking barefoot all the way, you must have drunk a lot of northwest wind."

  "Uh, I spent several nights sleeping in the wilderness. I suffered a lot." As he thought back to those days of hardship, his face immediately became weathered, as if he had aged ten years.

  "Haha, that's good, let's make up for it and finish all the dishes. If not enough, we can order more." Xiao Xiao recalled that from Changbai Mountain to here was not only far but also had rugged mountains and rivers along the way, so she curiously asked "Didn't you encounter any mountain bandits or robbers?"

  "There's no one else, only me who will be kidnapped."

  "Hehe."

  "What about you?" From what had just happened, Xiao Xiao didn't know how Lu Ting was going to Tianjing, so she asked him, "You love singing, why didn't you take the music college entrance exam? Why did you take the art college entrance exam to study painting instead?"

  Lu Peng shook his red hair, telling the story of how he took a train from Northwest to Tianjing City. Every time he arrived at a train station in a new city, he would get off and sing for money, then use that money to take the train again. He also said that painting was his childhood hobby, and going to college was just to give his parents an explanation. Going to music academy? Traditional music education? It's better to kill him, he wanted to play rock and roll, many rockers were originally from art schools. He downed a cup of beer in one gulp, saying that maybe someday he would think it's stupid to go to college and immediately drop out.

  "You, you're the one who's really going to college, not being taken to college by it." Xiao Xiao gave a thumbs up, affirming that he was a genuine rogue. Daring to act and daring to do, doing things with a sense of satisfaction.

  "I speak my mind. I admire Lu Tingshuai's carefree spirit. However," he puffed out his cheeks, "I'm going to finish my four years of university, then return to the foot of Changbai Mountain, encircle a mountain with land, and work hard to become rich through the land and forests. Gradually becoming a local tyrant, otherwise how can I compete with Gao Shuai for the goddess? He speaks his mind straightforwardly, like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube."

  "En." Xiao nodded, "Everyone has their own way of playing. Let's not worry about today or tomorrow. The three of us will do it together."

  "Let's go." He raised his glass northward.

  Dry.

  Three people were drinking happily, but didn't know where a small white dog came from. It was over a foot long and half a foot high, with four thin legs moving back and forth as it ran to his feet, surrounding the big feet that stepped on the ground and sniffing around. After sniffing, not satisfied yet, it started rubbing its wet nose against his feet.

  Xiao Xiao wasn't wearing socks, and immediately felt something fluffy and slightly damp disturbing him. He looked down to see a small wild dog with a monkey-like face, its mouth pursed up, ears half-standing, and fur densely curled. "Hey, where did this stray dog come from? One look and it's clear it was born with kidney yang deficiency. If it runs into a female dog, it'll definitely... ah, get premature ejaculation! Scram!" He politely used his foot to nudge the dog's belly, driving it away to one side.

  The little dog was driven to one side, but Lisuo turned around and came back again with his tail cocked up and his head held high, repeating the same action as before, circling around Xiao Xiao and poking at his feet with his sharp dog nose, getting Xiao Xiao's feet all covered in dog snot.

  "Damn it." Xiao Xiao couldn't help but feel disgusted as the little dog continued to pester and disturb her. Seeing that its dirty mucus had gotten on one of her feet, she secretly added some strength and used her toes to push the little dog away again. This time, she pushed the little dog even farther away.

  "Ah Ou!" The little dog was picked up and thrown to the ground, yelping in pain. It felt a bit hurt. This stray dog immediately became furious. From the ground, it got up, stood upright, adjusted its angle, and rushed towards Xiao Xiao's feet, baring its sharp teeth, ready to bite.

  "Bite me? I'll bite you back, damn it." Xiao Xiao had long sensed that this little dog was very troublesome and expected it to retaliate after getting up. Sure enough, as he had anticipated, the angry little dog bit at his foot.

  With a swift movement, she lifted her big foot, turned her ankle, and quickly dodged the little dog. Her palm spun to the top of its head, and her heel came down forcefully on the dog's head.

  The puppy's head was violently kicked down, and it didn't even have time to gasp for air before its body went limp and fell to the ground. Its eyes were closed, its limbs stiffened, and it was dead.