Century Garden was several miles away from Jiangnan University, and among the route lay a few main roads interspersed with many narrow alleys.

Both sides of these alleys were lined with various snack stalls, through which a dense crowd constantly shuffled.

After dropping Li Xian off at her home, Ye Feng wandered toward Jiangnan University along one of these alleys.

"There are three group companies in direct competition with the Zhen Country Group in the bidding, among them, the Huaihuang Group is the most suspicious!"

Strolling leisurely, Ye Feng frowned and pondered.

He had inquired from Li Xian that there were four large groups participating in the bidding, among which the Zhen Country Group was the most powerful and the most likely to win the bid.

Aside from the Zhen Country Group, the Huaihuang Group was the next most powerful. Moreover, the competition between the Zhen Country Group and the Huaihuang Group had always been fierce!

"However, if it was the Huaihuang Group who had someone kidnap Li Xian, why would they instruct the kidnapper not to harm her!"

Ye Feng was puzzled, but could not figure it out for the moment and so could only shake his head and give up.

Shortly after Ye Feng had walked a bit further, he found a crowded stall ahead, packed with people all pointing and discussing something at the stall.

Not only that, but Ye Feng also heard bursts of men's curses and women's reprimands, sounding quite lively.

Ye Feng had no intention of joining the crowd to watch, and he planned to leave the area immediately.

Yet, having just taken two steps, he inadvertently saw a skinny figure through a gap in the crowd and abruptly halted.

"Huh?" A flicker of surprise crossed Ye Feng's eyes and he quickly made his way through the crowd.

In front of the crowd at the stall, stood two stylishly dressed young men and women, exuding arrogance, ominously looming over a skinny boy. The man's face was filled with ferocity, while the woman's face bore an aura of Evil Qi.

"Don't you have eyes, you little beggar? Look! Look what you've done to my new dress!" the woman glared furiously at the small boy in front of her, outraged, pointing at a dark stain on her pristine dress and shouting sharply.

The man was even more outrageous. Kicking the little boy relentlessly, he cursed ferociously:

"Damn it! I spent over three thousand on this dress for my wife, can a beggar like you afford to pay for it? You're begging, why don't you go beg for shit instead!"

As he spoke, he struck the little boy across the face with a slap.

"Sorry... I didn't mean to!" The boy, thin as a rail and dressed in ragged clothes, his hair unkempt and greasy, clutched a plastic bag tightly and crouched in a corner, timidly looking up at the man and woman before him.

Many people had already noticed that the plastic bag the boy held was filled with leftover food, seemingly just begged for.

"Sorry? Damn it! Is sorry enough? If I kill you right now, little bastard, and then say sorry, would that be okay?" The man, his face full of flabby cheeks and adorned with a large gold necklace, now glowered down at the boy as he yelled:

"Kneel down to my wife, knock your head on the ground three times, and I'll let you go today. Otherwise, I'll kill you right here, you little bastard!"

Upon hearing that the man would make the boy kneel and apologize just because he had dirtied his wife's dress, people in the watching crowd immediately began to shout angrily.

"Hey, young man, leave the kid alone! He looks pretty pitiful!"

"Exactly! It's just a dirty dress! Wash it and it's good as new. Why make it tough for a kid?"

"You guys are going too far, if you hit this kid again, we're calling the police!"

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In the crowd of onlookers, many of the older ones pleaded with good intentions, while the younger ones angrily chastised the man and woman.

But their interference only seemed to spur the man on, making him hit even harder.

He then viciously kicked the little boy twice more, and then, with bulging eyes, pointed at the crowd and arrogantly said, "Fuck you all! I want to see which bastard dares to call the police! Whoever calls the police is asking for trouble with me, Hu San. I'll definitely kill the bastard!"

The man's attitude was extraordinarily arrogant and domineering, and the woman, far from feeling ashamed, was actually proud, feeling that the man was exceptionally manly.

"Hmph! Let me tell you, my elder brother Hu Er is a close brother of Four Seas Gang's Hu Er. If you don't watch out, you might just lose your whole family!" said the woman, hands on hips, pointing at the surrounding onlookers.

Upon hearing about the Four Seas Gang and the name Hu Er, the faces of the onlookers all changed.

They all knew that the Four Seas Gang was one of the two major gangs in Shallow Water Bay District, with a force of two to three hundred members, and they owned dozens of entertainment venues like bars and KTVs, making them extremely powerful.

And Hu Er was a well-known enforcer within the Four Seas Gang!

It was said that he had been involved in more than ten murder cases and had just been released from prison recently.

Realizing that the man with the large gold necklace was Hu Er's own younger brother, fear clearly displayed on the faces of the onlookers. The previously noisy crowd quieted down, and no one dared to criticize the man again.

Pleased with this reaction, Hu San grinned smugly; he knew that just mentioning his brother's name was enough to walk sideways in Shallow Water Bay District, even the police wouldn't dare to arrest him carelessly.

"Big... Big brother! Big sister, please... please let me go! My grandmother hasn't eaten in two days, and I need to bring her some food!"

Just then, the little boy leaning against the wall, tears in his eyes, pleaded with Hu San and his wife.

"Fuck! Bring food? Feed her shit!" Hu San's face twisted cruelly as he kicked the little boy to the ground, snatched the plastic bag full of leftover food from the boy's arms, threw it on the ground, and stomped on it wildly.

"Eat! Eat! Eat my ass!"

With just a few kicks, Hu San burst the plastic bag, scattering the leftover food all over the ground.

"Come on! Little brat! You fucking asked me to let you go, right? Fine!" Hu San said to the little boy viciously:

"Kneel down and kowtow three times to my wife, then clean up this shit-like mess on the ground, and you can go! Otherwise, just wait for your grandma to starve to death!"

Hu San's words made the little boy's frail body shudder, and his tear-filled eyes flashed with deep resentment!

The little boy had never imagined the world could be this cruel! His family of three had just arrived in Jiangnan City and were immediately robbed. During the struggle, his grandfather was stabbed to death, and his grandmother, heartbroken and ill, never recovered.

Only he was left of the family of three!

Every day, like a stray dog, he scrambled through the city, constantly searching for leftover food to sustain both his and his grandmother's lives.

Although the little boy was only six or seven years old, he had already lost the vitality of childhood and instead bore a sense of decay.

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