“Hmm?”

Li Hai put down the half-eaten lamb leg and looked back.

He saw a middle-aged man with a bitter expression, dressed in patched clothes, bowing slightly and smiling obsequiously at him, dragging a dilapidated flatbed cart covered with a thick black cloth behind him.

When the man saw Li Hai turn to look at him, he immediately perked up, pulled out his long and short bamboo clappers, and began to beat them while singing:

“Bamboo clappers clatter, wishing you wealth and health, today a poor man comes to beg, hoping the boss is generous, the story is long with the clappers’ song…”

“Alright, alright, stop singing.” Li Hai frowned and looked at the middle-aged man with the bitter expression, “You want money, right?”

“Yes, yes, right, hehe.” The middle-aged man bowed and smiled obsequiously, “Boss, congratulations on your wealth, you have a good heart, a good heart.”

Li Hai looked him up and down and said, “You have hands and feet, and your physique isn’t weak. Why don’t you go to work? Why do you have to beg for money on the street?”

The middle-aged man didn’t answer, only kept bowing: “Boss, you have a good heart, please have a good heart.”

“No.”

After saying the next sentence, Li Hai turned his head back.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he turned around, the middle-aged man immediately knelt on the ground and cried loudly, tears flowing instantly. At the same time, while crying, he picked up his bamboo clappers and sang again:

“Look, look, a poor beggar is here; kind madam, good sir, pity this poor wretch; give a bun, give some food, wishing you long life and health; do good, do good, those who give charity are praised!”

This loud voice immediately attracted many passersby to gather and watch, surrounding Li Hai and the man kneeling in front of him, beginning to point and whisper.

But Li Hai, the person involved, seemed deaf, ignoring how loud the middle-aged man sang or how noisy the surrounding people were, leisurely eating and drinking.

He had seen many such people in his previous life, so there was no need to pay attention to them.

But at this moment, the middle-aged man with the bitter expression might have been tired from crying. He cautiously saw that Li Hai had no reaction at all, so he immediately kicked the flatbed cart hard, then stood up and ripped open the large black cloth on the cart.

As soon as the black cloth was flipped open, the onlookers immediately burst into an uproar.

Li Hai was attracted by the movement behind him and curiously turned around.

Then he saw a blind child lying on the flatbed cart, emaciated like a stick, with all four limbs broken, empty eyes, and slowly propping himself up to crawl with only his elbows and knees.

“Wah!” At this moment, the middle-aged man with the bitter expression cried even louder. He wrinkled his bitter face and sobbed, “My daughter… she… she got a strange illness… my wife ran away, my daughter… needs money to save her life!”

Perhaps hearing the commotion, the little girl followed the sound and, with weak effort, knelt and repeatedly kowtowed towards Li Hai’s direction, thud, thud, thud.

“Sigh~ Alright, alright.” Li Hai frowned tightly and sighed, “I’ll give you money.”

Saying that, he took out a string of copper coins circulating in the Xia Alliance Martial World from his 懷, and slowly handed them to the middle-aged man with the bitter expression.

And when the bitter-faced man saw the money, he immediately pounced like a hungry dog, crawling on his knees to Li Hai’s front, obsequiously taking the string of copper coins with both hands, and then trying to stuff them into his waistband.

“Wait.”

But just then, Li Hai suddenly grabbed his wrist and said coldly, “This child, is she really your daughter?”

“Yes, yes.” The middle-aged man cried, “She really is my daughter, boss.”

“I don’t believe it.”

Li Hai gave a cold smile, “If she were truly your daughter, why do I hear her stomach completely empty, having probably not eaten a single grain of rice for more than ten hours, while your stomach is sloshing with oil and grease?”

“You, you?!” The middle-aged man looked at Li Hai in shock and said blankly, “You just with your ears, you can…” The surrounding onlookers were also shocked by Li Hai’s words.

Just by listening with his ears, he could tell if someone had eaten, and even roughly what they had eaten?

This—is it real or fake?

“I deduce…”

Li Hai said indifferently, “You ate half a catty of rice flour and three taels of meat half an hour ago, am I right?”

“This, this—” After a quick glance, the middle-aged man immediately stiffened his neck and said, “No! I didn’t eat, I, I haven’t eaten all day!”

“Is that so? I don’t believe it.”

Li Hai’s palm lit up with the words "hell", and he suddenly spat out a long dagger. He held it and made a feinting motion over the man’s chest and abdomen, “I want to open it myself and see.”

While saying this, he casually waved his hand, silently splitting the thick wooden stool nearby into two halves.

And after witnessing this scene, the surrounding crowd also exclaimed in admiration and gathered even closer, wanting to see how the situation would further develop.

As for the middle-aged man, who was directly intimidated by Li Hai, he trembled like a sieve and quickly knelt down, kowtowing repeatedly:

“Grandpa, I won’t dare again—Grandpa, dear Grandpa, please don’t kill me, I’m a scumbag, I’m a bastard—”

“Don’t talk nonsense with me.”

Li Hai played with the dagger and coldly demanded, “Tell me, where did you get this child?”

“I, I—” The man dared not speak, his eyes darting around, constantly looking at his surroundings.

“Oh~” Li Hai suddenly understood, “Someone is watching from nearby, right?”

The man only kowtowed, not saying a word.

“Hmph~” Li Hai sneered, “Then I’ll find them.”

Just now, he had noticed that besides the numerous onlookers, there were four burly, ugly men in the four corners of the surrounding area—southeast, southwest, northeast, and northwest—who had been watching with scrutinizing, wary, and greedy eyes.

He surmised that these four were people from the bitter-faced middle-aged man’s backing force, sent to monitor the disabled child.

“Crippling and mutilating people for profit, huh.” Li Hai smiled chillingly, “A crime punishable by death!”

With that, he prepared to act.

But just then, the disabled child on the flatbed cart suddenly groaned, “Pain—hungry—”

So Li Hai temporarily set aside the idea of acting, quickly got up and went over, asking with concern, “Child, what’s wrong? Is something hurting, or are you hungry?”

“Uncle… uncle…” The little girl said with difficulty, “I… don’t hurt… just… hungry…”

“Good.” Li Hai nodded, “Then I’ll get you something to eat.”

With that, he was about to turn to buy food.

But just as Li Hai was about to turn, the disabled little girl lying on the flatbed cart suddenly bared her teeth and revealed a strange smile. At the same time, two sinister green evil lights suddenly shot out from her empty eye sockets, directly hitting Li Hai’s face.

“Stop!!”

At this moment, accompanied by a clear, deep shout, a beautiful young woman suddenly rushed to Li Hai’s side, quickly extended both hands to block in front of his handsome face, allowing her own hands to be struck by the evil light, and at the same time, kicked the disabled girl on the flatbed cart flying.

And after the girl was kicked into mid-air, she immediately let out a sharp, ear-piercing shriek and suddenly erupted with waves of sinister evil Qi fluctuations. Then, she did a somersault and flew back, charging rapidly towards Li Hai and the unfamiliar young woman.

At the same time, the bitter-faced middle-aged man kneeling on the ground and dozens of surrounding onlookers also uniformly turned cold-faced and all pounced forward.