Chapter 335 - Street Performers (1/2)

Translator: AtlasStudios  Editor: AtlasStudios

Thus, the two picked up stuff along the way. Lu Shu carried two plastic bags of bottles while Chen Zuan lifted a sack of stones.

Both the plastic bags and the sack were taken from the roadside. There were faint prints of XX fertilizer on the sack. Who the hell knew where it was from.

“Where are we going?” Chen Zuan asked out of curiosity. It was not a tiring job per se, but neither did he feel comfortable under the pedestrians’ unwanted stares.

Truth be told, from a young age Chen Zuan had never had to suffer much hardship. Although he was not a spoiled kid, his life was much easier than others. With maids at home, he never needed to bother about any household chores.

A few days ago, he had just returned home with an impressive achievement. But before he could fully enjoy his life, he was now picking up stones on the streets. What a tragedy!

Why was he so goddamn unlucky?!

Moreover, the popular girl Xu Wenxin seemed to be interested in Lu Shu as well. Chen Zuan felt that Du Xuemei was the only girl left in his soul mate list, although he had never asked whether Xuemei would be willing to accept him.

Du Xuemei was another legendary girl in their circle. However, unlike Xu Wenxin, what was so unique about Xuemei was her exceptional talent. This Xuemei was not even as pretty as Wenxin, though her vibe was attractive.

“Let’s find a metro station with a lot of people. Don’t performers always do that?” Lu Shu said, as though it was only reasonable that way.

“Performers?!” Chen Zuan froze, “Perform what?”

At that time, they were just at the entrance of a metro station. Lu Shu walked down the staircase first, “Hurry up!”

Usually, performing in metro stations was prohibited. But unlike begging, there were no clear rules on that.

Lu Shu despised begging too. Indeed, nowadays, many beggars were just trying to leverage people’s kindness for easy money.

In the past, despite his own plight, Lu Shu would still give some coins to the elderly beggars on the streets. After all, they had no means to keep themselves alive.

But for younger ones, Lu Shu would never give a cent. Honestly, they could even make a living by folding boxes for charity organizations.

Before they reached the bottom of the stairs, they both heard someone singing in a hoarse voice further down the passageway. It sounded like a person was singing softly while playing the guitar.

When they looked down, they saw a middle-aged man with a guitar sitting in the passageway. His melodies were beautiful, “The world outside is wonderful, the world outside is cruel. When you have nowhere to go, remember I’m here waiting for ya…”

“So good,” Chen Zuan commended.

“Yea, he’s good,” Lu Shu shot a glance at the guitar case in front of the man. There was already quite a lot of money inside. It seemed the commuters at this station were kind hearted enough to give something.

Lu Shu called this market investigation. But of course, he would not rule out the possibility that the man had put in some money himself to persuade others to give.

However, that was clearly not applicable to the two of them, who were totally penniless.

“Alright. Let’s start!” after a deep breath, Lu Shu said.

Chen Zuan suddenly had a hunch that something bad was going to happen.

…

The metro station was bustling with commuters. The volume of passengers had grown larger when it was evening time.

The middle-aged singer was dressed rather fashionably, with the slight atmosphere of a last-century Hong Kong star. He sang softly, “It was so long ago, when I belonged to you, and you belonged to me…”