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2003, London, UK.
"It's time to clean your shoes, it's time to polish your shoes... Sir, your shoes are dirty, do you want me to clean them for you? Make sure they are as good as new ones."
In Trafalgar Square in central London, a child of about five years old shouted to the crowd with his big round eyes.
This child is wearing simple, patched old clothes, and his crimson hair is dirty. It can be seen that it has not been washed for many days. But he has a pair of beautiful eyes with green pupils.
, shining like amber, obviously a mixed race.
"Hey, shoe shiner, help my son polish his shoes."
At this time, a well-dressed woman walked up to the shoeshine boy. Next to her was a neatly dressed child in a suit and tie. It seemed that he was going to attend a family gathering. The woman said to the child, "Son, be obedient."
Shine your shoes here, and mommy will go shopping and be back soon."
The child watched his mother leave, then glanced at the shoeshine boy with curled lips, showing a look of disdain, as if he thought the other person was too dirty and was unwilling to let him touch him. However, his mother had already spoken, so he was very dissatisfied.
She sat down on the stool willingly, then raised her feet and stretched them out in front of the shoeshine boy, saying, "Hey, be careful, my leather shoes are new."
"Oh, don't worry, I promise to polish it well." The shoe shine boy didn't seem to notice the other person's disgust, but hummed a song cheerfully. At the same time, he smiled and took out the shoe polishing tool to help the other person polish it.
The shoeshine boy is extremely serious, because he knows that a job is hard to come by, so he cherishes the opportunity to serve every customer. He wants to leave the best impression on the customer, so that the customer may come to him next time
, this is called potential investment and developing old customers.
The child saw that his shoes were slowly getting cleaner and his mood improved, so he asked a little boredly, "Hey, you look about the same age as me. Why don't you go play and come here to shine your shoes?"
The shoeshine boy knew he was talking to himself, raised his head, smiled, and said, "I'm saving money, because I will be able to go to school in two years, so I need to save some tuition now."
The child curled his lips. He couldn't stand people who like to read the most. What he liked most was to play everywhere. He changed his foot and wiped it for the shoe shine boy, and then said, "Studying is boring to death, so let's go out and play."
I'm happier. By the way, have you ever been to a Disney park? I like the carousel, the Ferris wheel, and Winnie the Pooh's castle, but my favorite is the roller coaster, but I'm still too young to go on it. In a few years I will
It’s time to play, I heard it’s very exciting.”
The shoeshine boy smiled awkwardly and said, "No, I've only seen it on TV."
"Okay, Disney tickets are indeed quite expensive. I don't think you can afford to go." The child became even more disdainful, mocking him as a poor man in his heart. Then, as if to show off something, he added, "Have you ever eaten steak?"
"
"No...no..." the shoeshine boy stopped laughing.
In fact, he really wanted to eat it, because every time he passed by a steak restaurant, he could always see people eating with gusto. The big chunks of steak seemed very delicious, but he didn't even smell it because he had no money.
.It’s also dirty and smelly. When passing by a steak restaurant, the waiter at the door will shoo him away like flies.
"No? You haven't even eaten steak? So what do you eat when you're hungry? Pasta or burgers?" The child laughed exaggeratedly. He felt that he was very noble in front of the shoeshine boy.
"I haven't...never eaten..." the shoeshine boy's voice became softer, and he said, "I usually eat bread, that kind of toasted bread."
"That bread is hard and unpalatable. Even my dog refuses to eat it. How pitiful you actually eat it." The child laughed again.
The shoeshine boy was silent, lowering his head and concentrating on polishing the shoes.
He felt helpless for a while. The most ordinary things in his eyes were the most luxurious in his eyes. The other party was well-dressed, ate steak every day, and often went to Disney. But what about him? He was just on the road day after day.
While cleaning shoes, I endured all kinds of discrimination and cold looks.
Sometimes he wonders, why are there such big differences between people?
"Have you polished it?" The woman came back, took a look at her son's shoes, and nodded, "They're quite clean. I'll give you the money." After that, she took out a coin and threw it next to the shoeshine boy.
In his hat, there were scattered coins, which were also the money earned by the shoeshine boy.
The shoeshine boy got a coin, and his depressed mood was immediately gone. He stood up and said politely, "Madam, please walk slowly. You are welcome to come to me to shine your shoes next time."
After watching the women and children leave, the shoeshine boy carefully picked up his hat, as if he was afraid of knocking it over. Then he showed a cheerful smile and carefully counted the coins inside. He earned two coins all day today.
With more than ten coins, the shoeshine boy smiled happily, because he was one step closer to saving money for school.
However, at this moment, a scream suddenly came from the distance, "Robbery... Robbery! Help, robbery!"
The shoeshine boy was stunned for a moment. He recognized that the voice was the woman who had just left. He quickly stood up to see what happened. Because he was not tall, he stood on the stool, and then he saw a person in the square.
The middle-aged man grabbed the woman's purse, kicked her down hard, and ran away with the purse.
There were many people in the square at this time, but no one chased the robber.
The woman was kicked to the ground, her head hit the stone steps and she immediately bled and passed out. Her child was wailing and crying beside her, shaking the woman "Mom, mom... what's wrong with you? Don't scare me..."
When the shoeshine boy saw the robber running out of the square, he clenched his fist, threw his hat on the ground and rushed towards the robber.
Because he often shines shoes in the square, he knows the environment of the square very well, and he knows how to take a long detour to catch up with the robber.
I saw him sprinting continuously in the crowd. With his short stature, he passed through the crowd effortlessly. Although he was very young, his steps were very fast and his movements were very agile.
The shoeshine boy jumped high and jumped onto the table of the outdoor restaurant, frightening a group of diners. However, although he aroused dissatisfaction and shouting from the clerk, he ignored it and jumped onto the next car.
Food truck. Then it ran as nimble as a cat and climbed over a high wall.
This series of actions was done in one go, without any pause!
Now the robber is not far ahead. He is holding his wallet in his hand, and at the same time he keeps pushing away the crowd, shouting, "Get out of here, get out of my way, don't block the way."
Seeing that the robber was about to run away, the shoe shine boy's eyes narrowed and he opened his hands slightly. Then he pushed back. The next second, an incredible scene happened. The shoe shine boy flew out from the high wall like a rocket.
, like a slingshot, and caught up with the robber in the blink of an eye.
The robber secretly said he was lucky. When the stupid woman was buying something, she showed a lot of money. It looked like she was a wealthy owner. When he thought about the money in the wallet, he became happy. But suddenly his shoulders sank, as if there was
It seemed like something was pressing down on him. The robber looked up and his pupils suddenly shrank.
I saw a child put a hand on his shoulder and jumped into the sky. He rolled his petite body in mid-air like a carp, and then kicked him down from the sky with a fierce kick. This kick was as fast as lightning and at an abnormal angle.
He was so cunning that the robber didn't even react before he was kicked right in the bridge of the nose.
There was a "click" sound. The robber's nose was dented, and he fell backwards. He was kicked unconscious on the spot.
The shoe shine boy was in mid-air, so he had no time to adjust his posture and fell heavily to the ground. His ankle was twisted due to incorrect posture when he landed. "Ah!" He couldn't help but cry out in pain, but
It's not a big deal.
The shoeshine boy stood up, walked over to the robber, picked up his wallet, gave him a cold look, and said in an old-fashioned way, "A grown man has hands and feet, what can't he do? He must be robbed, he deserves it!"
Afterwards, he limped away under the astonished eyes of onlookers.
When he returned to the square, the woman had woken up, but her forehead was bruised and still bleeding.
The woman had a disappointed expression on her face. She had lost a large amount of money and was injured again. She really wanted to cry. But at this moment, her wallet appeared in front of her. The woman was surprised and instinctively reached out to grab it.
He came over and held her in his arms. He followed her and looked up to find the shoeshine boy.
"You...you helped me get my wallet back?" The woman couldn't believe it.
The woman's son also opened his eyes wide, looking at the shoeshine boy whom he had just laughed at. He didn't expect that he was so capable that he could snatch the wallet back from the robber. Thinking of his behavior just now, the child immediately felt ashamed and heartbroken.
If you encounter a robber and your feet are so frightened that you can't even protect your mother, what right do you have to laugh at others?
"Well! Madam, your forehead is injured, you should go to the hospital quickly!" The shoe shine boy smiled at her, then turned and left. He had to go back to shine the shoes.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute..." The woman stopped the shoeshine boy, then took out a few bills from her wallet and said to him, "I'll give you these money as a reward. Thank you for helping me get my wallet back."
The shoeshine boy glanced at the banknotes, and his eyes showed a trace of happiness, but then he returned to normal. He shook his head and said, "Grandpa told me that helping others is the foundation of happiness, so I can't ask for your money, but
Madam, I will accept your thanks, this money is much more valuable."
The shoeshine boy was very happy that someone said thank you to him. He hummed a tune and went back. However, his ankle was still very painful, so he was still limping. The women and children behind him looked at him and thought that this child had a lot of backbone.
He is also very kind. He is a rare good boy.
The shoe shine boy's joyful mood disappeared in an instant, because when he returned to his job, he found that all the coins in the old hat thrown on the ground were missing, and his shoe shine tool was also missing.
The shoeshine boy felt discouraged. He had good intentions to help others, but someone took the opportunity to steal his money and life-saving tools. The money was earned by him working all day, and he wanted to save it for school, but
...The shoeshine boy felt aggrieved, and at this moment, a slightly older voice sounded behind him.
"Lucia, you just used your super powers randomly again, didn't you?"
Lucia, the shoeshine boy, turned around and saw an old man. He said with a guilty conscience, "Grandpa, did you see it just now? I'm sorry, but I didn't use it indiscriminately. I was helping others. I helped others get their wallets back." (To be completed.)
