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Chapter 14 Meeting Cato Again
"Uncle Lame, do you think I brought you something good?" Jiang Lin shouted confidently after entering the store.

The cripple was still behind the counter, he raised his eyelids slightly, and then his eyes fell on the bag in Jiang Lin's hand.That bag looked about the size of Jiang Lin's head, and it didn't look like it could hold much stuff.

The lame voice said coldly: "Didn't I say that I won't accept first-class components?"

"It's not a first-class component." Jiang Lin put the bag in his hand on the counter, "It's a micro photonic component."

The cripple looked up at Jiang Lin, then at the bag on the counter, got up expressionlessly, opened the bag and took out a tiny photonic component.

This kind of miniature photonic component is similar to the first-level component in appearance, and even looks the same at first glance.The cripple narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he was looking at these things carefully.

"Uncle Cripple, these components are all good stuff."

"Whether it's a good product or not, let's test it before we tell you." The lame man stooped and took out something like a square socket from under the counter.

Jiang Lin had never seen this thing before, presumably it was used to test micro-photonic components.

The cripple plugged a miniature photonic component into the square socket, and then reached out his hand under the counter to feel for something, and then Jiang Lin saw one end of the miniature photonic component light up, and the light became brighter and brighter, like a slowly Little rising sun.

"Fifteen one, here are 44 in total, totaling 660 federal coins." The cripple's voice could not hear any ups and downs.

After hearing the voice of the federation currency arriving in the account, Jiang Lin said in a low voice: "I see that this item is in great demand, and I can provide it stably. Can the cripple uncle give you a better price?"

The crippled uncle smiled, and the smile on his ravine face looked like a strange old man who wanted to abduct and sell children, "Heh, you have about forty micro-photonic components, do you think you are very powerful? You still bargain with me. The rule is [-] federal coins, next time there will be no one hundred others, it will delay my work.”

Jiang Lin had thought about this possibility, but he didn't think that the cripple would give up such a good opportunity to make money. Just as he was about to open his mouth to say something, he heard the cripple talking coldly behind the counter.

"What are you doing here? Don't delay my business, get out of here."

Jiang Lin, who was humiliated, could only leave the cripple's shop with some anger but helplessness.

The mechanical voice of the system said: "Jiang Lin, you seem to be in a bad mood."

"Who can be in a good mood after being scolded? System, can you talk less nonsense? You know I'm in a bad mood."

"I just wanted to remind you that maybe you could go to Cato's dump."

Jiang Lin didn't attack the system this time, because he was also considering whether to go to the garbage dump of Cato's house.In the past, because Cato didn't like Jiang Lin, he always wanted to beat him up. In order not to be beaten, Jiang Lin figured out some of Cato's usual routes of action.

For example, every Tuesday is the day with the most garbage ships. On this day, Cato will definitely sit in the garbage dump. As for Thursday, Cato will basically not be in the garbage dump.Although it may not be possible to avoid Cato every time, Jiang Lin can avoid Cato three or four times out of ten times by virtue of his summary of Cato's usual movements.

Tomorrow is Thursday, Jiang Lin made up his mind.

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Jiang Lin made preparations early in the morning. There is a high probability that Cato will not go to the garbage dump today, or he will only go in the afternoon, so the morning is a good time to pick up garbage by himself, and try to pick out forty components. Material.Of course, if Cato didn't come all day, Jiang Lin planned to stay in the garbage mountain until the afternoon, so he even stuffed a nutrient cream in his bag.

The garbage mountain occupied by the Cato family is in the north of the Babu District. This is actually a part of the public garbage area, but the Cato family was in his grandfather's generation, so they made this area their own territory.

This kind of thing is too common around the residential area of ​​Oort star.Although some people had objections at first, Cato's grandfather had very big fists, and the voice of dissent gradually became smaller.

In addition, the Cato family does not prohibit other people from picking up garbage here, but all those who pick up garbage in this area need to hand over 10% of the amount to the Cato family when they leave.This amount is already very low. Jiang Lin heard that in other residential areas, some occupants demanded to hand over 40%, which is much less than the 10% of Cato's family.

It is still early at this moment, and there are not many people in the entire garbage mountain. Jiang Lin plans to choose a garbage mountain that is far away, so that even if Cato comes, he will not find himself immediately. When it was time to escape, Jiang Lin had the confidence to get rid of Cato.

As it gets brighter, there are more and more people in the garbage mountain.At this moment, there were two middle-aged men picking up garbage not far from Jiang Lin.

They are different from Jiang Lin, these two middle-aged men are employees belonging to the Cato family, and they need to hand in all the valuable things they pick up. Similarly, they can receive a salary from the Cato family every week.Of course, in order to prevent these people from taking money and not working, there is a regulation on how much each person will hand in every week. If it is too little, Cato is not a vegetarian.

These two naturally know Jiang Lin, as long as they often come out to pick up garbage in the Babu District, they will know Jiang Lin more or less. This is not because Jiang Lin is so popular, but because he is always chased by Kato all over the street. After running for a long time and many times, it is difficult to know him or not.

A half-year-old boy might even complain to Cato if he sees Jiang Lin. Middle-aged people like this are too lazy to meddle in other things, and the most important thing is to pick up more rubbish.

However, their hands are busy, but their mouths can chat.

"Boy Jiang Lin, did you come early today?" One of the bald men asked Jiang Lin.

Jiang Lin's subordinates did not stop their movements, but raised their heads and smiled, "Yes, they are afraid of being caught by Cato."

"Hahaha, young people are full of energy."

Another uncle with short gray hair followed suit, "How's the harvest today? The day before yesterday, a lot of garbage boats came, and here and there, as well as several hills, were filled with new garbage."

"The harvest is good, where are the two uncles?"

Just as the bald man was about to say something, he suddenly stopped talking, and the gray-haired uncle on the side also stopped talking. Jiang Lin felt strange, and was about to ask aloud, when he found a huge shadow cast on the place where he was.

With such a strong figure, Jiang Lin knew who it was without thinking about it.

Jiang Lin turned around slowly, with a flattering smile on his face, "I said I went the wrong way, do you believe me?"

"What do you think?" Cato's voice sounded above Jiang Lin's head, and at the same time Jiang Lin seemed to hear the snapping of his fingers.

In the past, every time before Cato wanted to beat Jiang Lin, he would first overlap his left and right hands, and then squeeze the joints together.

Jiang Lin looked around and found that the best escape route was blocked by Cato. Unless he rolled down the garbage mountain, he would definitely be caught by Cato.

At this moment, Cato's face was full of gloom.

"Cato, is your mother okay?" Jiang Lin really didn't know what to say, this sentence appeared in Jiang Lin's field of vision like lightning, and Jiang Lin blurted it out without thinking too much.

Hearing Jiang Lin's question, Cato paused for a moment.

He didn't know if it was Jiang Lin's illusion, but he felt that Cato's expression seemed to have softened a little, but Jiang Lin still didn't dare to move, for fear that Cato's fist would fall.

"It's okay." Cato suddenly replied, and then turned around and left amid Jiang Lin's stunned expression.

Jiang Lin, who was slumped on the ground, dared to let out a sigh of relief, but what followed was doubts in his heart.

(End of this chapter)