Shocking! The young educated youth had just arrived and was already clashing with spies.

Chapter 892 Is it really just for peace of mind?

"Stop hitting me, I'll get up, I'll get up..."

The pleas of those people were barely audible, as they murmured and struggled to stand up, leaning on each other.

This image of the weak as easy targets further fueled the perpetrators' perverse pleasure. They spat at them disdainfully before belatedly realizing the presence of Chu Xin and the other two.

"What do you do?"

He glanced at Hu Kan as he spoke, "You know him?"

Chu Xin and the other two denied it without any pressure, shaking their heads in unison, "We don't know them, we've never seen them before."

"You don't even know us, yet you're still looking here? Aren't you afraid of getting into trouble? Get out of here!" Red Guard immediately rolled his eyes and shooed him away.

"Yes, that's right, we'll leave now, we'll leave now." The three of them complied without even glancing at Hu Kan, leaving without any hesitation.

When the Red Guards saw that the three men really left without looking back, they lost their last thought of punishing them and immediately turned around to focus on dealing with Hu Kan.

When Chu Xin and the other two said they were leaving, they were absolutely serious. They went straight to the state-run restaurant, ordered their food, and then sat down to wait for their meal.

Ge Shaoting looked around and, seeing that there were few people sitting next to him, whispered to Chu Xin, "What was Hu Kan trying to do just now? He didn't stand by me in times of trouble, but then he went out of his way to get beaten up so that he wouldn't feel guilty?"

This person is seriously out of their mind.

Chu Xin smiled mysteriously and asked him in return, "Didn't you notice that the three people he tackled all had some common characteristics?"

Um? ?

Ge Shaoting thought carefully, "It seems... there's nothing wrong with them. Apart from not being as thin as him, they're all quite dark-skinned. On the contrary, I don't think the others are fair-skinned either."

Besides, they were all so filthy, their faces covered in paint and blood, who could tell the difference?

Guangzhou is located in the subtropics, and it is currently the height of summer with strong sunshine, high levels of ultraviolet radiation, and high humidity. Skin's protective ability decreases after sweating, making it easy for people of all ages and genders to get sunburned.

"That's because you didn't look carefully," Chu Xin said, gesturing for him to look at the other diners in the restaurant.

“If you look closely at them, although most of them have a darker complexion, it is not simply black, but a very even light brown. Only the areas that are directly exposed to the sun, such as the forehead and bridge of the nose, are slightly darker. The color difference in other areas is not particularly large.”

Now think back to the three people Hu Kan deliberately tackled. Their faces were noticeably darker, a deep bronze color. Although their faces were not clearly visible, the backs of their necks and the backs of their hands were darker and rougher, especially the area between their thumbs and index fingers, which had thick calluses and cracked lines. What does this mean? It means that they not only frequently worked in the sun and wind but also engaged in heavy physical labor.

This kind of physical labor can be carrying heavy objects, or it can be…

Ge Shaoting immediately chimed in, "It could also be rowing, pulling a tow rope, or even wielding a weapon!"

There's nothing more to say. Those three people are definitely not just ordinary speculators; they're definitely smugglers.

Yang Zheng's focus, however, was not on this. "Even if those Red Guards mistakenly arrested smugglers as ordinary speculators, they would still go to jail. So what exactly was Hu Kan doing just now?"

Is it really just for peace of mind?

Chu Xin remained noncommittal, saying casually, "Why can't we say he's a very loyal person, going out of his way to hug and comfort his companion who was badly injured?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Zheng and Ge Shaoting paused thoughtfully for a moment, then looked at Chu Xin with expressions of sudden realization.

So all that fuss was just a pretext to deliver something? And it might even be medicine?