With no other options left for the 30,000 yuan surgery fee, Lin Ye scanned the QR code and sold it for 90 minutes.
Unexpectedly, this sale involved selling an industry that had been hidden for hundreds of years - time thieves.
Some people steal time, and some sell time. Time circulates in the black market. Buyers buy it to extend their lives, and the thieves make a living from it. Generations of Lin family members have been "scavengers" who specialize in returning stolen time to the people from whom it was stolen.
The rules have been in place since Grandpa Taizu's generation: only the stolen goods will be collected, not the time voluntarily sold. If you break the rules, you will be punished.
From the midnight rainstorm under the overpass to the Osmanthus Flower Courtyard in the ancient city of Dali, Lin Ye took over this brand and a century-old legacy. He caught a fellow villager who stole time, saved a whole village whose time was sold, beat up the descendant of the scavenger who broke the rules, and finally hung the jade pendant on the wall of the counter.
Time has no owner. You can't steal time, you just help others and keep it for a while. And we are the ones who give back time.
The story is over, the door is locked, the rain stops, and the rainbow appears. But as long as there are people stealing time and stealing time, the pawn shop will always be open.
