After leaving the village and reaching the national highway outside, the aunt and nephew finally drew closer to each other upon catching a rural-to-urban public bus. However, the other passengers on the bus were unaware of their relationship, and simply regarded them as a couple.
As it happened, when the two boarded, there were still two empty seats available, but these were individual seats. Next to each of these seats sat two men. One was a sleazy-looking uncle with disheveled stubble, bare-backed, wearing large pants that left his calves and thighs exposed, adorned with long sweat-glistened hairs on one leg, wearing a pair of flip-flops—although he had now discarded these, placing his two grubby feet onto the empty seat beside him, and was picking at them with great interest…
The other was a brawny, bald man dressed in a black tank top, his muscular arms exposed, with a Azure Dragon tattooed on each. He reclined in his seat, dozing off.
