13. Sure enough, one day, while his classmates were all outside on the schoolyard, he quietly slipped into the classroom and tried to put a white and shiny brass ink box into his pocket. But this first attempt of theft caused him a fierce moral conflict, and he hesitated. Yet for the sake of food and clothing, for money, for living like Wang Youcai and the people in the “xiaorenshu,” in the end, he finally stole the box. From then on, stealing became a habit for him, stealing, one after another, fountain pens, books, and money…
