“This kid claims to be from the Green Dragon Gang, his father was a gangster in the gang, slept with a high school girl and got her pregnant, his mother left him with his father after he was born. His mother left him with his father after he was born. Later, his father was killed, and the boy is living on the streets, looking for some money to spend in the hospital every day.
“What do you care?”
“I don’t think he’s seven yet.” Zhao Zichen looked at the boy as if he were a pet, and said after looking up and down.
“I just turned seven years old yesterday!!!” He gave Zhao Zichen a reluctant white glance.
Zhao Zichen laughed: “Then there’s one more year before you have to be sent to primary school, let you wave for another year and next year you’ll have a cla*s teacher to control you.”
“Who needs your control, I’m from the Green Dragon Gang, I’m not going to ask the Red Lantern Club to send me to school. And I don’t like to study ……”
This kid is quite funny and I tease him, “So what do you want to do? Be a thief and call the police station home when you grow up?”
His attitude towards Zhao Zichen was defiant and his attitude towards me was downright dismissive, giving me a blank look and saying, “Boring.”
I didn’t expect this little brat to be so big-headed, so I deliberately pinched his face and said, “Stealing needles when you’re young, stealing gold when you grow up, is it possible that you want to be a god of thieves?”
He became furious and waved his two feet to stomp me: “Who told you that I wanted to be a thief? Zhao, are you being reasonable? I have done everything you said. I don’t steal from the poor, but what’s wrong with taking some of the rich people’s money and spending it, they can’t spend it all.”
Zhao Zichen and I were dumbfounded at how young he was to have such soph*moric reasoning.
“Don’t take it personally, he’s actually quite pathetic. I usually keep an eye on him, get rid of the nurse on duty to look after him and he sleeps in the empty ward at night, but today he didn’t do his homework in the ward area and the nurse said he had run away, so I got busy and came here. Zhao Xiaoliu, you’re not really addicted to stealing, are you? If you really have this problem, I’ll get Dr Li to pick the stealing tendons out of your hands.”
Zhao Xiaoliu looked like a little adult, but he was actually a little kid. When he heard Zhao Zichen say this, he was terrified and hid both his hands behind his back.
“I didn’t, I don’t want to spend your money!”
Zhao Zichen said seriously, “Is it hard to spend stolen money?”
“Hmph, I don’t want to spend your money anyway, you Red Light Society’s are all dogs.”
I patted Zhao Zichen’s shoulder and said, “Don’t be angry, kids, it’s normal.”
“You don’t understand, this kid, ah, has to be educated at this time ……”
I immediately laughed, “You hear me out, I mean, it’s normal for a kid not to spend your money, who are you to him? You give him money to spend now, he still has to pay it back later, but the stolen money doesn’t have to be paid back, so which one do you think is better to spend? Right, Zhao Xiao Liu.”
Zhao Xiaoliu’s little face was red with anger, his face bulging, and if Zhao Zichen hadn’t been holding him, he would have wanted to pounce on me and bite me.
“You fart!!!”
I spread my hands and said, “So tell me, am I wrong? Otherwise what kind of person likes to steal?”
He wanted to retort, but he couldn’t talk me out of it and was so angry that his eyes were tearing up.
I told Zhao Zichen to let go of him, it was just a little kid, no need to be so strict.
“I still want to educate him.” Zhao Zichen shook his head and let go of Zhao Xiaoliu.
I asked Zhao Zichen how Arashi was doing. Zhao Zichen said that Arashi was in the intensive care unit, but in a very bad condition, with multiple infections in her body, and that she had come to her senses, but it was better that she hadn’t.
“Why?”
“Who can afford to suffer when awake? His body is decomposing with multiple heavy infections, he has severe ascites and his face is swollen like an aubergine, you’ll know it when you see it. If you want to try him, it would be a waste of time to do so; the court will not admit testimony in that state.”
I sucked in a breath of cold air, I didn’t think it was that bad already, I had only been brought here yesterday and this morning the fox told me it was stable and I thought it was out of danger.
I asked in a low voice, “Was he really in a car accident? Is it possible that this condition is due to something else?”
“What else could it be? That car accident was enough to kill him. But the whole body decay thing does seem strange, how it could have happened so quickly ……”
I asked, “Is it possible that it was poisoning?”
I don’t know if Lin Fang knew something or just made up a story to donkey me a bit.
Zhao Zichen first blurted out how it was possible, but he quickly thought about it again and after looking around and seeing that no one was eavesdropping, he asked me, “Have you heard something? It’s possible, but there’s no way to tell if it’s poisoning if you don’t know what’s been poisoned.”
I nodded, “Come on, let’s go and have a look first.”
If what Lin Fang said was true, then someone had secretly put something in Arashi’s medicine and wanted to do away with Arashi.
We had just walked a few steps when Zhao Zichen looked back at Zhao Xiaoliu who was following us, who was following us like a fart, not far behind.
“What do you want, kid?” Zhao Zichen asked, “I don’t have time for you now, don’t make a big deal out of it, steal from that rich guy if you like.”
Zhao Xiaoliu was full of embarra*sment, but still had to talk tough, “I’m hungry, I’m not stealing anything, you said to mind my business and buy me food.”
Zhao Zichen gave me an astonished look, “You kid has changed your nature?”
Zhao Xiaoliu was not convinced and twisted his head to the side, “I tell you, I still look down on your Red Lantern Society dogs, I will pay you back later for this money. Not stealing, when I grow up later and earn money, I will pay you back!”
“Then I’ll charge interest.”
“What’s interest?”
“It’s when you lend me a dollar and I want you to pay back two.”
“Ah, that much?”
“Yes, are you still borrowing?”
As we walked and these two bickered, Zhao Zichen and I were about to die laughing at the bear.
Zhao Xiaoliu squeezed his little fist and said, “You Red Lantern Society’s are really no good, you helped me just to collect interest, right!”
“Quite clever, how about it? Or else you go on stealing.”
“I won’t steal, just borrow.”
Zhao Xiaoliu was furious, clenching his fists and looking at Zhao Zichen with a look that said, “You Red Lantern Society are really no good”, and I, of course, became a “friend of the Red Lantern Society’s dog” in his eyes.
Zhao Zichen took a hundred yuan out of his pocket and told Zhao Xiaoliu to go and buy some buns for himself.
Zhao Xiaoliu took a look at the money and was very happy: “A hundred yuan, you really gave it to me. No, you want me to pay you back two hundred! You treacherous businessman. Hmph, I’ll definitely pay you back, and when I’m 20, after I’ve paid back the money, I’ll beat all you dogs of the Red Lantern Society away.”
The boy muttered to himself, clutching the hundred in his hand with immense treasure, walking a few steps thinking that he was uneasy, putting it in his pocket again, thinking that he was still uneasy, putting it in his trouser pocket again.
Zhao Zichen and I stood at the lift door, looking at Zhao Xiaoliu’s distant back, I shook my head and laughed: “It’s over, you’re going to have an enemy when you’re forty, this kid is going to come and beat you up in a decade or so. Look at the money you’ve spent and you’re still not pleasing.”
“You don’t know why our Zhao family is one of the nine great families of the jianghu, do you? Because our Zhao family is a dart traveler. We hire dart masters and our own family members don’t know martial arts. To put it bluntly our family is in business, and the Zhao family never does business that loses money. Don’t worry, not only will I not get an enemy, but I’ll get a useful helper, if this kid can really make it.”
