Chen Canaan in the Qiao family dilly-dallying food and drink dilly-dallying bed bored for three days, Qiao Wen also followed the house for three days, not specifically to accompany him, he originally also wanted to go to the city as soon as possible to see the situation, however, this body is really too weak, from the second floor down to the first floor, have to gasp for half a day, and had to be temporarily at home to recuperate.
The two of them ate the same pot of rice and slept in the same bed every day, and as long as their eyes were open, their vision was that of the other's face.
Chen Canaan was a temperament that couldn't stay, and although he couldn't go out, it didn't affect him tossing and turning in the tiny house. By the third day, his injuries had slightly improved, so he got up early in the morning to move his muscles.
When Qiao Wen saw him punching at the air and thought about his own sickly body, his heart moved and he said, "Brother Nan, when I get better, in the future when you go to the rooftop to practice boxing in the morning, I'll join you."
Chen Canaan eeped, as if he didn't recognize him, and opened his eyes wide, "Aren't you the one who likes to move the least? Letting you climb up to the rooftop would kill you halfway, why do you suddenly think of practicing boxing with me?"
Qiao Wen said, "This illness made me figure it out, I just don't like to move my body to be bad, if I were like you, practicing boxing since I was a child, surely I wouldn't be like this now."
"That's true." Chen Canaan nodded, very happy, his big hand made a gesture to slap him on the shoulder, just as he was falling, he suddenly remembered that this weak body couldn't withstand a proper slap from him, so he quickly changed it to a light caress and laughed, "Good ah Xiao Qiao, then in the future, I will teach you to practise boxing. You also don't call me brother, simply call me master."
Jovian slanted him a wooden look.
Chen Canaan, however, looked like he was thoroughly amused by this statement of his own, and with a face that was still swollen, he laughed in a way that was simply out of shape.
The two were just fooling around when a soft shout came from downstairs, "If you don't want to pay, get out of the fortress."
"Only last month it went up to eighty, and this month it's grown to a hundred, we're a small business, we make a few hundred dollars a month, do you still give people a living?"
Qiao Wen heard out that it was the people from the Hexing Society who were collecting the security fee, which was called security fee, but in fact it was protection fee.
As the Kowloon Walled City is an unregulated area, there is no police to maintain order, and as long as one is inside the Walled City, everything is decided by the Wo Hing Society. The good citizens of the Western District naturally have to pay the so-called law and order fee every month.
Originally, this is a slum, and it is not easy for the people to make a living. A few dozen dollars a month for the security fee is not a small amount of money, and now it has even risen to a hundred dollars, which is really adding to the misery, so it is no wonder that some people are reluctant to do so.
When Chen Canaan heard this voice, his handsome brows furrowed, revealing a huffy expression, "I'll go down and take a look."
"I'm with you." Jovian said, taking another cane and handing it to him, "You're on this one, it looks more serious."
"Almost forgot." Chen Canaan hemmed and hawed, took the cane, and assisted him down the stairs.
Downstairs, in front of the stalls, two men with flowery arms, are collecting money from one to another; Grandma Qiao's dry goods stall has already been collected, and is now receiving a fishball store.
Fishball store boss lady is a spicy nature, the family child recently fell ill and spent a lot of money, stalls at a time simply can not come out of a hundred dollars, angry to pick up the duster to fight with two people, however, the duster has not fallen, has been one of the men viciously seized, the big slap mercilessly towards the boss lady body greeted the past: "do not pay the money out of the city walled city! "
Only before that slap could fall, it was stopped in mid-air by a stick.
Chen Canaan held up his cane and said with a smile on his face, "Brother Scar, how come the security fee has gone up again? We didn't notify the neighbors in advance, so how can every household have exactly one hundred dollars?"
The young man called Scar, as the name suggests, had a shocking aged scar across his face, making his already flat and unimpressive features look even less coherent.
He glanced at Chen Canaan, revealing a contemptuous expression, "Pretty Nan, the security fee is Fei's responsibility, we're just doing what we're told to do, if you want to feel more, go find Fei."
Chen Canaan said, "In any case, the sudden increase in money, the neighbors can not take a moment, there must be a grace period of two days."
Qiao Wen stood at his stall, silently watching him bargaining with people a dozen meters away, and in his ears he heard the granny's sigh of relief, "If it keeps going up, it's really impossible to live this life."
Qiao Wen frowned, originally wanted to say something to make the old man relieved, but thinking that at this time he had nothing, and it was not good to write a blank check, in the end, he could only pat the old man's shoulder to count as a pacification.
Scar saw the boss's wife is really can not take out the money, scolded two hurriedly prepare, and turned to the front of an incense and paper stall, the man inside a hand pulled out: "Uncle Ming, Fei brother does not look for you, your gambling debt is not going to pay?"
The man who was seized is the boss of this incense and paper stalls, forty years old, hunched over, waxy face, is a perennial scourge of tobacco and alcohol look.
Facing the raging Scar, Uncle Ming looked like he had seen a ghost, shrinking in fear and nodding his head, "Brother Scar, please let Brother Fei have a few more days of grace, I'll pay back as soon as I can raise the money."
Scar reveals a snorting sardonic smile, "Twenty thousand dollars gambling debt, I see another ten months of grace you can't pay it back. Brother Fei said, the money doesn't need to be paid back, don't you have a sixteen year old girl in your house, let me directly bring her to Li for you to offset the debt."
The Lido is the biggest nightclub in the Walled City, a nightclub that is really a ghetto, and certainly not just a place for singing and dancing.
When Qiao Wen heard this, his face couldn't help but sink slightly as he pulled up Uncle Ming's daughter Pauline's innocent and understanding appearance from his original body's memories.
When Uncle Ming heard this, he was so scared that he fell to his knees with a plop, kowtowing and begging, "Brother Scar, go and talk to Brother Fei, give me a few more days, I'll definitely pay it back, I'll definitely pay it back!"
Scar naturally didn't take his words seriously, kicking the man away and striding into his incense and paper store, pulling out the young girl hiding behind the counter, trembling in fear, and raising an eyebrow with a smile, ''Baolian, right? Uncle Ming, you're not very good looking. The daughter was born with a good look, I'll bring the person to Brother Fei for a look first."
"Abba Father! Help me!" The sixteen-year-old girl cried out in terror.
Uncle Ming moved forward with his hands and feet, and hugged Scar's thigh: "Brother Scar, if you have anything to do with me, let my daughter go. I can't afford to pay back the money, but the worst thing I can do is to pay with my life."
"Abba! Abba!"
There are already a lot of neighbors around, but no one dares to come forward to stop.
While several people were entangled, Chen Canaan limped over and pulled Pauline behind himself, "Brother Scar, we're all neighbors, why do you have to do so much?"
Scar snorted coldly at him and said, "Pretty Nan, it is only right to pay back what you owe. You are also a member of the Wo Hing Society, what rules do you not understand? Uncle Ming is his own to go gambling, no one forced him, lost money renege on the debt that certainly not, 20,000 yuan is not a small amount, buy a few yellow girl is more than enough, also thanks to Fei brother good talk."
Uncle Ming said, "Where's twenty thousand? It's only two thousand in total."
Scar laughed, "Take two thousand from Brother Fei, this is almost a year, twenty thousand is counting you cheap." After saying that, he also looked at Chen Canaan, "Pretty Nan, let me tell you, this matter fourth brother can't help you. Unless this money you help pay back, otherwise this girl I must take away."
Twenty thousand dollars Chen Canaan really didn't have, and he couldn't earn such a big ratio of money unless he went to kill someone. But except for his family and Qiao Wen, he would never kill for anyone.
He looked hatefully at the hunched man on the floor and fell silent.
"Give us two more days of grace, and we'll help pay back this money." A slightly weak voice suddenly rang out in the short silence.
Chen Canaan looked around in dismay, his gaze landing on the teenager in the shadow of Qiao's stall, as if he had misheard, because it didn't seem like it could come out of Qiao Wen's mouth in any way.
Qiao Wen lived so deeply that Scar barely met him, narrowing his eyes towards the man, he laughed, "What a big mouth, twenty thousand dollars, not two hundred."
Qiao Wen walked over from the shadows step by step, clearly still the same pale and frail teenager, but the certain and calm demeanor fell in Chen Canaan's eyes, making him suddenly feel that this Xiao Qiao was a bit strange.
"Little Joe!" He moved nervously to Jovian, separating him from Scar.
Scar's gaze fell on Qiao Wen's face, he had always known that Chen Canaan had a sickly aunty who looked like Pan An, so he thought this was the one.
In fact, he has a little impression of Qiao Wen, only once upon a time, this sickly boy would avoid them by bowing his head and circling around when he saw them, so he had never seen anyone face to face. At this moment, close to see, only to find that the rumors are not false, this teenage boy is really born a face more beautiful than a woman.
However, although Scar was horny, he was not good at men's colors, and after being amazed, he returned to calmness and laughed, "Pretty Nan, your brother said to return this money? How do you say?"
Not waiting for Chen Canaan to reply, Qiao Wen had already opened his mouth nonchalantly, "Two days, if we can't return it, Uncle Ming and Pauline will be at your disposal."
Chen Canaan said sharply, "Xiao Qiao!"
Qiaowen waved his hand at him gently, and he surprisingly subconsciously closed his voice.
Scar originally did not take his words seriously, but when he saw Chen Canaan's anxious appearance, he suddenly thought of something and curved his lips into a smile, nodding his head, "Okay, I'll give you two days." Said, meaningfully patted Chen Canaan's shoulder, "Pretty boy Nan, Scar is waiting for you."
Saying so, he exited the joss paper stall and continued to other homes to collect money.
Scar agreed so readily, of course not because he had a sudden thought of being generous, but he by no means believed that they would be able to come up with twenty thousand dollars in two days. By that time, he would not only be able to take Pauline away, but he could also take this opportunity to teach Chen Canaan a lesson in the meantime.
Scar has always been very pretentious, because the boss Qin Yunfei is a red stick, the number three person in the society, and he is the other party's right-hand man, feel that although he is a four-nine boy, but when the big brother is sooner or later. And Chen Canaan boss Zhao Ah Si is just a can't help it, however, in the Walled City's reputation, pretty boy South is a lot bigger than his scar, talking about a class of forty-nine children, everyone mentioned is pretty boy South, especially those girls in the Lido, nothing to do with love to talk about him.
He has been displeased with Chen Canaan for a long time, thinking that this servant boy has no other skills except for a face, and has long wanted to find an opportunity to give him some color, so that he knows that mixing with the community is not relying on the face to eat.
He certainly wouldn't miss this opportunity when it was presented to him.
Chen Canaan is not aware of the dark little mind of the scar, and other people a go, and immediately held Qiao Wen arms nervously: "Xiao Qiao, 20,000, where do we go to raise?" Said, and indignantly turned his head towards the paralyzed on the ground as if dead uncle Ming, stomped on a foot, "Said how many times let you do not gamble you do not listen to, you want to die their own death, why pull on the Pauline!"
The man's snot and tears fell down, already cried out of shape, wax yellow obscure cheeks are full of tears, obviously really repent green intestines: "I do not want, I just want to turn over the capital, so as to save some dowry for Pauline, originally owed 2,000, how do I know that a few months to become 20,000!"
Pauline kneeled on the ground and hugged Abba bawling, a helpless and desperate look. Father and daughter have been dependent on each other for many years, it is not true to say that Uncle Ming is a bastard gambler, but the love for his only daughter is true.
Chen Canaan said angrily, "How dare you owe Fei money? It's not like you don't know that his gang eats people without spitting bones?"
Pauline cried out, "Brother Nan, please save me and Abba?"
The sixteen-year-old girl, born with a fair and beautiful face, was like a lotus flower blooming in the silt in the dark and dirty walled city.
Qiao Wen knew that after saving this time, there might be another time as well, but he couldn't just watch the girl fall into the wolf's den.
He pulled out a memory from his original body, it was a young girl like a flower carrying a plate of prepared snacks and handing it to him, speaking with a shy face, "Brother Ah Wen, this is the red bean cake I made, do you think it's good?"
He sighed darkly and pulled Chen Canaan, who was about to storm off, and said, "Brother Nan, let's go upstairs and talk."
Chen Canaan ironed his face, spat hard at the man on the ground, and turned to follow Qiao Wen, not forgetting to pretend to limp with his cane.
Qiao Wen went to the home stall first and pacified his worried grandmother, "Grandma, it's fine, Nan and I will think of a way."
The grandmother muttered, "Twenty thousand dollars, where are you going to find it?"
Qiao Wen said, "Don't worry, Nan has a way."
Chen Canaan: "????"
Don't be ridiculous, I'm not!!!