Chapter 5: A Little Girl’s Begging. (2/2)
Walking in the bustling streets, Xiao Luo felt relaxed as he’d never before. Why did he have such a mood, he could not tell at the moment. Maybe it was because he saw Zhao Mengqi’s true face, or he had finally left the shackles that is, Huahai Group.
A little while later, he came to the door of a shopping mall, and his eyes strayed in a corner of the square.
There, a little girl in rags, about seven or eight years old, was begging from the tourists.
The little girl was unkempt, her long black hair was dirty and messy, and was knotted all over. Her legs were sickly bent, and the muscles in her legs were severely atrophied. She could not walk upright, and she could only rely on her two young little hands, like a poor little seal, pushing a tattered small bowl forward slowly.
Her long trousers were dragging around on the ground, covered with dust, and looked like two dirty rags. A little while later, the little beggar girl climbed to her feet, the shabby little bowl gently waved and there was ringing sounds of coins hitting the bowls rim.
Xiao Luo lowered his head and looked at the little girl. Although the little girl was dirty all over and even had a pungent smell on her body, her eyes were as bright as stars in the night sky.
“Big brother, please be kind and lend me a few dollars!” The little girl sounded expectant.
Xiao Luo saw her state, he then put down the box he’s carrying, he took out a twenty from his pocket and put it in the bowl.
“Thank you big brother, Buddha will bless you!” The little girl kowtowed and folded her small hands.
Jiang people believe in Buddhism, and there is nothing wrong with the little girl’s words of thanks.
Xiao Luo thought she was very clever and intelligent, so he took out a two hundred dollar bill and stuffed them into the little girl’s pocket. “Go home quickly and let your family buy you some delicious food.”
He really felt that the little girl was pitiful whilst being still so young, yet she was suffering like this.
“Home?”
The little girl’s petite body quivered slightly, and her bright eyes fell into brief dullness. She was mumbling to herself before telling him, “I have no home.”
At an early age, she showed great sadness and silence, and her eyes were red. Her experience in life is equivalent already to that of greenhouse teens.
Xiao Luo was puzzled: “Everyone has a family and parents. Why don’t you have a family?”
The little girl shook her head, then she smiled strongly and changed the subject: “This elder brother is a good man, thank you.”
Finishing saying that, with great difficultly she began to move petite body, and struggled into the distance.
Xiao Luo thought that the little girl is very strange, he felt like there’s a story that needs to be heard, after contemplating, he then quietly followed up …
At last, the little girl stumbled into a dark alley where a man with a cold face was waiting.
When he saw her coming back, the man put the folding knife in his pocket, then he went to the little girl and looked down at the broken bowl where the little girl was begging. He was furious and kicked the little girl aside. “Motherf*cker, you are only going to work for this much after asking so much money? You don’t want to eat today, do you?”
“If you dare not ask for money from those tourists, I will teach you a lesson today!”
The angry man with a ferocious face rolled up his sleeves and rushed up, grabbed the little girl by the hair and lifted her up in mid-air.
“Pain … pain …”
The little girl’s feet were lifted off the ground, and the severe pain made her cry bitterly.
“Cry! Whats the use, cry again, let me teach you lesson!”
The man slapped the girl down with a big “pa” before sending another slap. One slap after another bombarded the little girl in the face without scruple.
The little girl only endured the pain and gritted her teeth to prevent herself from crying aloud, but her tears kept pouring down and her face swelled up at the speed visible to the naked eye.