The young man struggled vigorously and said, "Let me go!"
"Asshole, I-"
Because of the sudden tightening of the collar, the young man was forced to swallow the words he was about to say.
"I told you, children don't use bad words."
Xiao Xiao put down the young man, but then reached out and held the young man's arm, "I think we need to talk."
...
The young man struggled all the way and was led by Xiao Xiao to the flower bed in a corner of the roadside.
Because they had seen the scene where the boy was about to hit someone, no one raised any objections to the scene where Xiao Xiao looked a bit like kidnapping a child.
I just feel that such a naughty child needs a good education.
How can you beat someone in the street?
...
"Quiet."
"If you don't want me to take you to the police station."
As soon as Xiao Xiao finished speaking, the young man stiffened and finally settled down.
Then he still had a stern look on his face and asked, "Police station?"
"Why do you send me to the police station?!"
"I didn't do anything!"
...
"Oh, you didn't do anything?"
Xiao Xiao seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
"It wasn't there!"
The young man said harshly.
There was a hint of guilt in his eyes.
What a bad luck.
Why did you meet such a nosy guy for the first time?
...
"May I have your name?"
Xiao Xiao changed the question.
"Why should I tell you?"
The young man looked disdainful, but he was not an idiot.
...
"Why did you steal the money?"
Xiao Xiao changed the question indifferently.
"You just stole money!"
After the loud voice at the beginning, the young man realized something and lowered his voice, "Did I steal it?"
"I didn't steal it at all!"
What he said was true.
He wanted to steal it.
However, just when he was about to succeed, he was stopped by the person in front of him.
Regardless of anything else, as far as the result is concerned, he did not steal.
The young man looked confident, but he felt a faint sense of relief in his heart.
...
Xiao Xiao:......
"quibble."
"If you don't answer my questions properly-"
"I think it's better to send you to the police station and let the police officer contact your parents, and then I'll talk to your parents about whether you stole anything."
"don't want!"
The boy yelled, "Don't look for my mother!"
The young man's faintly red eyes were like a little beast that had been stepped on, with thorns all over his body.
...
Xiao Xiao was stunned.
The boy's behavior is not like a child who has done something wrong simply because he is afraid that his parents will find out about it, but more like... he does not want his parents to worry about it.
His expression softened almost imperceptibly.
What happened today may really be just a thought of this child.
...
"So, tell me, why did you want to steal money just now?"
Looking at the young man's red eyes and stubborn and fierce expression, Xiao Xiao continued to ask, "Is this your first time to take action?"
"It was already before-"
"first!"
The young man interrupted Xiao Xiao's words angrily, with a rather menacing and ferocious expression.
Xiao Xiao's face was calm. He stared at the young man for a while, until the young man couldn't bear it and looked away, and then spoke again, "I believe what you said."
"Just now was your first shot."
...
"That's what it is."
The young man whispered.
...
Xiao Xiao didn't pay attention to the young man's interruption, "Since you don't want to say it, I actually don't really want to know the reason why you did this."
He already knew that the young man was not a habitual offender, and because he tried to stop him, the other party still attempted the theft, so there was no need for him to call the police.
Just know this.
more-
He is not a policeman, nor is he a psychological counselor.
The other party was unwilling to tell him, and he had no intention of delving into it.
"Just don't do this kind of thing again."
"Next time, if you are caught, the other person may not be as easy to talk to as me."
"You don't want your mother to worry, right?"
Thinking of what the young man blurted out before, Xiao Xiao added another sentence.
Sure enough, the young man had a troubled look on his face.
...
Since he cared so much about his mother's feelings, he thought that this boy would not go astray.
Because if he does that, his mother will be sad.
...
"Okay, it's getting late, let's go home."
Xiao Xiao straightened up and said, "Your mother should be making dinner already."
He is going home too.
Just when he wanted to continue saying goodbye, he vaguely heard something said by the boy opposite who lowered his head.
It seems like..."no"?
Xiao Xiao raised his head and looked at the sky. The color of the sunset was getting darker and darker.
A patch of deep red and light red, the complex and gorgeous ink is difficult to describe.
...
He sighed inwardly.
Now that I have heard everything, I always have to ask.
What's more, the young man still looks like a little beast who has been forced into a desperate situation.
Weak, pitiful, and helpless.
It's very different from the previous show of teeth and claws.
...
The young man just... was actually asking him for help, right?
...
He looked at the young man, "What's wrong?"
"What's not there?"
"My mother is still at work, so there is no one at home?"
He told a guess of his own.
...
"Mother......"
The young man's voice was very soft, and he stopped mid-sentence, and his hands hanging by his sides were tightly clasped together.
All the blood faded from her pursed lips.
...
Xiao Xiao didn't rush, and quietly waited for the young man's unfinished words.
...
The young man suddenly raised his head, the corners of his eyes were still red, but there was a desperate expression on his face, "Mom is sick!"
Xiao Xiao was stunned.
"Mom is sick."
"A very serious illness."
Now that he had started, the young man no longer had any scruples in his heart, but his next words were still a bit choppy and incoherent due to nervousness, "The hospital can't find out the cause."
"It seems to be this, it seems to be that, there is no conclusion."
"I took a lot of medicine."
"My mother's health did improve in the first few days after taking the medicine, but after a while, my mother's health became worse again."
"The hospitalization fee is too expensive, and my mother insists on going home."
"I don't want to take medicine anymore."
"If you say it's useless anyway, don't waste money."
"Mom won't listen no matter what I say."
"I'm scared."
"My mother always told me at the beginning that she was fine, that she was fine."
"But, I know that my mother's body is getting weaker day by day."
...
"Mom spends more and more time in bed."
"I'm about to die."
The young man's voice was hoarse, and even though he tried hard to suppress it, he still sounded like he was crying.
"Sorry, I know...rash...unreasonable..."
"but-"
"Please, please save mom!"
"Sorry...sorry."
"But, but..."
"I have no choice."
"I don't know either......"
The boy was a little broken.
With desperate despair.
He knows that he is despicable, because he knows that the other person is a good person, so he depends on the other person like this.