Chapter Fifteen: The Kind Female Thief
The afternoon sun was strong, there was no wind in the air, and the weather was unbearably hot.
Ning Tao was eating a bowl of fried rice noodle in a rice noodle shop while looking at the neighborhood across the road.
This district is called Happy District. There are more than a dozen buildings of brick-concrete structure standing on a small piece of land. There is very little greenery, cracks appear on many walls, and the building quality is poor.
The Xingfu Community is the resettlement community for the villagers of the village that Jiang Yilong forcibly demolished. Jiang Yilong demolished their homes, but only gave them a pitiful compensation for the demolition, and then coaxed them to spend their savings to buy a house in the Xingfu Community. House of. From this purchase and sale, Jiang Yilong made a lot of money, but these villagers suffered.
A young girl walked into the snack shop and ordered a bowl of rice noodles.
Ning Tao shifted his gaze to the girl. The girl was about eighteen or nineteen years old, her face was elegant and delicate, especially her pair of eyes, which were dark and very energetic. She was wearing a thin cotton T-shirt and a pair of very short hot pants. Her snow-white thighs were exposed to the air, and she exuded youthful vitality and attractive factors.
The girl gave Ning Tao a fierce look, as if she was dissatisfied with him looking at her.
Ning Tao looked away, got up and went to the boss who was cooking rice noodles to pay. When the boss gave him some change, he thought to himself: "It's not an option to go on like this, I only have a few hundred dollars in savings, and the clinic doesn't make money, but I have to eat, and I have to find a way to make money. "
"Little brother, doesn't it taste good?" Seeing Ning Tao's frowning expression, the owner of the snack shop couldn't help asking.
Ning Tao put away the change from the boss, and said casually: "No, it tastes good, you should be busy."
The owner of the snack shop said politely, "Well, come and take care of my business later."
Ning Tao returned to the dining table where he had just sat, but when he was about to get his little medicine box, he found that his little medicine box was gone, and even the girl was gone. He followed the road outside Yimu shop, but the road was empty, not even a ghost.
At this time, the owner of the small restaurant came over with a bowl of cooked rice noodles, with a surprised expression on his face, "Where is the person?"
Ning Tao asked: "Boss, do you know the girl just now?"
The owner of the small food shop said depressedly: "I don't know you, it's really unlucky, and you can't do it like a joke. Is it easy for me to run a small business?"
This is a thief.
Ning Tao moved his nose, and quickly locked on to the girl's scent. He walked out of the snack shop and followed the scent left by the girl.
This is the outskirts of a mountain city, the location is remote, there are roads but no buses. The girl came here on foot without any means of transportation. Based on these two points alone, Ning Tao can conclude that she lives nearby, and not too far away.
Under the scorching sun, Ning Tao was dizzy and angry, "I'm so poor and you still steal from me. If I catch you, I will let you enjoy sunbathing too!"
After more than ten minutes, the road came to an end, and a dilapidated two-story building came into Ning Tao's sight. In front of the building is a yard, and there is a large rusty iron gate, and a plaque that says "Sunshine Orphanage" is hung on the lintel of the iron gate.
The girl's smell entered the iron gate, and her smell was everywhere in the yard and in the building.
"Is she an orphan?" This situation surprised Ning Tao, and he reached out and knocked on the door.
Boom boom boom!
Ning Tao didn't knock on the door with much strength, but the dilapidated iron door made a loud sound.
"Who is it?" A childish voice came, and there was the sound of slippers walking.
The iron door opened, and a little girl stood behind the door and looked at Ning Tao curiously. The little girl was about six or seven years old, wearing a big boy's undershirt, which almost covered her whole body, and her face was also dirty.
"Uncle, who are you looking for?" The little girl asked in a childish voice.
Ning Tao squatted in front of the little girl, smiling, "What's your name, little sister?"
The little girl said: "My name is Li Xiaoyu, and I am six years old."
Ning Tao gently patted Li Xiaoyu's head,
Gently said: "Xiaoyu is so good, I'm here to find a big sister, she has a pair of beautiful eyes, she lives here, Xiaoyu, can you take me to find her?"
Li Xiaoyu tilted her head and said, "Uncle, are you looking for Sister Su Ya?"
Ning Tao smiled, "Well, I'm just looking for Sister Su Ya."
Li Xiaoyu said: "Uncle, come in, I will take you there."
When Ning Tao entered the door, Li Xiaoyu pushed the iron door to close with her small hands, but she was really too small, and it was very difficult for her to push.
"I'll help you." Ning Tao reached out to help Li Xiaoyu close the big iron gate.
Li Xiaoyu led the way, and said, "Uncle, this is an orphanage, we are all orphans, please donate some money to us..." She looked back at Ning Tao, and then added, "No money , clothes and food are fine."
Xiaoyu's small eyes made Ning Tao feel a little speechless, "Uncle will buy candy for Xiaoyu later."
Li Xiaoyu smiled happily, "Thank you uncle, I want to eat potato chips and chocolate! Come out, my friend, uncle is coming to see us, he wants to buy us candy!"
She is really righteous, and she started to summon her friends before the candy was used.
A large group of children ran out from different rooms, surrounded Ning Tao in an instant, and stretched out their dirty little hands for candies. They are all very young, the youngest is only three or four years old, and the oldest is only ten years old. The clothes on them were ragged and dirty, and one little boy even wore a girl's skirt, so pitiful.
Ning Tao's heart was sour, he took out all the money on his body and put it in Li Xiaoyu's hands, "Uncle has so much on his body, I'll give it to you, use it to buy delicious food for your friends .”
"Uncle, you are so kind, thank you uncle, I will take uncle to find Sister Su Ya first." Li Xiaoyu's mouth was very sweet, she held a hundred or so yuan tightly in her hand, and then led Ning Tao to Go to a tile-roofed house on one side of the building.
A large group of children followed, making noise and jumping up and down, happier than celebrating Children's Day.
When approaching the tile-roofed house, Ning Tao looked up at the roof of the building, but only took a look. When Li Xiaoyu pushed open the door of the tile-roofed house and entered the house, he also walked in.
Entering the room, Ning Tao saw a woman lying on the bed, about sixty years old, with a pale face and greasy hair, which probably hadn't been washed for a long time. On a small table beside the bed was a bowl of brown medicinal soup, and a sand pot for boiling medicine, which contained more than half of the pot of medicinal residues. There are also a pile of boxes of western medicine on the small table, as well as a plastic-wrapped work card with her photo and name on it. Her name is Zhou Yufeng, and she is the director of the Sunshine Orphanage.
There was an electric fan in one corner of the room, and it whirred, but the room was still very stuffy. The most valuable thing in the whole house is probably a Changhong brand TV, but it is not LCD, it is old and old, and there are a few flies inhabiting the dirty screen.
Zhou Yufeng closed his eyes, as if he didn't notice anyone coming into the room.
The girl is not in this room.
Ning Tao's gaze fell on Zhou Yufeng's face. In his sight, Zhou Yufeng's body was filled with a mass of colorful aura, and different colors corresponded to different organs. Hundreds of smells also poured into his nostrils, including the smell from Zhou Yufeng's internal organs.
With just this look and smell, Ning Tao has grasped Zhou Yufeng's condition in just a few seconds. Her liver was cirrhotic and she had symptoms of ascites. With this kind of disease, she can afford to go to a big hospital for a liver transplant and still be able to live, but she obviously does not have such financial conditions.
"Strange, sister Su Ya was still in the room just now, where did she go?" Li Xiaoyu looked left and right, with a strange expression on her face.
Ning Tao said: "Your sister Su Ya is on the roof, go and tell her that I want to talk to her." Then he added, "Well, if you ask her to bring my suitcase, I can give it to you. Aunt Zhou treats the illness."
Li Xiaoyu asked curiously, "Uncle, are you a doctor?"
Ning Tao smiled and nodded, "Well, let's go."
"Uncle, can you cure the dean's mother-in-law?" Li Xiaoyu asked again.
Ning Tao said: "Yes, let's go."
"Great, I'll call Sister Su Ya right away!" Li Xiaoyu turned and ran out the door.
Ning Tao came to the bedside, and subconsciously wanted to take out the bamboo slips of the ledger to test Zhou Yufeng’s merits of kindness, only to realize that the bamboo slips of the ledger were stored in a small medicine box, and it had been stolen by that beautiful female thief named Su Ya .
At this time, Zhou Yufeng, who was lying on the bed, slowly opened her eyes. She looked at Ning Tao and said in a weak voice, "Young man, I heard the conversation between you and Xiaoyu...cough cough..."
Ning Tao leaned over to the bed and said with concern: "Auntie, please speak slowly, don't worry about anything, I'm not a bad person."
"Su Ya is not a bad girl... She, she stole things for the children in the orphanage... Don't sue her... Don't hurt her... I beg you..." Zhou Yufeng struggled to get up.
Ning Tao quickly put his hand on her shoulder, "Auntie, don't worry, I won't hurt her, please rest assured."
In fact, without Zhou Yufeng saying good things to Su Ya, Ning Tao has already made his own judgment based on what he saw and felt in this orphanage. That girl named Su Ya didn't steal things for herself, but for the poor children in the orphanage and the bedridden Dean Zhou. She is a kind-hearted "Grand Thief".
"Uncle, I found Sister Su Ya!" Li Xiaoyu ran in from the door with an expression on his face as if he had completed an important task.
Ning Tao turned around and saw not only Li Xiaoyu but also Su Ya, the girl she met in the snack shop. She stood outside the door, holding his small medicine box in her hand, with a nervous expression on her face.
"You..." Su Ya wanted to say something, but only said one word.
"Auntie, take a break first, Su Ya and I will go out and talk and come back." Ning Tao walked towards Su Ya.
Zhou Yufeng sighed and said nothing.
"Uncle, can I go to the candy shop with my friends to buy candy?" Li Xiaoyu asked following Ning Tao's footsteps.
Ning Tao reached out and patted her small head, and said with a smile, "Of course."
Li Xiaoyu ran away.
Su Ya nagged, "You know how to eat, so be careful when crossing the road."
Li Xiaoyu turned her head and stuck out her tongue at Su Ya, "Slightly slightly!"
Ning Tao was amused by her, but for some reason he felt a heavy feeling in his heart.