The student delinquent pulled Lin Yi through the streets and alleys, darting around like a loach, very fast.
In the blink of an eye, she shook off the pursuers far behind.
"Huff… Huff… Huff…"
The delinquent leaned against the wall, poked her head out to take a look, and then pulled back, saying to Lin Yi, "It's… it's okay now."
After speaking, she patted her chest and panted softly.
"Thank you… thank you just now."
The delinquent bowed to Lin Yi to express her gratitude.
"Don't thank me. I didn't intend to help you."
Lin Yi didn't think of himself as a kind person. He only showed kindness and gentleness in front of Xiaolan and Yuanzi out of need.
He was very ruthless and would dare to hit even elementary school students when he got angry.
"Before I could even finish speaking, they wanted to hit me too."
Lin Yi said disdainfully, "A bunch of brainless idiots."
After speaking, Lin Yi turned and left the alley, planning to go home.
He still had to figure out what kind of excuse to use to trick Xiaolan out of her house.
Hmm? How about saying that he had just been beaten up and was covered in injuries?
So Xiaolan could come over to help him rub some medicinal wine?
But that was a bit abrupt. He should be more tactful and ask Xiaolan where to buy medicinal wine for bruises and injuries.
That way, Xiaolan would definitely ask why he wanted to buy medicinal wine, and then he would say that he had just been walking on the street and was beaten up because his walking posture was too arrogant.
Hmm, hmm… This excuse is good.
Just as Lin Yi came up with a brilliant excuse and was about to take out his phone, the delinquent followed him.
"You're so amazing… You defeated those two people so easily."
"Keep a low profile… I'm a peace-loving person, and I hate violence the most."
"But you're very good at violence…"
"Although violence can't solve problems, it can solve idiots… Okay, scram."
"Don't you remember me?"
"Do we know each other?"
Lin Yi looked at her strangely.
"It's me…" The girl made a "shush" gesture to Lin Yi. She asked, "Do you remember?"
Shush?
Lin Yi thought for a moment, then said "Oh".
He remembered. The day he beat up Huang Mao and his five friends and sent them to the hospital, he had been sneaking around when he was accidentally discovered by this girl. This girl was her…
It's not my fault I didn't recognize you at first glance… It's just that all the girls wear heavy makeup and look the same.
"I remember…"
Lin Yi nodded, then said coldly, "Alright, stop following me."
"Wait, don't go that way…" The girl blocked Lin Yi in front of him. She said, "That's the territory of the Inagawa-kai, the territory of those people you just beat up…"
"Oh? Kabukicho is divided into territories?"
Lin Yi was very curious.
"Yes… I'll take you away from here."
The girl led Lin Yi in another direction. She said, "Besides the Inagawa-kai, there are also the Sumiyoshi-kai and the Yamaguchi-gumi… These three are the largest gangs here. Kabukicho is divided up between the three of them."
"Look… Do you see that phone booth?" The girl pointed to the phone booth in the distance and said, "That phone booth is the dividing line between the Inagawa-kai and the Yamaguchi-gumi… If nothing happens, they usually mind their own business."
Lin Yi took a closer look and found that there were several gang members in uniform walking back and forth inside the phone booth.
This made him suddenly realize: "No wonder there are so many gang members wandering around the phone booth when I play "Yakuza"…"
"Huh? What "Yakuza"?" The girl looked blank.
"Never mind… I mean, how did you get involved with these gangsters?"
Lin Yi changed the subject directly.
"They're here to collect debts…" The girl's eyes flickered a little.
Lin Yi didn't bother to look at her and said, "Collecting debts? You're so young, but you dare to learn from others to borrow high-interest loans. You're quite brave, I admire you… Wait a minute."
"It's only right to pay back debts… I beat the people away, didn't I become a bad person?"
Lin Yi glanced at the girl next to him and said in a slightly displeased tone, "Do you think I'm very silly and innocent, so you let me be a shield?"
The girl panicked a little. She quickly said, "I didn't borrow the high-interest loan… My parents borrowed it!"
Speaking of these messes at home, the girl's voice sank: "It was clearly 200,000 that was borrowed at the beginning… But later they asked us to pay back 2 million… They are too much!"
Lin Yi didn't find it strange: "If it's not too much, it's called a loan. If it's too much, it's called a high-interest loan… If you're not prepared to be slaughtered, don't touch irregular loans."
"We want to too… But we have no choice."
The girl said with some choked sobs, "The bank won't lend us money, and we are in a hurry to use money to treat my dad in the hospital…"
"We are all working hard to earn money… But the money we earn is not even enough to pay the interest!"
"My mother was even forced to sell her body by them…"
"Now… they still want to attack me…"
Speaking of this, the girl couldn't help crying.
Lin Yi frowned and said, "Then you can call the police."
"They have even bought off the police. It's useless to call the police." The girl wiped her tears and sobbed intermittently.
After her emotions stabilized again, the girl bowed to Lin Yi and apologized: "I'm very sorry… I shouldn't have told you these things. You just helped me, I'm already very grateful…"
An old story, a plot with an ending known from the beginning…
But for some reason, Lin Yi felt pity in his heart after hearing it.
Sure enough.
No matter how clichéd the story and plot are, the problem lies in the acting skills of the actors.
If Yang Tianbao came, it is estimated that she would just stare and cry from beginning to end.
It doesn't matter to Lin Yi whether the story the girl told is true or false.
What's important is that the girl's performance successfully moved Lin Yi!
Since you moved me, then what's wrong with me turning around for you once?
"I'll go buy you some oranges. You wait for me here and don't move around."
Lin Yi signaled the girl to wait for him, then turned and left.
Looking at Lin Yi's leaving back, the girl who was originally sobbing suddenly returned to normal.
She snorted unhappily: "What's the use of buying me some oranges? Just give me the money! Bastard…"
"Looking at the way he dresses, he looks quite handsome. I thought he was a gigolo… I didn't expect him to be a pauper."
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