The boy struggled vigorously, "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 objection 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 send 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 said, "Police Bureau?"
"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 in the first place!"
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. He was not an idiot.
...
"Why did you steal the money?"
Xiao Xiao changed the question indifferently.
"You - just stole the money!"
After the loud voice at the beginning, the boy who realized something lowered his voice, "Did I steal it?"
"I didn't steal it at all!"
He was telling the truth.
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 there was a faint feeling 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 ask the police uncle to 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 of being found out by his parents, but more like... he doesn't want his parents to worry about it.
His expression was almost imperceptibly softer.
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 before he 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. Because of his efforts to stop him, the other party still attempted the theft, so there was no need for him to report the crime.
Just know this.
more-
He is not a police officer, nor 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 either, right?"
Thinking of what the young man blurted out before, Xiao Xiao added another sentence.
Sure enough, there was a tangled look on the young man's 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, "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 became darker and darker.
A patch of deep red and light red, the complex and gorgeous colors are difficult to describe.
...
He sighed inwardly.
Now that I’ve heard it all, 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?"
"Is mom still at work, so there's no one at home?"
He made a guess of his own.
...
"Mother......"
The young man's voice was very soft, and he paused mid-sentence, and his hands hanging by his sides were clasped together tightly.
All the blood faded from the pursed lips.
...
Xiao Xiao didn't rush, and quietly waited for the young man's unfinished words.
...
The boy suddenly raised his head, the corners of his eyes were still red, but there was a risk-taking 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 reason can't be found in the hospital."
"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 mom always told me in 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, Devour Mom!"
"Sorry...sorry."
"But, but..."
"I have no choice."
"I don't know either......"
The young man collapsed.
With desperate desperation.
He knows that he is despicable, because he knows that the other person is a good person, so he relies on the other person like this.
...
He once saw a thief being caught red-handed. (To be continued)
