boyutpedia Chapter 23 Be a Good Gang Leader
Chapter 23 Be a Good Gang Leader
Chen Ruotong asked the little beggar to give his brother a large cup of warm water. An hour later, the young boy was sweating all over and his fever subsided. He woke up and saw Chen Ruotong. He struggled to get up, but he was too weak to get up.
"Thank you for saving me. I am willing to work like a slave for you to repay you."
Chen Ruotong said: "Your fever has just subsided, but your illness may not be completely cured. You still need to see a doctor."
Chen Ruotong took out ten taels of silver and handed it to the little beggar: "Go and get a doctor for your brother."
The little beggar knelt on the ground with tears in his eyes: "Thank you, big brother!"
Chen Ruotong helped her up: "Go quickly, the sooner you go, the sooner you will come back."
The little beggar ran out with the silver. Chen Ruotong asked, "How do you feel?"
The young boy replied: "Thank you, benefactor. I am much better now."
"Where are your family members? Is it just you and your brother?"
"I have no family left. My mother died a long time ago, and my father also passed away last year, leaving my brother and I to depend on each other. Our family was poor to begin with, and now that I'm sick, we're left with nothing."
"That child just now was your sister? I thought it was a boy."
"I asked her to dress up as a boy, it's safer."
"How old is your sister?"
"My sister was eight years old and I was fifteen. I had thought I could live a good life with my sister, but I didn't expect that I would become seriously ill."
More than 20 minutes later, the little beggar came in with a middle-aged man carrying a medicine box. He checked the boy's pulse and said, "Kid, you have caught a severe cold and it has taken you too long. When you first catch a cold, you will recover quickly after treatment, but now it will take ten days or half a month to recover. I'll prescribe some medicine for you. You must take the medicine every day and eat well, otherwise it will take you a long time to recover."
Chen Ruotong took out another ten taels of silver, stuffed them into the doctor's pocket, and begged, "Doctor, please cure my brother, and please come to see me more often and prescribe some good medicine!"
The doctor waved his hand and said, "The kid just paid me ten taels of silver. The medicine for treating typhoid fever is not expensive. Ten taels is enough."
The little beggar followed the doctor to the clinic to get medicine. At this time, a beggar of fifteen or sixteen years old, with dishevelled hair and dirty face, walked into the room and said, "Shen Bing, how are you? The gang leader came to ask me to urge you to go to the ruined temple again today. He has taken a fancy to your sister Shen Xue. If you don't send her there, he will come to snatch her away."
Shen Bing struggled to sit up and coughed a few times: "Tell him that I will never hand my sister over to him even if I die. He treated you like that, and you still work for him?"
"There's nothing we can do. It's because he and his buddies are so good at martial arts. We don't know how to fight and can't beat him. If we don't listen to him, he will beat us. Xiao Si'er has run away several times, but he caught him every time and broke his legs. Who would dare to run away? If you don't want to work for him, you and your sister should leave Yushu Town as soon as possible!" Boss Qi said with a sad face.
Chen Ruotong asked: "The leader of the Beggars' Sect? Your leader bullies you, shouldn't he take care of you?"
"who are you?"
"I'm Shen Bing's friend. I'm just asking out of curiosity. Maybe I can help you?"
"Alas! I used to take care of my younger brothers, and I took them to beg for food. However, three adults came last month, and they asked me and my younger brothers to beg for money and food for them and to support them. If we refused, they would beat us. Later, he said he wanted to be our gang leader, and we couldn't resist. We could only work for him and let him bully us." Boss Qi sighed.
"Then do you want to drive these three people away? Be the gang leader yourself and take care of your younger brothers?" Chen Ruotong asked, touching her chin with two fingers.
"Stop messing around. Those three guys have knives and are skilled in martial arts. Even if we fight together, we can't beat them. We dare not go looking for death!"
"Use here!" Chen Ruotong pointed to her head, "Do as I say, and they will definitely disappear."
Chen Ruotong turned around and said to Shen Bing, "You lie down first, and wait for your sister to come back and make you some medicine. I will go with him to meet their leader."
Shen Bing said worriedly, "You have to be careful. If you see something bad happen, run away. Boss Qi, you have to take good care of my friend."
"Well, don't worry, just take good care of yourself." Boss Qi said unconfidently.
Chen Ruotong followed Boss Qi to the ruined temple of the Beggars' Gang.
As they walked, Chen Ruotong told Boss Qi about his plan.
Boss Qi frowned, "Will this work? You will be in danger!"
"Don't worry, I won't let you do that if you're not sure." Chen Ruotong said with a smile.
Chen Ruotong walked into the yard of the dilapidated temple. Boss Qi ran into the house and shouted, "Oh no, leader! Someone is trying to destroy our Beggars' Sect!" After shouting, he hurried to the backyard and gathered all his brothers to hide in the house and close the doors and windows.
The three gang leaders were drinking and eating meat in the house. They laughed loudly: "Which thief is overestimating his own abilities? Let me show you how I'm going to deal with him."
The three of them walked out of the temple gate and came to the courtyard. The lantern in front of the door emitted a faint light, and Chen Ruotong, dressed as Bai Wuchang, suddenly appeared in the courtyard.
The three of them were stunned, and before they could react, Chen Ruotong came over on a balance bike. As soon as she stretched out her hand, the gang leader was gone, and when the remaining two turned around to run, she grabbed them one by one and carried them into space.
Chen Ruotong changed back into her original outfit, left the space, put five bags of rice and two bags of flour in the corner, put a bag of silver coins she had received from Li Daoba on the rice bags, and shouted, "Boss Qi, come out, I beat those three guys away."
Boss Qi brought more than a dozen children from the back house to the yard.
"You won't have to live your life being bullied anymore. Take good care of Shen Bing and his sister. I'm leaving. Those three bad guys won't come back again. Be a good gang leader and lead your brothers to be good people. I still hope you don't become beggars. You can go out and do hard labor for others with your hands and feet, and you can earn some money!" Chen Ruotong suggested.
Qi Laoda led more than a dozen children and gave Chen Ruotong a big gift: "Remember what the benefactor said, we will live by working with our own hands!"
Chen Ruotong returned to Shen Bing's house. Shen Bing and her sister were already asleep. She took out three bags of rice from the space and put them in the kitchen. She also took out twenty taels of silver and put them on the table, then walked out of the alley.
There were not many people on the street at this time, so she did not rest in the town, but continued to walk forward. She left the town and entered the space to rest.
After helping Shen Bing and his sister and the little beggars, she felt happy but also sad, and felt very sympathetic and compassionate towards them. In ancient times, children from poor families were really pitiful. They were not well fed and well clothed, and their lives could be in danger at any time, not to mention going to school to study and receive education. It was not easy for them to survive.
Chen Ruotong tossed and turned in the big bed in the space, unable to sleep. What should she do after finding the original owner's family? Who are the original owner's relatives? Is there any top-notch? The closer she gets to the answer, the more nervous she becomes!