Chapter 1193 — Borrowing Money Again
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For Yu Xiaoke to break free of Er Gou Dan's strength was the stuff of madmen's dreams. She struggled twice, found his grip clamped on her like a pair of iron tongs, and deflated at once. "Not now — I can't go to prison, I really can't! Can't you wait a while? Let me get everything arranged first, and if you still want to hand me over then, I'll go with you..."
"And if you run off, where am I supposed to find you?" Er Gou Dan was not about to trust her word.
"I can find you — I have your address..." Yu Xiaoke said cautiously.
"Do you take me for a fool?" Er Gou Dan flared into a fury and slipped back into his coarse tongue: "You little wench, sharp as a fox — a vixen through and through! I'm not letting you slip away!"
Wei Zhao changed his clothes, took up two bottles of wound medicine, and stepped out of the villa. The moment he cleared the door he heard Er Gou Dan's big voice bellowing about something; he looked up and saw a familiar face — Yu Xiaoke. Er Gou Dan had her by the arm and would not let go.
"What's going on — do you two know each other?" Wei Zhao came over, smiling, and asked.
Yu Xiaoke had never expected to see Wei Zhao here. He was like a savior dropping out of the sky. Her face creased in appeal as she cried, "Wei Zhao, please help — talk to him! He wants to send me to the police..."
"Send you to the police?" Wei Zhao was mildly taken aback, but a thought struck him at once, and he turned to Er Gou Dan: "Er Gou Dan — that female swindler you mentioned earlier... she wouldn't happen to be her, would she?"
"That's exactly her! Leader, do you know her?" Er Gou Dan was confused, too — Yu Xiaoke had called out Wei Zhao's name outright, which meant the two of them plainly knew each other.
Wei Zhao, however, had frowned. From what he knew of Yu Xiaoke, this business might not be what Er Gou Dan supposed — that he had been swindled by her. Who was Yu Xiaoke? A thief, that was who; stealing was her stock in trade. As for cheating people, it was entirely unnecessary to her.
If she had wanted Er Gou Dan's money, she could have quietly helped herself to it — why resort to deception? And given her circumstances, a child at the orphanage lying hurt and her going about raising funds was only natural.
Besides, even if Yu Xiaoke really had swindled Er Gou Dan the first time, there was no sense in coming back to his door to cheat him a second time. So he asked: "Yu Xiaoke, what are you doing here?"
She had staked all her hopes on Wei Zhao, and so she told him again, in full and careful detail, what had brought her.
Hearing her out, Wei Zhao rather thought she was not lying. He had seen Yu Xiaoke's orphanage with his own eyes, so what she said now was, give or take, nine parts in ten true — the child at the orphanage really had been hurt!
Tetanus, if not treated in time, could bring very grave consequences. So Wei Zhao decided to deal first with that Xiao Yan's wound at the orphanage, and only then go and see Mother Yu — after all, Mother Yu's injury had already stabilized, and it would keep for a while yet.