Chapter 876 - 261: [Strange Child] (6200) Part 3
Finally...
The man silently pulled out his phone, glaring hatefully at Chen Yan. The woman beside him seemed confused and wanted to shout something, but the man waved her off: "Quiet!"
He took a deep breath, his face showing a vicious expression like a wild dog, timid yet baring his teeth.
"How do I pay?"
Chen Yan turned to look at the child, who silently took out a phone.
The phone was very old, clearly used for several years, a cheap, basic model meant for the elderly.
This thing, how should I put it, even a simple app would freeze after prolonged use.
The child skillfully pulled up a payment code, and the man scanned it, transferring a hundred yuan.
He seemed unwilling, with a hint of grievance—as if he were the victim—and looked angrily at Chen Yan: "Is that enough?"
"Wait a moment." Chen Yan checked the notification on the child’s phone, then a friendly smile appeared on his face: "It’s done. You can leave now. If you had done this earlier, you wouldn’t have embarrassed yourself and lost money."
Saying this, Chen Yan cheerfully announced to the surrounding people: "Alright, alright, he paid! Let’s let him go!"
The diners were indignant for a moment, but seeing the matter resolved, naturally, no one would hold onto it.
To Zhao Shanhe’s surprise, Chen Yan even took the initiative to pat the man’s shoulder and also patted the woman’s arm.
Like a kind old man, he said: "When you go out, act human, don’t drink too much and cause trouble. And you, watch over your man, don’t do shameful things like this..."
The two were pushed and shoved towards the door by what seemed like friendly pats from Chen Yan, but in reality, it was just shoving them out of the restaurant.
They didn’t realize that while Chen Yan was pushing and shoving, he secretly used an "Interruption Technique" on both the man and the woman.
Chen Yan rarely used this spell; the last time was when he just started cultivation and was renting a place. He used it on an annoying roommate.
The result... that roommate later found themselves eating a toilet’s worth in Young Lady Gu’s hands...
Today’s Chen Yan was worlds apart in cultivation and Taoism practice, but he didn’t intend to take their lives, just wanted to teach them a lesson.
These people weren’t extremely evil—but they were definitely bad.
Not extremely evil, not because they had conscience, but because they didn’t have the ability to do worse things.
They didn’t seem wealthy or powerful, just regular people.
Probably pent-up frustration from life, but cowardly, bullying the weak and fearing the strong, they didn’t dare to provoke someone more powerful, so they vented their frustration on someone weaker.
Shameless scum.
After they left the store, without a word to their friend who came with them, they quickly walked away along the street.
Their friend, too, hung their head, quickly leaving in the opposite direction.
Not a good person either, witnessing their friends doing something disgusting, didn’t stop them, pretended to see nothing, but since they didn’t participate, Chen Yan couldn’t be bothered with them.
After they left, Chen Yan turned around. Zhao Shanhe, Lin Xianyu, and a small assistant had all followed him out.
Behind them, the frail child also came out, with a peculiar look in their eyes as they gazed at Chen Yan: "Uh... thank you."
"Mm." Chen Yan calmly accepted the child’s gratitude.
Beside him, Lin Xianyu sighed: "How old are you? Out selling ice cream so late? How much can you earn? Don’t the adults in your family take care of you?"
The child pursed their lips: "I... I’m from the Sunflower Welfare Institute. The phone and money for wholesale ice cream were borrowed from the director. I wanted to earn some money after school to buy a backpack for my sister."
Lin Xianyu couldn’t help but gape for a moment. Seeing the child’s eyes softened, she squatted down, touched the child’s head. The child seemed to want to dodge slightly, but in the end, didn’t move.
"How old are you?"
"Eleven."
Lin Xianyu frowned—this child seemed to have had a tough time. Their physique didn’t look like an eleven-year-old, more like a seven or eight-year-old.
In recent months, she had done a lot of charity work, donating schools and buildings, witnessing human suffering.
Originally a little fox with a reasonably kind heart, over the past few months, after seeing so many unfortunate souls, she truly developed some compassion, sighed softly, and asked in a low voice: "What’s your name?"
"My surname is Shen."
Just as the child started to answer, a disheveled little head popped up from behind a tree by the roadside, timidly calling out: "Brother."
This time Chen Yan saw clearly, it was a little girl, about the same age as the boy named Xiao Shen. Pale-faced, she was dressed very simply.
Xiao Shen immediately walked over, took the girl’s hand, frowned and said: "Didn’t I tell you to wait at the convenience store down the street, watching our bike! Why did you come over?"
"I-I was scared because you weren’t coming back," the girl timidly replied.
Xiao Shen nodded, holding the girl’s hand and brought her over to Chen Yan and the others: "My surname is Shen, I’m called Shen Shiqi, and this is my sister, she’s called Shen Shijiu."
After he said this, he glanced at the girl: "Nineteen, let’s thank these big brothers and sisters together!"