Chapter 23: Helping an old man who fell down (please read this big chapter)
The vehicle was driving under the night in Jianghai City.
In this big city with millions of people, this car is just a drop in the ocean of everything.
Tang Beiwei stared at the scenes outside through the car window, as if her thousands of years of cultivation were fleeting.
Mortal life is short, but live happily.
The life of a monk is long, but it is always lonely.
And she is the latter...
"Strange, why am I suddenly sentimental today?"
Tang Beiwei sighed secretly and stopped thinking about those troublesome things.
Along the way, she wanted to speak, but Xu Fan immediately looked over with a menacing look, as if to warn her not to speak.
Twenty minutes later, the car stopped on the side of the road. Xu Fan walked towards the car first. Seeing that the woman was still sitting inside unmoved, he called her: "We are here, get out of the car."
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"Oh." Tang Beiwei responded calmly and followed her down.
At the same time, he raised his head and looked at the surrounding environment. It was completely different from the previous community. The huge square could accommodate ten thousand people. The snack street next to it was flashing neon lights of different colors. There were also people on the sidewalk beside the road. People go.
Some have just gotten off work, some are a couple going out to visit the night market, and of course you can also see three or five best friends hanging out together.
"You mortals do like the excitement."
This was Tang Beiwei's first time seeing such a bustling place. Mainly because there were too many people and the noise was endless.
“Rather than saying that it’s lively, it’s better to say that there are too many people now and there is no place to go.”
"I know there is a milk tea shop here. The milk tea is very delicious. I will take you to have a drink." Xu Fan said with a slight smile.
"Milk tea?" Tang Beiwei was obviously unfamiliar with this word.
"You will know when you go there. Girls should all like to drink this."
Xu Fan knew that it was useless to explain too much.
The two of them walked one behind the other until they reached a zebra crossing. It happened to be a red light and they had to wait for a few minutes.
"Why don't you leave?"
Tang Beiwei saw that the people around her, like Xu Fan, were standing still, looking down at their phones and scrolling through videos. A voice came from the phone: "Pay attention, this man's name is Xiaoshuai..."
Such words attracted the attention of several people around him, but they didn't pay much attention.
"Shh, hold back your words!"
Xu Fan on the side reminded her in a low voice.
Tang Beiwei:…………
At this moment, everyone's attention was attracted to another place. On the sidewalk next to the zebra crossing, an old woman in her eighties fell to the ground. There were two overturned baskets and bags next to her. Soy milk was scattered all over the floor.
The old woman tried to get up, but she seemed to have injured her joints and couldn't use her strength. She failed several times.
Tang Beiwei followed her gaze and saw this scene.
I saw many people walking by, and some people stood there as if hesitating, but no one dared to step forward to help.
She was a little surprised and turned to look at Xu Fan beside her. She found that although this guy also saw this scene, he didn't seem to want to care.
"The light is green, let's go."
Seeing the green light turn on, Xu Fan called her.
As a result, as soon as he took a few steps, he found the woman standing motionless, staring at the fallen old man.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
Tang Beiwei was speechless and continued to stand there for five or six minutes. The traffic lights jumped on both sides before she said, "I'm curious about something."
"What's the matter?"
"I remember that when I was in Beicang Continent, everyone in the place knew each other and would help each other, but in this plane... you seem to have become indifferent."
Tang Shishi was confused. She was the Supreme Demonic Dao. It was not that she would pity a mortal, but that she did not understand their actions.
When she was in Beicang Continent, she traveled to many places and saw many people and worldly things.
But in this plane, after an old man falls, there are countless human companions around him, but no one dares to step forward to help him?
Xu Fan may have understood what she meant, and said with a wry smile: "Actually, I also want to help, but I don't have the money to compensate others..."
The 50,000 yuan I won during the day left less than 40,000 yuan. Although I could still make more money, I couldn't support the big hole after helping others.
"Do I still need to pay for helping someone?"
Tang Beiwei was slightly surprised when she heard this.
"How should I put it? There are some people with evil intentions in this world. They will pretend to fall. If you help someone, they will think that you caused them to fall. Then they will need to pay a lot of money."
Xu Fan thought for a while and explained to her.
"Is there such a thing?"
Tang Beiwei had never imagined this problem, because it could not be seen in Beicang Continent.
If there was any misunderstanding, it was resolved on the spot, physically of course.
I thought that after telling the woman the pros and cons, she would leave.
As a result, he was caught off guard in the next second and said: "I want to help that person. If I really need to pay for the money, you can pay for me."
She didn't have any good intentions, it was the first time she heard about this matter, and she was extremely curious, wanting to see how these people with evil intentions cheated.
Xu Fan: "??!"
By the time he reacted to the surprise of these words, the woman had already walked over, and he hurriedly chased after her and shouted: "Fuck...I can't help you, I can't afford to pay..."
Let alone tens of thousands of dollars in hand, even if one has millions of assets, he would not dare to help...
There was an endless stream of people on the sidewalk.
They passed by the fallen old man and deliberately chose to avoid it, as if they had never seen him.
When the old man was lonely and helpless, a tall young girl wearing Hanfu came to her.
The girl lowered her head and looked down at the old man. There was no emotion in her eyes. She bent down to help the old man up and sat on the public seat next to him.
"Hey, little girl...Thank you so much. It's all my fault that my legs were useless and I accidentally slipped."
The old lady had obviously broken her leg, her body was shaking slightly, and her old face seemed more haggard
She endured the pain in her body, held Tang Beiwei's little hand and kept saying words of thanks, her cloudy eyes became moist.
Tang Beiwei:…………
She was stunned for a while, and a question popped up in her mind, because the situation was somewhat different from what Xu Fan said.
Didn't it mean that these people who fell had evil intentions and wanted to defraud her?
The old lady in front of me clearly looked grateful, as if she came from the bottom of her heart and was not fake.
"How much money do I need to compensate you...how much?"
She frowned slightly and asked in a plain tone.
Old lady: "??!"
The expression on the old lady's face suddenly stiffened, and what she wanted to say suddenly failed her, but there was even more loss in her eyes.
At this time, Xu Fan, who had just followed, after hearing the conversation between the two, he understood that this old woman was not blackmailing, but had really fallen down accidentally.
"You lied to me?"
Her tone became colder, and her voice sounded in Xu Fan's mind. It was obvious that she used the sound transmission technique.
"Well...that's not the case. I didn't say just now that all the people who fell down had evil intentions. It's just your understanding that's wrong..."
After all, supporting the elderly is like a huge gamble in life, betting on whether this person will blackmail you.
If the bet wins, you can get gratitude and a little bit of spiritual comfort.
But if you lose the bet, it will cause countless troubles and lawsuits, and you may lose your entire family
So it’s not that people are indifferent and don’t help the elderly.
But everyone is tired and don’t have the ability to gamble...
Perhaps with this help, his own family will be beyond redemption.
"Is that so?" Tang Beiwei was doubtful and looked back at the old lady sitting on the bench, looking very painful.
"Little girl, can you please call me? I have a number..."
At this time, the old lady took out a piece of paper from her pocket with a series of numbers on it.
"That old lady, let me help you fight."
Seeing that Tang Shishi was confused, Xu Fan had no choice but to take out his cell phone and walk over, dialing the number on it.
The person who answered the phone was the old lady's son. After hearing his mother fall, he asked for the location and hurriedly hung up the phone and rushed here.
"Alas, there are not many young people as kind-hearted as you nowadays."
The old lady looked at the endless stream of people on the street and seemed to be sighing in her heart.
"By the way, grandma, why are you carrying two big baskets of soy milk this late at night?"
Xu Fan couldn't help but ask after putting the soy milk that had been knocked to the ground back into the basket.
At this point, I saw that the old woman's mood was a little lower, and she sighed: "I go to the pedestrian street every night to sell soy milk, but people nowadays seem to like to drink drinks."
Xu Fan was shocked when he said this. He was still selling things in his eighties.
He continued to ask: "What about your family? Do they trust you to come out?"
"My two sons have both been laid off and are not in good health..."
At this point, the old woman's voice suddenly choked up
"Little girl, take this money and treat it as a thank you."
Without waiting for Xu Fan to answer, she took out a stack of banknotes from her trouser pocket, but most of them were change.
She took out only a hundred-dollar bill and handed it to Tang Beiwei in front of her after hesitating for a few seconds.
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