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Chapter 13 Father and Daughter
Coming out of the Lianghelou ring on Longjin Road, Zhang Jin first went to buy the supper he promised to Uncle Gen, and returned to his residence with a plastic bag.

At night in the Kowloon Walled City, only Longjin Road is the busiest, with feasting and feasting, and the intoxication is like another place, which is incompatible with the true face of the Kowloon Walled City.

When I returned to the squatter house in Chongyi Lane, I saw Uncle Gen still sitting in his original position, basking in the sun during the day and enjoying the moonlight at night.

Zhang Jin stepped forward to say hello: "Uncle Gen."

"It's back! It smells so good, is it my supper?" Uncle Gen said with a smile.

Zhang Jin put the plastic bag on the stone table beside him: "Uncle Gen, it's best to eat while it's hot."

"No hurry, I'll tell you something." Uncle Gen pressed his hand to untie the bag with a cattail fan, and gestured to the room on the second floor.

"What's the matter?" Zhang Jin glanced at the room on the second floor. It was the single room that the charterer promised to reserve for him. There seemed to be a silhouette moving in the darkness.

"Ma Dexing and his daughter." Uncle Gen said in a low voice.

"Aren't they driven away by the charterer? What are they doing back here, wanting to live in again?" Zhang Jin frowned.

"It doesn't look like that. I think Ma Dexing is asking for something from you." Uncle Gen raised his cattail fan and waved it. "Go, I'll go back to the house for supper too."

Saying goodbye to Uncle Gen, Zhang Jin stepped on the iron stairs to the second floor, the aisle was very dark, and the moonlight could not shine here, but he has the physique of a super soldier, his eyesight is not weak, and he can vaguely see two figures, one big and one small, curled up At the door, when they heard his footsteps, they seemed to turn their heads to look over at the same time.

"Ma Dexing?" Zhang Jin said.

After a while, I heard a slightly embarrassing voice from the opposite side: "It's me, Ah Jin."

Zhang Jin went to the door and opened the door, turned on the light bulb in the room, and the incandescent light spilled out of the aisle, making the faces of Ma Dexing and a little girl suddenly appear.

Seeing Ma Dexing's bruised nose and swollen face, Zhang Jin was taken aback for a moment: "Who are you?"

Ma Dexing grinned, missing a front tooth: "The debt collector was beaten, it's okay."

Both of them are mainland smugglers, and they don't speak Cantonese when they chat.

"Come in and sit."

"No, I'll talk to you alone outside."

"Okay, then let your daughter go in and sit down first. Have you had dinner? I bought a midnight snack. If you don't mind, you can have a few bites."

Ma Dexing cast a grateful look, turned his head and said to his daughter with a pleasant face: "Xiao Shui, be obedient, go sit down first, have something to eat, and come to see you after Dad finishes talking with uncle, okay?"

"En." Xiao Shui nodded, and walked into the room obediently.

Ma Dexing concealed the door, walked to the corner at the end of the corridor with Zhang Jin, and then said with some embarrassment: "Ah Jin, there is something I want to ask you for your help. I know this may be very abrupt, but I really have nothing else to do." The way, you are known by everyone as the good-hearted brother Qiancheng, if you don't even help me..."

"You want me to lend you money?" Zhang Jin asked.

Ma Dexing quickly waved his hand: "No, I will pay back the money myself. I know you have developed recently, but usury is very troublesome, and the money you earn may not be enough to pay back my interest. I will figure out a way for this matter. But I It is impossible for my daughter to wander with me, I hope... I hope you can help take care of it for a while."

As if he was afraid that he would not agree, Ma Dexing hurriedly said, "Don't worry, you don't have to take good care of her, just give her a bite to eat. Besides, Xiaoshui is very sensible and capable of housework, and can help you clean up the room , you should have hired a servant, and I will not eat you for nothing."

Hearing Ma Dexing's eager tone, Zhang Jin said: "Are you so relieved to hand over your daughter to me, are you not afraid that I will be a beast?"

"I've inquired about it. You have a good reputation and you have never done anything bad."

"A person who has never done bad things is not necessarily a good person, not to mention that a good person may not always be a good person."

"I know what you said. If you are really a beast, there is nothing I can do about it." Ma Dexing smiled wryly. If it wasn't for desperation, who would entrust his children to others?The young man in front of him was the best choice he could find.

Zhang Jin was silent for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, I promise you."

"Thank you! I...I kowtow to you!" Ma Dexing was very excited.

Zhang Jin hurriedly pulled him back to prevent him from kneeling: "Don't, Brother Ma, I can't bear it, it's just a little effort, I still want to live a few more years."

He didn't like to make people kneel down, and without saying anything else, just by agreeing to this matter, the system actually increased the progress of the good thing task for him to 81, which increased the number of tasks by ten.

"Okay, thank you for your kindness. If I have the ability in the future, I will definitely repay you!" Ma Dexing smiled with tears, "Then it's settled, Xiaoshui will be taken care of by you. Come back and get him."

"How do you plan to pay back the money? Do you want me to introduce you to some jobs?" Zhang Jin said, helping people to the end.

"No need, the usury has already prepared something for me to do, and I can't refuse." Ma Dexing shook his head, turned to look at the lighted door, with a complicated and guilty expression.

After a long while, he took a deep breath, "I'll go first, so I won't say goodbye to Xiao Shui, you can tell her for me." After speaking, he turned around and went downstairs from the other side of the stairs.

Zhang Jin watched Ma Dexing go downstairs and returned to his room. The little girl Xiaoshui was sitting quietly on a chair, and there was an unopened supper on the table.

"Why don't you eat it? Longjindao Wangbo's wonton tastes good." Zhang Jin closed the door, stepped forward and smiled.

Since he came in, Xiao Shui has been staring at him with those big watery eyes, and suddenly asked: "Did my dad leave?"

"Uh..." Zhang Jin didn't expect her to ask such a question, "Your father has something to do, so you stay with me first, and he will come back to pick you up after a while."

Xiao Shui pursed her lips, with a surprisingly calm expression on her face: "Oh, I see."

Zhang Jin felt that the little girl's reaction was a bit strange, so he couldn't help asking, "Aren't you curious about what he did?"

Xiao Shui said: "I know what he's going to do. Today the loan shark wanted to arrest me to pay off the debt, but my dad didn't agree. In the end, he had to agree to help the other party with a matter. As long as the matter is done well, the debt will be cancelled. "

"Do you know what they want your dad to do?" Now it's Zhang Jin's turn to be curious. It is absolutely difficult to get usury to pay off debts, and it may even be life-threatening.

Ma Dexing didn't intend to ask him to help, but if he could get more mission completions by being busy with Ma Dexing, he wouldn't mind being a "bad" good guy and intervening in the matter.

Xiao Shui replied: "I don't know, they didn't explain it directly, but it may have something to do with going to the mainland, because they like my dad's northern accent."

Zhang Jin pondered for a while. The matter involved the mainland, and it was a bit sensitive. It might not be something he can intervene now, but the specific situation is not known yet. A loan shark may not be as deep as he thought. Only the loan sharks can figure it out.

He asked Xiao Shui: "What's the name of that loan shark?"

(End of this chapter)