Chapter 504 - 514: To Take Lives-II
"It turns out when I met my mother they live through poverty. Both my mother and my sister cannot even afford the cake which I bought for them when we met again. They were dressed in a tattered clothes, and my sister, even though she was at the age where clothes and look mattered wore her school shoes outside because she cannot afford anymore shoes," Wei Tsui Lan explained.
Li Xiao Chen could tell it wasn’t any time soon that the man would kill him because he seemed to be taking leisure time in telling his life story.
"Then buy her shoes," Naomi commented, gathering the attention of others on her she crossed her arms. "Skip reminiscing about your past and come out with it. How did his grandfather killed your mother and sister, and what does my sister have to do with this too?"
"One question at a time, Miss Naomi," Wei Tsui Lan used a calm tone against Naomi as if he was enjoying her anger that only angered her further.
"Of course I bought her shoes, I gave her money too. Only the next day I learned that the money I gave her was then taken by her step-father who my mother married again for gambling. I also learned later that he was involved in a great gambling debt. You asked me what Xiao Chen’s grandfather did? He was the loan shark who lended my mom’s husband’s money. And that resulted to the great fire which took both her and my sister’s life."
Wei Tsui Lan recalled it as if it happened yesterday. He decided to visit both his mother and sister with worries. The last time he had seen her, he remembered the bruises on their face and bodies. It was clear the injuries was caused by her current husband.
He had planned to take his sister with her. After consulting with his adoptive parents, both of them was quick to agree and help them.
He came to their house with a wide smile, wondering if he could fulfill the promise he made as a child to bring both of them to a trip to the Sea.
Wei Tsui Lan was walking on the street where the apartment was when all of a sudden a sudden blast rang in the whole neighborhood. The sound was so loud that he couldn’t mistaken it to be less louder than an exploding bomb.