After showing off his skills and receiving a gift from Bai Ren, Mo Yi was in a great mood.
The two of them strolled around the night market for quite a while longer. When they came to a stall selling pine nut candy, Bai Ren even took the initiative to buy a bag for the first time in his life. He took out one piece and fed it to Mo Yi’s lips.
The boy was very used to lowering his head and taking the pine nut candy into his mouth. The sweet, fragrant taste was quite nice.
Rubbing the finger that had accidentally brushed against the other’s lips, Bai Ren’s eyes darkened. Then he heard Mo Yi ask, “Bai Ren, do you really like pine nut candy?”
Mo Yi had just asked casually, after all, this was the man’s first time taking the initiative to buy snacks from a stall.
“Like it.”
Bai Ren nodded, as if someone had once told him that pine nut candy was very good, that it was a taste that represented happiness.
But who had told him that?
The man thought about it for a moment, still could not remember, and simply stopped thinking about it.
By the time Bai Ren and Mo Yi had both had their fill of the market, it was completely dark. There was nothing much to do in the night market after dark, and since it was cold this month, it would be better to go home.
So Mo Yi pushed Bai Ren back the way they had come. Only, when they reached the night market exit, they discovered that the two children who had been holding the donation box earlier still had not left.
What’s more, the food he had given them before was still being held properly in the girl’s arms. The little girl would lower her head from time to time and sniff at the mouth of the bag. She was obviously desperately craving it, yet she still had not eaten any.
A trace of struggle appeared on Mo Yi’s face. He wanted to ask them why they still had not left so late, and why he had even bought them food if they still were not going to eat it!
It was Bai Ren who saw through Mo Yi’s thoughts. He patted the back of his hand, pointed in the direction of the two children, and said, “Let’s go that way.”
Mo Yi nodded when he heard that. When he passed the two children, he still could not hold back in the end. He looked at them fixedly and asked, “Why aren’t you eating the things I just gave you?”
The siblings saw Mo Yi and their eyes lit up. They knew that although this Big Brother looked fierce, he was clearly a good person.
The girl’s personality was obviously more lively. She smiled and said, “Big Brother, we want to take these snacks back for the younger brothers and younger sisters in the welfare home.”
“The welfare home?”
Mo Yi naturally knew what kind of place that was. He pressed his lips together and asked, “Since you’re children from the welfare home, why are you here? In that welfare home, are there many children like you?”
This time the boy answered, “There are quite a few.
Our place isn’t very big, but there are more than ten brothers and sisters. But recently our place ran into difficulties, and Mama Director has been very worried every day. It seems the place we originally rented no longer wants to rent to us.
Someone wants to buy the land our welfare home is on at a high price, so my sister and I thought of going to a place with lots of people to ask for donations. That way, if we have money, we won’t need to move.”
Looking at the donation box in the boy’s hand that was almost completely ignored, if it were really that easy, they would not have stood there for half the night, not even willing to eat the bit of food in the bag.
Thinking that there were still many such pitiful children who were about to be displaced, Mo Yi felt stifled inside, yet he also did not know what to do.
Before, when he had gone to save people and ended up being captured, he had sworn that he would be a cold and heartless wolf, and would never again casually sympathize with humans who might betray him.
But the people in the welfare home were all just children, equivalent to little cubs, and Mo Yi could not bear it.
Besides, every kind of living thing has good and bad.
Although he had been unlucky in the last world and had not met any good people, now he had met Bai Ren. Bai Ren was human, yet still treated him so well.
Just when Mo Yi was wavering, 005 in his sea of consciousness suddenly said excitedly to him, “Host, now is a great chance! Isn’t this the perfect opportunity for us to do a good deed? As long as we help the children in the welfare home, we’ll definitely be able to accumulate merit and gain a lot of luck.”
Hearing the System’s words, Mo Yi’s eyes lit up. He was happy inside, but his mouth was very restrained. “Okay, I know. I’ll help them. Anyway, this is all for Bai Ren’s luck, for completing the mission better.”
005 nodded with a smile when he heard that. He knew that even if Mo Yi said that, the root reason his host wanted to do this was still because of his kindness.
If it were not for that kind nature, he would not have once after once known it might be a trap and still chosen to believe. Although the result had not been good, he had been deceived, hurt, and suffered too much.
But even after going through so much, after being drenched by the rain himself and hurt, his heart had never truly grown cold, and Mo Yi was still willing to hold an umbrella for others.
His host really was a very, very good child!
Thinking of this, the little flower dog’s gaze became even gentler.
Mo Yi calculated that Bai Ren had given him a supplementary card before, so there should be quite a lot of money on it. If that was not enough, he had also given Bai Ren more than five hundred thousand before. It should be about enough, right?
Turning his head, he cleared his throat and asked the man, “Bai Ren, how about we help them?”
Bai Ren nodded when he heard that. The moment he saw Mo Yi’s expression, he had already guessed that this might be how things would develop. Of course he would not refuse, he was willing to let his little fool be happy.
Mo Yi’s heart really was very good, completely unlike his own.
Seeing Bai Ren agree, he was happy inside and asked the two children across from him, “Have you two eaten tonight?”
The girl wanted to shake her head, but the boy beside her held her back, nodded, and said, “We ate, we had bread.”
“Bread.” Mo Yi thought of that tiny little piece of bread, only the size of a palm, and said speechlessly, “That counts as eating? Come on, follow us. We’ll eat while we talk. We’ve already decided to sponsor your welfare home.”
“Really?” The two children’s eyes immediately lit up when they heard that.
The boy looked at Bai Ren sitting in the wheelchair that Mo Yi was pushing. Although the man could not walk, he looked very formidable at a glance. Then there was the beautifully dressed, lovely woman beside him. Perhaps they really could help the welfare home.
Thinking of this, the older brother immediately called out warmly, “Come back with us. The welfare home’s dinner time probably hasn’t ended yet. Since you’re willing to help us, you’re our great benefactors. Of course we should be the ones treating you to dinner!”
Hearing that, Mo Yi was also very curious about what the welfare home was like, and he happily agreed.
Because Mo Yi and the others had come by car, it was convenient for the two children, and they did not need to walk back.
The younger sister sat in the front passenger seat, and the older brother sat in the back. Along the way, the two children were very quiet. It could be seen that sitting in this car and being with several strangers made them feel very nervous.
“The address you mentioned is in the suburbs, so far away. How did you get here?” Zhu Xiuya asked the girl beside her while driving.
Miaomiao hugged the bag of food Mo Yi had given them, and said somewhat拘谨地, “We walked here. We set out in the afternoon, and hitched a ride on a truck carrying cabbage. My brother said the night market had lots of people, so there would be more people donating money.”
“And if you hadn’t hitched a ride on the cabbage truck?” Zhu Xiuya continued.
“Then we would have walked here. Mama Director actually didn’t want us to come, but we have other good friends helping us cover, they can’t keep an eye on us. If we walk, we can still get here in under two hours, and we can even take shortcuts.”
The girl spoke as if it were all perfectly ordinary, but Zhu Xiuya felt terrible hearing it.
At such a young age, they had to walk so far just to collect a little money. It really was hard.
But thinking of Mo Yi, who had once been reduced to picking up trash and wandering the streets, she thought she perhaps could understand why this kid would sympathize with this pair of siblings.
A car naturally drove much faster than a truck carrying cabbage, and more than half an hour was enough for them to reach the welfare home.
But after getting out of the car and seeing this familiar stretch of land before her, Zhu Xiuya unconsciously stopped in her tracks.
Bai Ren noticed her unusual reaction. He looked up and saw the person beside him bend down somewhat stiffly and quietly say in his ear, “Boss, this place is included in the land parcel our group was previously planning to acquire to build Happy Valley. I also put the project proposal on your desk a while ago.”
Bai Ren nodded when he heard that. He remembered that project proposal, and he had personally approved it.
However, the reason he had such a deep impression of it was because Jiang Mingda had specifically come to find him before, wanting Bai Corporation to fund the purchase of this land parcel, with the Jiang family handling the construction of Happy Valley.
It had clearly been BM Group’s plan, yet Jiang Mingda had actually found out about it. He did not know whether there was an insider in their group, or whether that kid was really that capable.
He must have recently encountered some sort of luck to have such good foresight.
Thinking of this, Bai Ren quietly followed the others.
By the time they reached the gate of the welfare home, the siblings were still chatting with Mo Yi. The younger sister could not help cursing the people who wanted to take away this land and leave them homeless.
“Big Brother, those people are really too bad! They’re all bad guys! If this place is gone, where will we live in the future?”
Mo Yi felt angry when he heard that too, and agreed, “Yes, they’re really too bad!”
That indignant look made Zhu Xiuya break out in a cold sweat.
But looking at Bai Ren beside them, sure enough, their Boss was still the more impressive one. He could still remain calm and unmoved, as steady as a mountain.