Chapter 572: Twisted Values
Chapter 572: Twisted Values
As An Ran spoke, the scene seemed to darken before her. A little girl stood in front of her.
An Ran looked up, about to ask why she was blocking her view, when the girl pulled out a few crystal cores and handed them to the Doll.
Doll drooled and hummed. It raised its gloved hand and took them without hesitation.
“This child is so adorable!” The little girl half-kneeled, reached out, and touched Doll’s capped head.
The girl smiled, dimples forming at the corners of her mouth. She looked somewhat like Liu Zhi.
An Ran’s expression faltered. Just as she was about to ask Doll to return the crystal cores, the little girl looked at her again and asked, “Sister, how did your leg break?”
“I…” An Ran was speechless. Her leg was broken? How could she not know?
The third brother nearby hurried over and explained, “It was broken. When the apocalypse came, she jumped from the fifth floor holding the child to avoid the zombies. Ugh, so pitiful!!!”
Fifth floor! An Ran, holding Doll, widened her eyes and tilted her head to look at the third brother. He was really exaggerating. He should at least have said the second floor. If she’d jumped from the fifth floor, wouldn’t she have been smashed to pieces?
“It’s okay, sister. I’ll heal you when I get the chance!”
The little girl with dimples smiled, stood up, turned, and ran toward the crowd in the open square. Her ponytailed hair swung as she ran, making her look particularly youthful and energetic.
Once she was far away, An Ran immediately sprang from the wheelchair and said to the third brother, “I only played along. I didn’t want to embarrass you. Where’s Fatty? I’ll talk to him and tell him to stop letting you lot with distorted values cheat people!”
The third brother smiled sheepishly and pointed in a direction. An Ran hurried off, Doll in her arms.
At that moment, Fatty was entertaining a group of special guests. These visitors carried luggage on their backs and in their hands, their fingers and toes nearly numb from the cold. Fatty showed them around the villa. “This one’s nice. It’s furnished in luxurious American style—unique and grand. It can easily fit twenty people. You might consider it…”
“Fatty!” An Ran, standing in the corner, interrupted Fatty’s chatter.
He quickly left the touring group and trotted over to her, saying, “Goddess, what are you doing? Are you finally coming out of seclusion today? Let me tell you, a lot of people came to Hexi today. They’re planning to move in, and I’m looking for houses for them.”
“What’s going on with those beggars? Are you short of crystal cores?” She didn’t care who moved in. She glared at Fatty, pried a few crystal cores from the child’s hand, and said, “Here, look, I just sat in this wheelchair for a while. Someone gave it to me. Fatty, listen—this is really bad. Children need proper guidance. It’s one thing to let disabled people beg, but it’s wrong for your children to do it too. What will they do when they grow up? Just rely on others and beg? They don’t know how to work hard, they don’t know how to respect themselves. What kind of values are you teaching these kids?”
“Okay, okay, okay. I’ll talk to them later. I won’t allow those children to beg anymore, okay?” Fatty wanted nothing more than to get rid of An Ran and quickly agreed. He then pulled her close and whispered, “Goddess, I have something to tell you. Did you know Liu Zhi has a sister? Liu Zhi plans to introduce her to your Luo Feifan.”