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Chapter 498 Chapter 518: Encounter in Los Angeles (4)

The black child didn't speak, but just looked at her with big white eyes.

Even if he didn't answer, Xia Tong had already guessed that he must be forced by life to steal things as a last resort.

"You don't have money, right?" She was patient, squatting down and talking with the child.

Seeing this, the middle-aged male police officer let go of the child's arms and stood aside watching them.

The boy looked at Xia Tong, nodded slightly, and lowered his eyes, staring at the purse in her hand, his eyes were full of longing.

"Where does your family live?" Xia Tong glanced at his purse and smiled slightly.

The boy remained silent, his eyeballs were whiter against the black skin, Xia Tong raised his hand to grab his exact hand, but unexpectedly the boy turned around and ran away.

"Where are you going!?" But he only ran a few steps before he was caught by the male police officer and pulled back again. "Miss, since he is dishonest, go to the police station!"

"Don't!" Hearing the word "police station", the boy finally became frightened, screamed, and twisted his body to run away.

"Don't move!" The male police officer was so big that he could restrain him with just one hand, no matter how hard the boy struggled, it was useless.

"You don't need to go to the police station!" Xia Tong grabbed the boy's arm and thanked the police officer again with a smile, "Thank you for your help, how about it, we will settle this matter ourselves..."

She smiled and looked at the boy, "If you don't run away, answer my few questions, and we won't go to the police station, okay?"

As soon as the child heard that he didn't need to go to the police station, he immediately settled down, and he nodded emphatically.

Seeing this, the policeman didn't say anything, so he bowed his head and warned the boy, and then left.

"Come on." Xia Tong pulled the boy, still squatting on the ground, "Tell me, where is your home? You came out to steal things, where are your parents?"

The boy remained silent, staring straight at her with big eyes, just shaking his head vigorously.

"What? You have no home? No parents!?"

The boy nodded, with no expression on his face, which made Xia Tong feel distressed.

"Then where do you live?" She asked again, her brows furrowed.

The boy took her hand and pulled her forward suddenly, beckoning her to go with him.

Without hesitation, Xia Tong got up and followed him along the street for several hundred meters, and then they turned into a small alley.

The alley is narrow and damp, although it can feel a chill in this summer, and the end of the alley is blocked, and there is a tin shed there.

The shed was very small, only half the height of a person. The boy let go of her hand and bent down to open a small door on the shed.

Xia Tong squatted down, and saw that the pitch-black shed was only five or four square meters at most, and there was nothing else in the small space except a dirty quilt and a few shabby clothes.

"You live here? Alone!?" Feeling sour, Xia Tong looked around. There were sundries everywhere in the alley, and garbage was piled up not far away. It's the rats running through it, which makes people feel sick.

How is this a place where people live?What's more, the child is still so young! ?Could it be that none of the volunteers from the Social Welfare Department came to help him! ?
"I'm alone." The boy nodded, his thin hands stroking his belly, which was already cooing.

Knowing that he was hungry, Xia Tong took out a wad of money from her purse without thinking. She stuffed the money into the child's hand, and after another thought, she simply took out all the money and gave it to him.

(End of this chapter)