Xia Enru walked over to the leader and sat down opposite him.

"Boss, you're standing so close to me, aren't you afraid my smell will bother you?"

Xia Enruo helped the waiter set the table with the cutlery and dishes, then picked up the wine jug and poured a glass for everyone at the table, saying:

"Brother, who hasn't encountered difficulties in this world? We're all just trying to make a living, how could I possibly look down on you?"

When I first started my business, I faced countless rejections, endured many people's disdain, and even went hungry.

So today, you can all eat as much as you like at my shop. Consider it my treat to you all, brothers, and a thank you for coming to my new shop to support me.”

The leader took a look and realized that the boss's words and actions were quite reasonable, unlike what Jiang Ting had described.

However, you can know a person's face but not their heart; they might just be faking it.

Xia Enruo picked up her wine cup, toasted several people, and then said to the waiter:

"Here's another plate of my freshly mixed cold dish for each table, brothers, so you can all try my new cooking skills."

Upon hearing this, the leader shouted:

"That's great! As expected, Ke Lai Xiang is booming. The food here is even better than other restaurants."

"Brother, are you a local from Yongning?"

"No comment!"

Seeing that this person was quite tight-lipped, Xia Enruo continued:

"But what difficulties did you encounter that led you to seek a living in this way?"

"Isn't that obvious? If I were rich, would I be begging for food? Unlike you people, you have no idea what it means to have the rich feast while the poor freeze to death on the streets."

Xia Enruo was somewhat surprised by what the leader said. She hadn't expected this person to be somewhat cultured and to know the poem "Behind the red gates, meat and wine go to waste, while on the road, frozen corpses lie."

"Brother, since you don't want to say anything, then I won't ask anymore. Just enjoy your meal here today, and tell the waiter if you need anything."

Xia Enruo watched as the group wolfed down their food; they must have been starving.

However, she didn't know why a few people had made such a fuss at the store. It was just a meal for about ten people, which didn't cost much money, so she considered it a good deed.

Just as she was about to go upstairs, she suddenly noticed that there was a woman among these people whose clothes were so tattered that some of her private parts were exposed.

Blood seeped through the remaining half of his pants, and there was a deep, unhealed wound on his calf.

She walked over and saw that the girl looked to be only a teenager, with a fairly fair complexion, but her hair was messy like a pile of dry straw.

“Girl, come upstairs with me, I’ll find you two clean clothes.”

Xia Enruo was about to help the girl up when she was stopped by the leader.

"What are you doing! Let go of my sister's hand!"

The leading man quickly got up and came over, pulling Xia Enruo's hand away and protecting the girl.

"Boss, what are you doing? What? You think we grown men are easy to bully, so you're going to target my sister, this weak woman?"

Xia Enruo smiled, pursing her lips, after hearing the man's words, and then said with a smile:

“Brother, you’re quite alert. I just saw that she was barely clothed and had scars on her legs, so I felt sorry for her and thought I’d go upstairs to find her some clothes.”

"No need, our affairs are none of your business. You're treating us to dinner today, that's very generous of you, thank you."

But don't even think about messing with my sister or bullying her. You'll regret it if you do.

Xia Enruo realized that the leader and the girl were siblings. No wonder he was so nervous; he was quite protective of his little sister. But how could she have lived like this? As a woman myself, it was heartbreaking to see.

"Brother, I'm a woman too. What could I possibly do to your sister? Besides, why would I bully her? I just felt sorry for her because she was dressed so inappropriately and had wounds on her legs."

It's fine for you to go out as a man, but your sister is a girl. She's barely clothed and has no privacy at all. Can't you see that?

Besides, her leg wound was still bleeding. If it wasn't treated promptly, it could become infected with tetanus, which could be fatal.

The man looked down at his sister and saw that her wound was still bleeding from time to time. He would not have agreed to Jiang Ting's request to do this if it weren't for the money he could get to take his sister to the hospital yesterday.

The boss has a point. It's his own fault for being incompetent, causing his family to suffer along with him.

Seeing that the leader had lowered his head and remained silent, Xia Enruo walked around behind him and took the little girl's hand.

"Alright, brother, sit there and eat. I run a laundromat upstairs. Take your sister up to find her some clothes and come right back down. She won't run away."

Seeing that Xia Enruo meant no harm, the man sat back down in his original seat.

"Thank you, boss."

Ge Qiuqin saw the two people come up and asked:

"What happened? Did the people below give you any trouble?"

"They're just a few unfortunate people looking for food, it's alright. By the way, sister-in-law, find some unwanted clothes from the shop for this young lady to wear."

She looked so pitiful; her clothes were so torn that her buttocks and upper body were almost exposed.

"Is this a woman?"

Ge Qiuqin's eyes widened in surprise. The little beggar in front of her, with his messy hair, was actually a girl.

"That's right, I didn't recognize it at first either. I only noticed it from the side when I was going upstairs. Look how torn the side of this dress is, it can't even cover the chest."

"Indeed, what a poor child."

Ge Qiuqin couldn't bear to see children suffer; whenever she saw children, she thought of her own.

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