"And you?"
My name is Huo Xiaolong.
Why are you all alone here?
Two children walked hand in hand ahead, their shadows long in the sunlight. They chattered away, and Liu Xu watched them with great enjoyment.
"Our Long'er finally has a friend she can really talk to."
"Didn't she have this before?"
Liu Xu glanced at her master and replied.
"It's not that we don't have any, it's just that we can't get along."
It would be a little difficult for Huo Xiaolong, who has lived a whole life, to play with children his own age.
"I think she gets along quite well with the kids from the red-light district," Miao Cuifang said.
Willow catkins drift to the sky, gazing up at the white clouds; the sunlight is golden, and a gentle breeze is just right.
Hmm, how can it not be good? She thought, it's just beating up the kids in the red-light district from one end to the other.
That's just how the people are in this border town. Adults generally don't get involved in children's disputes, and the children don't care how much the adults fight; they just play together as usual.
In brothels and red-light districts, there are always a few people who gossip about things after dinner. Children hear this and learn it, and the next day when they play together, they blurt out the same things the adults said.
If Huo Xiaolong hadn't heard it, he would have been fine, but once he did, the little girl got upset and went up to have a serious talk with him. She wasn't good with words, and if she couldn't win an argument, she would resort to violence.
So most of the foul-mouthed kids in the alleys of brothels had been beaten by her. The families of the beaten kids were too embarrassed to come looking for her. You know, if a few boys got into a fight and lost, that would be one thing, but if a four-year-old girl beat you up and left you bruised and swollen, the parents would be too ashamed to come looking for her.
"It's quite good," Liu Xu said.
Maybe...
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