Chapter Thirteen: The Tragic Father and Daughter
Kino cleaned the cat hair on his body and asked: "How can I make the decision for you?"
Ramos gritted his teeth and looked very angry: "I am a mining worker in the upper-level epidemic area. I am famous for my diligence. You can confirm this with the foreman. I often do the work of four or five people by myself.
I work hard without complaining, because not only do I have to bear the cost of blood therapy for myself and my daughter, but I also have to send money to my wife outside to support family expenses."
"Last month, my wife wrote me a letter, saying that she was encountering difficulties in her business and needed some money to turn around, and that she would be able to get her money back soon. I love her very much, I really love her, and I trust her immensely.
So, I applied to the foreman, hoping to get an overdraft of my salary for six months. Seeing my hard work, the foreman agreed. I then sent the money to my wife."
Having said this, Ramos's eyes darkened, as sinister as poison: "But I later found out that because I have been locked up here all year round, she has another man outside, and the two of them are still alive."
She spent all day gambling and owed a huge debt. Later, when she couldn't pay off the debt, she discussed with the adulterer to squeeze out the last of my hard-earned money, and the two of them left Xilin Town."
Kino flicked off the last cat hair and asked casually: "Do you hate her?"
"To be honest, if she just leaves me, I won't hate her. Because I can understand the loneliness and poverty of staying at home in an empty room. If she can meet another person who loves her, I will be very happy.
." Ramos raised his head, feeling a little depressed, "But I hate that she cheated me out of my hard-earned money before she left! My daughter is still so young, and she has never done anything bad since she was a child. God is so blind.
She actually let the epidemic fall on her! Where is that bitch? Is it fair to fly away with the adulterer and leave my daughter here to let her slowly rot with me?!"
If he had only been defrauded of that month's money, Ramos would not have been so devastated, but what his wife defrauded was his six-month overdraft of salary.
In other words, in the next six months, even if he works hard every day, he will not be able to earn even one iron month from the mining area, let alone afford the cost of blood therapy.
The inability to undergo blood therapy means that the blood cannot be purified and the contagiousness of the disease will recur in the body. Both he and his daughter will be thrown into the lower epidemic area, where they will be eaten away by the disease and become neither human nor ghosts.
If you are alone, you will die, no big deal.
But he couldn't let go of Luka. He didn't want the little life he had grown up watching live miserably or die miserably.
Ramos abandoned his manly dignity, knelt on his knees, and begged Chino: "Sir, I have only one request: please send someone to capture my wife and make her pay back the money! I heard that the adulterer is from Pudong.
Luo, they must be in Puluo now! Please, help me..."
Kino sighed: "Your experience is pitiful. As a civil affairs official, I will hold accountable all illegal incidents in Xilin Town, as long as the situation is true."
Hope lit up in Ramos's eyes.
"But." Kino extinguished his hope with two simple words, "My job is to be responsible for the town of Shilin. I pay my soldiers a salary, and they can only deal with the lawlessness in this town.
You are responsible for the incident. Your wife fled to Puluo, which is a town more than 400 miles away and is no longer under the jurisdiction of Xilin Town. I’m sorry, but there is nothing I can do about it.”
"grown ups!"
Kino raised his hand, signaling that he didn't need to say anything further: "Mr. Ramos, I hope you can understand that the soldiers in Shilin Town are not here to serve you alone. Someone will take care of this matter, but it's not me. It's not what I can do.
, I am writing a letter to the civil affairs officer of Puluo for you, ordering the post station to send it out as soon as possible, asking him to find out the truth about this matter, and let him punish this behavior."
Ramos asked blankly: "How long will this take?"
Kino glanced at Paladin, who understood and replied: "If it's urgent, the letter can be delivered to the Puluo Civil Affairs Officer tomorrow, and then it depends on his processing speed. If it's faster, it will take a few days, if it's slower...
.As far as I know, the Puluo Civil Affairs Officer is keen on socializing and handles government affairs very slowly. It may take several months."
Ramos only felt that his spine was being taken away, and said in despair: "But we must receive blood therapy within 3 days, otherwise the infection will relapse, and Luca and I will be thrown into the lower epidemic area..."
Kino: "I'm sorry about that."
Ramos begged in a low voice: "Sir, can you give me some money? Let my daughter and I survive this month first, please!"
Kino simply shook his head: "No, unless you have something of equal value to trade with me. If I give you money for no reason, other infected people will come to me and ask for money. When the time comes, do you think I will give it to you? If so, I will give it to you."
, there are more than 200 infected people in the town, should I give it to them all? If I don’t give it to you and give you special treatment, they will scold me to death, and you and Luka will also be squeezed out by other infected people, making it difficult to live."
Ramos's eyes began to wander: "I don't want Luca to go to the lower epidemic area..."
"The lower epidemic area is not an execution ground. Just protect her. When I get back, I will write a letter to the Puluo Civil Affairs Officer immediately and send it out as soon as possible. I will continue to track the progress. Just wait for the news." After Chino finished speaking, he watched the sunset.
He raised his chin to Paladin, signaling that he could leave.
When Kino turned around, Ramos was still unwilling to give up this last straw. He crawled all the way over on his knees and begged: "Sir! Sir! Don't leave! Save my daughter! I know what the lower epidemic area is like.
, I can’t protect her...Those infected people who have seriously transformed into beasts have lost their consciousness, and she will be eaten alive!!!”
Kino was discussing with Paladin what to eat for dinner. He thought the cranberry bread in the shop at noon was good and wanted to eat it again.
Ramos' eyes turned red and he rushed forward, trying to grab Chino's sleeve: "Sir! Give me a chance!"
"Hiss." Ramos stretched out his animal hand in desperation. Paladin didn't have time to stop him, and his sharp claws directly tore Kino's sleeve.
In an instant, the air became as turbid as cement and extremely oppressive.
Paladin had only one thought in his mind: This fool is dead.
Kino pursed his lips tightly, the corners of his lips and the seam of his lips were almost parallel, and his face twitched. He raised his hands and looked at them. Not only were his sleeves scratched, but they were also stained with a lot of mud from the nails of the animal's claws. They were dirty.
Very dirty.
He tried to brush off the mud several times, but his hands froze in mid-air, as if facing unbearable filth. Finally, Paladin helped him cut off the soiled sleeves.
Ramos realized that he had gotten into trouble and shivered with his head: "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to..."
"Since you apologized sincerely and it was indeed not intentional, I forgive you." Kino turned around, neither angry nor smiling, without any expression, "You want a chance, right? Yes, I'll give you a chance.
Chapter completed!