The engineer beside him was feeling awkward, racking his brains for a way to ease the tension and win the young man's favor again. Then he heard those words and was completely dumbfounded.
Why did that sound so... off?
"Didn't you deal with those thugs to get back the money they stole from me?"
The old man was surprised.
He'd thought the young man was overflowing with a sense of justice and was standing up for what was right.
"Did I say, 'It's not right to rob people in broad daylight'?"
Lin Baici shot back.
The old man nodded.
"I never said I'd help you get your money back!"
Lin Baici smiled faintly.
"..."
The old man thought it over carefully, then immediately wanted to curse.
It was true.
The young man had never said he'd help him get his money back.
Lin Baici casually counted the bills he'd just gotten.
If the old man had been friendlier earlier, Lin Baici would have helped him get his money back. But the old man had been sarcastic and told him to get lost and stop interfering with his business...
Lin Baici would have had to be out of his mind to help him get his money back!
"But... that's my money in your hand!"
The old man argued, feeling he was in the right.
The engineer thought the old man was going too far.
When those thugs robbed him, he hadn't dared to resist—or even refuse. He'd just kept smiling ingratiatingly.
And now he was complaining about Lin Baici?
To put it plainly, he'd seen that the young man was kind-hearted and figured that if he pressed his luck, he might stir up the young man's sense of shame and get his money back.
Lin Baici held out a fistful of