City’s Best Divine Doctor
Chapter 413 - 413 414 Poor Public Security Environment

413: Chapter 414: Poor Public Security Environment 413: Chapter 414: Poor Public Security Environment This smell, akin to dead rats mixed with dead salted fish, initially led the gang leader and the other gang members to believe it was emanating from nearby dead rodents.

Soon, they sniffed again carefully and realized that the unpleasant odor was not from dead rats but from the beauty sitting at the table next to theirs.

“Boss, it’s coming from that beauty.”

A minion whispered.

The gang leader had already smelled it.

However, he seemed pleased, for seeing Liu Xia was a rare treat for him, despite the offensive odor coming from her.

But he liked the smell.

“I like chicks with a scent.”

The gang leader laughed.

Upon hearing this, the surrounding gang members burst into sleazy laughter.

In such close quarters, Liu Xia naturally heard them.

She had not expected that just as she and Ye Qiu were dining and worrying about not having enough money to pay for their meal, leading to an awkward moment when they would have to phone Xiao Hong for money, they would encounter these gangsters.

Immediately, anger flashed across Liu Xia’s face, but she dared not provoke these gangsters.

As she hurriedly stood up and made her way to the restaurant’s entrance, pulling Ye Qiu along, she said, “Dr.

Ye, there’s a gang of hoodlums outside, I’m afraid they’ll cause trouble.

Let’s go eat somewhere else!”

Ye Qiu’d just picked out the seafood, which included turbot, mandarinfish, big lobsters, small lobsters, and crabs.

Unexpectedly, he now saw Liu Xia hurrying in.

“Hoodlums?”

Ye Qiu, as he looked outside, had already noticed the gang.

But to say he was scared of the gangsters was definitely not possible, since he was actually the boss behind the gang leader.

“With me here, what is there to fear?”

Ye Qiu said.

“But, but they…”

“There’s no ‘but’.”

As Liu Xia had just entered, the strong unpleasant smell of body odor almost entirely masked the fishy smell indoors.

The waitresses and customers inside all covered their mouths, eyeing Liu Xia with puzzlement.

Now Ye Qiu stopped choosing.

These dishes were enough for him and Liu Xia.

As Ye Qiu and Liu Xia came out, Ye Qiu saw Xiao Hong approaching.

Naturally, she’d come to give money to Liu Xia.

Liu Xia walked over to Xiao Hong first.

After taking two thousand yuan from Xiao Hong, just as Xiao Hong was about to return to the factory for work, Ye Qiu said, “I’ve just ordered quite a few dishes, why not stay and finish the meal before returning to work?”

“Mr.

Ye, I have to go to work soon.

I’ll take another opportunity to have a meal with you next time.”

Xiao Hong, not wanting to disturb Ye Qiu and Liu Xia’s meal, promptly left.

When Ye Qiu and Liu Xia returned to their table, Ye Qiu noticed the gangsters tapping their chopsticks on the table.

Their sneering demeanor made Liu Xia feel that these gangsters were intentionally harassing her.

Initially, the gangsters thought Liu Xia was alone, but they didn’t expect a young, clean-cut man to be with her.

However, this young man looked rather ordinary and didn’t appear wealthy.

The gang leader signaled one of his minions with a glance to deliberately walk past Ye Qiu, aiming to kick the chair Ye Qiu was sitting on and topple him to the ground.

If it had been someone else, they might indeed have been kicked down without noticing.

But Ye Qiu had been paying attention to the gangsters, who were watching this way with sleazy, predatory gazes.

When Ye Qiu saw that delinquent intentionally kick his chair, he immediately stood up, but the delinquent only knocked over the chair.

Ye Qiu moved another chair over to sit down, and to the delinquent’s surprise, Ye Qiu had noticed what he did.

“Dr.

Ye, let’s go!”

Liu Xia approached Ye Qiu and whispered again.

“I just ordered the food, let’s eat before we leave.”

Liu Xia still feared those delinquents, and she looked at Ye Qiu and whispered, “Why don’t we take the dishes we just ordered back to the apartment?

I can cook them for you myself.”

Liu Xia spent most of her time cooking alone, and her culinary skills were quite good.

Now, seeing those delinquents around, she felt it was better to go back home to eat.

Seeing the frightened look on Liu Xia’s face, and since she had suggested it, Ye Qiu saw no reason to stay any longer.

As he and Liu Xia got up and were heading inside, the chefs were just about to start preparing the seafood for Ye Qiu.

“We’ll just take them back and cook ourselves.”

Ye Qiu asked them to pack up the food.

As he was about to take out his money, Liu Xia quickly offered to pay.

The seafood together cost almost eight hundred yuan, which was indeed expensive, at least in Liu Xia’s view.

Ye Qiu and Liu Xia helped carry the seafood out of the restaurant, while the leader of the delinquents and his group, still sitting outside, hadn’t expected that the beautiful woman and the young man would leave before eating.

“Looks like the tasty-looking lady ran off!”

The gang leader said regretfully.

“Boss, I’ll follow them quietly to see where this beauty lives!”

The delinquent followed behind, while Ye Qiu and Liu Xia walked ahead, chatting and laughing, unaware of the sleazy-looking delinquent stealthily following them.

It was now nighttime, and this area was a village within the city with narrow alleys; without attentiveness, one really couldn’t tell that the delinquent was trailing behind.

Ye Qiu had noticed the delinquent following them as soon as he had started.

However, he didn’t turn back, acting as if he hadn’t noticed.

As Liu Xia and Ye Qiu reached the entrance of her rented apartment building, and she was taking out her keys to open the door and they were about to enter, the delinquent who had been stealthily following them had already made a mental note of the place.

“The tasty-looking lady lives here,”

said the delinquent.

As he turned to head back to the restaurant they had come from, Ye Qiu and Liu Xia went upstairs.

On the stairway, Ye Qiu asked Liu Xia, “Miss Liu, is the public safety not good around here?”

“It’s quite bad.

I often hear about thieves here.

I, I and Xiao Hong have lost several sets of clothes.”

“Clothes?

What use is stealing clothes to them?”

This puzzled Ye Qiu; the thieves were even stealing other people’s clothes.

What era was it that people still had no clothes to wear?

“Yes, it’s mine and Xiao Hong’s undergarments, some of them unwashed, just stolen, and some washed and hung at the window, also taken.

Now, I can only hang my clothes in the living room,”

said Liu Xia somewhat embarrassedly.

At that moment, Ye Qiu began to understand.

However, this village within the city, the apartment complex environment, including the safety, was indeed very poor.

From the delinquent who had stealthily followed them, Ye Qiu could tell.