After all, they're currently staying at a guesthouse, with lots of people around and prying eyes. If The Scott Brothers lured those two here, who knows what kind of accident might happen.

"Alright, let's go over there around noon tomorrow. Usually, both kids are there at that time."

Just by saying a few words, he could earn two thousand yuan—Elder Scott couldn't be happier. He had originally planned to use the excuse of selling scrap to trick the siblings into coming, but since Boss Chi wanted to go in person, it saved the two brothers the trouble.

"Big brother, giving them two thousand—isn't that a bit much?"

After The Scott Brothers left, Brian Clark complained a little. With the way those two are, even a thousand yuan would have them grinning from ear to ear.

"It's not too much. Second brother, you need to look at the bigger picture."

Elder Baker shook his head and said, "This place is too far from our turf. If the kids go missing, they're hard to find. We might need those two again in the future, so let's give them a taste of the good stuff first."

In the past two years, Elder Baker had gradually taken control of the begging business in his city and the surrounding areas. The number of child beggars under him was becoming insufficient. If he wanted to keep expanding, he had to control more children.

Marx once said: If capital has a 50% profit, it will take risks; if it has a 100% profit, it will trample all human laws; if it has a 300% profit, it will commit any crime, even at the risk of being hanged.

Elder Baker might not know this quote from Marx, but he understood that a mere two thousand yuan was nothing compared to the profits a child beggar could generate.

Normally, in a good location, a child beggar could collect one or two hundred yuan a day. If the child was disabled, that number could even double. So this bit of capital was something Elder Baker was willing to spend.

"Second brother, you don't need to go tomorrow. Buy your ticket home and wait for us at the station."

After thinking for a moment, Elder Baker looked at the man beside Brian Clark and said, "Seventh brother, if The Scott Brothers tries any tricks, then..."

As he spoke, Elder Baker made a throat-slitting gesture. The young man who had been silently drinking looked up, agreed, and then lowered his head again.

Elder Baker was actually from the Northeast. In the early 1980s, he went south with the wave of migrant workers. After two years of hard work, he met an old man who completely changed the course of Elder Baker's life.

That old man was a real figure from the underworld, who had controlled a gang of child beggars before the liberation. When the reform and opening up began in the south, he immediately sensed an opportunity and came to a coastal city to resume his old trade.

But the old man was getting on in years and couldn't handle many things anymore, so he took on an apprentice and passed on all his streetwise tricks to Elder Baker.

What the old man didn't expect was that Elder Baker was far more ruthless than he was. He thought healthy children didn't bring in enough money from begging, so he actually broke a few children's legs and feet, which led to a conflict between master and apprentice.

In the end, Elder Baker drugged his master's wine, and while the old man was asleep, smothered him to death with a pillow. The most ironic part was that the recipe for the drug was something the old man had personally taught Elder Baker.

After the old man's death, Elder Baker took full control of the child beggars and began his path of crime and fortune.

The "seventh brother" Elder Baker had just instructed was named John Bolton, Elder Baker's own nephew. Because his family was poor, John Bolton went to his uncle at the age of eighteen.

Over the years, the ruthless and somewhat skilled John Bolton became Elder Baker's most capable enforcer.

Of the disabled child beggars under Elder Baker's control, eight or nine out of ten were crippled by John Bolton. Just hearing his name was enough to make them tremble with fear.

"Yes, boss, don't worry."

No one, including Liuzi and Brian Clark, knew about the relationship between John Bolton and Elder Baker, so in front of others, John Bolton always addressed him as "boss."

After making arrangements, everyone got busy. Taking two kids onto a train was no easy task, but Elder Baker already had a plan: he needed to find a pharmacy to prepare the knockout drug his master had taught him.

……

"Samuel, take care on your journey. I'll miss you!"

Today was the day The Brooks Family set off back to Taiwan. In the courtyard of The Brooks Family, Frank Quinn was saying goodbye to his only friend in this world.

"Frank, take care of yourself. Grandpa rarely reads fortunes for people, and when he does, he's usually right."

Samuel Brooks looked at Frank Quinn with a worried expression. He knew that although Frank Quinn usually seemed quiet and gentle, there was actually a demon hidden inside him.

Samuel Brooks had once seen with his own eyes how, after a group of students insulted Frank Quinn's parents, Frank Quinn broke the right leg of a kid three or four years older than him, and even scared the kid so much that he didn't dare tell the truth, only saying at home that he broke his leg in a fall.

"Samuel, don't worry. What could possibly happen to me? Come back soon, and then we can go catch crickets together."