It was Sunday, the rest day again, wow. Rainbow was going to visit Bangkok's weekend market that only opened on weekend instead of lying on the bed and wasting time. And she heard from local people that there were many interesting things there looked like country fair. Then she asked Dan and Lee to go together, but the two of them refused saying that they wanted to sleep at home. Both of them all felt that Rainbow got too much energy that she worked so late every day but still had the passion to go outside.
Early in the morning, Rainbow stayed at home until the musical instrument shop delivered the electric piano and guitar to her house. Then after got the things, she left home and took subway to weekend market. There were so many people in the market, and she followed the crowd. "This market is so big." She mumbled as she walked. All kinds of small shops, incense candles, soaps, local clothing, bags, etc. are all available. This was completely her paradise. She used to like to visit these gadgets markets the most where can see different craftsmen with cheap price.
Many foreigners on the road, wearing Southeast Asian style floral clothes, holding a fan while walking, in vacation style;
Middle school students were demonstrating their electronic piano talents, their fingers happily beating on the keyboard, attracting many tourists to stop;
Some hawkers pushing carts sold some orange juice, mineral water, etc. in front of the shop. Rainbow also went forward to buy a bottle of orange juice with authentic and strong orange flavor that was her favorite after coming to Thailand.
She stepped forward and said to the uncle hawker in Thai that she just learned, "Uncle, give me a bottle of orange juice, thank you."
"Okay." The uncle handed it to her, and then asked in Thai: "Which province do you come from?"
An Wei didn't understand, so she shook her hand and said in English, "sorry, i can not understand, i just know simple words. "
"Oh, that is also good, at least you are willing to learn a bit,." The uncle smiled and said in English. She smiled and thanked, then left.
She had been busy on shopping buying flower skirts, handmade bags, hats and so on. Now it was time eat something. "So hungry, i need find a local specialty dish to eat." She searched for a while, and finally found one and ordered a mango sticky rice with a glass of orange juice. After a while, the meal came. She gobbled it up in disregard of her image, and didn't notice that the kid next to her stole what she had placed on the ground.
"Oh my god, Miss, your stuff are stolen by that kid." The waiter in the shop pointed at the kid who was about to leave and ran out of the shop.
"What", Rainbow lowered her head and saw that the things on the ground were really gone, now in the hands of that little child. She stood up anxiously and ran out after the child. There were many people in the market. She kept hitting other people while chasing the kid, "Help me...that kid stole my thing. "
A boy in the crowd heard it, and rushed forward without hesitation. The boy's physical strength was good, and he soon surpassed her, chased into the alley, caught that child.
"Uh, why it's you again. Everythtime i saw you, bad things happen." She was too tired and holding on to her knees.
"I didn't expect to meet you again. I helped you now and you did not appreciate." Mike shook his head and said in Chinese with heavy accent.
She rolled her eyes to him, and then turned to look at the kid who was about 8 years old with dirty clothes that looked like walking out of the garbage.
"You help me translate it to him. He is still young and probably doesn't understand English." Rainbow directed Mike.
"Is it me?" Mike pointed at himself with his finger.
"Or? there are only three of us here. Could it be that I'm talking about ghosts." She rolled her eyes again.
"Maybe." Mike smiled evilly.
"Don't scare me, it is daylight, I'm not afraid of it." God knows An Wei was afraid of ghosts. "Okay, help me."
"Why are you stealing my things? You know that if this is the case, I can call police." She leaned down and said to the child in Chinese.
"Sorry, sorry...please don't call the police, I won't do it again." The child clasped his palms together, and apologized constantly.
"Then can you tell me why?" She couldn't bear to see this scene that a kid was begging her.
"Sis, I'm sorry, my mother is lying at home,now she is sick and can't go out to sell pastries. Now there is nothing to eat at home. I want to take something back to mother to eat." The child said then cried
"Don't cry, what's your name and where do you live."
"My name is Bang and I live near here." Bang replied.
"Okay, Bang, good boy, you listen carefully. Your behavior today is wrong, it is immoral and illegal which make let you be beaten by someone, and what is worse is that you may be caught by the police . No matter what happened under any circumstances, you can't do this anymore, you know. The bad habits in childhood may cause more serious things when you grow up. You make a promise to me, okay?" Rainbow said earnestly and Mike helped to translate.
"Okay, sist, Bang promises never to do this again." Bang said.
"Well, then you take me to your house." She said.
"What, are you going to his house?" Mike was patiently translating the whole process. He was surprised when he heard this.
"Yeah, you have to go too, otherwise I can't communicate with them." She said to Mike.
"What are you going to do at their house?" Mike asked puzzled.
"Did you not hear? Just now Bang said that his mother was sick and lying at home. I want to see it. If it's serious, I need to take her to the hospital." then she said "Well, let's go together."
Mike was shocked, and said, "well, i will go with you. " He saw a big smile in her face that was really pretty. He liked that warm smile and felt the darkness can go away from him.
Mike was very moved by her kindness. Mike came here to talk about a job, which was a very important collaboration. It seemed that there is no way now, for some unknown reason he wanted to go with her.