C210 Strange Encounter

Kai Shi felt a sense of utter helplessness. The last thing he wanted was to deal with such a customer.

Yet, the fear of losing his job loomed large. It was his family's sole steady income, with an eighty-year-old mother to care for, a three-year-old child clamoring for food, and his ill wife whose monthly medication bills were a constant drain on their finances.

So