The Brown Recluse - Part 2
The Brown Recluse Part 2 Twelve “Here’s the rule for bargains. ‘Do other men, for they would do you.’ That’s the true business precept.” Charles Dickens Big Chang 16 January 2007 I grew up running the streets of Macau. I knew nothing of my father, but I did know what happened to my mother. She was a whore, and plied her trade in Uncle Wei’s house of ill repute, until she died from complications of syphilis. I was two years old at the time. I was not the only mistake that occurred under those circumstances. Contraception not being what it is today; the women got pregnant and had babies. However, they took care of their own, and that included me. They kept me fed and clothed until my street activities brought in enough money to pay my own way. At first, I was just another urchin hustling coins, running errands for Uncle Wei’s soldiers. They ran numbers, pimped the girls, made...