chapter 167: who does drugs

[Kam Family Apartment, Ah Yuet & Ah Lo's Bedroom]

Ah Lo (Bondy Chiu) modeled happily with the dress that was sent from "F&B" that morning in front of her mirror. She felt great.

She noticed Foon Foon and Hei Hei walking into the room and smiles at them. "Foon Foon, Hei Hei, don't you two think your mommy looks beautiful?"

They clap their hands. The shiny material of the dress attracted them.

"I sacrificed so much for you guys!" Ah Lo sighs. She places her hand on her behind. "My perfect figure is gone."

"Honey! Dinner is ready!" Ah Yuet (Michael Tse) calls from the dining room.

"Coming!" She yells back. "Now, Foon Foon, Hei Hei, be good boys and go on out."

Ah Lo takes off the dress and hurriedly puts on her normal clothes. She lays the dress on her bed and then runs out towards the dining room. She was starving.

Foon Foon and Hei Hei waited until their mother had left the room and ran back inside. They raced to get to the dress that was lying defenselessly on the bed. The twins clapped their hands and each pulled on the dress, reaching for the sparkles that adorned the fabric.

"Mine!" Foon Foon cries.

"I first!" Hei Hei argues.

The two pulled hard on the dress, fighting fiercely to be the sole keeper of it.

"Foon Foon? Hei Hei? Where are you? It's time for dinner." Ah Lo beckons as she makes her way towards the bedroom.

The tug-of-war between the tiny twins finally reached an end as the dress is ripped in half. However, they were no longer attracted to the sparkly sequins. Instead, thin white packets fell out. The twins both reached for one and hid it in their pockets. They ran out of the room and greeted their mommy with a smile. "Mama!"

"You two are so naughty! Sometimes I wish you were babies again like Fu jai and Gwai mui so that we can just sit you somewhere and you won't wander off. No wait. I take that back. Then we'd have four crying babies around here and your daddy and I couldn't sleep. Oh! The woes of being a parent," Ah Lo says. "Come along now."

[Dining Room]

Ah Yuet prepared a small bowl of food for the twins and sat them down in their small children's table before going off to feed Fu jai and Gwai mui their bottles.

"Ah Yuet is such a good father!" Ying Gei (Yvonne Lam) gushes. "Oh, Gam Gam, I can't wait to see your fathering skills."

"Ha!" Ah Lo laughs. "Fathering skills? They're non-existent. Poor you, sister OK. You best keep the kids away from H5N1 otherwise they'll end up as useless citizens as their father is."

"Right, right, just like Ah Lo has no mothering skills. Ah Yuet does all of the work, isn't that right?" Gam (Louis Yuen) laughs.

"Hey! I carried them around for nine months and gave birth! My goodness. Both were such painful experiences. I really... The suffering, only someone who has gone through it knows. Besides, don't talk with your mouth full. It's disgusting enough when you talk with it empty," Ah Lo retorts.

"Really? You always talk with your mouth full... full of crap!"

"You!" Ah Lo glares at Gam.

"Second daughter-in-law, calm down!" Nim Chi (Nancy Sit) urges.

"I'm not going to waste any energy dealing with you two."

"Big big brother, how is Fiona doing?" Ah Yat (Joyce Chen) inquires.

Ah Sing (Hawick Lau) forces a smile. "Um, good."

"That's wonderful."

"Yeah." He quickly glances down and shoves some rice into his mouth.

"Where's Ah Nin (Frankie Lam)?" Nim Chi asks.

"Oh, big brother went to Shanghai with Joey (Bernice Liu)," Ah Yuet replies.

"What? Shanghai? Isn't that where-"

"It is. They went to discuss business with 'F&B'."

"But that's-"

"Yes, that's Rose's (Kenix Kwok) company."

The room grows silent with only sounds of munching.

Foon Foon and Hei Hei take out the white packets they had found inside of Ah Lo's dress. The content was powdery, kind of like white powdered sugar. They are reminded of how sweet that is and clap their hands, hurriedly opening their bags. They take a sniff and start coughing.

"Foon Foon, Hei Hei, what's wrong?" Ah Yuet asks from the couch as he coos to Gwai mui.

"Oh my god!" Ying Gei screams.

"What's that in their hands?"

The family rush over to the small children's dining table.

Ah Hong (Johnny Tang) quickly snatches the bags away from them. To which, the twins cry in-between their coughs.

Gam peaks at the bag and gasps, "Oh my god! We need to get them to the hospital, now!"

[Hospital]

"Oh my god, oh my god, please let them be okay," Ah Lo prays as she paces.

"Wow, so you really do care about them," Ah Yat comments. "All of this time, I thought you just gave birth to them and then dumped them off to your husband."

"How can this be? Who would leave such things around?" Ah Yuet is flustered.

Ah Lo glares at Gam. "The person who identified immediately what it was - that's who!"

"I only knew what it was from watching TV!"

"It's more like personal experience."

"This is really bad!" Ah Hong bites his nails. "The effects of cocaine are deadly to adults, let alone three-year-olds."

"You should really be more watchful of your kids," Ah Yat shakes her head.

"I don't know how that got into our home!" Ah Lo cries. "It must be you! Everyone in the entertainment industry does drugs!" she glares at Ah Yat.

"What! Ah Hong and I are innocent. Don't uphold such a negative stereotype!"

"Then it must be H5N1. This explains why he's such a weirdo! He's stoned all of the time," Ah Lo points her finger at Gam.

"I'm innocent! Yes, I like to gamble and yes, I like to look at dirty things, but I'm not stupid enough to do drugs!" Gam defends himself.

Ying Gei grabs Gam's ear, "What? You read dirty magazines? You watch porn?!"

"Not anymore, honey! Why look at other women when I can look at you for free?" Gam asks.

"Oh, that's right." Ying Gei smiles.

"It's certainly not Ah Yuet or I..." Ah Lo gasps. "It's you!"

"What?" Ah Sing demands seeing all of the eyes on him.

"You're a young guy and you're depressed. These are vulnerable traits for drug use!" Ah Lo yells.

"You're nuts! I don't even live in the apartment, have you forgotten?" Ah Sing shakes his head.

"I can't believe it! How can you do this?" Ah Lo turns to Nim Chi.

Everyone gasps.

"What? How can it be me? I'm an ex-policewoman! This is against the law."

"You're not part of the force anymore. Oh my god! Mother-in-law, you are really..." Ah Lo sighs.

"Ah Lo! Cut it out," Ah Yuet urges.

"My babies are in there! Who knows what might happen to them! I am so scared. They are so little. They have a whole future ahead for them. Now, because someone brought drugs into our home, they could very well be damaged!" Ah Lo cries.

The doctor comes out. The family crowds around her. "Doctor, how are they?"

"Please tell me they're going to be fine!" Ah Lo pleads.

"Like any drug, cocaine has dire effects on the body. Luckily, your kids inhaled a very minor amount. There shouldn't be a problem."

Ah Lo sighs a sigh of relief. "Oh, thank god!"

A couple of policemen go up to the Kams. "We need to take everyone down to the station for questioning."

"What?!"

[Kam Family Apartment]

"That was really...!" Nim Chi is both embarrassed and frustrated. "How can they degrade a senior like me?"

"Auntie Chi, you're only a 'senior' because of your age. You're no longer regarded by the Hong Kong Police Force!" Gam says.

"Ugh, I really don't know how cocaine got into our home."

Ah Lo kisses Foon Foon and Hei Hei on their heads. "Thank god you two are safe. I love you guys very much, do you know that?"

"This is really weird though. How did those packets get into our home?" Ah Hong rubs his chin.

"They certainly don't have feet! They didn't just walk in here by themselves," Ah Yat says.

Ah Lo gasps. "I know who it is!"

"Oh please. You've accused everyone but yourself. Foon Foon and Hei Hei must have found it in your purse!" Gam yells.

"It must have been Rose! She's the only stranger in our house and she seems like the type!"

"Oh my god! Ah Lo has a point," Ying Gei shrieks.

"It must be in big brother's bedroom... the drugs..."

Nim Chi starts to shake. "I really hope Rose didn't influence Ah Nin into doing drugs."

"That's how she's so skinny!" Ah Yat snaps her fingers.

"Let's go into Ah Nin's bedroom and check it out," Ah Yuet says.

"Isn't it wrong to invade other people's privacy?" Ah Sing asks.

"Not when their 'privacy' harms other people! My babies could have died!" Ah Lo says. "Foon Foon, Hei Hei, let's get you to bed." She takes them to their bedroom. While passing by her own bedroom, she notices a chaotic sight. The pretty dress which she had so loved was in pieces on the floor. "Oh my god!" Ah Lo screams. She rushes into her bedroom.

Everyone runs into it as well to see what the matter was.

"My dress!" Ah Lo kneels down to pick up the pieces. To her surprise, shreds of fabric and loosened sequins weren't the only things that she found on the floor. More packets of cocaine also lay there. Ah Lo begins to shake. She picks up a packet and shows it to everyone. They gasp in surprise.

"They were inside the dress..." Ah Lo gasps. She gets up and rushes towards Ah Yat's bedroom. She barges in and opens up her closet.

"Second sister-in-law, what are you doing?!" Ah Yat demands.

Ah Lo grabs the baby blue dress which had also arrived that morning. She rips it into pieces. Just as she expected, inside the fabric were packets of drugs. This time, they were marijuana leaves. Ah Lo then proceeds into Ying Gei's bedroom and seizes the lavender dress that was hanging in the closet.

"Ah Lo, don't do it! The dress is too beautiful," Ying Gei pleads.

"There are drugs inside! These dresses are not wearable."

Ah Lo rips it apart and exposes more packets of drugs. "That damn Rose isn't running a fashion company. She's doing an undercover drug trade!"