Chapter 1315 Cane Whips. Let Go
This ugly woman had red pocks on her face and a flat nose. She was so fat that she could barely move. After she insulted the young girl pulling her ear, she slapped her right in front of others, sending the girl to the ground directly.
There was no dialect in this village as its people talked in Country B’s language, so Yun Jian could understand the comments and gossips of the crowd.
They began to murmur softly among themselves when the young girl was slapped by the woman in public but Yun Jian could hear them.
“Poor Lily. She lost her mother at a young age and her father’s really–he doesn’t care about her at all and doesn’t make any money to take care of the family.”
“It’s Lily who works and earns to support the family all these years! How is it right?!”
“Not only is her father not making money and slacks all day, he marries a tigress home. Sigh, not only does Lily have to make the living now, she gets beaten up every day!”
“I know, right? Do you know this? The tigress accepted dowry from Lumada, the chief of the village next door, two days ago. Gosh, you have no idea. Lumada is already 56 years old, like he has one foot in the coffin already, and Lily is only 13 years old! If Lily were to marry him…”
Lily was the girl who had kindly taken Yun Jian and Si Yi back to her house, provided what Yun Jian needed to help her complete the surgery, and settled both of them down in the straw hut.
She wore shabby clothes, the garment could only barely conceal certain private parts of her. It was unimaginably tattered.
Hearing what the crowd said, Yun Jian was aware of Lily’s family background and current situation. She did not forget that the young girl had helped her just now.
“Yap, yap, yap, shut up! Get the hell away!” Lily’s stepmother, this woman everyone else called the tigress, snapped her head to holler at the crowd and scolded them.
She then turned back and twisted Lily’s ear before she turned to Yun Jian, ceasing her ministration on Lily, and barked at Yun Jian, “Get out of my house right now! We can’t afford to keep you both around!”
The woman then growled at Lily, “Pft, you’re such a waste of space and money. Haven’t you caused enough troubles? How dare you take two living people back this time? Do I look like I have enough to feed them?”
Actually, the family’s livelihood was maintained by Lily who went out to move bricks and work, but the money had all gone to her stepmother—this woman named Grace.
The woman’s name was Grace-a nice name, but almost unacceptable when it was used on her.
“No! Don’t chase them away, okay? I’ll make more money. I can carry the bricks a few more rounds. I can work another job. Please, don’t chase them away. Okay?”
“They fell into the river and big brother’s severely injured. They have nowhere to go!”
Lily got on her knees to beg Grace. She did not call her mother or mom.
The young girl was very kind. Even when she saw small animals like rabbits that got injured in the forest, she would usually bring them home and send them back after they healed.
Her kindness was visible to everyone.
In spite of it, Grace was a vicious woman. She ran off to fetch a long cane and rushed back to Lily, swinging it down at her and barking, “They’re pitiful and I’m not? Stupid girl, a waste of space! I’m whipping you to death!”
Grace brought the cane down on Lily with what she said, causing the latter to screw her eyes shut in fear.
The cane did not land on Lily, however, as a pair of fair hands grabbed the whipping cane.
Grace was alarmed. When she turned, she saw the owner of the fair hands that caught her cane looking at her icily with a murderous gaze and saying coldly, “Let go.”
