“Every time I think about how my mother was bullied by them, and how my siblings and I couldn’t do anything about it, I feel like I could kill myself. Especially when I think about how my mother couldn’t bear being bullied by them and chose to give up her life by hanging herself, I feel even more like I could kill the whole village!”

"But I'm too young, and my sister is too young, so we can only watch helplessly as our mother is bullied, without any ability to take revenge!" The hatred on Little Carrot Head's face was so obvious that Rong Hua couldn't ignore it even if he wanted to. But if he were in Little Carrot Head's shoes, he could understand how Little Carrot Head and her sister felt at this moment.

"Big brother, do you know what they did after they drove my mother to her death? They specially came to our door to set off firecrackers, cheering and saying that my mother died for good, and that only with my mother dead would Xiagui Village be peaceful and quiet! They not only set off firecrackers to celebrate, but also held a big banquet in front of our house, with the whole village eating a celebratory meal in front of our house! My siblings and I were only twelve or thirteen years old combined!"

We wanted to give our mother a proper burial, but we couldn't do anything about it. In the end, we had no choice but to ask our uncle for help. We hoped he could put in a good word for us and make them give way. My siblings and I didn't have the money to hold a proper funeral for our mother, but we could buy her a simple coffin and bury her next to our father. That money was what our father left us.

My brother and I can support ourselves anywhere, as long as we are capable. My uncle agreed, but he made one condition: he would give them all our land to cultivate, and my brother and I would have to help with the farming. In return, we would receive a share of grain every year so that we wouldn't starve!

We owned quite a lot of land, so we agreed to my uncle's request! After all, he was our only relative in Xiagui Village! But who would have thought that my uncle was also a wolf in sheep's clothing? They agreed to our request and spoke well of us in the village, but after we buried our mother next to our father, they showed their true colors!

They constantly made my siblings and me do chores, took away all the pigs, chickens, and ducks our mother raised, and constantly beat and verbally abused us! Once, five years ago, my uncle, drunk, revealed a truth that my siblings and I couldn't accept! He said… he said the reason my mother's reputation was ruined, and why those men who couldn't control their lust sought her out at night, was because of him. He instigated those men to deliberately destroy my mother, and then every day when my siblings and I weren't home, he would deliberately provoke her until she couldn't bear it anymore and hanged herself!

My mother was murdered by my uncle's family! They killed her! And they shamelessly stole everything my mother left us, including the food, furniture, and so on! But five years ago, I was only eight years old, and my sister was only thirteen! We were just children, completely powerless to resist!

So this shameful incident was never reported! Just three years ago, my sister came of age and was old enough to get married. My uncle sent her to work for a wealthy family in the county town to earn money for him. My sister and I had nothing. We went to work in the county town so that my sister could secretly save some money to buy me good food and decent clothes, making our lives a little easier. So we went.

My sister went to work in the county town, and I continued living the same life as before, but as long as my sister was happy, I was happy too. So I was very happy during that time. My uncle was also happy because my sister could give him some money every month, and sometimes he would turn a blind eye when he saw my sister preparing some food and clothes for me!

Until last year, my sister turned seventeen, and I wanted her to get married immediately; a seventeen-year-old girl was considered old in the village. But my uncle disagreed and prevented my sister from going to work in the county town because he wanted to sell her for money! I couldn't agree to that, so I tried to get my sister to run away, but every time she tried, she was caught and brought back. My uncle even brought a slave trader to my door and sold my sister for five taels of silver right in front of me!

To prevent my sister from falling into a pit of fire, I secretly followed her, found her, and devised a plan to escape with her, fleeing the slave trader. When my uncle found out, he searched everywhere for us. Because of my sister's escape, the slave trader beat my uncle and demanded the five taels of silver back!

My uncle was not a good person to begin with, so it took him a while to finally find my sister and me. He then took us home and locked us up without food or water for three days and three nights! After that, he released us. This time, he didn't intend to sell my sister, but my uncle made us work all the time without giving us enough to eat. My sister and I quickly became skin and bones!

But my siblings and I never gave up and always tried to find a way to leave. Because our uncle was watching us so closely, we never found an opportunity! But we never thought that our uncle would let us go. This time, he actually... went to the madam of a brothel, wanting to sell my sister to a brothel.

I didn't want my sister to fall into an even worse trap than before, so I tried to run away with her, but we never made it out. In the end, my sister was beaten black and blue by my uncle, her body covered in bruises. This time, we were able to escape their pursuit only because we met you, big brother!

Ronghua: "...Little brother, you don't need to do this. I didn't help you and your siblings much back then. You suffered so much because of your uncle and the villagers of Xiagui Village. Have you thought about what to do next?"

Actually, when Ronghua met the siblings, she was stunned for a moment. It was the first time she had ever seen a girl who was beaten so badly that her skin was torn and bleeding, yet she still remembered to protect her younger brother. Even though she was too weak to run away, she still held her brother in her arms.

At that moment, Han Chan's impact on him was so great that he rushed over without saying a word: "Who are you? Why are you chasing and beating them in broad daylight? Don't you have any respect for the law?!"

"You brat, this has nothing to do with you, get out of here! If you don't leave, don't blame us for being ruthless and beating you up too!"

Ronghua didn't recognize those people, but their fierce and menacing appearance was deeply etched in her mind and she couldn't shake it off.

"Now that I've encountered this situation, I won't leave easily! You'd better leave, or I'll report you to the authorities, and none of you will escape!" Rong Hua had never encountered anything like this before, and he was a little scared, but Han Chan and her brother were so pitiful, practically on the verge of death, so he mustered his courage and glared at them fiercely: "Let me tell you, the county magistrate is a relative of mine. If you don't want to go to jail, feel free to try!"