"These?" they gasped and asked in unison.
“They were the ones who beat me.” Lu Pandi continued to recount everything she had experienced in the past. “If I was slow in doing housework, their bamboo whips would fall on me.”
Lu Pandi became more and more agitated as she spoke, tears streaming down her face without her realizing it. "Please, could you please rescue me from this quagmire?"
As Shen Qianqian listened to what she said and saw the many injuries on her body, she realized...
Hen, moved by compassion, relented and agreed to Lu Pandi's request, "I promise you."
"Thank you... thank you all." Lu Pandi's tense heart finally relaxed, and she wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, but then tears suddenly flowed again.
It felt so good to be cared for; this was perhaps the first time she had felt so relaxed and happy since she could remember.
"I don't know how I can help you, but I will do my best to help wherever needed," Lu Pandi said, her voice choked with emotion. "As long as... as long as you don't break your promise in the end."
“Pandi, perhaps there is something I really need your help with. How much do you know about what your mother has done?” Shen Qianqian asked.
"What did she do?" Lu Pandi recalled the past carefully. "It seems that not long ago, my mother saved an old man. The old man saw that she was kind and hired her to help manage the shops under his name."
"As for the materials used to repair the village roads or houses, they seem to have come from that old man's factory." Lu Pandi thought carefully but couldn't think of anything else. Her voice was apologetic. "I'm sorry... that's all I remember."
"It's okay," Shen Qianqian comforted Lu Pandi, patting her head. "It's already very good that you can remember these things."
She said to Shen Qian and Lu Yunchuan, "Sister Qian, since I just promised this child, please take her to the city first. As for negotiating with the Ma family, leave that to us."
After Shen Qian and the others took Lu Pandi to the city, Shen Qianqian and the others also knocked on the door of the Ma family.
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