The More the Merrier

“Yes, there is a mine on the mountain. It’s hard to build a road up the mountain, so the owner of the mine hired many adults and children from the village to carry the mining products from the mountain…” Rick said.

Ethen could not imagine how a young child could work.

Benjamin went into the house and took a look around.

The house consisted of three rooms. The one in the middle was the living room.

The other two rooms were most likely bedrooms.

One of the rooms had a big bed made by combining a few benches.

“Mary and Tim stayed in this room,” Rick explained.

The room was messy, but it was clean.

The other bedroom belonged to Raphael. None of the doors had locks and were only partially closed.

Anyone could enter and leave freely. Furthermore, the kitchen consisted only of a thatched roof surrounded by a fence.

The house was dilapidated and had nothing of value.

he would not have believed that there was still such severe poverty in this

at the surroundings and felt uncomfortable about what

his child

find them fast,”

not at home. Therefore, they could not ascertain whether Tim was the

immediately ordered his subordinates

analyzed where a child and an

stone bench and looked at the messy kitchen. He frowned when he thought there might have been a

became difficult after Raphael came out of prison. Raphael liked gambling, so he would often force them to give him money and would beat

Since Mary could hardly walk and had many illnesses, she could not work. Thus, it fell onto Tim to provide for the

Ethen ordered someone to

and he emanated an icy

about Tim. “Terrible. Raphael frequently scolded and beat Tim up. Furthermore, he even wanted to sell Tim, but Mary protected the boy from him. Since Tim has been earning money, Raphael had probably taken him to his debtors as security

“Why

get involved in family

the town’s surveillance footage and quickly sought Rick’s confirmation. “Mr. Griffin,

side and looked at it before nodding. “Yeah, it’s them. It seems they

at the surveillance footage. It showed Tim’s back but