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.

seen the house in person, he would not have believed that there was still such severe

glanced at the surroundings and felt uncomfortable about what

think that his child grew up in such an

we must find

could not ascertain whether Tim

Ethen immediately ordered his subordinates to find where the boy

child and an old

about their daily life?” Benjamin sat on a stone bench and looked at the messy kitchen. He frowned when he thought there might have been a scuffle

their own. Unfortunately, life became difficult after Raphael came

had many illnesses, she could not work. Thus, it fell onto

that, Ethen ordered someone to check at the

an icy aura. “How did

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

grim with fury. “Why did you not call

family matters. As

quickly sought Rick’s confirmation. “Mr. Griffin, is this

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

footage. It showed Tim’s