When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

Chapter 0871

Wanda was indeed in poor health, but it wasn’t to the point where eating or drinking was difficult. Her condition had worsened because of events that happened around Christmas.

Back then, the village was mainly dependent on farming. Five years ago, Ollie suffered an injury at a construction site, making him a cripple.

Now that he had no option to work outside the village, he decided to stay home and started farming on their small plot of land. He cleared the wooded area behind their home to plant fruit trees.

In the first two years, he was cautious and only planted a small area to gain experience.

Later, he gradually expanded the planting area after gaining more experience and skill. Two years ago, they had an exceptional harvest. The Cliffords managed to earn a substantial amount of money in addition to favorable market conditions.

Their success attracted jealousy from the villagers. The Cliffords had always kept to themselves and didn’t interact much with the others, so the jealousy festered into resentment and hostility.

Unfortunately, their good luck didn’t last long. The weather was bad last year. Not only was the harvest reduced by half, but the quality of the fruit was also poor.

In addition, the roots of many trees were rotten due to prolonged rains, causing significant

losses.

saved the family from a financial crisis. Later, Joli secretly took on a part–time

only that, he even gave his family some extra money which Ollie then used to

cherry trees they planted last year began bearing fruit this year. The cherries were large and sweet because of Ollie’s diligent

Ollie signed a contract with a distributor from another city who agreed to purchase all their cherries for this year. He even preordered the next year’s crop. Ollie was overjoyed! On Christmas Eve, the family was full of cheer. They believed that they had a

disaster struck the next

drink some water. Let

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family from the village who ran a booming business, a driving school in the town nearby. Once they became wealthy,

to prosper, and they did very

Sneider family had two sons, Kenny

using their fists to keep others in check and to

family turned a blind eye to their actions and allowed them to run wild, bullying the

he received complaints from the villagers, he dismissed them with a casual remark, “They’re

pay off the aggrieved party. After all, the Sneiders

way to deal with the Sneider family. Most of them chose to avoid them and tolerate their bullying. Even if they