Tessa asked in return, "What did you say? Who is... pitiful?" She had wanted to ask, "You're talking about my dad for being the pitiful one, right? My dad is a man and he had to play both the father and the mother. How difficult must it have been for him?" However, before Tessa could ask that, that old woman said slowly, "I am talking about your mother! Your mother is a pitiful child! Being together with your dad was the worst doom in your mother’s life! Also, you! I have never seen such a child like you in this world! You even dared to curse at your own mother! Young lady! I truly wanted to see if you're getting married in this life and if you're going to have children."
Tessa was speechless. The awkwardness she felt at that moment was more intolerable than what she felt a t her mother's wedding. She was scolded so badly by the old woman that it was not right for her to leave or stay. After all, she was just twenty-two years old. She was young and was full of vigor. She felt so aggrieved that she burst out in tears. She was not willing to accept defeat. "Tell me! Tell me what’s wrong with my dad? My dad had raised me since before I was potty trained! He had to play the role of both a father and a mother! What had my dad done wrong? It was the woman who went out to fool with men! Bullsh*t! Tell m e! Tell me what has my dad done wrong?”
The old woman rolled her eyes and looked at Tessa
contemptuously. "Are you a woman?" "Of course!" Tessa was furious. "You clearly knew that I am a girl, but you still asked me like this! What is your intention? I think the entire village had been bribed by Hana Sharpe!"
The old woman instantly became furious when she heard that! She immediately stood up. "You truly are going to receive severe punishment from the Heavens! Who taught you those words? Was it that d*mned dad of yours? Why hasn't he gone to hell yet?"
Tessa was speechless. Her father had always been a good father to her. She only had one father in his life, but she had never expected that the old woman actually cursed her father like that. Tessa truly wanted to turn around and leave. However, she had already been surrounded by the people in the village. Many of them were commenting and criticizing her. She could not get out of the place at all!
The old woman calmed herself down. "No one is willing to care about the private matter in your family. It had already been so many years. None of you came t o ask and we were also too lazy to care, even if we knew that your mother had been wronged. That is still your business, and it’s none of our business as outsiders! However, you're the one who personally came to ask me today! So, I'll tell you about it!"
"Great! Go ahead!" Tessa replied.
The old woman lit a cigarette and recalled the past events in pain. The matter happened twenty years ago. At that time, Hector loved to gamble and had owed a buttload of debts. He had been chased after everywhere. Someone even wanted to chop his hand off. He had been so addicted to gambling that although he was already a man in his thirties, he had not even found himself a wife yet. However, being a man in his thirties, he was unsettled for not having a woman by his side, so he had been looking for women on and off everywhere. Coincidentally, there was a widow in the village who was a few years older than him. Hector and that widow maintained a close relationship for a few years. It was unclear if he just had luck in love during that period or what, but the second year after Hector and that widow had a close relationship, Hector brought a young girl from the streets home. That girl was said to have been eighteen years old already, but her tender eyes looked so young as if she was a fifteen-year-old little girl. Her face was so small that it was only the size of a human palm, and she was so thin that she could be blown away by the wind. No one knew where that young girl had been picked up from.
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