"They felt that my clothes were dirty, I was smelly, silly, and I have always been looking down on the floor when I walked, so how could I be more successful than their children? My mother used the money I had sent her in the first month to buy new clothes for my grandparents, my uncle and his wife, and also my cousins. She even bought them lamb, ham, and all sorts of gifts. She had spent more than a thousand dollars and she went to my grandparent's house. In the end, her spirits were dampened by my uncle and his wife."
Kingston could not help but ask, "She brought so many gifts to your grandparent's house, but she was still not welcomed?” "My uncle and aunt had no problems with my mother. They have always known that my mother is a good person. Not only them, but even the people in my grandparent's village knew that my mother is a good daughter, a good sister, and a good aunt. The person they slandered was not my mother but me. Do you know what my uncle and aunt said about me?" Eevonne shrugged and pretended that it did not matter to her as she looked at Kingston with a smile.
Kingston clearly saw misery and grievances in the girl's eyes. This time, he clearly had figured out how her uncle and aunt judge the girl before his eyes.
"Your uncle and aunt thought that your salary was too high. They thought that you were...doing some indecent job, didn't they? They thought you'd done some morally corrupt things, didn't they?" Kingston asked the girl in a deep and gentle tone.
The girl lifted her head to look at Kingston. "Do you believe that I've not done that kind of thing?"
Kingston nodded firmly. "I do!"
Suddenly, tears welled up in the girl's eyes. She tried her best to hold her tears back and not let herself cry. However, as soon as she spoke, she still burst out crying, "But... but my mother...my mother didn’t believe me."
Kingston was speechless.
"My mother called me and scolded me for being a person who had gone astray. She said that I had never picked up any of her merits my whole life. She was a proud person with great integrity. Everyone in her family was so successful. But what about me? She said that my brother and I just looked like the lazy people who just loaf around all day. Both of us were just like the people from my father's side of the family. We're both unsuccessful and without integrity! We just knew about doing shameful things. We just couldn't change our habit of doing underhanded things."
"That’s outrageous!" Kingston was so angry that he raised his hand and slammed it on the nightstand beside the hospital bed. The tape on his hand that was holding the infusion needle in place nearly fell off because of that slam.
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