"You ask me, but who am I supposed to ask? It’s all your father’s fault for kicking the bucket before making things clear."
A while back, the old man had received a letter from the Capital, instructing their family of three to head there immediately. It claimed that his niece, who had been living as a guest at the Dingguo Marquis Estate, had passed away, leaving behind many valuable belongings.
The family had hastily packed their bags and departed from their hometown of Xuzhou. Who could have known that they would run into bandits near the Capital? In trying to save her and her mother, the old man had been hacked to death by the thieves. Since they had little of value to steal, mother and daughter were sold to human traffickers together. If not for their good fortune in being rescued by passing government soldiers, they would likely be joining that old man underground by now. As for the letter, it had been lost during the old man’s struggle with the bandits.
Chapter 18