Chapter 15 (1/2)

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

“Village Chief, you’re here.”

The woman looked uneasily at the old village chief in front of her. She even felt a little ashamed. She had heard about what had happened just now. Could it be that the old village chief had come to reprimand her?

The old village chief only nodded. He didn’t care about what the woman thought.

“I would like to talk to the village chief about something. If you don’t mind…”

Shen Yan had been striking business deals for years. How could he not notice something going on between the woman and the village chief? He helped to find an excuse for her to leave.

The woman hurriedly nodded and left. If she didn’t leave now, who knew what the village chief would say right in front of her?

“Master Shen, that was rather embarrassing. I’ve been the village chief for so many years, but I had never expected the people in the village to become so selfish. It’s all my fault for not managing them well,” the old village chief said. He truly felt shameful about the matter.

“Village Chief, you don’t have to be like this. There will always be differences in people’s character.”

Shen Yan picked up the teacup in his hand and brought it to his mouth.

“Master Shen, you’re right. Little Emi was a poor child. If Tavis Hyde hadn’t sacrificed himself back then, Little Emi’s life wouldn’t be so precarious and she wouldn’t be so insecure now.”

The old village chief still remembered how Little Emi used to greet everyone with a smile. She was known to be the well-behaved, good kid in the village. Anyone who met her would praise her.

However, ever since her father left and her mother became terminally ill, he had never seen the same smile on Little Emi’s face again.

It wasn’t that she stopped smiling. When someone gave Little Emi food, she would still smile and thank them. He knew that Little Emi appreciated those who had helped her, but that smile only made her more pitiful rather than cheerful.

“Emi’s parents?” Shen Yan asked, puzzled.

The old village chief realized that Shen Yan didn’t know what happened to Emily’s family, so he sighed deeply and told Shen Yan about Tavis Hyde. He then told Shen Yan about how Emily’s mother fell ill, and Emily had to get food from the other households in the village. In the end, she could no longer take the appalling attitudes of the villagers and left. He told Shen Yan all of it.

As he spoke, the sky turned dark.

“It’s all my fault, I’m getting too old and couldn’t take proper care of Little Emi. It’s all my fault.”

The old village chief smacked his lap repeatedly. He really hated himself for his incompetence.

“Don’t say that. Now that Emi has come to the Shen family, we will treat her as one of our own. We definitely won’t let her suffer anymore.”