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Chapter 797: Caught
Chapter 797: Caught
Chapter 797: Caught
The screams of the widowed mer were wretched but no matter how painfully he screamed, the women who were taking his daughter away did not stop. They had to look around for a long time before they could find a house which did not have a woman before snatching this child, if they let her go, wouldn't it mean that they will have to hand their own child to be eaten?
These women did not want such a tragic end for their children which was why they did not stop, Tan Mo and Xiao Yu looked at the mer who was crying and screaming before turning to look at the women who were carrying the child away. They gritted their teeth before turning their eyes away from the sight in front of them, they wanted to stop this from happening which was why they looked around for a long time but they could not find anything.
At the same time, they were worried that their children will be the ones who will be killed if they did not take the girl away. The two of them were torn between stopping the leader who was taking the child away or just going along with the flow.
" Please, I beg you! Take me if you want! I am the windowed and sick, I will not say a word even if you eat me alive! But she is my only child! If she dies I will not be able to live!" The widowed mer screamed again as he ran after the group of women with the village women of his village.
Tan Mo, the wife of Hu Bing heard this and then turned to look at the pitiful mer before biting her lips. She was sick and starving but she had never sunk so low as offering her kids to Village head Chou as the other women did to save their skin, some of them did not even mind eating their own children to stay alive.
Of course, her heart was hurting when she heard that the girl was the only child of the mer who had lost his wife. In the end, she exchanged a look with Xiao Yu who seemed a bit reluctant but still nodded with some slight hesitation, she only came here because she wanted to steal some ration, stealing a child was never on her quota.
This was why despite finding many suitable kids, she did not make a sound nor did she call the women who were with her to steal a child away but who would have thought that this woman who was carrying the daughter of the widowed mer would steal the only daughter away of the poor mer.
She gritted her teeth and then took out a slimy stone which was covered with moss, this was something that she had picked up when she heard the call of the women which told her that they have found something. She did not find the chance to use it earlier but now —— Xiao Yu glanced at the crowd behind them and then calculated the distance between the woman who was in the lead while carrying the child with her.
When she saw that it was the right time, she threw the stone with a flick of her wrist when everyone was looking away, while Tan Mo covered for her. This way no one was able to catch what was happening or what Xiao Yu had done, the women who were running were all paying attention to the front with the child in the arms of the sturdy woman who could run faster than the rest.
The woman who was carrying the child was overjoyed, she knew that if the child was not brought back to her village then the one who will have to die would be her daughter because she was the one who was the sickest of all, with Xiao Yu and Tan Mo paying their debts off with the grains that their husbands had brought from the Big River Village, they will be safe for the time being, but her daughter wouldn't be safe, given that her husbands did not find any grains when they went to their maternal homes.
The woman was so lost in her joy that she did not see the moss-covered stone which was lying in her path that was thrown over in front of her by Xiao Yu who could not bear the sight of a young girl being eaten alive.
Her foot stepped on the moss-covered stone which was slippery and smooth and before she could control herself, she tumbled down after getting slipped on the moss-covered stone. The woman fell on the ground with a loud thump and so did the child which she was carrying in her arms.
Seeing this the women who were following her were scared stiff, they turned to look at the crowd which was following them and then turned to look at the woman who was on the ground. They wanted to help the woman or at least snatch the child away but the woman fell at such a spot and time that they did not have the time to save her at all.
The group of women looked at the woman who was on the ground before helplessly looking at the crowd which was following them with thick sticks and flames. They knew that it was useless, there was no way they will be able to save the woman which was why they all left her on the ground and then rushed out of the path which was in front of them.
When the woman saw that her accomplices had left her behind, she wanted to run away as well leaving the child behind but by the time this thought came over her, it was already too late, the crowd with the mers and the widowed mer had chased her down.
Now they were surrounding her with sticks and flames in their hands they all looked at her with a mean look in their eyes and the woman knew that it was her end.