Chapter 27 A tormenting issue
Chapter 27 A tormenting issue
“What the hell happened?” York was in the emergency room again when he got back to hospital.
“I don’t know. His condition become unstable suddenly.” Mary said in a choked voice. Alan became
worried and prayed, “York will definitely be fine.”
Doctor came out from the emergency room with sweat, and shook head. It was dreadful.
“We need more type A blood, Rh negative, which is rare. We ran out of it already here. It will take at
least two hours to fetch it from the city. And I don’t think York can get through it without enough blood.”
Mary collapsed down when she heard this.
“I have the same blood type. Let me...” Alan said. What a coincidence! Mary looked gratefully at Alan,
while felt guilty and regretted for what she had done to Alan. He was so kind and helpful.
With the help of Alan, York survived and recovered soon. And Mary begged for leniency at the court.
Finally, Daniel was sentenced to 15 years in prison as well as an indemnity of thirty thousand dollars.
The family turned out to be in debt of twenty thousand dollars.
Life had been changed so badly.
Alan looked gaunt and tired after dealing with all these for a week. But after all, they went through it.
Alan returned to the Vergina Village. Karen’s family was upset for Daniel didn’t come back together. But
if Alan didn’t help, Daniel would be subject to a more severe sentence.
The family sat at the table as before without sarcastic Daniel who was in jail as the backbone of the
family.
“Karen, Amy, Betty and Carol, I will take the responsibility as the only man in the family. I’ve been a
freeloader for a while. From now on, I will farm with you guys together. I will pay Daniel’s debt as well.
Just don’t worry. Everything will be fine.” Alan spoke sincerely.
“Alan, you little fool. It’s gonna be fine. I still can work.” Karen smiled awkwardly.
“Yes. We’ll be there. We are not children already.” Amy said delightedly.
Betty suddenly stretched her hand and said, “Come on. We will go through it together. We will be as
happy as before.” Betty had never said something inspiring like that before.
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At the same time, someone came in with a bucket and a chicken.
To their surprise, that was Mary. Should they welcome her, or hate her? Daniel wouldn’t be in jail if her
son York didn’t steal their fish and get caught by Daniel.
However, Mary was a victim as well, wasn’t she?
“Mary, what are doing here?” Karen showed no hospitality. But Alan thought they should just let it go.
“I bring some fish York stole from you.” Mary spoke softly. No one would be more distressed than her.
“We don’t need them. Take them and get away.” Betty spoke relentless when the others kept silent.
“I knew you might accept it. That year, my husband went catching fish with electricity together with my
son, and my husband…” Mary burst into tears as she said this. Everybody was listening. It could be
hard to raise two kids as a widow.
Mary was less emotional as she continued, “My husband died of electrocution, while my son passed
out though he stood far away. He turned out to be a fool. The only thing he could remember was to
catch fish. So, every time he saw fish, he went to catch it for his dad. Seriously, my son didn’t mean to
steal your fish. He remembered nothing but fish.
After hearing this, they all understood.
“We didn’t eat those fish York brought back, and we grew them instead. Right at the time we were
about to send those fish back and explained to you, the tragedy happened.” Mary was weeping silently.
So that was a misunderstanding. If Daniel could be calmer even a little bit, the tragedy wouldn’t
happen.
Mary put down the bucket and chicken before she left. After that, they understood that Mary was not as
malicious as the villagers described. On the contrary, she was just trying what she could to protect her
son.
Everyone felt too upset to eat.
After dinner, Alan came to Amy’s bedroom, “Everybody looked exhausted and haggard after suffering
all these.”
Amy held Alan in her arms, with her head on his shoulder, and said, “Thank you, Alan.” Alan touched
her hair, embracing her, and comforted, “I should be sorry. I didn’t bring Daniel back home.”
Amy took a deep breath, wiping tears in the eyes, and spoke, “It’s fine. Dad has such a bad temper.
Perhaps, he can learn from it. Just let him introspect in the jail. It won’t be too long anyhow. But…”
Alan understood what Amy concerned most was they were in debt of twenty thousand dollars.
“I have a plan to earn money. But it is just a rough one. I need your help when I have the details.” Alan
realized the importance of money and his salary was only enough for living.
To earn money, he had to work out a solution. However, he knew he had to be considerate and patient.
Alan used to find the best solution by collecting and analyzing data.
Everybody gradually forgot this issue.
Alan had to support the whole family while working hard. Most importantly, he hadn’t hit on Amy, Betty
and Carol. After all, he had already had a good beginning, for at least now Amy kissed him proactively.
The cousins wouldn’t be mad at him if he kissed them occasionally, except Betty. Alan dared not to kiss
her for he got beaten so badly last time he kissed her.
Alan always couldn’t understand why Betty was so different from the other two cousins even though
they were all growing together?