2025-01-07 10:39:26After Eric sent the mother and daughter away, he was shocked to find out how many things he had done that were against his nature. When did he become so kind and amiable?
If his brother knew about this, wouldn’t he laugh to death?
Let alone the thoughts of the other Mr. Kleinte, Mia had already helped Anne get on the carriage back to the herbal medicine store.
Anne Colette... a woman who was even more fragile than she remembered. From the clinic to the carriage, she had been crying all the time. She looked so weak that she seemed to be able to faint at any time. It was really difficult for her to comfort her.
After all, Marina Colette was not a person with a strong personality. Even if she wanted to change her temperament, she couldn’t change it directly like a different person.
But it didn’t matter. In this chaotic era, there were always some people who would maliciously create some opportunities for her to change her temperament instantly.
As soon as she got off the carriage, Mia noticed something was wrong.
"Anne, Mia!" Perry, who came to deliver herbs in the morning, came over with a brown-haired boy in her arms and reminded the two worriedly, "Arthur's brothers are here, you have to be careful." Anne was a good person who had taken care of her for many years and bought the herbs from her. Now she was in trouble, and Perry was worried that this kind woman would be devastated. But she had no way to solve this matter. She was just Anne's friend, but the men who occupied the herbal medicine shop were Arthur Colette's brothers. If they had to occupy the herbal medicine shop, she would not be able to help. The only thing she could do was to secretly take little Arthur out and hand him over to Anne, instead of staying there and being scared by a few scary men and crying. Mia shook her head for a moment, her eyes wandering, and she dug out two names from her mind, Ennis and Wright, the two brothers of Anne's husband Arthur, lazy pimps and thugs wandering on the streets. Sometimes they would come to Arthur's place to get some money by relying on their brotherly relationship - they never paid back the money, and when they were drunk, they would say dirty words that embarrassed Anne and Marina. They were complete bastards.
But Arthur Colette was a good man, or he was a coward. Even after experiencing the baptism of the battlefield, his character was still a little too gentle. This made him popular in the neighborhood, but it also gave others more opportunities to take advantage of him. For the two brothers, even if he was angry and scolded them away, he would still be soft-hearted and lend money to the brothers who never paid it back the next time they came to borrow money.
Now the brothers obviously heard from somewhere that something happened in Colette's herbal shop and wanted to take advantage of it.
Although the herbal shop in Whitechapel was not worth anything in the eyes of those upper-class people, it was already a good industry in the hearts of the locals. Who wouldn't want it if they could get enough food and clothing without going hungry and save a little money?
Besides, there is Anne, a beautiful woman who lost her husband. This is the best thing for the two hooligans!
Perry even saw the brothers drinking in the herbal medicine store from the back window, "......How could they do such a thing?"
She said indignantly that she felt bad for Colette's family, especially Anne and Mia. They lost their husbands and fathers, but his brothers wanted to take advantage of this opportunity. What should they do in the future?
"They are too lazy to clean up the blood on the ground..." Perry muttered. Isn't it just to make the disfigured Mia a free maid?
Now she doesn't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing for this poor girl to be disfigured. If she is not disfigured, will she be forced to sell herself by the brothers? The price of sleeping with such a beautiful girl is not low. After a few years, she will no longer be useful and get sick, so she will be thrown away... Thinking of the pimping that one of the brothers often did, Perri shuddered, and the bloody scene of Jack the Ripper's crime flashed before her eyes.
Although being a maid is hard, at least there is no danger to life, but what about Anne?
Mia looked at Perri's changing expressions and knew what she was thinking without her saying anything.
In London at the end of the 19th century, she knew very well what the status of women was. Anyway, nothing good would happen.
But should she accept others' bad things to her?
"Help me take care of Anne and Arthur." Mia glanced at Arthur who was sleeping in Perri's arms, stuffed Anne to Perri, then took a deep breath, strode open the door and walked into the herbal medicine shop.
"Mia?" Perry held Arthur in one hand and supported Anne, who was weak and drowsy and seemed to have lost consciousness, with the other hand. She couldn't use her other hand to stop her, so she could only stamp her feet anxiously.
To be honest, she didn't dare to provoke the sturdy brothers - even though she herself had a strong body, Perry was still a little timid in front of two stronger men. There was nothing she could do except to be anxious.
Mia, who stepped into the herbal medicine shop, frowned. She was so disgusted by the strong smell of blood in the shop that she almost opened the door and ran out.
Arthur Colette's body on the ground had disappeared, and all the internal organs that had been pulled out had disappeared completely, but the blood stains were still there.
Not only Arthur Colette's, but also the blood flowing out of Anne Colette's body also firmly occupied a position and did not disappear, emitting a pungent smell together.
The body and internal organs should have been taken away by the police, but the ground that should have been cleaned was not handled at all. Did the brothers plan to wait for Anne and her to come back to clean it?
Mia stared at the narrow door connecting the herbalist shop and the living area behind with a dark look in her eyes, and began to think about how to deal with Arthur's two brothers.
Assholes who occupied the brothers' property, why does this thing sound so familiar?
It reminded her of some bad memories...
To be honest, Mia was very annoyed with her current identity.
She would rather be an abandoned orphan or something else-it didn't matter if she was a poor beggar, at least there were not so many problems to solve.
In this terrible era, women's lives are already difficult. Dragging a cowardly mother and an ignorant child, and living in Whitechapel, the difficulties in the future are really foreseeable.
But there is no other way to solve the identity problem now. With a face like this, she doesn't think it is appropriate to put makeup on her face. It is really unhealthy. Moreover, Marina is not the kind of child who is often beaten and scolded by her parents. Anne and Arthur have tried their best to give her the best life. She loves her father, mother and brother.
After receiving someone's body, you have to do something for them.
If Anne and Arthur were villains, things would be much easier to solve. But unfortunately, these two people are not, and all the problems become complicated.
Especially Ennis, Arthur's younger brother, who is now walking out with sleepy eyes.
"Oh~" The bearded man was startled when he saw the figure in the store. The hideous and terrible wound shocked his heartbeat, but he immediately reacted. This is his injured and disfigured niece, "Poor little Mia, you must be very sad and painful. I think you need comfort now?"
Ennis forced a smile and walked towards Mia, ready to give her a hug.
The face is destroyed? It doesn't matter, only one side is destroyed, isn't the other side still good? As long as she lets her hair down, no one will notice.
Besides, once the lights are turned off, how many men in the dark will pay attention to the face of the woman under them? As long as her body is young, plump, and tender, it is enough, and someone will be willing to pay for it...
The smile on his face grew bigger and bigger, and he got closer and closer to Mia, and was about to reach out and hug the poor girl in front of him.
"Bang--" Looking at the malice on that face, Mia's accumulated anger from the pain caused by the wounds on her body suddenly broke out. She picked up the pestle on the cabinet and hit him hard on the jaw, and then a heavy elbow hit him on the head.
"Plop--" Ennis was dizzy from the continuous impact and hit the wooden counter. Then his head hurt. It was Mia who grabbed his hair and hit him hard on the counter.
"Who allowed you to break into Colette's house without consent?" Before Ennis could scream, a rusty knife was embedded into the counter beside his face with a "tsk". The rusty blade brushed his nose, sobering up the drunk man and soaking his pants.
"What are you talking about? This is Arthur's home. Why can't I come?" But his long career as a gangster is his best weapon. Even if he was temporarily frightened physically, he did not give up the idea of occupying this place.
What deterrent power can a widow and a little girl have?
He still has a brother!
Just now, he didn't react because he drank too much!
Ennis struggled hard, trying to get rid of the predicament in front of him, but as soon as he moved, he was grabbed by the hair and hit hard on the counter.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The hard skull made a heavy sound when it came into contact with the wooden counter. Mia grabbed the man's hair expressionlessly and slammed Ennis' head against the counter repeatedly.
Until his eyes turned white and he fell to the ground without any strength to resist.
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