Lilly asked, "So?"
The harem spirit exclaimed, "Please don't tell me that you targeted your eldest daughter to the extent of killing her." It was not weird for these spirits to think so because the ghost matchmaker might really do such a thing. She avoided eye contact and replied, "It's impossible for me to do so, right? How could I be so cruel to my own daughter?"
The weakling spirit carried Lilly and asked the ghost matchmaker, "Then, what did you do for your first job?"
She answered, "I've been searching for so long... and there's no suitable candidate." There were a lot of girls and women from different villages, but the dead ones did not fulfill the age requirement. She was running out of time, and her mind was fixated on those two thousand dollars. She already gave the 1,000 dollars payment to her mother-in-law, and it was impossible for her to get it back from her.
"When I was back home the other day, I saw my daughter washing the laundry with her friend by the river." Her daughter was eleven years old, whereas her best friend was twelve. They were having similar life experiences; they always asked each other out to wash laundry, pick vegetables, collect pine oil, and so on.
Lilly could somewhat guess what happened, and she was shaken to her core. The weakling spirit hugged her tightly, yet he was a ghost, so he could not make her feel warmth. "Let’s not listen to her anymore, can we?" He said gently, "I’ll bring you out to play."
Pablo looked at Lilly worriedly, and he sighed. The harem spirit said to the ghost matchmaker, "Stop saying it." The other spirits all surrounded Lilly, asking her to stop listening at this moment.
"It’s unhealthy for a kid to listen to these; let’s stop, okay?"
"That’s right, you can train when you’re a little bit older."
"Let’s stop hunting for ghosts and focus on your studies now. You can have a happy life growing up."
Yet Lilly merely shook her head and answered, "It’s alright; my heart is strong enough for this."
The weakling spirit looked at Pablo, but Pablo did not stop the ghost matchmaker from continuing. Hence, she continued to mutter, Daughters are worth nothing... So, it wasn’t a big issue if she accidentally fell into the river while she was doing laundry, right?" She waited for the girl to speak with her daughter before pushing her into the river. The girl was not defensive of her since she was her friend’s mother; she was struggling and shouting for help in the river after being pushed. "I couldn’t bring myself to watch her die." She said to them
The unlucky ghost asked, "So, did you walk away?"
Lilly did not pity her, but she commented, "You could have run away again!"
She replied, "No, there’s nowhere else for me to run to." I was penniless, so where else could I run to? They might beat me to death if I run again.
Lilly was having mixed feelings. She’s… She’s like what Daddy has described to me before... She bowed down to the stronger people but bullied the weaklings. Hmph!
She was bedridden for another half a month, but she knew she had to do something. She got a new job; a dead boy’s family requested a living wife, but she had to be young, single, and virgin. They offered eighty thousand ninety-nine dollars for the bride's price. She was totally moved by the amount of the money, and she looked at her daughter, who was taking care of her. She fulfilled every requirement.
The harem spirit exclaimed, "So, you let your daughter get married to the dead?"
She replied, "Well, wasn’t it a good thing? She could have married someone who abused her, or she might not be able to give birth to sons. So, she’s safe marrying the dead." But, in reality, her daughter refused to marry him; she liked a boy from the same village, and they had mutual feelings. Her daughter might not have been able to give birth to sons, but she could have ended up with a husband who cherished her, and her life might not have been tragic. Yet, the ghost matchmaker still forced her daughter to get married at that time.
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