"Yeah, Mr. Carter. Don't you trust me? Miss Lane is a friend of mine. We won't simply talk nonsense," Marius echoed.
I stared at Mr. Carter eagerly, expecting him to speak.
Likely moved by my passionate gaze, Mr. Carter finally nodded. "Alright, but please don't spread this matter. It’ll affect us a lot otherwise."
"Okay, don't worry. We'll keep it secret." Marius winked at me, motioning for me to agree.
I instantly understood. "That's right, we won't say anything!"
Mr. Carter sighed heavily again. I felt something was wrong even before I heard the story.
He took a sip of water and then slowly said, "Only those of us who have lived here for a long time know about this matter. Those who moved in the past 20 years probably don't."
I sensed that it was an extraordinary incident the moment he said that. It seemed like something that happened decades ago. Could it be the same incident I was thinking about?
I continued listening to Mr. Carter with anticipation.
"Probably 30 years ago, a young lady had climbed to the top of the mountain before she jumped. It was a sensation at the time."
I was shocked when I heard this.
It also happened 30 years ago!
Jumped off the top of a mountain?
I bit my lower lip, my heart doing somersaults. "Why doesn't anyone know about it now if it was such a sensation?"
"The village chief ordered people to suppress the news immediately back then. The lady was not just an ordinary individual. Her parents came to help suppress the news as well. They got us to keep quiet, but a newspaper published about it before they managed to suppress the news completely. Fortunately, it was only our own small newspaper, so the village chief and the lady’s family jointly destroyed that newspaper press and retracted all the papers."
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