The More The Merrier

Chapter 436 Is He My Son

“Yes, there is a mine on the mountain. It’s hard to build a road up the mountain, so the owner of the mine hired many adults and children from the village to carry the mining products from the mountain…” Rick said.

Ethen could not imagine how a young child could work.

Benjamin went into the house and took a look around.

The house consisted of three rooms. The one in the middle was the living room.

The other two rooms were most likely bedrooms.

One of the rooms had a big bed made by combining a few benches.

“Mary and Tim stayed in this room,” Rick explained.

The room was messy, but it was clean.

The other bedroom belonged to Raphael. None of the doors had locks and were only partially closed.

Anyone could enter and leave freely. Furthermore, the kitchen consisted only of a thatched roof surrounded by a fence.

dilapidated and had nothing of

Ethen had not seen the house in person, he would not have believed that there was still such severe

surroundings and

him to think that his child

find

home. Therefore, they could not ascertain

Ethen immediately ordered his subordinates to find where the

child and an old lady

bench and looked at the messy kitchen. He frowned when he thought there

Benjamin about Tim’s life. “Mary and James loved the boy and regarded him as their own. Unfortunately, life became difficult after Raphael came out of prison. Raphael liked gambling,

soon passed away, leaving only Mary and Tim. Since Mary could hardly walk and had many illnesses, she could not work. Thus, it fell onto Tim to provide for the family. He had to go out to work for their living expenses and Mary’s medical expenses. Perhaps Tim brought Mary to see a doctor. I think the mine workers were paid their salary

ordered someone

and he emanated an icy aura. “How did

moment before realizing that Benjamin was talking about Tim. “Terrible. Raphael frequently scolded and beat Tim up. Furthermore, he even wanted to sell Tim, but Mary protected the boy from him. Since Tim has been earning money, Raphael had probably taken him

turned grim with fury. “Why

family matters. As long as it is

then, Ethen obtained the town’s surveillance footage and quickly sought Rick’s confirmation. “Mr. Griffin, is this old lady and

went to Ethen’s side and looked at it before nodding. “Yeah, it’s them. It seems they have gone to

got up and glanced at the surveillance footage. It showed Tim’s back but not