Chapter 588: Framed (Part 2)

Little Bean was hurt. No servants came to wait on Ned Scurr anymore. Ned didn't care. The sun was setting. Ned left the Bai family estate and took a slow walk through the mountains for four or five miles, finally stopping outside a small house with a picket fence. In the yard, a girl about thirteen or fourteen was chopping wood. The fallen branches and old tree roots she'd gathered from the mountains took a lot of effort to chop. Her face was red from the effort, and she kept wiping sweat from...