Chapter 51 Did You Do This Before
Marta quickly digested the shock she was feeling and asked another question “Demi, did you really deliver all your stuff to the designated destination?
“That’s right,” Demi said with a nod
“How are you so quick?” Maria was stunned once again. She had stayed in her place earlier, and the roads up the mountains were long and curvy, so she didn’t know what happened afterward.
The audience watching the livestream, including Benedict, wanted to ask the same
Kame question
I was in a rash to come back down and ineet you, so I ran all the way up, Demi replied.
What?
Once again, Maria turned to look at Demi in shock. All of them were so exhausted to the point where they couldn’t even get up from the ground, yet Demi had managed to run up the mountain?
Well, Demi probably wouldn’t have made it back so quickly if she didn’t on either
“Demi,h–have you done something like this before? Why do I feel like you’re so much better compared to those professionals?” Maria joked half–heartedly after a
while.
“Oh, I did do so, but it was a long time ago.“Demi said after giving it some thought.
Maria looked at Demi in a daze. The shock she currently felt was even stronger than the last two times. In fact, she looked like she had just been struck by lightning
The program’s introductory video had mentioned that Demi was 16 this year. It she had done this “a long time ago,” didn’t that mean she started at eleven, twelve, or even younger?
Was that something a child could even do? Was Demi’s family that poor? No wonder she seemed like she could do anything
The comments section exploded into chaos once again.
“Demi claimed that she’s done this a long time ago? She’s lying, right? How old could she have possibly been back then? Ten? Eight?
“I admit that she was quite impressive by running up the mountain carrying those things on her own! But lying isn’t right, is it?
“What’s she lying about? If Demi was an orphan with only an eighty–something–year–old grandinother, of course, she would have to rely on herself!TM
“Even if she had to fend for herself, she wouldn’t have to do this kind of work, would she? Is this something a child could even do?”
“Have the people in this comment section never seen how the children of the poor live? A lot of kids, starting from the age of eight to nine, tend to carry heavy Toads from the villages over long mountain roads to sell in town. It’s a normal thing.”
Benedict held his tablet as his eyes tumed red. “She’s so pitiful. She has to do such hard labor from a young age.”
Almost immediately, he turned to Sean and asked, “Where’s Felix? I told him to help Demi out. Has be done so?”
“I’m on it,” Felix said, rolling his wheelchair in from the outside.
“I told you to do this earlier! Why didn’t you do it sooner?” Benedict exclaimed in anger, while he frowned in frustration. “I’ve been busy for the past two days,” Felix replied.
In truth, he had been busy investigating Demi’s background, but he already had most of the information he needed by now.
“You should hurry up! I’ll do it myself if you don’t,” Benedict turned.
In the Pitt residence, Stephen was staring at his phone screen with an extremely complicated expression.
He had guessed that Demi had a tough life before, but he had only imagined that she would at most, be unable to afford things like a high–rise apartment, a car, gourmet food, pretty dresses, dolls, or extracurricular classes
That was the kind of hardship he had believed she had to suffer.
However, the hardship Demi had just revealed had far exceeded his imagination.
Perhaps he had never truly understood his daughter. Now, he was starting to wonder if they had made a mistake in the past.
On the winding mountain road, Demi was unaware of the arguments going on in the comment section. She was also oblivious that people were making wild speculations about her past.
She had started doing such work back in middle school initially, no one wanted to hire her. It was only after much begging and pleading did people take pity on her and agreed to let her work
Of course, she wasn’t very strong back then. At first, she could only carry around 10 pounds of goods. Over time, she gradually worked her limit up to 45 pounds. After delivering goods up the mountain, she would pick up empty bottles on the way back to bring them home.
When she had said that carrying such things up the mountain was something she did many years ago, it had just slipped out. After all, for her current selt, it really felt like it was something from centuries ago
She had only wanted to let Marla know that she was doing fine now.
