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”Young Miss Senja is very compassionate.” The woman held Senja's hand with gratitude.
”No, no, I am not.” Senja waved her free hand impatiently.
**Compassionate?! She will be shocked if she knows the real me! **
”What about your sister?”
Yoda and his mother looked to the floor when Senja mentioned the girl.
”My daughter was sold to a different City. The Zhao family in H city.” Yoda's mother was crying again.
”We just returned from H city.” Xun mumbled.
”You just came from there?” Senja asked, ”Then, you know the Zhao family?”
”Of course!” Sheng nodded.
”The head of the current Zhao family is a local official.”
”Hmm… but, the rumor around them isn't good at all.”
”They are very cruel to their servants.”
”The family even kills them just for fun.”
”They cut those poor servants' hair, even turn them bald.”
”They even cut their fingers.”
And… they were at it again! The twin siblings and their nonsense ramblings, ignoring Yoda's mother who was crying a river and Yoda who had grown pale by now.
”Enough both of you!” Senja interrupted their unsolicited running commentary before it took a turn for worse.
”How long does it take from here to H city?”
”2 days.”Pat came Xun's reply.
”And the both of you know the Zhao family, right?”
Sheng and Xun nodded in tandem.
”Now, go back to H city and bring back Yoda's sister.”
”Why??!” They cried in unison.
”I don't want to go back there!”