Eight Uncles' Beloved Treasure (Lily)

Chapter 439 Pain is a Stepping Stone

Sora was speechless. Just when he was about to say something, weakling spirit looked at Lilly. “It’s

safe for work, isn’t it?” Gotta confirm something. We have kids here.

Hypocrite ghost said, “Yes. I’m a hypocrite, not a lecher

Harem spirit coughed. Then the hypocrite spirit started telling his story. The nineties was when the

nation’s economy took flight, and the people were getting bolder in terms of mindset. Some would even

have calendars with bikini models in the background, and life was getting better.

“My neighbor, Lila, had a husband. He loved to gamble when he was alive. They had four children and

an old woman living under the same roof. Her husband abused her when he was alive. Lost a lot of

money gambling, so he sold everything they had. Lila refused to let him do it, and he would hit her. He

broke her leg once, and he poured scalding water down into her throat when he thought she was

nagging too much. Said he wanted to shut her up. She lost a leg and her voice because of that.”

He continued, “Their family had nothing, and she raised her children practically all by herself. Most

people led good lives, but her family was an exception. They had to forage for food just to keep their

bellies full. I would give them a bit of my food because they needed it. Her husband wouldn’t stop

gambling, and she threatened him with a divorce. I dissuaded her.”

“What? Why? Her husband’s obviously useless,” harem spirit said.

Hypocrite ghost frowned. “Yeah, you can get a divorce easily in this era, but the nineties were different.

You have no idea how bad society would treat a divorced woman. I had to dissuade her, or she’d be a

single, crippled, and mute mother raising four kids all by herself. No one would want to marry her, and if

you didn’t have a man by your side in the nineties, it’s over for you.”

Josh was speechless. “But it must at least be better than being with an abusive husband.” He couldn’t.

understand. He was a chronic gambler, and he abused his wife until she was crippled. That’s DV no

matter how you cut it. No way that kind of trash could support his family.

Hypocrite ghost said, “You’re still young, so you don’t understand. Sometimes our emotions get the

better of us. She had four kids and an old lady to feed. They would die if she were to get the divorce.

Domestic violence was common back in the days. Rampant, even This was nothing.

Lilly was shocked. He broke her leg, and it was nothing? Then what kind of horrors would consitute

something?

Hypocrite ghost sighed. “She took her child and tried to leave, and she refused to take care of her

husband’s mother anymore. But that’d be really bad forthe lady. She was lying right in front of her

house, threatening to take her own life if Lila left.”

Harem spirit was in disbelief. “And?”

Hypocrite ghost said, “I thought it would be bad for an old lady to fend for herself, so…” Lila’s mother-

in- law wasn’t kind by any means. She would order her around and tell her to give the best greens she

foraged to her. But then, family problems between in-laws were rampant back then. Hypocrite ghost

thought it was Lila’s duty to take care of her mother-in-law. If she left her alone, the old lady would die

from starvation, and that would be bad.

“So I stopped her and asked someone to call her husband home. Families should stick together.

Turning your back on an old lady like that was not a good sight

The ghosts couldn’t believe what they were hearing.

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Pablo sneered. “If you’re so kind, why didn’t you help her with her MIL?”

Hypocrite ghost sighed. “I wanted to, but I couldn’t. She’d rather stay in her own home than mine.

That’d

feel better for her.”

The kids were shocked. Lilly couldn’t understand it at all. Why’d he take pity with that old hag but not

Lila? It’s all that woman and her son’s fault Lila’s life was so hard. Why’d he only pity that old hag but

not Lila?

Hypocrite ghost added, “Her husband came home, she failed to escape, and he hit her until she was

blind in one eye. My god, that was horrifying.

And that horror story happened because of you, dumb ss. You’re not as nice as you think.

“The debt collectors came and killed her husband, then they took their house away. Left with nowhere

to go, they came to me, and I housed them in my pig pen

“Sorry?” Lilly asked.

Josh said, “I thought you pitied them. Why’d you let them stay in your pig pen?”

Hypocrite ghost said, “I’d have given her a house if I had an extra. No one in the village would help. No

one but me. It was thanks to me her family had a place to stay. I stopped rearing pigs a long time ago.”

Oh, you think you’re such a saint, huh?

“The pig pen was made out of bricks. All they had to do was clean it up, and they’d have a place to

stay. Sure it was small, but a bit of hay, and they’d have a place safe from the elements. There was

even a toilet. near the pen. Made it easy for the kids and the old lady to relieve themselves.”

The hell?

“Lila was backed into a corner. Her house was taken away, she lost an eye, crippled in one leg, and

couldn’t. speak. The only source of her food were the greens in the mountains. No one would take her

even if she tried to find a job, so she stayed back. And the family started living a happy life.”

Lilly blurted, “Yeah, you’re the only one who thinks they had a happy life.”

Hypocrite ghost ignored that. “And then the economy really took flight. Things were looking good, and

at lot of villagers started running a business. Even Lila was tempted. There were stalls set up in the

county, and Lila heard that a few were running a cobbling business. As long as she worked hard and

went where the crowd went, she could make two to three hundred a month cobbling shoes. Most

wages were about three to five hundred back then.”

He continued, “She wanted her kids to go to school, so she wanted to work, but honestly, she had no

idea how the lady cobblers worked. They’d reveal most of their chest for the customers to see, or

they’d have no business at all. Some of the pervier ones would try to cop a feel. That’s not the kind of

work a decent woman should do. She had no idea at all. A bit of sweet talking, and she thought she

could make some easy money.”

Everyone was speechless. Lilly was reminded of the cobblers she used to see. Hey, they didn’t show

their chest

at all.

Josh frowned. “Not everyone’s like that. She could dress modestly.”

Hypocrite ghost shook his head. “You’re just a kid. You have no idea about the situation at all. I

wouldn’t harm her. She had never seen how dark the world could be. I dissuaded her for her own good.

And if she

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started working, there’d be no one to take care of her family.”

Yeah, you’re a hypocrite and a nosy ghost. Everything you did made things worse for the lady. She

could do anything she wanted, and you should’ve stayed out of it.

Lilly said. “But if you were so nice to her, why didn’t you give her half your house and money? And you

1 could even send her children to school. That way, she wouldn’t have to work so hard just to survive.”

Hypocrite ghost opened his mouth. I couldn’t do that. I had a family to feed too.