00:00The little girl had long noticed that every night, her father would transform into a real demon to punish her
00:04mother.
00:05But as soon as day broke, he would change again, appearing in front of the neighbors as a caring husband
00:08who seemed to love his wife deeply.
00:10So that no one would see the marks of her suffering, he always made sure to beat her only in
00:13places that could be hidden by clothing.
00:15And so that the neighbors would never discover that he was actually very rich, he pretended to be poor.
00:18Every time he finished eating chicken, he threw the bones on the ground and forced his daughter to swallow them.
00:22All of this left the little girl deeply confused.
00:25Her father seemed like nothing more than a lazy man who occasionally pulled a horse cart.
00:28So where did the money come from that allowed him to drink alcohol and eat meat every day?
00:31One day, she decided to secretly follow him.
00:33To her great surprise, she saw him dig into the ground and pull out an entire box filled with gold
00:37ingots.
00:38The girl became even more puzzled.
00:39Taking advantage of the moment when her father went to buy alcohol, she ran quickly to the shed and dug
00:43up the ingots he had just buried.
00:45Seeing the box full of gold, she was overjoyed.
00:47With these ingots, she could finally escape with her mother.
00:49She rushed to show the box to her mother.
00:51But when her mother saw the ingots, which seemed familiar to her, she pushed them to the ground without any
00:55expression.
00:55As the girl picked them up, she noticed on the back of the box a precious jade pendant.
00:59At that moment, her mother's emotions burst forth.
01:01She gently took it in her hands, as if it were a treasure.
01:04But her mother's mind had long been unstable.
01:06She no longer remembered the connection she had to this pendant.
01:08They had to escape before the father returned with alcohol.
01:11However, as soon as they stepped outside, several neighbors blocked their path and asked where they were going.
01:15The girl quickly replied that she was simply taking her mother for a walk by the river.
01:18But the neighbors noticed the bundle she was carrying and immediately understood that she was trying to run away.
01:22The girl was seized with fear.
01:23If the neighbors reported this to her father, she would be beaten mercilessly.
01:26Seeing that the neighbors wanted to stop them, the mother quickly said they were going to wash clothes by the
01:30river.
01:30The girl hurriedly added that the bundle only contained dirty clothes.
01:33Even so, the neighbors ordered them to return home immediately.
01:36As soon as they saw the girl and her mother go back inside, they rushed to inform the father.
01:40At that moment, the girl realized her father had long-placed eyes and ears around her.
01:44Soon after, the father returned home furious.
01:46However, their attempted escape left him puzzled.
01:48She had no money, so where could she have gone?
01:50Suddenly, he thought of his gold ingots and ran to check.
01:53But before his return, the girl had already buried the ingots exactly where they had been.
01:57So the father discovered nothing.
01:58Yet in his eyes, they had committed a fault and had to be punished.
02:01He grabbed his wife and dragged her into the house, then forbade her from eating.
02:04After that, he warned his daughter that if her mother suffered every day, it was entirely her fault.
02:08Even though the girl admitted her mistake, the father knew very well that if he kept her at home,
02:12she would eventually try to escape again with her mother.
02:13So he ordered her to put on new clothes and took her outside to sell her.
02:16As the girl said goodbye to her mother,
02:18her mother took out the jade pendant and softly murmured about its pattern.
02:21The girl immediately understood.
02:22If she could find a family that had the same pattern, she could save her mother.
02:25To maintain the image of an honest man in front of the neighbors,
02:27the father claimed his daughter had grown up and that he was taking her to the city to learn a
02:30trade
02:30so she could support herself.
02:32But once in the street, he sold her to a human trafficker
02:34while pretending to be a sad father reluctant to part with his daughter.
02:36The girl then had an idea.
02:38She told the trafficker he could earn even more money.
02:40On a piece of paper, she drew the pattern of the pendant.
02:42If they found this family, the reward would surely be doubled.
02:44The trafficker immediately recognized that the symbol belonged to a powerful family.
02:48So he took the girl to the city to search for them.
02:49But after two days of asking around, no one recognized the symbol.
02:52The trafficker became furious and wanted to drive her away.
02:55Terrified, the girl ran away at that very moment.
02:57A carriage arrived on the road, escorted all around by soldiers with sharp weapons.
03:01Suddenly, the girl saw the pattern engraved on the carriage.
03:03She was stunned.
03:04It was exactly the same as the pendant her mother had.
03:07She immediately understood that her mother finally had a chance to be saved.
03:09The trafficker also suddenly realized it.
03:11Because that symbol belonged to the famous family of a great general.
03:14A family whose influence dominated the entire court.
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