"Though we can't see her face clearly with a mask, her legs are so thin." Someone let out a rude laugh.
"She looks expensive. She might be the mistress of someone."
Many people were gossiping about it, but Harold was the only one who kept working silently until he heard footsteps coming from behind to in front of him.
He stood straight and looked up, only to see that it was Stephanie.
"Why are you here?" Harold looked back at the crowd. When they saw that the person Stephanie was looking for was Harold, whose face was bandaged, they immediately gave malicious smiles.
At first, they were still discussing who kept Stephanie, but now they were sure that Harold was the one being kept.
'But Harold is poor and ugly, he might only be better than the others in sex since he is tall and robust,' they felt jealous and their hearts were full of dirty thoughts.
"Are you really here to work?" Stephanie looked at the dirty gloves on Harold's hands. "This place ... is dirty and tiring. Come back with me. I have already found a job in Happisland City. I don't need you to make money to support me."
"You go back." Harold turned around and continued to carry the wood.
Stephanie couldn't help but follow him for a few steps. She almost lost her temper, but when she thought of Spencer's warning, she held it back. "You go back with me."
A group of middle-aged men who were working laughed out loud, "Hey, your wife's here. Why are you still carrying wood here? If I were you, I would quickly carry her home."
"Why would you hurry to go home?"
"Don't tell me you don't know!"
"Hey, man!"
Those men let out wretched laughter as they were telling smutty jokes.
Stephanie didn't care much, but Harold turned around and glanced over them. Those men were still laughing loudly. Some people said that Harold was too strong in sex, so his wife would come here to find him even he was working.
"You go back." Harold looked at Stephanie and said.
"You will definitely be bullied by them here. Don't do it. Come back with me. If you really want to work, go with me to Happisland City after the New Year. I will pay you eight thousand a month. No, ten thousand a month, ten times more than here. How about it?" Stephanie asked.
"Here is close to your house," Harold said, "I'm not going to Happisland City."
"Well, if you don't wanna go there, you can stay at home. I will pay you. Okay?" Stephanie asked again.
"Okay!" A man's disgusting laughter came from the distance, "Harold, why don't you agree to such a good thing? Hey, sweetheart! Why don't you keep me? I'm definitely better than him!"
"Hurry up and go back. Let's talk about it when I get back," Harold said to Stephanie and clenched his fists.
Stephanie thought for a moment and nodded.
She walked back. When those men saw her leave, they all walked over. They didn't know where Harold came from. Usually, newcomers need to give them some good things on the first day, but Harold only buried himself in work. The old employees had long been holding back their anger and were waiting to get angry. Now seeing Stephanie such a wonderful woman, they had dirty intentions.
"Are you leaving just like that?" A bald middle-aged man stopped Stephanie and asked, "Why don't you stay and have lunch with us?"
"Why not?" The others also came to surround Stephanie.
One of them reached out his hand to take off Stephanie's mask, "Why are you wearing a mask? Let us see your pretty face."
Stephanie took a step back, and a man with buckteeth behind her laughed lewdly. "Hey, you ran into my arms yourself. Don't blame me."
Before he could finish laughing, he saw that the man who wanted to remove Stephanie's mask had his right hand twisted at a strange angle. Everyone turned around in surprise and saw that Harold had stood behind them and was holding the man's hand.
"Hey! Let go!" The man cried in pain, "Ouch!"
Harold twisted the man's wrist and pushed him to the ground. The next second, he walked to the bald middle-aged man, grasped the man's collar with one hand, and directly lifted him off the ground.
Stephanie was worried that Harold would strangle the man to death, so she reached out and grabbed Harold's arm. Harold's wrist was very strong, and his stretched arm was as hard as a stone.
"Hey! Let go! Let go!" The bald man shouted in fear, "Damn it! Put me down!"
Harold threw the man on the ground, pushed away Stephanie's hand, and then grabbed the man with buckteeth who was about to run away with his other hand, and punched him directly. The man was directly beaten to the ground.
"He is killed!" Several men lay on the ground and shouted, "Help! Help! Someone is killed!"
When the boss heard the commotion, he rushed over. The workers said it was Harold who suddenly fell ill and hit others. Harold did not defend himself. He just stood there and looked at Stephanie, saying, "I'll send you back."
'Send me back?
You still wanna come here later?' Stephanie wondered.
"You still want to work here?" Stephanie thought that he had just hit someone and he must lose this job.
But she did not expect that Harold didn't care about this.
The sun finally came out. Stephanie narrowed her eyes, only to see Harold standing in front of her and saying to her, "You shouldn't come out alone. It's dangerous outside."
In the distance, several workers were still asking the boss to uphold justice. A few birds flew across the sky. Stephanie could smell the thick scent of plants. In front of her were flickering lights and figures.