Chapter 1 The Ungrateful Man Who Sold His Sisters to Escape the Mountains

Fictional setting + 1995

Ji Huaizhi woke up in a crowded dormitory.

The smell of feet mixed with the smell of cigarettes and the sound of spitting made his head throb and he felt nauseous when he woke up.

"Little Ji, where are you going?"

Ji Huaizhi closed his eyes, not daring to take a deep breath, and a hoarse voice came from his throat: "Take a dump."

After breathing in the fresh air, Ji Huaizhi took two deep breaths, then turned on a tap next to him and washed his face to clear his head.

"Host, I have good news to tell you before I transfer your memories."

"Because you completed the previous two missions exceptionally well, I've applied for space for you. To show my thoughtfulness, I already filled it with supplies for you back in the last world."

The system's cheerful tone seemed to echo in Ji Huaizhi's mind.

Upon hearing this, Ji Huaizhi reached out and conjured a bottle of water out of thin air, then poured it into his mouth.

The original owner must have been a heavy smoker, as his throat was dry, astringent, and smelled of smoke.

"Um... Host, I haven't even taught you how to use it, so how can you take things out of it?"

Ji Huaizhi was stunned for a moment, but he just instinctively took it.

"Never mind, it's not important." After saying that, the system directly gave him the memories.

Ji Huaizhi was originally a small-time hoodlum in Phoenix Village, Phoenix Mountain. After meeting some brothers in a video arcade in the city, he heard from them that it was easy to make money outside now.

You don't need to do any hard work; you just need to bend down and pick it up yourself.

The original owner was very interested when she heard this, and immediately signed up after learning that they were going to Guangzhou to make money together.

He also wanted to pick up the money.

Once he makes money, he'll be the richest man in Phoenix Mountain. It would be amazing if he became a rich man.

But they didn't expect that they would have to pay a head fee to make money.

After Ji Huaizhi went back and told his family, his parents thought it was unreliable, but he insisted on going. They threatened to go on a hunger strike if he didn't go, as if preventing him from going to Guangzhou was preventing him from getting rich.

But aside from the 500 yuan per person fee, a person traveling alone to such a far place will definitely need to carry some money with them.

Seeing how determined he was to go, his father, Ji Changcheng, also wanted to take a gamble.

Some villagers went to work in other places, and those who returned from working there all repaired their houses.

Since our son is ambitious and suddenly wants to earn money, let him give it a try.

It just so happens that the eldest son, Ji Hong, is currently looking for a bride price. Originally, she was thinking that a bride price of 100 yuan would be fine, but in the end, Ji Changcheng discussed it with his mother, Liu Ermei, and asked for a bride price of 600 yuan.

They say certain numbers are auspicious.

The woman suddenly went back on her word, and the man's parents were initially thinking of calling off the marriage.

Unexpectedly, my son has taken a liking to that family's daughter again.

They had no choice but to agree, but to their surprise, after the family gave the bride price, the girl only brought a few sets of clothes with her when she married into the family.

This made Ji Hong look down on by her brother-in-law's family.

Ji Changcheng and Liu Ermei scraped together a thousand yuan for the original owner. After paying the head fee, they told him not to touch the remaining five hundred, thinking that he was at his wit's end.

He hid the other five hundred dollars.

However, the original owner forgot about it as soon as he left the house. After paying the head fee, he boasted to his brothers that he still had five hundred yuan on him.

Unexpectedly, it was stolen on the train to Guangzhou.

The original owner cried and made a scene on the train, but still couldn't find it. After that, he saw everyone as a thief and offended several people by speaking rudely.

After arriving at the destination, Wang Facai, the brother who brought him to Guangzhou, took him to make a phone call.

They say this place is a money-spending paradise; if you want to make money, you have to be rich, otherwise nobody will look down on you.

So the original owner was instructed to call home and ask his parents to send money.

They even made the original owner complain about being poor, saying how difficult things were here, but fortunately there was a way to make money, but they were short of capital.

So I told my parents to borrow some money from various places first, and I would pay them back when I earned the money.

Ji Changcheng and Liu Ermei were both from the countryside and didn't understand these things.

I was initially upset when I heard that the 500 yuan was gone, but then I heard that my son had found a way to make money, so I felt better.

Let the original owner wait for them to send all their savings.

However, the original owner was shown the world of glitz and glamour and beautiful women by Wang Facai.

Seeing that someone else's meal costs as much as a month's salary makes them feel inflated.

Without Wang Facai teaching them, they took the initiative to say that the more principal they had, the higher the returns, and encouraged them to borrow money from relatives and villagers.

We'll pay them back with interest when the time comes.

Ji Changcheng was still a little unsure and suggested that they should test the waters first.

However, the original owner refused, saying that such opportunities were rare and that more money should be sent.

And isn't Ji Xiang at home?

Let her find a husband like her older sister, and then receive a bride price.

Besides, they're all in-laws, so it would be awkward for them not to lend me money.

Ji Changcheng heard his son confidently say how easy it was to make money outside, how easy it was to do business, and how many big bosses were everywhere.

Greed began to swell within him.

The two men boasted in the village about how capable their son was.

They all believed it because they were doing business with the big boss.

Upon hearing that there was interest involved, and thinking that the original owner could help them make money together after becoming wealthy, they all offered to lend money to the Ji family.

After Ji Changcheng and Liu Ermei sent the money they borrowed from the village and from Ji Hong's in-laws to the original owner, they decided to return the money.

He then began arranging marriages for his youngest daughter.

Ji Xiang is only seventeen years old. She is a diligent person at home and could have a kind and gentle in-law family.

However, Ji's parents wanted to collect more betrothal gifts.

Ji Xiang was introduced to an older man who had lost his wife and was raising two children, and this man had a history of domestic violence.

He beat his first wife to death.

After thinking it over for a while, the two married off their younger daughter to the man.

I accepted a bride price of 1,500 yuan.

When Ji Hong heard her younger sister talk about her husband's family, she felt a chill in her heart.

She went back and begged her parents not to marry her younger sister off, but her parents said that as long as her husband's family could come up with that much money, they would not marry Ji Xiang off.

But how did Ji Hong get so much money from her husband's family?

The bride's family was disappointing; they demanded a dowry and even borrowed a lot of money from the groom's family.

She faced immense difficulties in her husband's family, and even her considerate husband had many complaints about her.

After the original owner's parents sent money over several times, Wang Facai and his gang were initially very polite to him, saying that people in Guangzhou were too stingy to make money.

If we're going to do something, let's do it big.

They swindled the money sent from the original owner's family under the pretext of doing business, and then disappeared.

He abandoned them and never showed up again.

Everyone was more or less scammed, and they didn't even have the money to buy a train ticket back.

But the original owner was scammed out of the most money.

He didn't know exactly how much money he had been swindled out of; he only knew that everyone in the village had lent money to his family, and that his older and younger sisters had been exchanged for betrothal gifts at his betrothal.