When the villagers heard this, they sighed. Twenty taels of silver was something a hardworking farmer couldn't earn in five years, and even if they took away all the land from the lazy man's house, it would still not bring them twenty taels. It was obvious that Yu was blackmailing this fool.
"I don't have any money."
"I don't care, I don't care. Even if you beg, steal, rob, or sell, you still have to compensate me!"
Yu was like a madman. She grabbed her shoulders, shook her, and screamed, "If you don't pay me back, I'll sell you to a brothel! Even if you become a prostitute, you have to pay me back."
"Are you my mother?" Shen Xu looked at Yu with disappointment and said in disbelief, "How could a mother sell her daughter to a brothel?"
"I've accepted you as my daughter for eight lifetimes, so stop complaining and pay me back!" Yu sat down on the ground again, pulling at her trouser legs, crying and shouting, cursing with obscene words.
"Mom, don't cry. I really don't have any money, but I can--" Shen Xu squatted down, trying to comfort Yu.
"No money, go!"
Lazy Shen pushed through the crowd, interrupted Shen Xu's words with a roar, twisted her arm roughly, and dragged her onto the ox cart.
"Dad, are you going to sell me too?"
"Who's your father? Who knows where you came from? I'm so unlucky to have picked up a jinx like you. You set my house on fire, so you should pay me!"
He glared at her angrily, pushed her hard onto the ox cart, and shouted, "Old woman, tie her up quickly and make sure she doesn't run away."
The villagers pointed and said, "It seems that this lazy man Shen is really going to sell her to a brothel."
Shen Xu sat on the ox cart with a gloomy look in his eyes, letting Yu tie his hands, feeling very depressed.
The fragments of memory showed the conversation he heard when he was tied to the carriage. That group of people also wanted to sell him to a brothel.
But if Mr. and Mrs. Shen Lanhan were not her parents, then who were her parents?
Did they also sell themselves like this couple?
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