Chapter 1038 The Returnee's Notes 112
His gaze involuntarily fell on the building ahead. The ordinary-looking building seemed to Xie Ning to be shrouded in darkness. Driven by profit, it had become a “baby factory.”
There may be many more "baby factories" yet to be discovered.
Xie Ning's suspicions were correct. While a large-scale investigation was being conducted here, in a remote village far to the south, people were discussing which daughter should have a child.
"Dad, I'm not going. I just had two children, and I need to recover for a while." The one who spoke was the eldest daughter, who was born in 1977. Everyone in the village was poor, and her family was naturally poor as well.
She got married and had two daughters before having a son. She was burdened with extra birth fees, so she went to a surrogate through a friend's introduction. The first client was not satisfied with the child she conceived, so she had another one later.
The money she brought back not only covered the cost of having an extra child, but also left her with enough money to support her child's schooling. Otherwise, with her in-laws and husband who were so poor they were practically starving, she would have been left to starve.
Not only her, but her mother also became a surrogate mother and had a child. Her mother was already forty-nine years old.
"I'll go." The one who spoke was the youngest sister in the family, whose name was also Xiaomei (Little Sister).
"Well, I'll be starting work at the factory in a month. I also have my own family to take care of. Dad, you two decide for yourselves. I'll leave this money here; it's not much, otherwise Grandma will make a fuss."
"Add a little more, build another floor, and that'll be enough for your brother to have when he talks about getting a wife."
The younger sister watched her older sister turn and leave, then glanced at her father who was sighing silently. Feeling suffocated by the atmosphere, she ran out to find Xu Siyi, the only friend in the village who was studying at a high school in the county.
The other person is two years younger than her, and their family is much better off than hers, since their brother works at a bank.
If only her brother were as successful, maybe they wouldn't have had to suffer like that.
Hearing her younger sister say this, Xu Siyi stared wide-eyed in astonishment, "You... even if your brother is useless, you don't have to suffer like that. Besides, having someone else's child is not a good thing, is it?"
"That's because your family is rich. You don't understand my suffering. And what's wrong with me?"
"You can earn tens of thousands at a time. My mom says I'm young and good-looking, so I might even earn 100,000." After saying that, she looked at Xu Siyi again.
He smiled and said, "Ayi, you're young, good-looking, and still a high school student. But if you wait until you get into university, you can earn more money. The bosses there are all very wealthy. They love young, highly educated, and good-looking people like you. You only have to have one child, and you won't have to worry about the rest of your life."
Isn't this better than working a miserable job?
These words made Xu Siyi's face flush red with anger.
"Don't talk to me about these things, and I won't discuss whether it's good or bad. You're willing to sell yourself, but I'm not. I've only ever seen people in feudal times with clearly marked prices. I never imagined that in this era, you would actually put a price on yourself!"
The two parted on bad terms. The younger sister used to yearn for the boring campus life that Xu Siyi described, so she was willing to flatter Xu Siyi in every way, agreeing with everything Xu Siyi said, even though she thought Xu Siyi was showing off to her.
But now that she has money, she's no longer willing to fawn over others. Just like her mother said, Xu Siyi's family looks down on their family because they're poor.
Once she has a child, her family will be rich, and the house her father builds will definitely be more beautiful than Xu Siyi's.
With red eyes, Xu Siyi ran home and couldn't help but cry for a while. She really considered her little sister a friend, even though her mother said that Xu Xiaomei was not good.
But the two had been friends since childhood, and she couldn't bear to lose that friendship.
Wiping away her tears, Xu Siyi took out her flip phone and opened the website.
It was a website she discovered by chance. Unlike other websites, it wasn't flashy; its simple color scheme was very pleasing to the eye.
You can also grow flowers and raise dogs and cats.
She has a small yellow dog that looks a lot like her family's old yellow dog, Ah Cai.
After petting the puppy and feeding it some water and food, Xu Siyi swiped to the tree hole interface and began to tell the story of what happened that day. Her little sister used to be a very good friend, pure and lovely.
But as the two grew up, she noticed that her younger sister had changed a lot and was becoming more and more like her mother.
What her younger sister said today terrified Xu Siyi. Why did she put a price tag on herself?
And is the money she earns really for herself?
They say they're poor, but why are only Dafang, Xiaomei, and their mother doing such things, earning money that harms themselves?
Xu Siyi paused here, thinking, "Men can't have children..."
But she quickly continued editing, while her younger sister's brother and father did not suffer.
Her father would also earn money by carrying cement for others, but neither her brother nor her father had ever done such hard labor.
She overheard her mother saying that there were other people in the village doing this kind of work, and some of them were really suffering because they had no choice but to do it and needed this quick money.
She didn't want her younger sister to do such a thing, but she didn't know what to do. Her parents told her not to talk about it carelessly, lest she offend someone.
But she...
Xu Siyi glanced at the messages the tree hole had sent her before, and felt a warmth in her heart. She told the tree hole that everything should be fine, since the other party didn't know who she was.
If only the tree hole could tell her what to do.
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