【What's wrong? 】
Zhu Wuhuan noticed its silence and his heart rose to his throat.
She didn't know what was going on with those two people. She tried to appear calm and told the system, "Don't hesitate, just tell me. I'll accept any outcome."
The system hummed and said cautiously, "Host, besides you, they also have... four daughters and one son."
When Zhu Wuhuan heard this, his fingers that were grabbing his pants suddenly loosened.
The taut string in her heart also broke with a snap.
She looked at the white clouds in the sky and raised the corners of her mouth sarcastically.
Four daughters and one son?
Including her, that would mean five daughters and one son?
ha……
She risked her life to give birth to so many children and then abandoned her as her own daughter. Isn't it obvious what this means?
She smiled. "That son must be a late-born child, right? They desperately gave birth to five children, but unfortunately, they were all daughters. So they threw us, their unimportant daughters, away and desperately gave birth to the son they dreamed of, right?"
Without waiting for the system to reply, she sneered, "Then I should congratulate them. Congratulations on getting their wish and having a son."
The system doesn't know what to say.
The facts are indeed as the host guessed.
That son was indeed the sixth child, and that couple was indeed the type of people who favored boys over girls and tried desperately to have a son.
However, the host also made some mistakes in his guesses.
The system said distressedly, [Host, they didn't abandon their daughter, they sold her. You were sold by them...]
Zhu Wuhuan's pupils shrank slightly. She thought she was abandoned, but it turned out that she was involved in human trafficking?
She asked the system, "How do you know they sold their daughter? They were arrested?"
The system said, "Yes, host. I checked their criminal record. They were arrested for three counts of human trafficking. However, because the children they sold were their own daughters, and they needed their care, they were only sentenced to three years."
The system talked about the process of selling the child.
[Host, you are the third daughter in their family. When you were born, they already had two daughters, and they couldn't afford to raise them. So they secretly sold you for four thousand yuan.]
[Four thousand yuan decades ago was considered a huge sum of money. After they tasted the sweetness of success, they sold their fourth and fifth daughters within the next four years.]
[As luck would have it, not long after they sold their five daughters, they were exposed by people living near their rental home. Their confessions led the police to apprehend the traffickers. Fortunately, the traffickers had records of the two daughters. So, six months later, the two daughters were fortunately recovered.]
"Only you, the host, are unlucky. They sold you while you were working on a construction site in the south, and they didn't know the buyer. By the time they were arrested, you had already been sold four years ago. The police couldn't track down your whereabouts, so you've never been found..."
After hearing this, Zhu Wuhuan suddenly smiled with relief.
The system says she is unfortunate?
No, it was her luck that she was not found.
Although she was a wild child in the orphanage without a father or mother, she was cared for by the kind old director and other uncles and aunts. She was able to study, go to college, and make a name for herself.
But if she had been found and lived in that suffocating family, would she still have the opportunity to go to college?
Parents like that would definitely let their daughters drop out of school after completing nine years of compulsory education to work and earn money to help them raise their son, right?
If it's in a remote mountainous area, some of them are so cruel that they will even sell their daughters to old bachelors as wives in exchange for betrothal gifts...
She closed her eyes with lingering fear.
She wanted to confirm her guess, so she asked the system, "How many years did those girls go to school? Are they happy now?"
The system regretfully informed Zhu Wuhuan, "Unfortunately, my eldest and second daughters dropped out of school after elementary school and returned home. At the time, the mountainous area wasn't very strict about enrolling children. If their parents themselves wouldn't send their children to school, who would care about other families' affairs? My fourth and fifth daughters were luckier, as they'd been sold by their parents. Their parents were imprisoned, and they became targets of special observation by local authorities. So, their grandparents had no choice but to reluctantly send them to school for nine years. However, their grades weren't good, so they dropped out and returned home after nine years."
Bad grades?
Zhu Wuhuan chuckled sarcastically, "Good grades are also related to family. If you live in a suffocating, oppressive family, with endless chores to do after school, daily beatings and scolding from grandparents, and even starvation, and arrive at school feeling sleepy and shivering, how many people can handle the pressure and study hard?"
The system cannot answer this heavy question.
Even though it is a cold system, it knows that whether a child can become successful depends not only on the child's own IQ and ability, but also on how the parents educate the child.
Bad parents will harm their children for life.
Zhu Wuhuan took a deep breath and said, "Tell me more about how they are doing now."
The system quickly answered.
[Host, your eldest and second sisters left the village to work at a very young age. Although the country prohibits child labor, there are still loopholes in some small places and factories. They were working in those illegal workshops at the age of fourteen, working themselves to death and not getting a penny. It was very miserable.]
Then your eldest sister was called back home, and your parents married her off to an elderly bachelor from the next village who was willing to spend 50,000 yuan on a bride price. As for her post-marriage life... well, her life must have been quite unhappy. Anyway, I checked the local medical system and found records of your eldest sister's numerous hospital visits, all of which were for injuries. Just last month, she was even hospitalized with a broken bone. Sigh.
As for your second sister, well, she saw your eldest sister being "sold" by her parents, and she was so scared that she quickly found a boyfriend at the factory with decent character and good looks. They lived together unmarried and even got pregnant. Although she escaped the fate of being sold by her parents and married the man she loved, her life must not have been easy. I think she divorced a long time ago and lives alone with her two children. Now both children are in college, and she works several jobs to support them. The earliest job requires her to clock in at 4:00 before dawn, and the latest job leaves at 11:00. It's pretty miserable.
Your fourth and fifth sisters are in a slightly better situation. After all, they've gone to school for nine years and are educated. Even if they work, they can probably get a job at a decent factory.
Your fourth sister is beautiful and married well, but her parents have made her a coward. She's been secretly using her husband's money to spend on your brother. Her husband couldn't stand it anymore and has filed for divorce.
Your fifth sister is quite shrewd. While working away from home, she married someone from another place. She's thousands of miles away from her hometown. When her parents and brother ask her for money, they can only call her to urge them. She just ignores them. Her parents can't afford to drive to her in-laws' house frequently to cause trouble, right? So, she's the only one who's relatively free.
After listening to the system's explanation, Zhu Wuhuan stared at the sky numbly, feeling a sense of sadness and powerlessness deep in his heart.
Having parents like that is truly a lifelong misfortune.
Living under their shadow is worse than being an orphan.
At least she, an orphan, is much happier than her sisters.
After questioning several miserable sisters, she now particularly wanted to know whether the son that the couple had been longing for had brought them happiness.
She asked the system, "How has their long-cherished son been doing these years?"
When it mentioned this, the system's voice rose an octave, [He's such an idiot, such a jerk! He and his parents are in such a miserable state now!]
Then the system happily talked about the boy's stupid life.
[Host, after listening to his experiences over the past few decades, you must be relieved! ]
During the years your parents were in prison, your younger brother was spoiled by his grandparents, becoming selfish and evil-minded! After his release, not only did your parents not correct their son's bad habits, they doted on him even more. As a result, their son, at a young age, became a troublemaker, starting fighting in elementary school. By the end of his nine years of compulsory education, his file showed he had been disciplined more than a dozen times!
Logically speaking, he was your parents' lifelong hope. They would have sold everything they had to send him to school, right? Even if he didn't pass, there were still vocational schools he could attend, but he didn't continue.
[He met a little gangster girl while playing games outside during the summer vacation. The gangster saw that he was a fool with a lot of money and was easy to bully. After she became pregnant, she set her sights on him and plotted against him.]
He was so foolish that he actually thought that the baby in her belly was his after that one time. So he insisted on marrying the little rascal.
Since this little girl has become such a scoundrel at such a young age, and is hanging out with so many men at once, it's clear she's not one for a quiet life. So after she gave birth, she stole the family's money, abandoned the child, and ran off with some random guy!
[The reason I know this is because your parents reported the case back then, but unfortunately your brother later withdrew the case, and it was left unresolved.]
From then on, your brother and his "son" took advantage of your parents' financial situation. He did nothing at home, and your parents, even at their old age, had to go out to earn money to support their son and grandchildren. When they were short of money, they turned to their daughters for help. Tsk tsk, although life was very difficult during those years, they managed to get by with the help of their daughters.
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