The world is so big, there must be one or two places that are utterly ignorant.
Qiu Zhuang sighed, saying earnestly, "Feng'er, you are my daughter. Go down quietly, and I will let this matter go."
Qiu Zhuang was reluctant to let Ji Xiaoxiao die. Putting aside the amount in Ji Xiaoxiao's savings account, just considering Ji Xiaoxiao's value as a person, Qiu Zhuang couldn't bring himself to kill her.
Although Ji Xiaoxiao is already thirty-five years old, she doesn't look old and is quite pleasing to the eye. Moreover, she is a top student from a prestigious university and is very intelligent. The child she gives birth to will definitely be exceptional. People in the mountains want their families to produce a college student to bring honor to their ancestors. Since men are not capable of producing one, they can only rely on women to improve their genes.
Good women are sought after by every family, but it's virtually impossible for men in the mountains to marry them through proper channels, as no one wants to suffer hardship in the mountains. Where there's demand, there's supply; if legitimate channels don't work, then shady dealings emerge.
Qiu Zhuang didn't think there was anything wrong with selling his own daughter. "Qiu Feng'er" was his child, he raised her, so what was wrong with selling her? "Qiu Feng'er" was his private property, and he had the absolute right to dispose of her.
Ji Xiaoxiao has the original owner's memories, and Qiu Zhuang makes no attempt to hide the scheming in his eyes. Ji Xiaoxiao knows everything about her biological father's pregnancy.
"At what price are you going to sell me?" Ji Xiaoxiao suddenly asked.
After Ji Xiaoxiao finished speaking, everyone fell silent.
The buying and selling of daughters is a long-standing custom in the mountains. Ji Xiaoxiao openly and brazenly puts it all out in the open. Whether it's a man or a woman, they are ultimately still human. No matter how weak their legal awareness or how degenerate their morality, their self-respect as human beings and their innate sense of superiority over animals make them blush with shame.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Qiu Zhuang roared in anger.
Qiu Zhuang, having had his fill of anger, turned and left.
Li Dahua glared at Ji Xiaoxiao, picked up the bowl and chopsticks left by Qiu Zhuang, and hurriedly chased after her.
After the two left, Qiu Longzi beckoned to Ji Xiaoxiao with his finger, "Come here."
Ji Xiaoxiao glanced at Qiu Longzi from head to toe. He looked honest and unassuming, but his behavior was frivolous. How could his character be so wicked? Even if the Empress and stepmother were bad, at least they had stunningly beautiful faces. Qiu Longzi, on the other hand, was rotten inside and out.
"Aren't you deaf? I called you over here." Seeing that Ji Xiaoxiao didn't move, Qiu Longzi kicked the "dog woman" in anger.
The "dog woman" didn't bark, rolled over, and continued to gnaw on her food in the dog bowl.
Men are contradictory creatures. They like their wives to be obedient, but they dislike their wives to be indecisive. This is wrong, and that is also wrong.
The "dog woman" remained silent, which fueled Qiu Longzi's anger. He turned the bowl upside down on the "dog woman's" head, and the juice from the bowl trickled down her face, making a mess on the ground.
"Eat, eat, eat, all you know is eating. You can't even have a baby, men are better than you." Qiu Longzi truly regretted it; out of so many women, how could he have picked up such a useless woman?
Upon hearing this, Ji Xiaoxiao suddenly realized that it was because she couldn't have children!
The men in the mountains buy wives simply so they can have children. There might be occasional kicking and shoving, but they can't bring themselves to seriously injure or kill a woman. Because if the woman is injured, how can she give birth?
Qiu Zhuang had some affection and respect for Liu Dahua, but Qiu Longzi was unlike Qiu Zhuang; she didn't regard "dog woman" as human at all.
Indeed, Qiu Longzi is three years younger than the original owner of this body, and he's thirty-two this year. A thirty-two-year-old man without a single child. In a mountain village that values tradition, Qiu Longzi has often been ridiculed by other men.
Mocking his incompetence, Qiu Longzi vented his anger on the "dog woman." Only by beating and verbally abusing her could he vent even a little of his anger.
After watching Qiu Longzi beat up the "dog woman," Ji Xiaoxiao dragged her into the house. The "dog woman" suddenly turned around, tears streaming down her face, her lips parting to express her untold suffering.
"Save me, please?" Ji Xiaoxiao mouthed the words aloud, mimicking the words "dog woman."
Meanwhile, inside Qiu Zhuang's house.
"Have you found a buyer yet?" Qiu Zhuang asked Liu Dahua.
Liu Dahua was feeding Qiu Zhuang bite by bite when she smiled and said, "Hey, we found them. They're willing to pay this price." Liu Dahua held up three fingers.
"Only 30,000?" Qiu Zhuang was clearly dissatisfied with the price. "Qiu Feng'er is a college student and has been a big shot. Her future child will be the smartest and will definitely get into college and make a lot of money. 30,000 is too little."
Liu Dahua said plaintively, "I told them, but they thought Qiu Feng'er was too old."
A woman's value lies in her youth.
"Fine, thirty thousand it is. Longzi is already thirty-two and still doesn't have a child. That woman can't have any more. We have to buy another one." Qiu Zhuang resigned himself to his fate, yet he didn't accept it.
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