"Human slave traders, what do they do?"
Mu Yi'an didn't react for a moment. After asking, she remembered that human traffickers were people who bought and sold people. It was just that she had lived in a peaceful society for too many years and had forgotten that it was legal to buy and sell people at this time.
"They come to buy people. If someone in the village is struggling financially, they'll sell their sons or daughters. They mainly sell their daughters; they keep their sons to carry on the family line."
Li Qiuniang curled her lip, "They favor sons over daughters!"
"Aren't things good these days? Why are you still selling your daughter?"
Mu Yi'an couldn't understand how someone could just sell their own child like that, how could they bear to do it?
"It's true that the year is good, but with a large family of more than ten people and only a few acres of land, if someone in the family gets sick or has to support someone in school, then there's not enough to go around."
Li Qiuniang had seen a lot in the county, so she didn't take it seriously. However, Jiangjia Village was relatively wealthy, so human traffickers rarely came here.
"Selling your daughter so your son can go to school?"
Mu Yi'an was surprised. In their time, there was also a preference for sons over daughters, especially in their mountain village, but back then, buying and selling people was illegal. She had only heard of human traffickers, never human slave traders.
A donkey cart approached from afar, driven by a middle-aged woman in her forties. Her hair was neatly combed and styled in a simple bun at the back of her head, adorned with two silver hairpins.
Two girls, about six or seven years old, sat on the bus, dressed in patched-up clothes and looking exactly alike. Their eyes were filled with tears and fear.
"These are the two sisters from the Lin family. They have had seven daughters in a row. These are the twin sisters."
Li Qiuniang sighed. The fate of these two sisters was not going to be good. Usually, those who buy twin sisters have some special connections.
Mu Yi'an retreated to the courtyard; she couldn't see that, at least not yet.
Li Qiuniang thought her second sister-in-law was soft-hearted and couldn't bear to see people separated from their children, which was why she looked so gloomy. Only Mu Yi'an knew that she was just not used to it.
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