Transmigration with QQ Farm

Chapter 72 part 9

“Daddy, please stop. It hurts! It really hurts!” The girl dodged and cried at the same thing. Second Old Liu meant business when he was beating someone. It was as though he was using all his strength and truly meant what he said by beating her to death.

“Hurts! I didn’t say you can say you hurt! I didn’t say anything. Who said you can dodge?” Second Old Liu scolded her as he increased the strength of his arm. He looked like he was going to eat her alive.

“Woooo… wooooo……” The girl dared not speak anymore, nor did she dare beg for mercy any more. Just sobbing quietly. Her pitiful look touched Cheng Xiao Xiao deep down inside.

Someone like that should not be a father.

“Stop already!” It seemed Cheng Xiao Xiao had some ideas. With her face darkened, she shouted out coldly.

“I am beating my own daughter, what’s it to you? Get the hell out if you have nothing better to do!” Shouted at Cheng Xiao Xiao, Second Old Liu was about to resume beating the girl.

Cheng Xiao Xiao stepped up and grabbed Second Old Liu by his arm and looking all the more colder.

“What if I said I will buy her?” Cheng Xiao Xiao’s expression and tone had changed and she meant business.

“What did you just say?” Second Old Liu asked again with his eyes widened, as though he didn’t believe in what she said.

She was just a young girl herself, how dare to spill out words like that?

He was quite aware of the wealthy families in the area but had never seen her before. He couldn’t tell how much truth was in her words.

“I said I will buy your daughter,” said Cheng Xiao Xiao coldly. This time Second Old Liu heard her clearly, and his manner improved instantly.

He just lost a customer, he must treat this one nicely.

He didn’t care who he was selling his daughter to. As long as they could afford to pay them, they would be his VIPs.

“Are you serious?” Confirming with her again, Second Old Liu’s eyes started to beam.

He really need money right now. They have been out of food at home and were about to go chew on tree barks and tree leaves.

So if Cheng Xiao Xiao was going to buy his daughter, he would not let the opportunity slip away.

“Of course I meant what I said. Why would I lie to you?” Cheng Xiao Xiao casted him another cold glance. She was entirely a cold beauty now.

One couldn’t be nice to someone like that, otherwise, he just might try to take advantage of you.

“Ten taels! I won’t take anything less!” Second Old Liu suddenly set a price with a very determined look, as though he was sure Cheng Xiao Xiao would buy his daughter.

Cheng Xiao Xiao looked at the girl with her tear-covered face and thought about it long and hard before producing eleven taels from her top and said, “I am giving you 11 taels. You have sold her to me and have nothing more to do with her from this point forward. Do you understand?”

“Yes, yes, anything you said, Miss!” Of course Second Old Liu was happy about the extra one tael, so he agreed with Cheng Xiao Xiao’s words.

He wouldn’t even take the cheap thing even if she was given to him. He barely has enough money to stay afloat, he had no extra to keep her alive too!

“Hand over the deed,” Cheng Xiao Xiao examined that Second Old Liu again and didn’t feel that he could be trusted, so she asked for the deed. She didn’t want any hassles beyond that!

Second Old Liu quickly handed over the deed. Cheng Xiao Xiao took the deed from him and handed over the money.

As soon as Second Old Liu got the money, he left immediately without caring about anything else.

Cheng Xiao Xiao squatted down trying to help the young girl up, but she heard a cry from the girl. She saw her wrist where the rod had landed, Cheng Xiao Xiao felt bad all over again.

Thinking about her old life, and the difference between the two, fate could be so unpredictable sometimes.

Both were families in poverty, but her families were still protective and loving toward her, yet the young girl’s family treated her so cruelly.

“Mistress, I am okay!” She turned her face away. The young girl didn’t want Cheng Xiao Xiao to see her in that condition. Her father had sold her; her family no longer wanted her, what else could she do?

“Little girl, you are my people now. I promise I won’t let others bully you. From now on you follow me. I won’t let you undergo any hardship.” Cheng Xiao Xiao walked up and stroked the girl on her head, she looked at her full of pity.

Fate had treated the two so differently! The girl was only a couple of years younger than Cheng Xiao Xiao. She felt like a little sister, and she was quite fond of her naturally.

“I….” She opened her mouth, but the young girl couldn’t find any words. Looking at the gentle way Cheng Xiao Xiao was looking at her, tears ran down her face again. She just wanted to cry.

Her own father and mother didn’t even treat her as nice as this stranger whom she had just met.

“Be a good girl and stop crying, okay? We will get you some food in a bit.” Cheng Xiao Xiao helped the young girl up and pursed her lips; her eyes full of indescribable emotions.

One could tell almost immediately that this young girl was simple and kind in nature. Cheng Xiao Xiao would feel comfortable having her take care of her family.

“Okay!” The young girl wiped her face with her sleeve. Her clothes was messy and dirty to begin with, the wiping only made her little face messier and dirtier than efore.

Taking the young girl with her and walking around the slum, Cheng Xiao Xiao purchased another young boy around 12-13 years of age, taking him out of the slum.

“What’s your name?” asked Cheng Xiao Xiao as she turned around and looked at the little boy, a little bit of suspicion in her eyes.

One could tell almost immediately that this was a kid from a loving family. If his mother wasn’t worried that he’d starve here, she wouldn’t have sold him.

Both families sold their children, but for very different reasons – one was heart-warming, the other one bone-chilling.

“Replying mistress, my name is Two Eggs,” replied the little boy courteously. He seemed very uneasy. He had a hard time looking straight at the pretty girl, and he was also very afraid.

Hearing that, Cheng Xiao Xiao couldn’t help but frowned. Both of these kids’ names are awful, it’s probably better if she give them new names.

“Why don’t I give you new names?” Cheng Xiao Xiao couldn’t help but ask, these names must go.

Afterall, their names were given to them by their parents, she should at least ask them their opinions.

They both nodded; neither one of them objected.

"Little girl, from now on we will call you Lu Zhu, Two Eggs, let’s call you Zhu Qing.” Even though these couple of names sound a bit on the grandeur side for the village, but Cheng Xiao Xiao was okay with that. The important was that she liked them.

“Thank you, Mistress, for awarding us with new names.” The two replied simultaneously again. By now, both little girl and Two Eggs, no, both Lu Zhu and Zhu Qing’s expressions were already very different than before.

Now that the mistress had given them new names, they completely belonged to her now.

“Zhu Qing, from now on you work for my family, we will pay you wages. You can save them for when you get married, or you can give them to your mother to help her out. After all, she only sold you for your own good, so you should treat her nicely too. If you ever miss her, you can also go back to visit her.” She patted Zhu Qing on his shoulder and said to him tenderly.