449: Xiaodie is indifferent to family affection and doesn't recognize her relatives.

Beside the dining table.

A young couple wore relatively simple, barely passable clothing. The woman was burly, with fierce eyes and not a hint of femininity. Between them stood a toddler of about two years old with a runny nose.

The family of three watched this scene without speaking.

On the other side sat a teenager of seventeen or eighteen, staring blankly at Wang Xiaodie, wondering what he was thinking.

But Wang Xiaodie's sister-in-law spoke first, and as the sister-in-law, she winked at the woman and said:

"Mother, let Xiaodie stay. Although she is a bit thin, she can still earn money going to Bai Xiangzi. In the future, you and Father can just wait to enjoy a happy life!"

At this moment, the young man beside them also spoke:

"Mother, I heard that going to Bai Xiangzi can get thirty Spirit Crystals at once. With this money, I can go to the old Zhou family to offer a bride price and take a wife. Isn't the Sea Dragon God Sect asking us not to do anything but try to reproduce as much as possible? This is a good opportunity!"

Wang Xiaodie's eyes revealed astonishment as she stared incredulously at her parents, brother, and younger brother, feeling a stabbing pain in her heart.

She had narrowly escaped death only to successfully return here, but they didn't seem to care what she had experienced at all, only thinking about how to earn more Spirit Crystals through her...

The so-called Bai Xiangzi was a place for low-level men on Qian Yue Island to seek pleasure. If the conditions were good, those who went there would be relatively civilized, but now conditions were dire.

Some men wouldn't touch a woman's hand for three to five years, and once they went there, they did so with the mentality that a single Spirit Crystal was worth everything, not treating people like humans at all.

Therefore, women who went to Bai Xiangzi would be tortured to death in anywhere from a few months to three to five years, a truly miserable end...

Wang Xiaodie was unwilling to accept this!

With an expression of disbelief, she asked the woman and the old man smoking a dry pipe at the door: "Father, Mother, are you... also going to make me go to Bai Xiangzi to sell myself?"

The woman cried out: "Xiaodie, you can see that the family's conditions are not good now. Although your brother has married a wife, life is still difficult. Your younger brother hasn't married yet. Just consider it helping your father and mother!"

"Mother begs you!"

The woman knelt in front of Wang Xiaodie with a thump, and the mother and daughter immediately burst into tears together. Just at this moment, Wang Xiaodie suddenly thought of the three Spirit Stones that the Young Master had given her when she left.

Thinking of this, a radiant glow of excitement appeared on her face, and she said: "Mother, I have money!"

Saying this, she took out those three Spirit Stones.

When the Spirit Stones appeared in the dimly lit room, a layer of glistening white light filled the entire room. The few low-level people nearby had never seen such a thing and immediately gathered around.

"Is this... a Mid-Grade Spirit Stone?"

"That's not right. The light of a Mid-Grade Spirit Stone isn't this strong or this clean and exquisite. Second Sister, this is at least a High-Grade Spirit Stone, right?"

Several people realized the value of this item. Someone closed the door, and someone took an oil lamp from the adjacent room and lit it, wanting to use the light of the oil lamp to cover the light emitted by the Spirit Stones.

If three High-Grade Spirit Stones were all exchanged for Low-Grade Spirit Stones, they would be worth at least 300,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones. For an ordinary family, they would never spend it all in a lifetime. For a moment, the breathing of the people in the room became rapid.

Wang Xiaodie proudly placed the Spirit Stones on the table and said happily: "Father, Mother, now you won't make me go to Bai Xiangzi, right?"

Wang Dashan and Zhao Xiaocui did not speak, but anxiously asked Wang Xiaodie:

"Xiaodie, where did you get the High-Grade Spirit Stone? With these Spirit Stones, we will be rich!"

"I earned them serving the Young Master. I was just about to say it, but you kept wanting me to go to Bai Xiangzi, which really makes one... feel a bit cold-hearted."

Slap!

The woman's eyes turned fierce, and she immediately slapped Wang Xiaodie across the face, then sternly shouted: "How dare you! Don't think that just because you went out and brought back a few broken stones that you can lecture your father and me! We are your parents, and we gave you your life!"

"I will keep these Spirit Stones for you for now, consider it repaying our family's debt!"

"..."

After being slapped, tears rolled down Wang Xiaodie's eyes. She couldn't help but turn her head to look at the old man at the door and asked:

"Father, what about you?"

"Your mother is right. Don't think that just because you earned some money you can speak loudly in our house. When you went missing, we spent a lot of manpower and resources to find you."

Wang Xiaodie's younger brother didn't care about these things; he cared about another matter.

"Sister, who is the Young Master you served? Will he give you Spirit Stones next time?"

"Probably not. This time he saw that I hadn't been home for a long time, so he gave me these to let me come back and take a look."

"Then that means you can't earn money anymore?"

"Mother, I think she should stop serving that so-called Young Master. Let's just have her go to Bai Xiangzi tomorrow. At least that way she'll have a livelihood to make ends meet in the future!"

Several people continued to discuss the previous matter. Although Zhao Xiaocui had accepted the three High-Grade Spirit Stones, she didn't feel that this money was a lot at all. She immediately discussed with the others, wanting to find an alley with higher wages to sell her off...

Listening to these people's conversation, the tears in Wang Xiaodie's eyes gradually stopped flowing, and her entire expression became much colder.

Now she was already beginning to regret having taken out the Spirit Stones for these... animals!

That night.

The family discussed the Bai Xiangzi matter heatedly.

Wang Xiaodie stood in the courtyard with an expressionless face, coldly listening to the laughter coming from the room from time to time. It wasn't that she didn't want to leave, but she was tied up because they were afraid she would run...

The family talked too late, causing them to walk out of the room yawning at noon the next day.

Seeing that Wang Xiaodie was still standing in the courtyard with her hands and feet tied, Wang Dashan said: "Daughter, don't be stubborn. The girls in this village all go to Bai Xiangzi to subsidize the family. Next time you come home, Father will make meat pies for you. Didn't you love eating meat pies when you were little?

It's a pity... the family was poor back then..."

Wang Dashan rambled on, while the others walked out and roughly fed Wang Xiaodie some water and food, not out of concern, but for fear that she would die on the way to Bai Xiangzi.

Before they knew it, it was noon.

The family tied a rope around Wang Xiaodie's neck as if she were livestock, then pulled her out of the courtyard.

Although the surrounding neighbors were puzzled, they were long used to this way of life, and some even joked that the old Wang family was going to get rich starting today.

"Miss Qu Xiaoting, do you need help?"

Just as the family was pulling Wang Xiaodie out of the courtyard like an ox, a figure in a black robe suddenly appeared in the Void Realm.

This person was the female cultivator who had brought Wang Xiaodie back yesterday. She had been guarding here all night last night, so she naturally knew what had happened, but she didn't dare to act rashly unless this girl asked her to handle things.

"You finally came."

A trace of a smile appeared in Wang Xiaodie's eyes, and then she said to the black-clad female cultivator in mid-air:

"Please, Miss, help me untie the rope first. Whoever blocks you, kill them!"