Zhuo Jin frowned as she listened to her words.
"Ding."
"Host, there's a side mission that needs you to complete."
"We'll talk about it when we get back."
Liu Cui held the child for a while before he wanted to return to Zhuo Jin's embrace. Liu Cui sighed, "Why is this child so attached to you?"
"Because I take care of him the most."
"That's true." Liu Cui rolled her eyes, not hiding her sarcasm. "After all, you're the one who has nothing to do. Here, take him. If I hold him any longer, he'll cry."
Zhuo Jin took him over without acknowledging her sarcasm.
"It's so hot, why are you taking him out? Look at his little face, so fair, so lovable. If he gets tanned, I'll be mad at you."
"You don't need to worry about that."
She had the face of a five or six-year-old child, but her demeanor was very calm, without the usual anxiety of an ordinary child. In front of Liu Cui, she showed no signs of being a junior or a "burden."
Liu Cui was already used to it. She actually saw this little girl as her future granddaughter-in-law and didn't want her to be timid and subservient later on.
Otherwise, the first time she spoke to her like this, she would have hit her.
"I can't be bothered to worry. Anyway, your responsibility is to take good care of him. If you have nothing else to do, go back. Don't fall on the way."
Zhuo Jin took out a plastic bag from the stroller. It contained two bottles of water, one of which was sweet water with fermented rice.
"You're wasting my sugar again."
"It was bought to eat anyway, not to worship. What's the point of keeping it?"
Although Liu Cui was heartbroken about her sugar, it was indeed bought to eat. This little girl also cared about the few of them, so she wouldn't argue.
"Old man, Xiao Yun, come and drink water!"
She shouted, and the two people working not far away walked over. Ran Zhonghua's face was flushed red from the sun, and he stooped, looking very tired.
Yang Yun wore a bamboo hat and was covered in sweat.
They sat down to rest for a while, then drank water. Yang Yun also held the child, but as soon as she took him, he reached out towards Zhuo Jin and was returned within two minutes. Su Dan Novel Network
"Oh dear, even his mother doesn't want him anymore."
Liu Cui gently pinched his face. His big eyes darted around, finally settling on Zhuo Jin's face. He stretched out two small, chubby arms towards her.
Zhuo Jin took him over. Yang Yun also saw the two tear streaks on his face and asked, "Why are you crying?"
Liu Cui told her that he had been scared into crying. Yang Yun also frowned.
She knew the daughter-in-law of the Su family.
She had the same name, Yang Yun, while that woman was called Yan Yun. She heard she was a highly educated person who had a stable job with the state. She was fired for having a second child.
She wanted to have a son herself. This matter shouldn't have been blamed on her firstborn daughter, but that woman seemed possessed. She heard that the woman blamed her eldest daughter for causing her to lose her job, so she often abused her.
When they came in the morning, they heard her beating the child. Just now, when this little girl came down, she was also beating the child. She spent her days beating children. If people didn't know better, they would think she was a stepmother.
She really didn't know what she was thinking.
"She's a woman herself, but for the sake of having a son, she lost her job. If she beats her daughter, her job won't come back. When her daughter grows up, won't she hate her to death? I don't know what's so worthwhile about it (I don't know what's worth it)."
Liu Cui agreed, "No wonder people used to say that women are their own worst enemies. Forget about others, it's her own daughter she's picking on. Her brain is problematic."
The two of them bickered for a while, rested a bit, and then went back to work.
Zhuo Jin pushed the stroller back.
As they passed that place again, a little girl who looked no more than three or four years old was sitting at the entrance of the yard, crying.
The little girl was very thin, like a bag of bones. She was wearing a very tattered short-sleeved T-shirt, which was loose and large, looking like it was given to her by someone else. The clothes hung down to her knees.
She leaned weakly against the wall. Her exposed skin was covered in scars from pinching, burns, and being hit with a rattan. Her knees were red and swollen, looking like they had been bruised from kneeling.
Her young, pure soul knew nothing and didn't understand why her mother was beating her. She only knew that she was in a lot of pain and was very hungry.
"Is the side mission related to her?"
"Mhmm." The system said, "This little girl is called Su Lili. She's a person mapped from the real world. In the real world, her birth caused her mother to lose her job. Her mother always hated her. Once, because she was too hungry, she stole and ate her mother's chicken feed, and her mother sewed her mouth shut with needle and thread. Later, because she wanted to eat her brother's braised pork, her mother poured hot oil into her mouth. She was in pain for seven days and starved for seven days, eventually dying of pain."
"So what do I need to do? Change her fate?"
"It can't be changed." The system seemed a little sad. "What can be changed is what's in here. What's in reality can't be changed. You can help get revenge on her mother and make everyone happy."
Zhuo Jin didn't think so.
Although this world was just a simulated virtual world, based on the definition of the Three Thousand Worlds, it might not be a parallel world.
Such a vicious woman certainly deserved to suffer.
"Okay."
"Host, you accepted it?"
"Mhmm."
"I thought you wouldn't meddle in such things. But this also has merit points. In reality, her parents who caused her death were also imprisoned for several years. But instead of reflecting, they became even more extreme. Especially her mother, after being released from prison, dug up the grave repaired by the police for her, took her ashes, trampled on them, and then left. In the following days, she acted as if nothing had happened, never repenting for this incident."
"She deserves to die."
The system deeply agreed.
"I'll handle it, don't worry."
"Mhmm, I believe in the host." His host, although she fought, set fires, and killed, was definitely a good person.
Otherwise, how could she have so many merit points.
"Ah... ya, wu."
"Baby, what's wrong?"
The baby nestled in her arms, his soft little body as jelly-like and very soft.
"Wu ya... ah."
He couldn't speak, only babbling incomprehensibly. After watching Zhuo Jin "talk" for a while, he suddenly buried his head in her arms shyly.
"Ya!"
Zhuo Jin hugged him and nudged his forehead with hers. They interacted intimately, and the child was extremely happy, bouncing in her arms with many little movements.
Zhuo Jin's arm was around his back and her other hand was supporting his bottom, holding him steadily. Just as she was about to kiss his little face, a woman carrying a pot came out, looking at them ferociously.
"Where did this little brat come from? Get lost!"