Hua Xiaomai was startled and involuntarily stopped in her tracks, holding the little walnut in her arms even more securely.
Having just seen Zhou Yunyun struggling to speak, she had guessed in her heart that the young girl must have quarreled with Wen Huaren, felt uncomfortable to speak of it to others and was thus holding it in, seeking to confide in her. But who could have imagined it was actually Zhou Qing planning to sell his daughter?
On one hand, she found it almost unbelievable, but on the other, she knew all too well that Zhou Yunyun had absolutely no reason to joke about such a matter, and a fire seemed to whoosh out of the top of her head.
Zhou Qing was known in Fire Knife Village as a notorious drunkard and gambler, one who beat his children and wife, and was capable of any vile deed. Wasn't the reason he sent Zhou Yunyun to learn cooking in the hopes that his eldest daughter, once trained, could make a living for him?
