The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 32: Drought and Famine (Part )

After Qin Huai returned home, he went straight to his room, locked the door, and opened the game system to check the titles he had obtained.

[Neighborhood recognition]: As a dim sum chef who is widely praised in the entire neighborhood, your shop is more likely to become the first choice for breakfast/dim sum for surrounding residents. You are Chef Qin, who is well-known among neighbors.

Master Xiao Qin himself: …

This title... seems to be a little more useless than [Chen Huihong's affirmation]. At least you can find out some secrets and hear some gossip by getting Chen Huihong's affirmation. And if Chen Huihong has a high favorability, she really spends money. She comes to the cafeteria every afternoon to see if there are any unsold snacks and packs them up to take to the neighborhood committee. She is a big buyer.

The effect of [Affirmation of the Block] seems to be similar to Chen Huihong's money ability, but this game does not limit the number of titles you can wear, so it is not a loss to wear them.

Qin Huai moved his fingers, put on the title decisively, and then clicked on the main task.

As Qin Huai expected, this time the main mission is still far ahead of the other series of missions.

main mission:

1. [Far Ahead 2]: As a qualified protagonist, it is your basic quality to always be far ahead of your peers after opening. Please beat 75% of the restaurants in your area in terms of word of mouth, and the negative review rate should not exceed 2%, so as to become a well-deserved well-received store.

Mission Reward: Popularity Drainage +500, [A Dream of ? ? ?] (Choice: Yes/No)
Qin Huai:?
??? Who is it?
There are non-human creatures in this world called [???]?!

Can this world ever get better?

After studying the mission rewards and the newly acquired main mission, Qin Huai finally turned his attention to [Chen Huihong's Dream].

This was the mission reward he had always wanted to obtain, and he had been making buckwheat buns like crazy recently for the sake of this dream.

During this period, Qin Huai tried to test Chen Huihong, asking her whether she liked to read Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, whether she read novels about cultivating immortals on a daily basis, and what she thought about reincarnation.

As a result, Chen Huihong thought that Qin Huai had encountered the same new type of scam as her brother, where the person was seeking redemption from past sins in this life. She tried her best to persuade Qin Huai for three or four days not to believe in such things and not to embark on the path of feudal superstition at such a young age.

It's not easy to make money these days. There's no need to spend 20 on a ritual to atone for the sins of your past life.

If Qin Huai hadn't repeatedly assured him that he would never believe such a thing, Chen Huihong would have grabbed her unlucky brother and asked him to tell her the whole story of how he was cheated out of 20 yuan.

The price of this test was that originally Qin Huai was the only one in Yunzhong Canteen who knew that Chen Huihong's brother had been defrauded of 20 yuan because of feudal superstition. After Chen Huihong's earnest exhortation for several days, the entire canteen, including the neighborhood committee, and even the property employees knew that the rich boss had also been defrauded, and the way he was defrauded was very unusual.

Since I can't figure it out by trying, I'll see if dreams can give me some clues.

Qin Huai clicked on [A Dream of Chen Huihong] and chose yes.

[Dream loading——].
Unlike the dead silence when he entered the dream for the first time, this time Qin Huai heard noisy sounds before he even opened his eyes.

"How about this one? It's 11 years old, tall, has good teeth, and can work. It's cheaper to buy it to pull the mill than a donkey. It only costs one dollar, and it comes with this little one."

"Go away, go away, you skinny guy, what kind of work can he do? I think this little one is about to die. If you buy him back, you'll have to find a broken straw mat to wrap him up to bring bad luck. And you want a dollar for this? Get out of here."

"Why don't you take a look at this one? It's really good, but the price is a bit..."

When Qin Huai opened his eyes, what he saw was a human trafficker bargaining with a customer not far away. Qin Huai:?
Has he entered some illegal human trafficking market?
Qin Huai turned his head and looked around, and found that it was no longer a barren land. The air might still be hot and the place was still barren, but he could see dead grass lying on the ground, with dots of green in the dead grass. In the distance, he could vaguely see houses and small plots of farmland, which looked like a place where people lived.

Qin Huai looked to the left and saw Chen Huihong still wearing the tattered clothes. The clothes were covered with a thick layer of mud and dirt, and it was almost patinaed. There was no telling how much straw was stuffed in the clothes. She looked bulging and very strong.

As for Hui Niang, although she was also disheveled, she looked a little cleaner than Chen Huihong. She was holding a chipped clay jar in her hand and a few pieces of wood in her arms. She was still thin and small.

Next to Hui Niang and Chen Huihong, there were seven or eight children whose clothes were so tattered that they were almost half-naked. They all looked like boys. They were either sitting lifelessly or lying weakly. They were all very thin, with skin and bones and sunken eye sockets, which made Hui Niang look healthy and rosy.

Ren Yazi was bargaining with the customer with saliva flying all over the place. Chen Huihong was sitting on the ground watching with great interest, while Hui Niang was poking the soil on the ground with a small piece of wood, as if she wanted to dig something out of the soil.

As they were chatting, the guest looked at Hui Niang, pointed at her and said, "Why don't you give her to me? This one looks better."

Chen Huihong looked at the two of them.

The human toothbrush waved his hands repeatedly, indicating that he could not sell it: "This is not for sale."

"You are a businessman, so there is no point in buying a girl like this. She is a maid, expensive and not worth it."

Seeing that the human trafficker refused so bluntly, the customer looked at Hui Niang again, not sure whether he thought she was not good-looking or for some other reason. He did not insist and bargained for a while. Finally, he bought the original buy-one-get-one-free offer for a small bag of sweet potatoes and half a dollar, and asked the human trafficker to go back with him to get the money and food.

Ren Yazi was not worried that the others would run away, so he followed them with a smile on his face. After a while, he came back with a small bag of sweet potatoes.

Seeing the person coming back, Chen Huihong patted the dirt off her body and stood up, saying, "Do you want to leave?"

"Let's go, of course. But Miss Chen, there is something I need to explain to you. We originally agreed to travel together. Hui girl can find water so I gave her a bean cake every two days. Now we are about to reach Peking and she doesn't need to find water anymore. I won't give her this bean cake anymore."

Chen Huihong didn't react at all, she just said calmly: "It has nothing to do with me."

Hui Niang held the clay pot and lowered her head, feeling a little uneasy.

Seeing that Chen Huihong was not angry, Ren Yazi smiled slightly and looked at Huiniang and came up with another idea: "Miss Chen, although your maid is not pretty, she is much better than the ones I can't sell. Anyway, we will arrive in Beiping soon. You won't be able to use this maid if you find your family there. I think you will not like her because she is stupid. I will pay half a dollar and you can sell her to me, so you don't have to sell her again when you arrive in Beiping."

As he spoke, the trafficker looked at the other boys lying on the ground, half dead, and raised his voice to scold them, "What are you still lying there for? Get up and get going! The sooner you get to Peking, the sooner you can sell your goods and have a full meal. It's not even dark yet and you're already thinking of resting. You deserve to be looked down upon by Boss Liu, you're wasting food."

"I said, she is not my maid, I have no right to sell her." Chen Huihong said lightly and left first.

Hui Niang followed closely behind him, like a little tail, afraid of falling behind.

Ren Yazi looked at Chen Huihong's leaving figure, her face full of indignation and unwillingness, but she didn't dare to vent her anger on Chen Huihong, so she could only kick the boy next to her: "Don't get up yet!"

Then, regardless of their struggle to get up, the boys, who were like zombies, used their hands and feet as much as possible, and quickly followed Chen Huihong, holding the sweet potatoes.

"Ms. Chen, please go slower. I don't have the strength to keep up."

(End of this chapter)