SBCEJM -Chapter 119 Sold Into Servitude for Ten Years! The Old Couple Finally Turns the Tables!

Feng Zexuan walked up to the bald man with a harmless smile on her face.

“Brother, fifty taels of silver isn’t a small amount.”

The bald man sized her up from head to toe.

He had heard those mysterious “voices from heaven” earlier too, but he hadn’t figured out where they came from.

Now it seemed most likely that this girl in front of him was the source.

“What are you trying to say? Spit it out.”

Feng Zexuan tapped her chin thoughtfully with her slender fingers.

“A debt should naturally be repaid.”

“But killing the chicken for its eggs isn’t as good as steady long-term profit, wouldn’t you agree?”

The bald man became interested.

“Oh? Explain.”

“Fifty taels of silver. At market rates, an ordinary laborer earns about half a tael a month.”

Feng Zexuan counted on her fingers seriously.

“There are three of them. Half a tael each per month makes eighteen taels a year.”

“In three years, they could earn back the fifty taels.”

She paused.

“But considering interest, food, and lodging expenses, we might as well round it up. How about four years?”

Damn, Host, you’re amazing. Just moving your lips added another whole year of labor.

But these three scumbags really do deserve punishment!

The bald man’s eyes lit up as he subconsciously touched the money pouch at his waist.

Four years!

Far more profitable than collecting the money all at once!

With three free laborers, all the dirty and exhausting jobs under him would finally have workers.

“Brilliant!”

The bald man slapped his thigh excitedly.

“Sign a four-year slave contract, and the fifty-tael debt will be wiped clean!”

When Tiezhu’s family of three heard this, their faces turned deathly pale.

“No! We refuse!”

Tiezhu’s wife immediately started shrieking and rolling on the ground.

“We’d rather die than sign it!”

Ten years of living comfortably had made it impossible for her to accept such a drastic reversal of fortune.

“You think you still have a choice?”

The bald man sneered as he pulled a gleaming dagger from his robe and casually played with it in his hand.

“Either sign it, or I’ll chop off one of your son’s hands right now!”

“I’ve been in this business for over ten years. What kind of deadbeat haven’t I seen?”

As he spoke, he stomped down on Huzi’s arm.

“AAAHHH—!”

Huzi screamed in agony, his face twisting in pain.

The elderly couple watched the scene with fury and heartbreak tangled in their eyes.

Blood was thicker than water.

After all, he was still their grandson.

The old woman gripped the corner of her clothes tightly, her knuckles turning white.

“Old man… maybe we should sell the house…”

Tears filled her eyes, her voice trembling.

“This is the only bloodline left in the family.”

The old man clenched his teeth, his eyes full of painful conflict.

He remembered the past ten years—working from dawn till dusk with his wife, enduring wind and rain.

Layer after layer of calluses had formed on their hands.

He remembered every time they returned home and saw their son “weakly” lying in bed, while his wife cried from heartbreak…

Was it really worth sacrificing everything for these three heartless beasts?

But the Liu family line still needed someone to inherit it…

At that moment, the system’s voice rang out at the perfect time.

【Host! Actually, this old couple has another bloodline!】

【Huh? What do you mean? There’s more gossip?】

Feng Zexuan’s curiosity instantly flared.

【The old couple has a younger son too!】

【WHAT?!】

Feng Zexuan cried out inwardly.

【When Tiezhu was seventeen, the old couple unexpectedly had another child in their old age.】

【Tiezhu hated that his younger brother stole his parents’ attention and spent money that should’ve belonged to him…】

【So one dark night, he secretly stole his infant brother and abandoned him in the back mountains!】

【Holy crap! What a monster!】

Feng Zexuan cursed internally.

The old couple thought the child had been kidnapped by traffickers. They searched for him for eight whole years!

【Only after Tiezhu became “paralyzed” and needed care did they finally give up searching!】

【Is the younger son still alive?】

Feng Zexuan asked urgently.

【Alive! A hunter from the neighboring village found the baby in the mountains and took him home for a while.】

【Later, the hunter’s younger sister, who couldn’t have children, adopted him. He’s already eighteen now.】

【Damn! They’re basically the same age!】

The old couple’s bodies trembled violently as they listened to the entire stream of thoughts.

Their younger son was alive!

The old woman remembered all those years she and her husband searched desperately through the mountains.

They had shouted until their throats went hoarse and walked until their feet bled.

Every night, she secretly cried herself to sleep.

Wondering whether her little son was still alive… whether he was suffering…

And now she finally knew.

Every tragedy had been caused by Tiezhu, that beast.

Tears slid down the old woman’s wrinkled cheeks.

But she quickly wiped them away with the back of her rough hand.

The hesitation in her eyes vanished, replaced by iron determination.

Mercy?

Why should she show mercy?!

A beast like this deserved to experience abandonment himself!

She suddenly turned toward the bald man with unprecedented resolve.

“Sir, I think four years is still too short!”

“Could you extend it to ten years instead?”

“What?! Mother, have you gone mad?!”

Tiezhu’s eyes bulged as he leapt up from the ground—

Only to be kicked flat again by the bald man.

The bald man grinned so widely he nearly lost his mind with joy.

Ten years!

This was like gold ingots falling from heaven!

“Hahaha! Old lady, now you’re someone who understands business!”

“A ten-year slave contract! Not only will I erase all debts, I’ll even give you an extra hundred taels as compensation!”

“Deal!”

The old man gritted his teeth and agreed.

His eyes were filled with guilt toward his younger son and utter despair toward his eldest.

The last traces of color drained completely from the faces of Tiezhu’s family of three.

“Father! Mother! You can’t do this to me!”

Tiezhu knelt on the ground, sobbing desperately with tears and snot streaming down his face.

“We know we were wrong! We’ll change! We’ll properly honor you from now on!”

His voice was thick with tears, looking as pitiful as possible.

“Change?”

The old woman’s voice was icy cold, devoid of any warmth.

“Aren’t we giving you a chance to change right now?”

“You could even murder your baby brother. What exactly could you possibly change?”

The old man stepped forward as well, his voice firm and unquestionable.

“You three should use these ten years to properly temper yourselves!”

“So you’ll stop being parasites ruining other people’s lives!”

Tiezhu’s wife completely panicked.

She crawled frantically to the old couple’s feet, clutching their legs tightly.

“Father! Mother! I was wrong! Truly wrong!”

“I’ll serve you properly from now on! I’ll wash your feet and massage your backs every single day!”

“Too late!”

The old man kicked her away with astonishing force.

“Ten years! A whole ten years! You treated me and my wife like beasts of burden!”

His voice trembled with emotion.

“Now it’s your turn to know what it feels like to be trampled underfoot!”

Feng Zexuan stood nearby, watching everything unfold with satisfaction rising in her chest.

【This was karma.】

【Ten years of deception had finally come with a price.】

The bald man immediately ordered his men to bring writing supplies and drafted the labor contract on the spot.

The handwriting was ugly and crooked, but the contents were crystal clear.

Tiezhu’s family of three were pinned down by several burly men and forced to press their fingerprints onto the contract.

The bright red prints officially marked the beginning of their ten years of hard labor.

Their hands shook violently, despair filling their eyes, but there was no turning back now.

“Alright. From this moment on, you belong to me.”

The bald man grinned viciously, revealing yellow teeth.

“Tomorrow morning, you’ll report to the brick kiln outside the city!”

“Remember this—before dawn, you work. After dark, you stop!”

Tiezhu’s family looked utterly hopeless.

Especially Tiezhu.

The thought of sweating away in a brick kiln for ten years nearly made him faint on the spot.

“N… no…”

He collapsed limply onto the ground.

The pink women’s outfit soaked with sweat clung to his body, making him look even more ridiculous.

【Hahaha! Karma came right on time!】

【Let him keep pretending! Let him keep wearing women’s clothes!】

The surrounding crowd burst into cheers.

“Serves them right! That’s exactly how ungrateful wretches should be treated!”

“Ten years in a brick kiln—let’s see him strutting around in women’s clothes after that!”

“The old couple finally turned their lives around!”

At that moment, the system delivered another alert.

【Host! There’s another urgent situation!】

【What now?】

【Their younger son is currently in danger!】

【He’s being forced to become a city official’s ‘male concubine’!】