Chapter 71

Xiang Yufei's father slowly woke up, and suddenly saw a young man with an angry expression and fierce eyes staring at him. He couldn't help but be startled and asked, "Who are you?"

"What do you think?" Zhang Qiu grabbed his collar and lifted him up, saying.

At this moment, Xiang Yufei's father looked at Xiang Yufei beside him and said, "Oh, I see, you are Xiang Yufei's man."

"I don't care who I am! Today, I'm here to teach you a lesson, you scumbag! How could you do something as inhumane as selling your own daughter!" Zhang Qiu said, lifting Xiang Yufei's father high and throwing him forward, slamming him hard onto the ground.

"Sister Yufei! If you want to take out your anger on him, just go ahead! If he dares to fight back, I'll help you take care of him, and I'll pay the medical bills," Zhang Qiu said to Xiang Yufei.

Xiang Yufei shook her head and said, "I'm not interested. Such a scumbag, hitting him would dirty my hands."

Xiang Yufei's father, whether still drunk or not feeling the pain, neither cried out nor called for help. Instead, he rubbed his sore buttocks and supported himself with his hands.

Then, with a voice full of沧桑 (沧桑 means沧桑, but in this context, it can be translated as "world-weariness" or "hardship") and pitiful, he said, "Yufei, I had no choice! I didn't really want to sell you; it was just a temporary measure. They wanted to kill me, you know? I couldn't pay them that much money."

"Temporary measure? Ha! Did you think about whether you could save your daughter after selling her?" Zhang Qiu shouted.

"No, no... But if I win money, I can buy her back!" Xiang Yufei's father said.

Zhang Qiu was furious that even at this moment, he was still thinking about gambling to make up for his losses. "You scumbag!" he shouted, wanting to rush forward to hit him again, but Xiang Yufei held him back.

"Let it go," Xiang Yufei said. Then she looked at her father, who was still sitting on the ground, and said, "From today on, I will cut ties with you. Don't come looking for me again!"

"Yufei, are you really so heartless? I may have done wrong, but I at least worked hard to raise you for over ten years!" Xiang Yufei's father started to play the emotional card.

"Ha... When did you ever raise me? All I remember is you always saying I wasn't your biological daughter, always accusing my mother of cheating, and always beating and cursing us!" Xiang Yufei said, tears streaming down her face.

"When you secretly sold our house and we were kicked out and had to live on the streets, where were you? When my mother and I had to rely on others and were looked down upon by relatives and friends, where were you? When my mother couldn't afford medical treatment and passed away, where were you? When I was left on the streets, desperate to beg, had to drop out of school to work in a small restaurant, and was bullied by colleagues and scolded by the boss, where were you?"

"You still have the nerve to talk about raising me... Ha ha!"

Hearing Xiang Yufei's words, Zhang Qiu couldn't help but feel a pang of pain, and he had the urge to hit her father again. This time, Xiang Yufei couldn't stop him, and Zhang Qiu kicked the man on the ground, stepping on his neck and saying, "Today, you have to cut ties, even if you don't want to! Otherwise, I'll beat you to death!"

"Enough, if you really kill him, you'll have to take responsibility! It's not worth it for such a scumbag," Xiang Yufei said. "Besides, for things like household registration, you need his consent."

Xiang Yufei calmed down. Her mother had refused to divorce, so her father had run away, but their marriage had never been officially dissolved, and the household registration still listed Xiang Yufei's father as the head of the household.

With this, Xiang Yufei couldn't legally avoid her father. The current laws also emphasized filial piety, and this scumbag might even turn the tables and accuse Xiang Yufei of being unfilial!

But for a man who had not fulfilled his duty as a father, who had abandoned his wife and daughter for a mistress and a bastard son, and who had come back to leech off his daughter and even tried to sell her, even a saint's heart would not be filial.

Xiang Yufei had given him multiple chances to reform, but he had thrown them all away.

"Ha ha! Kill me if you want! If my daughter doesn't recognize me, I have no reason to live," Xiang Yufei's father said, looking pitiful.

If Zhang Qiu hadn't known what he had done, he might have been deceived by his appearance.

"Zhang Qiu, let me handle this!" Xiang Yufei said to Zhang Qiu.

Zhang Qiu then stopped and didn't act rashly.

Family matters are hard for even a fair judge to resolve. Zhang Qiu couldn't really kill him, as that would land him in jail, which wouldn't be worth it.

If he used violence and the man refused to cut ties, Zhang Qiu would be helpless. Legally, they were still father and daughter, and if the man went out and played the victim, more people might believe him than Xiang Yufei.

Zhang Qiu felt a bit frustrated but tried to calm down.

"Speak! What will it take for you to cut ties with me?" Xiang Yufei asked coldly.

"Twenty thousand! Just give me twenty thousand, and I'll cut ties with you. I'll handle all the procedures and get your household registration out. I'll take the twenty thousand and leave Su Xian City, never to return!" Xiang Yufei's father said.

"You! You are so shameless! You've already taken all my savings! How can you still have the nerve to ask me for money!" Xiang Yufei clenched her fists.

"Ha ha! You said I sold my daughter, right? Then I'll sell her! Once sold, she's dead to me!" Xiang Yufei's father said, sneering.

Xiang Yufei clenched her fists and bit her lip, looking ready to explode.

"Boy, isn't my daughter beautiful? Ha ha, she was the school beauty back then, and I worked hard to win her over," Xiang Yufei's father said to Zhang Qiu. "Why don't you pay the twenty thousand? I'll sell her to you! Whether you want her as a wife or a mistress, it's up to you! How about it? Such a beautiful girl, buying her as a mistress is definitely worth it! Ha ha ha! You said I sold my daughter, right? I'll sell her now, why don't you buy her!"

"Damn it!" Zhang Qiu couldn't express his feelings in words and directly attacked, wanting to beat him to death.

Xiang Yufei closed her eyes, a tear rolling down her face, and suddenly called out, "Stop, Zhang Qiu, don't hit him!"

Zhang Qiu continued to hit him! She had to rush forward and hug Zhang Qiu to stop him from hitting the man.

"Killing him won't do you any good!" Xiang Yufei said.

Actually, when Zhang Qiu hit people, he had a sense of control. With his expertise in emergency first aid, he wouldn't hit vital areas. He just hit to vent his anger, looking fierce but not lethal.

Xiang Yufei's hug made it impossible for him to continue, so he could only shout, "Damn it! You scumbag, just die already!"

After Zhang Qiu stopped, Xiang Yufei's father, still dazed, neither cried out nor called for help, slowly got up and coldly watched Zhang Qiu and Xiang Yufei.

Xiang Yufei's heart softened, and she started crying again. "Do you mean what you said? Give me twenty thousand, get my household registration out, and leave Su Xian City, never to come back?"

"Of course, I mean it," Xiang Yufei's father said.

"Fine! I'll believe you one last time!" Xiang Yufei took a deep breath and turned to Zhang Qiu, saying, "Zhang Qiu, can you lend me twenty thousand?"

"What? You really want to give him money? There's no need! We can just go to court! If you go to court, I'll pay all the costs! I won't lend you the money if you want to give it to him!" Zhang Qiu said.

"But... Zhang Qiu, I beg you, can you lend me the money? I don't have many friends, and I can't think of anyone else to borrow from besides you! I'll pay you back in three years!" Xiang Yufei said.

"You are so foolish! I think you are too kind, which is why you get bullied! If you use twenty thousand to go to court, I don't believe you won't win! Why give money to such a scumbag? What if it's another scam?" Zhang Qiu said.

Xiang Yufei said, "That's my decision. I just want to know, will you lend me the money or not?"

"Fine! I give up!" Zhang Qiu clenched his fists and punched the air. Then he turned to Xiang Yufei's father and said, "You better do it immediately, or don't think I won't kill you!"

"Is your phone linked to Alipay?" Zhang Qiu asked Xiang Yufei.

Xiang Yufei nodded. Zhang Qiu then opened his phone, entered Xiang Yufei's phone number in Alipay, and transferred 200,000 yuan to her.

After the transfer, Zhang Qiu didn't say anything. Xiang Yufei, this silly girl, was really beyond his control. But after such an event, he was still very angry.

"The money is in my hands. As long as you do what you said, I'll transfer it to you when the procedures are done," Xiang Yufei said.

"Fine! But I want cash!" Xiang Yufei's father said, "What if you trick me and freeze the funds? I'll have sold my daughter for nothing!"

"Whatever!" Xiang Yufei said coldly, "Zhang Qiu, let's go."

Zhang Qiu had already wanted to leave. When Xiang Yufei said this, he immediately pulled her out of the room. At the hotel front desk, Zhang Qiu specifically instructed that they would be kicked out the next day, and the deposit would not be refunded, serving as a tip.

On the way back in a taxi, Xiang Yufei fell into a deep sleep. Even when Zhang Qiu carried her into the room, she didn't wake up.

She must have been very tired. Zhang Qiu didn't want to disturb her, so he placed her on the sofa, let her lie down, and covered her with a blanket.

Looking at the sleeping beauty, her face as fair as snow, her lips red and plump like a ripe cherry, he felt the urge to kiss her.

At this moment, the system popped up a message: "New mission 'Xiang Yufei's Main Mission (Matchmaking): First Kiss. Kiss Xiang Yufei. Mission difficulty (Normal). Reward: Gun Mastery (County Level)."

Such a mission appeared, and the system seemed to know his thoughts. Zhang Qiu couldn't help but swallow. The difficulty of this mission was only normal. It seemed that kissing her now would be quite easy. (To be continued.)

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