Tian Jing stared coldly at the three young girls kneeling before her.
"It seems you know quite a bit, so you should know how I escaped the Tian family's fire pit."
"There's a saying, it's better to rely on yourself than to beg others. Since you are willing to be my servant, why are you unwilling to be a servant to the Tian family that gave birth to you?"
The eldest raised her head. "You yourself said the Tian family is a fire pit. Staying in a fire pit will only lead to death. I want to live, and I want to live with my two younger sisters."
Tian Jing looked deep into her eyes. "There's the village committee, the women's federation, the police station, and various places you can seek help from. Why are you asking me? Do I look like I have compassion?"
Facing Tian Jing's sharp gaze, the eldest did not flinch.
"The places you mentioned can at best help us out of the Tian family, but they cannot guarantee our survival, nor can they guarantee that the Tian family won't drag us back."
"Because we have a cowardly mother, a mother who is unwilling to provide us with a safe haven."
"Not only is she unwilling to take us away from the Tian family, but she also tells us to endure, saying that if we endure until we get married, we will be able to leave the Tian family."
"But will the Tian family find us kind in-laws? Wouldn't that be jumping from one fire pit into another?"
"The other fire pit lasts a lifetime, why don't we jump out now?"
"Today, if it weren't for wanting to connect with you, the three of us wouldn't have the资格 to leave Zhangshan Village."
"This is also the only chance for the three of us sisters. If we fail, we will have no way out when we return."
Tian Jing looked up at Tian Lifu. "What do you think?"
Tian Lifu's eyes were full of anger.
"Da Ya, take Er Ya and San Ya up. When we get back, I'll have your uncle's wife distribute the household chores."
Da Ya shook her head. "I'm already seventeen. You say that to San Ya, and she won't believe it. Today is the last way out for us sisters."
"Tian Da Ya."
Tian Lifu couldn't help but lose his temper.
At this roar, Er Ya and San Ya immediately shivered and hugged each other.
Da Ya hugged her two sisters with heartache.
"How majestic~"
Tian Jing's cold voice startled the enraged Tian Lifu.
He took a deep breath, suppressing his anger. "Jing Ya Tou, this is my family matter."
Tian Jing said indifferently, "Oh~ Then you take them back and deal with it slowly."
Hearing Tian Jing's words, the woman next to Tian Guigui's mouth curved slightly.
Tian Jing glanced at her, then at the two male children beside her with insolent expressions. Tian Jing snorted, "An improper family style, everlasting for generations."
Tian Yongyi pushed away his useless wife. "Lifu, let Da Ya and the other two stay. From now on, you are not allowed to interfere in their affairs."
"Yes."
Tian Lifu responded in a low voice.
"Heh heh." Tian Jing chuckled. "You've made a decision by yourselves, have you considered my feelings?"
"These three are the real daughters of the Tian family, what do they have to do with me?"
"They could never leave the village, and just because they are coming to see me today, they have a chance to come out?"
"Your purpose for coming, at first glance, seemed to be to mend relations."
"But if you really wanted to mend relations, why didn't you groom them for a few days beforehand to make their complexions look better?"
"Why didn't you let them tidy themselves up? To give me a slightly better impression of your Tian family?"
"Their appearance immediately reminded me of the days I spent in the Tian family."
"Are you here to reopen my old wounds? Or to make me sympathize with Da Ya and accept her request out of shared hatred for evil?"
"You are so readily willing to leave behind girls who can not only be servants but also fetch three dowries."
"In any case, it doesn't align with your Tian family's interests. That proves that keeping them has greater benefits than three dowries."
"Tian Yongyi, Tian Lifu, am I right?"
Am I right?
It was simply worth a hundred points.
Tian Yongyi and Tian Lifu didn't know how to respond.
Tian Da Ya, who was hugging her two sisters, collapsed on the ground with a heart as dead as ashes.
She had even been smugly thinking that she could ask Group Leader Tian to save them from the fire pit today.
She had even planned her future life.
She even thought that when she and her two sisters became established, she would pull her mother out of the Tian family's fire pit.
So, she was just a pawn for the Tian family to scheme against Group Leader Tian.
So, she was just a pawn that her parents could use.
So, the Tian family had calculated her temper and personality thoroughly.
She couldn't escape.
She had neither Group Leader Tian's martial prowess, nor Group Leader Tian's wisdom, nor Group Leader Tian's courage.
No wonder Group Leader Tian didn't even spare her a look of encouragement.
She was not even as good as a single strand of Group Leader Tian's hair.
She had even thought her temper was most like this unrelated aunt whom she greatly admired.
Tian Jing shifted her gaze, unable to bear to see Da Ya's extinguished light, like a candle that had burned its last.
With their intentions exposed, the Tian family, lacking the formidable skills of the Xiao family and the Chen family, left on their own.
Tian Jing sighed. "Zheng Ge, shall we call the police? If we don't, they'll keep causing trouble."
"And Da Ya and the other two, we need to find a way to save them."
Li Zhengguo agreed. "Okay, I'll send someone to stake out the Tian family first. This time, we must teach the Tian family a lesson; they are too ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth."
"They must have been sent by the Xiao family and the Chen family to disgust us."
Tian Jing nodded. "Mhm, set up surveillance, and revoke the parental rights of Tian Lifu, his wife, and all members of the Tian family."
...
Tian Da Ya returned to the Tian family like a walking corpse.
As soon as she got home, she held her younger sister and hugged her elder sister, sitting still.
Before, she endured, thinking that one day she would escape the sea of suffering.
Today, after witnessing the Tian family's lack of boundaries, she gave up fighting and also gave up enduring.
So be it. Life was so tiring, death was liberation.
She was unable and too exhausted to protect her two younger sisters anymore.
Everyone has their own fate.
Looking at her father, who had brought a rattan whip, Da Ya closed her eyes and waited.
Tian Lifu, who had raised the rattan whip, was stopped by Tian Yongyi.
"Are you looking for death?"
Tian Lifu didn't understand. His father had never cared how he beat these three money-losing goods before.
Today, although Da Ya's reaction was within their expectations, her audacity to directly say that Tian Jing was not a biological daughter of the Tian family was unforgivable.
Tian Yongyi snatched the rattan whip from his eldest son's hand. "Tian Jing already knows the situation of the three girls. If you still dare to beat them, aren't you giving Tian Jing evidence?"
Tian Lifu understood even less. "Isn't Tian Jing ignoring them?"
Tian Yongyi threw away the rattan whip. "Can you guess Tian Jing's thoughts? Our plan was clearly well-made, yet she didn't fall for it. How can you know what her next move will be?"
Hearing this, Da Ya's heart felt a flicker of hope again.
But thinking that they were just pawns of the Tian family, the sliver of hope that had just ignited in Da Ya was extinguished.
Forget it, let it be.
She would no longer do anything superfluous; what else could the Tian family use them for?