"Thank you," Jia Helian carefully took the chocolate and held it in his arms, "He'er heard that Mother Qian asked someone to have their skin peeled today, was it you?"
She looked at Qiao Qixin's retracted hand.
The skin on my hands is much whiter and tender compared to yesterday.
Qiao Qixin rubbed her wrist and said "hmm".
"Is peeling painful? He'er seems to have heard your cry during the day." Jia Helian asked.
"It's super painful. Peeling is tearing off the surface layer of skin. It's scary and uncomfortable." Qiao Qixin shuddered, not wanting to recall the memory of yesterday's torture.
A small hand suddenly squeezed in through the crack of the door.
"Do you want to eat?" Jia Helian asked cautiously outside the door.
Qiao Qixin pushed the chocolate in Jia Helian's hand back, "No, I'm an adult, you can keep the candy for yourself."
"I'm sorry..." Jia Helian's voice was low, sounding very disappointed.
Jia He clasped his hands and said guiltily, "It would be great if He'er was a boy. Then He'er could manage the Jia family, and things like skin peeling wouldn't happen..."
Qiao Qixin sighed softly, stretched out her hand to cover Jia Helian's head, and comforted, "It's not your fault, there's nothing to feel guilty and apologize for."
Jia Helian shook his head and cried again.
"He'er, He'er doesn't want to have a husband and raise children for the rest of his life. He'er wants to be like his mother's brother..."
Qiao Qixin lowered her eyes.
Although Jia Helian couldn't repeat his words correctly, Qiao Qixin still understood what the child wanted to express.
She wants to be the master of the house and put the chaos in the house right.
Qiao Qixin stroked Jia Helian's head time and time again, feeling a soft touch on her palm.
Good boy, you shouldn't have been born in this era.
Ever since she decided to open a store, Qiao Qixin has encountered numerous objections and doubts.
Because of this era, no woman will go out to make money.
As Shopkeeper Wang said, women are not suitable for shopping malls because there are too many things that restrict women.
Chastity, female virtue...
If anyone is contaminated, a woman's reputation will be immediately ruined.
Qiao Qixin is lucky.
By relying on the system, she can get what she needs by completing tasks without having to have too much contact with other people or taking resources from others.
What about other women?
Enter - defile - mess - get out
One vicious cycle after another has resulted in no women being able to get ahead in this system, resulting in no women at the top.
So this is the reason why Qiao Qixin did not continue to develop the vegetable shop. She did not want to take the risk of impacting this solid system. She just wanted to be her own shopkeeper and spend her life safely.
Qiao Qixin looked through the crack in the door with calm eyes at the girl huddled in a ball outside the door crying softly.
She didn't say anything, she just touched Jia Helian's head quietly.
But maybe she didn't even notice it, a voice gradually rose from the deepest part of her heart.
"It would be great if someone could break it."
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Qiao Qixin was "trained" by Qian's mother for several days. Due to her outstanding and obedient performance, she successfully won Qian's mother's trust.
The most intuitive benefit brought by this trust is that after the training is completed, Qiao Qixin can move around the house and no longer has to live in the dark room with air leakage.
Qian's mother repeatedly told Qiao Qixin not to go to the main hall or Mrs. Jia's courtyard, let alone have contact with the Jia family.
But Qiao Qixin didn't listen. After the teaching was completed, she quietly found the study room where Jia Yulian was based on the map provided by the system.
According to the map, Jia Yulian was staying in the study at this time.
But here comes the problem, now that people know where they are, how to increase their favorability?
Qiao Qixin leaned against the pillar in front of the study room, with a confused look on her face.
She rehearsed several scenarios in her mind about meeting Jia Yulian for the first time, but they were all too outrageous and ideal, so she passed them all.
Just as she was leaning against the pillar with her head tangled, the study door suddenly opened.
Qiao Qixin was startled and turned her head subconsciously.
The sun shines down from the back of her head, making the hair that flutters when she turns her head shine as if it were shining (refer to the Godly Girl).
Jia Yulian's pupils shrank visibly.
"Who are you?" Jiayu asked.
This question is not easy to answer. You can't say that you were abducted.
So Qiao Qixin had an idea and moved Jia Helian out, "I know Miss Helian."
Jia Yulian successfully regarded Qiao Qixin as Jia Helian's friend.
"Xiaohe actually has a friend like you. Which family are you from?"
Perhaps it was because of the passage of time, or perhaps because his skin had faded, that Jia Yulian did not associate the person in front of him with the village woman half a year ago.
Qiao Qixin did not answer.
Brother, look at what kind of girl I am wearing like this.
"Brother, it's time to eat... Huh?" The sound of footsteps came from the porch, and a little girl with a cute face appeared in their sight.
"Are you..." Jia Helian stood on tiptoe and looked at Qiao Qixin's face carefully, "the maid sister in the cabin?"