"Are you serious?" Wu Tian asked calmly.
The women, especially the one with the triangular eyes, thought Wu Tian had finally decided to buy them. And the chubby girl? She’s always been bullied by them here.
Seeing that Wu Tian was about to pass over the chubby girl for them, the triangular-eyed woman’s smile widened. "Yes, sir," she said. "If you don’t buy us, then you must have some... special tastes. A thing for fat girls, for instance. If word of that gets out, it won’t be good for your reputation."
Wu Tian chuckled. He couldn’t understand these women at all. They were all poor, so why couldn’t they help each other? Why resort to discrimination? They had such low status, yet instead of striving to improve, they had only learned how to be vicious with their words.
Wu Tian looked at the little girl and asked, "What do you think we should do with these women?"
The little girl answered seriously, "Beat them up! They don’t recognize their own status or understand the situation they’re in. They’ve fallen this far and still don’t know how to better themselves. They’re so thick-skinned, they deserve a beating!"
Wu Tian nodded.
The women finally understood his intentions. If they didn’t get it by now, they were complete fools. Wu Tian had angered them, but he was a grown man, and they didn’t dare get physical. All they could do was lash out with their words.
"Little girl, don’t you have any manners?"
"That’s right. We’re your aunts, you know."
"Didn’t your teacher teach you to respect your elders? Hurry up and apologize."
Watching this unfold, Wu Tian sighed. What kind of people were they? Stuck in the mud, yet instead of trying to climb out, they shamelessly acted as if they held some high station. What kind of people were they? All equally poor, yet they ostracized their own, knowing nothing of unity or mutual support. It’s as if the poor have their own hierarchy of kings and subjects. Do they think they’re the noble poor, and others are the lowly poor? How ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous!
The little girl gnashed her teeth, struggled down from Wu Tian’s arms, then beckoned to the women with a small finger. In a childish but firm voice, she said, "Hey, you smelly hags! I hate people like you the most. In TV dramas, you’re the type of evil women who always die a horrible death."
"What did you say? Have you no upbringing?" the triangular-eyed woman shrieked, and the others quickly joined in.
"Manners are for good women, not bad ones," the little girl said coldly, immediately rushing toward the "bad women" she had just condemned.
The triangular-eyed woman smirked. They wouldn’t dare lay a hand on Wu Tian’s daughter in front of him, but now the child was coming to them. That changed things. The women decided it was time to teach the little girl a lesson.
But just as the thought crossed their minds, the little girl’s speed suddenly accelerated.
What!
These women, of course, had no Spirit Roots. If they did, why would they be here, selling themselves to pay for a parent’s burial?
The little girl was like a wolf pouncing on a flock of sheep.
"AH!"
"Please, don’t hit my face!"
"Don’t hit my face either!"
Wu Tian checked the chubby girl and was surprised to feel the presence of immortal power on her. But how could someone with immortal power be bullied? And how did she get it in the first place?
This is strange. I have to take her back and question her properly.
Wu Tian himself was very curious about immortals. Immortals and the world of Fantasy... how different are they?
The sweet sound of it surprised both Wu Tian and the little girl. After a moment of thought, however, Wu Tian understood. Some people are bullied not just because they are weak. Sometimes, their unique strengths attract the jealousy of others. He knew of one of the four great Immortal Emperors who had been very quiet and honest as a child. He never provoked anyone, yet trouble always found him. Many people enjoyed bullying him. Why? Because that future Immortal Emperor was a brilliant artist. The others couldn’t stand it. ’Why should a nobody like you be better at drawing than us?’ they would think. And so, they bullied him relentlessly. After he became an Immortal Emperor, those bullies vanished, too ashamed to ever show their faces again.
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