Chapter 36 Escape
Xie Fengyue had just stood up, but Xie Jin across from him said at this moment: "Yue'er, please accompany Yu'er to see off the guests today."
Wang Yan saw her body stiffen from the corner of his eye, and wanted to help her out, but thinking about what the girl had just said, he simply bent his head at the desk and propped his chin with one hand to look at her at leisure.
Xie Fengyue clenched her fists, raised her head, and was about to use her physical discomfort as an excuse to evade.
Mrs. Xie, who was sitting on the throne, was already unhappy and said: "Today is a big feast, and her status is inappropriate."
She refused without any room for change. Xie Jin looked at his father helplessly and shook his head slightly.
Taifu Xie coughed lightly and said, "What's inappropriate? Yue'er will be the queen of Wu Palace soon."
Mrs. Xie didn't expect that this was her husband's intention. After hearing what he said, she understood that he wanted to help that bitch raise his status. There is a world of difference between a favored named legitimate daughter and an unfavored named legitimate daughter. Don't.
She refused to grant his wish: "She is just Mrs. Ji. She is not worthy of seeing off guests from our Xie family. If those guests find out about it in the future, they will definitely talk about it even behind their backs."
Taifu Xie's face darkened. Others didn't know that Yue'er married to Wu Palace to be the queen. Didn't she know that? Mrs. Ji's position is only temporary. As long as the old King Wu returns to the west, Prince Wu will succeed Yue'er as the new Queen Wu.
"After the banquet is over, Yue'er, you see the guests off." He said this firmly.
Mrs. Xie put the wine glass in her hand heavily on the table: "I have the final say in the backyard. She can't even think about seeing off guests with my Yu'er. Yu'er can't afford to lose face."
Xie Fengyue watched the two arguing. If she hadn't planned to run away today, she would have wanted to light a fire with them.
Seeing Gongzi Yan on the side look at her with eyes like watching a play, Xie Fengyue Yingying stood up and saluted: "Father, mother, let me see my sister off today. Gongzi Yan made an appointment with me to go shopping."
There was a bit of shyness in her words. Taifu Xie's eyes wandered between the two of them and he sighed softly: "Forget it, let your mother take you to various banquets in a few days."
Taifu Xie is not a pedantic person. He has always believed that it is normal for a family member to be romantic and affectionate. He owes Yue'er too much, just for having a confidant in Lanyan before marriage. What's more, this confidant in Lanyan is the son of Wang Langya. It's not a criticism, but it's a good talk.
Mrs. Xie on the side had her teeth broken: "Which aristocratic family would let the head of the house bring a named legitimate daughter to socialize? I really trampled her face to the ground."
Seeing that several people had stopped, Young Master Yan spoke up at the right time: "When did the girl ask me to go shopping?"
This sentence made several people confused. Some were stunned while others smiled jokingly.
The stunned Xie Fengyue blinked.
What's going on with Young Master Yan? Didn't the two of them agree to use each other without harming their own interests?
"The girl obviously asked me for an outing." Gongzi Yan said with a smile.
Xie Fengyue secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. This person is really a hypocrite who cannot afford to suffer at all.
She nodded her head shyly.
Only then did Mr. Xie laugh heartily: "The sun is just right today, suitable for fun."
Xie Fengyue stood up again and bowed to several people and saluted: "I'm going to go and freshen up first, please take your time."
Xie Fengyue didn't slow down until she was far away from the main hall, and her palms were already sweaty.
She pushed open the door of Jinyuan and entered the house. She saw the marks left by broken branches on the edge of the dressing table and realized that she had wasted too much time at the banquet.
After picking through the dressing table, there were only three hairpins without Xie's obvious mark, so they were all inserted into the head. He quickly opened the rouge box and took out an eyebrow tint, deliberately arranging it as if he was going out temporarily after dressing up.
Then she quickly walked out of the west gate and headed straight to the east city.
Dongshi is a gathering area for civilians in Yong'an City, so the businesses of various religions and professions here are numerous and miscellaneous. Xie Fengyue smelled a stench from all the way away. She covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief and walked away quickly. She told Zhezhi Fortunately, we gathered there where the donkey carts were sold.
After finally getting over the sour and sour smell before, the stench of livestock came back. Xie Fengyue was so smoked that she couldn't open her eyes. She looked around for Zhe Zhi, and at a glance she saw Zhe Zhi jumping up and down, trying to squeeze into the crowd.
"What are you doing?" Xie Fengyue patted her shoulder. Zhizhi was frightened and turned around. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it was his own girl, and immediately became excited again: "They are selling people, and there are no people outside." Sell.”
Xie Fengyue's eyes dimmed a bit. She had seen the title Two-legged Sheep in the scenery magazine lent to her by Xie Jin. She probably knew something about the outside world, but Zhizhi knew nothing about it.
She looked indifferently: "What's so good about selling people? Aren't the girls in the house also buying them?"
Zhe Zhi was still excited: "They're not girls, they're all young adults."
"Let's buy a donkey cart first." Xie Fengyue said.
"The sin slaves sold by the government are all worth twenty taels of silver each. You can choose them at will. These are all slaves."
The onlookers laughed and said: "This is the East Market. Who has twenty taels of silver to buy a sin slave? You must be crazy to do it."
The man replied solemnly: "Brother, if you don't buy them, you won't be ruining people's jobs. These are all soldiers raised by aristocratic families. If it weren't for these batch of ugly ones, they wouldn't be sold into a shop, let alone twenty." Two, fifty taels of silver.”
Xie Fengyue accurately captured the key points of having a slave contract and being an ugly soldier.
She brushed aside the onlookers: "Is it really sold by the government? Is there a slave contract?"
Ren Yazi looked at Xie Fengyue's clothes. Just by looking at the gold thread on the brim of the curtain hat, he knew that she was a girl from an aristocratic family. He smiled flatteringly and took out a few pieces of yellowed paper from his arms: "The government can't afford so many mouths." , sales are also common. You rarely come to these places.”
The five sin slaves were all crowded into a cramped cage. They were so unkempt that they couldn't even see their appearance. They all looked like they were desperate for life, which made Xie Fengyue frown.
It was a big loss to buy a soldier with such virtue for twenty taels. She didn't want to waste her money like this.
Xie Fengyue turned around and was about to leave, but Ren Yazi behind her stopped her: "Girl, don't go. The price is negotiable. These are all people with real skills. You can buy them back to clean the stables and wash the toilet buckets." What a skill.”
"I will choose one for ten taels of silver. Since these are all sin slaves, their crimes must be big or small. Ten taels of silver has already bought a hidden danger."
The man gritted his teeth and said, "You choose."
"Raise your head." Xie Fengyue said.
Several people in the cage paid no attention to them. When Ren Yazi saw these people being so disrespectful, the whip in his hand crackled: "Are you all deaf? Can't you hear the noble man?"
Xie Fengyue passed by several people's faces, and finally she chose someone who looked a little cleaner. He was not too ugly, and even looked like a frail scholar. She thought about choosing someone who looked guilty. People who have sinned less.
The man's originally expressionless face immediately beamed when he saw that this girl actually chose him.
After he got out of the cage, he gave Xie Fengyue a family salute. It seemed that he was really a soldier.
Xie Fengyue nodded and motioned for Zhezhi to pay.
"He raped a slave girl." Suddenly a rough voice interrupted Zhi Zhi's movements.
Ren Yazi accurately drew the whip from the gap in the cage and hit the person who spoke.
During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, not only men let themselves go, but women also broke away from the constraints of feudal ethics.
(End of chapter)