Wealth and glory seek stability

"Xi'er, wake up quickly, the boat will soon dock."

Jane Xi's mind was in turmoil as if it was about to explode. She wanted to rest, but the noisy sounds in her ears kept her awake. She frowned, resisted the urge to sleep, and slowly opened her eyes.

Which hospital is so noisy?

What caught my eye was not the pure white background of the hospital but...!

It was a cramped and damp space with scattered straw on the floor and an unpleasant musty smell in the air.

There was no straw under my body, only a hard and cold wooden board. After lying on the board for a long time, all the muscles in my body were sore.

Jian Xi glanced around and made sure that the surroundings were completely unfamiliar. She looked at the little boy who had just called her name, but did not speak rashly.

She remembered that she used her half-life savings to buy a house at the sales office. As soon as she left the sales office, she wanted to find a restaurant to celebrate, but she was unexpectedly robbed at gunpoint. She was unlucky enough to be taken hostage and killed by the robbers.

At that moment, my body felt light and floated in the air for a long time. Suddenly, I felt a suction force and my body sank. When I woke up, I was here.

Jian Xi is an orphan in modern times. Her biggest dream is to have a home of her own. After working hard for most of her life, she died in an unexpected disaster just after buying a house.

If I had known that her life was so miserable, I wouldn't have worked so diligently and lived frugally.

If I had known this earlier, I wouldn’t have been so diligent!

If I use that money to live lavishly, I can spend it for a long time.

This is the most painful thing in life: people die without spending all their money.

There was no way to regret it, so Jian Xi withdrew her thoughts and carefully observed the surrounding environment.

Shen Nanxing breathed a sigh of relief, "Sister Xier, you finally woke up,"

"Please don't die. You are the only relative I have left."

Shen Nanxing hugged Jian Xi and cried loudly, tears streaming down uncontrollably.

Many fragments appeared in Jian Xi's mind.

Shen Nanxing is the son of an old friend of Jian Xi's father Jian Yu. A disaster struck his family and Shen Nanxing was the only one left. Jian Yu couldn't bear to see Shen Nanxing, a lonely little boy, wandering outside, so he adopted Shen Nanxing.

Thinking about the scenes of getting along with Shen Nanxing in her memory, Jian Xi called out the name naturally.

"Brother Nanxing."

After not having water for a long time, the sound he made when he opened his mouth sounded like torn rags.

She raised her hand. Her small palm was shriveled like a chicken claw, but its shape was slender and long. Jian Xi finally felt a little comforted.

Shen Nanxing cried, "Sister Xier, your high fever won't go away. Aunt Li thinks we are a burden and sold us to a trafficker. I heard from the uncles outside that when the ship docks, we will be in the capital and someone will come to buy us."

Jian Xi quickly organized her thoughts in her mind.

The Aunt Li that Shen Nanxing mentioned is Jian Xi's stepmother.

"Brother Nanxing, I was a little confused from sleeping. What year is it?"

"It is the forty-seventh year of the Xuanyuan Era."

After getting the information he wanted from Shen Nanxing, he closed his eyes.

This body had already reached its limit, she was hungry and tired, and she really didn't want to say a word.

The ship was shaking, and there was a sour smell in the air. Jane Xi almost vomited. The most urgent task now was to understand the current situation.

She didn't want to die early again, so she regarded this life as God's compensation for her miserable death in her previous life.

Little Jian Xi must have died from the high fever. As far as I can remember, her stepmother never called a doctor for her. After the little child had a high fever and was sold, she only had one steamed corn bread every day. How could she survive?

Jian Yu was the only scholar in the village and had only one daughter, Jian Xi. His original wife, Jian Xi's biological mother, died of complications during childbirth when giving birth to her younger brother, leaving two lives.

In order to take care of his young daughter, Jian Yu married another wife, Li.

Unexpectedly, Jian Yu caught a cold and passed away. Li didn't want to carry two burdens with her, so she sold Jian Xi and Shen Nanxing to human traffickers and remarried with Jian Yu's property.

Jian Xi couldn't help but sigh, it's really a small cabbage, the ground is yellow.

It was fine this way, as she had no worries in her previous life anyway, and she had long been used to it.

After waking up, Jian Xi saw Shen Nanxing standing beside her. His little body was curled up into a ball, looking very pitiful.

Suddenly, the ship shook violently a few times and then stopped moving.

Jian Xi guessed that the ship must have docked.

The sampan on the top of the room was moved away, and the whole room became bright in an instant.

The sun shines in, and fresh air comes in mixed with a hint of chill.

There were about thirty children, mostly girls, crammed into the small space.

"Little bastards! Come out."

With a creak, the door was fully opened and several burly men in shorts walked in, shouting loudly.

"Hurry up, or I'll whip you."

The children did not dare to disobey and stood up one after another and walked out surrounded by the big man.

With the help of Shen Nanxing, Jian Xi slowly stood up and walked out with everyone. She looked back a few times and saw several children lying on the ground who were sick like her.

The big man went up and kicked him a few times.

The little man on the ground didn't react, and his chest didn't move at all.

The big man spat.

"You're just a piece of trash. You're really unlucky."

After saying this, he piled up several sick and dead children together like cargo.

Jian Xi came back to her senses and collected her thoughts.

If she hadn't woken up, she would have suffered the same fate as those children who didn't wake up.

It seems that human life is really worthless here.

Outside the small, enclosed compartment was a large dock.

There were a few small boats scattered on the dock, which docked early in the morning, and there were many peddlers hawking their wares.

“Baozi, delicious buns!”

"Gululu."

The children are at the growing age, and they can't help swallowing their saliva when they smell the fragrance.

The big men around didn't seem to worry that anyone would try to escape. The matchmaker even waved her hand and bought a large basket of buns and distributed them to several men who were working.

"Eat something first to fill your stomach. After this batch of goods is sold, I will treat you to a good meal at Tianxianglou in the city."

"Thank you, shopkeeper!"

"Thank you, shopkeeper!"

The matchmaker looked at the goods with great satisfaction. Her face was covered with fat and had a thick layer of powder on it. When she spoke, the powder on her face fell down.

"Jiangnan is indeed home to beautiful women. The goods this time are of excellent quality. If it weren't for the flood, many families couldn't even afford food and had to sell their girls. I wouldn't have gotten such a big bargain."

"Have you contacted all the buyers this time?"

The man next to him, who was dressed slightly better, replied:

"I have made the contacts. They are all famous kilns in the capital. I told them that the goods this time were purchased in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and the quality is very good. When the madam heard about it, she said that she had prepared sufficient silver.

But I heard that the Wu'an Palace wanted to buy a batch of maids and servants recently, so I agreed and asked the palace's housekeeper to come and look at the goods first."