Senior brother, how can you fall for such a beautiful junior brother!

"They owe money to the middleman?" Lian Li was surprised to hear the news.

This so-called middleman is somewhat similar to an intermediary, except that most intermediaries in the modern world only specialize in one or a few areas.

But the middleman here does everything.

People can also go to them if they want to sell their children, and they will do it.

He remembered that the original owner's family situation was pretty good among the villagers.

The original owner's brother had learned a skill, so he could definitely support his family. Unless he was cheated, even if he owed money, he wouldn't owe twenty taels.

After hearing this, Lian Li roughly understood in his mind that the original owner's brother and sister-in-law must have contacted a middleman and sold him out.

The original owner was sixteen years old at that time and could be considered an adult, but his parents had passed away and he had not separated from his brother. As the eldest brother is like a father, his brother naturally made the decision.

Especially since the original owner was weak and had no ability to resist.

Lian Li was angry, but he also felt a faint sense of inexplicable sadness. He noticed it and found it very strange. He didn't know where this sadness came from, but it was not what he really felt.

He thought about it and finally felt sad for the original owner.

"That's why I told you not to let your brother and sister-in-law know you're back." Aunt Liu looked disdainful, and then said mysteriously, "He sold you, and the twenty taels was the money the middleman paid to buy you."

"Your brother and sister-in-law took the money first, and then planned to trick you into going to the town and letting the middleman take you away. But you left at that time. When they came back, they didn't find you, so they started asking around in the village."

"It was not until they hadn't seen you for two days that they asked the villagers to help look for you. Your brother said at the time that he only had you as his brother, and even though he had some grudges against you because of your parents' partiality, he still cared about you."

"We helped to look for you for several days but couldn't find you. Many people suspected that you had been tortured at home and were taken away by wild animals."

"But your brother still refused to give up looking for you. He even asked the village chief to organize people to go up the mountain to look for you. We were fooled by his anxious look at the time and really thought he cared about you."

"A few days later, many people from the town came to ask for the money back. Your sister-in-law refused to pay it back, and your brother kept asking them to give him more time."

"After several days of fussing, we finally found out that your brother secretly found a middleman to sell you to Master Wu in the nearby city. You want him to be his male concubine."

Hearing this, Lian Li didn't react much, thinking it was something expected.

But Yun Huizhou's face had turned completely dark, and he exuded a low pressure all over his body.

Afraid that he would scare Aunt Liu, Lian Li quickly poked Yun Huizhou with his elbow to remind him to be more restrained.

Yun Huizhou took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and then turned his head to look to the side.

"What happened after they didn't find me? Did my brother and sister-in-law pay back the money?" Lian Li asked.

Aunt Liu: "Of course they have to pay it back. The middlemen who can do this are all vegetarians. They have many strong thugs. If your brother and sister-in-law can't hand over the people and don't pay back the money, to put it bluntly, in this world, how can they let him live well?"

"But if you let them know you're back, maybe they'll contact you again. The middleman will try to sell you out."

"Even if we don't sell the Wu family, we will sell it somewhere else."

Aunt Liu looked at Yun Huizhou as she spoke, thinking that since this hero accompanied Lian Li to worship his parents, they must be good friends.

You won't watch people being sold.

Yun Huizhou frowned again when he heard this. Just as he was about to speak, Lian Li spoke first: "I understand, Aunt Liu. Thank you for telling me this. I will be careful."

As Aunt Liu was about to leave with the basket, she glanced at Yun Huizhou who had been silent and warned him, "You must be careful. In addition to strong fighters, the middleman also knows people who know martial arts. If your brother and sister-in-law knew you were back, they might really go looking for them again."

Lian Li put on a very serious expression and said, "I know, Aunt Liu."

After Aunt Liu left, Lian Li turned around to look at Yun Huizhou, who had been silent but exuded a low mood, and found that he had a dark face, as if others owed him a lot of money.

Lian Li tugged at his sleeve and said, "Okay, stop frowning. If you keep frowning, you'll look like a bitter gourd."

Yun Huizhou blinked his eyes, softening his expression before looking at Lian Li: "You can't tolerate him bullying you like this. He is still your brother. How dare he hurt you like this?"

When he thought about how, if Lian Li had not left the village a year ago, his brother and sister-in-law would have sold him to a middleman and then sold him to that Mr. Wu as a male concubine, he became furious and wanted to kill someone.

Moreover, the person who sold him was his own brother. His parents had only passed away for a few months at that time, and he must have felt so bad to be treated like this by his brother and sister-in-law.

Yun Huizhou felt heartbroken just thinking about it. Lian Li was not the kind of person who could not endure hardship. What kind of life had he had at home that made him leave the village in such a poor health? He would have lost his life if he was not careful.

Lian Li was touched when he saw the heartache in Yun Huizhou's eyes, but also felt a little guilty.

Because those were the original owner's experiences. Except for the initial situation where he was blocked on a tree by wolves, he has been enjoying life since he got on the Yunhui Boat, and has never suffered any grievances.

Even if he was asked to pretend to be aggrieved in front of Yun Huizhou, he couldn't do it.

So, he could only pretend to be nonchalant and said, "I don't care about them anymore, and I don't consider him my brother anymore, so I won't feel sad, and he can't hurt me now."

He said this, but he had many thoughts in his mind.

After all, he was able to live again by borrowing the body of the original owner, even though the original owner had already passed away and knew nothing. But he still accepted the favor.

He also knew that the original owner actually had some resentment towards his brother and sister-in-law, but he had never thought of doing anything to make life difficult for him and his sister-in-law.

He originally came here just to worship the original owner's parents, then repair the grave and leave.

But I didn't expect to learn such a thing from Aunt Liu. The original owner's brother and sister-in-law actually sold the original owner as a male concubine.

He didn't know who that Mr. Wu was, but when he heard the word "Mr.", he felt that he should be quite old.

Moreover, given the original owner's temperament, if she was really taken away by the middleman, I don't know how much suffering she would have to endure in order to be obedient.

It is estimated that she may not even live to be sold to Mr. Wu's house.

His brother had been an apprentice in the town. How could he not know what would happen if he entered the middleman's place? He still sold the original owner in. This was no different from trying to kill the original owner.