After coming back from outside, several of Li Zan's men sat at a table in a crooked manner.

On the table was a plate of fried peanuts and a plate of braised pork. A few hands reached out and the plate of meat was instantly cleaned up.

"Alas, I really don't know why the prince is still looking for this woman? She ran away with another man. Poor man, hateful woman!"

One of them put the empty cup heavily on the table and said to his companion, "Of course I have to get it back! If it were you, would you be angry? If you were cuckolded, you would have to catch the adulterer and give him a good beating to get rid of the hatred in your heart!"

"Right! The man beat his mother so hard that she couldn't recognize him anymore, and then he killed her. As for this woman...she also needs to be taught a lesson!"

"I can't stand women betraying me. If a woman betrays a man, there is only one outcome: death."

"However, there are also advantages to being out on duty. It's not like in the capital, where there are people supervising everything you do, and the daily errands are so busy that there is no room for mistakes. I hope the prince can look for Miss Lin for a while longer. Now that I'm out every day, I feel so relaxed."

……

***

A foul smell lingered in my nose, the smell of damp hay mixed with the smell of feces and urine.

"Clatter--" a sharp sound of iron chains twitching sounded out of nowhere.

Lin Qianqian opened her eyes from her sleepiness, raised her hand and yawned, gradually seeing clearly where she was.

This is a wooden cage that looks like a prison cell. The light is dim and there are many iron chains hanging in the air.

She looked around and found that there were women like her all around, about twenty of them. They were wearing dirty clothes, their faces were dirty, their long hair was casually hanging down, their eyes were uniformly numb and dull, and each of them looked like a puppet without a soul.

At this time, footsteps sounded outside.

"Look, that's the woman. We were transporting eight loads that day, and somehow one more got added. What do you think we should do with it?"

A man with a mustache walked up to the cage, glanced at Lin Qianqian, and asked the person next to him, "Have you found out her identity and background?"

"If she is a girl from an ordinary family, she can stay."

The man said, "She is from another place."

The mustache said, "Foreigners, there is nothing to be afraid of."

"She looks pretty and is a top-quality product. She should be able to fetch a good price."

"What? What do you mean! Are you going to sell me? Where?" Lin Qianqian ran over, grabbed the two woods of the cage and asked loudly.

The man with a small mustache walked over with a smile, "Girl, don't panic. We are looking for a good customer for you. The people who come to us are either fatherless or motherless and have been sold by relatives, or sold by their own parents. It's too pitiful for a woman to be helpless, and she must be supported by a man."

"I'm not an orphan, and I haven't been sold by anyone. I just want to take a carriage out of the city... Please have pity on me and let me go." The more Lin Qianqian spoke, the more ridiculous she felt.

She was like a rabbit that had stepped into a trap.

Who would have thought that the carriage in front of the pharmacy did legitimate business during the day and shady business at night.

The man with a mustache immediately burst into laughter along with the servants around him.

They both laughed till tears came out. The man with a mustache wiped the area around his eyes and said, "Girl, what you said is really a fantasy. Now that you are in, how can you leave? Don't worry, with your looks, you can choose someone higher up, someone who is rich and famous. In this way, I will be helping you."

Lin Qianqian, "I know you want money. I have money. How about this, if you let me out, I'll give you the money. I'll give you all my money, okay?"

The man with the mustache stood in front of Lin Qianqian and sneered, "Let you go? Let you report to the police? Or let you ask your friends for help? Do you take me for a fool?"

"Then do you know who I am?" Lin Qianqian looked at him and asked.

"What's your identity?" The little mustache boy was curious about Lin Qianqian's identity.

Lin Qianqian rolled her eyes and said calmly, "Do you know the governor of Jiangzhou? I am his cousin, and you arrested his distant relative..."

The man with the mustache stared at Lin Qianqian and said suspiciously, "You are not just making this up, are you? I can tell from the first glance that you are not an honest person."

He laughed and said, "I don't believe what you said. If there really is an official in your family, then just wait, your official relative will come to rescue you."

Lin Qianqian returned to her original position, sat down against the wall, hugged her knees, and bit her lips tighter and tighter.

She looked at the girl next to her and asked, "Where will they sell us?"

The little girl raised her frightened eyes from her messy hair and said, "I don't know."

"Some are sold to brothels, some are sold to human traffickers, and some are sold to people as wives."

"They will have people come to choose, and then negotiate the price. The pretty ones will be picked first, followed by those of average looks, and finally the ones without any looks..." At this time, a clear female voice was heard from the corner.

Lin Qianqian looked towards the voice and found it was a round-faced girl with calm eyes.

This calmness was as if one had already foreseen what would happen next, as if one had accepted it all.

Lin Qianqian walked up to her and said, "My name is... My last name is Lin, what should I call you?"

"Voiceless."

"Miss Qingyin, you seem very calm. You are so calm, aren't you afraid at all?" Lin Qianqian looked at her and said.

Qingyin broke a straw in her hand, broke it into small pieces and threw them down. "Besides waiting calmly, what else can I do? If this is my fate, then I can only accept it."

Lin Qianqian wanted to say something, but she didn't know how to say it.

The woman's strength was too weak, and now she was trapped here and couldn't fight back at all.

"Do you believe that this is fate? I think it's just a disaster." Lin Qianqian's voice suddenly rang out.

Her voice was clear, pleasant, and powerful, like the collision of stone and spring water. It had a force that could not be ignored, and it lifted the hearts of others.

The dull and numb eyes around her all looked towards her.

Lin Qianqian said, "This is a calamity, a catastrophe. It is not fate. The calamity can be overcome."

“No matter what kind of adversity you are in, you must never give up hope… Maybe I’m too idealistic. But sometimes people have to be more idealistic. If you look directly at the bloody reality, you will lose hope in life.”

At this time, a middle-aged woman dressed up in fancy clothes appeared. She walked to the cage with a twist of her waist, pointed at the people inside and said, "This one, this one, that one, and that one..."

"I want any with a pretty face. I want any with big breasts and big butts, too."

She pointed at Lin Qianqian and exclaimed in surprise, "Such a beautiful lady has come!"

"Hurry and bring her out. A gentleman asked for the beauty today and offered a lot of money."

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