Lin Qianqian helped Qingyin up with one hand and held Ye Furong with the other, and said to the two of them, "I know, I understand."

"In that situation, I would rather you protect yourself than take risks for me."

"If anything happened to you two, I would be upset."

"I will leave this place, but I will never forget what I said to you. I will also never forget how hard it was for us to get here in the beginning. We couldn't even get enough food to eat, and it was you who generously spent money to buy food for us."

Ye Furong rushed over and hugged Lin Qianqian tightly, "Qianqian, I'm sorry! I was too weak! I really regret it now! I didn't rush in to save you! Fortunately, nothing happened to you!"

"What I thought at the beginning was that it wouldn't be bad for you to become his woman. I've long been accustomed to serving men and treating my body as the lowest form of existence. As long as I can get a little benefit in return, I won't hesitate."

"If it were me, I would have given my body to you without hesitation! But I forgot that you are different from us. You have your own opinions, and you are unique."

"You value your body more than we do and cherish it more."

Lin Qianqian looked at her calmly, "It's not just about self-love, it's also about personal self-esteem, dignity, and one's will."

“Perhaps you don’t quite understand what I’m saying. But to put it another way, it means to safeguard your right to “refuse” and “say no.”

"In the face of unfair oppression, I don't want to be bullied, that's it."

Ye Furong looked at Lin Qianqian with envy, her eyes full of admiration and emotion, "Perhaps it is this aspect of you that attracted Master Guzhu. I really don't have the courage to say no, not even a little bit. I'm very scared, but I don't know what I'm afraid of. I tremble all over when I think about it."

"I just thought that if I obeyed, I would not have any trouble. But the reality is that being obedient makes people feel easier to bully, so they make people do more dirty and tiring work and deduct more money."

Lin Qianqian's smile gave people the power to stabilize their hearts. "So, you should not have illusions about those who bully you in times of crisis. That is a form of self-paralysis."

With Lin Qianqian's comfort, Ye Furong wiped her tears and nodded with emotion.

Lin Qianqian led the two to find the madam, and found Gu Zhu was also in the house. He saw Lin Qianqian stood up from her seat and stared at her for a moment, "What are you doing here!"

Under the dual pressure from Prince Jing and Prince Gu, he had to let him go.

I just let her go, and I feel very sad.

I didn't get her that time, and I'm afraid I'll never have another chance in the future. From now on, I can only watch her from afar.

"I'm here to redeem them." Lin Qianqian looked at Qingyin and Ye Furong, her voice gentle yet powerful.

"Give me a base price."

"Oh, this is the first time I see a woman redeeming another woman. How loving and righteous!" The madam came over, not disguising her ridicule in her words, and her eyes were full of disdain.

Lin Qianqian raised her lips and said, "You are loyal and righteous. What's wrong? Are you going to be ridiculed?"

"Then I hope that the people you meet are all heartless and ungrateful."

The madam shut up and stared at Lin Qianqian, wishing she could bite her. "You're awesome. You've been educated. I can't argue with you."

"Give me a price." Lin Qianqian said again.

The madam laughed again and said in a pretentious tone, "I want to know how much money you have on you. What are you going to buy these two talents and looks for? Are you going to buy them to honor your prince?"

"Why spend this money!"

"Why do you care what I do? Just give me a price." Lin Qianqian glanced at her and said coldly.

The madam sneered, "I'm afraid you can't afford it! Besides, if you want to redeem it, will I sell it to you?"

"You two can go now." Suddenly, Gu Zhu came over with his hands behind his back and said, "Go and get their indentures."

The madam turned around in shock and looked at Gu Zhu with her mouth wide open, "Master, Master! Master! This is not right, are you letting them go just like that?"

"Yeah." Gu Zhu stood up straight and nodded.

"I owe Miss Lin a favor."

"If she hadn't persuaded me to turn back in time, I wouldn't be standing here safely."

The madam sent someone to bring the indenture contract and handed the two pages of paper to Qingyin and Ye Furong on the spot. The two of them hugged Lin Qianqian and cried excitedly.

When they walked out of the gate, they still couldn't believe that they had obtained the indenture contract.

"Oh my God! I never thought that the day would come when I would leave! It's like a dream!" Ye Furong stood on the street, looked up at the gray winter sky, closed her eyes, took a deep breath of the cold air, and immediately burst into tears.

At this moment, she smelled the scent of freedom.

Sweetness and joy.

Her heart had never beaten so fast and easy before, so much so that she fainted with excitement and was supported by Qingyin, who was also moved to tears.

"Miss Lin is such a good person."

"If a woman can redeem another woman, then we should be able to do it too..."

Hearing the sobbing voice coming from behind, Lin Qianqian turned around and found that the women who used to sleep in the big bunk bed were standing quietly behind the corner and watching them.

There was a mass of darkness, more than thirty pairs of eyes looking at me, almost all wearing the same cotton-padded jacket. In addition to envy, there was more confusion, numbness, and a desire for freedom in those eyes.

Lin Qianqian suddenly remembered a saying by a great man: Where there is oppression, there is resistance.

In ancient times, prostitutes were the most exploited people at the bottom of society, and many stories of love and righteousness happened among them. They were the first to unite and resist.

Guan Hanqing, a playwright in the Yuan Dynasty, is the greatest dramatist in history, and his most famous play is "The Injustice of Dou E". He wrote "Rescue of Fengchen", which is the "Dream of Hualu" adapted today, which tells the story of prostitutes helping each other.

They are already at the bottom of society, with no background or family support. Having courage and helping each other is the most precious and worthy of praise.

He criticized men for being ruthless and disloyal, and wrote "The Romantic Scholar's Three Unfaithfulnesses".

There are also two stories written by Feng Menglong, "Du Shiniang's Wrath and the Sinking of the Treasure Box" and "The Oil Seller's Monopoly on the Courtesan", which also feature prostitutes as the protagonists. In the past, stories were all about aristocratic talents and beautiful women, and romantic love stories. Writing about this kind of lower-class laborers is very progressive and is judged to have a strong humanitarian color.

In these two stories, the heroines he wrote about are both beautiful and talented. Although their bodies are trampled upon, they are pure and noble, and they bravely pursue freedom. The two male protagonists, one is a prince, but it is a realistic tragedy, and the other is an oil seller, it is an idealistic comedy. It contains his rational thinking on the issue of prostitutes becoming good women: whether a woman can become a good woman depends on the conscience of the man.

These two playwrights left their names in history, were admired by later generations, and their status was constantly raised. They not only wrote stories about aristocratic men and beautiful women, but also saw the difficulties of women at the bottom of society. The most widely circulated and most popular of their works are about the suffering of women at the bottom of society.

Both of them failed the exams, and they wandered around teahouses, restaurants, and brothels, where they heard other people's tragic stories and thus began their writing.

From this, it can be seen that some men in ancient times were keen on marrying prostitutes as concubines. In addition to being attracted by their beauty, they also sympathized with their plight and had some pity in their hearts. Saving them satisfied their saintly complex of saving people from suffering.

Men with a God-father complex have natural compassion and empathy. It is probably similar to seeing a poor kitten on the street being bullied, bruised, and dirty, and experiencing all kinds of insults, and he can no longer bear to watch it and takes her home to take care of her.

It is said that men like to save prostitutes, and women like to see prodigals return.

Men like to save prostitutes. At this moment, they dominate the fate of others. He is the god who saves her from suffering, and she will obey him from then on. Women like prodigal sons to return. They think that others will change for them. As long as they keep giving, they will move him one day.

She attracted him in the first place, besides her beauty. Could it be that he still sympathized with her? Had he pityed her?

Lin Qianqian suddenly wanted to know what Gu Huai's motive was for redeeming her.

The original text only mentioned that he was attracted by her novelty, and the prince was just seeking novelty and curiosity for a while, and abandoned her soon after.

Men are really complicated creatures. They spend money to enjoy themselves in brothels, but there are also some who sympathize with and praise the brothel girls.

"Miss Lin, are you leaving now?"

"Will we never see each other again?"

"Miss Lin, I don't want you to leave. What will we do if you leave?"

The women rushed over to talk to Lin Qianqian, reluctantly pulling at her clothes and holding her hands.

Several people came over and said to Qingyin and Ye Furong, "I envy you two so much. You can leave after just a short time in here!"

"I envy you two for regaining your freedom. You don't have to stay here and be forced to receive customers."

Qingyin and Ye Furong comforted them, "You will be redeemed sooner or later."

"How could that be? You have a good sister like Miss Lin. We have no patrons, no good sisters, and we have all been abandoned by our parents and families. Who else would save us?"

As Zhizhi spoke, tears couldn't stop falling.

"Your departure gave us a glimmer of hope. But who can save us like Miss Lin saved you?"

Zhizhi's words made the people around her silent for a moment, and they all raised their sleeves to wipe away their tears.

For a moment, the only sound was the sound of tears in the wind.

"Miss Lin, Miss Lin!" Guigui ran out from the gate with disheveled hair, clutching the collar that she had not put on in time, and there was a new scar at the corner of her mouth.

She came over and said to Lin Qianqian, "I heard you were here, so I wanted to come and see you. But I received 11 men in two hours yesterday, and I was a little exhausted, so I got up late. It's great that you rescued Qingyin and Furong, so they don't have to suffer like this."

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