Princess Promotion

Yao Chuguang waited for Lan Niang to finish her scolding, then calmly asked, "Is five taels of silver more important than the lives of you and your daughter?"

Lan Niang was stunned for a moment, then said with disdain, "Who asked you to save me? Why are you meddling in other people's business? I could have given birth to this money-losing child without you. Return the money."

Seeing Lan Niang's hysterical look, Yao Chuguang took out the five taels of silver and said, "If you want these five taels of silver, you can!"

Seeing Yin Zilan, Niang rushed over without thinking, but Yao Chuguang dodged her.

Yao Chuguang walked over to the baby and poked it gently with his finger. The child said in a small voice, "Sell your daughter to me."

Lan Niang looked at Yao Chuguang defensively and asked, "What do you want her to do?"

Although Lan Niang was not clear about the market price, she roughly knew that five taels of silver was enough to buy two little girls of seven or eight years old.

If you want to select servants or personal maids, they are all children aged five or six or seven or eight years old.

Children of this age can do some work and are easy to train.

Newborn babies like this cannot be left alone. You have to find someone to take care of them after you buy them, and they have to be raised for seven or eight years before they can start working. This is simply a losing business.

Yao Chuguang said with a cold expression: "This is my business, it has nothing to do with you."

Lan Niang looked at the woman in front of her, with a murderous aura around her. If her daughter was to be sold as a child bride or a maid, which was a legitimate fate, it would be impossible to hide it.

This woman doesn't look like a good person. She must have been hired to do something shameful.

A possibility suddenly occurred to Lan Niang's mind, and she blurted out, "You want to use this child for a ghost marriage!"

In the early years, if the children of some wealthy families died young, they would buy a child from a poor family and arrange a ghost marriage with their own child for fear that their child would be lonely in the afterlife.

Although this kind of thing is a bit shameful, it is a matter of mutual consent. As long as the rich family is willing to give money and the poor family agrees, the government will not pursue any matter.

But since the empress came to power, she has issued an edict to prohibit such things. Once discovered, the whole family will be implicated, their property will be confiscated and their heads will be beheaded.

Ghost marriages have almost disappeared nowadays, but Lan Niang knows that this kind of thing still happens in secret.

But the current price is incomparable to the past. I heard that the commission for doing such a deal is shockingly high.

When Lan Niang saw Yao Chuguang remained silent, she knew that she had guessed right.

A surge of anger suddenly surged in my heart. So that's how it is. No wonder he was so kind to send her to the clinic.

This woman must have seen herself bleeding profusely on the way and thought she might die in childbirth.

She pretended to be kind and brought herself to the city to give birth. If she died in the carriage, she could take her body away for a ghost marriage.

If you are caught by someone accidentally, just say that you met him on the road and wanted to take him to the hospital with good intentions, but he died on the way.

Then the woman can be cleared of the charges.

Unexpectedly, the woman was very lucky and managed to make it to the city, but she was sent to a clinic in full view of everyone.

After working hard for most of the day and getting nothing, he saw his mother-in-law coming over and took the opportunity to blackmail her.

Now that she saw her mother-in-law taking her anger out on herself and leaving, she also saw that she had given birth to a girl. She was a little small, but age was not a problem for a ghost marriage.

The question is how to do it without anyone noticing.

A trace of struggle flashed in Lan Niang's eyes, and finally she looked at Yao Chuguang and said, "This is my newborn child. I want an extra five taels of silver, otherwise I can't guarantee that I won't say anything I shouldn't say when I go back."

Yao Chuguang was silent for a while before saying, "Okay, I'll tell everyone that I gave you five taels of silver. You can keep the extra five taels for yourself and buy some food to replenish your body."

The gloom on Lan Niang's face disappeared, and she stretched out her hand and said, "Okay, give me the silver!"

Yao Chuguang took out five taels of silver from his purse and handed it to Lan Niang together with the original five taels of silver in his hand.

Lan Niang was ecstatic and immediately put it in her mouth and took a bite. Seeing the teeth marks on it, she confirmed that the silver was real.

Yao Chuguang bent down, picked up the baby in the cradle and walked out. When she reached the door, Lan Niang suddenly shouted, "Wait a minute!"

Yao Chuguang turned around and looked at Lan Niang and asked, "What's wrong?"

Lan Niang asked with expectation in her eyes: "Where can I find you in the future?"

Yao Chuguang's eyes were calm and unperturbed as he asked, "What do you want to see me for?"

Lan Niang smiled flatteringly and said, "Will you still accept these babies in the future? For this price, I can introduce you to others."

When Lan Niang heard Yao Chuguang's last words asking her to take good care of her health, she immediately realized that this woman was hinting at her.

If she gives birth to another money-losing baby next year, you can send it to her and get the money.

Lan Niang's resentment towards Yao Chuguang was instantly wiped out. If she gave birth to a daughter again next time, she would not have to worry. At least she would still have the money.

By then, this money will definitely be able to shut up my mother-in-law and she will stop bullying her.

Yao Chuguang stood there in silence for a long time before he nodded slightly and said, "Okay, but this is a capital crime. You must bring the mother along with you. One thing is that it must be voluntary. I will keep a separate reserve for your money and won't let anyone know how much you take."

Lan Niang nodded happily and repeatedly assured herself that she would keep her mouth shut.

Yao Chuguang turned around and left the inn with the child without stopping.

Yan Mingzhe slowly woke up to the rocking of the carriage, stroking his forehead and slowly sitting up.

I walked in a daze and saw the yellow-haired girl, who seemed to be holding something and shaking it.

Yan Mingzhe shook his head to sober himself up a little.

Then he saw Yao Chuguang holding a baby, grinning and saying to him, "Mr. Yan, are you awake?"

Yan Mingzhe stared at the baby in the cradle with wide eyes, almost screaming, "Where did this come from?"

Yao Chuguang put his finger to his lips and hurriedly reminded: "Mr. Yan, please keep your voice down. You're scaring the child!"

You scared me too!

Yan Mingzhe wanted to go crazy. What kind of crazy thing did this yellow-haired girl do while he was unconscious?

But he still lowered his voice and asked, "What have you done?"

Yao Chuguang's hands were already sore from holding the child for so long, so she stuffed the child into Yan Mingzhe's arms and said, "I bought this from Lan Niang for five taels of silver."

Yan Mingzhe hurriedly took the child and tried hard to digest Yao Chuguang's words.

So she first extorted five taels of silver from the old woman, and then used the five taels of silver to forcefully buy the child from her?!

This is just a case of getting something for nothing!

The unscrupulous businessman would cry if he met this girl!

Yan Mingzhe only felt that his vision was getting darker and darker. What sin had he committed?

Fu Hongxuan is so blind and stupid that he likes such a bully.

Yan Mingzhe asked with a trembling voice, "What are you going to do with this child?"

Don’t think of performing some kind of human sacrifice to see if you can communicate with the Dragon King and get him to move mountains and fill the sea!

If this woman really dared to do this, he would stop her and send her to jail even if it meant breaking up with Fu Hongxuan.

Yao Chuguang's eyes dimmed as he said, "I don't have any particular thoughts. I just wanted to save this little girl's life. As for what she wants to do in the future, I'll let her decide for herself when she grows up!"

Yan Mingzhe was stunned. He didn't expect things to develop so unexpectedly, but he also felt it was a bit ridiculous. That family looked like an ordinary farming family.

Although he is a bit materialistic and sarcastic, he is definitely not a bad person.

How could such an ordinary farmer family possibly provoke any enemies and bring about a fatal disaster?

Yao Chuguang knew Yan Mingzhe was mistaken and shook his head, saying, "I'm worried that they will abandon the child and leave her to fend for herself."

Yan Mingzhe clearly didn't believe it: "Even if boys are favored over girls, this child is also a piece of her flesh. Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, let alone a human."

Yan Mingzhe knew that the trend of favoring boys over girls was prevalent in the village. Although he would treat his children differently, he would not harm his own children after all.

Yao Chuguang looked at Yan Mingzhe with an expression that was more serious than ever before.

Yan Mingzhe suddenly realized that something was wrong. Why did this girl suddenly seem like a different person?

He actually saw the majesty of a superior in this girl.

Yao Chuguang spoke in a low voice, sounding as if he wasn't trying to emphasize something, yet it contained an undeniable power that made it impossible to question. "Mr. Yan is a man of profound learning, yet he knows nothing about the suffering of the common people."

"Sir, you don't know what suffering is, so how can you talk about sharing the worries of the people? Isn't it ridiculous!" Yao Chuguang raised his eyes slightly and sneered vaguely.

Yan Mingzhe has never been criticized in person like this since he became an adult.

For a moment, I was so shocked that I forgot to react and just stood there.

After saying this, Yao Chuguang got off the carriage without caring about Yan Mingzhe's expression.

After Fu Hongxuan brought Zhou Mingrui back in the evening, he clearly felt that the atmosphere in the mansion was not right.

Yao Chuguang was fine, but she was a little unhappy.

Yan Mingzhe was much more obvious, with a sullen face and not saying a word.

Fu Hongxuan thought about it and asked the driver about the situation.

Only then did I realize that it was Yao Chuguang who had taught his master a lesson.

Fu Hongxuan couldn't help but sigh. His master came from a prominent clan.

He had lived a life of luxury since childhood, and it could be said that apart from the incident concerning the head of the Yan family, he had basically encountered no setbacks.

In such a smooth life, you will subconsciously recite things you don't understand.

The result is just empty talk.

Fu Hongxuan came to Yan Mingzhe's yard with wine and food.

He knocked on the door, but no one answered Fu Hongxuan.

Fu Hongxuan knew that the person Yan Mingzhe least wanted to see now was him, besides Yan Chuguang.

Fu Hongxuan had no choice but to go around to Yao Chuguang's yard.

Yao Chuguang heard some strange noises in the yard and went out to take a look.

I saw Fu Hongxuan carrying a lunch box and stepping on a stool to climb over the wall...

Fu Hongxuan had just climbed over the wall and was about to jump down when he turned around and saw Yao Chuguang leaning against the door and looking at him.

I don't know why, but this perspective is a bit like the scene where a wife discovers that her husband climbed over the wall to meet a widow in the middle of the night...

Fu Hongxuan opened his mouth and was about to say something.

Yao Chuguang had already spoken first, "Go! Come back in the evening, or come back from here?"

Fu Hongxuan...he really didn't come here because he liked climbing walls.

Fu Hongxuan slowly turned around, originally wanting to find a place to jump down.

However, at this moment, a creepy gaze shot straight at Fu Hongxuan.

Those were a pair of lifeless, empty eyes, staring at Fu Hongxuan.

Even Fu Hongxuan couldn't help but shudder, and a chill quickly spread down his spine.

For a moment, I even forgot what to do next.

The cold moonlight fell on the courtyard like water, covering everything around with a layer of silver gauze.

With the help of the hazy moonlight, Fu Hongxuan finally saw the figure clearly - it was Yan Mingzhe.

Yan Mingzhe was seen sitting alone in the yard, sitting quietly in the middle of the yard like a stone sculpture, as if he had merged into the silent night.

At this time, the yard was pitch black, without a trace of light.

Originally, Fu Hongxuan thought that Yan Mingzhe would stay in the house and pretend not to hear his knock on the door.

Fu Hongxuan's eyes wandered as he said, "Master, what a coincidence you were in the yard. How come you didn't hear me knocking on the door just now?"

Yan Mingzhe said expressionlessly, "I heard it, but I don't want to open the door for you."

Fu Hongxuan: ………It seems the blow is quite big.

Yan Mingzhe frowned and pointed at Yao Chuguang's yard and said, "I didn't open the door because I don't want to see you. Go back!"

Fu Hongxuan jumped off the wall helplessly and walked to Yan Mingzhe.

He opened the food box, took out the wine and food one by one, and placed them on the stone table.

Then he sat down next to Yan Mingzhe and said, "Master, please listen to my story. I will leave after I finish it."

Yan Mingzhe turned a deaf ear and said nothing, but he also did not continue to chase Fu Hongxuan away.

Fu Hongxuan poured a glass of wine, placed it in front of Yan Mingzhe, and said, "Master, you may feel that many things are incomprehensible and therefore will not happen, but you must know that people are diverse."

Yan Mingzhe still didn't respond, so Fu Hongxuan poured himself a glass of wine.

He began to tell the story, saying that many of the soldiers who joined the army came from poor families who could barely make ends meet.

Many times they join the army just to make a living. No one actually cares about defending the country.

You can't ask someone who can't even get enough to eat to talk about family and country.

Why do every household in the countryside try so hard to have a boy?

There is no profound truth in this. It’s just that because there are many men in the family, you won’t be bullied.

If there is no man in the family, the villagers will eat him until not even a bone is left.

Then there is a problem, which is that it is not up to you to decide whether to have a boy or a girl.

The family already doesn't have enough to eat, and one more child means one more mouth to feed.

It would be fine if it was a boy, but what if it was a girl?

If you raise one, the whole family will not have enough to eat, and it will eventually drag the whole family down with it to death.

No more children? The villagers will see that your family has no male offspring and will want to wipe out your entire family. When you are old, they will drive you out and seize your house and land.

If you don't have your son's support and can't beat the other party, you will be doomed.

This is what people at the bottom of society are like. It’s already hard enough to survive!

Before he knew it, Yan Mingzhe had already picked up the wine and taken a sip.

In order to survive, they can only keep reproducing because they have no other ability to increase their survival capital.

If you encounter natural disasters while farming, you will not get any harvest. If you work for a landlord, he can drive you away at any time, and then you will be left with nothing.