The whole family travels through the book, the plot is broken but the characters are not

Lu Yanyan and Qin Yuru looked in the direction of the sound.

It turned out to be an old friend.

Lu Yanyan said in great surprise: "It's Lan Niang..."

Lan Niang was the woman who was captured by bandits from Jincheng County and taken to Pulu Mountain, where she destroyed her own face.

She was also the one among that group of pitiful women who left the deepest impression on Lu Yanyan and the others.

At this time, Lan Niang's arm was being twisted by a burly man.

Next to the strong man was a middle-aged woman over 40 years old.

Lan Niang kept begging.

"I didn't sell myself to her. She told me to pretend I sold myself to her, and she would bail me out in a few months and send me to an asylum.

Shopkeeper Wang, please, let me go. It's okay if you don't want to be my surety, just return the indenture to me."

The middle-aged woman shook her arm with a big gold bracelet, and the powder on her face fell off with the shaking of her body.

"Everyone heard it. She herself admitted that the indenture is with me. How can that not be selling herself to me? She is my family's slave."

"No, Shopkeeper Wang, that's not what you said at the time."

Lan Niang was so anxious that tears started falling, and she opened her mouth to continue speaking.

But the shopkeeper Wang refused to let her continue speaking and raised his arm to slap her twice.

Lan Niang was still crying and saying that she had been cheated by Manager Wang.

The people who were originally watching finally understood what was going on.

There have been too many refugees recently, and many of these people have lost their household registrations.

Without a household registration, one cannot settle down, cannot get land, and cannot acquire property.

If these people want to survive, they have to rely on the big guys to survive.

Or work as a tenant for others in exchange for food.

Or sell yourself as a slave and become registered in the master's household.

If a person who sells himself into slavery can follow a kind-hearted master, the master will issue a letter of release after a few months.

The released slaves were given a release certificate and worked in the asylum for two years.

As long as you meet the requirements, you can re-register your household registration.

This is how some people who want to re-register their household registration do it.

However, to do this, we must give the host some benefits so that they will be willing to cooperate.

This is probably the case with a girl named Lan Niang.

I'm afraid that Manager Wang changed his mind, which led to what happened today.

Lan Niang cried out, "Manager Wang, you can't be so heartless! I've done so much work for you in the past half month and even gave you thirty taels of silver..."

"Ugly bastard, stop slandering me. Wang Wu, beat this bitch up, beat her hard."

When the strong man heard the order, he let go of Lan Niang's hand and was about to hit her.

But before he could touch Lan Niang, he was kicked away.

Lan Niang was so scared that she closed her eyes, but instead of feeling the expected pain, she heard a voice that she would never forget in her life.

"Lady Lan."

When Lan Niang opened her eyes, she saw Lu Yanyan and Qin Yuru.

She couldn't stop crying.

"Mrs. Han, Mrs. Lu, I..."

Lu Yanyan looked at Lan Niang's bleeding mouth and couldn't help but asked distressedly: "What happened? Why are you in Mingyuan County?"

Before Lan Niang could answer, the shopkeeper Wang started shouting.

"Where did you two little bitches come from? How dare you meddle in my business? You control everything in the world, and you even care about others beating and scolding your own servants?"

Qin Yuru and Lu Yanyan looked at each other. If Lan Niang signed a contract to sell herself with this shopkeeper Wang, things would be really troublesome.

"Lan Niang, what exactly happened? You're clearly my neighbor, a good citizen. How did you become this man's slave? Could it be that someone deliberately forced good people into slavery?"

Lu Yanyan deliberately asked loudly.

After she finished speaking, she saw the look in Shopkeeper Wang's eyes and visibly shrank back.

Lu Yanyan felt relieved, thinking that there might be a way out.

Although Lan Niang was anxious, her mind was working very fast at this moment.

She knew that if she couldn't go with Madam Han and Madam Lu today, she would really have to become Manager Wang's slave.

Manager Wang is greedy and shameless. She is afraid that her future will be worse than death.

"After I got separated from you, I was assigned to Mingyuan County. Shopkeeper Wang is the owner of Yuyifang. Last month, I was hired as an embroiderer there.

A few days ago, Shopkeeper Wang heard that I had lost my household registration and said she could help me get it re-registered. But I had to sell myself to her first, and after a few months, she would issue a certificate of release and send me to an asylum.

I didn't know where you were at the time, so I agreed to her request and gave her thirty taels of silver. In addition, I worked for her for free for six months as a thank you gift.

We signed the contract yesterday, and today, Manager Wang asked me to teach all my embroidery skills to other embroiderers in Yuyi Workshop.

Embroidery skills are my lifeblood, so how could I possibly teach her? I argued with her.

But she said that I signed a death contract with her, which meant she could beat me to death or sell me to the lowest-class brothel.

But I clearly signed a six-month living contract with her, and she was going to let me go after six months. I don’t know why it turned into a life contract…”

When Lan Niang said this, her whole body was shaking, and she didn't know whether she was angry or scared.

Lu Yanyan supported her, patted her hands gently, and told her not to be afraid.

"Nonsense! You're so ugly! If I hadn't taken you in out of kindness, you would have starved to death. But now you come to slander me. You're such a heartless whore."

"Everyone, how can a good citizen have such a rotten face? Maybe he's a criminal wanted by the government, don't you think?"

Shopkeeper Wang was originally frightened by what Lu Yanyan said about "forcing good people into slavery", but then he thought that no matter whether Lan Niang was a good citizen or not, she did not have a household registration when they signed the indenture.

There's nothing scary about her.

Shopkeeper Wang was full of foul language, and Qin Yuru was really disgusted with her and wanted to kick this woman away.

Ke Lan Niang's indenture contract was still in this woman's hands, so she didn't dare to act rashly.

The onlookers had already noticed the scars on both sides of Lan Niang's cheeks.

Some people began to whisper to Lan Niang.

Seeing that they originally sympathized with Lan Niang, Lu Yanyan's eyes now showed some suspicion, and she felt a little more angry at the shopkeeper Wang who was talking nonsense.

"It's a shame that Manager Wang didn't become an official just to conclude that he's a fugitive based on the scars on his face.

"Lan Niang and I both fled from Wuping County. After we got separated that day, she was a beautiful woman, all alone. How could she have safely reached Luocheng without disfiguring herself?"

Lan Niang was abducted to Pulu Mountain five years ago, and all her family members are gone.

Nearly 100,000 people from Wuping County were massacred by the Jiyang army.

In addition, there were people who died on the way to escape famine.

It is impossible to clearly count the household registration in Wuping County.

That's why Lu Yanyan dared to say that Lan Niang was from Wuping County.

Lan Niang was also crying and nodding, looking really pitiful.

Everyone looked at Lan Niang and saw that although she had large scars on both sides of her cheeks, her facial features were very good. If it weren't for the scars, she would indeed be a beautiful woman.

They all knew what happened in Wuping County.

Although I don't understand why King Lin, who always cares about the world, would do such a crazy thing.

But things have already happened, and they still sympathize with those who escaped from Wuping County.

"What woman doesn't value her looks as her life? But in order to preserve her innocence while fleeing, Lan Niang had no choice but to cruelly destroy her own beauty.

She's already pitiful enough, yet some people still suspect she's a fugitive? Don't they know that criminals add ink to their tattoos, so the scars appear black?

After hearing what Lu Yanyan said, the onlookers began to believe her again.

The scars on Lan Niang's face certainly don't look like official inscriptions.

Looking at Lan Niang's pitiful appearance, everyone felt a little more admiration and sympathy for her.