"Have you thought it through?" the woman asked the remaining twenty-four people.

"Madam, I don't know who I am. I have been here since I can remember." said a three-year-old girl.

"Madam, my relatives were killed by bandits?" said another seven-year-old boy.

“Ma’am, we have a family.

But our family is very poor and we don’t have enough to eat.

If we go back, they will sell us too, so it’s better for us to stay with the lady.” said a pair of five-year-old twin sisters.

In fact, it was because their parents sold them to a brothel, and they escaped from there and were chased here.

He encountered bandits and was captured by them.

The servants who were chasing them were also caught and kept watching them, which was why they came up with this trick.

Seeing that the lady looks kind, selling it to her should be no worse than working in a brothel.

"What about you?" Li Yun asked the six old people, feeling very strange. At their age, they should have many children and grandchildren, but why didn't they want to go back and sell themselves to her?

“Ma’am, we have a son and a daughter.

Because the world is bad and the winter is bad, there is not enough food for the children this year.

They all thought we were old and kicked us out.

We were passing through here and were captured by bandits and taken up the mountain.” The four old men said to Li Yun in unison.

"Are you from the same village?" Li Yun said, looking at the four men.

"Yes, ma'am, I'm from the same village.

An elderly man from the same village who was driven out at the same time also starved to death on the way,” said one of the older men.

"Where are your spouses?" Li Yun looked at the four men in front of him, so where are their other halves?

Could it be that they are all gone?

“They are all gone now, mine was killed by my disdainful son.

His son died of illness, and the other two were driven out, taken to the mountains, and starved to death,” said the elderly man.

"You must understand that once you sign the contract to sell yourself, you will have nothing to do with your family. You must think clearly." Li Yun said to them again.

“Madam, we are all old bones. If you are willing to take us in and feed us, we will do anything you ask us to do.

"Ma'am, don't worry, we still have the energy to farm." The older one said this, and the other three seemed to be led by him.

"Since you have thought it through, why not sign the indentures?" Li Yun took out four indentures, wrote their names on them, pressed their fingerprints, and handed them to Tian Ji.

"Ma'am, we are from the same village.

The two of us brought our families to Qingshan County to buy fish fry, because the fish fry would be released soon. We took the silver given to us by the villagers to buy the fish fry.

When we passed Black Wind Mountain, we were stopped by bandits, and our son and daughter-in-law were killed by them.

We don't have the face to go back, can you please buy us out, Madam?

We want to return the silver to the villagers." One of the old men was sobbing and crying, not knowing what to do.

"Do you have sons, spouses and grandchildren at home?" Li Yun asked the two old people.

"We both have spouses and grandchildren at home, and he has an unmarried daughter." The old man said to Li Yun.

“Since they still have spouses, how do you let them live?

I can't sell you out, so I'll give each of you two taels of silver so you can go back and live a good life with your spouse.

As for the money for the fish fry in the village, I will lend it to you. When your grandchildren are able to do so, you can ask them to return it to me.

How much silver did the villagers have?" The silver stored in the space actually contained the money of the people, which was why she was willing to give them money to go back.

And they give two taels at a time, which may be an astronomical figure for them.

"Madam, no, you saved us, how can we ask for your silver?" said the old man.

“Let’s just decide this, I know life is hard.

Having loved ones around and they are all alive and healthy is sweeter than anything else.

Remember, life has its ups and downs, it depends on how you look at it.

How much silver is it?

I still have a lot of things to deal with." Li Yun was not good at comforting others.

She thinks what kind of life you live depends on how you treat your time.

“Thank you, Madam, you are a great benefactor to our two families.

The villagers' silver is ten taels, madam, you can just lend us six taels, plus four taels for travel expenses, and we can pay them back." The old man said, and the other old man nodded in agreement.

"No need. I still have this money. You will need to live when you go back." After saying this, Li Yun took out a ten-liang silver note and four liang of silver from his sleeve, gave two liang of silver to each of the two old men, and handed the silver note to the old man.

Don’t ask me why I gave silver notes instead of silver. Silver notes are easier to collect.

I already have a few taels of silver. If I give more silver, people will target me.

If someone stole ten taels of silver, they would be truly destitute.

Li Yun asked the remaining people and bought them after knowing that they really had nowhere to go.

After handing the people over to Ye Shan and Tian Ji, he went to Manager Cui's office and saw that there were thirty-eight households on the list who wanted to go back.

Some are households with several people; some are households with one or two people; and some go back alone.

Li Yun gave them travel expenses, two taels for a large group and one tael for one person.

When we arrived at Manager Qian's office, there were also twenty households listed there, and he gave them some travel expenses.

He took the indentures, read out the names of those people, gave them two taels of silver as payment, and then let them go to eat.

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