When the human trafficker saw the servants approaching, he was so frightened that his face turned pale. He struggled to run, but his hands were held.
“No…don’t!”
"I don't have it, Your Highness. That's all I have, it's really gone!" the human trafficker shouted.
"This human trafficker stinks, it's better for me to do it!" The woman on the ground stood up and took out a stack of indentures from her lapel.
The child around the King of Jin destroyed her indenture contract, and she had the courage to resist.
The woman said with tears in her eyes, "Your Highness, as the Crown Prince said, this trafficker has been selecting suitable women in Qingzhou."
"If Qingzhou hadn't been trapped, we would have been sold to the Beirong military camp long ago."
King Jin raised his eyebrows and said in a cold tone, "Northern Rong Camp?"
The woman nodded. "Yes, when I was unconscious, I heard them talking about how the women they had sold were sent to the Beirong military camp to serve as prostitutes. The Beirong people were so vulgar, and they said all those women were gone."
The people nearby said, "I remember that half a month ago, a group of people wanted to take the women to Jiangnan to do embroidery, saying that there would be no worries about food and drink there!"
"Yeah, they even said they would take her to Jiangnan to marry her off to a good family. Turns out it was all a lie!"
"Several families sold their daughters to earn a few pounds of grain."
Ying Yi presented the stack of indentures to Prince Jin, "Your Highness, including the one the little doctor just tore up, there are about eighteen indentures."
He flipped through a few of them, but didn't look at them carefully. He just glanced at the time of the indenture. Everyone signed the indenture within two days.
"Take it and burn it." King Jin glanced at the charcoal basins on the street next to him. After King Jin entered the city, he had people place them in every street and alley to provide heating for the people.
Yingyi took the indenture contract and threw it directly into the brazier.
The trafficker looked at the increasingly fierce flames in the brazier and said, "No! No! It's freezing cold and we have no food. How can we survive?"
"I'm not forcing them. Their families volunteered."
She cried and yelled, "I even gave them several kilograms of food. It wasn't bought for nothing. If it weren't for the food I gave them, they wouldn't be alive today."
"Bah! You're trafficking in human beings, and you still think you're right."
Ruanruan was so angry that she slid off Prince Jin's lap and pointed at her, saying, "And you lied to them, telling them you were going to send her to a good place."
The trafficker struggled and wailed loudly: "I said this to comfort their parents. They have done such a sinful thing, but they still want to hear people say good things for comfort. If they really want the best for their daughter, they will never really sell her."
"Take Yingyi away!" King Jin said coldly.
"Your Majesty, spare my life!"
"I was really just confused for a moment because I wanted to save my life. I will never do it again." The human trafficker came to his senses and immediately knelt on the ground, wailing loudly, and was dragged out.
It was difficult to get official seals in other cities of Gan State, so they came to Qingzhou. Qingzhou was even poorer, colder and more desolate, so it was much easier to get official seals.
Who knew that Prince Jin was so difficult to deal with!
Yingyi was afraid that she would be too noisy, so he had someone cover her mouth with a cloth before taking her away.
"As for you, I will send someone to take you home." King Jin glanced at the woman on the ground.
"No, Your Highness, I will not go home." The woman said loudly.
"Your Highness, I originally had three older sisters and four younger sisters, but my parents sold them all to human traffickers!"
She continued, "My daughter is obedient and hardworking at home. She helps with housework and can embroider. That's why my parents are reluctant to sell her off."
"And I had already repaid my parents' kindness when they sold me."
The woman said firmly, "Your Highness, I do not want to go back. I beg you to let me be a maid in your palace. You saved my life, and I am willing to repay your kindness with my life."
"Please grant me your blessing, Your Majesty!"
"Yes, the young lady is right. She can't go back! Her parents sold her sisters out. If anything bad happens to them in the future... they'll definitely think of her first."
Ruanruan tugged at Prince Jin's hand, shook her rosy little mouth, opened and closed it flexibly, and spoke so fast that there was a pause.
"Uncle Jin Wang, please don't let her go home."
Prince Jin was silent for a moment, then he glanced at the anxious Ruanruan, tickled her nose, and said indulgently, "Okay, if that's the case, then as you wish, you will be a maid in Prince Jin's mansion from now on."
"Thank you, Your Highness. I will do my best to serve the masters of the palace!" The woman finally let go of her worries.
"Have Yingyi take her back to the palace and have her be the princess's maid in the future." Prince Jin said again.
"yes."
Yingyi waved to the attendants around him and everyone made way.
The ox cart started rolling again, and Ruanruan looked at the houses on the street and the people around.
I found that all these houses were made of wood, and some of them had straw roofs, which were dilapidated and some houses were collapsed by the snow.
Why is this place poorer than Youzhou?
And the clothes these people are wearing are not warm and are tattered like beggars. It looks like they haven't taken a bath for a long time.
"Uncle Jin Wang, what are they doing together?"
Ruanruan saw a group of people gathered on the street, and she didn't know what they were doing.
"They were warming themselves by the fire. Qingzhou was even more scarce than other places. Their clothes weren't warm enough, so they had no choice but to use the fire to keep warm."
The King of Jin explained methodically, "Wood for the fire was also scarce. Sometimes we had to demolish our houses to get the wood for firewood."
Ruanruan held her chin in her hand and sighed, "No wonder there are so few people here."
"No one wants to seek refuge in Qingzhou. Most of these people are locals in Qingzhou City, and there are few people coming from the countryside."
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