Still dressed the same way as when they were in the mansion, Jiang Wu and Lin Qingxue looked back at the shrinking mansion through the drawn curtains of the car, and felt as if they were in another world.
The round-faced girl beside him also awoke from a dream and murmured, "We...are coming out now?"
Like Jiang Wu, she was locked up in a secret room for two days. Before being locked up, she was beaten with a stick for refusing to learn those seductive moves and for stealing Nanny Song's snacks.
Her hip was still injured and it hurt whenever she sat down, so in the carriage she lay on her side on the seat with her knees on the ground.
The carriage was moving at a fairly fast speed and was very bumpy. Wei Yunlan took a cushion and placed it under her knees to prevent her injury from getting any worse.
Seeing this, the round-faced girl was so moved that her eyes turned red again.
He said again gratefully, "Boss, you are really kind."
Facing the moved look in those eyes, Wei Yunlan pursed her lips and said, "Aren't you afraid that I am taking you in because I have bad intentions just like the Cao family?"
"Don't be afraid." The three of them answered without hesitation, almost in unison.
This made Wei Yunlan look puzzled.
The round-faced woman looked into Wei Yunlan's eyes and said, "My mother once said that a person's eyes can never deceive others. Your eyes are very clear, and you can tell at a glance that you are not one of those scheming and sinister people."
Wei Yunlan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. What kind of explanation was this?
"Bad people don't write bad words on their faces."
"Boss, please stop teasing her."
Liu Qingxue smiled bitterly and said, "It's not easy for women in this world. Only women know the hardships. But I'm not worried about you because of this."
Wei Yunlan looked at her, and she answered frankly: "Because you have requirements when selecting people. To be frank, those of us who came out of that mansion are all good-looking. If you really want to use us like the Cao family, you can take us all away. Even if you force us to sign a contract and sell us, it will be a lot of money."
Liu Qingxue's words were rough but her point was true. She was treated like an object and passed around. This is the fate of a woman who is left alone in today's world without the support of a family.
After the two people beside him finished speaking, Jiang Wu finally spoke.
Her answer was very different. "I want to be with you, so I'm not afraid of you taking advantage of me."
"The Cao family colluded with the northern barbarians, captured women from Dayong and offered them to the barbarians, and harmed Dayong's interests... Since you dared to save people from the Cao family, it means you are on the opposite side of them. It's true for you, that's right."
It's better than following her loser father.
Although he had clearly discovered the conspiracy between Xu Zhizhou and Lord Cao, he was afraid of being held accountable by the two, so he kept silent and watched it all happen coldly.
I don’t know if he knows now that because of his cold-eyed indifference and inaction, even his eldest daughter was abducted.
Without waiting for Wei Yunlan to ask, Jiang Wu took the initiative to explain his entire experience.
It was impossible for her, a young lady from an official family, to be abducted to that mansion. After all, this was still the territory of Dayong. No matter how bold the people in Cao's mansion were, they would not dare to make a big fuss.
As long as Jiang Wu doesn't travel far away alone, there is no chance of him being kidnapped. But she had a good stepmother who somehow knew about the Cao family's affairs and deliberately tricked her into burning incense outside the city, and then sent away the maids and servants around her, causing her to fall into the hands of the people in the Cao mansion.
"In fact, I suspect that she had colluded with the people in Cao's mansion in advance and had someone wait there to take me away." Jiang Wu righteously suggested: "Boss, if you want to investigate this matter... I suggest that you should also check my family, especially my stepmother, maybe you can get something."
I didn't expect that there would be people who would sacrifice their own relatives for the sake of justice.
However, Jiang Wu’s relatives sound no different from his enemies.
"I've made a note of it." Wei Yunlan nodded, ready to tell Feng Ping and the others about the Jiang family's clue later.
With Jiang Wu taking the lead, Liu Qingxue and the round-faced girl who was lying on the ground also recounted their experiences one after another.
The round-faced girl's name is just like her personality, she is called Chen Yuan. The family had made money by running a dyeing factory earlier, and later bought a lot of land. Unfortunately, all of them were located in the hardest-hit areas along the Dan River. A disaster left them penniless, and her father could not bear the blow and jumped into the river. Her mother and younger brother also died one after another. She was the only one left, and her uncle sold her to a human trafficker for five taels of silver, saying that the family was short of money to buy food...
After Liu Qingxue's grandmother passed away last year, the clan took away all the property left by her grandmother on the grounds that she was an outsider. Even the elegantly decorated two-story courtyard where the two of them had originally lived was not left to her.
In addition to clothes and bedding, she was only given a shabby house in the village, a bag of brown rice and a broken pot.
Fortunately, she had secretly hidden a few handfuls of silver beans, so she did not starve to death last winter.
This time she was unlucky enough to be kidnapped by people from Cao's mansion because her clan arranged a marriage for her. The man in question was a cripple who was ten years older than her. In order to get the two hundred taels of betrothal money, her clan members agreed without even asking her any questions.
If she hadn't run away, she would have been knocked unconscious and put into a bridal sedan and married!
Liu Qingxue never regretted running away, but she was annoyed that she didn't be more careful, which resulted in her escaping from the tiger's den and falling into the wolf's lair. Fortunately, my luck wasn't too bad in the end, and I met a new boss who looked good.
No matter what, it is better than the tiger's den and wolf's lair in the past.
"Boss, if you have time, you can go back with me. Although all the property left by my grandmother has been taken away, the tools she used for performing rituals are still in my room."
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