Su Luo also bought Zhao Ruyun a gold bracelet and four bolts of cloth.
There are also four colors; we buy them according to the preferences of each person.
Yi Huan was given pink, while Zhao Ruyun preferred stone green.
Su Luo is cyan, and Yan Chuan is moon white.
There was nowhere to park the carriage outside the cloth shop, so Du Xiuyuan could only wait for Su Luo outside.
Seeing that Su Luo was holding something in her hand and was also carrying a piece of cloth.
The door to the cloth shop wasn't wide enough, so Su Luo had to stand the cloth upright to come out, which blocked her view. Du Xiuyuan was afraid she would fall, so he quickly ran to help her.
"Be careful, Madam Su. Just call me to get these things."
Su Luo didn't think anything of it, but Du Xiuyuan always remembered that Su Luo was his master, forgetting that he was twice as old as Su Luo.
"It's not heavy, I can manage by myself."
Just as he handed the few small items to Du Xiuyuan, he heard a hoarse roar coming from the front.
"Make way, make way, make way now..."
Before Du Xiuyuan could react, he was knocked to the ground by a ragged woman. The woman tried to run away, but accidentally tripped over Du Xiuyuan's leg and fell down as well.
"Oh my, who is this?"
Seeing Du Xiuyuan fall, Su Luo quickly put the cloth in her other hand and picked it up. Just as she was about to help him up, more than a dozen people surrounded them.
Not only were they carrying sticks, but some were also carrying knives.
"Run! Where do you think you can run to now?"
This was clearly not said to Su Luo and Du Xiuyuan.
A man pointed a knife at a woman who had fallen to the ground, his eyes gleaming with malice.
"Dr. Du, are you alright?"
After Du Xiuyuan was pulled up, he was still tightly clutching the things Su Luo had bought.
"I'm fine, but I don't know if she's alright."
Even though he himself was hurt, Du Xiuyuan still cared about others first.
However, upon closer inspection, it became clear that the girl was surrounded by people, and they all seemed to have ill intentions.
The woman first looked up at Du Xiuyuan and Su Luo, her cold smile tinged with disappointment. If it weren't for that fall, she probably wouldn't have been arrested.
"Xie Wanwan, you can't escape. Nanning is so big, there's no place for you anymore. The daughter of a disgraced official is only fit to be a prostitute."
"Then I'd rather die."
Xie Wanwan was extremely proud; even if her family fell into poverty, she would never become a prostitute.
"Then...then you should...die..."
A fat, big-eared man caught up, panting heavily, unable to utter a single word. In his eyes, there was never a woman who dared to die.
"Steward Lü, we've brought Xie Wanwan here. Now that the transaction is complete, we'll hand her over to you."
The two men carrying knives didn't look like ordinary people to Su Luo; they seemed more like government soldiers.
The commotion attracted a large crowd, and even Su Luo's carriage was trapped inside, unable to get out.
A woman was surrounded by more than a dozen men, and people were talking about it, while some looked on with pity.
The two men with knives tried to leave, but were stopped by the obese Steward Lü.
“You can’t leave yet. You’ve taken our money, so this person must be delivered to Tianxiang Restaurant. Otherwise, the deal is off.”
Upon hearing Steward Lü's words, everyone took a step back, and some even whispered among themselves.
"Tianxianglou, that's a filthy place."
"Alas, what a pity, yet another poor soul sold there."
There were men among the onlookers, and Su Luo felt a secret delight upon hearing this.
"Look at this girl, she's quite pretty, especially that red mole between her eyebrows, she's absolutely stunning. Let's go to Tianxiang Tower tonight."
Several men laughed lewdly. Manager Lü had also taken a liking to Xie Wanwan's face. If she were in Tianxiang Pavilion, she would definitely be the top courtesan. Otherwise, they wouldn't have spent a hundred taels of silver to buy her.
Xie Wanwan is just someone who ran away from home, yet her face has attracted so many men.
Then, they'll play hard to get and make back their initial investment in one night.
Xie Wanwan looked at these disgusting men, her eyes narrowed, and suddenly she burst into laughter as if she had gone mad.
"Hahahaha... You think you can do whatever you want to me? Did you even ask me?"
Her eyes widened in anger, but the dozen or so people only mocked Xie Wanwan's words. As expected of a young lady from a prestigious family, asking such an idiotic question.
Since she couldn't escape, Xie Wanwan wouldn't choose to live on.
"Hmph... You guys like my face, right? Then I'll destroy it."
After saying that, Xie Wanwan grabbed the knife that was pointing at her and slashed her left cheek.
"don't want!"
Before Steward Lü could stop it, blood flowed from Xie Wanwan's face, along with her bloodshot eyes.
Her filthy white clothes, stained with blood, made her look like a female ghost emerging from a chaotic massacre.
"How about it? Is my face still pretty? Hahaha..."
Everyone sighed in pity, wondering if this woman was insane.
Xie Wanwan's face was ruined, and Steward Lü grabbed a man with a knife and said.
“She, she, she…you guys go find another place, we at Tianxianglou won’t buy this person.”
The man with the knife shoved the obese Steward Lü aside and said angrily, "The deal is done. No matter what Xie Wanwan becomes, she will still be one of your Tianxianglou people."
"Now that she's a prostitute, we've completed our orders. What you do with her is up to you."
Fearing that Steward Lü might cause trouble again, the man added, "By the way, her face is ruined, but she still has talents—music, chess, calligraphy, and painting—that can earn you money."
Steward Lü wanted to say something more, but the two men turned and left, quickening their pace and fleeing the scene.
He was so angry that he wanted to beat his chest and stamp his feet. Looking at the crazed Xie Wanwan, he trembled.
With a swift movement, Xie Wanwan slammed her right hand against the eaves of the cloth shop. Her expression remained unchanged, and the cracking sound of bones breaking reached everyone's ears.
"You, you, you..."
Xie Wanwan was too ruthless to herself, which made Manager Lü speechless with anger.
"What about me? My hand is broken too. Do you think I'm still afraid to die?"
As she approached Steward Lü step by step, she went completely mad; the pain in her body was nothing compared to the pain in her heart.
Steward Lü felt a pang of heartache; one hundred taels of silver, gone just like that. He now believed that Xie Wanwan really would die if she said she wanted to.
Seeing Xie Wanwan like this, no one dared to speak; this woman was too ruthless to herself.
In this era, Su Luo had never met such a person before. She greatly admired his indomitable spirit and willingness to die rather than submit.
"What a fallen noble lady! Since she's no longer of any use at Tianxiang Pavilion, why not sell her to me?"
As soon as Su Luo said that, Steward Lü felt like he had seen a ray of light. Someone was willing to redeem Xie Wanwan from her servitude. This was wonderful!
"Sell, sell, sell... We at Tianxiang Pavilion are selling you for one hundred taels of silver. You can take this contract of indenture with me right now."
Manager Lü was worried that Xie Wanwan wouldn't be able to sell herself, so he immediately dug out her indenture.
Su Luo had Du Xiuyuan take the cloth and slowly walked up to Steward Lü, sneering.
"One hundred taels? She's already like this, and you're still selling her for one hundred taels? Just twenty."
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