"Get up quickly."
Deng Xue hurriedly helped the two of them up. "These were all orders from my young lady. If you want to thank someone, thank my young lady!"
The woman looked at the carriage behind her and said, "I still have to thank you very much, young lady. I wonder if I can go over to pay my respects to the noble lady and thank her in person."
Deng Xue nodded and walked towards the carriage with the mother and daughter.
The woman knelt directly in front of the carriage and kowtowed in its direction. "Thank you very much, young lady, for saving me. I am deeply grateful and have no way to repay you. I am willing to serve you like a slave."
After a while, a bare hand stretched out from the carriage. Deng Xue hurried forward, lifted the curtain, and offered her support.
Tian An took her hand, got off the carriage, and walked up to the woman. "Are you going to sell yourself to me?"
Hearing the voice, the woman subconsciously looked up, but after seeing the beautiful face, she quickly lowered her head.
She couldn't help but feel surprised. When she heard Deng Xue and the others calling her Miss, she knew that her benefactor was not very old, but she didn't expect her to be so young.
Thinking that her benefactor was still waiting for her reply, she immediately came to her senses and said, "No, my benefactor, selling my body requires you to give me money. But I don't want your money. I am willing to sign the contract to sell myself and serve you for the rest of my life.
After thinking for a while, she realized it belatedly and said, "I am too rude. How could the young lady be in need of someone to serve her? I am just a vulgar woman. How could I have the blessing to serve the young lady?
Please, miss, please give me some dirty and tiring work, and give me some food as long as I can support my daughter."
She thought clearly that it was impossible for her to survive in this huge capital city alone with her daughter.
Moreover, she couldn't help but shudder when she thought of the look in the sturdy man's eyes before he left. That gang obviously had some influence in the capital. If she was caught by them again in the future, she would not have such good luck again.
The young lady in this family was obviously kind-hearted, and she really wanted to repay her, but she also selfishly wanted to seek protection for herself and her daughter.
She didn't care what happened to her, but she couldn't let her daughter fall into the tiger's mouth.
Tian An didn't say anything, just looked at the girl beside him and said, "What about you?"
Although the girl was frightened by what happened today, she still raised her head and looked at her blankly when she heard Tian An's question.
"This..." The woman was a little anxious. She didn't care whether she sold herself or not, but she didn't want her daughter to become a slave.
The girl understood the worry in her mother's eyes and quietly reached out to pull her mother's hand to comfort her.
Then he raised his hand to his shoulder, pointed three fingers to the sky, and looked up at Tian An, "I voluntarily sell myself to you, young lady, and swear to be loyal to you forever and never betray you. If you break this oath, you will be struck by lightning and die a miserable death."
"Nannan..." The woman was startled and quickly covered the girl's mouth, "Pooh! Pooh..."
The girl pulled the woman's hand down and said with a smile, "It's okay, mother. I am willing to sell myself to you. Anyway, I will never betray you in my life. This oath is not a big deal to me."
The woman sighed. The words had been spoken and there was nothing she could do. She hoped the girl wouldn't regret it later.
Tian An was stunned. Are you serious? There's really no need to swear! It's something you can't touch or see, so it's more practical to breathe in the air.
However, since the other person was willing to sell herself without asking for money, she would not be so pretentious. For her, every penny was hard-earned money.
"May I have your name?"
"My little girl, no, my maidservant's name is Lixiang." Lixiang thought of the maids around the young ladies she had met before who all called themselves maidservants, so she quickly changed her words.
What else should a maid do? Oh, and ask the master to give her a name.
A girl from the same village told her that when her father sold her to a young lady in town as a maid, the first thing she did was to ask the young lady to give her a name, saying that it would show her loyalty.
Although she didn't know why asking the young lady to give her a name could show her loyalty, she still looked at Tian An and said, "Please give me a name, young lady."
Tian An watched her thinking for a while, then suddenly realizing something. Her varied expressions made her laugh. She said cheerfully, "I have a name called Xiang Tao at home, and your name is Li Xiang, so it's a perfect match. There's no need to change it."
Li Xiang bowed to Tian An in a formal manner and thanked him, "Thank you, Miss."
These were things she had learned with Xiaoya in the past because she thought they were fun, but she never thought that they would actually be useful one day.
Tian An nodded and said, "Okay, everyone get up!"
Lixiang stood up and, imitating the little girl in her memory, walked to Tian An, took a step back, and stood with her head down.
The position of the young lady's personal maid was that of a maid. Deng Xue was about to speak out a reminder when she saw that Tian An didn't say anything, so she shut up again.
Tian An turned and looked towards the refugee pile. In addition to the group from Yingchunlou before, there were now several more groups of people buying people from the refugee pile.
Most of the buyers are children, both boys and girls, and there are also some beautiful women.
Some were sold by their parents, some by men, some sold themselves, and some had the same experience as Lixiang.
She did not lament the indifference of family affection, but felt a little sorry for those children who were abandoned by their parents when they were still ignorant and had a bleak future.
He sighed, called over his soldier and ordered, "Send someone to ask Chunxi and Chen Qiang to bring some money to buy some poor children."
Then he took out a bag of small change from his bag and handed it to Deng Xue, "You and Ah Bing go buy it first. When Chun Xi and Chen Qiang come to hand it over, you can catch up later."
Deng Xue looked at the silver in her hand and subconsciously asked, "Miss, how many people do we want to buy? Where will we place them after we buy them?"
"Just buy as much as you can!" Tian An said helplessly.
They were lucky to have met her, but she couldn't do anything for those who were unlucky. She would help as many people as she could! After all, the world was so big, there were so many refugees, and she only had so much money!
"No matter how many people we buy, send them to the farm first." After that, he asked Deng Xue to arrange for Lixiang and her daughter to go with Tian Caiping and others in a carriage and return to the farm first.
When Lixiang and her daughter heard Tian An ask them to take a carriage, they hurriedly said, "Miss, let's just walk! We are too dirty and will make the carriage dirty."
"No problem."
Tian An got on the carriage after saying a few words and asked A Bing to arrange the departure.
Deng Xue took Li Xiang and her daughter to Tian Caihe's carriage. Seeing the carriage full of brightly dressed young girls, the mother and daughter nervously tugged at their own hems and apologized, "I'm sorry."
Tian Caihe and her siblings did not look down on them and warmly invited them to get on the carriage.
But the mother and daughter still tried their best not to touch them, for fear of getting them dirty. After getting on the carriage, Lixiang only let her mother sit down, and she squatted in front of her, trying her best not to dirty the carriage. No matter how Tian Caiping and others persuaded her, she insisted on this.
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