After realizing this, the trafficker ran towards Su Qingluan with a fawning look on his face: "Young man, do you want to see the goods?"
Su Qingluan was wearing men's clothes today, and as a teenager it was indeed difficult to tell whether she was male or female, so she was called "Langjun".
However, she didn't care about the name. She just glanced at the rows of tall and short "goods" as if it was commonplace, and said in a flat tone: "I need two quick hands and feet to help me move things, and they want to be affordable."
So, the trafficker passed over those Kunlun slaves and pushed two skinny boys about fourteen or fifteen years old to the front first: "Don't look at these two because they are skinny, they have a lot of strength in their hands." As he said that, the trafficker twitched his chin, and the two men immediately went to the roadside to move several earth bricks, stacked them together, and moved them over with a grunt.
"This is before we give them food." The human trafficker laughed, "If you are full, you will need it. You see, it only costs this much per person, how cost-effective!" As he spoke, the human trafficker gestured.
Su Qingluan looked at the two half-grown boys. Although they had healthy limbs and were quite strong, their eyes were dull and they had no intention of escaping at all.
It’s not that they don’t want to run away, but they can’t - they have signed a contract to sell themselves into slavery, and without a household registration card, even if they try to escape, they will be caught and subjected to harsh punishment.
So after Su Qingluan "bought" them, even though the buyer was very thin and short, the two of them followed her obediently without any intention of running away.
This was not the first time that Su Qingluan had "bought" someone. She would buy them first, let them do the job, and then give them a contract to sell their bodies and set them free.
She herself could not change the rampant human traffickers, but she also could not get used to the practice of using people as "tools".
This time is no exception.
Su Qingluan first took the two teenagers to a noodle stall for a hearty meal, then hired a donkey cart driver to put the things they wanted to buy on it. The two teenagers were responsible for helping to move the bottles, jars, pots, pans, and utensils up and down the cart.
Su Qingluan had already made a list of the items she needed to buy. With a goal in mind and not pursuing high quality, she knew she could find almost anything she wanted in town. So, by midday, she had already stocked up on everything she wanted.
Su Qingluan ordered the driver to drive the ox cart to the back of the shop and began to direct the two young men to move the things down and put them in their proper places one by one.
The front and back doors of this shop are directly connected. The front door opens directly to the main street, and the back door leads directly to the backyard.
If it were open for business as usual, the shop would have shelves and various displays inside. So if the front and back doors were not open and Su Qingluan was not standing at a certain height, she would basically not be able to see what was happening on the main street from her position in the backyard.
However, this shop is not open for business now. In fact, because Su Qingluan has not figured out what to do with this shop in such a prime location, it has been used as a semi-warehouse, with only some bulky things such as stoves placed in the corner. It is basically vacant.
It was precisely because of this that Su Qingli immediately saw Liu Yunniang passing by on the main street.
Liu Yunniang's expression flashed by, and Su Qingluan didn't see it very clearly, but she seemed a little anxious from her movements.
Su Qingluan hurriedly stepped over from the back threshold, not forgetting to tell the two "servants" and the coachman to work hard, then turned around and shouted loudly: "Yunniang, Liu Yunniang!"
Girls' voices tend to be high-pitched, and Su Qingluan was only thirteen or fourteen, which was the age when her voice was clear and bright. As she sang, Liu Yunniang, who was not far away, naturally heard it.
She stopped and looked back, and saw Su Qingluan walking out of a shop and running towards her hurriedly.
As they got closer, Su Qingluan looked Liu Yunniang up and down: "Where are you going in such a hurry? Shouldn't you be accompanying your father?"
Suddenly Su Qingluan remembered that she didn’t seem to see Madam Xi today, so she hurriedly grabbed Liu Yunniang’s sleeve: "Madam Xi didn’t come either, could it be..." Could it be that her Uncle Liu...is in trouble?
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