Chapter 187 Placement
Kou Wan held Lin Hao's hand, full of gratitude: "Sister Lin, don't say anything, I understand everything!"
What did Miss Kou Er understand? Also, how did "Miss Lin Er" suddenly become "Sister Lin"?
Kou Wan put aside her doubts and became concerned about the girl who had suffered the same fate as her: "Sister Lin, there are three other girls locked up with me!"
"My family will take care of them for the time being. Once the kidnappers are handed over to the authorities, we will help them return home."
When Kou Wan thought of the three kidnappers, she felt a surge of hatred: "That old woman isn't a good person either. She keeps a close eye on us..."
I don’t know what she was thinking about, but fear flashed in the little girl’s eyes.
Lin Hao patted her hand gently: "Don't worry, no one can escape."
"That's good." Kou Wan looked much more relaxed.
"Miss Kou Er, do you know the origins of those three girls? They must have been kidnapped for some time, right?"
"Sister Lin, just call me Wan'er." Kou Wan shook her head. "When I woke up, I found my mouth was blocked. The same thing happened to the other three. We couldn't communicate at all. But judging by their appearance, they've been locked up for a while."
Kou Wan felt a little nauseous when she recalled the scene in that dark, narrow room. She thought she would never forget that musty smell in her life.
Seeing Kou Wan like this, Lin Hao didn't ask any more questions and said softly, "I'll have someone take you back so your family doesn't worry."
Kou Wan thanked him again and took an unmarked carriage back to the Marquis of Weiwu's Mansion.
When the servant saw Kou Wan, he hurriedly said, "Second Miss, you are back. Madam has sent many people to look for you."
Kou Wan nodded and went directly to Kou's mother's yard.
"The second young lady is back!" shouted the maid standing at the door.
Kou Wan walked in and saw a cold face. She pursed her lips and called out "Mother".
"You still remember to come back!" Seeing her daughter's careless look, Kou's mother was furious. "Do you know how many people are looking for you? You run away at the slightest provocation. Do you still look like a lady from a noble family..."
Kou Wan listened silently to her mother's endless nagging, and the heart that had been warmed by Lin Hao grew colder and colder.
A stranger who had no relationship with her and had even been treated unkindly by her tried his best to save her, but her mother only blamed him.
Kou's mother scolded her daughter for a full quarter of an hour. Seeing that her daughter didn't talk back, she was finally satisfied: "Go back to your room. Next time your sister comes back, don't act like a spoiled child again."
"I understand." Kou Wan turned around expressionlessly, walked out of the main courtyard, and was struck by the gorgeous sunset in the sky. She couldn't help but shed tears.
When she thought of Lin Hao's words, she felt only irony.
Sister Lin was worried that her family would find out that she had changed her clothes, but she was really overthinking it.
For the Weiwu Marquisate, Kou Wan just ran away for half a day out of spite, and it passed without causing any ripples. However, Lin Hao encountered a small problem.
The kidnapper was given prison food when he was sent to the authorities, but he only sent one of the three girls away. Of the remaining two, one had been targeted by the kidnapper when she was selling herself to bury her father, and her family was already deserted. The other had also lost her parents, and she had overheard her brother and sister-in-law discussing selling her to a brothel, so she ran away and fell into the hands of the kidnapper.
The two little girls looked at Lin Hao eagerly, not daring to cry or beg, but their eyes said it all.
They want to stay and survive.
Lin Hao ordered the maid to take them to wash and eat, and thought about how to arrange their stay.
"Miss, do you want to keep them?" Baozhu couldn't help asking.
Lin Hao, who was leaning against the beauty couch, raised her eyes slightly: "What does Baozhu think?"
Baozhu didn't hide her sympathy for the two girls: "I think that although the young ladies don't lack maids, our general's mansion is so big that it won't be difficult to arrange for two people."
Lin Hao nodded: "Yes, it's not difficult."
Baozhu tilted her head, somewhat puzzled.
The girl thinks so too, so what are you hesitating about?
"Let's go to my eldest sister."
Lin Chan is still "recuperating" and has never left Jiaoyueju. The flowers and trees in the courtyard have already grown lush and green.
"Second sister is here." Lin Chan was not surprised to see Lin Hao.
Lin Hao was afraid that she would be bored when she stayed indoors, so he came over often.
"There's something I want my sister to help me come up with."
Lin Chan took a soft pillow and motioned for her sister to sit on it. "What's the matter?"
Lin Hao told the story of how he accidentally rescued a few girls from kidnappers, but he skipped Kou Wan's mention. "Now there are two little girls with nowhere to go. One is twelve years old, and the other is fourteen. I'm having a headache about what to do with them."
"They're not very old. They can be used after two years of training under the steward." Lin Chan's first thought was the same as Baozhu's, and then she realized, "Second sister, don't you plan to keep them as maids?"
Lin Hao nodded: "I know it's not difficult for our family to raise two more maids, but what if we meet a girl like this again in the future?"
She hadn't thought about it so much before, but a sudden pity for the Lin family, who took in beggars, made her gradually realize that it was impossible to support so many people on her own. If she wanted her kindness to continue, she had to make better arrangements.
Lin Chan was a little surprised by Lin Hao's idea: "Second sister, do you mean that there might be girls like this in the future?"
"If I encounter this, I can't just stand by and watch." Lin Hao said softly.
Because there are so many girls like this, and she was once one of them.
On her way to escape from her "cannibalistic" home, she received help from others and managed to hold on until she met her teacher. When she saw other girls in trouble, she couldn't help but think that perhaps with her little help, these girls would have a different life.
Lin Chan smiled and stroked Lin Hao's hair: "Second sister, you're right. If we want to help more people in need, simply taking them in is not the solution. We should teach them how to fish."
Lin Hao smiled and said, "I thought so too, but I don't know how to arrange it best. I want to discuss it with my sister."
"If you have embroidery skills, you can open a shop selling embroidery. Not long ago, I heard from the manager that our store on Wanqing Street is not doing well, and we plan to do something else. The shop is ready-made." Lin Chan suggested.
"Those two girls are from poor backgrounds and have probably never learned such delicate work as embroidery. If they start learning now, they won't be able to embroider even a handkerchief in three or two years..." Lin Hao said, with an idea in his mind.
Embroidery is a skill that cannot be learned in a short time, but some skills can be learned, such as making incense.
The women of the capital loved scented water, and there were numerous shops selling a wide variety of scented water on the streets, allowing both the aristocratic and the humble to find a suitable scented water. While watching her teacher prepare medicine, she had heard him casually mention that if he used his method to purify medicinal juices, the resulting scented water would be far superior to the ones available on the market.
Opening a scented dew shop that requires manpower in every step from picking flowers to selling them can accommodate a lot of people.
The two sisters discussed this for a long time. When Lin Hao left, she had a small box containing banknotes in her hand. In Lin Chan's words, pocket money is just sitting there, so just treat it as investment capital.
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