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Jinchai Town near Jinling City.
A carriage drove in from the entrance of the town, accompanied by a strong entourage on both sides holding a sword and riding horses, which was obviously not an ordinary person.
When the surrounding people saw it, they consciously gave way.
Halfway through, the carriage suddenly stopped.
"Why stop?"
An inquiry came from the carriage, and the voice was a teenager, but his tone was calm and inconsistent with it.
Wang Wu, the driver of the car, replied respectfully: "Back to the young master, there was a group of people in front of me, blocking the road, and it sounded like someone was selling themselves to save my mother."
"Sell yourself to save your mother?"
The person in the carriage said lightly, and then said with great interest: "Find a place to park and go over and take a look."
When Wang Wu heard this, he raised his eyes and scanned the surroundings, found a suitable location, and drove the carriage over to park.
Soon, the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a young man in a blue shirt with a tall figure, handsome appearance, and two strands of tassels at his temples walked out of it.
The young man jumped out of the car and moved towards the crowd.
When the two strong entourage Zhang Shan and Li Shi saw each other, they quickly turned over and dismounted, and followed suit.
Wang Wu stayed in place to guard the carriage and two horses.
There was an entourage to open the way, and the young man quickly walked into the crowd and saw the situation clearly.
I saw a thin girl wearing coarse cloth clothes and long braids with her head bowed and knelt on the ground. There was a wooden sign in front of it, on which the words "sell yourself to save your mother" were written crookedly, and the price of selling yourself was marked next to it.
One hundred taels (crossed out), eighty taels (crossed out), fifty taels (crossed out), thirty taels.
Seeing the price dropping again and again, the young man was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and laughed.
Judging from this situation, the girl obviously tried to sell herself many times, but she never couldn't sell it, which was a bit pitiful.
But this matter is reasonable.
Because the price she opened was too high!
In this era, the price of a maid usually sells herself is between six taels of silver and fifteen taels.
If you encounter a disaster year, you can buy one for one tael of silver or even lower.
The girl offered a price of one hundred taels, like a lion opening her mouth. After that, it fell again and again, and now it is only thirty taels, which is still high. After all, this price is enough to buy two to five maids according to the normal market, and only one can be bought on her, which is undoubtedly a loss-making transaction.
Is this deliberately driving up prices, or is there something to rely on, or is there another reason?
The young man was puzzled in his heart and said to the girl: "Girl, please raise your head and let me see your face."
Hearing this, the girl was stunned for a moment.
There is no other reason, this voice is too young, it sounds about her age, and it is very polite. There were many people who asked her to raise her head before, but they were all young and middle-aged, and most of them were frivolous, disdainful, and even contemptuous.
The sudden appearance of such a polite young man's voice made her feel a little surprised.
However, surprised and surprised, she still looked up as she said.
In an instant, a melon seed face with air bangs came into the boy's eyes.
The most eye-catching thing on the face is the eyes, which are big and spirited, and stand out more and more against the background of thin cheeks. These eyes contain spiritual light, if described in words that the young man is familiar with, it is bully and lingling, which is naturally suitable for pretending to be innocent and pitiful.
If it narrows slightly, it gives people a sense of cunning, like a fox laughing after a plan succeeds.
After the young man saw clearly, he fainted on the spot.
Air bangs, and these eyes......
It's her!
After confirming a certain possibility, the young man came back to his senses, suppressed his emotions, looked at the girl and asked calmly: "What is the girl's name?"
"Yuyan."
The girl replied softly.
The young man secretly said that it was true, and continued to ask: "What is your surname?"
The girl named "Yuyan" shook her head gently, and a hint of gloom flashed in her eyes: "I don't know, my mother didn't tell me."
"Why did you sell yourself to save your mother for 30 taels? This far exceeds the market."
Hearing this, Yuyan's eyes fogged up, and she said helplessly with a crying voice: "My mother has a very serious illness, and the doctor said that it will cost a lot of money to cure her. If I ask too low, not only will I not be able to save my mother, but I will lose my freedom and cannot continue to take care of her."
The young man nodded slightly and pondered: "In that case, then you can come with me."
Yuyan was stunned: "What do you mean?"
The young man replied: "I'm going to buy you, let's find a place to sign the contract and give you money by the way."
As soon as these words came out, Yuyan and everyone watching around were shocked.
Because the boy is too refreshing.
Yuyan even couldn't believe it was true.
Thirty taels of silver is not a small amount for ordinary people. Although the young man in front of him looked extraordinary, judging from what the other party had just said, he knew the market and clearly pointed out that the price was unreasonable.
This is a fact, even if she says the reason and the matter is true, it still cannot be changed.
As for the situation of pity and sympathy, it has happened before.
But people who have this emotion are just showing their emotions. Most of them don't have that much money or are reluctant to take it out to pay for their emotions. If you can take out money, you basically only calculate the gains and losses, and then choose to lower the price, and then leave with a wave of your sleeves.
This is all good, when you encounter the bad one, you have to ridicule her with words.
She thought that this handsome young man would be like this, so she was mentally prepared.
Unexpectedly, the other party readily agreed to the price.
However, Yuyan was surprised and did not rejoice, but became vigilant: "I don't know where the young master wants to sign the contract?"
At present, the matter of selling into slavery must be notarized and filed at the county government according to regulations, but the actual situation is that the people are living too hard, and selling themselves into slavery often occurs, not to mention in disaster years. They all go to the county government to handle it, and the people in the yamen are too busy to do it.
Therefore, this procedure later evolved into a private contract drawing between the two parties.
If you do this, the government will approve it, and there will be few problems.
Because people who are generally reduced to slavery want to have a place to go, eat and survive, in addition to emergency aid.
After signing the deed of sale, they accepted their fate.
Even if there are unwilling people, they can't fight the master and the government, and they can't turn the storm.
As a result, private drawing gradually became a common method for both parties to sell themselves into slavery.
Over time, people with bad intentions take advantage of loopholes and often use this to buy and sell.
Yuyan had seen this kind of thing a lot before when she was displaced with her mother.
At present, the young man in front of her was extremely refreshing, which couldn't help but make her suspicious.
Many people watching around also thought of this, and when they heard her ask, they couldn't help but look at the young man.
The young man also understood.
He looked at Yuyan and secretly said that he was worthy of being the person who almost became Wu Zetian's second in the future, and at this moment, the gears of fate had not yet begun to turn, and he showed alertness that surpassed that of his peers. However, he had no intention of cheating on this matter, so he said: "Where do you want to sign?"
Yuyan didn't expect him to say this, but quickly responded: "If the young master doesn't mind, please let someone prepare the contract, how about signing it here?"
The young man smiled and said, "It's up to you."
After saying that, he scanned his surroundings through the gap in the crowd and happened to see a bookstore next to it, so he walked in.
After a while, the deed of sale in duplicate was successfully written.
Yuyan knew the boy's name through the above signature - Meng Li!