Three days later, the official slave auction in the capital.
Yu, who used to be graceful and elegant, now has a lot of rickets on her back. The heavy shackles made her walk slower, and she and Zhao supported her. In just one month, her hair changed from faint gray to full head. Si's ancestor, the Song family, and Xiao Linru, the eldest girl from the second room who returned from the Xiao family's abandonment, followed behind the three of them, and the four of them walked slowly in the ranks of the officials and slaves.
Although he didn't raise his head, he could still feel the eyes of those dignitaries in the auction hall falling on him. Thinking that he was the one sitting there, Yu felt embarrassed for a while, and he couldn't even lift his head. .
"The official slave auction has officially started, and the first is the female relatives of the sinner Liu family." On the official slave auction floor, the official in charge of this auction sang loudly: "The official slave of the sinner Liu family, there are three people, and the starting price is five hundred. Two!" The first to be auctioned was the female family member of General Liu Wei's family, who was in the limelight a few months ago. Because General Liu Wei was involved in the case of General Han's rebellion, the crime was very serious, and the Liu family has been implicated in the nine clans. .
How can anyone dare to have anything to do with the Liu family today? As a result, none of the three remaining female relatives of the Liu family came out to buy it from someone who had a relationship with the Liu family before, and was finally bought back by an unknown small businessman.
The official slave auction was going on in an orderly manner. Young Jin sat on the seat arranged by the auction, searching the group of official slaves with his eyes fixed, and then whispered to the head guard Xiao who was standing beside her: "Guard Boss, have you found someone yet?" She had never met anyone from the Xiao family, and now she can only rely on Xiao Guard Chief to identify them.
Guard Xiao squinted his eyes and searched for the familiar figure in the group of officials and slaves who were only a few meters away from him, but he found the person in a moment, lowered his voice and returned excitedly and whispered: "I found it, stand by On the left, the woman in the green ruffle skirt and the three people beside her are."
Looking at the head guard Xiao's gaze, he saw two middle-aged women supporting an old woman with white hair, and the other was the eldest girl of the Xiao family who was wearing a green skirt as the head guard Xiao said. Now, the four of them are all unkempt, with red wounds on the backs of their hands outside their sleeves, presumably they have suffered a lot in prison. You Jin retracted his gaze and nodded slightly: "I see."
The official slave auction progressed very quickly, and soon it was the turn of the female family members of the Xiao family.
"The four female relatives of the sinner Xiao's family, the starting price is five hundred taels!" The little official was still singing the price.
"Five hundred taels!" As soon as the little official finished speaking, someone bid for the auction. You Jin followed the voice and looked over, it turned out to be a young woman with a downed bun, but she looked elegant and demure.
You Jin was a little puzzled and looked at the head guard Xiao: "That's it?" Is it a family that is close to the Xiao family? But it doesn't look the same!
The head guard Xiao also found the woman. Although he was a little shy, he recognized it and said quickly, "Miss, please bid quickly! I will explain the entanglement to you later." The Xiao family and that person The grievances and grievances between them are not clear for a moment or three. The most urgent task now is to buy the masters of the Xiao family out. If the eldest girl buys them back, he believes that this is the best way out for the masters. What will happen if they fall into the hands of others? That's hard to say.
Yu also noticed the first bidder, who also found himself looking at her, and shot back with a smug look, as if to say that you too will fall into my hands one day.
Just when Bai Ya'er thought she could avenge her original revenge, another bidder stepped in: "Six hundred taels!"
The people on both sides immediately looked at the bidder, and found that it was a young girl wearing a cyan cap and a brocade skirt of the same color, but she couldn't see her face clearly.
Bai Ya'er didn't expect that the Xiao family was so dilapidated that there were still people who wanted to be this Cheng Yaojin. She glared viciously at the girl in Tsing Yi who was sitting directly opposite the auction floor, and motioned for the next person to bid: "Six hundred and fifty taels!"
Unexpectedly, the girl who didn't show her face was actually rich and powerful, and she raised the price directly to one thousand taels, but Bai Ya'er was so angry that she itch: "What is the origin of that person? So those officials and slaves don't want to, they have to snatch it from me! "Although she is angry, she is still unwilling to give up. If the Xiao family hadn't interfered with it, how could she have been kicked out of the house by her grandfather? How could the talented Xianggong be turned away by grandpa? When she thought of her husband returning home drunk, and then blaming himself for not letting him go to his grandfather's door, Bai Ya'er took this revenge on the Xiao family, and she had to express this resentment.
"One thousand one hundred taels!"
The little official was a little frightened. He thought that the Xiao family only had a merchant family with a fifth-rank civil official, but he did not expect that there would be a good family willing to bid for their female relatives, and now there are more than a thousand taels! You must know that the female relatives of the sinner family next to them bought almost all of them at one price.
The bidding was still going on, and Young Jin had a rare wealth of wealth this time, and he continued to raise the price again, signaling to Chief Guard Xiao to bid: "One thousand five hundred taels!" It was already three times the reserve price.
The female family members of the Xiao family also quietly raised their eyes and looked over, and found that it was a girl wearing a hood with no face. A flash of strangeness flashed.
"Two thousand taels!" Bai Ya'er felt that her silver teeth were about to shatter, and squeezed the highest price she could accept from the gap between her teeth.
Although Bai Ya'er can only accept the price of 2,000 taels, the wealthy and wealthy Miss Su came to the auction with nearly 20,000 taels of silver bills. Now it's just a fraction of her silver bills. What's the problem? Awesome? Hearing that Bai Ya'er was bitten to death and wanted to bid, Young Jin accepted her challenge without hesitation and continued to bid: "Two thousand five hundred taels."
Bai Ya'er hated the people of the Xiao family, and even hated Cheng Yaojin, who was killed halfway, and gave up the bid after a heavy "hum". Although Bai Ya'er was angry, she was just a person who was driven out to marry a concubine of an eighth-rank civil servant. Although her mother had prepared a fairly generous dowry for her, she couldn't stand her torment, and it was considered that she had not been married yet. Hatred overwhelmed his head.
The clerk waited for a while and saw that she no longer bid, and finally settled the deal at 2,500 taels.
Then someone loosened the shackles that were tightly locked on the Xiao family. Young Jin and the autumn equinox beside him quickly supported the crumbling Yu family and Zhao family. Xiao Linru was still in good spirits and tightly supported the ancestors. The eyes thanked You Jin.
"This is not the place to talk, let's get out of here first." Young Jin looked at the head guard Xiao who paid the money and brought back the four servants of the Xiao family, signaling everyone to leave first.
Guard Xiao nodded. Because of the difference between men and women, he stood two steps away from everyone. He led everyone out of the official slave auction. After getting on the Su family's carriage, he went back to the Su family tea shop. In the tea shop, the shopkeeper Wu's family had already prepared a clean change of clothes and hot water, etc., just waiting for You Jin to bring someone back.
That Bai Ya'er saw everyone from the Xiao family leaving behind the girl who never showed her face from beginning to end, she winked at the mammy beside her: "Find someone to follow, but I want to see who is sacred. Come and rob me."
Some good people who know the grievances and grievances of the Xiao Bai family actually came to look for Bai Ya'er to be happy: "Mrs. Xu is really kind-hearted. Today, the Xiao family is in trouble and you still help, really don't care about the past!" The words were full of disgust and ridicule for Bai Ya'er, and a look of pride.
Bai Ya'er squinted her beautiful eyes and glanced at the man with a sarcastic smile on the corner of her mouth. She ignored her and left with the maid by her side.
Feeling shameless among her companions, the woman glared fiercely at Bai Ya'er's leaving back, and said in a small voice that was not loud enough for Bai Ya'er to hear clearly: "It's just a corrupt literati style, and a different person. The civil servants who entered the stream were privately set for life and then expelled from the Bai family, and they thought they were the eldest girl of the Bai family!"
Her voice was slightly sharp, and not only Bai Ya'er, who was about to leave, heard it, but also everyone within ten steps nearby. When those people heard the woman's words, their eyes fell on Bai Ya'er, all of them were meaningful, which made Bai Ya'er feel disgraced, and they hated the Xiao family even more. If it wasn't that their family made a big deal of the matter, how could he be so shameless today
"You have a debt and a debt, don't think I can let you go if you have Cheng Yaojin's foot!" Bai Ya'er, who was sitting on the carriage, was slightly red, and she didn't know if she was angry or ashamed. In the scene on the auction floor, I can't wait to swallow the long-tongued woman and the bitch of the Xiao family together. Kneeling behind Bai Ya'er, the little maid who carefully kneaded her shoulders was frightened by her unknown side and shook for no reason. Then the expected slap slapped directly: "Nothing light or heavy!"
The little maid knelt in the same place with her hands trembling slightly, obviously it wasn't the first time she was beaten, but she didn't dare to say anything.
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And the people of the Xiao family, the owners of the unjust debt, have already boarded the Su family's carriage and returned to the courtyard behind the Su family's tea shop on Zhuque Street. A wonderful play.
"Let's take a few nobles to bathe and change clothes first!" The carriage returned to the backyard of Su's tea, and Young Jin, who had already taken off his hood, ordered the Autumn Equinox to bring people to bathe and change clothes, and then turned to Yu Shi who was beside him and said: " I know my wife has something to ask, we have time now, and the ladies have suffered a lot recently, why don't we wait for a bath and change, and we can talk in detail after eating?"
Yu nodded slightly, although she didn't know this little girl with eyes, she was a little confused, but she could see that the little girl had no ill intentions towards herself: "Then trouble the girl."
"You're welcome, ma'am."
When the Xiao family went down to bathe and change clothes, the kitchen was also busy preparing meals. When the Xiao family’s female relatives were groomed and changed into clean and comfortable new clothes, the steaming yam chicken porridge and a few light dishes came out. Just got to the table.
"I think the ladies are not eating well these days. I'm afraid that if you eat too much oil at once, you will not be able to control it, but you will hurt your body." You Jin took the chicken shredded porridge handed over by the autumn equinox, and first held it with both hands. In front of the eldest Mr. Song: "This porridge is soft and soft, how about the old lady?"
With a smile, Mrs Song picked up the white porcelain bowl and took a sip. It was really soft and delicious. She smiled and put down the spoon, nodding with satisfaction: "Good boy, you have your heart."
"The old lady's words are breaking me." You Jin Luoluo replied generously. Although Yu and others were puzzled in their hearts, they didn't say much. The first meal of the Xiao family's daughters being rescued went on quietly like this.
Two quarters of an hour later, the Autumn Equinox and Shopkeeper Wu's hands and feet neatly removed the leftovers from the dinner table, and then quickly made a pot of sweet-scented osmanthus oolong for everyone to relieve their tiredness. Time is reserved for the eldest girl and everyone in the Xiao family.