After taking a bath, she planned to curl up in the bed and have a good sleep, sweating, but before she could lie down, an uninvited guest came and disrupted her plan.
This uninvited guest is the girl from Wenrou Township with a northern Chu accent, named Luwu.
As soon as she saw her, Lu Wu said nervously: "Sister Lan, you said that if I need anything, I can come to you, so I'm here."
Shen Ruolan smiled slightly, and said, "Don't be nervous, sit down."
Luwu sat down, seemed a little nervous, rubbed the handkerchief and said, "Actually, I came today to ask sister Lan..."
Shen Ruolan's complexion was a bit bad, but it was not because of her, but because of the humiliation in the Governor's Mansion just now. As soon as Lu Wu finished speaking, she found that Shen Ruolan looked sleepy, and hurriedly shut her mouth, stood up and said, "Lan Ruolan My sister is not feeling well, then I will talk about it another day, I am very sorry, I came here without saying hello, I was abrupt."
Seeing her being so trembling and cautious, Shen Ruolan felt a little sorry.
"It's none of your business, just say it if you have something to say, because we are all fellow villagers, as long as I can help you, I will help you, but you also know that I am just a singer , ability is limited, if it’s within my power, it’s fine, if it’s beyond my power, I hope you won’t be disappointed.”
Luwu hurriedly said: "No, no, you don't owe me anything. It's your friendship to help me, and it's your duty not to help me. Whether you help me or not, I will be grateful to you."
Seeing that she is still knowledgeable about current affairs, Shen Ruolan nodded: "Alright then, tell me."
Luwu pursed her lips and said, "As you said, I am indeed from Chu State, and I can be regarded as a fellow villager with you. I am also from Nong'an County, and my family lives in the county seat..."
Speaking of which, Luwu's life experience is quite tragic. She was originally a concubine of the Duan family, the richest man in the county. Because her mother and his wife were at odds, after her mother passed away, the wife tortured her to vent her anger. Her father promised her to the county magistrate's stupid son as his wife.
That idiot Ya Nei is in his twenties, but he doesn't even know how to urinate and defecate, he doesn't say anything, and his temper is extremely irritable. Yes, and it must be a bad day.
So, on a dark and windy night, she escaped. She planned to go to her uncle's house to hide, but she met Mrs. Chen's group and killed a thousand knives, and then she was tied to Wusun...
It has been more than two years since he was tied up.
Shen Ruolan gritted her teeth secretly, Mrs. Chen, who have no conscience, had already started doing this kind of outrageous business. I don't know how many innocent girls from the state of Chu were ruined by them!
Hearing Luwu's narration, Shen Ruolan suddenly felt that the grievances she had suffered today were nothing compared to these poor girls. Although she suffered a little humiliation, she was still free, and she was not forced to receive guests. She still has a bright future and a bright future, but these poor girls not only lost their virginity, they even lost their future and future...
This self-comforting Ah Q spirit was inherited from her previous life. Because of this character, she is easily satisfied and rarely has negative emotions, because she always feels that she is happy.
"Then how do you think I can help you? Redemption still makes you famous?" After her emotions adjusted, Shen Ruolan's complexion became much better.
When Luwu came to beg her, there were nothing more than two requests, either begging her to help her redeem her body, or begging her to teach her to sing and make her popular, no matter what it is, she can do it.
However, if she redeemed her body, she would probably get a lot of money. Although she was willing to help her, it still felt a bit painful. After all, the price of redeeming such a delicate and beautiful beauty must not be cheap.
Luwu licked her lips and said with difficulty: "I want to redeem myself!"
In Wenrou Township, if no one redeems their lives, the sisters will end up with only two endings, either they will be sent to low-class kilns to be low-class kiln sisters when they get old and faded, and they will be ruined and misfortune by the lower-class people every day, or When he died here, a mat was rolled up, dragged to a random grave outside the city and buried indiscriminately.
No matter what kind of end, she didn't want it, she was still young, she still had a bright future, she didn't want to just fall like this, that's why she had the cheek to beg Miss Lan.
Although she also knows that it is not realistic for someone who has only met her a few times to give her a few thousand taels of silver to redeem her body, but her desire to survive makes her not care so much, so she has to try anyway, just in case it succeeds What? Didn't she escape from birth
Shen Ruolan pondered for a moment, and said, "If I redeem you, what are you going to do? Go back to Duan's house? Or do you want to find something else to do?"
Lu Wu blushed, lowered her head, and said softly: "To tell you the truth, my father and my aunt treated me like that. I will definitely not go back. I have a friend here. I plan to redeem it and then go Dedicated to him."
"A good date?"
Shen Ruolan frowned, thinking that she was a lonely old man she met when she came to this brothel for pleasure.
Lu Wu guessed what she was thinking, and hurriedly said, "We didn't meet in Wenrou Township, we met on the street during the Mid-Autumn Festival this year."
Recalling the moment when I met him, there was a soft look on Lu Wu's face, and his tone became soft, "He is the head of the Longwu Escort, and he is very good at martial arts. At that time, four or five scoundrels molested me. , was beaten to the ground by him alone..."
"It's just that he's just an escort, and he has only saved a few dozen taels of silver over the years, which is not enough to redeem me, so I want to redeem myself, but you also know that although we earn a lot, how much money can we have?" Is the money in our hands? I have no choice but to beg you."
Speaking of this, she couldn't sit still any longer, she knelt down in front of Shen Ruolan, and cried: "Sister Lan, I also know that my request is too much, and I don't know that we two will spend so much money in our lives. Can I pay you back, but I really have nowhere to go, if I stay in that ghost place any longer, my body will be ruined!"
It turned out that in order to prevent the girls from becoming pregnant, Wenrou Township made them drink mercury for contraception every time after picking up customers. If this continues, the girls will be poisoned, and they will gradually lose their fertility. Even if there is a chance in the future Congliang, also unable to have children.
Therefore, she wanted to take advantage of the short time she had come here and the amount of mercury in her body was not much, and escape from this fire pit as soon as possible.
"Get up first, don't cry." Shen Ruolan helped her up, pondered for a while, and said, "Well, you call your lover over, and I'll see what kind of person he is before making a decision, okay? "
If her lover is a good person, it would be a merit for her to help them.
However, if that guy is a man with evil intentions, there is no need to redeem her. Anyway, they are all pits of fire, and it is not the same in which pit? Why would she waste that money by making her jump from one fire pit to another
As soon as Luwu heard this, she quickly wiped her tears and said repeatedly: "Okay, I'll go right away, you wait for me, wait for me..."
With that said, he trotted out.
Shen Ruolan also knew that she would not be able to sleep during the afternoon nap, so she simply stopped sleeping. It happened that she didn't eat breakfast and lunch, so she went out to eat.
Because she was not feeling well, she didn't order anything greasy. She only ordered two vegetarian buns, a bowl of millet porridge, a plate of fried peanuts, and a boiled egg.
While eating, she suddenly felt as if someone behind her was peeking at her again, but she turned her head several times in a row, but she didn't see who was peeking at her, probably because she was sick, dizzy, or an illusion. .
However, not afraid of ten thousand, just in case, just in case, after eating, she hurried back to her room.
As soon as she got back for less than a cup of tea, Lu Wu hurried back with her good friend.
The good friend was in his twenties, tall and burly, with an upright face. When he saw Shen Ruolan, he cupped his fists and bowed to Shen Ruolan.
"Miss Lan, Zhou Zheng is so polite!"
Shen Ruolan nodded and said: "Boss Zhou, you're welcome, please sit down."
Zhou Zheng straightened up, didn't sit down, but said with a somewhat respectful tone: "I heard that Miss Luwu Qiulan helped her redeem her body. This is what I should do, but Zhou Zheng is incompetent, and I haven't done it yet. Miss Ruolan can trust me to collect all the money for Luwu’s redemption, and Zhou Zheng is willing to make a written statement that Zhou Zheng will definitely return the money for Luwu’s redemption to the girl in the future with interest.”
Shen Ruolan didn't answer his words, Gu Zuo said: "Zhou Biaotou has been working as a bodyguard for several years? Is there anyone else in the family?"
In the ancient times of early marriage and early childbearing, it was very rare for someone in their twenties not to have a family. Shen Ruolan was afraid that Luwu would be deceived, so she wanted to help her figure out Zhou Zheng's background.
Zhou Zhengdao: "The little one has no father or mother since he was a child. He grew up in a dart shop. He started to walk darts when he was seventeen or eighteen years old. It has been five years now."
"Seeing that Zhou Biaotou is not young, why hasn't he married yet?" Shen Ruolan asked again.
Zhou Zheng also said: "At the age of seventeen, the master made an appointment for the younger one. Later, the girl died of illness three months before the marriage, and the younger one didn't find a suitable one for a while, so she stayed alone. Afterwards, I encountered Luwu..."
"So that's how it is." Shen Ruolan nodded, and said again: "Zhou Biaotou has been a bodyguard master for five years, how much money has he saved? How much can you pay to redeem yourself for Luwu?"
Asking this is not for the money in his hand, but just to see his attitude towards Luwu. If he really wants to marry Luwu, no matter how much, he will definitely give it all. It's not worth helping people who use pretty words to coax people and ask them not to pull out a hair when they bleed.
Fortunately, Zhou Zheng did not disappoint her. After Shen Ruolan finished asking, he immediately poured out a few silver ingots of different sizes from the bag, with a slightly ashamed look on his face, and said, "To tell you the truth, Zhou Zheng has been away for five years. Nian Escort saved a total of fifty-seven taels of silver, borrowed some from the brothers in the Escort Bureau, and got together a hundred taels. Although it was only a drop in the bucket for Lu Wu’s redemption money, Zhou Zheng would definitely work hard to make money, and Will earn her ransom back."
This attitude is not bad, and the person can be regarded as frank and upright.
Shen Ruolan was basically quite satisfied, but she didn't agree to them immediately, but said to think about it first and let them go back and wait for news.
There are many things in this world, many things, those that are too easy to get are not cherished, she wants them to experience the hardships and difficulties of being together, and also wants to ask Zhou Zheng and Lu Wu from the side.
It is said that drawing dragons and tigers is difficult to draw bones, knowing people and faces but not heart, although they gave her a good impression on the surface, but who knows what kind of people they are? If they are all kind-hearted people who know how to be grateful, it doesn't matter if they help them; but if they are not good people and are not worth helping, then she doesn't need to do anything extra!
After Luwu and Zhou Zheng left, Shen Ruolan fell ill as expected.
Being stripped naked for so long in that icy environment, even hardened people can't stand it!
Fortunately, there are still some cold and anti-inflammatory medicines in her space, all of which are western medicines, and the effect is much better than that of traditional Chinese medicine. In addition, her body's physique is better than before, so after three days of taking the medicine, the disease gradually subsides. alright.
In the past three days, she has not been idle. She entrusted Xiaoer and the shopkeeper to inquire about Zhou Zheng and Lu Wu, and it turns out that they are both very good. It is said that Zhou Zheng is just like his name, and he is upright. Intestines, eight cows can't pull back what you're sure about.
Luwu is also a good person. She has been in Wenrou Township for more than a year, and she has never had any quarrel with anyone. She does not fight or grab, and just lives her life quietly. She is a gentle and kind girl.
With such a conclusion, Shen Ruolan was relieved.
After he recovered from his illness, he went to Wenrou Township in person to help Lvwu talk about ransom.
Earlier, there was a guest who fell in love with Lu Wu and wanted to redeem her body, but the owner ordered a very high amount of money for the redemption of Lu Wu, as much as three thousand taels, not even a penny less, which frightened the guest back .
When Shen Ruolan went to talk, the situation was not much better. The one in charge was a fixed price, three thousand taels, nothing less. Moreover, when she left, she was not allowed to take the soft bedding in the room, and even the clothes she carried with her. out of the house.
Although Shen Ruolan didn't like their profit-seeking, she didn't get serious with them. Three thousand taels was only three thousand taels. She took out five or six high-quality pearls and sold them to a silver house, and quickly helped Lu Wu redeem herself. up.
The girls in Ruolan Township were all envious when they saw Shen Ruolan helping Lvwu redeem her body, and some even knelt in front of Shen Ruolan, crying and begging Shen Ruolan to help her redeem her body too.
Shen Ruolan really wanted to help them, but she had more energy than she wanted. There were dozens of brothels in Pingyang City, even if she took out all her net worth, it wouldn't be enough to redeem a few people
Besides, there are too many injustices in this world, and her ability is limited, so she can't manage them even if she wants to, so she can only let them ask for their own blessings.