The middleman smiled and said: “Okay.”

Gu Qing was anxious: “I wanted this girl first, you have to sell her to me!”

The middleman stretched out his hand and said, “Okay, bring me 20 taels, and you can take them away, girl.”

Gu Fei frowned. There were banknotes in her space. If Gu Qing was closer to her, she could place the banknote on him with her consciousness. However, she didn’t have agreement with Gu Qing in advance. And she was worried that if Gu Qing, who was wearing coarse cloth, would suddenly take out such a large sum of money, these people will be suspicious.

At this time, Gu Qing suddenly knelt down in front of the crowd and said: “Big brother, aunt, or uncle, please kindly lend me 20 taels of silver to buy this girl first. After that, I’ll go back home and get the silver.”

Gu Fei looked at her elder brother helplessly. Now, she couldn’t give the money in her hand at all.

He said he doesn’t have money, so how could she give him twenty taels of silver notes all at once.

But who would lend money to a stranger for no reason?

What’s more, twenty taels was not a small amount. For many farmers, their annual expenses were only three or four taels of silver.

Gu Fei squatted on the stage, watching her elder brother kowtow to the strangers desperately, feeling extremely sad.

The madam standing next to him suddenly looked at Gu Qing who was kowtowing and smiled: “Brother, looking at your outfit, you don’t look like someone who can afford 20 taels. Besides, you only need a few taels of silver to marry a wife.”

“You insist on spending 20 taels on this girl, and you are so anxious. Does this girl have anything to do with you?”

Gu Fei’s heart skipped a beat. She had deliberately pretended not to know Gu Qing before, just because she was afraid that the middleman would know their relationship and then ask for a huge price.

Anyone with a little bit of brains should be able to see Gu Qing’s current appearance.

Gu Qing gritted his teeth, turned around and kowtowed to the woman on the stage, “This eldest sister, to be honest, this is my biological sister. I beg you to have mercy and let our family reunite.”

The woman looked at Gu Qing blankly for a while, then suddenly sneered: “What family reunion? This girl was sold to the Houfu by your family back then, right?”

“When you sold her, did you think of her as your family member?”

Gu Qing looked ashamed and was speechless.

At that time, their father was seriously ill, and the few acres of land left in the family were sold to buy medicine, but the money was still not enough. In desperation, their grandmother took the initiative to sell the six-year-old Gu Fei. Gu Fei could be sold for either five taels of silver on a death contract or two taels of silver on a living contract.

Their Grandmother was so cruel. She signed a death contract because two taels of silver were not enough for the medicine.

Gu Qing still remembered the day his sister was taken away. She was holding on to the door frame and refused to leave. Their mother also cried so hard that she fainted in the room.

Their father was lying on the bed unconscious.

He and his two younger brothers knelt on the ground and begged their grandmother not to sell their sister. Gu Sanlang also said to their Grandmother to sell him instead, but she said: “I can’t just watch your father die. And you, Sanlang, your are a man who can establish our Gu Family, so you can’t be sold.”

Their father finally be able to drink the medicine, turned around, and slowly came back to life.

When he learned that the family had sold his only daughter in exchange for his life, he remained silent for a long time and then said: “My life was saved by my daughter. In this life, as long as I still have breath, I must redeem her.”

Since then, redeeming Gu Fei has become a worry for the family.

Over the years, the family had saved up all the monthly money that Gu Fei had brought back, intending to redeem her. However, she has a death contract. Even if they had enough money, as long as the owner wouldn’t let her go, they can’t do anything about it.

Now, they have the opportunity to buy her back. If they miss this, it may be really difficult in the future.

It was difficult for Gu Qing to tell the inside story of his family at this time. And it was a fact that they sold his sister. Their family owed his sister.

He just kowtowed to the madam on the stage.