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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.

 

The middleman smiled and said: “Okay, you can pick first.”

The madam walked to the stage, first selected a few little girls and asked them to stand aside, and then her eyes swept over a few older girls.

The madam pulled Bihe, first pinched her face, then asked Bihe to stretch out her hand to look at it, then pinched Bihe’s waist, and then nodded: “It’s okay, the skin and flesh are quite tender. Stand up and go over there.”

Bihe was so anxious that tears welled up in her eyes, and she knelt in front of the madam with a plop: “Please, don’t buy me.” She would rather be a slave than go to a place like a brothel. After saying this, Bihe kowtowed with a loud “bang”.

The madam grinned, showing a big gold tooth, “Hey, girl, do you look down on our Chunxiang House? It’s good to live in our Chunxiang House. You can eat spicy food, drink well, wear silk and satin, and have a little girl to take care of you. I’m sure you won’t want to leave after you go.”

Bihe didn’t say anything, just kowtowed.

The middleman waved his hand, and two people came up and pulled Bihe to the selected girls.

Seeing that the madam was about to turn to Gu Fei’s side, Gu Fei was anxious when she suddenly saw a person running towards her not far away.

When Gu Fei saw this man, she was so excited that her body trembled slightly.

As soon as this man ran off the stage, his eyes were anxiously looking for her in the crowd.

Gu Fei suddenly squeezed out of the crowd and stretched out her hand towards this man: “Brother, please buy me.”

This person was none other than the original owner of the body’s eldest brother.

The members of the Gu Family sometimes come to the town to sell vegetables or buy things, and then visit Gu Fei at the back gate of Pingyang Houfu.

Gu Qing was very excited when he saw Gu Fei. He went to the town to buy food today and wanted to visit his sister first. Unexpectedly, he heard on the way that the Houfu had been raided. Gu Qing asked around and happened to hear someone say that the servants of Pingyang Houfu were being sold today in Nanshi.

Gu Qing ran over desperately, fearing that he would be late, and his sister would be bought.

He was startled for a moment when he heard Gu Fei’s words and nodded repeatedly: “Buy, buy, buy, I’ll buy you.”

The middleman came over and yelled: “What are you doing!”

Gu Qing looked at the middleman and said: “I-how much does this girl cost? I want to buy her.”

The middleman looked Gu Qing up and down, and when he saw that he was wearing blue clothes, he sneered: “Okay, you can take the 20 taels of silver with you.”

“20, 20 taels?” Gu Qing was so frightened that he couldn’t even speak.

The middleman said impatiently: “This is a first-class maidservant from Pingyang Houfu. Not only can she sew and thread, but she is also literate. 20 taels is like picking up for free.”

Gu Qing gritted his teeth and said, “I, I will go back to get the money. Please keep this girl for me.”

He only had a few coins with him, and he came to the city to buy food today.

The middleman sneered: “I won’t give you this guarantee. Did you see that this eldest sister is waiting to pick people?”

Gu Qing begged anxiously: “Brother, just do it. I’ll go back and get the money. I’ll be back in an hour or two!”

He doesn’t know if their family has so much money, maybe he has to borrow it.

The madam walked over and took a serious look at Gu Fei, who was standing in front of the stage: “Hey, this girl has nice eyebrows. Why is her face so gray?”

“Haha, you must have covered your face on purpose, you are quite clever.”

The corner of Gu Fei’s mouth twitched and said nothing.

The middleman smiled and said: “Is there still something that can escape from your eyes, eldest sister?”

The madam waved her hand and said: “I want this girl.”

 

Gu Fei smiled bitterly: “It’s not up to me.”

She whispered in the second young lady’s ear: “I have hidden all your money and gold hairpins. If I can escape, I will find a way to find you.”

After speaking, Gu Fei touched a handful of ashes on the ground and smeared it on her face. As soon as she struggled to stand up, the jailer came over, opened the prison door, and shouted coldly: “Every servant, come out, and tell me your name one by one.”

The female servants got up somewhat happily. Finally, they no longer have to stay in this hellish place.

The four little girls also stood up and stood behind the kitchen servants.

At this moment, Gu Fei realized something and put some fruit and a few steamed buns on the quilt. Then she whispered to the second young lady: “I left something for you in the quilt. Hide it yourself so that no one finds it.”

The second young lady looked back at the quilt, shook her head, and looked at Gu Fei eagerly. She didn’t want anything, she just wanted Feicui!

The jailer in front quickly announced her name. Gu Fei lowered her head and walked to the door: “Feicui”

The jailer glanced at her and asked: “First-class maid, Feicui?”

Gu Fei nodded, the jailer checked the booklet in his hand, and Gu Fei was quickly pushed away.

When Gu Fei looked back, the second young lady was holding on to the wooden fence and looking at her with tears in her eyes, like an abandoned little puppy.

“Take care——” Gu Fei mouthed and turned around to leave.

Gu Fei and many girls and old women were strung up by a rope from the prison of the Ministry of Punishment and walked through the street.

Many people pointed at them along the way.

After walking for half an hour, they arrived at Nanshi.

Gu Fei and the others were quickly handed over to the middleman of human trade and were pulled to a platform to stand with numb expressions on their faces.

The middleman jumped on the stage and began to work hard to attract business.

“Come and see, these are all servants of Pingyang Houfu. They have been trained well and can be used right away after you buy them.”

The middleman pulled over a little girl and said: “Look at this pretty little girl. You can buy her to work during the day and warm your bed at night. It only cost 10 taels of silver!”

“Master, I see that you are a wealthy man. Buy one, for 10 taels, and this little girl can work for you as you please!”

Standing in the audience, a well-built middle-aged man was picking his teeth and said: “It’s expensive. This kind of girl only costs five taels of silver at most.”

The middleman smiled and said, “The price is not expensive, sir. This is a girl from Pingyang Houfu. She can do anything to serve tea and water.”

The middle-aged man still shook his head: “It’s too young. It will take another two years to raise it after I buy it.”

The middleman looked into the crowd and grabbed Bihe, the eldest maidservant in the eldest young lady: “If you don’t like it, why don’t you buy this girl? This is a maidservant of the eldest young lady, who specializes in serving the mistress. You can give me 20 taels and use her immediately!”

“Look at this body and face, you can’t buy it for 20 taels and suffer a loss, you won’t be cheated!”

The middle-aged man seemed a little moved, staring at Bihe’s chest: “It’s still too small.”

Just as he was talking, a middle-aged woman dressed in a flashy dress came over and smiled at the people on the stage: “20 taels are not too expensive for me, let me take her first!”

Gu Fei saw this woman in the crowd and took a few steps back. The way this woman was dressed showed that she didn’t come from a good place.

Sure enough, Gu Fei heard someone in the audience whispering: “Isn’t this the madam from Chunxiang House?”

Gu Fei even lowered her head.

It would be troublesome if she was sold into a brothel. With her injuries, she would not be able to escape.

 

As soon as she finished speaking, Gu Fei jumped out, placed her left and right hands on both sides of the heads of the two women standing side by side, and then hit them hard in the middle.

Before the two women understood what was going on, their heads hit each other. After a muffled sound, the two of them shook a few times and slowly fell to the ground.

The remaining woman who was still standing looked at the few lying on the ground, stepped back, and hurriedly picked up the quilt on the ground: “Feicui, here’s the quilt for you.”

Gu Fei took it, threw one to the little girls, and took one for herself.

The little girls looked at Gu Fei with gratitude: “Thank you, Sister Feicui.”

A clever little girl picked up some straw and spread it against the wall: “Sister Feicui, Second Miss, please sit here.”

Gu Fei slowly lay down on the straw, breathing heavily. Her injuries hurt badly.

The second young lady was very anxious: “Feicui, let me see the injury on your back.”

Gu Fei shook her head: “You don’t have to look, it won’t kill me.”

There was medicine in her space, but she couldn’t use it right now.

The second young lady beat her head: “It’s because I’m useless.”

Gu Fei was not in the mood to comfort the second young lady at the moment. She closed her eyes and her consciousness entered her own space.

What she awakened in her previous life was the ability of space.

The things in the space were just like when she left that world.

The space as big as two basketball courts was divided into two areas.

There was a tent in one corner, which contained her personal belongings and daily necessities, including shampoo, shower gel, sanitary napkins, etc. that she searched for in the supermarket in her previous life.

The second young lady’s banknotes and jewelry were also placed here.

The boxes piled high in the rest of the place are daily supplies that were originally intended to be shipped to the base.

Because she had awakened the space power, she was responsible for material transportation at the base.

They evacuated these supplies from a supermarket warehouse that had not been discovered by anyone. It was during this transportation of supplies back to the base that they encountered a zombie king. The last image in Gu Fei’s mind was that of the zombie king’s nails digging into her throat.

There were also bread and fruit snacks that Gu Fei usually collects in the space, but now, she can only look at them but not eat them.

Gu Fei licked his lips, her consciousness lingering on those snacks for a while, and then she reluctantly withdrew from the space.

When her consciousness returned, Gu Fei felt a little coolness behind her back.

She turned around and saw that the second young lady had lifted her clothes and was blowing on her back.

Gu Fei wanted to say there was no need to blow, it was useless, but seeing the serious look on the second young lady’s face, she shut her mouth and let her blow, which might make her feel better.

The pain and exhaustion made Gu Fei drift off to sleep at some point.

At dawn, Gu Fei was woken up.

Several jailers knocked on the wooden fence with water and firesticks: “Get up, everyone. All the servants of Pingyang Houfu, you stand at the door, and you will be called one by one. You will go to Nanshi in a while.”

Gu Fei pushed herself up and accidentally pulled the wound on her back again. She couldn’t help but hissed. Nanshi was a business that bought and sold slaves, oxen, horses, and livestock. Do they want to sell them all?

The second young lady also sat up. She looked at Gu Fei in horror: “Feicui, what should I do? What should I do if you leave?”

Gu Fei looked at the second young lady worriedly. Such a delicate little girl was worrisome. She doesn’t know if she would be able to survive if she left.

The second lady grabbed Feicui’s arm: “Feicui, don’t go, please stay with me. I’m so scared to be alone.”

 

Gu Fei opened her eyes wide and looked around, and found that several quilts had been occupied by the four thick-bodied and round-waisted women. One of them was the most outrageous, with a quilt underneath her and a quilt covering her.

It was autumn now. At night in the north, the wind was very cold. She was only wearing a middle coat to sleep.

Gu Fei approached the woman who had snatched two quilts and said: “Sister-in-law Xu, give me one quilt. There are only a few quilts in the first place. Even one quilt per one person is not enough.”

Sister-in-law Xu turned over and put the quilt under her body. She was smiling but not smiling: “Feicui, do you think this is still in the Duke’s Mansion and you are still a first-class maid?”

“I grabbed the quilt first, so it’s mine! The ground is hard, so it’s just right to put a quilt to cover it.”

The second young lady came over and said: “But we don’t have quilts. We will get cold at night.”

Sister-in-law Xu sneered: “Who cares about you.”

“We have reached this stage, and we have no choice but to take care of ourselves.”

Gu Fei looked at the other women: “You can’t do this. There are only five quilts. There are ten people here, so it means two people will share one quilt.” She pointed at the four little girls huddled in the corner: “They also need a quilt to cover themselves.”

The ladies were watching a joke, but they didn’t expect Gu Fei to come to them.

One of the women laughed and said: “Feicui, you are like a toad yawning loudly. We will not give you the quilt. If you can, grab it!”

Gu Fei’s expression became solemn.

If there were no injuries on her back and butt, it would be easy to take care of several women.

With the end of the world in her last life, many people have awakened their superpowers. However, the superpower Gu Fei awakened was not of the combat type. To protect herself, she had to practice hard on fighting skills and marksmanship every day.

Later on, she was able to kill level 2 zombies with her bare hands.

But now she was injured, and her back hurt when she moved even a little bit.

These women have been working in the kitchen all year round, and they have gotten all fat and round, so they were not easy to deal with.

Seeing that Gu Fei was silent, the second young lady nervously tugged on her sleeves: “Feicui, let’s forget it. If we squeeze together, it won’t be too cold.”

Gu Fei suddenly moved at this moment, and she didn’t see clearly how she moved. She bent down and moved, and Sister-in-law Xu rolled to the side. Gu Fei quickly took away the quilt and threw it to the corner.

Sister-in-law Xu howled, got up from the ground, and rushed towards Gu Fei.

Gu Fei turned her back, grabbed Sister-in-law Xu’s arm, bent down, and threw her over her shoulder.

Sister-in-law Xu was knocked unconscious and lay on the ground without making a sound for a long time.

Gu Fei’s back was burning in pain at the moment. She had moved too much just now, and the wound that had just healed was split open.

The second young lady covered her mouth and looked at a large blood stain on Gu Fei’s back.

Gu Fei pointed to the three remaining women: “I still need two more quilts. You will take them out yourself, or I won’t be polite.”

The three women looked at each other, and one of them said: “I didn’t expect Feicui to have some skills. Let’s all go together, who would be afraid of this little girl!”

An old woman clapped her hands and stood up as she spoke. The other two women also stood up.

The second young lady panicked and said, “You guys, don’t do this. Feicui is already injured.”

She turned around and pulled Feicui: “Forget it, we don’t want those quilts.”

Gu Fei whispered: “Get out of the way——”

 

Gu Fei and the second young lady walked among the crowd with their heads down. The second young lady held Gu Fei’s hand tightly along the way.

She didn’t know what happened just now, but she was certain that it must be Feicui’s credit that they could escape.

One by one, the female family members were taken into the cold and damp women’s prison of the Ministry of Punishment like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

The total number of female maids in Pingyang Houfu was close to a hundred. The women’s prison was overcrowded, with more than ten people crammed into each cell.

Gu Fei was in the same room with the second young lady. From the beginning to the end, the second young lady held her tightly and wouldn’t let go.

After entering the cell, Gu Fei pulled away her hand holding the hem of her clothes.

She lowered her head and saw that the muslin middle coat had a tear to her waist. It would be impossible to wear it unless it was repaired.

The second young lady also saw it. She blinked her eyes, lifted her arm, pulled out a pink floral silk scarf from her waist, and handed it to Gu Fei: “Take this to block it.”

Gu Fei smiled bitterly. If the people in the Yamen saw this kind of thing, it would be taken away immediately.

She thought for a while, then tore the peach-red sweat towel into two pieces, and handed one half to the second lady: “Tie it up, don’t let your pants fall off.”

The second lady blushed and tied up half of it to herself. Then she saw Gu Fei also take out a white cotton sweat towel from her waist and wrap it around her chest.

The second young lady hurriedly stretched out her hand to help Gu Fei wrap it up.

Gu Fei tied half of the pink sweat scarf around her trousers. Although the sweat scarf didn’t look good, at least her flesh was not exposed.

Only then did Gu Fei have the time to look at the cell.

The cell was only about ten square meters, with some straw piled randomly on the ground and a few shabby quilts with no visible color. Two or three meters above the ground, there was a small window with two arms-thick wooden pieces nailed to it as a fence.

There was a toilet in the corner of the cell, and many suspicious stains were visible to the naked eye on the outer wall of the toilet.

Gu Fei only took one look and didn’t dare to look again.

In this cell, in addition to a few maidservants from the second young lady’s courtyard, there were also a few rough ladies from the kitchen.

Gu Fei pulled the second young lady and said, “Let’s sit over there.”

The air will be better near the door.

The second young lady was originally a sister to Gu Fei, and now she only follows Gu Fei’s orders.

As soon as the two of them sat down next to the fence at the door, a woman’s sharp cry came from the cell diagonally opposite: “How am I going to live? There’s not even a place to sit!”

Gu Fei looked over and saw that it was the duke’s third concubine.

This woman was bought from the red-light district. She usually relies on the duke’s favor to eat and drink the best. How can she stand in such a dirty place?

Before the people of the Yamen could come over, Madam Hou from the opposite shouted: “If you don’t want to live, just die. No one will stop you!”

The only sound left over there was the whimpering and crying of the third concubine.

The second young lady pressed closer to Gu Fei, and she whispered: “Feicui, are we all going to stay in the prison from now on?”

Gu Fei shook her head, she didn’t know what fate was waiting for them.

It was dusk when they came in that day, maybe it was past the time for food delivery, and the prison didn’t even give them a bowl of gruel.

It was already dark, and the oil lamp was giving off a dim yellow light.

Gu Fei’s stomach growled. The second young lady looked at her and touched her belly: “I’m so hungry too.”

Gu Fei whispered: “Go to sleep, you won’t be hungry when you sleep.”

She struggled to get up and get the quilt.

There were several tattered quilts with no visible color, but who knows when they disappeared from their original places?