The next day.
The morning light is faint.
The sun shines into the bedroom, shining on the sleeping Yun Jinyi, warm and quiet, like a sleeping beauty.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
There was a knock at the door.
"Who is it?" Yun Jinyi shouted, rubbing her sleepy eyes.
"Yiyi baby, are you awake?" Lin Jia's gentle call came to her ears.
Yun Jin lazily climbed up from the bed and headed for the door.
"Mom, I'm awake."
Lin Jia stretched out her hand to push back Yun Jinyi's loose hair and asked gently, "Wash up quickly and go out with your mother to buy some things later?"
"Okay, mother, just wait for me for a while. I'll be fine soon." Yun Jin nodded in agreement.
After a while, after Yun Jinyi finished dressing up and dressed neatly, Lin Jia took Yun Jinyi's hand and went out.
The two of them walked slowly along the cobblestone streets, chatting about homely matters.
"Madam, Miss, there is a market ahead." The palace steward reminded.
Lin Jia and Yun Jin stopped and looked around. Sure enough, there was a huge market not far away. The market was surrounded by all kinds of restaurants and shops.
Lin Jia smiled and said: "Yiyi, are you hungry? Mother, please take you something to eat."
"No, mom, I'm not hungry."
Lin Jia held Yun Jinyi's hand and continued shopping, occasionally looking at the hawkers or vendors setting up stalls on the roadside.
Yun Jinyi accidentally caught a glimpse of a slave trading ground on the corner of the street, pointed at it and said, "Mother, I want to take a look there."
Lin Jia looked in the direction pointed by Yun Jinyi and saw that it was a trading ground dedicated to selling slaves.
"Let's go, mother will accompany you to have a look." Lin Jia pulled Yun Jin into the slave trading place.
As soon as I entered the slave trading site, I was greeted by the strong smell of blood and rotting corpses.
In the slave trading ground, slaves were either sitting or standing, some were lowering their heads and remaining silent, some were looking resentfully and lonely at the strange customers coming and going, some were smiling, or were gloomy and decadent, but they did not conceal their deepest desires. , hoping that someone can choose me and escape from the sea of suffering.
In a remote corner, a girl of about twelve or thirteen years old was sitting at the base of the wall with her knees in her arms. Next to her was a pile of shabby clothes, but there was a trace of forbearance and tenacity on her expressionless face.
In front of the girl, a corpse was lying there, and the blood stained the girl's chest red.
"Are you willing to come with me?"
Yun Jin stopped in front of the girl.
The girl raised her head when she heard Yun Jinyi's voice, her eyes were hollow and numb.
Seeing the girl's pale face, Yun Jin frowned, then squatted down to look at the girl's level.
"Are you willing to come with me?" Yun Jinyi asked again.
The girl still looked at her with blank eyes and no reaction at all.
"I know you can understand me."
The girl was slightly startled.
"Can you help me bury my brother?"
Yun Jin glanced at the body of the man in front of her. He had been dead for four or five days but had not been buried.
"Okay!" Yun Jin nodded.
"Then I'm willing to go with you." The girl responded.
Yun Jinyi called the steward of the slave trading yard.
"How many spiritual stones do I want her for?"
"Guest, this girl is weak and can't do much. If you don't change her, there are still many girls in our trading place." The steward of the slave trading place said.
After hearing this, the girl looked up at Yun Jinyi, as if to confirm whether she would take her away.
"No, it's her."
"A good guest needs to pay a thousand low-grade spiritual stones. After paying, we can help you establish a master-servant contract." The steward said.
Yun Jinyi frowned and said, "There is no need for the master-servant contract." After saying that, he handed the steward a crystal card.
The girl's eyes moved slightly when she heard this, flashing with a glimmer of hope.
After paying the spirit stone, Yun Jinyi took the girl Lin Jiahe back to Prince Linyang's Mansion.
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Linyang Prince's Mansion
"Grandpa Butler, please help this girl's brother get a good burial."
Yun Jinyi ordered the palace steward to arrange the funeral arrangements for the girl's brother.
"Thank you, Master." The girl knelt down and said softly.
Yun Jin raised his hand and helped her up.
"May I have your name?"
"My name is Chu Xiao..." the girl replied in a weak voice.
When Yun Jin looked at her, he saw that her face was pale, her figure was slender, and she was obviously extremely weak.
Recalling that Chu Xiao was wearing cotton clothes with excellent fabrics when he was at the slave trading ground just now, and considering Chu Xiao's physical condition at this time, Yun Jinyi couldn't help but frowned and said, "You can tell me why you... …?”
"I used to be the eldest daughter of the Lingjian Sect of the Southern Dynasty. Our family was framed by my second uncle. My parents died to protect me and my brother. Later, my brother and I fled to Weiyang Country. A rich kid from Weiyang Country saw He fell in love with me and wanted to forcibly insult me. In order to protect me, my brother was beaten to death by the master of the rich boy. Later, I was sold to the slave trading ground..." Chu Xiao's eyes were empty and his tone was extremely indifferent, as if he was worried about me. Life is hopeless.
"Want to take revenge?" Yun Jin asked directly.
"I think about it, even in my dreams. I just regret that I didn't practice well at the beginning. Who can I take revenge on now with this spiritual power?"
At the end of the sentence, Chu Xiao's tone became choked, and tears dripped from her slender face.
"If you want, you can trust me and I can help you."
Yun Jinyi took out a drop of divine spring water from Bihai Cangling and handed it to Chu Xiao.
