At the same time that Li Youcai and Tian Qi left Wangjiang Tower, Wang Dayong disguised himself and quietly went out. However, he did not go to other cities, but traveled back and forth between various dental shops in the capital. Although the former Wang Dayong also He has been in the capital for a long time, but most of the time he is on duty or in the military camp. Although he knows about the trade of human slaves, he has never really had close contact with these people. And when he actually entered the dental industry, these people who sold themselves into slavery had How miserable.
Wang Dayong came to the door of a dental shop, and immediately You Yazi came up to talk to him with a playful smile: "Hey, this gentleman is here! Please come inside."
Wang Dayong hummed casually and followed Yazi into the store. The setting of the store was extremely ordinary. There were two tables inside. There were several traffickers sitting around the tables, drinking tea and eating melon seeds. The weather is cold now. It is surprisingly cold today. , these human traffickers were too lazy to go out and wander around, so they simply hid in the tooth row to keep warm.
Yazi led Wang Dayong to the nearby table. Yazi raised his leg and said, "Let's go and talk. There are no guests here. Why don't you give up the place quickly?"
The three traffickers made a sound and then stood up and walked towards another table.
"Sir, please sit down." Yazi wiped the stool with his sleeve and said to Wang Dayong, "Are you planning to buy a maid or a boy? What kind of stuff do we have here?"
"Everything?"
"Yes, as long as you want, we have it here, a young girl in her 17s or 18s, a widowed daughter-in-law in her twenties and thirties, an old woman in her forties, a strong Siliba, and A skilled carpenter and mason." Yazi said with a wicked smile.
"Oh? It's strange. You can sell yourself into slavery if you have skills?" Wang Dayong asked curiously.
"You don't know, in this capital, if you have craftsmanship, you may not be hungry, but outside the capital, if you have craftsmanship but no work, it is useless. If you can't survive, don't you have to sell yourself into slavery?"
"Then what's going on with this 17 or 18-year-old girl? It shouldn't be difficult to find someone to marry at this age."
"They do think that they have to agree with me. How many kilograms of food will be given to someone when they get married? It will be different if they are sold to a brothel in Yaxing."
"Then this old woman and Lipa, why do they usually sell themselves?" Wang Dayong continued to ask.
"How should I put it? There are all kinds of reasons, including those who suffered from disasters, those who fled, those who were in debt, those who committed crimes, those whose homes were confiscated, and those who were abducted." Yazi explained, stroking a few mustaches on his chin.
"What's the usual price?"
When Yazi heard about the price, he suddenly became more energetic and said with a sorry smile: "Master, how about this, I will take you to see the goods first, and we can chat while looking?"
Wang Dayong thought this was a good idea, stood up and said, "Let's go and have a look."
The two walked through the shop and came to the backyard. They saw that the backyard was completely surrounded by cages similar to holding prisoners. Several thugs armed with sticks were scattered around the yard to guard.
Yazi led the way and introduced as he walked: "You see, these cages are filled with old women. They can do any kind of work, such as washing clothes and cooking, two or two. Well, these are little widows here. My daughter-in-law, either the man cannot live with after his death, or the husband’s family has kicked her out and wants her, and she will be given three taels of silver each.”
Wang Dayong looked at these women who were kept in cages like animals. The men who were originally as steel showed a trace of sadness on their faces. They were living people, and everyone should have their own parents and relatives, but they were eventually abandoned. I can only live alone in this world.
Wang Dayong stopped and looked carefully at these women with tattered clothes and thin bodies. Some were only wearing a single piece of clothing, while others were barefoot, with disheveled hair and dirty faces. When these people saw Wang Dayong stop, The moment they stepped down, the people who were huddled together to keep each other warm seemed to see hope, and they rushed forward and shouted
"Uncle, buy me"
"Buy me, uncle. I can do laundry and cooking. I can do everything."
"Uncle, buy me. I am very strong and I eat very little. I can still give birth to children, uncle."
"uncle......"
"Dang!" Before the woman could finish her words, a wooden stick hit the wooden cage hard. Everyone was frightened and hurriedly backed away. Those who disobeyed might be hit with two sticks.
Yazi took two steps back and said, "Master, let's take a look ahead?"
Wang Dayong came back to his senses and stood up and said: "Okay."
"Master, you see, these are strong Liba, they are all between eighteen and forty years old. They are all in good health and strong. It is absolutely no problem for them to do hard work. They can also use a knife to look after the home and nursery. .Everyone in these cages, and those in that cage over there, are all skilled at crafts. There are three or two who don’t know how to craft, and four or two who know how to craft.”
"Are they all here?" Wang Dayong asked.
Yazi chuckled and said, "No, there's also physics, would you like to take a look?"
"Walk"
Yazi pushed open the door to the backyard, and an unpleasant smell hit him. The moment the door was pushed open, he heard several women's frightened voices coming from the room. Wang Dayong stepped in and saw about twenty people. The girls were huddled in the room. There was a layer of weeds on the ground. The girls looked timidly at the two people who came in. There was a wooden cage next to the corner, where a disheveled man was kept alone. He couldn't see his appearance clearly, but he was dressed appropriately. Different from the others, it can be seen that the home must have been better before, but these clothes have been torn, exposing half of her white thighs.
"Sir, these are all big girls who have not left the palace. They are all 16, 78 and 18, very fresh and tender. How about you pick two." Yazi said with a wicked smile on his face.
Wang Dayong also had a younger sister, but she died when she was young. When he saw these girls, he couldn't help but think of his younger sister. Wang Dayong suppressed his grief and anger and said with a smile: "Hahaha, you are quite good at getting things done. What are the prices of these girls?"
Seeing Wang Dayong take the initiative to ask about the price, Yazi said excitedly: "Master, these girls are all decent-looking. Although they are not as beautiful as gods, they are definitely attractive. Our store also has quality requirements. No more, no less, five taels." One, you can get two girls to serve as bed warmers, they will make you very comfortable at night, hahaha."
"What's going on with that thing in the cage?"
"Master, you are really discerning. This product just arrived yesterday. It was brought from the water town in the south of the Yangtze River. This little guy is proficient in playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. I heard that my ancestor was an official in the imperial court, and he has some farmland at home. , but then the family fell into decline. The local prefect’s brother-in-law fell in love with his family’s ancestral home, but his father refused to sell it. Later, someone reported that his father wrote anti-poetry, and then the prefect ransacked the house. Don’t look at it now. , cleaned up, that little look, tsk, is really exciting." As he spoke, Yazi turned around and looked out the door, then he came closer to Wang Dayong and whispered with a smirk on his face, "As soon as the little stuffed skin arrived yesterday, we The boss took a fancy to it, and originally wanted to try it himself, but he didn’t expect to be discovered by the boss’s wife, and then he was beaten up by the boss’s wife, hahaha.”
"Is your boss still afraid of your wife?" Wang Dayong asked.
"Let's put it this way, if our boss can't take three moves from our landlady, he will have to get down." After saying this, Yazi raised his eyebrows at Wang Dayong, "If you don't beat the boss, I'll tear the skin off again. If the brothers hadn't stopped me, I would have been unable to save my face and it would have been swollen from the beating. After the beating, the landlady locked her up and took away the keys."
"Then how much does she sell for?"
"The boss said it was thirty taels, but the landlady said it would be sold at twenty taels. Keeping it would be a disaster. We are not allowed to sell it to the brothel, for fear that our boss will steal the fish in the future." After finishing speaking, Yazi looked helplessly at the woman in the cage. .
Wang Dayong was a little surprised and said: "So expensive?"
"You get what you pay for. This girl is definitely worth it. Compared with the ones next to her, this girl is at the level of a fairy."
Wang Dayong glanced at the woman in the cage again and didn't ask anything. Perhaps he was feeling uncomfortable due to the smell in the room, so he turned around and said, "Let's go out and talk."
When the two came outside the house, Yazi asked, "How about it, Master, what kind of thing do you want to buy in this house?"
Wang Dayong did not answer, but took out two taels of silver from his arms and threw it to Ya Zi and said, "This is for you."
"Hey, thank you sir." Yazi happily accepted the two taels of silver.
"Let me ask you, how many people are there in your dental shop?"
When Yazi heard this, a gleam suddenly flashed in his eyes: "Master, there are almost two hundred people in this whole yard, including the people in the house. Master, you don't want to buy them all, do you?"
Wang Dayong chuckled and said, "I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. My young master has two workshops and needs to buy some manpower, both men and women, as long as they can do the work. But I have to go back and ask for the specific number."
"Okay, no problem, sir. The little one's name is Ma Xiao, and they all call him Ma Xiao. If you have agreed, just come to the store to find him. He will tell the shopkeeper that he will give you a 10% discount." Yazi He said with excitement.
After coming out of the dental shop, Wang Dayong went to several other dental shops one after another. The scenes he saw were similar, but he didn't have the same impact as the first time. And it seems that all the dental shops in Beijing have reached a unified price, which is the same as the price of the first dental shop.
