"Ms. Shen, can you leave?" Wei Ning asked respectfully from outside the car.
Wei Ning is the adopted son of Wei Cheng's father, Wei An, and has been with Wei Cheng since he was a child. Wei An is the governor of Youzhou. Since Wei Cheng's uncle Wei Yong died of illness, Wei An has also served as the governor of Youzhou. This is inappropriate. The imperial court had a rule for appointing local governors, but now the Li family in Chang'an had too much to take care of themselves, and no one had the intention to take care of the affairs of Youzhou, which was thousands of miles away.
Wei Ning's position in the Youzhou army is delicate. He is an adopted son and has followed Wei Cheng, the next lord of Youzhou, since he was a child. Everyone treats Wei Ning a little more differently. When they see Wei Ning treat Wei Ning The woman Shaojun saved last night was respectful and respectful. Shaojun also left his carriage to send this woman home, which was even more understanding.
They all regarded her as Wei Chengji's wife.
Even though the beauty is in front of me, I dare not take another look.
Everyone bowed their heads as she walked out of the courtyard.
Shen Yinxiao was suddenly not used to such a pomp and she did not dare to show her timidity. She pursed her lips tightly and said nothing during the whole journey. When Wei Ning asked if she wanted to set off, she said yes.
The carriage was driving on the official road. Pedestrians saw a tall and gorgeous carriage approaching from a distance. There were more than a dozen sergeants on horseback and swords guarding the carriage. They thought it was a big shot, so they retreated to both sides.
Shen Yinxiao was sitting in the car, unaware of the situation outside. At this moment, she had more important things in mind.
The beans are spilled and I have to buy again.
Those dozens of taels of silver were wasted.
She sighed, lamenting her bad luck, having lost money and suffered disasters, and raised the car curtain to get some air.
Wei Cheng's carriage traveled very quickly, and it arrived at the city gate in a short while. Far away under the city gate, there were pedestrians selling beans, both large and small. There were vendors selling vegetables on carts, and there were also salesmen walking through the streets with shelves hanging on them. , she looked around boredly until a series of noises attracted her attention.
A dozen people in tattered clothes had rags stuffed in their mouths, and their hands were tied together and strung together in a string. A few strong men with fleshy faces on the side stretched out their hands to push them from time to time, shouting at them to go faster.
In the market, there are often people who bring slaves, concubines, and concubines who have been convicted and sold, or people who don't have enough food at home, to sell themselves voluntarily. They are taken aback by others, or they are bought back to work as coolies, or they are bought back to work as slaves. Concubine, Shen Yinxiao remembered her mother's instructions before leaving, cheered up, and raised her hand to tell Wei Ning to stop.
She explained her intention to Wei Ning. Wei Ning nodded, turned around and stopped the group of people.
The group of people were stopped. They were panicked at first, and then a little angry, but they didn't seem to want to bother any more, and were ready to just leave without caring. However, they saw Wei Ning's cold eyebrows, and he glanced at his armor and long waist with some fear. The knife just stopped.
When Shen Yinxiao opened the curtain and got out of the car, the group's expressions changed suddenly when they saw the Wei clan emblem carved on the front of the carriage.
The leader's Adam's apple rolled, he looked at her outfit for a few times, then stepped forward and raised his hands to bow: "May I ask my husband...what do you want me to do? We still have to go on our way, and we don't have much time."
Shen Yinxiao was a little disappointed. According to the appearance of the people who were sold at the market in the past, they were basically young and middle-aged people. Even if they were not good, they always had neat teeth. However, in this group of people, there were old and young, and almost all of them were young and middle-aged. No, the oldest one looks to be over seventy years old. Couldn't such a person buy it back and raise it as an ancestor?
The strong man saw her looking at these people but said nothing. His eyes flickered and he said, "If Madam is okay, we will leave."
Wei Ning frowned and raised his sword to stop him, "It's so unruly! I haven't seen our wife and haven't spoken yet. What kind of dental shop are you from? Why are you so bad at doing business? Do you have any paperwork?"
The strong man's face turned slightly pale, and he quickly took out a document from his arms: "General Mingjian, we are a dental shop of Ming brand in the east of the city, and we have a document issued by the government to prove it."
Wei Ning took it over and took a look. Seeing that the seals were all in place, he glanced at him lightly.
"Since the procedures are complete, why are you looking so panicked?"
The strong man laughed twice: "Young man has not been in the industry for a long time. When dealing with the official, he has a clumsy tongue and clumsy hands and feet. Don't be surprised, the official."
Then he turned to Shen Yinxiao and said, "Madam, don't be offended."
"I just forgot to mention that these people have already been booked. The younger one is about to deliver the goods. The wife wants to buy someone to use, so she can only go to other places to check."
Among the people whose hands and feet were bound, a girl's eyes were wide open and red. She kept shaking her head and making "woo woo" sounds. When the strong man guarding the side saw this, he jumped off his horse and kicked her. He walked over and kicked her to the ground.
Several tied people around tried to help her, but unfortunately their hands were tied with cloth strips and they couldn't help at all.
The girl was kicked to the ground. Her body and face were covered with dirt. Under the thick mud, the original bright color of her clothes could still be vaguely seen. She cried out and looked at Shen Yin with pleading eyes. Xiao.
Among these people, except for the girl who was kicked over just now and the oldest old man, there are two women and the baby in the woman's arms. Their clothes look neat and clean. The rest of them look like they are dressed as servants. .
Besides, except for the few people just now, everyone else has calluses and chapped hands, and their faces are also marked by years of hard work.
The group of people who were tied up seemed to know each other and had different identities.
When Wei Ning saw this, he shouted angrily: "How dare you, who allows you to abuse lynching?"
The strong man who was kicking someone felt that the girl was making a lot of noise and was about to kick him again when Wei Ning stopped him.
Although slaves were allowed to be bought and sold by the government, the government also had relevant laws that prohibited Yaxing from lynching slaves.
Intuition told Shen Yinxiao that the strong man was not telling the truth. These people were not slaves of Yaxing.
She hesitated to mind her own business.
If the masters behind these people hold a grudge, I'm afraid my parents will be hurt.
But if you sit back and do nothing...
The baby hanging in the woman's arms suddenly started crying.
When she heard the baby cry, the woman couldn't hold him and comfort him, so she could only cry too anxiously, silently weeping.
Shen Yinxiao said: "Which company has it been chosen by? I am willing to pay double the price."
The strong man's face paused and he laughed dryly: "Madam, there are rules in the dental shop. After signing the contract and paying the money, this guy has an owner. We... really can't be the owner... .”
Shen Yinxiao pursed his lips and pointed to the carriage behind him expressionlessly: "Do you see whose car this belongs to?"
The strong man swallowed his saliva and said bitterly: "I saw it, it belongs to the Wei family."
She nodded at Wei Ning again: "Do you know who they are?"
The strong man said in a wooden voice: "It's from the Wei family."
She nodded: "Now that I know, I would like to ask, which family dares to steal people from the Wei family?"
Nowadays, the Wei family is the law in Youzhou. She doesn't believe that there are still people in Youzhou who dare to mess with the Wei family. Even if they hate her, they will only think that she was ordered by the Wei family.
The atmosphere froze for a while, and just when Shen Yinxiao thought that the name of the Wei family was no longer useful, and was about to retreat, the look on the strong man's face changed, and he seemed to have made a very difficult decision.
"In that case, let's do whatever the lady says."
Shen Yinxiao felt happy.
Asked about the price.
A total of eight hundred and thirty taels.
"Eight hundred and thirty taels?" She was a little shocked. Not to mention that they were all old, weak, women and children, even if they were all young and middle-aged men, none of them would exceed fifty taels.
It was obvious that she was a woman and a bully.
