Villain: I am not good at fighting.

Throwing Liu Muqing onto the carriage, Boss Liu found that his coat had been soaked by her hair, so he simply took it off and threw it to her, saying:

"Wrap this around your body. If you get sick, I, Master Liu, will suffer a great loss."

The last time Xiangyue Tower bought Liu Xianlan, it spent twenty taels of silver. But before it could make a profit, the girl fell seriously ill, causing Xiangyue Tower to suffer a huge loss.

If it weren't for the report from his subordinate Yaozi that several high-quality seedlings had appeared this time, Mother Rong would have been worried and sent him to escort them personally.

Kites are a profession used by brothels to sniff out decent girls. They are all kinds of people and are not clean. Rong Mama is worried that they will not follow the rules and ruin good girls, making it difficult to sell them in the future.

Today's high-ranking officials have very discerning tastes. Not only do they require women to be chaste, but they also want them to be proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting.

drive!

The whip hit the horse's buttocks neither lightly nor heavily, and the crisp clatter of horse hooves drove the carriage off. Liu Muqing was just the first stop, and there were still many more seedlings to be harvested.

Like Liu Muqing, they are either from poor families with nowhere to go, or they are in debt and have to sell their daughters to make a living.

In this world, women's lives are worthless. Without a good appearance, they may not be able to be sold.

After leaving Liujiazhuang, the carriage headed west. About an hour later, a girl in a yellow Russell skirt got on the carriage again. She was about the same age as Liu Muqing, with curved eyebrows like a crescent moon, giving people a lively and lovely feeling.

Her eyes were red, she looked up at Liu Muqing, then buried her head in her knees, her body twitching slightly, as if she was crying silently.

Liu Muqing didn't listen to what Boss Liu and the girl's family said. She stared blankly at the scenery outside the window, her eyes still confused. She was a fledgling who had never seen the outside world and didn't know what freedom was.

The carriage set off again, and after another two hours, they arrived at Xiejiaao. Boss Liu left the carriage, and after half a cup of tea, he threw another young girl up with a dark face.

"Liu Laogou & *￥your mother￥* & the whole family & ..."

The girl struggled and cursed, using obscene language, which caused Liu Muqing and the girl in the yellow skirt to involuntarily keep their eyes on her.

She looked older than the other two, with a red face like an angry rooster. She punched and kicked Liu Boss non-stop, while Liu Boss held her head with one hand and continued to drive the carriage steadily with the other hand towards the next destination.

After a while, the girl, perhaps exhausted, stopped struggling and lay flat on the carriage, gasping for breath.

"Damn Liu Laogou... uh, cough cough..."

The girl couldn't catch her breath and choked herself and kept coughing. The muffled voice of Liu Lao Da came from outside the carriage.

"Xie girl, you have to understand clearly that it was your father who owed the debt in the gambling house. I just provided a way to pay the debt. It was he who personally gave the nod to sell you to Xiangyue Tower."

"You...are nothing..."

The girl looked at the dome angrily and stopped talking. After a while, perhaps because her strength had recovered, she turned over and stood up, looking at Liu Muqing and the others and asked:

"Where are you from? What's your name? Were you also sold to Xiangyue Tower by your family like me?"

As she spoke, she looked at Liu Muqing curiously and reached out to touch her arm.

"Why is your body so cold?"

She noticed at a glance that Liu Muqing was different from ordinary people, and Liu Muqing also noticed her unusualness.

The girl's pupils are dark purple, not the ordinary dark brown. However, this does not affect her appearance. Instead, it highlights a noble and mysterious beauty.

In the girl's pupils, Liu Muqing was extremely cold, and her body was emitting a hazy white mist, which was something she had never seen before.

"Liujiazhuang, Liu Muqing, what about you?"

As their eyes met, Liu Muqing also felt a little curious about the girl.

"My name is Xie Xiaoyu, and you haven't told me why your body is so cold."

Xie Xiaoyu sat next to Liu Muqing as if he was a familiar person. He grabbed her hand and squeezed it again and again. It was so cold that he could not feel the temperature.

"do not know."

It was the first time that Liu Muqing met such an enthusiastic person. She was at a loss for a moment, hurriedly pulled her hand back, and lowered her head embarrassedly.

"Okay, forget it. What about you? What's your name?"

Xie Xiaoyu seemed to realize that he was being rude and didn't take it seriously. He turned his gaze to the girl in the yellow Russell skirt.

"I... my name is Li Yunzhi, from Lijia Village. My father said that I am not his child and should go to Xiangyue Tower... wuwu..."

"Okay, okay, don't cry, it's no big deal."

Xie Xiaoyu raised his hand and made a gesture for silence, then pointed at the back of Liu Lao Da outside the carriage and began to silently gesture to the two of them.

After watching for a long time, Liu Muqing roughly understood what Xie Xiaoyu meant. She meant to find an opportunity for everyone to escape together.

Where can you escape to?

Liu Muqing's eyes were confused again. If she ran back home, she would just have to repeat the process of being sold again. If she ran to the city, what could she, a ten-year-old girl, do?

Having not received any education and having not had a healthy childhood, Liu Muqing lacked imagination about the outside world, and had no yearning for it.

In contrast, after Li Yunzhi understood what Xie Xiaoyu meant, a glimmer of hope appeared in her eyes, and she looked at the woods outside the car window from time to time.

Near noon, the carriage stopped at the gate of a dilapidated square courtyard. Boss Liu casually put the reins on the head of the stone lion at the gate and shouted inside:

"Zhao Saner, open the door!"

Creak... creak... The door was half open and tilted inward, as if it would collapse at any time. A skinny middle-aged man leaned out from inside, with five clear slap marks on his face.

"Boss Liu, please forgive me. The door is broken today. Please come in and sit down first. I will try to persuade my wife."

"No hurry. I'm not the one who needs money. I can't bear to leave my daughter, so I'll just go. But you have to get me some food. The girls in the car haven't eaten anything all morning."

"Look at what you said. This is life-saving money. My wife is ignorant. Please bear with me. I will prepare food for you right away."

Seeing the skinny middle-aged man welcoming Boss Liu in, Xie Xiaoyu and Li Yunzhi's eyes lit up with joy at the same time, and they tiptoed out of the carriage.

"Huh? Mu Qing, stop being in a daze, let's run away together!"

The two got off the carriage and found Liu Muqing still sitting in the carriage in a daze, not moving at all.

"You guys run away, I... I don't know where to go..."

"Anywhere is better than being sold to Xiangyue Tower. Stop dawdling and come with us."

Xie Xiaoyu climbed onto the carriage impatiently, wanting to take Liu Muqing with him to escape.

"Then let's take a carriage. This way we can escape faster."

Although Liu Muqing didn't know where to go, she really didn't want to go to Xiangyue Tower. It was because her eldest sister went there that she returned home seriously ill and died in bed.