Villain, do you remember that I am a stand-in?

"Sisters, do you have any bracelets worn by men, show them to me."

The Ninth Prince is the youngest son of Emperor Xuan, and he has not yet reached the age of the crown, so it is not an exaggeration to call a group of young girls and sisters.

The little girl behind him kept calling him with a red agate, and the Ninth Prince turned around amidst Yingyingyanyan, took the high-quality red agate bracelet of eighteen sons, looked up and saw two people not far away.

The Ninth Prince generously paid double the money, holding Yanming's bracelet in his hand, and walked over calmly: "Sixth Brother, what a coincidence."

Shen Lianting did not use a questioning tone: "Shen Lianzhou, why are you here?"

The Ninth Prince was not surprised to meet them here, and said leisurely: "Of course I'm homesick, come back and have a look."

Ji Xiaoguang rolled his eyes in the snow-white veiled hat, thinking that he didn't see the Ninth Prince's homesickness at all.

Shen Lianting's face was sullen, apparently he had no intention of talking to him, the Ninth Prince put his eyes on Ji Xiaoguang just to make fun of himself, and said with a chuckle, "Xiaoguang, long time no see."

Ji Xiaoguang didn't move, and the voice came from layers of veils: "So you can recognize me?"

The Ninth Prince immediately laughed, before he could speak, Shen Lianting said coldly from the side: "Since when did you start following us?"

"Following? Sixth brother, you take two steps and stop three steps along the way. It is obvious that Yujian will arrive the next day after half a day's journey. I am really too lazy to follow your ninth brother."

The Ninth Prince neither admitted nor denied, a smile appeared on his handsome face, and he said without hesitation: "I settled in the inn yesterday, now I can take a stroll."

Shen Lianting's eyes seemed to be inspecting, his thin lips were pursed into a straight line, and he said after a long while: "Aren't you going back?"

The Ninth Prince understood what he was referring to and shrugged his shoulders: "I said it, so I'll come back and have a look."

Ji Xiaoguang listened to the temptation of these two people, and suddenly wanted to raise his hand and say, Your Highness Ninth Prince, I just heard you say that I was homesick, why did it suddenly become a look!

"Sixth brother, don't worry, what you are going to do is not of any interest to me, and I will not run back to the palace and say that you have been back."

The Ninth Prince held the red agate bracelet and twirled it between his fingers a few times: "On the other hand, Brother Six must keep the secret for me, otherwise Father will definitely take me back and lock me in the Library Pavilion for half a month."

Seeing that Shen Lianting was silent, the Ninth Prince pleaded very disregarding his appearance: "Sixth brother, I really want to come back to play. I will leave for Xiaoyun Mountain in a few days, and I will come back with them when the practice is over."

Afraid that he would not believe it, the Ninth Prince pointed to the crowd not far away and said: "I also met a friend, and I bought the bracelet for him. Hey, he was still here just now..."

The Ninth Prince squeezed into the crowd while talking, and disappeared after a while. Ji Xiaoguang really didn't know if he was looking for his so-called friend, or making excuses to run away.

"Shen Lianting, is His Highness the Ninth Prince here all right?"

Apparently the Ninth Prince set off at Xiaoyun Mountain at the same time as them, but maybe he disliked them for being too slow, so he walked ahead and arrived here first.

Shen Lianting pondered for a moment, then said, "Don't worry about him."

In the original novel, the Nine Princes never harmed Shen Lianting from the beginning to the end, they only talked and acted out of common sense, since Shen Lianting didn't doubt it, Ji Xiaoguang didn't say any more.

After some inquiring, I found out that the two of them had stumbled into a stall selling rouge, gouache, balm, ointment and jewelry. Hearing this, Ji Xiaoguang also lamented that it was too advanced to divide the types of goods by region in ancient times.

The little girl who was questioned smiled and waved her hands, saying that these were novel ideas for the newly married wife of Yantai Hou, who also opened a restaurant nearby.

Ji Xiaoguang didn't care, he simply asked for directions, wanted to find a place that a man would like to go, bid farewell to the enthusiastic girl, and politely refused the bellyband that was crazy about selling him...

Along the way, when he saw something new, he would stop and look at it for a while, and Shen Lianting would accompany him, following wherever he wanted to go, paying for money without even blinking his eyes.

Soon the two walked in the general direction pointed by the little girl. When Ji Xiaoguang saw the scene in front of him, he was a little dazed.

He turned his head and said to Shen Lianting cautiously: "What is this place?"

Shen Lianting frowned slightly: "The slave area."

This piece of open space is not big, a pile of iron cages and wooden stakes are placed in twos and threes without any structure, and straw mats are everywhere, shining bright yellow under the bright sun.

Flies were flying around, and there was a strange smell in the air.

Compared with the surrounding bustling buildings, it seems that there is a bald piece in the middle of the fertile grass, which looks extremely uncoordinated.

Even though he knew that there was a saying about selling and buying servants in ancient times, he still couldn't let go of it when he saw it with his own eyes. Men, women, old and young in ragged clothes, wearing iron chains on their feet, were like commodities that people could choose.

Ji Xiaoguang couldn't do anything, so Yu Xin couldn't bear to ask: "Why are these people here?"

Shen Lianting looked at a scarred teenager in the wooden cage together with him, and said in a deep voice.

"Some were sold by mistake, and some were sold by poor families for money. Here are the lowest slaves, and their poor condition can only be bought for menial work."

"If you want to buy servants, the prostitute will bring people to the mansion in person. Those are educated. Compared with here, they are much better."

Shen Lianting looked down and saw Ji Xiaoguang's downcast expression, thinking he shouldn't be brought here.

Half a year after leaving Xuanle City, Shen Lianting himself didn't like to go out for a stroll. After many days, he actually forgot the road here and walked here by Ji Xiaoguang.

Just now the little girl said that it is a restaurant not far away, and there is a storytelling at this time.Shen Lianting wanted to take him away, but he didn't want Ji Xiaoguang to stare blankly at the boy in the cage.

"Xiaoguang?"

Ji Xiaoguang lifted his hem, walked up to the boy under many different eyes, squatted down and opened the small bamboo tube containing water in the Qiankun bag.

Through the cage, he passed the bamboo tube to the hand of the unkempt boy: "Drink."

The boy was almost naked, with no complete skin all over his body, dirty mud all over his body, and his disheveled hair almost covering his entire face.

"Slow down, I still have something to eat."

The young man seemed to have not eaten for a long time. He drank the water in the bamboo tube in a few sips, and took the plum blossom cake he handed over with a lot of choking noises.

Ji Xiaoguang gave the boy almost all the food that Shen Lianting bought for him just now. He didn't sympathize with everyone, but the boy was too pitiful.

Circled in a corner, hands and feet locked with heavy chains, thin skin covered bones, and hideous scars from being whipped all over the body.

There was a heavy feeling in his heart, it was because of his strong temper that he was beaten like this.

Standing behind him, Shen Lianting didn't say much. He didn't stand up slowly until Ji Xiaoguang's food was exhausted.

Taking another look at the boy kneeling with his head bowed, Ji Xiaoguang forced a smile to Shen Lianting: "Let's go."

He could save one person, but not everyone. Although he felt sorry for the young man, after thinking about it, he decided not to trouble Shen Lianting too much.I decided to ask the matchmaker here to give me some money and get some medicine for the boy to heal his injuries.

"Ouch."

The hem of the clothes was a little long, and Ji Xiaoguang was accidentally stumbled by a wooden pile at his feet, and was staggered to be stabilized by Shen Lianting, only to hear a faint sound from the cage behind him.

"Ji, Young Master Ji, is that you..."

The voice was so hoarse that he almost lost his voice, but Ji Xiaoguang vaguely discerned something, he turned his head abruptly, and stretched out his white arms to part the boy's hair covering his face.

When Ji Xiaoguang saw the boy's face, he immediately froze in place.

If he had been given a magic talisman, he didn't know if he was too shocked, or he was trying to identify the wrong person again and again. He stared at this face for a long time, until Shen Lianting squatted down with him, and then said in a trembling voice.

"You, why are you here, you shouldn't, you shouldn't..."

Shouldn't it be on Xiaoyun Mountain?

The cheeks and eye sockets of the baby face are deeply sunken, the face is covered with dirt, and the pupils of the eyes seem to be tortured. It took a long time to murmur with dry lips: "Ji, Mr. Ji..."

It is different from Xiaoyun Mountain, when the baby face was thin but lively, but now it is completely out of shape, with too many injuries, so many that Ji Xiaoguang couldn't bear to look at it any longer.

The baby's face opened its mouth weakly, but it was almost silent. Ji Xiaoguang's heart seemed to be filled with lead, and his hands tightly held the baby's skinny shoulders.

Ji Xiaoguang couldn't figure out why the baby face appeared in such a place after not seeing him for a few months.

Since he was whipped, he should have been placed down to recuperate, but now he is treated as a lowly slave, thrown in a corner to linger on his last breath.

Ji Xiaoguang sniffed, turned to Shen Lianting and said, "Let's save him."

Fearing that Shen Lianting would not be willing, he begged again: "Please..."

Originally, he felt guilty towards the baby face, but now it is more like a surging tide overflowing.Babyface was probably sold here, and he resented why he didn't go to see him.

Shen Lianting was silent for a moment, looked at Ji Xiaoguang's eyes with complex emotions, and finally nodded slowly.

Ji Xiaoguang almost cried with joy, he smiled gratefully at Shen Lianting, and then asked someone to redeem Babyface.

Human teeth are not here, they waited for a long time for a fat woman to come with her handkerchief in her handkerchief.

Seeing that Ji Xiaoguang insisted on this little slave that no one would buy, he rolled his eyes and bargained with him under the sun.

Ji Xiaoguang pretended to be reasoning with the aunt in the vegetable market for a few cents, and argued for an hour. Unexpectedly, the price of human teeth was getting higher and higher, and he was almost asking for money in a shameless way.

In the end, Shen Lianting couldn't bear it anymore and conquered the other party with money.

"I wanted to save you some money, but that aunt has no morals."

With dry mouth and tongue, Ji Xiaoguang leaned against Shen Lianting to catch his breath, and complained feebly while watching someone come to lift the baby face from the wooden cage to the soft sedan chair.

Shen Lianting really wanted to touch his soft hair, but because he was still wearing a veiled hat, he had no choice but to give up.

"It's nothing, if you want, you can keep the money bag for safekeeping."

He wanted to pay the money at the beginning, but when he saw that Ji Xiaoguang was arguing with the man like a little rabbit baring his teeth, he couldn't help but want to watch more.

It doesn't matter how much silver, Shen Lianting smiled lightly, thinking that this is what makes Xiaoguang different.

The baby face was redeemed, and Ji Xiaoguang's concern was put aside, and he had already asked the doctor to go to the inn to see it, and it seemed that nothing would happen.

But unexpectedly something happened.

The pock-faced young man hired for money hurried over and said anxiously: "The shopkeeper of the inn saw a dirty one brought in, so he didn't allow us to go in no matter what, you two go and have a look."

[The author has something to say]: 4000+ in the next chapter, I'm also desperate

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