Just do what a few people say.

One by one, they talked about their plans and arrangements, and finally decided on the results.

"It's settled!!!" Sheng Xiaoju settled the note with a palm of her hand.

She slammed the table, "Let's go! Let's go now!!!"

The door opened with a creak, and everyone was stunned instantly, their faces turning pale.

"Ling... Ganoderma ah... sister."

Sheng Xiaoju kept backing away, looking at Axia and Magpie anxiously.

But the girls were not much better. They looked pale and lowered their heads, wishing they could burrow into a hole like gophers.

"Who stole it? Stand up for me!" Sheng Lingzhi came in with a cold face.

After crossing the threshold, she locked the door behind her.

In an instant, the people around became quiet.

Sheng Xiaoju trembled slightly and quickly hid behind the magpie, her eyes rolling around.

Suddenly, her eyes were fixed on the table for a few seconds, and then she poked her head out from behind the magpie and said weakly, "It's not stealing, it's me, it's the book we have been studying for so long. Just now, I just stumbled through a passage.

The story is just that I want to perform a storyteller on the first day of the new year."

Seeing the sincerity of what she said, Sheng Lingzhi was half-convinced.

But this New Year's Day, she had to understand.

After Sheng Lingzhi left, a few people started to perform out of fear that she wouldn't believe her.

If she hadn't seen her crying so hard and tears falling down, Sheng Xiaoju would have doubted that the person just now was not her.

"I still have it." Butler Zhang immediately asked someone to carry it back and brought ten more boxes.

"Let me show you the bottom of my box." Butler Zhang mysteriously opened the box, took it out and said, "These ten boxes contain a book, and it's not finished yet. These are just the first half. Wait until you come back after reading it.

Change it."

"One?" Sheng Xiaoju's mouth twitched, "I spent half my life writing it, why did I write so much?"

"I don't know if it's more or less, but this book is very complicated. When you read it, don't read it in the wrong order, otherwise you won't understand the plot."

"Uh-huh."

Sheng Xiaoju nodded and returned home happily. Auntie Lan watched box after box being brought back and hurriedly came over and asked, "What's wrong, she won't accept it?"

"..."

Sheng Xiaoju was embarrassed for three seconds. She glanced at Magpie and found that he had a dark face. She had to explain, "I put it away. I changed it to a book."

"..."

Mrs. Lan was speechless. She looked at those things and then at Sheng Xiaoju's belly. "Xiaoju, take the book to my room. You have to read it before you get it."

"It's so troublesome, just leave it where I am."

"Your house hasn't been renovated yet. Why don't you go see what it looks like after it burned down?"

"...Listen to my sister-in-law and leave it at her place."

At night, Sheng Xiaoju, who had no book to read, tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. All she could think about was the story and the characters in the story. Then, the next day, she went to the doctor with dark circles under her eyes.

"Sheng Xiaoju, what's wrong with you?" asked the doctor.

"oh……"

Sheng Xiaoju rubbed her temples, "I didn't sleep well."

After a busy day, Sheng Xiaoju ran out immediately, as if there was a dog chasing behind her.

"Sister-in-law——"

With her heart in her throat, Axia rushed over and grabbed her, "Sister-in-law, please slow down."

"fine."

Sheng Xiaoju, who was in such a hot mood, just said something perfunctory and hurried home.

When she arrived at the side door, the servant didn't open the door. She knocked on the door impatiently, "What are you doing for food? I'm back and you haven't opened the door yet?"

As soon as the door opened a crack, Sheng Xiaoju pushed it open and hurried to Mrs. Lan's yard to ask for a book.

Seeing this, Sister-in-law Lan frowned, with a look of disgust on her face: "A'xia, your sister-in-law is very irritable, you'd better find a few people to take care of her."

Axia was not very happy, "How can others be as careful as me?"

Auntie Lan: "No matter how careful you are, you are just a person with one pair of eyes and one pair of hands. If you have something urgent, what will you do if something happens?"

Sheng Xiaoju, who was reading with gusto, raised her head and said, "Axia, it's not like you can't serve us when we invite people. You can keep an eye on them every day. If anyone doesn't serve me well, roll up your sleeves and kill her!"

"All right."

Axia reluctantly agreed, "Then let's go look for it tomorrow."

"good."

The next day, Heng Shan Tang asked two doctors from Tai Hospital to sit in for a consultation, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went to look for hard-working people in person.

The capital is unlike their place. As far as I can see, there is not a single person selling their bodies. After a day of walking, everyone is extremely tired when they return home.

"It seems that this is fate." Axia couldn't bear her excitement, "We'd better stop looking for her and let me take care of my sister-in-law."

"It's not fate." Sheng Xiaoju held her forehead, Axia had probably been waiting for her to say something, but the family really needed some polite servants.

She said, “Originally I planned to hire someone, but now it seems I’d better buy someone.”

"Ah?" A'xia and A'sao Lan looked at each other, and then asked together: "How do people buy it?"

"You'll know tomorrow."

Sheng Xiaoju went to Butler Zhang to ask about his connections, introduced a nanny, and later bought ten slaves.

Looking at them, it's like seeing myself in a previous life.

Sheng Xiaoju couldn't help but tremble while holding their prostitution contract.

"Xiaoju..." Butler Zhang held her hand and said softly: "I know you are kind-hearted and think that buying and selling slaves is not good, but this is the way to survive. Don't be so soft-hearted that you tear up the contract of sale just because you feel pity for others.

That way no one will thank you, and it's easy to offend people."

"I understand." She sniffed, tears welling up in her eyes.

It turns out that she has really become the person I hate the most.

"I still won't buy it." Sheng Xiaoju retreated.

"No." Butler Zhang said, "Don't think they are pitiful, but this is their fate. After becoming a criminal, being a slave can get a good master, which is also a blessing they gained from their previous life."

"After the sinner?" Sheng Xiaoju's eyes widened, "What if the family is really a son of a good family and was sold?"

"It's his parents' fate to sell him." Butler Zhang said, "Xiaoju, everyone has their own destiny, so don't meddle in other people's business."

"..."

It turns out that in front of the real nobles, the slave's hope is so ridiculous.

For a moment, Sheng Xiaoju didn't want to buy it.

Butler Zhang tried to persuade her to no avail and left in anger.

After walking a few steps, he came back, worried and whispered a few words, and finally said: "This is the only way to scare the chickens and scare the monkeys. Don't be soft-hearted."

"Um."

Sheng Xiaoju prevaricated and sent the people away. When she came back, she saw a group of people who had been bought kneeling in front of Mrs. Lan, crying and shouting that they were deceived into selling them. They were not slaves, but good family members. Please give in.

They go home.

At that moment, Butler Zhang's words before leaving rang in his ears: "They will catch you being soft-tempered. I beg you to let them go. Don't be soft-hearted!"

Looking at them, I woke up instantly.

If you buy someone and then let him go, and his temper is manipulated, wouldn't he be a slave whose mind is being controlled?

Thinking of this, Sheng Xiaoju said to Axia: "Axia, the time to establish your dignity has come. You can do whatever you want."
Chapter completed!