Although Mingruo has lived in Donghuan Emperor for more than half a year, there are only a few places he often goes to. He has never been to the street he is visiting now. Although it is also lively here, the fireworks are stronger and all kinds of things are there.
The cries of small stalls and shops come and go to attract customers.
Not far away, a group of people formed a large circle, and someone inside was beating gongs and singing: "Look, look, go up to the mountain of swords, go down to the sea of fire..."
Mingruo looked up and saw tall wooden stakes standing among the crowd, and a 'ladder' made of sharp blades winding up... A thin woman climbed up on the blades, and there were cheers from all around.
Continuously.
Mingruo only felt that the woman standing on the tip of the knife looked familiar. After thinking for a while, he suddenly remembered - she was the woman who he had rescued before and who later came to hypnotize him into throwing himself into the lake.
Isn't she Miss Jin's maid? Why is she performing on the street again?
The woman stepped on the tip of the knife to climb to the highest point, then came down bit by bit, stepped on the red-hot charcoal, and returned to the people. The onlookers cheered again, and the middle-aged woman held the gong and walked back and forth.
Begging for rewards in the crowd.
At this time, a young man in a silk shirt held a piece of broken silver in his hand and threw it up and down without throwing it into the gong: "You ask the girl to take off her stockings. If there is no mechanism inside, I will give you this piece of silver."
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Although people were curious as to whether there was a mechanism hidden in the girl's socks to protect the soles of her feet. But in these ancient times, if a woman was barefoot in front of others, she had lost her innocence, and most people did not agree.
But a few people started making noises and shouted loudly: "Take it off quickly, I will give you the money if you do."
"Take it off quickly, I have money here too!"
At first, the middle-aged woman had no idea of letting the girl take off her stockings, but when she saw the pieces of silver thrown in the hands of those people, she rushed straight to the girl and pulled her down: "Quickly take off the stockings."
Take off your socks and show everyone that we are practicing real kung fu and there are no tricks!"
Cai Yuan didn't expect her to do this, and was still a little confused when she fell to the ground. After hearing what the woman said, she quickly hid her little feet under her skirt: "Don't... don't let me take off my stockings..."
The middle-aged woman suddenly turned her face, grabbed the soft whip on the side and whipped her: "I bought you for five taels of silver. You can do whatever I ask you to do, and you also learned to talk back... I have rebelled against you.
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The woman swung the whip and whipped her wildly. Caiyuan curled up and had no way to hide, and there were two bloody marks on her cheeks.
Ming Ruo narrowed her eyes. Couldn't this woman be hypnotized? She probably wouldn't have been bullied like this. But looking at her timid look, it didn't look like she was just pretending.
Hey, just be a good person again: "Stop!"
Mingruo's voice was not loud, but the woman stopped immediately. This woman also brought two children to perform before, what can children do? If she didn't perform well, she would get a beating, and the onlookers would watch.
If he doesn't go down, he will throw some coins to persuade him. She can get a lot of coins just by "beating people".
She was already tired after the beating just now, and she longed for someone to come and persuade her. Besides, if she really wanted to beat this stinky girl to death, wouldn't her five taels of silver be wasted?
The middle-aged woman looked at Mingruo, her eyes suddenly brightened - this young lady was well-dressed, and she looked like a rich person: "Madam, you are laughing, I just want to teach this ignorant goddaughter a lesson."
"How about selling your goddaughter to me for five taels of silver?" Ming Ruo remembered that when the woman scolded her just now, she said she bought her for five taels of silver.
The middle-aged woman did not expect that Mingruo was not trying to persuade, but wanted to buy someone directly. She rolled her eyes and said: "I bought her with five taels of silver. She is good, but I have also trained her for a long time. Look at the sword on her body."
The ability to stand in the sea of fire at the foot of the mountain is worth fifty taels!"
When Ming Ruo said that he wanted to buy this girl for five taels of silver, the young men who were teasing Yangzi just now were also interested - this girl is not very beautiful, but she has a special charm. She bought it for five taels of silver.
It's not a loss if you go back, even if you don't like it in the future, you can still serve as a maid. Worst of all, you won't have to worry about not being able to sell it for five taels of silver if you sell it to a flower house.
"Auntie, are you kidding me? You beat her up like this. I spent five taels to buy it back, and I had to pay more than ten taels for her to look at her injuries and give her medicine. If she couldn't be cured, I would have to pay dozens of taels.
"Yeah." Ming Ruo calculated the account carefully, and everyone looked at Cai Yuan who was huddled up in a ball - this girl seemed to be really not well, she almost ran out of energy.
The woman squatted in front of Cai Yuan and stretched out her hand to explore. Sure enough, her breath was very weak, as if she was about to die at any moment.
The middle-aged woman swooped up to Mingruo and stretched out her hand: "Five taels, five taels, I'll sell it!"
"First take out the body deed and let me take a look." Mingruo spread his hands.
The woman took out a body deed from her sleeve pocket. Ming Ruo pretended to look at it, but she couldn't tell whether it was genuine or not. She could only look at Si Haochen with helpless eyes.
Si Haochen raised his eyebrows at her slightly, Mingruo rolled his eyes helplessly, and whispered: "Husband."
"Yes." Si Haochen's deep eyes were filled with a smile and he nodded slightly.
Mingruo took out five taels of silver from his purse and threw it to the middle-aged woman: "Here."
The woman took the silver, fearing that Mingruo would regret it, so she put the gong under her arm, picked up the 'Knife Mountain' wooden stake with her backhand, and ran away as fast as flying. Mingruo was stunned. This was the legendary person who could 'change money with one hand'
Bottled water' for women...
After watching the fun, the crowd gradually dispersed. Mingruo walked to the girl and squatted down: "Everyone has left, you can get up."
As a doctor with very good medical skills, Mingruo could naturally tell that the girl's injuries looked serious but were not fatal in fact. It was just to cooperate with him that she appeared to be dying.
Cai Yuan got up from the ground and kowtowed to Mingruo: "Thank you so much, my benefactor, for saving me."
Mingruo took out a bottle of golden sore medicine from his 'sleeve pocket' and gave it to her along with the body deed: "Thank you, there's no need. As long as the next time I see you, you're not so miserable and don't want to harm me, that's fine.
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Caiyuan clenched the golden sore medicine in her hand and returned the deed to Mingruo: "Since my benefactor has bought this slave, I will become yours. She will never run away or rebel against her master."
Ming Ruo is short of manpower, but he doesn't want to rush people into the palace. He must not have the intention of harming others, and must have the intention of guarding against others. "Okay, I will arrange a place for you to recuperate first."
Mingruo hired a carriage and planned to take Cai Yuan to a medicine hall first. The three of them got on the carriage, and Cai Yuan huddled in the corner of the carriage cautiously.
After a long silence, Mingruo suddenly spoke: "You can't hypnotize and control people's hearts. Why do you let others beat you and not resist?"
