Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 1056 - 340: Influence, Rumors

Chapter 1056: Chapter 340: Influence, Rumors

Speaking of which, Mo Erni was quite unlucky. Initially, after having found herself a godfather, she had barely convinced him to take her away from the Xue Family and successfully managed to enter the then influential Lin Family in Jing City’s government.

She had been doing quite well in the Lin Family, gradually gaining the trust of Young Mistress Lin, and was about to become the number one person by the Young Mistress’s side. She would soon have been able to wield the Lin Family’s power and triumphantly return to Liu Yang Village to seek revenge on the Mo Family. However, that’s when she received the news that Mo Yan had been appointed as County Lord, forcing her to bitterly suppress her desires to destroy the Mo Family and wait for a better opportunity to exact her revenge.

What she had never imagined was that the Lin Family, which seemed like a towering mountain in her eyes, would be raided overnight. As a servant of the Lin Family, she was branded as an Official Slave and eventually sold to a brothel, plunging her into a life worse than death.

The moment she was crushed beneath a corpulent and vile patron, Mo Erni’s resentment reached an unprecedented depth. She resented the injustice of fate for making her the daughter of a poor family; she resented Mrs. Hong’s malice for selling her to human traffickers; she resented the incompetence of Mo Yonglu and Mrs. Niu for giving birth to her and then failing to protect her...

Yet, the one she hated the most was Mo Yan. Every misfortune in her life began with the Mo Family, and it was because Mo Yan’s fortunes improved that she gradually fell into this wretched state... In plain terms, such thoughts were purely fueled by jealousy. She was unable to alter her own fate, yet she despised those who could. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have repeatedly made outrageous decisions out of envy, and it was these decisions that had cornered her into such dire straits, truly embodying the saying: One reaps what one sows!

Nevertheless, Mo Erni refused to reflect on this and stubbornly believed that it was all someone else’s fault, that others had wronged her, and now that her situation was more miserable, the hatred in her heart grew even deeper.

At the beginning of this year, Mo Yonglu brought his family to the city to make a living. Illiterate and without any particular skills, he could only earn a meager income by working as a laborer, moving goods for people and supporting his family.

Pressured by the demands of survival, Mrs. Niu too had to go out and find work to do. Being not young and lacking any special skills, she could only do the same tiring and low-paying jobs as Mo Yonglu. Eventually, she managed to find a job changing night pots, which meant shuttling through various brothels in Jing City.

Working in such places sounded disgraceful, and many who changed night pots were unwilling to do so; if not, the job would never have fallen to Mrs. Niu.

However, Mrs. Niu could have never dreamed that she would encounter her daughter, who had been sold into prostitution, in such a filthy and deplorable place. She nearly went mad trying to pull Mo Erni out, only to be severely beaten by the brothel’s bouncers for causing a scene.

Because of this incident, Mrs. Niu lost even that night pot-changing job. With injuries all over her body, she returned to the ramshackle house where they were temporarily staying and recounted the encounter with Mo Erni to Mo Yonglu.

Mo Yonglu, at least, had some wits about him and didn’t make a scene at the brothel’s doorstep. Clutching the only hundred or so Wen Money he had, he managed to bribe the person guarding the back door of Mo Erni’s brothel. Then, taking advantage of the busy night when the brothel’s attention was elsewhere, he disguised himself as a patron and entered through the back door, miraculously finding the Mo Erni who was accompanying clients.

Mo Erni’s appearance was unremarkable, and she lacked any artistic talent, so she was relegated to being the lowest kind of prostitute in the brothel. She had an endless line of clients every day, all vulgar and crude, none of whom ever bought her gifts, making her plight akin to hell on Earth, rendering her life not worth living.

When Mo Yonglu found her, although Mo Erni bitterly resented her father’s incompetence for failing to prevent her from being sold and thus putting her in this humiliating predicament, the yearning for freedom and hatred towards the Mo Family suppressed her resentment towards her parents, and she tearfully begged Mo Yonglu to rescue her.

Mo Yonglu already felt guilty towards his daughter, how could he refuse? However, when Mo Erni detailed the method of her redemption, he found himself facing two insurmountable problems, neither of which he could solve.

Unlike those who had entered ordinary servitude and could redeem themselves under the right conditions, Official Slaves couldn’t. Even if they were redeemed by their families, they would still be Official Slaves and could not shake off their servile status, unless they found solid connections and paid a large sum of silver, only then, was it possible to regain their status as a good citizen.

To see Mo Erni, Mo Yonglu was already penniless. Even if Mo Erni was the lowest kind of prostitute, the silver required for her redemption wouldn’t be less than two hundred taels. If one wanted to remove the slave status, even if one found someone who could talk to the government, it would require the same or even more silver to grease the wheels, and Mo Yonglu, utterly impoverished, could not afford such an amount.

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