Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 407: Ruthless (1)_1

Chapter 407: Chapter 407: Ruthless (1)_1

The Tang Family’s house was situated towards the back of the village. Due to the lack of labor in the Tang Family, when they were settled in Liu Yang Village last year, they only built a narrow three-room thatched cottage. It seemed quite pitiable compared to the spacious cottages of their neighbors.

Though the weather was very cold, the commotion caused by the Tang Family’s selling of their daughter was too great, drawing all the surrounding villagers to come and watch. Now, the Tang Family’s doorstep was surrounded by people, three layers deep on the outside. The thick snow on the ground was trampled down quite a bit, leaving behind yellowish-brown mud footprints.

"Mother Yu, it’s not that I’m boasting, but my little girl has been beautiful since she was young. Back in our hometown, all the boys in the village loved talking to her. I had hoped to raise her well and find her a good marriage, but we are so poor we can’t even lift the lid off our pot. Otherwise, why would I bear to send her away?"

In the main room, Tang Yushi was disingenuously wiping away her tears, praising her stepdaughter’s beauty to Mother Niu, who specialized in scouting girls for the brothel, as if to say, just add a bit more silver because the girl is pretty!

"I understand what you mean, but the girl’s beauty might be alright in a backwater like this. It doesn’t amount to much in bigger places," said the woman known as Mother Yu, pulling the corner of her eye and giving Tang Xin a sidelong glance, while she spoke undistinguished words but her heart was extremely satisfied.

She looked down on Tang Yushi’s greedy display, but this was how she lived a life of luxury. Moreover, the girl truly had a good look. Such merchandise was highly sought after in the famous establishments, and she stood to make a tidy profit.

"Mother Yu, I’m a straightforward person, speaking straightforward words. What the girl looks like isn’t a mystery, like lice on a monk’s head. If you are sincere, at least give me a straight answer, right?"

Tang Yushi, hearing this, felt somewhat dissatisfied in her heart. She had been watching that wretched girl since childhood, always appearing foxy and sly, hoping to sell her for a good price. If she couldn’t get a good offer, it would better to have her toil at home for another three to five years, then get some betrothal silver, which would be worth it.

"I’ve come a long way, stepping high and low to get here, naturally I’m serious." As Tang Yushi watched enviously, Mother Yu proudly touched the gilded hairpin on her head, speaking deliberately, "Considering we share the surname Yu, and were one family five hundred years ago, I won’t shortchange you. Tell me, what’s your price?"

Tang Yushi’s heart leapt with joy, as if she were already holding bundles of silver in her hands. She rubbed her hands back and forth, her voice even stuttering a little, "This, this I cannot say well, it’s better for you, Mother Yu, to give a number. Let’s sit down and discuss this slowly."

Although last time Lao Mo’s House sold a granddaughter, the trafficker talked about getting forty taels of silver, but whether that was true or false, who knew? If she asked for too much and scared the buyer away, what then? If she asked for too little, she would lose out. Better let the woman state a price, then she could try to raise it a bit.

Mother Yu could easily see through Tang Yushi’s thoughts, feeling even more contempt. Such a brainless and spineless fool, destined for a life of scraping by. But such people were the easiest to deal with. She was certain to make a fortune this time.

With that thought, her face revealed a trace of a smile, appearing quite sincere, "One price, twenty-two, if you agree, we can sign the contract now."

Saying that, she pulled two shiny ingots of silver from her sleeve, each weighing ten taels, which made Tang Yushi, who saw so much silver for the first time, dumbstruck.

Twenty-two?

When the onlooking villagers heard this, and compared it to the eight Tael Silver that Lao Mo’s House got for selling a granddaughter, those with a quick wit guessed that she intended to sell her stepdaughter to such a vile place, and they couldn’t help but inwardly sigh, "What a sin."

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