Yang Ruxin snorted coldly, if it weren’t for the need to sell herself for money, would Feng Caie have been so eager? She even made her daughter suppress the incident of getting beaten up previously. It seems she herself is quite valuable. She just wondered how Zhao Feihu would react when he found the silver missing upon returning home, and whether he would still have the interest to come for the matchmaking.
"Soon, Mother will boil some water for you so you can have a good wash..."
"Mother, with Auntie’s character of not getting up early without profit, do you think she really has my best interests at heart? She wants to trade me for silver."
"What?" Xun Hui was startled.
"Anyway, don’t get involved," said Yang Ruxin. She didn’t want to explain too much to Xun Hui for the moment, as Xun Hui, despite having been mistreated for a long time, still believed the other party was family and wouldn’t harm anyone when it came to major issues. So, explaining too much would only make her more upset.
"I..." Xun Hui’s eyes flashed with a hint of loss.
Yang Ruxin pretended not to see it, and instead shook out the clothes, which consisted of a tunic with a white base and red flowers, along with a pair of pants in the same color. Although they were made of coarse ramie, they were very attractive to the kids of the main house.
"So pretty," Sanni said, touching the clothes, her face full of envy.
"Then they’re yours," Yang Ruxin put down the clothes. "But they’re a bit big for you, you can have Erni alter them for you."
"Are you really giving them to me?" Sanni’s eyes widened.
"When has your big sister’s word ever been unreliable?" Yang Ruxin raised her eyebrows slightly.
"Forget it, let’s alter one for each of the younger sister and brother," Sanni said, pushing the clothes into Erni’s hands. "The two of them have never worn new clothes..."
Sini and Xiaofeng immediately showed faces full of surprise.
"But..." Xun Hui became anxious upon hearing this, "these clothes... are for your matchmaking..." She grabbed them back hastily, glaring at the younger ones. "How can you all be so thoughtless?"
The younger ones could only hang their heads in silence.
"Mother, do you know what that Zhao Feihu they talked about does?" Yang Ruxin felt a bit of a headache. Since it had come to this, she might as well come clean to avoid her mother thinking she was unappreciative.
"Isn’t he a purchaser? For the... restaurant..." Xun Hui was slightly stunned, unsure why her daughter was asking this.
"That’s what they said," Yang Ruxin exhaled. "I asked Gu Family’s second brother to inquire in town yesterday. He is a manager at a brothel..."
"What? A brothel?" Xun Hui was shocked.
"Right," Yang Ruxin nodded. "You know what a brothel is, right? It’s a place of selling smiles, a den of vice..."
"He..."
"A manager of a brothel, a person who forces the good into prostitution every day, do you think he could be my good husband?" Yang Ruxin raised her eyebrows slightly. As for the words about them all being taken there, she wouldn’t say them since those were all still in the realm of ’no evidence’. "Maybe the matchmaking is just a front, and they want me to join that dishonorable profession..."
"How could that be?"
"You can find out if you go to town and ask around, can’t you?" Yang Ruxin looked up at Xun Hui. "Baihua Building is easy to find..."
In fact, people like Guo Damouth and Zhao Feihu dared to blatantly traffic humans because they relied on the ignorance of rural people, who had no way of finding out what happens in town.
"How could they do this?" Xun Hui’s tears began to fall. "After all, you are the eldest daughter of the Yang Family. They..." She resolved to confront them with her questions...
"Mother, who are you going to ask?" Yang Ruxin quickly pulled Xun Hui back. "Ask Grandma? Grandma would probably slap you twice and throw you out right away. Ask Auntie? What can you do if she just says she doesn’t know?"