Xiaosheng is not a nerd

Chapter 1758 Bought a Person
Because he had already agreed with Qin Chushang to be his Prince Xiaoyao and not interfere in the affairs of Central Plains, Xie Fu still dressed up a little.

The name of Xie Fu, the governor of Huainan Road and the Prince of Lingnan, has long been known throughout the world. As the saying goes, a tall tree attracts the wind, so it is easier to get things done by concealing his identity.

Jiancheng is located in the ancient Shu. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the ancient Shu bordered on Ba in the east, Yue in the south, Qin in the north, and E'an in the west. The place was known as Tianfu.

Legend has it that his ancestor was the son of the emperor who married the daughter of Shushan clan and had a son, Gaoyang, who became Emperor Zhuanxu. He granted his branches the title of marquis in Shu and made them nobles for generations.

The road to Shu is difficult to travel, with countless dangerous passes, thickets, and turbulent waters along the way. Therefore, from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the present, ancient Shu has always been a remote and mysterious place.

No matter how chaotic and warlike the world is outside, the ancient Shu land is as peaceful as a paradise.

Later, an official road, the Jinniu Road, was built.

The Jinniu Road is 2,000 miles long. It passes through the Qinling Mountains and leads to the 800-mile Qinchuan. It is unknown how many passes, narrow gorges, and bad waters it passes through. It is considered the most difficult route.

Although Wei Shouguo was once the governor of Jiannan Road, his jurisdiction was excluded from the core area of ​​ancient Shu and focused on the southwest.

Jiancheng, the country within a country, is also a place that Wei Shouguo cannot get involved in. It is like a big rock in the middle of a clear pond, impervious to any water.

Xie Fu traveled west from Lingnan and entered the Jiannan Road area, then went all the way north from Jiannan Road, then went around west, and then went from west to east to enter ancient Shu. It can be said that he went around in circles.

There were few people along the way, and only when entering the plain did they gradually see populated towns. Xie Fu asked along the way about the location of Jiancheng. The strange thing was that very few people knew the exact location of Jiancheng. Even if they had heard of Jiancheng, they could only give Xie Fu a general direction.

Perhaps it was because of the poor transportation and the people I asked were all people from the wilderness, or perhaps Jiancheng was too mysterious.

One day, I came to a town market and saw a group of people gathered together.

Fu got closer and saw a middle-aged man shouting on the platform, with a young and beautiful woman standing next to him. After listening for a while, he realized that the middle-aged man was selling his wife.

Xie Fu was curious. Although the ancient Shu land was not as prosperous as the south of the Yangtze River, there had been no disasters along the way, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Although their clothes were simple and plain, they were not tattered. How could there be such a thing as selling wives and children?

Xie Fu had also seen the practice of selling wives and children. Most of them were caused by famine, and they had no food to eat while wandering. They did not want their wives and children to starve to death, so they sold them to wealthy families as slaves. It was a helpless act.

After asking an old man nearby, I learned that in the ancient Shu land, selling and buying wives was a common thing. Ordinary families in the ancient Shu land did not have the concept of marrying a legitimate wife. Many men saved money all their lives just to marry a woman and have a child to carry on the family line and have an extra laborer in the family.

After hearing what the old man said, Xie Fu felt that this was a very normal thing, like the custom of the ancient Shu land.

The old man saw Xie Fu's doubts and said, "Man, are you from another place?"

Xie Fu smiled and nodded. The old man asked again, "Are you interested in this girl?"

Xie Fu smiled again. He had seen many beauties, and the woman in front of him was just pretty in his eyes. However, for ordinary people, she was already a beautiful bride that they could satisfy.

"Don't tell me you like her. I, an old man, also like this young woman. It would be a wonderful thing to have a young lady to serve you. But I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money."

While Xie Fu was talking to the old man, a middle-aged man who looked like a wealthy businessman walked onto the stage.

Xie Fu curiously asked the old man, "I don't think this man is someone who needs a wife."

The old man whispered, "What do you know? This man is a businessman who travels all over the country. He bought this woman as his wife, and after the business is done, he resold her."

Xie Fu was surprised: "It can be like this!"

The old man sneered: "Buy and sell, buy and sell, you look like you have never seen the world."

When the shopkeeper who was selling the woman saw that the rich businessman was interested, he asked the woman to walk a few steps in front of the businessman and even twisted her waist, which immediately aroused the rich businessman's desire.

Seeing that the rich businessman had taken the bait, the shopkeeper struck while the iron was hot and said that the woman's name was Xiao Yu'er, she was eighteen years old, and had only been with three men so far. She could be said to be a real virgin, so the price was a bit higher, only fifty taels of silver.

The rich businessman was obviously an old hand. He lifted the woman's chin and looked at her speech, then looked at her from head to toe. He said that the woman was at least twenty-three and above, and asked for thirty taels of silver.

The shopkeeper was a little unhappy and said that the woman's posture was like a lotus emerging from the water, swaying in the wind. He asked the woman to take a few more steps and lifted up the hem of her skirt, revealing her snow-white thighs. This made the onlookers' eyes red with anger. The old man next to Xie Fu drooled and wished he could buy the woman immediately to take her home to warm his quilt, but he was short of money.

Only the rich businessman remained calm and was only willing to offer forty taels at most. The two sides then bargained for a while.

The shopkeeper glanced at the crowd and saw that everyone was dressed in ordinary clothes and no one could afford the high price of fifty. He was about to agree when Xie Fu walked up and carried the item.

The shopkeeper smiled when he saw another buyer. He quickly glanced at Xie Fu and saw that he was neither well nor badly dressed and looked dusty. It was obvious that he was a traveler who could not afford to buy anything.

But in order to raise the price, he still asked politely: "Sir, how about you, you are also interested?"

Xie Fu had just heard the shopkeeper say that this woman was from Jiancheng, a good place, so he planned to buy her and use her as a guide, so as to save him from asking around along the way. He was straightforward: "Fifty taels, I'll buy her."

When the rich businessman heard someone was trying to grab it, he quickly said, "I was here first, so I'll give you fifty taels!"

"Sixty taels!" Xie Fu didn't waste any time and directly raised the price by ten taels.

The rich businessman was unhappy when he heard this: "Hey, you are here to mess things up, right?"

The shopkeeper didn't expect such a good thing to happen, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, sixty taels, the lady is yours."

The rich businessman tried to stop him and asked the shopkeeper, "You arranged this person, right?"

The shopkeeper smiled apologetically: "If it was me who arranged the trust, why would I sell it to him and not to you?"

The rich businessman said loudly: "I'll offer you 65 taels. No need to argue anymore. Just sell it to me at this price."

Xie Fu mocked: "Stingy, seven..."

Before he could even utter the word "Shizi", the rich businessman let out a cry and suddenly attacked Xie Fu. Xie Fu grabbed the rich businessman's hand and gently pushed him off the stage, causing him to fall flat on his face.

From beginning to end, the woman watched coldly, showing no emotion, as if she didn't care who sold her.

In the end, Xie Fu spent sixty taels to buy the woman and left amid the envious gazes of the crowd.

The woman followed Xie Fu and saw that Xie Fu looked very happy, as if he had bought something that he was satisfied with. She finally said, "You were cheated by the shopkeeper. Goods like mine are worth at most ten taels of silver."

Xie Fu looked back at the woman and saw that she had given him a low price but didn't care. If this happened in Jiangnan, objectifying a woman would be a great insult to her. He smiled and said, "In my eyes, you are priceless."

What Xie Fu meant by priceless was that she was a human being and could not be measured by silver.

The woman had never met a man like Xie Fu, so she didn't understand his subtlety. She thought Xie Fu had chosen her and bought a wife that satisfied him. She sneered and said, "I'll tell you the truth. I have powder on my face. I'm 26 years old this year. First, I can't have children. Second, I'm sick. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been resold to you. I'm worth ten taels of silver at most."

Many men buy wives just to have children to carry on the family line, but if they can't have children, then the wives are worthless.

Xie Fu was stunned for a moment: "Why don't I treat you?"

The woman laughed at herself: "It would cost a lot of money to treat me, who would be willing to spend that money?"

Xie Fu smiled. Seeing that Xie Fu didn't say anything, the woman said, "I see you have saved this money for a long time. You are planning to marry a woman and have a son. Who would have thought that you would buy a hen that can't lay eggs."

The woman actually chuckled as she spoke: "How about this, you find a place with more people, I'll keep it a secret for you and sell me out, this way you won't lose too much money."

Xie Fu smiled faintly: "You are a very nice person."

The woman sneered: "Okay! I'm just afraid that you will blame me and take your anger out on me in the future. Then I won't have a good life."

Xie Fu smiled faintly: "No, since I bought it, I won't regret it."

"No! What man isn't petty? What's more, he spent all his life's savings to buy a piece of junk. He will never be able to calm down even if he beats and scolds him for the rest of his life."

Xie Fu smiled and said, "If I sell you to someone else, your fate will still be the same."

The woman laughed and said, "It's hard to say. For you, sixty taels is a lifetime savings, but for some people it's just a drop in the bucket. They just think of it as a losing deal, and they won't take it out on me. If you want to use me for a few days, I'm happy to do it, but I'm afraid you can't do it. I stink. If you don't believe me, squat down and smell it."

Xie Fu naturally wouldn't really squat down to smell it, and smiled faintly; "Let's find a place to eat first."

The woman followed him and said, "I'm telling you first, I don't know how to work, so you won't regret it later."

Xie Fu did not respond. He just found a restaurant on the street and ordered a table of food and wine.

I don’t know if the last person who bought her was mean, but the woman was obviously hungry. As soon as the food was served on the table, she started eating without any hesitation.

Xie Fu originally wanted to ask her where Jiancheng was, but seeing that she kept eating, he didn't find a chance to ask her anything.

The woman also noticed that Xie Fu had been staring at her, and said with a smile: "Have you never seen a woman, or have you never touched a woman?" "I have never seen a woman as beautiful as you."

Xie Fu was not like this before. No one knows when he became such a talkative person. Maybe it’s because there are so many women in his family who need to be coaxed, and coaxing him has become a habit.

The woman smiled and said, "After dinner, let's find an inn. I'll take a bath and let you see enough of me. It's also a way to repay you for the meal. You can sell me tomorrow."

Xie Fu smiled and said, "I won't sell it anymore."

The woman chuckled and said, "Then wait a few days before selling it. But I think you will lose your appetite after tonight. Some things may look shiny on the surface, but they are actually rotten inside."

"I don't plan to sell it." Xie Fu planned to let her go after arriving in Jiancheng.

The woman stopped trying to persuade him and continued eating.

Xie Fu asked: "What's your name?"

"My name is Xiao Yu'er."

"Xiao Yu'er, I just heard from downstairs that you are from Jiancheng?"

Xiao Yuer suddenly stopped, motionless, and her face changed color.

Xie Fu thought he was asking something he shouldn't be asking, but he saw Xiao Yu'er covering her stomach with both hands. Her face turned pale, and even her powder couldn't cover it. Sweat broke out on her forehead. "My stomach hurts!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she rolled her eyes in pain and fell to the ground, fainting from the pain. The hem of her skirt below her lower abdomen was stained with a pool of blood.

Xie Fu was surprised and quickly squatted down to check. He immediately smelled a foul odor and almost vomited out what he had just eaten. Then he remembered that the woman had said that she was sick.

He didn't care about anything else. He paid for the meal and hurried to find a doctor without telling the woman.

In the clinic, after a thorough examination, the doctor frowned and asked, "Who are you to her?"

Xie Fu simply responded: "I am her husband."

"Your wife is ill, and very ill, don't you know?"

"I come back all year round, and I just came back to see if her disease can be cured."

The doctor said, "It was originally just a minor illness, but it has become a serious illness if you delay treatment. If you don't treat it, your life will be in danger."

"Doctor, please heal me quickly."

"Let me tell you first, this disease requires two relatively expensive herbs, and it will cost a lot of money to cure it."

"Don't worry about the silver."

After saying this, the doctor was unmoved. Xie Fu suddenly realized and took out five taels of silver. The doctor glanced at it and said indifferently: "I told you, this is not a minor illness. It requires two expensive herbs."

Xie Fu was getting impatient: "Doctor, just tell me how much money you need?"

"Fifteen taels!"

"You are a husband with a conscience. If it were someone else, they might have given up."

Xie Fu felt that this doctor had no medical ethics and was trying to cheat him, but he didn't care whether he was cheating him or not until he saw that the doctor used two expensive medicinal herbs, old ginseng and deer antler. Only then did he believe that the doctor was not cheating him.

The doctor handed the medicine to Xie Fu and instructed: "Don't get out of bed for the next three days, take good care of yourself, and take the medicine on time."

When Xie Fu heard that he had to take care of the woman for three days, his brows frowned, because he still had to hurry on his journey.

The doctor saw his expression and said unhappily, "You are so impatient after three days. You still have time to waste on this disease. If you find it troublesome, just don't treat it. I will return the money to you now."

"Heal it, heal it." Although he doesn't like to meddle in other people's affairs now, he won't go to the extent of watching someone die without helping.

He carried the woman out of the clinic, found an inn to settle down in, put the woman on the bed, and started to boil medicine for her.

He smiled bitterly while boiling the medicine. He originally wanted to buy someone to lead the way, but unexpectedly he bought a trouble. Ling Luo was right. Don't interfere with other people's karma.

I wondered how I could have become so hard-hearted. Perhaps it was because after he became a prince, he got used to dealing with issues rather than people. Being merciful to people would not solve the problem at all. Only by solving the issue could both the people and the issue be solved.

After the medicine was ready, it was already dark. He woke the woman up, helped her up, supported her back, and fed her the medicine.

The woman didn't know if she was not fully awake, she kept glancing at him. Xie Fu explained, "You are sick. I just saw a doctor, and he said you will get better after taking some medicine."

The woman glanced at Xie Fu and wanted to say something, but in the end she said nothing.

After Xie Fu fed her the medicine, he went to get some water. He saw the woman's eyes were wet, and it was obvious that she had just cried. He smiled and said, "Don't worry, this disease can be cured."

“You’re going to regret this,” the woman said.

"What do you regret?"

"I regret spending so much money on me."

Xie Fu didn't say anything. He wrung out the towel and wiped her face. After the makeup was wiped off her face, her beauty was greatly reduced and she was just an ordinary woman.

The woman was also a family member who knew her own business, so she said, "When I get better, I will dress you up and help you sell for a good price. You are the best man I have ever met."

Xie Fu smiled faintly: "You were just unlucky before, but from today on your luck will get better and better."

The woman stopped talking.

"I'll get you something to eat."

Xie Fu left after saying this.

While feeding the woman porridge, the woman looked at Xie Fu from time to time, which made Xie Fu feel embarrassed. He couldn't help asking: "Why do you keep looking at me like this?"

The woman said, "If I hadn't been sick, I would have followed you. It doesn't matter if it's a little hard."

Xie Fu smiled and said, "I've already told you that this disease can be cured."

The woman laughed at herself and said, "Someone was willing to treat me before, but this disease is too expensive, so he gave up after less than half a month."

Xie Fu smiled and said, "Is he as good as me?"

"Well, as lustful as you are, I am also an ordinary person with a conscience, but I am not Guanyin Bodhisattva."

Xie Fu laughed: "Am I doing this just to get you, or your body?"

"What do you want?"

The woman touched her hair with her fingers and said with a smile, "I look pretty good after dressing up, right?"

Xie Fu smiled and nodded, looking at her green fingers, which obviously had never done any rough work.

The woman noticed it and chuckled: "You've never seen such beautiful hands on a woman, have you?"

Xie Fu gave a perfunctory response, saying that a woman's hands were considered too weak if she had never done any rough work.

The woman took the initiative to hold Xie Fu's hand, letting him feel its softness and delicateness, and then placed Xie Fu's hand on her chest.

Xie Fu was stunned for a moment, but his hands were already one step faster than his brain and he pinched it. This has been a habit he has developed over the years, just like a swordsman who has been wandering the world for many years and will draw his sword when he encounters an enemy.

Perhaps it was the contrast between Xie Fu's expression and his palm that caused the woman to chuckle: "Have you never wiped a woman's semen?"

Xie Fu smiled, withdrew his hand, covered the woman with the quilt, and left the room.

In the face of beauty, he could already talk and laugh cheerfully, and the only thing that could shock him was the rich emotions in his heart.

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