Chapter 801: The Long Aotian Protagonist Gets Sold

"Let him go." Gu Baishuang said.

There was quite a bit of disheartenment in her tone.

Gu Baishuang owned shops and businesses in Shengjing and had bought a mansion. Even if she didn’t return to Nie Xiaofeng’s General Mansion, she still had a place to go and a good life.

If Nie Xiaofeng insisted she swallow her grievances and make peace with Nie Mingyuan and the two stepsons, she might as well do without this son.

"We must not let Nie Mingyuan affect our mood."

Gu Baishuang soon came to terms. After all, the people had arrived, and worrying was useless.

Her family was by her side, and whatever she did, Tong Huaqiong and others would support her. She wouldn’t be isolated and helpless.

Thinking about this, Gu Baishuang’s mood became calm.

Tong Huaqiong said, "We’ll talk about the Nie Family affairs later. Since Nie Mingyuan and the two sons have plans for you, they will be wary of you. He won’t be able to manipulate them."

Everyone laughed at these words.

Snow began to fall outside the window once again.

Adding a festive atmosphere to the holiday season.

Under the window, a plum blossom was urged open by the wind and snow, and its shadow swayed against the window, extraordinarily beautiful.

The dining table was filled with sumptuous dishes, and the opened liquor emitted a tempting aroma.

Everyone sat together and ate the first reunion meal after Gu Dahuan returned to the capital.

After the meal, Tong Huaqiong ordered people to cut open the honey melon that the Grandson had sent.

Everyone’s eyes lit up; being able to eat honey melon in the winter was better than being immortal.

After dinner, it was still early.

Tong Huaqiong, considering the travel fatigue of Gu Dahuan and Gu Xiaoxue and others, urged them to rest.

Especially Gu Dahuan, who hadn’t seen his wife and daughter for several months, surely missed them and would have many private words to say.

Liu Yueer also had words to say to her father and brother.

After the first and second family households returned to their rooms, Gu Xiaoxue did not want to sleep. Having traveled all the way north from Qinghe Bay, she didn’t feel tired at all; instead, she was very energetic.

She was already eager to explore Shengjing.

Moreover, she had many words to say to Tong Huaqiong.

Tong Huaqiong asked Gu Xiaoxue, "Did your parents and grandparents oppose this time you came to Shengjing?"

Gu Xiaoxue laughed and said, "Oppose! Of course, they opposed!"

Gu Xiaoxue had earned quite a bit of silver at the Weaving Workshop. Not only did Gu Youtian, Mrs. Jia, and the old Mr. and Mrs. Gu remember her money, but Gu Ruinian and Wu Na also remembered.

The old Mr. and Mrs. Gu had seen Gu Xiaoxue’s attempt to poison the whole family, so they dared to remember but didn’t dare to act on it.

Wu Na, who hadn’t seen Gu Xiaoxue’s madness, still thought Gu Xiaoxue was the transparent person who only worked quietly in a corner in her memory.

Needing money urgently after childbirth, Wu Na set her sights on Gu Xiaoxue’s money.

Taking advantage of Gu Fengnian and Mrs. Wei’s absence, and when Gu Xiaoxue went to work, with only Gu Yaojia’s child at home, she snuck into Gu Xiaoxue’s room.

She turned Gu Xiaoxue’s room upside down but found no silver, and was caught by Gu Xiaoxue coming off work while prying open the lock on the wooden box under the bed.

Gu Xiaoxue let Wu Na witness how terrifying madness could be.

Wu Na was scratched by Gu Xiaoxue, screaming painfully, and since then only dared to avoid her.

Gu Xiaoxue said, "My silver has all been exchanged into silver notes stored in your Jufu Money Shop, Auntie. I only kept some loose silver on me."

Gu Taohua said, "It surely wasn’t Wu Na’s idea alone to ransack your room. Ruinian’s instigation cannot be ruled out."

Gu Xiaoxue nodded and said, "My good second brother always hides in the shadows to provoke. If there’s a benefit, it’s his; if there’s no benefit, he remains invisible. Either way, he profits. This time I didn’t let him go. I beat my second brother as well."

Gu Xiaoxue chased Wu Na, driving her all the way to the old Gu Family residence.

Seeing Gu Ruinian, Wu Na felt as if she saw a savior, shouting for Gu Ruinian to teach Gu Xiaoxue a lesson.

Before Gu Ruinian could act, Gu Xiaoxue knocked him out with a stick.

Because of this, the old Mr. Gu punished Gu Xiaoxue to kneel in the ancestral hall, or else the Gu Family would no longer have her as a disobedient daughter. Gu Xiaoxue declared she would rather be removed from the family than kneel in the hall.

What does the ancestral hall have to do with her?

Whether for worshiping or sweeping the graves, she wasn’t allowed in, but when it comes to punishment, she’s let in.

In the end, the old Mr. Gu was so furious, this matter was left unsettled.

The old Mrs. Gu then clapped her leg and cursed Gu Xiaoxue, her curses extending to Tong Huaqiong.

The old Mrs. Gu always believed that Gu Xiaoxue became the madwoman with no respect for elders because she followed Tong Huaqiong.

After being taught a lesson by Gu Xiaoxue, Wu Na and Gu Ruinian were unwilling to give up. They started secretly scheming, plotting against Gu Xiaoxue’s marriage.

Among all the girls in the village, only Gu Xiaoxue was not engaged.

Wu Na and Gu Ruinian urged Gu Youtian to arrange a marriage for Gu Xiaoxue.

They said it was an engagement, but it was essentially selling Gu Xiaoxue for profit for the old Gu Family residence.

Thus, the candidates chosen for her were either old widowers whose sons were about to marry or playboys indulging in drinking, gambling, and debauchery.

Not a single normal family.

Upon learning this, Gu Xiaoxue chased the matchmaker out and had a big argument with Gu Youtian and Mrs. Jia.

Wu Na fanned the flames with her in-laws, "What are you afraid of her for? Is she a girl who can earn more than her parents? Once you’ve determined her marriage, tie her up and send her in a bridal sedan to the groom’s house, once she bows and enters the bridal chamber, she’ll become obedient. If she still doesn’t listen, have the brother-in-law beat her to death. Once she gives birth after a year or half, even if she wants to run, she won’t be able to."

Gu Xiaoxue, hearing this, discussed it with Li Mingxiu.

The decision they came to was to sell Gu Ruinian and Wu Na.

They didn’t sell them to others but to Boss Qian’s household in the same village as servants.

Gu Xiaoxue found a ya po and slipped her a silver or two, and she tricked them into blindly signing the indenture contract.

Until Boss Qian’s steward came to claim them, they didn’t know they had signed their own indenture contracts. Until then, they always assumed they signed Gu Xiaoxue’s indenture contract.

Gu Youtian and Mrs. Jia were so angry they spat out blood.

Old Mr. Gu yelled about reporting to the government, but Boss Qian brought out the indenture contract, with Gu Ruinian’s signature and Wu Na’s fingerprint. Their contracts were already on record with the government.

The family having two servants, old Mr. Gu felt he brought shame to the ancestors and went to cry at the ancestral hall.

"They were sold together for fifty taels of silver," Gu Xiaoxue said. "It’s written in black and white, and they can’t renege. My parents don’t have money to buy back their freedom, so they can only work as servants at Boss Qian’s house to repay their indenture. They begged me for silver to buy their freedom, but I said I had no silver."

From Gu Xiaoxue’s words, Tong Huaqiong learned that Gu Ruinian and Wu Na had no hope of buying back their freedom, and helplessly had to beg Boss Qian to let them work at the tavern in the town. At least in the tavern, they could have some food.

Boss Qian refused, stating that the tavern hires clerks, and they were sold to Boss Qian as private servants and could only work in his house.

Boss Qian was kind-hearted. Knowing that Gu Ruinian and Wu Na were eager to buy their freedom, he relented, saying he would free them if they had the silver to buy back their freedom.

The old Gu Family residence had lost its credibility among friends and in Qinghe Bay; they couldn’t borrow money and could only watch Gu Ruinian and Wu Na suffer at Boss Qian’s house.

Now, gu Ruinian and Wu Na were assigned by Mr. Qian to work in the fields.

Boss Qian owned a lot of land, and the two of them worked hard in the fields, unable to rest day by day.

Tong Huaqiong sighed, saying these two finally got what they deserved.

Gu Ruinian would be the first Dragon Aotian protagonist she encountered in a historical novel to be sold by ancient people.