Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress
Chapter 966 - 968: Set the Date (2)

Chapter 966: Chapter 968: Set the Date (2)

Cai Wei ignored her, but her eyes shifted to each cell. She still remembered that when she was a guest at Duke An’s Mansion, Duke An’s eldest daughter, Du Wanqiu, had a maid named Liuzhu, who was an exceptionally kind girl. Liuzhu had once dared to help Huan Qiu find Fei’er. Knowing this, Cai Wei, who was always clear about gratitude and grudges, wanted to rescue Liuzhu and take her back to serve Fei’er.

When her gaze moved to the cell holding the women of Duke Li Guo’s Mansion, she saw the Duchess, her face ashen as if nearing death, the Second Lady crying hysterically, and the Third Madam, who appeared utterly worn out. From the moment they were seized and their mansion ransacked, all the women had been imprisoned here, treated like merchandise being picked over. Some bandits and nouveau riche, who used to covet the ladies of the marquis’s families, saw a rare opportunity and swarmed in, selecting only the most beautiful women to buy, claiming they were buying them as servants, but everyone knew what they were truly buying them for!

Second room’s Du Wanyue and Du Wanru were bought by a middle-aged man, obese like a pig and with an obscene face, for three hundred taels. The Second Lady had always treasured these two daughters like pearls, and could not bear to see her delicate flowers ravaged, thus she screamed and fought desperately, but after a fierce struggle, she was severely beaten by a maid overseeing them and ultimately lost her two daughters...

The youngest daughter of the Duchess, Du Wanying, was no better off. A butcher familiar with the Tooth granny took a fancy to her and somehow scraped together one hundred taels of silver to buy her freedom.

The butcher, bulky and burly, looked at Du Wanying with eyes like a hungry wolf eyeing meat. Du Wanying, always proud and haughty, saw him in his greasy, shiny common clothes and heard he was a butcher. She screamed and violently refused to go with him, only to be knocked out with a punch and boldly carried away over his shoulder.

The Duchess’s heart broke for her daughter. She too tried to save her, but weakened by a severe illness, she fainted before she could even reach the butcher...

The Third Madam was somewhat better off; she had only one son who was still under eighteen, so he luckily survived. Now confined somewhere unknown, the connection between mother and son tormented the Third Madam as she thought of her son’s future.

All three ladies were there, and even the Old Madame was among them, lying on the brink of death in the corner of the cell, breathing more out than she was breathing in; she would likely pass away within the next day or two...

It seemed that the Great General and his wife were intending to sever ties with these treacherous rebels. They abandoned their own mother-in-law to languish in prison without any inquiry. If he had shown even the slightest care, Duke An’s Mansion would not have fallen to such dire straits!

Cai Wei sighed deeply, her feelings for the people of Duke An’s Mansion now numb; she neither hated them nor sought revenge, but she also would not save them.

As her gaze swept through the crowd, she finally spotted Liuzhu, disheveled and grimy, perhaps fearful of being spotted and picked by some degenerate riff-raff. Liuzhu’s hair was unkempt, and her pretty face was dirtied to hide from view, looking both disheveled and shabby; no wonder her attractive appearance had not yet led to her selection.

Cai Wei gestured to the Tooth granny and pointed out Liuzhu, saying, "It’s her."

Upon hearing this, the Tooth granny immediately went over, took out the keys, and unlocked the door of the cell. She said to Liuzhu, "Miss, you are in good fortune. Just now, this young lady bought you. Once you go with her, you must serve your master well!"

Upon hearing this, Liuzhu hurriedly looked up in Cai Wei’s direction. At that moment, Cai Wei stood in the lamp’s shadow, covering her mouth and nose with a handkerchief. Her face was obscured, but her attire alone was enough to confirm that she was indeed a woman of good standing.