Chapter 128: Competing with the Princess for the Talented Scholar

  As I walked into the crowd, I saw that it was indeed two girls kneeling on the ground, with a crooked and slanted wooden board between them, on which were written several words: "Selling my body to bury my father!"

  I carefully sized them up, and they looked quite clever, but I didn't know what their temperaments were like. I squatted down in front of them and asked softly: "How long has your father been gone?"

  The slightly older girl lifted her head, wiped away tears and said: "It's been two days and one night, we're unfilial, it's been so long and we still haven't let him be buried!"

  Looking at them with red-rimmed eyes, although I didn't see their father's body laid out here, I couldn't help but believe it. I actually wanted to buy them, but also had a mind to test them. I took the silver from Fourth Wife's hand and took out two ingots to give to them, saying: "This silver is for you to bury your father, should be enough."

  The people around me saw that I was so generous with my money, and they were all amazed. These two silver ingots were enough for an ordinary family of five to spend a year.

  The girl's hands trembled as she held the silver, saying: "As long as some loose change is used to bury my father, it will be enough. I don't dare ask for so much."

  I smiled and pressed her hand, saying: "Bury your father and buy some good clothes for yourself, then find a good family to marry into."

  Her face turned red, and after a moment of contemplation, she took one ingot and handed the other to me, saying: "Please, madam, bring out the deed of sale. My sister and I only need one ingot!"

  So cheap!

  "I say to my people: 'All of you are following me voluntarily, no need for any contract.' I pause for a moment and continue: 'You're all young, I don't want to bind you too much. After burying your father, if you have no livelihood, you can come to the Song Mansion to find me; if you do have a livelihood, just consider it as doing one good deed a day, no need to put it in your heart!'"

  "Why are you helping us?" The smaller girl blinked at me with a full of innocence.

  "Call her a slave!" The big one hastily covered her mouth, looked at me apologetically and said: "Madam, my sister doesn't understand things, please forgive her."

  I nodded slightly, this girl is sensible, that girl is naive, but I don't know what her temperament and character are like. So with a smile, I said: "Hurry up and arrange your father's marriage, giving that one silver ingot is just a small matter, no need to worry about it."