In this period, although the city of Fengqi was expensive as a country of Nanyue State, the land price and house price were not too expensive. After all, here, the house was used for living, but not for value-added.

Mengying Lin saw several houses under the introduction of the shopkeeper. They were all exquisite and atmospheric courtyards, but the price was not expensive. The highest one was only the price of thousands dollars. This also made her sigh as a soul from the modern lament that in the capital, she could use such a cheap price to buy a house, which was also an ancient place more advanced than the modern one?

Moreover, people paid attention to class status here. The top was an official, the middle was a businessman, and the bottom was a farmer. Therefore, anyone who attempted to enter the government through the imperial examination in a little period of schooling would despise the businessmen. If you were an official, even if you were rich then a country, in their eyes, you are nothing.

Mengying Lin sighed. Since she was a woman, it was impossible to be an official. But she was willing to try to make money in business. Maybe, because she was a modern soul, she deeply believed that money was the best and most reliable thing in the world.

Towards sunset, Mengying Lin finally chose a not big or small yard with two entrance doors. The yard was not big, only a few rooms, but it was big enough for Mengying Lin and Yisheng Lin, and several workers could live in the remaining rooms.

The owner of the yard seemed to have just left Beijing, so the things inside were quite complete. They settled down in the yard for a night, and went to buy all kinds of household things early the next morning.

Watching the workers moved the furniture one by one to the yard, Mengying Lin, standing under the corridor, couldn't help pinching her face. It was painful, not a dream.

She really left the palace. She could live a peaceful life with her brother Yisheng Lin.

Yisheng Lin was also very happy. She accompanied Mengying Lin to buy all kinds of things in the city every day. After five days, she finally tidied up the small yard as she wants.

In the early morning of this day, a woman who specialized in human trafficking came to the yard with several teenage girls. Two days ago, Mengying Lin asked her for a job. Unexpectedly, only two days later, the woman asked so many people to come.

Looking at the seven or eight timid little girls standing in front of her, Mengying Lin frowned slightly, and then asked everyone to make a simple introduction. Listening to the introduction of several people, her frowning action was more profound.

It turned out that these girls were from villages near the outskirts of the city. Most of them were brothers and sisters at home, but they lived in hardship. So the family wanted to sell them, especially the little girl standing in the corner. She was thin and flat, with two feet. She only wore a layer of cotton padded clothes in the winter. When the wind blew, the whole person shivered.

She sighed and pointed to the little girl. "Leave her behind. I'll give each of them one or two dollars to let them go back."

It was not a good job to choose a helper. She was not a saint. She naturally knew that she should choose those who were healthy and powerful. However, she couldn't help but watch a shivering child leaving disappointed.

"You really want to choose her?" The woman who specialized in human trafficking took a surprise, for a long time did not respond to come over.

Mengying Lin nodded her head and took some dollars from her arms and put it on everyone's hands. One or two dollars was not a small amount for these families, which was enough for them to buy food for half a month, so their faces also wrote unbelievable, and then they were disappointed. It was a pity that they didn't keep such generous masters. It's a pity they didn't stay.

The woman who specialized in human trafficking also got Mengying Lin's reward. She couldn't seem to bear it and persuade her: "I think you are a good girl. The girl is really thin and weak, and her family is dead. It's said that they died of illness. In case of any disease, you left her..."

"I'll only see a doctor for her. It's best to survive. If she can't survive, it's her life." Mengying Lin sighed, and said to the woman."Thanks of your kindness, I decided to hire her.

It was the first time that the woman who specialized in human trafficking met this kind of master selecting servants. At first, she felt that the woman was afraid that she didn't know how to select people. Hearing this, her face was a little admired. "You are kind-hearted, and I wish you have a good return."

Mengying Lin politely replied. After the woman left with the rest of the people, she called the little girl come in front of her. The little girl was still timid and knelt down immediately.

"Get up and talk. In my yard, you are not allowed to kneel in the future." Mengying Lin sighed for a long time. In the past, she was either in the general's office or in the palace of Xuanwu, but there was no place for her to make her own decisions. She could not control or accept the business of buying and selling people as goods and becoming slaves, but she could not change it.

Now, even in such a small world, she also wanted to keep what she wanted to keep. She must let herself remember that she was an intellectual from modern times, even if her ideas and thoughts would become different in a feudal society. However, if she wanted to remember her original appearance, she would forget that she was one even if she lived here for a long time. No lower than anyone.

The little girl listened to her words and raised her head in surprise, but she stood up obediently.

"Do you have a name?" Mengying Lin asked.

The little girl nodded and said, "Xiao Liu." Her voice was full of childishness.

Mengying Lin also reached out and touched her head. " Xiao Liu, you will help me in the future. I will pay you every month. If you want to leave one day, just let me know in advance."

"Will I get wages?" Xiao Liu stared, "didn't I sell myself to you?"

Mengying Lin smiled and shook her head. "I don't buy slaves, I just employed workers." She said that she tore up the selling deed in her hand in front of Xiao Liu.

Xiao Liu was surprised and speechless, so for a while, she burst into tears, but still didn't speak, just knelt in front of Mengying Lin, and kowtowed several heads severely.

Mengying Lin couldn't help sighing again. People in this society knelt at any time. She still had some inability to accept it. "How can you forget what I said just now? Don't kneel down casually in the future."

Xiao Liu wiped her tears casually and immediately got up, "Well, I will do whatever you say.

Mengying Lin shook her head. For ordinary people who had been completely enslaved by feudalism, what she could do was too little. Maybe, in their eyes, her existence was the other kind. She didn't expect Xiao Liu to understand her ideas, she just tried to be worthy of her heart.