Chapter 330
Chapter 330: Older Brother Scolds Me
Wei Yu truly never imagined that his quiet, well-behaved good younger sister would one day buy people out on the street. The key question was—where would she put those people she bought? The palace certainly did not allow unauthorized people to come and go freely.
In this era, buying and selling people was very common. People’s household registrations were divided into many categories, creating distinctions of “good” and “low” status. The former were recognized as “people” under the law, while the latter were not acknowledged as having independent legal personality.
Wei Yu couldn’t change this social system, but at least he himself wouldn’t participate in it. Using people? It wasn’t necessarily by purchasing; couldn’t one simply hire them?
Twenty taels of silver to buy three sickly girls plus a baby girl—everyone else thought only someone with too much money and nowhere to spend it would make such a purchase, other than traffickers.
The Third Princess was straightforward: twenty taels was twenty taels. After announcing the price, she ordered the person behind her to pay.
“Shunzi, give him the silver.”
With such generosity, not only were the “human traffickers” shocked, but Wei Yu himself was dumbfounded.
Was she really serious?