Li Fan saw the scene before him changing rapidly and knew that the maid was fast-forwarding. He wasn't in a hurry to intervene and glanced at her, saying, "What exactly is this trial?"
"It's not much. You've seen it, just the experience of our young lady back in the day. She had a fateful meeting with a scholar and redeemed herself to marry him. She used her own private wealth to help him pursue his studies and official career. But it would have been bearable if the scholar were simply lazy; he actually coveted petty gains and for a mere thousand pieces of gold, he sold the young lady into slavery to a noble of Xun Country. Devastated, the young lady hugged me and drowned herself in the river, dying with resentment. This incident has always been an obsession of mine.
