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"How could that be? Your mother is too cruel, selling her own daughter to a brothel? Isn't that a disgrace to herself? A woman from the Wang family ending up in a brothel, what a mess," said Muniang.
Qingmei's eyes were dull, clearly still very afraid.
Muniang gently stroked her hair, "Don't worry, Qingmei. Your sister won't let anything happen to you. You just rest here and heal. We'll see about the rest later, okay?"
Only after Qingmei nodded in agreement did Muniang coax her to sleep. Once outside, she immediately questioned Qingya, "What's the deal with the Chen family shop? Wasn't it doing well in Jinyang Town? How come it suddenly disappeared? Have you figured out what happened?"
Qingya quickly said, "The Chen family shop was originally set up by the lord as a hidden asset, not really for doing business. Its sudden closure probably has something to do with the situation at the frontier."
