Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Chapter 941 The Best Family 68
The reason why the situation was reversed was that they had collected too many girls, which led to scarcity and high value. Others saw that they needed a large number of girls, rather than just one or two, so they didn't need to curry favor with them and ask them to accept them. On the contrary, they had to look everywhere for girls who met the requirements. In this case, if their girl met the requirements, how could they let the Liu family take her away for nothing without giving them money?
As a result, the cost for the Liu family to find a girl increased.

The girls could not be sold at a good price, and the cost of bringing them to Beijing had increased, so the Liu family had some ideas in their minds. That is, they really planned to engage in the flesh trade and bring girls from their hometown. If they were pretty and could be sold at a good price, they would sell them. If they could not be sold, they would keep them in a half-open door (An Nu Chang), and make as much money as possible.

This is also what they thought of while selling girls.

I thought about how some girls looked good before, but because their families sold too many girls, they were not worth much money, so they sold them for that little money. Now I think it is not cost-effective. Those girls were still pretty at that time. If they were not sold at their desired price, they could have let them do the flesh trade, so that they could make a steady income. I was not as stupid as I was back then. The girls were not ugly, but because I had no money, I sold them at a lower price.

They had no financial sense and at that time they just thought that there were girls everywhere and if there were none left they could just go back to their hometown and get a new batch.

Little did they know that there were girls everywhere, but it was hard to find girls with looks above pretty, which resulted in their supply almost running out.

But once the supply of goods is cut off, they will be out of money. How can they accept this?

In other words, the Liu family's business of selling girls can no longer continue.

In fact, the girls of the Liu family were sold for a good price at the beginning, but since they thought money was so easy to come by, they became more and more extravagant, even more extravagant than when Concubine Liu was still alive and gave them only a little silver a month. After all, they only had that little money a month at that time, so naturally they couldn't be too crazy.

But now, they could easily earn several hundred taels of silver by selling girls, which was more than the silver that Concubine Liu gave them. This made them even more extravagant. They never thought about buying some land or houses or shops, and they squandered all the money.

But how could the Liu family, who were spendthrifts, bear to run out of money? So they decided not to sell the girls anymore, as it would be too much of a loss to sell them all at once, so they decided to let them engage in the flesh trade, which would provide a long-term income.

In fact, if they had bought land, houses and shops at the beginning, they would have various outputs now and could enjoy them for a long time.

But they don't do it. Now that they have no money, they think of living a long and steady life, but they are trying to do so at the expense of other people's suffering.

Fortunately, one girl has already told people back home about the situation.

So when the Liu family returned to their hometown again and said the same things as before, saying that they would take those girls out to marry into good families, the people in Liu's hometown wanted to settle accounts with them.

The Liu family only had a few people, so they were naturally no match for those people from their hometown. After all, the other side had more people and more power. Even if they brought up the name of Concubine Liu, it would not work. After all, everyone knew that their daughter had been deposed. They had no power left, so they could only return in disgrace.

Of course, some girls died, and some girls suffered. The Liu family naturally did not return in disgrace, but were beaten and almost sent to the government. Fortunately, the Liu family still had some money with them, which they had planned to squander on the road. Now they gave it all to the victim, and the victim let it go and did not let the government arrest them. But they had no money to use, and they still did not give up, so they no longer went to their hometown to get girls, but went to the human traffickers to buy them, preparing to buy girls to pretend to be daughters and do half-open business.

However, there were only ugly girls in the human traffickers' shop. Any girls who were a little bit good-looking were very expensive. The Liu family had spent all their money and could not afford to buy pretty girls.

Those that are not good looking or for children are cheap.

But what's the point of buying the ugly ones? They are useless. As for the children, there are some with good looks and the price is acceptable, but they have to raise them for several years before they can do business. How can this be done? So the Liu family realized that even if they wanted to do this business, it was too late now. They had no money and it was difficult to start.

——The reason why they didn't let the children do such a thing was because Wang Chao cracked down on such behavior. Once caught, the person would go to jail, so no one dared to take the risk. It's not that they have a conscience. If Wang Chao didn't crack down on such things, the Liu family would have no conscience and would not do such things. But they would definitely do it to make money.

Fortunately, they have no money to do it, otherwise Linlang will definitely deal with them. After all, she can't just watch them harm others.

They had no choice but to go to their daughters' in-laws' homes or their daughters-in-law's homes to beg for money.

They are not afraid that those families will get tired of them and return their daughters. It would be just right to return them. The girls in their Liu family are all beautiful. They can sell them to others as concubines and make a lot of money.

Without mentioning what the Liu family did, let's just talk about the palace. After Linlang was promoted to concubine, the people around her were naturally happy, but the other people in the palace were naturally unhappy. Fortunately, Concubine Li gave birth to a prince at this time, which diverted most of the attention from Linlang, which meant that Empress Dowager Wu's attention to her increased instead of decreased.

This is also normal. To other concubines in the palace, Concubine Li and the prince she gave birth to are naturally the most noticeable. After all, Concubine Li is favored, and this child may be the future emperor. How can they not care about the affairs of Concubine Li and her son?

But for Queen Mother Wu, she had so many grandchildren that she was no longer as excited as when she saw her first grandson and granddaughter. On the contrary, for her, the fact that a commoner beauty became the mistress of a palace was something that made her pay more attention.

Especially not long ago, the incident of Concubine Liu blackmailing low-ranking concubines came to light, and she was banished to the cold palace, which made her have an even worse impression of the commoner concubines.

After all, Concubine Liu was born into a commoner family. Seeing a high-ranking concubine of commoner origin being so blinded by money and doing such a shameful thing, Empress Dowager Wu felt that other commoner beauties were probably similar to Concubine Liu. They might also do such shameful things for the sake of making money like Concubine Liu.

Since she had such a prejudice against high-ranking concubines who were born into commoner families, she was naturally dissatisfied when she saw Linlang being promoted to a high-ranking concubine.

When Linlang was promoted before, Empress Dowager Wu was not satisfied, but she did not say anything. After the incident with Concubine Liu came out, Empress Dowager Wu felt that a concubine of commoner origin should not be able to hold a high position. So, Empress Dowager Wu could no longer hold back and spoke up, and mentioned the matter to the emperor.