Flames of Ambition

11: Buying Slaves

Chapter 11: Buying Slaves

Zexel was meticulous in her restaurant. She personally wanted to pick a lot of people in the slave market, so she went there.

After a while, when she was walking along the market, she saw a lot of rich people who wanted to buy slaves in this area.

She was finding suitable people for her restaurant. But in particular, a group of female slaves caught her attention.

"You all wanted to escape, huh! You will all never have your own freedom!" A man with a whip shouted at a group of females while he was whipping each of them.

But what she liked about this group of females was the fact that even if they were experiencing the pain from whipping, she could not hear any complaints, crying, or even begging.

She went to the man and grabbed his whip before he could continue to beat the females. "I'll buy them all. Stop beating them," she coldly said.

From a mad expression, the man became polite to Zexel as he bowed to her. "Just 30 bronze coins each, Miss. They are the lowest kind of slaves here in the market, so you can have them at the cheapest price. Their cultivation innate was all unable to cultivate," the man explained while having his fake smile.

"How about 1 silver coin each? But the condition is, you’ll add another 15 cheapest male slaves here. The lower the innate cultivation, the better," she fakely smiled at the man as Zexel saw the happiness in the man's eyes.

The man was so shocked but couldn’t hide the happiness in his eyes. If he could complete this transaction, he would gain a lot of coins since the conversion of bronze coin to silver coin was really huge.

1 bronze coin is equal to 1000 small bronze coins. 1 silver coin is equal to 1000 bronze coins. 1 gold coin is equal to 1000 silver coins, and 1 big gold coin is equal to 1000 gold coins.

Every month, Fan Lihua's father was giving them 5 big gold coins, so Zexel did not mind if she used a lot of silver.

There were 15 female slaves in the group. 30 bronze coins each, which meant 450 bronze coins in whole. But Zexel offered to buy them one silver per person, so it would be 15 silver. If you convert that to bronze, it was 15,000 bronze coins. If the man gave Zexel another 15 male slaves that were also 30 bronze coins each, he would still have 14,100 bronze coins added to the whole price of the 30 slaves.

"Then prepare the servitude paper," she coldly said. The man panicked and immediately flew inside the slave store.

She went to the 15 females who were giving her a death glare as if they would do everything they could just to escape.

"All of you..." Zexel stared at them without emotion.

"This Lady’s name is Fan Lihua, but this Lady wants all of you to call me Zexel," she said first. She sat on her legs, not minding if she got dirty because of this.

"After this Lady buys all of you, this Lady will give you two options," Zexel opened up her point finger and folded the other four fingers, indicating one.

"This Lady will let you all escape after we reach the entrance of the slave market. But this Lady will not give you anything," Zexel could see the happiness in their eyes. After the years of their misery, they could escape now.

"Or you will all pledge your loyalty to me, and as the reward, this Lady will help you all to cultivate, to become strong, and to acquire skills you can use in the near future. This Lady will not treat you badly just for your loyalty," Zexel knew that everyone would choose the latter. She had a firm word, and she would really treat them equally.

In the ancient era, people in the slave market were mostly people who experienced misery in life. So she knew that in this place, many people would be extremely loyal if you let them have their own choice.

Most of the people here had only a simple dream, and that was to escape or to have a good Master.

"This Lady will promise all of you," she genuinely smiled at them, making everyone dumbstruck by her beauty.

After a while, everyone kowtowed to her. "We will pledge our loyalty, just let us leave this place," a certain female spoke for everyone. She could guess that it was the culprit for their plan in escaping.

She accepted their pledge and let them stand as she stood. After a while, the man with the whip a while ago came back with the 15 male slaves that he promised.

They were all tied with a rope, and Zexel could see that they were all in a state of malnourishment.

"Here are the 15 male slaves you want. And this is the servitude paper for all," the man gave her a small silver chest, and when she opened the silver chest, she saw the servitude papers, so Zexel closed it and let them go to the big carriage she brought.

A half Shichen[1] passed, they reached the entrance, so she let the carriage driver stop at the side. She planned to make a weather panel car in the future since it was one of her hobbies in her past life. She used to make cars manually, so she knew that she could do something here in the ancient era so everything would be convenient for her.

But for now, she needed to endure using a carriage for her travel.

She climbed down and went to the other carriage and talked to all of them.

"Perhaps the girls already told all of you about the things this Lady told them a while ago. We are now at the entrance, so you can go outside to take your freedom," she smiled at them and opened the door of the carriage widely.

A few minutes passed and everyone just stayed inside. "So you all decided. Let’s go to your new home," she said and went back to her carriage.

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1: Half (Bàn) Shichen (半时间) -half hour ancient time one hour in modern time