Chapter 494: Chapter 494: Madly Lunging Over Chapter 494: Chapter 494: Madly Lunging Over She looked at Ya Molian with incomprehension, questioning him with her eyes, had she not spoken correctly? Keeping them confined would surely make them sick, wouldn’t it? She was a physician, she couldn’t simply keep quiet about it.
“Keeping them is a way to tame them,” Ya Molian said, lowering his voice as he spoke into Lin Caisang’s ear.
Even if these people were bought by them and thrown to Jiang Li, they would not receive the treatment common people do.
Lin Caisang was at loss for words, left speechless by his remark.
All right, perhaps her sympathetic heart should not act up at this moment. These people were sold by their families, whatever fate awaits them — it’s divine will.
She wanted to sympathize with them, but there were too many such people in this world, she couldn’t possibly sympathize with everyone.
“Broker, take me to see the available manservants, I don’t want them too young, around thirty years old would do,” she said.
“All right, honored guests, please follow me,” the broker said.
The broker responded and quickly led them to a room.
Lin Caisang looked at the room; it was indeed made of iron. It didn’t have walls per se, but it resembled a large prison with iron bars. Only one side had iron bars; the rest were solid walls.
The top and bottom of the iron bars were solid, so only the middle section was open, allowing them to see the people inside quite clearly.
She looked and saw that the people inside the room were all dressed in rags. Some lay on the floor, others sat, or paced back and forth aimlessly near the walls, seeming lost and directionless, as if pondering something within.
“Get up, get up, now!”
At the broker’s harsh shout, she banged her stick on the iron door.
Almost instantly the room stirred, as if a nerve had been touched, everyone began to move.
“Buy me, buy me, I can do anything, please buy me.”
“I’m mighty capable, I can fetch water, chop wood, anything, buy me, buy me.”
The seemingly normal men lunged at the bars at the sight of Lin Caisang and Ya Molian, stretching out their hands, oblivious to the fact that their faces were getting distorted by the bars.
Ya Molian had already taken a few steps back, sheltering Lin Caisang when the broker began to speak.
Truth be told, Lin Caisang was taken aback by the unfolding scene. Looking at these frenzied people, she felt the urge to run away immediately.
In her previous life, she had visited mental asylums as a doctor. Yet, the scene before her was even more harrowing. More than that, this place…
She didn’t know how to describe this place, these people.
“Shut up all of you. Stay quiet or you won’t get any food!” The broker growled menacingly, striking at the outstretched hands with her stick as she threatened them.
Lin Caisang wanted to stop her, but remembering the earlier scene, had Ya Molian not pulled her away in time, she would have been almost dragged in by these people.
She opened her mouth but closed it back.
She finally understood why the broker carried such a large stick, she had found it strange earlier, but the purpose was clear now.
After the broker’s roar, everyone in the room quieted down, withdrawing their hands and clutching their chests with terrified eyes, trembling as they watched the broker.