The pasture was originally a place where livestock were bought and sold. After the founding of the Yan Dynasty, in addition to buying and selling livestock, the pasture also had another role. In the imperial court, the officials whose homes were raided and their family members were punished with a tattoo on their faces or foreheads, and they were sent to a bitter cold place, and they were enslaved for life and served hard labor.

And women, will be sent to the pasture, put on grass labels, reduced to lowly status, sold at a low price, and end up as prostitutes or into large families as maids, and can not intermarry with people of good and noble origins, which is extremely miserable. Often, some of the more fierce noblewomen committed suicide without waiting to be dragged to the pasture after their homes were raided.

Later, in addition to the official and female dependents whose homes were raided, some people who could not survive due to hunger and cold would also sell themselves by sticking grass labels.

Ye Qingyan came to the pasture with the spring rain.

There are a lot of people, bustling, and most of them are buying and selling livestock. As for the place where people are sold, go deeper.

Ye Qingyan got off the carriage, and Chunyu also got out of the carriage and drove the horse to follow her.

Ye Qingyan walked to the duck stall, looked at the quacking ducks in the bamboo cage, and asked Chunyu, "Is this the roast duck I ate yesterday?" ”

"Miss, this is not, you eat a special offer, the duck seedlings hatch from the eggs, they eat specific spices, so this meat naturally has a fragrance, also called Tianxiang duck. And the duck you are looking at is an ordinary duck, with mixed food and fishy meat. ”

"Well, let's buy two and go back and try them." Ye Qingyan said.

"......" Chunyu took out a piece of broken silver, asked the vendor to bargain for two ducks, and finally put them in the back of the carriage.

Continuing to walk forward, Ye Qingyan met the cat seller again, looking at the flower cat in the cage, he remembered a white cat he raised in his previous life, and his jade-like turquoise eyes were particularly beautiful.

"Is there a white cat with green eyes?" Ye Qingyan asked the cat seller.

"Yes, yes, yes. But I'm going to go home and bring it to you, ......you see," the merchant responded, and though he didn't have a white-eyed cat with green eyes, he knew where it was. It's not bad to make a difference.

"Then you go, let's go around again, and come back to get the cat."

"Okay, okay, you go and see the other things first, and I'll take the cat for you." The vendor asked his son to watch the business first, and he immediately went to his peers to look for the cat.

Stop and buy all the way, Chunyu followed Ye Qingyan, and paid for the silver all the way, and when they arrived at the pasture where they were selling, there were already a lot of things in the carriage, chattering and croaking, which was very lively.

"Miss, we're here to buy a servant, right? How did you buy so many livestock. "Chunyu is very puzzled, Ye Qingyan never looked at these things when he visited the market before.

Ye Qingyan said: "It's fun." ”

“…… What's there to do with this. Chunyu became more and more ignorant of her princess's interests and hobbies.

"As long as three taels of silver, the big girl of the yellow flower." Someone shouted for it.

Ye Qingyan looked over smoothly.

……

At the gate of Dong'an, where the palace was heavily guarded, a person covered in a black cloak was stopped by the palace gate guards.

"Stop." The spear in the guard's hand was aimed at the cloaked man.

I saw that the man raised his hand unhurriedly and gave a waist card to the palace gate guard.

Another palace gate guard took her waist card and looked at it, and then looked at the person, "Who are you from the East Palace?" Why haven't I seen you? ”