At this question, every girl in the room burst into tears—they truly were not from around here, and all had been abducted and sold. Of course, every girl the traffickers had set their eyes on was a budding beauty.
Having confirmed that they had been abducted, Miss Chu became far less suspicious of Huang E's strange behavior. Perhaps it was merely the confusion of a mind shaken by great calamity. Those two had been kept together by the traffickers all along; the man had been naked the whole time, and the two of them had stayed together... Perhaps they really did share some secret, but that was only natural. It was not easy for a girl to preserve her good name. If someone needed covering for, she ought to be more understanding.
Thus, when Chu Suzhen led the girls out of the room, even though Shi Chuan and Huang E in the courtyard seemed shifty as they spoke—Huang E desperately dodged away the moment she appeared, and the two deliberately kept their distance—she pretended not to see a thing.
The gruesome sight in the courtyard immediately made the girls vomit until heaven and earth spun. Seeing that they threw up even worse than she had at first, Miss Chu felt a little better. She called out loudly, "Shi... sir, you look after the girls who have awakened. I'll go wake the rest of the children."
Shi Chuan nodded. Before he could say anything, Huang E cut in with her quick tongue, "Don't worry, Sister Chu. I'll gather them all in the main hall. Go on and do your work."
Miss Chu led the servants into another room. As she entered, she thought of how the newly awakened girls had been so terrified by the sight in the courtyard that they