Although she was in disguise, who else could someone accompanying Xiao Bai and Qin Menglan be but Leng Xiyue?
"Yes, that's right. We're heading out for a look around. Want to come?" Leng Xiyue invited her.
Naturally, Xiao Wu did not refuse, but she first found a changing room and replaced the fitted outfit she wore for fighting with an everyday dress before leaving with Leng Xiyue and the others.
Qin Menglan's chosen destination was an exhibition organized by Heaven Dou to promote commerce, held at the Heaven Dou Auction House. Its architecture was quite magnificent even by Heaven Dou City's standards, and its grounds were spacious enough. You would be hard-pressed to find a second location more suitable.
Business here had originally gone from bad to worse after slavery and human trafficking were genuinely banned in full. The little trinkets normally sold here could not possibly cover expenses, and the most expensive slave maids from the former Northern Province had all been confiscated by the Jiuzhou Empire and sent to the Northern Land for a fresh round of ideological education.
Besides them, this place had also held many other "goods" of extremely high quality and value. This black-market trade had been one of its main sources of profit. Naturally, all these "goods" had been confiscated as well, and according to their own wishes, the women had either been sent home or stayed to study and work within the Jiuzhou Empire's system.
Even so, the owner was a great noble whose ancestors had been illustrious. After the matter came to light, she had entered the palace and tearfully repented before Xue Ye, then resolved to renovate most of the auction halls. In the end, they had become this exhibition hall, with only one larger hall retained to keep the last