Chapter 27: Shenanigans_1
The next morning, Bai Qingyan had just finished her breakfast when a young maid reported that the families of the five maidservants who had accompanied Bai Jinxiu were kneeling at the mansion gate, tearfully begging to know where their daughters had been sold.
They had heard that the Second Young Lady Bai was compassionate and had allowed Mingyu's family to buy back their unfaithful daughter. They thought that even though their daughters might not serve well, they were at least loyal. So perhaps they could buy them back too.
Poor families were usually unwilling to send their daughters to brothels. Out of desperation, they sent them to noble households as servants, hoping that their children could at least have a meal and not starve to death.