By the early morning of the next day, Scholar Lv was awoken by the pain of his injuries. With no money for an inn, he had spent the night holding Tao'er under an eave; now he felt both cold and hungry.
He was beginning to regret why he had squandered all the silver he had won. If only he had saved a little, he wouldn't be in the situation he was facing now.
What made him even more desperate was that he had nowhere to go next. Without the option of returning to Niuxin Village, he was literally left with no place to turn.
"Master, why don't you take me as a concubine....."
"No way!" Scholar Lv refused without hesitation. "I can't stand the thought of you bearing children for another man. Where would that leave my dignity!!"
A rare look of sadness appeared on Tao'er's face. "I don't want to be sold either, but if we have no money for food, we will starve. My father sold me because we didn't have money for food....."