After finishing breakfast, Lin Wanwan picked up a large wooden bucket, stuffed a big sack in it, and headed out with her maid Hong Yan and Kunlun.
Xiao Chong and his guard Shuqi also went out with them, followed by little Qingyu, who brought along the lynx, mute girl Ajing, Kunlun slave Ali, and Song Sulan, with Sun Chuyao and a male servant named Wu Wanqing bringing up the rear.
Wu Wanqing, like Sun Chuyao, used to mingle around the docks before being with Lin Wanwan, living a drifting and rootless life.
During the time when the County Government strictly rounded up beggars and vagrants for labor service, he sold himself into Lin Wanwan's household as a servant.
In the whole Mao County, for people like Wu Wanqing, there were only two good places to go: either get recruited into the gang of ruffians by the County Government or enter the manor of the Village Lady Le'an for employment.
