Master Tian said, "Daughters who are married off can indeed be redeemed back, but the price is not cheap. It costs five taels of silver for a daughter and ten taels for a son over the age of fourteen."
"Ten taels!" Yao Minghui felt a pang in his heart. Two would amount to twenty taels, which was no small sum of silver.
Seeing his distress, Master Tian chuckled and said, "Whether the Lu Family are runaway slaves is not certain yet. You can wait until the Slave Registration Book from Jinling Prefecture arrives before deciding. If Old Master Lu is not a runaway slave, you would save this amount of silver."
Yao Minghui was tempted, but then he thought of the expression of County Magistrate Zou in the courtroom... Even County Magistrate Zou was eager to sever ties with the Lu Family, so the likelihood of Old Master Lu being a runaway slave must be substantial.
