I must admit that their current situation was quite awkward.
They were neither willing to return to their old profession as courtesans, nor could they find anyone capable of taking them in. Wu Weiwei looked at the employees gazing at her so earnestly.
None of them were old; the eldest was no more than twenty-two, and the youngest was actually only nine, with a frame that had yet to fully develop. The vast majority of them were young maidens of fourteen or fifteen, truly fitting the verse: *slender and graceful, just over thirteen, the budding flower at the start of February.*
Chapter 116