Faced with this, Xie Pangbo rejected it internally, but being a man who understood when to advance and when to retreat, he outwardly complied. Even though he sneered at the Free Italy people's way of leading newly joined slaves in lamenting their miseries, he still spoke publicly about the bad deeds of his former masters.
Perhaps because his performance won the trust of the rebel army, or maybe due to his own talents, a few days later, he was sent to the harbor marketplace, in charge of selling at a pottery shop. The transformation from a buyer to a seller was truly ironic.
On the first day of opening the shop, there were almost no customers; the whole world seemed deserted. He spent most of his time cleaning the shop and arranging the pottery.
During this process, he recognized that some of the pieces in the shop came from his former master's house, as he had once been responsible for their procurement. This filled him with emotion.
