Chapter 162

"You, you." Fang ruxiu first ordered the two eight or nine year old girls and said, "stand aside."

"Yes." the two girls saw that they had been selected by Fang ruxiu. They couldn't help but be happy in their hearts, so they bowed their heads and went aside.

"I repeat that although I came to buy people, I actually came to recruit people to work." Fang ruxiu went between the woman and the four members of the family and repeated it again.

After hearing Fang ruxiu's words, the four members of the family trembled again. The woman hugged their two children tightly, but the woman said in an unassuming manner: "yes, I know. I'm here to work. Although I can't go down to the ground, I can wash and cook."

"Laundry and cooking?" Fang ruxiu thought. It seemed that there was a shortage of laundry and cooking people in their family. After all, they could hire day laborers for everything in the field. On the contrary, there was no one to help with the laundry and cooking. Thinking of this, she nodded and said, "can you sew? Can you make clothes and shoes?"

"Yes!" the woman agreed!

"OK, you can also go." Fang ruxiu saw that although the woman was not well dressed, her whole body was still clean, and the stitches on the patch were neat and flat. She was a clean woman. So she nodded and chose the woman.

Finally, she didn't want the family of four. First, she didn't have an eye with them. Secondly, Fang ruxiu didn't like their appearance. Most importantly, she thought it was enough for her family to buy such people for the time being.

Some people cook and wash clothes, others feed health birds, which liberates ye and Fang Yicheng. We can help with the rest of the chores, so that the family will not be so tired.

"Well, I'll buy three of them for the time being, and I'll buy the rest next time." Fang ruxiu said to mother-in-law Jiang.

"Just the three of them?" the mother-in-law Jiang asked again. When she saw Fang ruxiu nodding, she began to quote: "these two girls are eight or nine years old and can work. Let's pay three liang of silver each."

Three Liang silver? cheap!

"Well, what about the eldest sister?" Fang ruxiu asked, pointing to the woman in her thirties.

"If she wants to wait a minute, she sells herself as a slave, and I don't have the deed to sell herself." the mother-in-law Jiang asked Fang ruxiu to wait a minute, so she told the little girl around her to invite mother-in-law Chai from the street.

While letting the people return to the front hall to rest, she explained the identity of the 30-year-old woman to Fang ruxiu and others: it turned out that the woman had just died her husband, and her mother-in-law said she was going to sell her. She thought that instead of being sold by others, she might as well find a reliable owner, so she told her mother-in-law and ran to me.

After listening to mother-in-law Jiang's words, Fang ruxiu couldn't help sighing. It turned out that not long ago, this woman was still a little landlady. She didn't expect to sell herself as a slave and be inferior in the twinkling of an eye. However, does her mother-in-law here still have the qualification to sell her daughter-in-law?

Fang ruxiu also asked her this question, and mother-in-law Jiang told them that the woman had been a child's daughter-in-law since childhood. Her relatives never cared about her. She only had her mother-in-law family, not her mother's family. Naturally, her mother-in-law family had the right to buy and sell her.

"Alas!" Fang ruxiu sighed in her heart and waited for her mother-in-law, the firewood mother-in-law, to come.

Having nothing to do, Fang ruxiu also asked about their age and names, and asked them to introduce themselves.

The two girls were eight and nine years old. They had no name. When their parents sold them, they called them Ya Ya, so mother Jiang called them Da Ya and Xiao Ya respectively. The woman's name is Li Lanxiang. She is actually only 28 years old this year. Because she has no children under her knees, she has such a low status in her mother-in-law's family. If she has a son, she must be afraid of selling her.

"Da Ya, Xiao Ya?" Fang ruxiu smiled at the two gray girls and said, "I'll call you Da Ya and Xiao Ya in the future. Ya is elegant. I think you also have a little aura of intelligence. Maybe your future is unlimited."

"Thank you for your name, miss." the two girls fell on the ground and said in unison.

Looking at their appearance, I know that mother-in-law Jiang taught them before. Otherwise, a little girl doesn't know so much etiquette.

Fang ruxiu reaches out her hand to help them up, but she doesn't say anything to Li Lanxiang. After all, her deed of betrayal is not here.

After a while, a woman in her forties and fifties came in through the back door. The woman didn't look badly dressed or poor, but she just didn't like her daughter-in-law and wanted to sell her.

"Oh, grandma Jiang, I haven't seen you for a long time. This girl must be the one who wants to buy my daughter-in-law." the old woman looks really good. She first praised Fang ruxiu: "Look at your overall bearing, there are few in the county. Do you want to buy my daughter-in-law? You have a good eye. My daughter-in-law can work at home, do business outside, get out of the hall and the kitchen. If there were no difficulties at home, I would really hate to sell her."

The old woman said that the tears came out from the corners of her eyes. She lay on Li Xianglan and said, "Xianglan, my mother-in-law really doesn't want you to leave me. After all, you have been in our house for 20 years. It's time to go. My heart is really like someone using a knife to straighten the cone."

Fang ruxiu and Fang Yi looked at each other and looked up at her. Fang Yicheng and Fang Ruyin didn't understand. Fang ruxiu felt that she should firmly put them in the fourth uncle. She really shouldn't bring them, but these two little guys were so charming that she compromised. Now in the face of human nature, she didn't know how to explain to them, so she could only be silent.

Li Xianglan is now 28 years old. She has been in her mother-in-law's house for 20 years. At the age of eight, she came to her mother-in-law's house to be a child's daughter-in-law. If she has snacks, she will definitely treat her as her own daughter, but this mother-in-law can ruthlessly sell her to others. Is it interesting to cry and tell this now?

But soon, Fang ruxiu knew that these words were interesting, because the mother-in-law turned her head and burst into tears. The other party ruxiu said, "girl, my daughter-in-law is capable. She volunteered to sell herself as a slave because there are difficulties in my family. Have mercy on me and give me ten liang of silver, will you?"

Fang ruxiu almost laughed angrily. The performance of such a chase just now was just to talk about a good price at the moment, but she was too lazy to linger with her and said directly, "six Liang!"

"Sixty liang? It's too low." the mother-in-law turned to look at Fang ruxiu and said, "girl, my daughter-in-law can work. She's not afraid of hardship and fatigue. She can do anything!"

"Your daughter-in-law is old. We bought her back. It's not cost-effective to buy these girls back!" Fang ruxiu said directly: "she's not old enough to do things. We'll give her a pension at that time!"

"Girl, it doesn't count like that." the mother-in-law immediately came and said, "think about it. You can't help you do anything when you buy these two girls back. They are growing up and have to eat your food. My daughter-in-law doesn't want it. She eats less and does more."

"Ha ha..." Fang ruxiu doesn't want to bargain with her anymore. It's humiliating for others to bargain with people as commodities and as the original owner. It's embarrassing for Fang ruxiu to discuss these problems of eating more and eating less. They are people, not cattle! Although she pulled down her face and could talk to her about one, two, three or four, she was too lazy to say it. There was no need.

She just thought ten liang of silver was too much. The average adult is 5-8 Liang. This adult includes the most able young man, so she is really not worth it as a woman. If you save a little money, you can take them to the cloth shop and buy two pieces of good cloth to make clothes!

Seeing Fang ruxiu ignoring her, the old woman turned her eyes and said, "since there are more ten Liang silver girls, let's go to eight Liang. My daughter-in-law is in her prime of life. Eight Liang is really cheap."

But Fang ruxiu still didn't speak. She just showed the old woman a posture of six. The woman went to other places and asked for the price not long ago. For such a woman who sold herself as a slave at the age of twenty-eight or seventy-eight, she was willing to give four liang of silver at most. This is still high, because she was not a slave before. She didn't know how to serve her master, and she didn't have the experience of working in a big family, The most important thing is that you are old and difficult to teach.

Seeing that Fang ruxiu was young but not easy to fool, the old woman nodded and finally agreed.

He paid the money to the old woman, and then took out a piece of paper, which was written on voluntary sale. He embroidered, the old woman, Li Lanxiang and Chiang Po Po painted the picture, and handed it to the dry central bank. He helped him run to the Yamen and run Li Lanxiang's registered residence.

The other two little girls are much simpler. They pay the money directly and hand in the deed of sale, which is settled.

He gave the Chinese money to Qian Zhongxing and made an appointment to ask Fang Changfu to get Li Lanxiang's deed of sale tomorrow. The matter of buying people can be done for the time being.

After a hard trip to the county, Fang ruxiu bought some cloth and cotton, and then set off for home.

On the way, Fang ruxiu also gave Li Lanxiang a new name, called Cigu.

Along the way, there were some bumpy women in the carriage. Da Ya and Xiao Ya showed some fear when they sat in the sedan chair. Fang ruxiu understood their feelings, but she didn't know what to say to them. In other words, there were suddenly three more strangers in the family. In fact, she was not used to it. The most important thing is that she wasn't very good at pacifying people.