Zhang Xing became more and more unbearable, thinking about how much she still had on hand. It was also her heart that was thorough, thinking that the world would be chaotic, and she had worked hard to make money in the past six months, and exchanged some useless hairpin ring jewelry for silver, and now she has twenty or thirty taels on hand. Looking at the money written on the dirt floor in front of this mute girl, she could afford it.

She then said, "You let go first, I'll go back and discuss it with my family." ”

The mute girl raised her head to look at Zhang Xing, as if she was measuring the truth of her words, but she still let go of her hand and watched Zhang Xing walk away.

Zhang Xing returned to Fu's house, took out his money bag, took out the silver and hurried over. When he was almost at the place, he saw the mute girl standing up. Zhang Xing gave silver. The mute girl quickly took it and counted it carefully. Zhang Xing said again: "There is a coffin shop at the end of this street. ”

The mute girl nodded hurriedly, with a look of gratitude. Thinking that the person next to her was her fellow villager, she went over to gesture with others for a long time, invited a few people to help, and went to the coffin shop to buy a coffin and carry it over, and buried the two dead people wrapped in straw mats.

The people carried the coffin to the gate of the city.

Most of the soldiers guarding the gates were new. The people in the city were mixed, and Li Zheng was afraid of chaos, so he recruited a lot of new soldiers in the town. Zhang Xing looked for a while, and finally found a familiar face - the working hammer of the blacksmith shop next door to Fujia's rice shop.

Iron Hammer is familiar with Wei Minwen, and naturally he also recognizes Zhang Xing, so he beckoned from afar, "Xing'er." ”

Zhang Xing hurriedly ran over and whispered that they were going to carry the dead out of the city.

Hammer thought for a moment, nodded and said, "I'll go talk to the leader, Apricot." You wait. ”

Zhang Xing waited in place. Looking at the hammer, he found a soldier in armor to speak. The soldier craned his neck and looked halfway in this direction. He also walked over and circled around the two coffins a few times before nodding his head, but stipulating that if they did not return after a stick of incense, the city gate would not be opened.

Zhang Xing nodded hurriedly, it was enough to bury two dead people with a stick of incense, and thanked him again, and then led the coffin out of the city. Sun Xiucai and his wife were buried in a cemetery half a mile outside the city. Miss Sun cried silently for a long time. The paper money was burned again, and the people waited for this to return to the city, and the time for a stick of incense had just arrived, and the hammer hurriedly opened the city gate and let them in.

When Zhang Xing led a mute back to the Fu family, several people from the Fu family were sitting around the table waiting for her to eat, and they were all stunned for a while.

Zhang Xing made it clear what happened in 1510,

Aunt Fu reacted first, and said with a smile: "If you buy it, you will buy it, you kid is good." "I want her to say that there are many children and daughters now. A neat one costs less than ten taels of silver, and besides, he is still dumb. Where do you need fifteen taels of silver? Although Min Wen's sister is steady, her face is still a little tender, and her heart is too soft. However, the silver belongs to someone else, and it is up to her to buy it, and it doesn't matter if the Fu family has an extra pair of chopsticks.

Although Wei Yunhai felt that it was expensive, he also felt that this girl was really pitiful. But people buy it, they buy it, although they can't speak, but they can see the body and work. Okay, let's stay at home to help Xing'er in the future.

Wei Minwen has been in the business world for many years, and he sees people deeply. He also felt that his sister-in-law had been cheated once, and Zhang Xing wanted to buy a girl at this time, and he had no objection at all. His sister-in-law was born well, and she will get married in a few years, so it's just right to bring a maid over to serve. But the girl in front of her is a big and dumb person, so it's okay to do rough work like this, where can she serve people?

However, the person has already bought it, so he has to admit the loss, and let her stay in Weijiazhuang to help his father farm in the future. Tomorrow he will look in the streets, looking for two neat and clever girls, one to serve his daughter-in-law and the other to serve his sister-in-law. He has earned a lot of money this year, the shop has to expand, and the house has to be slowly cleaned up, and he can't let his wife and children live a hard life all the time.

Zhang Xing saw that although everyone had different faces, no one questioned and objected, so she let them eat first, and she took Miss Sun to the backyard to wash and change clothes. After changing and coming out, Zhang Xing found that this girl was not badly born, only with tall bones, a deeper facial contour than ordinary people, and dark eyebrows and eyes, but she had a heroic spirit that is rare for Jiangnan women.

Zhang Xing's eyes rolled on the top of Miss Sun's head, and she thought of the words she had seen on the ground earlier, and asked, "What's your name?"

Miss Sun looked around the room, as if she was looking for something, and after failing to do so, she glanced at Zhang Xing, and drew two big characters "Baozhu" on the table in front of Zhang Xing.

"Baozhu?" Zhang Xing muttered, raising her head, "Your name is Sun Baozhu?"

Miss Sun nodded.

"How old are you?" Zhang Xing asked again.

Sun Baozhu drew a few more strokes on the table. Zhang Xing couldn't help but say, "You're thirteen years old?" Isn't it the same year as Zhang Tao? But her height is almost surpassing her.

Sun Baozhu nodded again. Zhang Xing looked at her, thinking about some of the news she heard just now, this Sun Baozhu was picked up and raised by Mr. Sun in the private school in Wutong Village, although she couldn't speak, but Mr. Sun and his wife regarded her as their own. Unfortunately, Mr. Sun was seriously ill during the Huai River flood, and when the flood came, Sun Baozhu dragged her adoptive father and her adoptive mother to Zhanghe Town. A person who was already seriously ill, under such circumstances, did not delay for a few days and went, and Mrs. Sun also went after under great compassion, leaving Sun Baozhu alone.

This girl is really miserable. Zhang Xingzhi said that although she couldn't speak, she could understand it, and her demeanor was in a certain way, and she was clearly a polite person, presumably the Sun couple was very attentive to her. In this case, she didn't hide it, she understood her family's situation earlier, and she could put herself in place in time.

Zhang Xing said: "I'm not from this Zhanghe Town, and my family is not a big family. The family I live in is surnamed Fu, and it is my brother's maternal uncle's house. ”

Sun Baozhu raised his head and quickly glanced at Zhang Xing, then lowered it again. Zhang Xing said again: "My family was originally in Lizhuang Village, Yu'antang Town, I followed my mother to Weijiazhuang, Zhanghe Town, and I have a younger brother, when you return to Weijiazhuang, you will see him." As for Zhang Tao, Zhang Xing didn't tell Sun Baozhu about it.

Sun Baozhu lowered her head and listened to Zhang Xing's explanation of her family, and there was no expression on her face. Zhang Xing became more and more satisfied, and told the existing people of the Fu family again, and asked Sun Baozhu if he remembered it. Sun Baozhu nodded. Zhang Xing took her out of the city to eat.

Uncle Fu left the dish for her, and brought it out at the moment, putting out two pairs of chopsticks. Zhang Xing sat down, and Sun Baozhu was still standing behind her with her head down. Aunt Fu couldn't help but glance at Sun Baozhu a few more times. Zhang Xing said, "You can also sit down and eat." Sun Baozhu bent his body, but still did not move. Aunt Fu smiled with satisfaction, and then went out.

Zhang Xing saw Aunt Fu's expression and didn't say anything more. When she ran out, Sun Baozhu stepped forward to collect the bowl, hugged the man, followed the sound to the kitchen, and grabbed the work in Uncle Fu's hand and got busy.

Aunt Fu stood at the door and watched for a while, wiped her hands away, and said to Zhang Xing: "You have a good eye, this girl is sensible." Zhang Xing told Sun Baozhu's origin. Uncle Fu exclaimed: "It turns out that I can still read, no wonder." "She was illiterate when she was a girl before, but she later learned some from Uncle Fu, but she didn't know much, and she could barely read an account book.

The Fu family is barely a little rich in Zhanghe Town, and Fu Xianglian has never invited a husband, and Uncle Fu taught him by hand. I was also surprised to hear that a mute girl that Zhang Xing bought was literate.

Sun Baozhu cleaned up the kitchen and ate in the kitchen with a bowl. Hu Chunlai, the Fu family's worker, had never seen Sun Baozhu before, so when he came into the kitchen, he was startled, and pointed at Sun Baozhu and shouted, "Who are you?"

Sun Baozhu was gobbling up a bowl of food because he hadn't eaten a decent bowl of food, and when he saw Hu Chunlai at first glance, he was so shocked that he almost choked. She couldn't speak, so she hurriedly gestured, but Hu Chunlai couldn't understand it, so she screamed and screamed, and she was going to drive people out after with firewood.

Zhang Xing, Fu Xianglian, and Fu uncles who were talking in the room all came out. Uncle Fu grabbed Hu Chunlai and told Sun Baozhu's origin. Hu Chunlai was still shocked, looking Sun Baozhu up and down. Aunt Fu smiled and said, "Go, go, there is your rice in the back pot of the kitchen, and you can bring it to your room for your own use." ”

Hu Chun came and left, and Uncle Fu asked Zhang Xing: "Does she understand the words?" Zhang Xing nodded, "I understand." ”

Aunt Fu said: "It's not easy to settle her for a while, otherwise, let her live in the kitchen these days, right?"

Zhang Xing looked at Sun Baozhu. Sun Baozhu nodded hurriedly, and then bent down to thank him.

The next day, when Zhang Xing got up, she smelled the aroma wafting from the kitchen, and when she stretched out her head, she saw a figure standing outside the window, she was startled and asked, "Who is outside?" asked twice, but couldn't hear an answer, only saw the figure outside the window bent over, and his head was almost down to his waist.

Fu Xianglian also woke up, and said with a smile: "Who else could it be?" It must be the girl you bought yesterday." ”

Zhang Xing was stunned, opened the door, and sure enough, he saw Sun Baozhu standing outside with a basin of water. Sun Baozhu came in, and he was familiar with the sweat towel to serve Zhang Xing to wipe his face. Zhang Xing couldn't help it, and said: "Just give it to me, I don't have to serve like this in the future, I want water, and I will call you." ”

Sun Baozhu nodded, and watched Zhang Xing finish washing, and then took the water out of the water.

Fu Xianglian couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh, and said, "Why do I think you seem to be more willing to be a maid?" Zhang Xing smiled and shook her head, she was used to living a hard life, and she was really not used to being served like this for a while.

Fu Xianglian smiled again and said, "Your brother also said that he would go to the street to buy a few people back today, you, it's better to turn around quickly." ”

Zhang Xing was stunned for a moment, thought about it, and was relieved. Wei Minwen is also lucky this time, just at the beginning of the year from the source of the river to transport a boatload of grain back, at the end of May there was a big flood, the price of rice doubled again and again, and now the five buckets of rice outside can be replaced by someone back. In just these days, all the money that Fu Wei and his family filled in a few years ago has been earned, not to mention, there is far more profit. After the flood recedes, this year's grain harvest has become a foregone conclusion, the price of grain will definitely not be low there, and the remaining grain of the Fu family is also a big profit.

Since she has made money, she has to think farther, and Wei Minwen has already told her about the Fu family's desire to open a rice shop in Yuxian County. The Fu family only has one job, which is definitely not enough, since there is a lot of money, at this time, there are many children and daughters, and the price is low, so it is indeed necessary to buy a few people to come in. (To be continued......)