Seeing this scene, Honggu hurriedly tugged on Situ Ming's sleeve beside her, and shouted at the same time: "Girl, turn around!" ”

Situ Cheng opened Honggu's hand and said to her, "You can stop your tongue, I won't work for you." ”

After saying that, he turned around on the spot, raised his head again, stretched out his hand, walked a few steps forward, and walked back to the front of the Xingpo, and said to the Xingpo:

"Mother-in-law, don't look at me as thin, in fact, I have a lot of strength. I can do everything, laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc. Even if you assign me to the kitchen to light the fire, I have no complaints. It's just a point, I'm going to make it clear beforehand. ”

Thinking that this woman was interesting, she listened to what she was going to ask, and then said to her, "What do you want to ask?" ”

Situ Cheng said:

"I'm different from them, they can't help themselves, I'm free. The purpose of my visit to Kyoto this time was to find my relatives, because I was a weak woman who came to Kyoto and had no place to stay. The matter of finding relatives is not something that can be found in a while and a half, so I heard that your house lacks a maid, so I hope to vote for your house. Regardless of salary, I only need three meals a day and a place to live. ”

When Xingpo heard her say this, she knew that she had been coaxed in, and Xingpo laughed and said, "Ridiculous, ridiculous!" "For the first time, someone took her as a kind housekeeper for her famous Kyoto people.

Zheng Ke listened to Situ Ming's words, and went to count the deed of sale on the table. The left and right numbers are also twenty, and the number of people is also twenty. Obviously they were all bought back from Jiangzhou, how did they become a self-proclaimed free body?

Honggu saw Zheng Ke's questioning gaze, and she only pretended to be puzzled.

The Xing Po took the last deed of sale and asked Situ Ming:

"Your name is not Su Xiaoqi?"

Situ Cheng shook her head and said, "I am from Jizhou, and my real name is Situ Ming. ”

"Surname Situ?" The woman muttered to herself. She has been wandering around the palace of high-ranking officials and nobles in Kyoto all the year round, and she knows that the surname Situ is very unusual. Originally, if this surname was left in the previous dynasty, it would be terrible. It's just that this dynasty has been established for more than 100 years, and those surnamed Situ were either executed or secretly changed their surnames. Why did a person shout loudly about his surname Situ today, this person must have a great background.

"The girl's appearance doesn't look like a Central Plains person, may I ask where the girl's parents are from?" Xingpo asked her.

"I don't know who my parents are, I was fostered to a farmer's family in Jizhou when I was very young." Situ Cheng said casually.

"Since you said that you grew up in Jizhou, you came to the capital to find some relatives." Xingpo asked again.

Situ Cheng didn't expect her to ask these words, but she couldn't answer that she was here to find her children and husband. She made up a message to find her biological parents, saying that she heard her adoptive mother say that she was from Kyoto.

"My girl lacks a girl to serve with her, I see that you have a clever tongue, and you are also a clever person when you want to do things. Would you like to come with me? Xingpo asked.

"I'm the first to talk about ugliness, but I'm the one who said I want to leave, and I can't stay in the house for long. You can just put me in a rough job, I'm used to it in my adoptive mother's house. Situ said to the mother-in-law.

She doesn't want to be a girl who serves closely, there are many rights and wrongs in the big house, she would rather ignore the things outside the window and do some coolies with peace of mind.

"When I meet my girl, these are all easy to discuss." Xingpo suddenly became polite to her.

The more Zheng Cao listened to it, the more wrong it became, and he dared to love this person who was also a trick. In line with the fact that Situ Cheng did not sell the deed in his own hands, he wanted to take it away directly without spending money, and then he would sell it again. Situ Cheng is the most outstanding-looking and clever among all the women.

"Xingpo, this ......" Zheng Ke interrupted the conversation between Xingpo and Situ Ming, and said embarrassedly.

"Don't worry, the silver is indispensable to you, and I want all these twenty girls." Xing Po said to Zheng Cao.

Zheng Cao invited her to come just to let her be a middleman and help sell these women elsewhere, but she didn't expect this wife to be so generous, and she directly bought them all.

The women were led to the room in the backyard by Honggu again, but they were not locked up again, but Honggu sat on the threshold and watched.

"Make an offer!" Xing Po said to Zheng Cao.

"Mother-in-law, my original intention was to invite you to come over ......," Zheng Cao said with some reluctance.

"I know this, at most one of these women you bought can't exceed the usual money, like those third-class ones are only a few hundred dollars. Twenty full dozens is only twenty or thirty taels of silver, and with the cost of your trip, I think I can't exceed seventy taels of silver. Xing Po counted with her fingers.

Zheng Ke only spent sixty taels of silver on this trip, and he was stunned when he heard the words of the mother-in-law. I admired in my heart, this woman really deserves to be an expert in human teeth.

"In this way, I will give you a hundred taels of silver, and you have given me all these girls, and you have to think about it yourself." Xingpo continued.

"Mother-in-law, you are too shrewd, if these girls of mine are sold to a big family as concubines, this one can be worth a hundred taels." Zheng Ke said.

"The ransom of the popular girl in Cuixiang Mansion is only fifty taels of silver, you are really a layman." Xingpo sneered.

"There aren't many of these girls you brought in who are outstanding, let alone anything else. Do you want this kind of girl in a big family, I'm afraid no one wants to be a girl. You can only pack it and send it to the green building, and you can think about it yourself, what kind of price it is. Xingpo said again.

It's no wonder that Zheng Ke's capital is not rich, and he hired a third-rate person, so he doesn't know a lot of tricks.

Not all Jiangzhou women can make a lot of money when they are transported to Kyoto, and they also have to pick those who are thin and young. This industry is called "skinny horses", and Kyoto also has a special place to "raise skinny horses".

They first paid for the girls from poor families to buy them back and then study them, teach them singing and dancing, playing the piano and chess, calligraphy and painting, and then sell them to the rich as concubines or sell them into the Qinglou when they grow up, so as to make a profit. Because the poor girls are so thin, the name "thin horse" comes from this.

When he first bought a virgin, he only paid a dozen yuan, but when he got married, he could earn as much as 1,500 taels.

Skinny horses are also divided into three, six, nine, etc. The first-class "thin horse" was taught to "play the piano and blow the flute, recite poems and write, draw and play Go, play double-backs, wipe dominoes, and do all kinds of obscenity", and such a "thin horse" could be sold for more than 1,500 taels of silver.

There is also an extremely strict set of identification skills for selecting thin horses, and these Honggu and Zheng Ke will definitely not understand.

Moreover, the women Zheng Ke bought back from Jiangzhou this time are all about thirteen years old, even if the qualifications are good, there is no time to adjust. Of course, there is a lot of loss in the selling price.