Chapter 201
"Please forgive the old man's inconvenient legs, so he won't get out of the carriage."
"The old man laughed, it's my little girl who is too naughty and ignorant." Li Zhengyuan turned sideways and pulled Li Junran out from behind him, and scolded softly, "Girl Liu, don't hurry up and apologize to this old man with inconvenient legs." ”
Whether the old man's legs and feet sitting in the carriage are really unfavorable to Suo Li Junran is not clear, but there is one thing that Li Junran can still see, the old man's forbearance kung fu cultivation is not bad. The coachman with a proud expression just now threw the silver at the feet of his uncle Li Zhengyuan, and the old man obviously didn't feel that there was anything wrong with doing so. The reason why he chose to quit his own coachman and tried to pull out a seemingly pleasant expression was nothing more than asking for others, and he had to temporarily lower his posture.
Human trafficking is legal on the side of the Apocalypse Dynasty, and naturally there are relevant legal provisions to protect the interests of those masters who hold the deed of sale. For example, Article 1 clearly stipulates that during the effective period of the contract of sale, the master can dispose of those slaves and maids at will, including arbitrarily buying and selling and killing the wrong slaves and maids.
Regarding the point of arbitrary killing, Princess Zhaorui of the previous dynasty also tried to change it to protect those who sold themselves into slavery. It's a pity that after working hard for a long time, there was little effect, and in the end, there were only two extra words "wrong" in front of me. Whether the slaves and maids at the bottom have made mistakes or not is not a sentence of being a master, and the so-called sin of wanting to add is no excuse. But in any case, it can be regarded as a kind of progress.
Slaves and maids naturally have relevant regulations for self-redemption and slavery, to put it bluntly, it is not that those who are slaves can sell themselves if they want to sell themselves, and those who want to get rid of slavery can get rid of slavery. This has to be agreed by the owner of the deed of sale. And he took the initiative to ask for the release of slavery, and the redemption silver was at least twice as much as the silver he had sold himself. The living deed is relatively low. Those who have signed a death deed are more expensive. After all, after signing the death deed, the whole person belongs to the master's private property, including the silver that ransomed himself from slavery.
Therefore, this one in front of me suddenly appeared from an unknown corner, and dropped a hundred taels of silver to buy Pan Pozi's family, and it was enough to help get rid of slavery in terms of price alone. Li Junran boldly guessed that if it weren't for the fact that the sale and transfer of slaves and maids were voluntary, it was strictly forbidden to buy and sell by force, I was afraid that the old man in front of him would not be willing to give this large sum of money at all.
While walking, Li Junran slowly grinded to the old man, lowered his head and apologized: "Grandpa." I'm sorry. The girl shouldn't have learned from that handlebar uncle to throw silver......"
Nima. Are you losing that? When the middle-aged coachman heard Li Junran say this, he couldn't help but look up and glare at Li Junran again, and even the old man sitting in the carriage almost became angry directly for a moment, almost gritting his back molars. Pull out a smile that thinks it's okay. One word at a time: "Yellow-haired little girl." It's normal to be lively and naughty, and after learning the rules and having a tutor, I ......"
The old man was only halfway through his words when he sensed that something was wrong. Before, whether it was Li Zhengshu or Li Zhengyuan, in the end, they were the Li family's own people. Although he is teaching Li Junran a lesson, he is still helping to make excuses openly and secretly. Being young and doing more is undoubtedly a very useful excuse, but there is another excuse that is that children have a strong ability to imitate, but they are just learning from each other. Of course, it is not appropriate to have the excuse of learning the same, after all, the middle-aged coachman used his hands, and when he arrived at Li Junran's side, it directly turned into a flying kick. At this time, the old man hinted that Li Jiatun's people didn't have a tutor, and he wanted to be sarcastic, but he didn't want to put himself in. Li Junran can still prevaricate with his young age, the middle-aged coachmen are all adults, but they are not the representatives who have no tutor and don't understand the rules.
Realizing this, the already reluctant smile on the face of the man sitting in the carriage showed obvious cracks again.
"This old man, my family did buy a slave a few months ago, and the family of four is indeed surnamed Pan. Just ......"
"You don't have to say more, the old man understands." The old man directly interrupted Li Zhengyuan's words, "You can't buy what kind of slave you want for a hundred taels." In fact, there is a reason. ”
"I want to hear about it."
"It's nothing, the old woman Pan is the old man's...... A long-lost sister. Some time ago, I found a person who knew many years ago, and got some scattered clues from her. So this one hundred taels is the silver for the old man's sister's family to redeem themselves from slavery. ”
Li Junran lowered her eyelids, for what the old man said, Li Zhengshu and Li Zhengyuan's cousins believe it or not, she didn't know, anyway, she Li Junran didn't believe it. Lie to the kids. Because of curiosity, Li Junran still couldn't help but pay a hundred taels of information consultation fees, and asked his fat rat to understand what was going on.
The old man didn't tell the truth. But it's not all lies, but three sentences are true and one is false, and the truth is just a mixture of truth and falsehood. "Separated for many years", "Thousands of miles to find relatives", "I finally found an insider many years ago" are not lying, but the most critical protagonist has changed. In fact, it was not Pan Pozi who was separated, but Pan Pozi's son Pan Dong.
As for the old man, don't look at the carriage that is comparable to a modern luxury car, dressed in the outfit of a rich and noble officer, and with a high-ranking and powerful face in his gestures, in fact, he is just a butler. Of course, there is a difference between a housekeeper and a housekeeper. If it is the head of those princes and nobles, even if they do not have an official rank, their status is higher than that of the top five or six officials outside. Otherwise, how could there be a third-grade official in front of the prime minister.
And the housekeeper in front of him, although he is not the housekeeper of the princes and nobles, is also the old manager of the first-class official family in the capital. The middle-aged coachman was the old man's nephew. It's no wonder that the old man or the coachman are all arrogant and look down on ordinary people who have no power and no power.
If you want to talk about the whole thing, Li Junran can only describe it in one word, and that is dog blood. Because the old man is the son of a family, he follows the master's surname Liang, and his single name is Zhong. Liang Zhong's master, Liang Yipin, was demoted five levels in a row because he offended the top boss who sat on the golden chair, and the whole family followed Liang Yipin to the southwest border town. Who would have thought that the luck on the road was too bad, and he was robbed by bandits, and Liang Yipin was separated from his wife and children.
Of course, Mrs. Pan is not Liang Yipin's original wife, but the dowry girl next to the original wife. To say that Mrs. Pan is also a ruthless and loyal servant, she changed her own son with the eldest young master Liang Dong (that is, later Pan Dong), and only then took the eldest young master Pan Dong to escape. But because Liang Dong witnessed the tragic death of his mother Pan, his brain was a little stimulated and something went wrong.
Later, Mrs. Pan took Pan Dong to escape with the refugees in the flood of natural disasters and fled to the next county of Yuezhen, and met the old man Pan, who had already braided. Originally, Mrs. Pan also thought about waiting until the wind calmed down and then took the incognito Pan Dong to the southwest border to find Liang Yipin, but after all, the orphans and widows didn't have much silver, and the most important thing was that they couldn't get the road guide, so they could only secretly ask someone to inquire behind the back of Old Man Pan. It's a pity that the vast sea of people has little effect.
This interruption was inked for more than ten years, until Liang Yipin was reinstated two years ago. (To be continued......)