There was a girl who was unsuccessful, and she immediately cried in fear; Others held the railing and almost begged: "Mama Feng, please, choose me!" You choose me, I can do everything, I can do laundry, I can cook......"

Mrs. Feng also wanted to choose a few more, but the big county lord had already told her, and sighed lightly, "Your redemption silver is not cheap, one gets two hundred taels of silver, alas...... At this price, the most beautiful girl in Xishikou today is only fifty taels of silver, so you can't buy four? When I was about to go out, the lord of my family gave me a thousand taels of silver tickets, and I could only buy five at most, and I couldn't do more. ”

In the past, two hundred taels of silver was nothing to the Han family, but at this moment, the young lady of the Han family was only worth two hundred taels of silver.

The selected girl was about to leave with Mrs. Feng, Han Luo's eyes blinked, tears began to pour down like a flood of water, and she took Mrs. Han's hand and refused to let go and called "Mother", her voice was choked, and she couldn't say anything from the side.

Mrs. Han said softly: "When you arrive at the county lord's mansion, you have to serve the big county lord carefully......"

The big county lord is the mother of the tax chief Geng, she can make the tax chief Geng lose his title with a word, and she can also help the tax chief Geng regain the title.

Mrs. Feng said: "How can the lord of my family let her serve?" Childe has another mansion, and he chose an auspicious day, and Miss Han Luo is going to serve in Childe's mansion. "She owes herself," Mrs. Han, the little one said goodbye. ”

Han Luo was also released from the cell by the female jailer, Mrs. Han grabbed the railing and looked at Han Luo bably, "Luo'er, you take care of yourself!" "If you say goodbye, the mother and daughter may never see each other again.

The entire Han clan must not exceed thirty people in each place. There are hundreds of people in the clan. A batch was sent to Changping County, Renhe County and other places in the northwest. There are also a number of sent to Suzhou and Liangzhou, some to the southwest border of Yuexi, and some to the north, there are more than a dozen places, and the same is true of the Cao family. Lucky enough to be able to go to one place as a family; If it is unfortunate, the whole family will be divided into several places. Since then, the sky is high and the water is far away. I can't see my relatives again.

Mrs. Feng picked five people, went out of the gate, went to the criminal department to pay the silver, issued a deed of receipt, and took her to the household department to open the "Deed of Sale", stamped the official seal, and handed it to Mrs. Feng.

Outside the gate of the Criminal Department, two carriages were parked, and Mrs. Feng asked Han Luo and another woman surnamed Han to get into one with her, and Han Luo and the woman surnamed Han looked sad.

The prison of the Criminal Department was originally outside Xicheng. Enter from the West Gate and pass through the West Market Entrance. I saw a few mothers-in-law of government slaves standing on the beheading platform, and the mother-in-law of the government was holding gongs and drums, shouting at the top of her voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, this girl is twenty-eight years old, look at the thin skin and tender meat, only selling for thirty taels of silver, can do housework, can give birth to a baby, buy it back is a beautiful thing to kill two birds with one stone......

It's obviously a delicate girl, as if it's not a person, it's just an object for viewers to appreciate and comment.

Han Luo's heart sank, when did even she be like the girl on the stage, as if she was a cat or a dog, or like something in a grocery store, with a clear price. The girl was indeed beautiful, no worse than these women who had been serious ladies, and Mrs. Feng said in the prison, "You have two hundred taels of silver, but the beautiful girl at the entrance of the vegetable market is only forty or fifty taels." ”

Someone responded, "I'll give forty taels!" ”

"Forty-two taels of silver!" The person who said this was a woman with heavy makeup, and at first glance, she looked like the old bustard of the Qinglou, and there were many women dressed like this. There are also some brightly dressed, like the house slaves of large families, and some like human teeth, and people are maids, and they have the best end, some or fall into the green building, and some fall into the hands of human teeth.

The carriage was moving, and a familiar voice floated in Mrs. Feng's ears: "Mrs. Wu, we will buy a family in a while, don't pick up those beautiful and good-looking ones, this kind of subordinate is mostly useless." Mrs. Xin can count on buying a few people to serve again. Mrs. Feng opened the curtain, but saw Mrs. Wu hurriedly approaching Mrs. Xin of the palace on her left shoulder, and there were two Mama Qiao in the old concubine's house, and called: "Mama Qiao!" Mrs. Wu! ”

The two turned around, and the carriage stopped.

Mrs. Feng smiled: "Are you going to buy people?" ”

Mama Qiao leaned over and replied, "There are still a few people left in Mrs. Xin's courtyard, and we were ordered to come over and take a look, and we want to buy a family of five or six." "Young women can be girls, young men can be servants, old men can be housekeepers, women can be mothers-in-law, and more importantly, they have to worry about their children and parents doing a good job.

Mrs. Wu curiously glanced at the carriage and saw Han Luo, she had seen it once, she knew her, she pulled Mama Qiao with her hand, and said, "Mama Feng is busy, we are late, we have to hurry up and pick a few good ones." ”

Mrs. Feng said: "Mama Qiao and Mrs. Wu are also busy. ”

What a magnificent Han family used to be, but now it has fallen to this point.

Mrs. Feng came back to her senses, and Han Luo on her side gently tugged her, with tears in her eyes, "Can Mama do me a favor?" "Timid, restrained," this is selling the descendants of Weiyuan Houfu, can Mama buy me one of the girls who served me at the beginning. Their names are Xiaolan and Xiaolian, and they should be the money I borrowed from Mama, and when I save money in the future, I will return it to Mama......

Another Miss Han heard her say this, everyone is going to be a concubine, whoever has a powerful subordinate around him will be more powerful, and knelt down, "Mama helps the little girl, my girl's name is Fang'er, her appearance is ordinary, and it doesn't cost much, and the little girl will definitely be grand......ma in the future."

Mrs. Feng sighed lightly, they really had a problem with her, "I have to send you back to the house first, I don't have much silver on me, I have to ask the big county lord about this." She said to the coachman outside: "Go faster, go back to the county lord's mansion early." ”

Not far away, Mama Qiao and Mrs. Wu watched their carriage.

Mrs. Wu said with regret: "At the beginning, the tax prince had a marquis, and the Han family wanted to allow their daughter over, but then they were unhappy when they lost their title, and now they are the concubines of the tax prince." ”

Mama Qiao said: "Everyone has their own life, she is the life of the young lady and the slave." Let's take a look and buy the good ones. ”

In the Western Cuisine Market, it has become very lively today because of the auction of the descendants of the Han and Cao families. The old bustard of the Qinglou who got the news, the people of the teeth, and the families who need to buy people. Naturally, there are still most of the people who are watching the excitement. Although it was a hot summer day, standing under the sun, I looked curiously at the subordinates who came to the stage one after another to resell.

The young and beautiful ones ranged from fifty taels to seventy taels, and an old servant only got seven or eight taels of silver, and some of the thin little maids and girls were only sold for three or four taels of silver.

Ordinary people buy people, don't pick young and beautiful, this kind of people are left to the people and the old bustard, counting on a good life to recuperate and make more money. Among the nearly 1,000 subordinates, there are only more than 10 or 20 people who can sell a few dozen taels of silver at a good price, and the rest are only a few taels of silver.

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So-yeon practices calligraphy in the small study.

Mama Qing went around outside and replied: "Mama Qiao and Mrs. Wu bought a family of six people from three generations of grandparents and grandchildren to go to Xinmeng Xiaozhu. ”

Su Yan continued to hold the pen and listened silently to Mama Qing.

"A forty or fifty-year-old mother-in-law, with a son and daughter-in-law and a family of three, there is a little boy who looks about the same age as Young Master Xin, only four or five years old, and a fifteen or sixteen daughter and a thirteen or fourteen-year-old servant, saying that it was a family. I heard that this mother-in-law was originally the housekeeper in the big kitchen of Weiyuan Houfu. His son and daughter-in-law originally served in the Han family's uncle's house. ”

It's also a good thing for the family not to be separated from each other.

"This is a family of six. It's only twenty-eight taels of silver. Mama Qing shook her head, the family has such a little money, "I heard Mama Qiao say, some families of seven or eight are only a few dozen taels of silver, and the price of selling this time is also appropriate, but all the families have not been disassembled to sell." Princess, there are still people in our shops and Zhuangzi, if there are poor people, it is better to buy a few, it is also cost-effective. ”

The government originally asked for thirty taels, but no one bought it, until Mama Qiao pressed the price, and finally bought this family of six with only twenty-eight taels of silver, and paid the silver at the official office on the spot, took the deed of sale, and brought their family of six back to Xinmeng Xiaozhu.

Mama Qing muttered: "Concubine Qing heard that the price was cheap, so she took three hundred taels of silver tickets for Mama Qiao to buy." There are so many dowry Zhuangzi and shops in the name of the princess, and there are many places that need manpower everywhere, so it is better to buy some too. If you buy this kind of family, you will be regarded as a roommate. ”

Su Yan said lazily: "How can they have a good room?" My companion room was carefully selected by my mother and sister-in-law. ”

The servants of these two families must be good, after all, they have been trained by their masters. Su Yan was a little moved, called Bai Yan to come, took five hundred taels of silver tickets to Mama Qing, and asked Zique to help, "You look at buying some capable ones, you don't have to send them back to the palace after buying them, you can send them directly to Zhuangzi, and look at their respective abilities before talking later." ”

She didn't care about giving them a bite to eat.

Su Yan gritted her teeth, "The descendants of the Han family don't have to buy it, buy the Cao family." ”

Mama Qing was puzzled.

Su Yan said again: "The descendants of the Han family are left to the old concubine. There are also a lot of her wedding granges and shops, and it is too late for Master Ling to be in charge because she is in a hurry. She didn't want to snatch people from Ling Wei, the Han family's subordinates were more capable than the Cao family, and many of Su Yan's heads and stewards had been trained by Zheng Han, and now there are many capable people.

Mama Qing led Zique to run an errand, and Tian He stood at the door of the study with high spirits, reporting to Su Yan what had happened in the imperial city in the past two days.

"I heard Mama Qiao from Jingyuan say that when I went outside today, I met Mama Feng from the Jinling Grand County Lord's Mansion, and it looked like she had just returned from the prison of the Criminal Department, and brought Miss Luo and Miss Yansheng of the Han family, saying that it was the concubine that the Jinling Grand County Lord bought for Uncle Tax."

Early in the morning, the Han and Cao families except for the main culprit and accomplice will be assigned to the border, and the government has already selected the official messenger to escort, with a total of three routes, all the way to the north and the border with Liao, all the way to the southwest and west, and one road to the northwest states.

Tian He said again: "The third wife of the Jiang family and the eldest grandmother have sent domestic slaves to the western vegetable market to buy people, and they have picked a lot of good ones. The fifth wife also asked the house slaves to buy more than a dozen people to go to the Zhuangzi. ”

In the past few days, the imperial city has been changing rapidly, and the civil and military people of the Manchu Dynasty are cautious, for fear that the next step will be on fire and implicating themselves. (To be continued......)