Not to mention how Chang Tianlei accepted all kinds of care and love from General Chang at home, and did his filial piety under General Chang's coercion and temptation - to honor all the wine to his grandfather. Lin Zhu is carrying out good-neighborly and friendly activities. First, after asking Feng Yuanbo to familiarize himself with the surrounding environment, he bought some famous dim sum in Beijing, plus a jar of rice wine and gave it to more than a dozen neighbors in the alley.

Some of the houses in the alley where Lin Zhu's house is located are small shopkeepers with small property, and some are small officials in the government, who don't have much background, but they get along with the people around them very friendly.

So when Feng Yuanbo came to the door with gifts, he was not treated unfairly.

"Girl, I'm back." Feng Yuanbo went to the flower hall to return to Lin Zhu.

"Steward Feng has worked hard." Lin Zhu motioned for Feng Yuanbo to sit down and speak. "How's the family?"

"They were all very friendly, and I also told the identity of our family, but I didn't show contempt." Feng Yuanbo told Lin Zhu what he had observed.

"That's good, although we don't live here for long, but the character of the neighbor is also very important." Lin Zhu nodded, although it would take a few more months for them to move to Xiaolinzhuang, but once they were free here, if there was anything, the surrounding neighbors could also take care of it. "In a few days, how about we send them a post and invite them to come over?"

"It's okay to do this," Feng Yuanbo thought for a moment, "However, it is inconvenient for those masters to come, so the girl should invite the lady of the house and his young lady." "Although Lin Zhu is the owner, she is still a girl. According to the current rules, the reception ladies are a little inappropriate, but since she is the head of the household, she can only reluctantly do so.

"That's fine, Steward Feng will prepare a post for me, send it over, it's set for a month later, and invite them to a banquet." Lin Zhu nodded and agreed, "But our family has few people, and we have to trouble Steward Feng to find some suitable people." Mother Xu can also help in this regard. "Xu used to be the housekeeper mother of a large family. I am very familiar with things like buying a maid and a wife.

Although there are only two masters in the family, Lin Zhu and Fu Douer. But there was no one around the two of them to serve, and many things, Lin Zhu did it himself, and he used to be when his mother was there. You can also help her do something personal. Now Chang's mother is gone. Lin Zhu didn't expect to ask Qian Xuehui or the Xu family to help.

Xu's two children, a seven-year-old daughter and a four-year-old son, are still children. Lin Zhu won't even call them. Xu's daughter Xiaoqin, Lin Zhu asked Xu's to take her by herself, it doesn't matter if she does it or not, she will raise her first, and then talk about it, her son Haizi is the same, at the age of four, although she is one year older than Fu Dou'er, she is about the same height as him, and her weight is much worse than that of Fu Dou'er, Lin Zhu thinks that she can't do things to the extent that such a young child can do things, so when he is also raised, he will follow Feng Rongxuan and Fu Dou'er to recognize a word and be a companion or something.

Feng Yuanbo quickly found a few Ya women who specialized in sending girls to large families through the tooth shop, and they were also ancient slave traders. Lin Zhu was not dissatisfied with their profession, after all, it was a product of this era.

Regarding Lin Zhu's request to help Steward Feng buy some maids, Xu didn't shirk much, it was not so easy to meet people she knew in the capital of Nuoda, and she had not been in contact with Ya Po before.

Yapo Huang, just bought some people from the countryside and came back, and before they came to tell them the rules, they received a business, and they were very happy, but when they inquired, they heard that it was just an ordinary family, without any background, and they were still people from the countryside, so they didn't attach so much importance to this business.

Her subordinates are some little girls who have been trained to be about the same, all of them have some foundation, they can cook, they can needlework, and some of them are good-looking, she doesn't plan to bring them over, and they are not expected to be a rich family, and they will definitely not be sold for a price.

So those rustic little girls who had just bought them were sent to Lin Zhu's house for her to choose.

Whether it is Lin Zhu, Xu's or Steward Feng, they are all a little dissatisfied with Huang Yapo, some of these little girls are seven or eight years old, some are twelve or thirteen years old, all dressed in tatters, standing in the front hall with fear.

"Aunt Huang, is this all the people you have there?" Feng Yuanbo pointed to these seven or eight little girls and said.

"Back to the housekeeper, yes. The villain has just returned from the country, and when he learned that you urgently need some people here, he brought them before he had time to clean them up, and I ask the lord's family to forgive me. Huang Yapo also saw their dissatisfaction, but she could do her job, and these things made a scene, and it was not a problem at all.

Feng Yuanbo wanted to say something more, but was stopped by Lin Zhu's eyes, "Mother Xu, how many people do you think is appropriate?" Lin Zhu asked quietly.

"Girl, these people don't understand any rules, so it's appropriate to buy them back like this?" Xu Shi looked at the children with a frown.

"This shows that they haven't been taught badly, and there's nothing bad about it." Lin Zhu is very satisfied with these people, although these people can't adapt to the identity in front of them, they are better than those who have been treacherous.

"Well, these are all honest, and it's almost enough to add these to the house." Xu Shi thought about it and calculated, and felt that eight people were enough, and if he returned to Zhuangzi, if there were not enough people, he would find other Ya Po to see.

Lin Zhu nodded secretly to Feng Yuanbo and motioned for him to buy them all.

"Aunt Huang, how much are you going to pay for each of these people?" Originally, Lin Zhu and the others suddenly quieted down, which made Huang Yapo feel a little drumming in her heart, and thought that the people she brought made them dissatisfied, and this business couldn't be successful, although she didn't pay much attention to it before she came, but it was good to make money after all.

Now hearing Feng Yuanbo's question, she was overjoyed, "This small one is three taels of silver, and the big one is five taels." She bowed slightly and said to Feng Yuanbo.

"Hmph, it seems that Aunt Huang is playing with us as a newcomer and wants the lion to open her mouth." Feng Yuanbo snorted coldly, obviously not very satisfied with her offer.

"Then where can they be, they are also bought by villains for a lot of money, plus the cost of coming and going. You have to let the villain make some money, right? Huang Yapo said with a salivating face.

"It's twenty taels at a price, we want all these people, if it doesn't work, let's bring them all back." Feng Yuanbo didn't want to talk nonsense with her, so he quoted directly.

Huang Yapo wanted to say something more, but she saw that not only Feng Yuanbo was not looking at her, but even Lin Zhu, who was sitting in the main seat, was drinking tea with his head down. I knew in my heart that if she wanted to raise the price again, she might not be able to sell any of them, but these people didn't spend a total of seven or eight taels of silver to buy them back, except for some food, they didn't spend more money on them, and they could make a net profit of twelve or three taels, so why not?

"The villain is also a small business, but since Steward Feng said so, although he doesn't make money, he should be a familiar face with you, and he will do as you say." Huang Yapo followed Feng Yuanbo to the official mansion to file a file, and handed over the deed of sale of these people, and the matter was over.

Lin Zhu handed over all these people to the Xu clan and asked her to train. First do some simple things, and then there is nourishment, all of them are yellow and thin, and I am afraid that they will not be able to do any work.

A few little girls resignedly followed Xu's away, in fact, they were already very lucky, although they were sold by their families, they only stayed at Huang Yapo's place for two or three days, and they had not suffered much, and they had a few full meals, which was much better than the days when they had the last meal at home and no next meal.

Xu took them to the wing room where they lived, and asked Xiaocao to arrange two rooms and divide them for eight people to live in, bedding and the like, Steward Feng had already sent someone to buy them, and there were their clothes, Lin Zhu was afraid that they would have lice, fleas, etc., so he first asked Steward Feng to buy some medicine and come back, and let people boil a lot of water, let them wash and disinfect first.

As for clothes, there happened to be a neighbor's family who sold ready-to-wear clothes, so I bought some from his house first, which can be regarded as taking care of their business.

A few little girls have never been treated so well, let them take a bath, give a meal and wear new clothes, everyone's face is full of surprise.

After they cleaned up, Xu called them to his room and began to speak, "The master of this house is the girl you just saw in the front hall, the girl has a kind heart, so she is very good to the people, but you must also be worthy of this kindness in the future." ”

Seeing that several girls were standing obediently, Xu asked again, "Did you work at home before?" ”

A few people, you look at me, I look at you, but I don't know what to say. "Those who have done it stand on the right, and those who have not done it stand on the left." Xu pointed twice.

Several people walked around a few times and stood on the right. "Very good," Xu nodded, he could follow orders, but he was not too wooden.

"Those who can do needlework stand on the left." Xu Shi said again. This time, two people came forward, and they looked like they were only about eight years old. "Those who know how to cook also come forward." Three more people stepped forward.

"And what did you do at home?" The remaining three stood cramped on the right, looking up at Xu cautiously, "Feed the chickens and pigs, clean and wash the clothes." ”

Xu's heart has a bottom, although these people have never been maids, they are still diligent and able to work.

"Since you have entered the house, there are two rules to remember, one is loyalty, and the other is diligence. The mouth must be strict, nothing in the house can be said outside, and the work ordered to be done well must not be lazy and slippery. Remember? Xu Shi looked at a few people seriously.

"Remembered." Several people nodded in unison.

"Well, it stands to reason that you were sold into the house, and you are the girl's people, whether you are dead or alive is a matter of the girl's words, but the girl is benevolent, each of you has a monthly amount of 100 yuan a month at the beginning, and after three months, those who do well will rise, and those who do not do well may not even get the 100 yuan, understand?" This is what Lin Zhu told Xu to say in imitation of the practice of the probationary period in his previous life. (To be continued......)