435 Liu Sanniang
There was no peace in the court and the market in Sulu here, and the Nicole did not stop at this time, as soon as the slave girls arrived on the Nicole, they were gathered in several small houses, watched by several Han women, all of them removed the sacks and changed into all kinds of clothes.
These healthy women came from the Han tenant slaves who had come on board earlier, and now the fear and confusion in the eyes of these people have long been gone.
As long as they are normal people, they have intuition and perception of basic good and evil, and after a few days of getting along, everyone has a personal experience of how Australians treat them and them.
As tenant slaves, the Han people are accustomed to being driven to work, and now on the ship is no exception, the work has to be done, but the work done and the treatment in exchange for it - especially the food, and the attitude of the Australians towards them and them, make every Han tenant slave feel that the Australian is doing good deeds, and the Australian has a bodhisattva heart.
As early as the day after they boarded the ship, the Australians told the Han Chinese that you would be taken to the south, where there was fertile land—and if you gave the Australians eight years of labor, they would be given land.
The Australians stressed that the fertile land would become their private property, the kind that could be passed on to their children and grandchildren forever, and that they would then be released from slavery and become "free Australian citizens".
Although the Han people did not understand what "free Australian citizens" meant, they at least understood that they would not be eaten by the dragon immediately.
This could not help but make the tenants breathe a sigh of relief, and some of them were so excited that they cried on the spot, and I don't know if it was because they had lived, or because they heard that there would be land in a few years, in short, they were very excited.
Coupled with the explanations and companionship of Xue Laixiang's men, it was only two or three days before these Han Chinese finally began to consciously and voluntarily begin to work for the Australians—at this time, a large amount of cargo was sent to the deck of the Nicole, where there was a great shortage of porters.
The kitchen is also in dire need of manpower to help cook, and now there are more than 400 people living on the ship, and there are many chores that need to be done by these men and women.
Therefore, the work of helping this group of female slaves naturally fell to these Han women.
They taught the slave girls how to use flush toilets, use faucets, go to bathhouses, queue up for meals, go to the doctor for a check-up, and then line up to their cabins with their assigned bedding and toiletries—iron cups and a pair of chopsticks.
And it all starts with removing the sacks, untying the ropes on your hands, and putting on clean clothes.
These clothes were definitely fancy clothes in the eyes of these slave girls—fat trousers and collarless undershirts.
As far as Captain Gu is concerned, he can only wear this kind of clothes for the female slaves at present, and the work of buying women's clothes is being done in a hurry, but at the moment it can only be done like this, there is no way, there are only these two kinds of clothes on the ship now.
As for the shoes, I'm sorry, no, because they don't necessarily fit, so they can only let these slave girls go barefoot, but fortunately they have long been used to being barefoot, the deck is very flat, and in the hot weather, the slave girls walk barefoot on the wooden deck without any discomfort, and even feel very comfortable.
Immediately after putting on their clothes, the women were divided into two groups: those with wounds and those without wounds.
The former were led to the deck, where they were waiting for a number of dumbfounded men, supposedly doctors from the city of Jolo, who had come to clean their ankles.
Some of the slave girls had serious wounds, their bodies were feverish, cold attacks, and they were also poured with various medicines......
Liu Sanniang is naturally one of them, she has always felt that she is in some kind of illusion these days, and since the moment she was bought by a black and tall fat man, the feeling of being in a dream has been lingering.
She was first carried out of the city by the master, through the gap in the sack, she could see that her master was a black fat tall man, and she was carried off the ground, and then gently put on the stool, so she finally saw the owner's eyes, the black pupils stared intently at her feet, she subconsciously shrunk, but was caught by the man's hand......
Later, she tasted a sweet taste that she had never tasted in her life...... However, when the sensitive woman appeared in front of the man's eyes after removing the sack and putting on her clothes, she clearly felt a hint of disappointment from the man.
That's right, she has seen this kind of look, and she has been sold many times, and she is no stranger to this kind of eyes from men - who made her a tall and delicate, but mediocre Han woman......
Liu Sanniang's heart was like water at this time, and she was used to seeing ups and downs, and she knew that maybe it was this that made her live until now.
Liu Sanniang, the third in the family, is a native of Linhai Prefecture, North Penglai County, Dongzhili Province, the Ming Empire, and the first storm she experienced in her life was when she was just five years old.
That year, Li Jiuru and Kong Youde's soldiers of the Liaodong Army suddenly fought, and she didn't know that she was experiencing a historical event that was qualified to be written into the history books - the Wuqiao thief rebellion.
So this war was tossed to the end, and it was the official army of the Ming Dynasty who began to besiege Li Jiuru Kong Youde's last stronghold on the seaside - Dengzhou City.
Of course, the young Sanniang didn't know that the year of the Wuqiao Mutiny was a turning point in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and it was also the historical turning point of Emperor Chongzhen, who was sitting in the Forbidden City of Beijing, from the peak to the bottom.
But all the big rich and noble families, there are always such secrets in the house.
However, to this day, the flowers of that time have long been blurred in her memory, and she only remembers that her sister and mother were isolated from the secret door of the shrine before it was closed......
Then a beam of light came into her eyes, and a dark shadow appeared outside the reopened secret door, and the nurse next to Sanniang handed over the gold in her hand, so the secret door closed again.
In the darkness, she could only hear the rapid breathing of herself and the nurse, and the cries of her sister and mother outside the secret door, mixed with the laughter of the soldiers......
As a result, the Liu Mansion, which had been prominent in Dengzhou for more than 100 years, was dilapidated......
Later, a relative took in Sanniang, and when she finally grew up and became slim, the surrounding relatives began to find her in-laws.
However, before the in-laws could negotiate, another big event suddenly spread in the mouths of relatives: the cavalry of the Tartars had entered the customs......
It was really a troubled time, and soon after, his relatives and his family were taken north by the Tartars, and Sanniang embarked on the road south with the help of the nurse - the Han people in the village who were lucky enough to escape the Tartar cavalry were very reluctant to go to the legendary bitter cold land.
So Sanniang was carried across the Huai River by the refugees who went south, endured the hardships of turbulence and displacement, and finally settled down near Yanziji under Jinling City.
At this time, Sanniang can only rely on the nurse for her life, and the nurse is very good to her, not only did not let Sanniang suffer, but also taught her to read and write......
However, after years of running and turning, the nurse's body crossed over, and she finally couldn't afford to get sick.
In the end, Liu Sanniang, who sold herself to bury her wet nurse, this young lady from a big family in Dengzhou Mansion back then, entered a big family alone and started to be a maid......
In those years, the banner of Jinling City changed, and eventually, the feared Tartar became the ultimate owner of the city.
If they don't want to be a slave of the Tartars or don't want to be in the dust, the young Han women either sell themselves to become the maidservants of large Han families, or marry quickly, or become a sister-in-law.
These are the few ways out that a weak woman from the Han family can choose.