Chapter 224
"You've all been told by this guy to talk less?" Yu Wuming said to the girls by pointing his finger at Ivan, while his eyes were fixed on Ivan, and the corners of his mouth were full of malicious smiles. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
This time all the girls' heads were lowered, and even the representative lowered his head and did not dare to speak.
"Why don't you speak?
"My lord, don't embarrass them, they are all just hired, and they are all good girls from the farm, so they are not very good at talking, especially in the face of a big man like you!" Ivan's facial features are all crowded together, these girls are really just recruited to the mansion, the longest one is the eldest, and he has only been here for three months, while the others have only one month to more than ten days, for the general miscellaneous servants in the mansion have to go through more than three months of training, they are all a blank slate.
And when they heard that they were going to serve the Earl today, they were completely panicked, for they didn't know how to live in this Earl's Palace, let alone wait for their master.
Ivan felt a regret in his heart, what did he do with that extra word, the Earl didn't want to see them. Originally, these girls were transferred to his subordinates, and he was quite happy, and he thought that he would bring them to the Earl after a few days of training, but he had a lot of mouths, and the Earl wanted to see it now, although there were really a few of these girls who were beautiful, if the Earl took a fancy to it, the credit for bringing people over would naturally not be small, but now like this, the Earl seems to have not taken a fancy to any of them, and it is very likely to have a tendency to hate them.
These little girls too, if you want to look up, look up, what are you afraid of! Now I'm afraid I want to put myself in, this afternoon I finally got in touch with the earl, and got a little reward, I went back and gave all the money to my brothers, I could have gotten twenty gold coins alone, that is my own salary for nearly thirty years, seeing that my life can go up such a step, I always have a few henchmen, he only kept five of the twenty gold coins, and the rest were taken out to buy people's hearts, of course, he was not stupid enough to say this own, take it out and share it with his brothers.
If he dares to say it, then he can leave the Earl's Mansion tomorrow, there are not too many well-informed people in this mansion, he took out five of the fifteen pieces and gave them to the deputy squad leader, and the other ten pieces were distributed to them according to the wealth of his subordinates' families, which was naturally in the name of the Earl's reward. As for the other thirty pieces, he divided them equally among all of them, so that he was the one who took the least.
He looked at these girls again, today is considered to be affected by them, he knew that in this way, the fifteen gold coins would not be given away, that would allow him and his family to live a good life, and he could marry a woman who could see it, even if he was demoted to be the lowest handyman in the house.
Yu Wuming didn't want to listen to Ivan, so he said to Ivan: "You can go out to rest and rest first, and I'll talk to them first." ”
The girls raised their eyes in surprise and looked at Yu Wuming, and then looked at Ivan, their eyes were full of pleading, Ivan looked at them, and could only reply to a look of self-begging, and then said to Yu Wuming: "My lord, I will go to the craftsman in the house first, and then go to contact the glassmaker." After speaking, without waiting for Yu Wuming to agree, he immediately turned around and flashed out of the house, leaving a dozen little girls who I saw Youpian on.
Yu Wuming looked at these girls a little helplessly, where are there more than a dozen little girls, these are obviously more than a dozen quails, or frightened, he was silent for a while, and then said: "Can any of you tell me, they all said something to you, why are you so afraid of me?"
The eldest girl seemed to have become the spokesperson of the girls after Ivan left, and she raised her head secretly and said: "We have not completed the necessary training, and we are afraid of making mistakes, so Ivan steward told us to speak and look at the eyes of our masters, but we have just entered the house, and we don't know how to look at people's eyes." ”
This person's voice became smaller and smaller, and in the end, if Yu Wuming didn't listen carefully, he wouldn't be able to hear it at all.
Yu Wuming's eyes widened unconsciously, he really didn't expect it to be like this, for a world from which he was proud of his savage girlfriend, this was simply an incredible thing, in his opinion, these sixteen or seventeen girls, as long as they were not willful and did not play a small temper, they were already going to burn high incense.
He laughed suddenly, and the laughter frightened the girls again, and they unconsciously took a step back, what kind of problem is this Earl? They have heard many rumors of strange hobbies of nobles.
The eldest girl cautiously looked up at Yu Wusheng, and saw that the earl's smile was normal, the kind of normal smile that hears something very funny, not a nervous smile, and finally put down her snack.
Yu Wuming saw that this girl was looking at him, so he stopped laughing and asked, "What are your backgrounds? Why did you come into the mansion to do things?" Originally, he thought that these girls would not be bought by the mansion, right? Why are you so afraid of him.
"We all came from the surrounding countryside, and we have been the count's serfs for generations. The big girl said.
The word "serf" reached Yu Wuming's ears, and his body jumped, but he didn't expect that there were serfs here, it seemed that some families couldn't get by, so they sold the girls?
When the girl saw that Yu Wuming heard the reflection of the word serf, she didn't know what it meant for a while, but she stopped and peeked at Yu Wuming, and when Yu Wuming saw that she didn't speak, she asked, "You are all serfs, and life must be very hard, right? How about I put you back? And how about restoring your family's status as yeoman farmers?"
Hearing Yu Wuming say this, more than a dozen girls knelt down in fright, and no longer cared about Ivan's explanation, "Please Lord Earl, I was wrong, please don't drive us away......" This kind of pleading words kept shouting out of the mouths of more than a dozen girls, which was quite good.
Yu Wuming was stunned, he wanted to let them out, but they refused, what is the matter! He had to point to the girl who spoke for the girls and said, "What are you doing here? What is the situation? Tell me!"
The girl hurriedly said: " Kacheng is a commercial city, for the serfs of the Earl's Court, the agricultural tax has not been very high, but for the yeoman farmers, the agricultural tax is much higher, and the previous earls are not counted as serfs, the tax is very small, and the usual management is relatively loose, and the yeoman farmers are not much different, so many yeoman farmers are willing to buy land to the Earl's Court, for the earl to be serfs, if the earl you restore our family to the yeoman, then our family taxes will have to be paid more, and we are all sent to the house voluntarily by the family, if we are sent back, we will also be blamed by the family, and our family will not be able to raise its head in the villageOur serf families were proud to work in the earl.
After the disappearance of the previous earl, it has been many years since the mansion did not recruit girls, and this time you returned to the mansion and started recruiting girls again, in fact, the sisters really want to stay. After the girl finished speaking, she looked at Yu Wusheng pitifully.
Yu Wuming didn't expect that there were still yeoman farmers here who were actively becoming serfs, he got up from behind his desk, walked to the living room, saw those girls still kneeling on the ground, and said to them: "Don't kneel, come and sit down, come and tell me about your family, I want to hear how you usually live, I can't live in this mansion under you." ”
Those girls timidly stood in front of Yu Wuming, no one dared to sit down, Yu Wuming looked at it and said: "Don't you all sit down? You don't sit down, I'm not used to it, if you are still standing, I have to stand up and talk to you!"
However, it can be seen that the girls are a lot less wary of this somewhat approachable earl, and Yu Wuming pointed to the one who looked the youngest and asked, "What is your name? How many people are in the family? How old are you?"
The little girl said shyly: "My lord, my name is Anna, I am fourteen this year, the youngest in the family, there are two brothers and one sister, the family is very good, there are fathers and mothers at home, and we live with grandpa and grandma." ”
Yu Wuming frowned and said, "Fourteen, it's too small, don't the adults in the family worry about coming out at such a young age?"
Anna heard Yu Wuming say that she was small, and hurriedly retorted: "I'm not young anymore, I can already do a lot of work, and there are people younger than me who come into the house to work!"
"Oh?" Yu Wuming didn't believe her words, tilting his head to look at her.
Anna hurriedly said again: "This time I asked for it myself!"
"Oh!" Yu Wuming continued to look at her.
"My dad and my mom originally wanted me to come to ...... next year" Seeing Yu Wuming staring at her, Anna's voice became smaller and smaller.
"Why?"
"My dad said, I'm still too young, why don't I have to be fifteen years old to come out to work, don't be in such a hurry, my brother and sister can also work, and there is no shortage of me. ”
"That's like words!" Yu Wuming very much agreed with Anna's parents' decision, and he asked again, "Then your parents don't agree, how did you end up here?"
"I! I sneaked out, and I begged my sister to bring me in. Anna's voice lowered again, but she immediately said loudly again: "Lord Earl, I can work, I will definitely be able to serve you well, and besides, I am also very good at fighting, many boys in the village can't beat me!"
"Ah?!" This sentence shocked Yu Wusheng, this little girl is very capable of fighting, I can't see it! Okay, this one should wait a while to understand, let's change someone, this self-proclaimed violent Lori will deal with it for a while.