Chapter 179: Curiosity
"Madam, what did Yuege do wrong? You're going to get rid of Yuege? ”
"No, Yuege, aren't you and Xiaoxing very good, I think it would be a good thing if I could promote your marriage."
"Madam~ You make fun of Yuege again." Yue Ge's flushed face made Ye Jinyu very glad of his decision, he would rather demolish ten temples than destroy a marriage.
"Then you will follow Qingdai and study hard."
"Then Yuege is gone, who will take care of Madame?"
"You don't have to worry about me, just rest assured here, I can wait to drink your wine."
"Madame, and make fun of Yuege."
"Okay, let's take it as it is, Qingdai, you take me to see, what's wrong."
"Okay, Pavilion Master come with me."
Ye Jinyu led Li Jinyu back to the palace, Yue Ge sent the two away with the appearance of Wangfu Stone, passing by the market, Ye Jinyu saw an obese middle-aged man holding a child and beating him, remembering the scene when he met Yue Ge, he couldn't help but let the groom stop the carriage.
"What are you doing in broad daylight?!"
"Yo, this lady, you don't have to worry about food and clothing, you don't have to worry about eating and drinking, you are prosperous and rich, where do you know the suffering of our small people in the market, this child I bought for a tael of silver, and almost ran away, if you run away, will I lose my tael of silver?"
Ye Jinyu was surprised in her heart, she was a high-ranking general in Yin State, and she was a noble princess on the deep side in Mao Kingdom, and she had almost no intersection with civilians, and the jewelry that Qingdai sold on the ground was also worth ten taels of silver, but now this child is only worth one or two silver, how can his parents be willing to give it?
"It's a tael of silver, I bought this child."
Ye Jinyu was thinking about it, when he saw Li Jinyu take the silver from the dark hand with an expressionless face, and looked up obliquely, obviously a child less than two feet, but everyone had a feeling of looking down on the world, Ye Jinyu now felt that this was definitely Li Sui's illegitimate son outside, otherwise how could it be so similar?
The people watching the play around sighed, whose child is this, who has the momentum of a milk tiger roaring at such a young age, and will have it when he grows up?
"Well, this... This young master, why don't you let the little one earn a little, this is the little one who bought it with hard work. ”
"Yes," the fat man was overjoyed, "I'll give you a hundred taels of silver," the fat man was already ecstatic, and others were envious of the fat man's good luck, and some guessed whose family this was, "Your life will be left, and I will give you a coffin board." ”
After hearing this, Ye Jinyu not only sighed, it turned out that treachery was in his bones, Li Jinyu gasped one by one, and this group of people was played to death by him.
Sure enough, the fat man's face changed, and when he looked at the knife that was out of the sheath in the dark, he could only nod stupidly, thinking that he was unlucky.
"Do you have any other children there, take me to see them?" It was Ye Jinyu who spoke this time, since he was specialized in this, there must be more than this child.
"Yes, yes, ma'am, please come with me." The fat man obviously wanted to make some money with the rest of the children, and led the way in front with a happy face, and the beaten child was handed over to the dark one and placed in the carriage.
Following the fat man, he turned left and right, walked into an alley, and finally stopped, and there was a small dilapidated wooden door in front of him.
"Madam, when you arrive, come in with the little one to see if you have anything you like." The fat man's already small eyes became a slit, a mouthful of big yellow teeth squeezed out, the fat pig's trotters pushed open the wooden door, Ye Jinyu carried Li Jinyu into the small courtyard, and the dark one followed closely, and the carriage behind him was taken care of by the groom.
"Madam, my children are here, you can pick and choose."
There must be more than a dozen children of all sizes tied up in the yard, all of them are gray-faced, dirty, in this harsh winter season, there are still a few children who don't even have shoes, their little feet are red from the cold, several people gather together, keep each other warm, see the fat man come in, frightened and shivering now has become a sifting chaff, very pitiful.
Ye Jinyu glanced at Li Jinyu in her arms, and couldn't imagine how heartbroken she would have if Li Jinyu became what she was looking like in front of her, hugging Li Jinyu! The hand tightens unconsciously.
"I bought them all."
"Huh? Oh, that's great, ma'am, you don't have to give much of these, just give fifty taels. The fat man stretched out five stubby fingers, squinting and smiling brightly.
"Twenty taels, that's a lot, I let you earn so much, you should be secretly happy."
"Well, this, well, since it is Madame that you have spoken, then you can take these children back."
The fat man agreed to be happy, this could not be sold, and the fat man was also losing money to raise it, so it was better to sell it early, not to mention that the price was not low.
"Dark one, lead the children into the carriage, in such a cold day, and there are no shoes, wouldn't you freeze to death when you walk back to the palace."
"Yes, ma'am, but what about you and the young master? Do you need me to catch another carriage? "Zero Zero Book House
"No need, I'll just go back with Jinyu, so it's faster."
"Yes, ma'am."
From Ye Jinyu said the two words of the palace, the fat man's expression of joy when he was holding the silver disappeared instantly, he thought it was just a lady and son of an ordinary rich and noble family, but he didn't expect it to be a relative of the emperor, or the prince, and I don't know if it was the prince of Yuan, the prince of Yang or the prince of Sui.
Looking at the back of the three people leaving, the fat man breathed a heavy sigh of relief, and then seemed to remember something, turned around and rushed into the house, called a few accomplices, simply cleaned up, ran away quickly with a small burden on his back, made the prince's money, and sold children.
Ye Jinyu took up the light work and rushed to the palace, even faster than the carriage driven by the groom, standing at the door, watching the carriage arrive, Ye Jinyu called Yue Niang.
"Madame, what about these children?"
"Put it down, Yueniang, you go and prepare two clothes for each of these children, no, three clothes and shoes, and bring them to me after bathing."
"Yes, ma'am."
More than a dozen children looked at the majestic and tall stone lions at the door, the wide vermilion lacquer gate, all a little timid, and the last to come down was which child who was beaten, the youngest, was supported by two older children.
Ye Jinyu led Li Jinyu back to the main courtyard first, and after going out for a day, he had to change his clothes.
By the time Ye Jinyu and Li Jinyu finished cleaning up, Yueniang had already led more than a dozen children to stand in the living room and wait, a total of fifteen children, the two eldest girls supported the beaten boy, these children have good eyebrows and eyes, after all, ugly people don't want to have teeth.
To Ye Jinyu's surprise, the two girls seemed to be sisters, except for the somewhat similar eyebrows and eyes, the two seemed to have a particularly tacit understanding, and they were also outstanding, at the age of fourteen or fifteen, after washing off the dust, although their complexion was a little sallow because of malnutrition, it should not be the kind that could not be sold, and the boy who was beaten was only less delicate than Li Jinyu, but more aggressive, at the age of seven or eight years old, he had begun to show his beginning, and he would definitely be a beautiful man in the future.
"What's your name?" Ye Jinyu asked the three people first.
"My name is Qingcheng, and my sister's name is Ziying."
"My name is Hatsumo."
"Why didn't she reply to me personally?" Ye Jinyu pointed to the girl who didn't speak.
"Madame is angry, my sister is mute and can't speak."
"Well, you explain it one by one, why no one wants you, what are your advantages, and why did you fall into the hands of human teeth? And how old are you? Don't lie, I will invite him out at once. Ye Jinyu looked at the children who were already teenagers in front of him and sat on the main seat.
"Because no one wants my sister, I can't leave my sister alone, and in this way, no one wants the two of us." The girl named Qingcheng said, "We are sixteen years old this year, my father used to be a businessman, and my mother was a woman in a green house, because she gave birth to our sisters, my mother was beaten by my father, and my mother was angry and committed suicide by taking poison, and my father also lost all his family property because of gambling and sold us sisters." Please rest assured, our sisters can do laundry, cook, sweep and ride horses, and know two words, please accept the two of us. ”
After the sister finished speaking, the two looked at Ye Jinyu together, and their pure eyes couldn't see the suffering they had suffered.
"Do you hate your father? If you want to, with the power of my Sui Palace, find him out, and then kill him, it's very simple. ”
"No, ma'am, my mother used to say when she was alive that hatred will only destroy oneself and will not do any harm to others, and we don't want to hate him, after all, he gave us life, and we should only be strangers."
Ye Jinyu looked at the calm girl in front of her, with a maturity and calmness that her peers did not have, and couldn't help but be a little curious, how did a Qinglou woman say such a thing and cultivate such a daughter?
"You two, be by my side in the future, and be my personal maid."
The two of them were happy on their faces, glanced at each other, saluted Ye Jinyu, and stood behind Ye Jinyu obediently.
"What about you?" Ye Jinyu asked in turn, and after the blue orange and purple was the boy, Chu Mo.
"Hello ma'am, because I don't want to be sold, those people always look at me with disgusting eyes, I can only run away and make a mess of my whole body." Chu Mo frowned, bit his lower lip, and looked a little embarrassed, "I was the only son of the prefect of Qingzhou, Jiangnan, eight years old this year, my father was an honest official, but he was framed by a traitor, and the servants in the family were killed one after another to protect me. I grew up reading poetry and books, and I also knew a little martial arts. ”
Ye Jinyu frowned slightly, it seems that even if the current Jinghuang can be regarded as wise, there are still some things that cannot be taken into account, and the disgusting eyes that this child said made Ye Jinyu even more frightened, such an ugly face, it is best not to let her touch it, otherwise, it is not enough to relieve her anger if she gouges out her eyes.
"In the future, you will follow Young Master Jinyu, whether you are a scholar or a playmate, study with him."
"Yes, ma'am." Chu Mo's appearance of not being humble or arrogant added another point to Ye Jinyu's heart, Li Jinyu heard that the big brother he bought was rewarded by his mother, he jumped down from Ye Jinyu's arms happily, took Chu Mo's hand and walked aside, and shouted one big brother after another.
Ye Jinyu was also a little surprised, Li Jinyu is the kind of person who loves to ignore the king of heaven when Lao Tzu comes, with Li Sui, it is really rare to be so enthusiastic now, except when he saw Ye Jinyu for the first time.
"Next." Retracting his thoughts, Ye Jinyu asked in turn, some were because of the famine in their hometowns, and some were orphans and beggars, the only thing they had in common was that they had no family members and concerns.
After asking, in addition to Qingcheng Ziying and Chu Mo at the beginning, there are six men and six women, who will be handed over to the dark one and trained to become the next generation of dark guards. Ye Jinyu knew the importance of the secret guards, although the training process was a little cruel, but at least they would not be allowed to freeze to death in the ice and snow.