Chapter 56: The Wailing of the Slave Market
I asked others about the way to the market and came to the market.
Standing on the street, she was a little surprised, only to see that there was a mess on both sides, all kinds of signs, and constant pleading.
Some signs have old-fashioned big characters written on them: Sell yourself to bury your father.
Some wrote: Sell yourself to pay off your debts.
What's even more outrageous is that some still write: A clean body is a virgin.
Rows of big and small, all over the place.
I couldn't help but be a little speechless, and walked forward without paying attention.
There were many sharp-eyed people who saw her constantly patrolling, most of them trying to buy people, and many people knelt down and begged her to take her away.
Qiqili ignored it, and went straight forward, so that she wouldn't buy some messy people, and when she went back and moved her mind again, wouldn't she vomit blood.
They went back and forth for a long time, until they came to a man who had no sign and no pleading.
The man was dressed in a washed white blue coat, almost losing his original color, but he was very clean, his head was hanging down and he was sitting cross-legged on the ground, his body was straight, his body was thin but unusually powerful.
Qiqi, who was a little puzzled, asked the man suspiciously.
"You're a traitor? Why is there no sign? ”
I saw the man look up at her and look back.
"Don't sell yourself, only rent, five taels of silver a month."
After speaking, he lowered his head again, but there was no pleading, and there was no trace of humility.
Looking at the somewhat arrogant man in front of him, Qiqi hooked his lips and smiled, which was interesting.
I saw that the man was about twenty-seven or eighteen, ordinary in appearance, his eyebrows and eyes were a little rough, but his eyes were extremely dark.
"Do you know martial arts?"
The man did not look up, but bowed his head in reply.
"I practiced martial arts at the age of eight, and now I have eight out of twenty, and it's no problem to take care of the family."
"In that case, then come with me."
The man looked up at her for a moment, a little puzzled.
There are many people in this market, and there are not a few who know martial arts, and he is not the most outstanding, and he is not selling himself, and his attitude... I don't know why I chose him.
"Don't doubt, you heard it right, the money will be issued on time every month, come with me, I still have to pick a few people."
After saying that, she turned to look at it, and the man gave her a complicated look, stood up, and followed behind.
and selected a few men with honest faces and martial arts in turn, and there were about a dozen or so people.
In such a scene, the slave market seemed to explode, and the rich financiers all knelt down and begged each other.
For a while, wherever she walked, there was a wail all over the wilderness.
And she still didn't pay attention to it at all, but the helplessness in those eyes betrayed her emotions.
At this time, a child's cry came to her ears, and it also made her heart a little irritable, and she was quiet for a moment.
Looking for prestige, I saw an old woman who was over half a hundred years old, and a boy about six or seven years old was standing next to her, and the cry came from the child's mouth.
The old woman kept comforting the child, and her mouth was still chattering.
"Zhuang'er don't cry, don't cry, grandma will get you food in a while."
Staring at the half-ring, Qiqi stepped forward.
"You're selling yourself too?"
The old woman looked up at her with the child in her arms, and saw a young woman with a veil, and smiled innocently.
"Yes girl, I can do anything, I can do dirty work, and I don't want money, I just hope to bring my grandson with me and reward us with food."
After speaking, the old woman looked at the child in her arms with a sad expression.
For some reason, a trace of sadness flashed in Qiqi's heart, and when she saw this scene, she suddenly remembered her grandfather's father and grandmother, and they treated her like this.
She looked at the old woman without joy or sorrow.
"Come with me."
The old woman was stunned, looked at her with a hesitant expression, and then glanced at the boy in her arms.
"Miss... This... We can't be separated..."
"I didn't say let you separate, let's take the children with you."
The old woman was stunned for a moment, then knelt down and kept kowtowing and crying.
"Thank you, Miss, thank you, Miss, thank you..."
Qiqi hurriedly helped her up.
"No thanks, let's take the child and follow."
So he chose a few clever and intelligent girls, and a few strong women who did rough work.
Counting carefully, plus those guards just now, there are about two dozen people in total.
Thinking that it was enough, he breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the mansion with these two dozen people.
Everyone followed into the mansion, and they were a little excited to see such a big Zhuangzi, and looked around curiously.
At this moment, Mengwu Mengdie also came to the courtyard, and when she saw so many people, she was a little stunned, and Mengdie took the lead in speaking.
"Lady... This is? ”
Because they were in their own home, the two of them did not wear veils, and when everyone looked at the faces of the two men, they couldn't help but sigh and gasp, and they were amazed by the appearance of the two of them.
Dream Dance also stepped forward, took her hand, and said suspiciously.
"Lady... Isn't there a lot of people? ”
Now everyone was a little embarrassed again, the two handsome men were actually the husbands of the veiled women, so wouldn't this young lady be even more beautiful?
"It's okay, Zhuangzi is older, these people are just right, let them take care of your daily life."
As he spoke, he pulled out two little girls of about fifteen or sixteen years old from the crowd, one with clear eyebrows and the other with a well-behaved and cute one.
When the two girls saw that the master they were about to serve was so handsome, they immediately blushed and lowered their heads.
Ignoring the looks of the two, Qiqi asked without being salty.
"Do you two have names?"
The two girls were a little cramped, and the one with clear eyebrows glanced at her, then knelt on the ground and said.
"The slave has no name, Daddy has called the slave girl since he was a child."
The other also knelt down, but said vividly.
"The family calls slaves to pay money and goods..."
Hearing her say this, some people couldn't help but laugh.
Qiqi stroked his eyebrows with a headache, what a mess this was, and then straightened his face.
"From now on, your name is Huixin, your name is Huiqiao, and you have the same surname as me, let's forget the past."
The two girls immediately cried with gratitude.
"Thank you hosts, thank you... I... I have a name. ”
"Thank you, master, thank you, miss, the slave must serve the master with all his heart."
"No thanks, we will all be a family in the future, and the monthly money will be ten taels of silver every month, if we do well, it will increase, and if we don't do well, we will decrease."
After hearing what she said, everyone looked at her with wide eyes and incredulously, ten taels a month? Did they hear it right?
Even the subordinates in the mansion of high-ranking officials and nobles only have five taels of silver at most, but they are actually ten taels?
It was incredible, and everyone was a little excited, and some of them were even kneeling and crying.
Seeing them like this, Qiqi hooked his lips and continued with a smile
"But...... Don't be too happy, these ten taels of silver are not so easy to take. ”
As he spoke, he glanced at the crowd and put on a serious look.
"Everyone needs to abide by their duties, not overstepping, not to discuss the master's private affairs in private, chew the root of the tongue, and not to make their own decisions to do things that the master has not commanded, what the master says is what, and the thoughts that should not be there are best for me to collect, if you find which ignorant messes up the rules, the light twenty board buckles the month of the family law disposal, the heavy, where to go back and forth."
After speaking, he stared at Huixin and Huiqiao and took a deep look.
The two of them were like a man's back, and they were suddenly drenched in cold sweat.
Everyone immediately changed their expressions to be sincere.
"We must serve with our hearts, abide by our duties, and swear allegiance to our master."
Seeing this, Mengdie glanced at the girl kneeling on the ground, pouted, and tugged at the corner of her clothes.
"Lady... Die'er doesn't need to be served, Die'er only needs a lady. ”
Meng Wu frowned, and echoed.
"I don't need it either, I can do it myself, master."
"You can shit, shut up for me, can you be a big man and clean the room? Even if you can, my mother is reluctant to let you do this kind of rough work, these hands have to be well maintained for me, don't be rough, I feel distressed. ”
After saying that, he deeply held the slender jade hands of the two of them, which were as white as jade.
The two people who were held were a little shy, in front of so many people, how could she be like this, so she simply agreed obediently, who called their lady the sky?
Qiqi glanced back at the man with rough eyebrows.
"As for you... Take care of the security of this house, and the rest will be assigned to you. ”
Then he glanced at the old woman and the child.
"You are responsible for the food in the house, I will invite a gentleman later, and the child will be handed over to the gentleman to be responsible for reading and writing, in August and two months of each month, and the rest will be paid to the gentleman's money."
glanced at the child, he was too young, and he should read and learn words at this age.
The old woman knelt down with a sad and joyful expression and kowtowed three times in a row, and her heavy forehead broke the skin.
"The old slave knelt down to thank Miss Xie, and the old slave will serve with all his strength for the rest of his life, be a cow and a horse, and do not give up. Baby, kneel down for Miss. ”
The child was already six or seven years old, and he also knew some human principles, and he knelt down with the woman in a decent manner, and said in that glutinous childlike voice.
"Thank you, sister..."
The old woman was startled and hurriedly patted the child.
"Baby, don't talk nonsense, call Miss."
Qiqi smiled slightly.
"It's okay, just let him call it that."
Then he glanced at the crowd again.
"My name is Ran Qiqi, everyone will follow in the future..."
Looking at the old woman, she asked again
"What's your name?"
The old woman hurriedly replied.
"Miss Hui, the old slave's family name is Liu."
"In the future, everyone will call me Miss with Aunt Liu, these two are my husbands, Dream Dance, Dream Butterfly, since they came to me, then we are a family, there is no dignity here, no one is more noble than whom, and no one is inferior to anyone, entered my house, and is no longer a slave, everyone is free, when one day you don't want to do it here, you can tell me clearly, I will return your free body."
Yan Yan gasped slightly, she was really tired.
"Okay, what should you do, go what you want, there are four courtyards in the west, there are many wings in each courtyard, and men and women can choose one each, go."
Everyone looked at her stunned, they couldn't believe that they were the next people who came to do things, not to mention that the month was so high, and they were allowed to live in a side room, which was unheard of.
Then the man with rough eyebrows couldn't help but say.
"Miss, this is not in order!"
He looked at him suspiciously
"You..."
"Nick the Villain"
"Oh, Richie, what do you mean?"
"It's enough to allocate a yard to the westernmost one, there are many wings, there is no need to use another one first."
After thinking for a while, he nodded.
"You can arrange it, well, everyone can talk to Li Qi if you have something, I'm tired, let's get busy!"
Turn around and stop Dream Dance Dream Butterfly's waist as if there was no one around.
"Husband... I'm tired. ”
The two of them let her hold each other in distress, but their faces were red.
"Then let's go back and rest..."