After the occupation of Northeast China by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a large number of Han people were forced to leave their hometowns and flee to Guannai, and places such as Gyeonggi Zhili and Shandong were full of refugees. The Tongzhou Special Economic Zone is prosperous and prosperous, and it has naturally become an ideal place for disaster victims to flee. On the one hand, Wang Qiang arranged for people to set up porridge factories and set up tents to try to resettle the victims, and on the other hand, he instructed Shang Dayong to take advantage of this opportunity to expand the establishment of the militia and recruit able-bodied personnel to join the militia, and soon the number of the militia in the SAR exceeded 10,000. Even so, a large number of victims are stranded in the Special Administrative Region, and they gather every day in the empty yards of the wharves to find a job. There are many merchants coming and going in the Special Economic Zone, and those who need manpower go to the freight yard to select people, and gradually the wharf freight yard has formed a labor market.

Wang Qiang is getting busier and busier, and Cai Linger also feels that there are not enough people in the house, so on this day, she brought two family members to the freight yard to choose a few people to help in the house. The yard was full of victims, squatting or sitting or standing, all craned their necks to look around looking for their employers, and occasionally those who were picked were happily carrying their luggage, saying goodbye to their families and villagers, and then following the employer. The merchants who came to choose the people walked back and forth in the crowd, looking around, like picking ripe watermelons in a melon field.

Cai Ling'er also touched around, but her criteria for choosing people are special, that is, she must find people in distress, which she and Wang Qiang discussed together, they think that choosing people in distress is equivalent to saving people, such people will be grateful and loyal to their masters. On the west side of the freight yard, surrounded by a bunch of people, pointing and pointing as if talking about something, CRINGT was curious, separated from the crowd, leaned over to see, it turned out to be a woman kneeling in the local area, playing a card in her hand, which said "sell herself to save her father", the woman is not very old, slender, but unkempt for many days have not been groomed, there is a big scar on the left cheek, it looks very uncomfortable, there is an old man lying next to the woman, dressed neatly, but the face is red, shortness of breath, the corners of the mouth are dripping with slander, and it looks not light. Everyone stood there talking and saying everything, and the woman timidly looked at the crowd of onlookers with her eyes, and there was an eager look in her eyes. At this time, a middle-aged man standing next to Cailing sighed and said: "This girl is really pitiful, at such a young age, her family let the Tartar be burned, and her mother also let the Tatar be killed, this master and son escaped easily, and it became like this again, alas! It's really funny. ”

Cai Ling'er turned to the middle-aged man and asked, "Do you know this girl?" ”

"I know, his name is Li'er, his father is a teacher, we are from a village, not we are all from the same village, but we are all poor, and we can't help if we want to, so we are just anxious." The middle-aged man said, and several people next to him also nodded. One of them said, "I think this lady is a good person, so let me be kind and save the father and daughter." ”

"Yes, yes! Be kind. Several others also said as if they were heckling.

Cai Ling'er was about to speak, but the woman listened to everyone's words, and also found Cai Ling'er, got up and rushed to Cai Ling'er's side, knelt down and said: "Mrs., you can save my father, I beg you, I sell myself to you, I can do any work, I can eat any hardship, just ask to save my father!" Everyone next to him also pleaded.

Cai Ling'er is a kind person, how can she stand this scene, she quickly leaned over and mixed the woman up, and said: "Okay, girl, I should do this, you can go back to the house with me, and you can't be wronged by your father and daughter." She turned to her attendant and ordered, "Go, find a car, and send this old man to the doctor for treatment." ”

"Yes." The retinue turned and went. After a while, a carriage was found to pull the old man away, and Cai Ling'er took Li'er back to the house.

In the afternoon, Cai Ling'er woke up from a nap, a maid came in with Li'er, Cai Ling'er felt her eyes brighten, only to see that Li'er seemed to have changed after dressing up, pink face and red lips, willow eyebrows and apricot eyes, well-proportioned and slender, it turned out to be a beauty, and the scar on her face was gone.

Li'er said good fortune to Cai Ling'er, and said crisply: "Li'er asks Mrs. for saying goodbye, thank you Mrs. for saving my father and taking in our father and daughter, Li'er is willing to serve Mrs. here, please Mrs. arrange a messenger for me." ”

Cai Ling'er stared at Li'er in a daze, and asked suspiciously: "Li'er, why are you, the scar on your face gone?" ”

Li'er smiled and said: "Mrs. Qiyu, the quick scar is fake, Li'er is a woman, and she has a long way to escape along the way, so she is afraid that she will have bad intentions when she encounters bad people, so she thought of this way." ”

"Oh, that's the case, in a chaotic world, it's also appropriate to be careful. Have you ever worked as a helper for someone else's family? CRBT asked.

"I haven't done it before, but I've helped my father sort out books and pen and ink since I was a child, and I haven't made any mistakes in serving the family's soup and water, and I can also have some needlework. Li'er said.

"Oh." CRBT nodded thoughtfully. Cai Ling'er is delicate, the maids and women in this house are all mediocre-looking and honest people, for fear that Wang Qiang will provoke people and make trouble, and now she sees that Li'er is so gorgeous, she feels inappropriate, but she has agreed to take it in, and it is not easy to regret it. Since Lan Ting left, Wang Qiang's diet and daily life are served by herself, she is really too busy, this girl knows books and etiquette, and she is also smart, but she is a helper, but if she comes to Wang Qiang's side, I am afraid that her master will not be able to control herself. Thinking of this, Cai Ling'er said lightly: "There is a shortage of manpower in several places in this house, so it's better to go to the kitchen to help cook for a few days first, and then I will change you if there is a suitable errand." ”

"Mrs. Xie." Li'er went away happily.

Cai Ling'er pondered in her heart, this girl is very eye-catching in the house, and she will let Wang Qiang see it one day, so it is better to find a way to give this girl to others, Wang Qiang will have no way, yes, just do it.