Yun Bo and Aunt Zhu bargained, Shen Xi didn't want to participate, all he cared about was these dozen girls with yellow faces and thin muscles, who didn't even have the most basic change of clothes, and were waiting for themselves to be sold. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Ya Po is called a beautiful name to introduce the daughter of a poor family to a large family to work as a maid or concubine, but in fact, a model of human trafficking and storage has been formed. It's just that the Yapo in the capital is more anxious for quick success, and does not have the patience of raising thin horses in Jiangnan, so it is basically resold in a short period of time, and the longest in the hand will not exceed a year, mainly because of the cost.

In these years, there were no chemical fertilizers, no hybrid rice, and even sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn had just been introduced, and it was not easy to feed a mouthful of people.

Shen Xi woke up when he slept until the last shift, and found that he was in a dim space, and the feeling of loneliness and loneliness spread in his chest.

Shen Xi got up and lit the candlestick and looked at the courtyard outside, I don't know if Yun Bo is gone at this time, but I expect to buy so many maids in the afternoon, and I must settle them properly.

Although the Shen Mansion is very large, most of the courtyards before and after entering are the master rooms, and the ones left for the maids are all side rooms in the courtyard, because no one has lived in them for a long time, so they need to be cleaned.

Shen Xi wanted to carry the lantern out of the house, but after thinking about it, he reached out to extinguish the candle, paced out the door in the dark, and came to the study in front through the courtyard and corridor.

Looking out of the study, the lights in the front yard were on, indicating that there were people, and when Shen Xi came out through the living room and the main hall, he smelled a good smell of food.

Shen Xi touched his stomach, hungry.

In the room connected to the dining room on the other side of the main hall, fourteen girls that Shen Xi had seen before, and two childish little girls who came out of nowhere, were kneeling on the ground, with a small square table or stool in front of them, on which were dishes and chopsticks.

Yun Bo's daughter-in-law was serving a meal to a girl, and when the girls saw Shen Xi coming, they quickly put down the bowl in their hands and kowtowed to Shen Xi together.

Shen Xi waved his hand and asked the woman, "Where is Yun Bo?" ”

The woman hurriedly saluted Shen Xi and said, "If you go back to the master, my father-in-law will go back to the house, and I am worried that there will be no one to take care of this courtyard at night, so I will leave the concubine here to prepare meals for these girls, this is already the second pot!" ”

Shen Xi looked at the huge bowl of rice and suddenly understood.

It is still very difficult to manage sixteen hungry people to eat at a time, and these new girls don't know how to eat, and holding the rice bowl is a sea to eat...... When people lack food and clothing, only rice that can fill their stomachs and coarse cloth and linen clothes that keep out the cold are the most realistic.

Shen Xi originally wanted the woman to bring him the dishes that had not been touched with chopsticks in front of those girls, but after thinking about it, he still forgot it, and grabbed something to eat with the girl, this old man is too tasteless!

"Keep eating! Keep eating! ”

Shen Xi waved his hand helplessly and sat down on a rattan chair in the middle of the room. The sixteen girls didn't do anything, and looked at Shen Xi together, waiting for the new master to explain things to them.

But Shen Xi has anything to explain?

"What are you looking at me for? Eat yours! Wait until you're full......"

Shen Xi raised his head at the woman and ordered: "There are some old clothes in the big box in the backyard, wait to find them and change them in, one by two, freshen up, clean up, and let them live in the side room in the courtyard at night." ”

Then, Shen Xi stood up and said to all the girls who looked at him: "You can pick the room yourself, remember to clean it." Cotton wool and bedding are in the boxes in each room, there is no one in the house, you have to know how to take care of yourself. On weekdays, you help clean up the yard, and I will choose three or five people from among you to stay, and as for the rest, I will send you ...... Go to help! ”

Shen Xi thought about it, now that he has a business of manufacturing and selling dog skin plasters, he may be able to appropriately expand the scale of production in order to absorb and digest this batch of girls.

In short, you can't put so many women at home, otherwise it's too unreasonable, and it's unrealistic to send them away, even women like Yunliu and Xi'er who have "one skill" can't survive, let alone these ignorant girls who have no knowledge and no knowledge.

After all, I will find some work for them first, so that they can support themselves. When the maid can manage enough rice and wear it to keep out the cold, this is already the treatment of the family of goodness.

As for how much value they can create, it is not in Shen Xi's consideration for the time being.

The woman put down the rice spoon, walked up to Shen Xi, and respectfully reported: "Master, the clothes in the big box in the backyard have been cleaned up by the concubine, and they are all the clothes of the lady and the little master......

Shen Xi said: "It's just some old clothes, nothing tight, those better clothes have been brought to Guangdong, you just take them to change, see how many they are first, but look at these two thin bodies, they should be able to wear them, let Yun Bo find someone to buy some back tomorrow, and one person will get it...... Two clothes, you don't need too much, you can change them. ”

"By the way, I'm hungry too, are you ready to eat?"

"Back to my lord, your food is always hot in the pot in the stove room! The ...... of the concubine Concubine, and now I'm taking care of it in the stove room! "The woman said.

Shen Xi thought to himself, the Yun family is really a family mobilization, one woman doesn't count, and the second one comes. But it's no wonder that now the sixteen girls who just came to the family are the masters, they don't understand anything, and they have to be served by others, one by one, they are like babies waiting to be fed, which makes Shen Xi look big for a while.

If you look handsome, you can raise your eyes, but now it is clearly a yellow-skinned and thin cold look, what do you think...... all made Shen Xi feel like his appetite was decreasing.

Shen Xi had no choice but to wave his hand: "Go and arrange it, send the food to the study, how to settle these girls, leave it to you...... Guys. ”

Shen Xi didn't want to get involved too much in this kind of bad thing, since he had just woken up and was not sleepy at night, he would go to the study to hide and be quiet first.

Not long after, Yun Bo's other daughter-in-law brought food to Shen Xi, the cooking skills were average, Shen Xi happened to be hungry, and it felt better than the food made by the woman before, but it was not delicious.

After Shen Xi finished eating, he wrote and painted at the desk, which was basically a deduction of the northwest war situation, and many of them had Shen Xi's own judgment in them, which could not be used as a guideline for the actions of the Tatars and the Ming army.

When Shen Xi got out of the study and was about to go back to his small courtyard, the lights in the front yard were still on, and there was a faint sound of "whooshing" water on the side courtyard, it should be those maids who were washing themselves first according to Shen Xi's previous requirements.

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The next morning, Shen Xi woke up from his sleep...... It wasn't that he woke up on his own, but that he was screaming as if he was being urged, because there was a "bang" at the courtyard door.

Shen Xi was sleepy when he saw the sun, but he couldn't sleep because of the noisy sound, and when he got up and got dressed, he went out of the house and opened the courtyard door, only to see a few girls standing at the gate of the courtyard, either wearing the clothes of Xie Yun'er and other girls, or wearing yesterday's clothes, as if they were being gasped, without saying a word, looking at Shen Xi stupidly.

"It's early in the morning, what's the noise?" Shen Xi asked dissatisfiedly.

A pair of concubines who stayed in the house yesterday came over from the kitchen, and when they saw Shen Xi, the eldest woman stepped forward and said, "Master, the girl is not sensible, she is chopping wood in the firewood room, and her voice is louder." ”

"Chopping wood?"

Shen Xi said angrily: "I don't know, I thought I was demolishing the house!" Early in the morning, isn't there enough firewood? ”

There were a lot of people in the yard, all of them were unruly girls, Shen Xi suddenly felt that one head was two big, and at this moment he thought of the importance of Xie Yun'er and even Zhou's family.

With these two women here, no matter how disobedient the maids are at home, they will definitely be obedient, and although he himself will come out and yell twice to make the maids tremble, but he is a "civilized person" in the end, and he will never use family law to punish that.

The younger woman said, "Master......"

"What master, I'm about to become a subordinate, aunts and grandmothers, this master didn't buy you back to find guilt, if anyone makes a noise for no reason, and makes a noise until this master sleeps, this master pulls her to feed the fish!"

Shen Xi finished speaking angrily, turned around and went back to close the courtyard door, returned to the room and lay on the bed, thinking that he could fall asleep with a pillow, but he was so angry before that he didn't feel sleepy.

Since he couldn't sleep, Shen Xi had no choice but to come out of the room and go out of the courtyard again. After that, wherever he went, the new girls avoided him, because these girls didn't know that the master's mouth of "pull to feed the fish" was just said to scare people, thinking that if the master was unhappy, it would really give away her life.

Shen Xi came to the main hall of the front yard and sat down, holding his forehead and sighing.

Yun Bo hurriedly came in from outside and informed Shen Xi of the specific details of the sale of maids yesterday, as well as the contract for buying and selling maids and the vouchers of the government.

After all, Yun Bo was the housekeeper of the Shen Mansion, and he was treated preferentially all the way when he went to the Daxing County Ya to handle the documents in the morning, but it was done in an hour.

Shen Xi said: "Uncle Yun, you used to do things, you didn't have to choose, but you are looking for these maids to come back this time, it is really a bit too much, the original fourteen are not counted, and two more are added, how to place so many girls?" Is there a shortage of so many people in the house? ”

"What the master said is that the old slave is not doing things well, please punish the master." Yun Bo had some grievances on his face, obviously in this matter, Yun Bo was cheated by Aunt Zhu Liu.

But thinking about it carefully, Shen Xi felt that he really couldn't blame Yun Bo, mainly because his sympathy was overflowing, and he left these girls behind, but after Yun Bo bargained with Aunt Zhu Liu, he got the discount of "buy fourteen get two free", Yun Bo thought about it, how could the girl say that selling it can be used as money, don't do it in vain, so he accepted it.

Shen Xi said: "Yun Bo, I am also at fault in this matter, let's all learn from the experience in the future." You first place them in the back yard, a little farther away from me, and let them take turns every day, three or four maids at a time, and whoever is diligent and has good eyesight will stay. As for the others, send them to the pharmacy and plaster shop, or let her dispose of them when your young lady returns! ”

Shen Xi was still talking, and there was a noise in the front yard, it turned out that the craftsmen who repaired the Shen Mansion and the brothers of the Carriage and Horse Gang came to work. These people didn't expect that there would suddenly be so many more women in the Shen Mansion overnight, and they were about to enter the gate, but when they saw these girls at this time, they didn't dare to come in.

"Not bad, either."

Shen Xi suddenly pursed his lips and said to himself, "It's still good to buy fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls and come back, you can't be a maid in the house, you can get married, and you have a mutual reliance with these brothers in the chariot and horse gang." ”

In these years, it is difficult to marry a daughter, it is also difficult to marry a daughter-in-law, there is too much red tape, and the bride price and dowry are unaffordable on both sides.

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