Chapter 232: Bidding

[Ran^ζ–‡^Library][]. []. Wu Zhi and Ling'er were hanging hand in hand on the street near Daxiangguo Temple, this time Ling'er was much more well-behaved, only holding two sugar men, and did not buy other messy things. 【For more exciting, please visit】

This made Wu Zhi a lot easier, the two of them talked and laughed, like a sweet little couple shopping in the future.

In fact, in the Song Dynasty, it was not new for husbands and wives or lovers to join hands or hook up when shopping, because science was only just developed in this era, and science did not reach the point of "preserving heavenly principles and destroying human desires", so the social atmosphere was very open.

What's more, the status of women in this meeting is not as low as in later dynasties, and it is normal for everyone to go out on a date or go shopping or something.

It is worth mentioning that in fact, in the Song Dynasty, there was also a situation in which women like Empress Lu and Wu Zetian were in power, and the time was not short, more than ten years. This woman is the queen mother of Emperor Renzong, called Liu E, but this Empress Dowager Liu is very capable and virtuous, and is highly evaluated by later generations, and is called the female Zhongyao Shun!

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When they arrived at the Qianmen Street of Daxiangguo Temple, Wu Zhi and Ling'er saw a group of people talking and pointing at the banyan tree at the corner of the street.

The crowd is surrounded by a mother and daughter, the two are dressed in linen and filial piety, among which the mother is kneeling on the ground, with a face of vicissitudes and misery, the daughter is only about eleven or twelve years old, standing tremblingly next to her mother, with a thatch on her head, and a paper sign hanging around her neck, which reads "Sell yourself to bury your father".

It turned out that the poor family sold their daughter.

The onlookers also had sympathy on their faces, the orphans and widows were indeed pitiful, and it may be because this kind of selling of oneself does not often happen in Bianjing, so it attracted so many onlookers.

Ling'er's eyes also dimmed, she looked at Wu Zhi with blank eyes, although she didn't speak, but as soon as she saw her pitiful little eyes, Wu Zhi knew what she meant.

Ling'er didn't want Wu Zhi to buy the girl, but asked Wu Zhi to pay for the family, so that they could live a happy life.

How can this poor family live a happy life, of course, it is to give them enough money to start over......

The little girl was quite handsome, and while the onlookers had not yet bid, Wu Zhi immediately asked.

"Sister-in-law, how much does your daughter have to sell?"

Wu Zhi is a businessman, but he will not be stupid enough to say that he wants to fund your family, such a direct charity will make others suspect that he has bad intentions, and the businessman has his own set of practices as a businessman.

"Big official, you are doing well, as long as you have five pieces of money, five times the money is enough!" The woman said with tears in her eyes.

Wu Zhi nodded slightly, he planned to pay five yuan to buy her daughter first, and then inform them of the original intention of funding after the onlookers left.

"Well, okay, sister-in-law, I'll give you five taels of silver, you sell your daughter to me, don't worry, I will treat her well."

Just when Wu Zhi was about to pay for the little girl, a sneer came, and Wu Zhi couldn't help but be stunned.

"Humph! The sinister villain is also pretending to be a good person here! ”

Wu Zhi looked for a sound, and saw that it was none other than the one who sneered at Wu Zhi like this, it was actually the veiled woman and her maid who Ling'er had molested before, and it was her maid who ridiculed Wu Zhi.

The veiled woman didn't stop the maid, and it seems that she is also a little worried about Wu Zhi's attack on her chest.

"Hey! Little girl, don't talk nonsense, beware of flashing your tongue! Ling'er helped Wu Zhi fight back.

"Humph!" The maid glanced at Ling'er, and said coldly: "Pretending to be a man, he openly flirted with a woman from a good family on the street, and said that he was not a sinister villain, you are all a raccoon dog!" ”

Ling'er's face was slightly red by what she said, and Wu Zhi immediately stepped forward and said: "The two girls are afraid that they have recognized the wrong person, good men don't fight with women, let's not argue with you." Saying that, Wu Zhi changed the topic and said to the woman: "Sister-in-law, we bought this little girl, and this is five taels of silver." ”

With that, Wu Zhi wanted to hand over the money to the woman.

"Wait! We're out of ten taels! The maid stopped arrogantly, "How can such a good little girl fall into the hands of someone like you, and I don't know how to be destroyed by you!" Hum! ”

The woman also hesitated and did not accept Wu Zhi's money.

After all, selling his daughter doesn't want to sell his daughter inside the fire pit.

"I'll give twenty taels!" Wu Zhi said without showing weakness, and said that Ling'er also said to the woman: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, we are not bad people, we have to decide how much your daughter is!" You can give it to whoever has the highest price! ”

Seeing that Ling'er's innocent appearance really doesn't look like a bad person, and besides, a bad person wouldn't spend so much money to buy her daughter, so the woman nodded cautiously.

"You ......"

The maid glared at Wu Zhi angrily, Wu Zhi and Ling'er leaned together, glaring at her together, and the angry maid stomped her feet.

"Thirty taels."

After arriving in front of Wu Zhi, the veiled woman who had been staring blankly said indifferently at this time.

"Eighty taels."

Wu Zhi's price increase made the onlookers sigh for a while, and the price at which a little girl sold it was already sky-high.

"One hundred taels." The veiled woman still said calmly, this calm with determination, the slightest bit of competition with Wu Zhi to the end.

"Two hundred taels!"

The price was directly doubled by Wu Zhi's shout, and everyone sighed again, Ling'er also looked at the veil woman and the maid proudly, it's cool to have a rich boyfriend!

"Three hundred taels."

"Five hundred taels!"

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"One thousand taels!"

When Wu Zhi shouted one thousand taels, everyone on the lookers, including the woman, was shocked, one thousand taels was enough to buy a small shop in Bianjing.

Wu Zhi and Ling'er both looked arrogantly and proudly at the veiled woman and the maid who were already frowning and moving on the other side, and looked at each other and smiled.

One thousand taels is nothing in Wu Zhi's opinion, when he first arrived in Qingzhou, when his financial power was not huge, he dared to bid with Huang Zhi for a little girl, that is, the later little Taoyue, bidding each other to 10,000 taels!

It's still early, Wu Zhi doesn't believe that he can't play with the veiled woman in front of him......

After the veil woman and the maid discussed it for a while, the veil woman's brows furrowed again, and a pair of Danfeng beautiful eyes also looked at Wu Zhi deeply.

"Sister-in-law, we didn't have enough money this time, only eight hundred taels of silver."

The maid said to the woman in a consultative tone, "Do you think this is okay, you go to the residence with us, and we will give you two thousand taels of silver directly, and your daughter will sell it to us, and we will definitely treat her well!" ”

In the end, the maid's tone was a little anxious, as if she was afraid that the little girl would be bought by Wu Zhi and Ling'er.

"That won't work, we'll be kind to the little girl too! You give 2,000 taels, sister-in-law goes back with us, and we give you 3,000 taels! Wu Zhi stepped forward and said.

The woman suddenly looked embarrassed: "Two good people, I don't think about anyone's money, you all help me so wholeheartedly, I really don't know who to sell to......"

"That's it......"

The veiled woman also stepped forward at this time, and then she plucked a golden swaying from the bun on her head, and said: "This pure purple gold emerald gold hairpin should be able to be at least three thousand taels when it gets to the pawnshop, plus all my silver, pay it immediately, this official shouldn't be able to get a higher price than me, right?" ”

The veiled woman used such a killer move, Wu Zhi was stunned for a moment, and the gold leaves on his body were indeed not more than three thousand taels after being converted into silver.

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