The contract of the family cannot be signed randomly, and if the name is signed, it will have legal effect, which is related to a person's future and fate, and it is not an exaggeration to say that a word is a thousand dollars.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the family members of the Jujia family generally signed a lifelong contract, which was equivalent to selling themselves into slavery. Generally, wealthy families do not have such abundant talents, and most of them sign long-term or short-term contracts.

One of the interesting things about this is that the longer you sign a contract, the more money you get, but the less you are treated with social protection.

The lifelong family is equivalent to selling yourself into slavery, in this case, you are a cheap slave and a cheap maid, not protected by the state, and the whole person is the master's family, even if the master beats you to death, the government doesn't ask.

Non-lifelong family members are better, although the master dares to beat and scold you, but he doesn't dare to make trouble. And when the contract time comes, children and grandchildren can still participate in the imperial examination.

I don't know what kind of contract this girl wants me to sign?

"The difference? Of course, there are differences. Chrysanthemum, you tell me about it. Nangong Wan glanced at Chrysanthemum Road.

Chrysanthemum answered: "The difference is that the treatment is different." The man who is a lifelong contract is called a slave and a woman is called a maid, and the master has to pay you a lump sum of one hundred taels of silver to buy a body, and then the remaining monthly money is two taels, which is the most monthly money among all the family members. Because the lifelong system determines that the family has no other thoughts in this life, the loyalty is generally relatively high. ”

"Oh, except that it restricts freedom, does that sound good? Are there any other disadvantages? Tang Jin said with a smile.

"The disadvantage? That's the household registration. Slaves and maids are all lowly and not protected by the government, and whether they live or die depends on the master's words, and they are generally lonely all their lives. Of course, a slave who has a distressed master can also marry a wife and have children, but the son is also a lowly status and cannot participate in the imperial examination. "Chrysanthemum Road.

Tang Jin couldn't help but interject: "This cheap is not very good. ”

Nangong Wan smiled: "This is okay. Although the lifelong family is registered with the government, it is okay for the master to find a way to help him get rid of his lowly status. At this time, Meihua had already taken the wine back, and after listening to it for a while, he couldn't help but interject: "Cheap is cheap." If Miss hadn't bought me, my younger siblings would have starved to death. Now that I'm here at Miss, I'm eating and drinking, and I can send a tael of silver to my family every month, what's the difference? ”

Chrysanthemum said: "Look at your beauty, then you don't want to marry?" ”

Meihua said: "You just want to get married, what's so good about those stinky men?" I'm going to serve Miss for the rest of my life! ”

Nangong Wan smiled and said: "It's not that you are not allowed to marry, but that girls are outgoing." Once a woman falls in love with a man, and the man's character is unreliable, this is bound to have some adverse effects. Mei Lan Zhuju, the four of you followed me at the age of eleven or twelve, and now you have grown into sixteen or seventeen-year-old girls, if you are interested in someone in the future, if the man passes my pass, not only will I not object, but I will also give you a dowry! ”

Chrysanthemum smiled and said, "I know that Miss is the best master in the world!" ”

Plum blossom rolled his eyes and said: "Look at your prodigal hooves, eighty percent of you are pregnant, you don't want to serve the master, you want to get married, aren't you ashamed?" ”

Nangong Wan stopped and said, "Don't quarrel between the two of you, listen to what Tang Gongzi chooses." ”

Tang Jin thought about it, he couldn't be the same as others when he came to be a housekeeper. Whether it's freedom or monthly money, he needs a new way. But what do you use to negotiate terms with others?

Tang Jin didn't speak, but walked to the guqin that was resting on the side and stopped, and plucked the strings.

The three girls were stunned, did he want to show off his piano skills?

Tang Jin looked back at Nangong Wan, who wanted to speak and stopped.

"What's wrong? Tang Gongzi has already thought about it? Lifetime or ten-year? Nangong Wan said.

"Neither, I need to sign a different contract." Tang Jin said.

Meihua said disdainfully: "Why do you say that? There has always been only the master who puts forward conditions for his subordinates, and I have never seen anyone who wants to be a housekeeper put forward conditions for his master. ”

Nangong Wan smiled and said: "Since Tang Gongzi has a request, he must have a unique skill, and the strings just now are extraordinary, why not play a song, or wait for the price to sell?" ”

Tang Jin's face was a little embarrassed when he heard the word "selling at a price", but didn't he think about it and sell at a price, and wanted to fight for a good price?

Tang Jin remembered that in his previous life, he watched a TV called Fengyun, and there was such a dialogue in it.

Bu Jingyun sneered at the broken army: "I didn't expect that the broken army, who wanted to live on its own, would also be reduced to serving the emperor Shakti? ”

Po Jun replied calmly: "Everyone is priced, but no one gives you a satisfactory price." ”

Thinking of this, Tang Jin nodded towards Nangong Wan. Plum blossom and chrysanthemum are wide-eyed, Tang Jin wants to touch the piano?

What song does Tang Jin want to play? Naturally, it is "High Mountains and Flowing Water", but it is the Shandong Zheng School. This is a ninth-level guzheng song, and it is also the one that Tang Jin liked to play in his previous life.

Seeing that Tang Jin really wanted to play the piano, Nangong Wan also sat more straight, playing the piano is her strength, I don't know how Tang Jin's piano skills are?

I saw that Tang Jin's whole person was suddenly immersed, his eyes were closed, his hands were on the twenty-one strings, and he didn't move.

Seeing that Tang Jin didn't move, Meihua said anxiously: "Are you playing?" Will it be? ”

"Don't speak, he's brewing love." Nangong said gently.

"Oh." Meihua suddenly shut up, but she was not convinced in her heart, look at what kind of love you brewed?

After a while, Tang Jin moved, plucking the strings one by one, and there was no melody to speak of. Plum blossoms don't understand the rhythm of music and secretly laugh at it. Chrysanthemum knows a little bit, but she doesn't know that this is tuning.

After confirming the correct pitch, Tang Jin began to play, as soon as it came up, it was a bright rhythm, the momentum was extraordinary, the sound of the piano was like flowing water, and it was full of charm as soon as it came up.

As soon as the connoisseur made a move, he knew if there was one, Nangong Wan listened dumbfounded, and then couldn't help but stand up and walked to the side to watch. She wanted to see with her own eyes how Tang Jin's fast fingers used fingering.

It turned out that Tang Jin's introduction used extremely solemn fingering, and he also used his hands to alternately play a loud sound, which made people seem to see the majestic spirit of the towering mountains.

Then, I saw that Tang Jin used a slower melody based on "sliding" notes and progressive intervals to imitate the charm and simplicity of the guqin.

Tang Jin's accurate and clean up and down sliding voice was stunned when Nangong Wan and the three girls watched.

After a while, Tang Jin's fingering changed again, with the "splitting" technique, with the big finger and small joints as the axis of movement when playing, the pronunciation was crisp, the rhythm was even, and the granularity was very strong.

Then, Tang Jin changed his fingering method again, using the "flower finger" technique and the powerful "hooking" technique to cooperate, and the sound was like a clear bell. It was as if on a quiet night, a procession of mules and horses came along the country road, and the sound of luan bells was heard.

The three girls were completely immersed in the music, and they had already put their previous guesses behind them.

In the last paragraph, Tang Jin comprehensively uses various techniques of "pressing, sliding, kneading, and trembling" to simulate the tone of the ancients when reading poems and books, and the musical image is vivid and full of charm.

The three girls listened fascinated, and until the last note stopped, they were still intoxicated by the artistic conception of the music, and they couldn't wake up for a long time.

Seeing the three girls' demented expressions, Tang Jin was secretly happy.

In the previous life, Tang Jin was the guqin that he learned first and the guzheng that he learned later, the guqin has seven strings, and most of the guzheng has twenty-one strings. Comparatively speaking, there are more guqin techniques, but it is also much more difficult. Guzheng is relatively easy to learn. Tang Jin learned it in one day.

Tang Jinxue's first song was "Farewell", and then one day I watched the thirteen episodes of "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" about the plot of Qianlong's revision of the Siku Quanshu, Liu Yong was forced by He Shen to play a zither in front of the pavilion, which is called a good sound! At that time, Emperor Qianlong and He Shen were dumbfounded!

That night, Tang Jin asked his friends in the music club and learned that it was "Alpine Flowing Water" by the Shandong Zheng School, and learned that this was a ninth-level guzheng song.

However, for Tang Jin, who has good basic guqin skills, he learned the ninth-level tune in a week, and he played it very smoothly.

Tang Jin played just now, although it is not enough to talk about three days around the beam, but it is definitely a shock for people who hear this song for the first time.

At the end of the song, the whole pavilion seemed to respond to the sound of the piano. It took Nangong Wan a long time to come to her senses and found that she was really unseemly.

"What's the name of this song?" Nangong Wan asked anxiously.

Tang Jin did not hide it, and said: "The title of this song is "Mountains and Flowing Water""

Nangong Wan was stunned for a moment, thinking that she had heard it wrong? "Mountains and Flowing Water" can play it yourself, isn't it this one?

Tang Jin had expected it, and said with a smile: "Don't doubt it, this song is also called Alpine Flowing Water, but it is not the one by Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi." This song is composed of Shandong folk songs "Qin Rhyme", "Wind Swinging Green Bamboo", "Night Quiet Luan Bell" and "Book Rhyme". It's normal that Miss Nangong hasn't heard of it. ”

Nangong Wan was stunned, she thought she had heard all the famous songs in the world, but she missed such a beautiful tune? In fact, how did she know that this piece was a Shandong Zheng school song in the fifties of the nineteenth century.

"I really can't see that your kid plays the guzheng so well!" The plum blossom gave Tang Jin a thumbs up for the first time.

Tang Jin almost didn't get used to it, and hurriedly said, "It's just a small skill of carving insects." ”

Nangong Wan said: "Your piano skills are simply superb, even Li Xiaoya, the first piano master of Lin'an Mansion, is probably not much better than you." ”

Li Xiaoya?

"The eldest lady praises falsely. Now, Miss, can we negotiate a contract? Tang Jin said.

Nangong Wan's attitude immediately changed, "With your piano skills, being a little family will bury you, if you go to Bianjing or Lin'an to be a piano master, you will definitely be popular." ”

Tang Jin sighed deeply and said, "There is a tiger in my heart to sniff the rose." People's inner ideals and external realities are often contradictory. But I chose to accept reality. My parents are by my side, my sister is still young, and I still have to fulfill the heavy responsibility of my mother's examination to achieve fame. So, now is not the time to go to Bianjing. Now I am only suitable to be a small housekeeper, but of course I will be a good housekeeper. Even if I am a housekeeper, I want to do it to the extreme! ”

Have a tiger in your heart, sniff the rose?

Nangong Wan was shocked by this sentence and silently wrote it down. The more she felt, the more she came into contact with Tang Jin, the more she found that there was a new shining point in him.

"Well, family contracts don't usually change at will, but I can make an exception for you. Whatever conditions you have, come up with them. Nangong Wan said.

This time, plum blossoms and chrysanthemums surprisingly did not object.

Tang Jin had already thought about the content of the contract, and said seriously: "Okay." I'm a person who likes freedom, and I don't like to be bound very much. To tell the truth, I came to be a housekeeper not only for money, but also for Hongchen experience, and then I want to witness Miss Xia Nangong's peerless beauty. ”

Speaking of this, Plum Blossom and Chrysanthemum glared at Tang Jin.

Nangong Wan smiled with a slightly red face: "Oh, you will see me unveiled." But don't be disappointed. You continue. ”

Tang Jin smiled: "I shouldn't be disappointed, I see people very accurately." Okay, then I'll move on. Because I don't like too long of bondage, so I want to set the contract time as one year first, I don't know what the lady wants? ”

Meihua didn't hide it: "The lowest is three years, you pat your ass for a year and leave, who knows if you are a spy?" ”

Nangong Wan smiled: "Yes, the minimum is generally a three-year short-term job. ”

Tang Jin looked at the plum blossom and said, "I look so much like a spy?" Miss Nangong, don't be in a hurry to refuse, listen to me. ”

"Okay." Nangong said gently.

She wanted to know what else Tang Jin had to say.

"Whether it's three years or a year, the key is the value of this family during this time. I don't dare to pack a ticket, but I can confidently say that the value of my zào in one year is something that ordinary family members can't catch up with in ten years. ”

As soon as these words came out, Nangong Wan said with a straight face: "Childe is so confident? ”

"Of course. I can tell Miss Sù that the previous Tang Jin has long since died, and now this Tang Jin has been reborn. Tang Jin said.

That Tang Jin was already dead before? Reborn? The third girl didn't understand what Tang Jin was talking about. Of course, Tang Jin couldn't stupidly tell them that they had crossed over.

"It's just a dream, and I'll be reborn, believe it or not." Tang Jin said.

The three girls glanced at each other, is there such a mysterious thing in the world?

"Well, even if I believe you. Does the so-called rebirth mean that you know a lot now? Nangong Wan said.

Tang Jin said confidently: "So to speak. ”

"And will you bow?" Nangong Wan asked.

"Naturally." Tang Jin said.

"Okay, then what other conditions do you say together?" Nangong said gently.

"Good. The contract time is one year, and the monthly money is also two taels, but I have to pay half a year's salary first, which is twelve taels of silver. Tang Jin said.

Meihua immediately retorted, "It's easy for people to think you're a liar when you say that!" ”

Nangong Wan said: "Let him continue." ”

"Good. Because I work part-time while studying... As a housekeeper, so my working hours can't be the same as other housekeepers, of course, Miss has a heavy dà event and I am always there. I'll go to school in the morning and do things in the afternoon. This is mainly due to the fact that my mother does not agree that I do not study, and I am a housekeeper. There are also families in the house who generally do not rest. The rest system of our Great Song Dynasty is one rest for ten days. I'm talking about the second meditation in seven days. ”

Hearing this, the three girls were stupid, what is this? Is this still a family? Are you going to be a housekeeper or a master?

Tang Jin didn't care about their strange expressions, and continued: "That is, I go to work... Do five days of housekeeping and two days off. Moreover, I only do things in the afternoon. Of course, Miss is always on the go, and I will do my best to share your worries. ”

"Also, the treatment is preferential. In addition to the monthly money of two taels, I hope to be able to connect with the imperial court... Closer, food money... Lusu, job money, public money, job fields, tea and soup money, travel expenses... Rolls, kitchen materials, and charcoal, these must not be missing, and they do not need to be converted into silver, I want them in kind. ”

Hearing this, Plum Blossom and Chrysanthemum were already dumbfounded, is he going to be a housekeeper? This is clearly going to be an official? These treatments seem to be only available to the imperial court officials, right? Isn't he crazy?