Chapter 24: Buying a Servant
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Walking in the chicken coop alley, Huangshi covered his nose with long sleeves, it really stinks, it is said to be an alley, in fact, it is similar to a vegetable market in modern society, but in modern society, there are chengguan on the street, there is a market administrator in the market to supervise, every day there are full-time cleaning cleaners and aunts, busy cleaning up there, and this ancient small city, I heard that only the night incense is collected.
"Master, you have to be careful of your feet", but it was Zhou Mingrui who walked in front to lead the way, reminding Huangshi to be careful of a lump of chicken and duck poop under his feet, Huangshi and Mu Dexian had to bow their heads and pay attention to the ground, compared with the streets and alleys outside, there were more sundries, vegetable leaves, and feces everywhere.
"Ming Rui, do you usually buy chickens here?" Huang Shi covered his face and said in a humming voice, he looked at the two Ming Dynasty natives in front and back as if nothing happened, and couldn't help but sincerely admire their strong adaptability.
"Yes, master, the villain's chickens were all bought at the Wang Pozi's house here", Zhou Mingrui pointed to a family on the left, and flexibly moved his steps among these rotten vegetable leaves, he wondered where the chickens that were handed over to the immortal master had gone, could he have taken back the fairy world. Now Zhou Mingrui also eats at the idle house every day, and every day when he eats, he also receives a meal of his own like other people, only the rice is several times that of others, there are chicken, duck, and occasionally fish, the steamed cucumber fish is the most delicious, a small piece per person, as if it was said that the fairy master caught it from the sea a hundred and ten miles away.
Seeing Huangshi's appearance, Mu Xiucai felt a little funny in his heart, but he didn't dare to laugh, and said in his heart, "Shizun is pampered in the upper realm, and once he arrives in a pickled place like the lower realm, he will be uncomfortable."
"Master, there is a Majia shop in front of me I heard that it is also a human trafficker, let's go there and have a look", Zhou Mingrui pointed to a shop in front.
The two people in the back saw that there was indeed a sign with the word "tooth" hanging at the door of the shop in front of them, and Huang Shi said, "Since it's a tooth shop, let's go in and have a look."
After saying that, the three of them walked forward for a while, entered the tooth shop, and saw that there was only an eleven or twelve-year-old girl in the store who was wiping the tables and chairs, Zhou Mingrui stepped forward and asked, "The horse shop is here", the little girl looked at the three of them, and stepped forward to bless, and then said softly, "Old man, please sit down, and the slave will go to invite the horse master", and walked to the back door of the store.
Huang Shi saw that although the little girl was also yellow and thin, but she was still clear and beautiful, and she was dressed neatly, having said that, the children of this era, including Huang Shi on a few streets, really did not have any white and fat like modern society, they were all thin and malnourished.
After a while, a man came out of the back door, the man was about forty years old, dressed in a clean blue robe, with a square scarf on his head, and the little girl was also following behind. The man saw three people in Huangshi, two of them were seated, one was standing on the side, and the two people who were seated were wearing Lan shirts and square hats, student robes, and a family member, obviously not ordinary down-and-out talents.
Therefore, he stepped forward and bowed his hand to the two of them, and said, "Two guest officers, Ma Jin is polite", after saying that, he asked the little girl to make tea for the two, and he also went to the chair opposite the two to sit down.
After the girl finished serving tea, Mu Dexian took the initiative to speak, "I heard that your store has a business that also deals in small maids"?
"Exactly, do you want a girl or a little girl?" When he heard this, he immediately replied.
"All of you, Ma Shopkeeper, you bring all the children in your store, I'll wait to see if there are any Zhou Zheng and clever ones, and choose a few of them", just now after getting Huang Shi's signal, the curtain said leisurely.
"Two guest officers, please sit down for a while, I'll have someone call you right away", Na Ma Jin said to the little girl standing on the side, "Ah Xiu, you go to the back and quickly call them all over."
After the little girl left, a few people chatted there for a while, mainly the conversation between the curtain and Ma Jin, it turned out that in addition to this seller, the main business of this shop is to engage in some bulk commodity intermediaries.
After a while, the little girl came in with a row of children, and then the little girl blessed the few who were seated, and then asked the children to stand in two separate rows, male and female, in front of Huangshi and Mudexian, and she herself stood behind Ma Jin.
Huang Shi looked at these children, the younger ones were eight or nine years old, and the older ones were only twelve or thirteen years old, wearing different patched clothes, and some were still panting slightly, and it was estimated that they were still doing other work in the back hall just now.
These yellow-faced and thin children have obviously been told about the matter just now, and it is not the first time to experience such a provocative scene, but there is no surprise, and seeing that the two guest officers in front of them are wearing brand-new scholar costumes, and their faces are relatively kind, so they all show expectant eyes on their faces, which makes Huang Shi feel like a scene from an African refugee camp taken by a Western reporter.
Before coming, the three of them made a lot of arrangements, Huangshi didn't like to be blackfaced, so he arranged for the curtain to be idle to be the bargaining work, so the curtain got up and walked among the two rows of children to weigh it, and then pointed to a little girl who looked more delicate and said, "How much is this?"
"6 taels of silver are not worth two prices", "the guest officer is really a good eye", saying that Ma Jin also stood up, "As long as this girl is raised for a few more years, she will be full of food and drink to ensure that she is like a flower and jade."
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With the deepening of the confrontation between Mu Dexian and Ma Jin, Huang Shi also helped from time to time, and bought 7 or 8 small girls and maids one after another, and the eyes of those children who were not selected obviously turned from expectation to disappointment, so Ma Jin also thought that the business of the two guest officers could also be done here.
"Ma Shop", at this time Ma Jin saw Huang Shi suddenly stand up, "These remaining children, I have all covered, 2 taels of silver each, regardless of gender, regardless of appearance, otherwise you and we will negotiate the price one by one, this weather is so hot, aren't everyone tired and panicking."
"How can this be done, what the guest officer is saying is a layman's word, since ancient times, you get what you pay for, this man and woman are different, and they can be generalized", after saying that, Ma Jin shook his head, it's not that he doesn't want to sell, because the rest of the children are indeed inferior to those people just now, whether in terms of appearance or otherwise, and these children sold this batch, he went to the countryside, and he could immediately add it, but he habitually had to bargain.