Ye Damin led the cow to the cowshed in the backyard and tied it up, picked up the well water and cleaned himself up a little before entering Daddy Ye's house, sat down on the edge of the kang and secretly rubbed his sore waist, and finally made a suggestion to Daddy Ye after a long time: "Dad, if I don't know the day, I will go to the village to ask if there are any villagers who are willing to come to our house as helpers for some time?" ”

Although Father Ye didn't have much hope for finding helpers in the village, he didn't object when he looked at Ye Damin's tired face, but just negotiated a reasonable price for helpers with Ye Damin, and handed over the matter of recruiting helpers to Ye Damin.

On the second day, Ye Damin walked around the village and asked almost all the more than 20 households in the village, but Ye Damin was disappointed.

Although the price offered by Ye Damin was not low, Ye Damin failed to recruit a helper.

The reason is very simple, it's not that the villagers don't want to make this money, if the farmers are slack, they are afraid that they will break their heads and compete for the places of these helpers, but there is really no way to earn this money.

Because in addition to their own fields, the villagers of Houwu Village have more or less tenanted some fields to large households, and they really can't spare manpower to make this money.

Although Father Ye had such a prediction in his heart, when he really heard this result, he still let out a long sigh.

Although the village is small and has a small population, although there is not as much intrigue and filth as in Hongfeng Village, there are also advantages and disadvantages.

Ye Damin originally planned to go to the neighboring village to try, but this time he was directly vetoed by Daddy Ye.

The situation in the nearby villages is roughly the same, since there is not a single helper recruited in Houwu Village, it is impossible to recruit people in the neighboring villages.

On this day, Lin Zimo saw that Father Ye and Ye Damin had been busy in the field for another day, and they were so tired that they almost didn't want to speak, so he couldn't help but ask curiously: "Grandpa Ye, why don't you buy a few people to come back to help with farming, you are so tired!" ”

The cigarette gun that Daddy Ye was putting into his mouth paused in mid-air, and he really didn't think about buying someone.

Qi Gui's family had no choice but to accept it, according to Father Ye's thoughts, the Ye family was far from being able to live a life of slaves.

In fact, Ye Shen had already proposed to Father Ye to buy a few slaves to come back to help plant, but he didn't find a suitable opportunity, and now since Lin Zimo sent this opportunity to open his mouth to suggest, he naturally won't let it go: "Yes, Grandpa, if our family buys a few people to help with the work, Grandpa and Daddy don't have to be so tired, and the eldest brother can study with peace of mind, and he doesn't always have to think about going to the field to help." ”

If it was just the previous reason for buying someone, Daddy Ye might have let it go in his heart, but if he bought someone back and let a few grandchildren study with peace of mind, then he would have to think about it.

No, you don't need to think about it anymore, just buy someone directly!

Although the Ye family is still far from being rich, there is still money to buy a few slaves.

All the Ye family needs is someone who can work in the field, and such a slave should not be expensive, even cheaper than that kind of good-looking maid.

Hearing that Father Ye decided to buy a few slaves and come back, Lin Zimo rubbed his hands and kept persuading Father Ye to go to Fucheng to buy slaves.

Lin Zimo's reason is that the Lin family has to buy slaves several times a year, and the housekeeper knows the people in the tooth shop, and he will definitely be able to help the Ye family choose the most suitable slave.

Daddy Ye thought about what Lin Zimo said was very reasonable, so when the primary school hall was closed, Daddy Ye really followed Lin Zimo to Fucheng with Ye Damin.

Originally, it was said that it would only buy two people, but when Daddy Ye and Ye Damin returned to Houwu Village, they surprised everyone, because Daddy Ye actually bought back three men, two women and five people in one go.

This is a family, a husband and wife with two sons and a daughter.

The man's surname is Jin Mingwang, and the woman is directly called "Jin Wang's family", and the couple is around forty years old.

The eldest son Jin Daxia is eighteen years old this year, the second son Jin Xiaoman is sixteen years old this year, and the little girl is called Jin Xiaomei, who is just ten years old this year.

When he was in the original owner's house, the family worked in Zhuangzi, which was a bit similar to Qi Gui's family.

It's just that the original owner of Qi Gui's family was just a businessman, and because the original owner returned to his hometown after the leaves fell and returned to his hometown, he returned to the Ye family with Zhuangzi.

The original master of the Jin family was an official of not low rank, and was sentenced to exile on charges of embezzlement, wounding people, and other crimes.

The master's crime involved the slaves, and the family was confiscated and sold along with the other slaves.

I just came to the largest tooth shop in Qingzhou Mansion yesterday, and it is the tooth shop that the housekeeper of Lin Mansion took Daddy Ye to go to today.

It was a coincidence, and the family was bought back by Daddy Ye together, and it cost Daddy Ye a total of thirty silver.

Jin Xiaomei, who is only ten years old, is a partner, and the other four people are priced at ten taels each.

For the sake of the face of the housekeeper of the Lin Mansion, the tooth store gave a preferential price of eight taels per person.

With the unremitting efforts of Father Ye, Yaxing reduced the final total price by two taels, and finally sold it at thirty taels.

When Chen learned that these five people were bought by Father Ye for thirty taels of silver, he naturally gritted his teeth in pain, and he had to complain that Father Ye spent money indiscriminately.

But when he heard that this family had been sold from the capital all the way to Qingzhou Mansion just to keep their flesh and blood separated, he sighed and took the family to the backyard to settle first.

There are a few houses in the row in the backyard that used to have warm kang for bean sprouts, and two of them were selected to live in for the family.

Jin Wang and his wife took Jin Xiaomei in one room, and Da Man and Xiao Man brothers in one room.

After being settled, the three men of the family followed Father Ye to work in the field that afternoon, and the original Jin Wang's family also followed to the field, but the Chen family left her behind and let her clean up the backyard with her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

This backyard is also bigger than that in Hongfeng Village, and you can clean up a large vegetable patch.

Lin Wan thought that she had nothing to do, but the Chen family put Jin Xiaomei in her room to serve, which means that from this day on, Lin Wan had the first maid after coming to this world.

Although Lin Wan doesn't need a maid to serve her, having a girl a few years older than herself helps her do some things that move high and low, which should save her a lot of worry.

After the business of sending bean sprouts was handed over to Qi Gui, several houses in the backyard lost their original use, and Father Ye simply allocated a house with a warm kang to Lin Wan, and moved all the potted plants in Lin Wan's house to that room.

Now Lin Wan's house only has a pot of cosmos and a pot of sunflowers, and there is no trace of moisture and peculiar smell, and some only have the natural fragrance of flowers.

Although Lin Wan's age was four years younger than Jin Xiaomei, Jin Xiaomei did not dare to be careless in front of Lin Wan.

Looking at Jin Xiaomei's restrained appearance, Lin Wan felt helpless.

Since Jin Xiaomei was arranged by the Chen family to serve by her side, Lin Wan naturally had to give Jin Xiaomei a new name, and she couldn't follow the Jin family's "little sister" and "little sister" to shout.

I think of Qi Gui's two daughters in Zhuangzi, one is called "Chunmei" because she was born in spring, and the other is called "Qiuju" because she was born in autumn.

I didn't expect that the Jin family and the Qi family had a lot of fate to name their children, and the names of the two sons of the Jin family should be taken from the solar terms at birth, one is called Da Man and the other is called Xiao Man, shouldn't it be so coincidental that they were born in these two solar terms.

After asking Jin Xiaomei, I was really guessed, Daman and Xiaoman were indeed born in these two solar terms.

Lin Wan couldn't help but complain in her heart, if the birth terms of the eldest and second child are reversed, is it possible that the eldest is called "Xiaoman" and the second is called "Daman"?

In order to cooperate with the law of the Jin family's naming, Lin Wan had to ask about Jin Xiaomei's birthday.

"Girl, the maid is the third birthday of the first month of winter." Jin Xiaomei whispered.

Good fellow, one of the two families is finally born in winter!

Lin Wan thought for a moment and said, "Then you will call it Dongxue from now on." ”

"Winter Snow thanks the master for the name." It seems that Jin Xiaomei, oh, it should be called Dongxue now, she really likes this name, and happily thanked Lin Wan for giving her name.

So Lin Wan had an extra maid named Dongxue by her side.