Chapter Eighty-Six: Selling Girls as Servants

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"It's okay, without me, A-Niang can take good care of her brother."

The Wei Jin sisters clenched their palms tightly, and even the good-tempered Lan Xiang sank their faces, holding back their anger.

From the little girl's eyes, they saw only a calmness, as if her own body was of no importance to her at all.

Until the Wei sisters returned to the plum garden and sat down, the three of them did not say a word again.

But it was the little novice, who hesitated for a moment when he confessed his sins and left, then turned his head and said a word.

"For Huayan, this is not necessarily a good thing."

He didn't say much, and went out directly.

Sihua'er lowered her head, unconsciously leaned on her sister's arm, her little hand tightly pulled her sister's fingers, and her palms were wet and cold.

"Don't worry, my sister won't want you."

Startled by her sister's state, Wei Jin suddenly came to her senses, reached out to hold Sihua'er, and put her head against her head.

"Look at it, the third sister used to be so tormenting, the eldest sister and the second sister and you never gave up on me, how could my sister give up on you? In this world, there are hundreds of people raised by hundreds of rice, and not everyone only feels sorry for their son like Mrs. Chen. ”

She is not Mrs. Chen, and she doesn't understand what Mrs. Chen is thinking, but she knows that she can't do something like Mrs. Chen.

When her son is sick, it's good not to leave her, and she doesn't want to have two bowls of water even, and she can't do this herself. However, it's all the meat that fell from your body, so you have to take care of it all, right?

The little girl's physical condition is so bad that it is not a day's work!

When Wei Zan came over, he saw that the three girls were in a low mood, so he asked curiously. After learning about the situation, he accepted it quite calmly.

"You guys, I've seen less." Wei Zan poured tea to moisten his throat and lowered his eyebrows, "I came all the way from the north, and I have seen countless pawn wives and children, in order to support the sons of the family, they used their daughters as slaves and maids, and even beat and scolded countless people who did not give food or clothes. Zhang Cun is very good, although he is not rich, but he has never heard of anyone who treats his daughter harshly and tortures his daughter. Even if it's a little eccentric, it's good that I'm not hungry and freezing. ”

"How can there be such a ruthless father and mother in this world?" Wei Jue asked with a little crying.

"There are a thousand kinds of people in this world. If you are surrounded by selfishness and partiality to your son, you will naturally assimidate. In some places, the baby girl was drowned, buried under the road into the village, and trampled on every day, just so that the next daughter would not have another daughter. ”

Hearing Wei Zhan's words, Wei Jue and Lan Xiang gasped together. And Wei Jin had known about this situation for a long time, and after a sigh, he didn't know what to say.

"Okay, if you feel sorry for that little girl, take her away."

Such a little maid, only half a tael of silver, should buy comfort for her two sisters.

However, Wei Jin shook his head.

"She won't agree to go with us." Wei Jin stared at the water cup on the table, "She still has her mother and her brother in her heart." ”

Wei Zan hooked the corners of his mouth: "Leave this matter to me." Do you still want to shop? Or go back? ”

"Come back, I'm not in the mood for today."

Wei Jin pulled her sister up and followed Wei Zan out of the temple. The carriage had been waiting outside, and they had not been in the carriage for a long time, when they saw the little girl Hua Yan carrying a wooden barrel to the ditch.

There were a number of bluestone slabs on both sides of the ditch that probed obliquely into the water, which should have been deliberately placed there to facilitate the women's laundry.

After returning to the inn, the sisters went back to the house to rest uncomfortably, Wei Zan said that he had a banquet to go to in the evening, and after leaving someone to protect the sisters, he left directly.

At night, the four flowers were all scared, and they couldn't lift their spirits by leaning on their sister.

Wei Jin didn't say much, just let her lean on, take a book by herself and look at it, see interesting places, and read it out to Sihua and Lanxiang. Just a few hours passed, and the four flowers adjusted their mood.

The next morning, while the sisters were having breakfast in their room, they heard the voice of a strange elderly woman outside.

Lan Xiang pushed open the window and took a look, then walked out of the door again, and after saying a few words to someone outside the courtyard gate, she led a little girl in after a while.

"Huayan?"

Sihua'er was surprised, and looked at the little girl who entered the house in disbelief, and then at her sister, who was just as surprised as her.

"Huayan, why did you come here? Did you come to my sister on purpose? ”

Hua Yan's eyes were a little red and swollen, and she cautiously looked up at the Wei family sisters, lowered her head and whispered like a mosquito and a fly that she was sold here.

"What's going on?" Wei Jin frowned and looked at Lan Xiang, who was standing aside, also frowning tightly.

"It's someone from the city who came to the city, saying that Mrs. Chen sent Huayan to her early this morning, and she wants to get some money to treat her son."

Wei Jin put down the chopsticks, choked in his throat, and nodded: "You take Huayan to freshen up and change clothes first, and after breakfast, go and invite the son to come over and talk." ”

If there is no Wei Zhan's handwriting here, she doesn't believe it at all. But if Wei Zan forced Mrs. Chen to sell her daughter in order to show her ability, and when she returned to the Wei family, he would definitely be beaten to death by the family law.

"Eat first, then talk about it when you're done."

Seeing that her sister had no appetite for eating, she did not say her guess, but asked Wei Jue to learn to adjust her mood by herself.

"There is a fixed number of what to do at what time. You can make appropriate adjustments, but you can't let external objects affect your emotions and judgments. I won't meddle in this matter, you take care of it. In the future, Huayan will be your personal maid, and it is your responsibility to educate and train her. ”

My sister is no longer young, and Wei Jue is different from her, she will definitely marry and have children in the future, in this way, how to be a stable and unruly housewife is what she needs to learn. Selecting and training maidservants is also included.

Wei Jue was nervous for a moment, looked up at her sister, and only got an encouraging smile.

She knew that whatever her sister had already decided, she wouldn't change her mind easily unless it turned out to be a bad decision.

This time, her horizons have really broadened a lot, and along the way, Lan Xiang will also properly tell them how the fourth lady deals with the inner courtyard of the house, these are all things that experience and others can't learn if they want to.

"Okay, don't be sad, hurry up and let people clean up the table after eating. Otherwise, when Brother Azan comes, do you still have to continue to have breakfast in front of him? ”

As soon as he was reminded by his sister, Wei Jue came back to his senses instantly, elegantly and quickly and without rushing to finish breakfast.

After cleaning up, Lan Xiang followed Wei Zan into the outer room with Hua Yan, who looked even thinner after changing her clothes.