Day 2.

After breakfast, Yuan Dashuo went to the old village chief to confirm the matter of clearing the wasteland.

Or don't do it, since you have decided to do it, Yuan Dashuo is also a neat person.

After all, he thought about it later, he had to buy someone after all, and he could afford a new house, so it was better to buy it quickly, and when he got the house, he could save some money and not have to hire so many people.

And when there are more people, the progress of the new house can be a little faster.

Now the Yuan family also has a lot of money.

Originally, there were two taels of silver left at home, plus one hundred and eight taels of medicinal herbs, one and a half taels of cloth sold yesterday, and two taels of silver sold dried bamboo shoots.

Not counting the scattered strings of money, there are one hundred and thirteen halves of silver in the whole number of the family.

The price of the slaves here is also good, for example, a little girl in the village was sold by her father to inquire about it, like a little girl from the age of ten to a little girl can be sold for five taels to ten silver, because this kind of general young age, you have to teach to work, and you can't do heavy work, so the price is like this.

If it is a big girl with skills and experience from the age of ten to twenty, it will take about ten taels to twenty taels, depending on how many crafts she knows.

In addition to handiwork, that is, the more beautiful the appearance and the higher the price.

But after the age of twenty, the price drops again, and the older the grade, the less valuable it is.

Of course, the price of men is a bit different from that of women.

In addition to the same price as the little girl when she was a child, the price from the age of ten to the age of thirty is not low, after all, it is a young labor force, and they have to do heavy work to protect the family, so the price will naturally be slightly higher than that of women.

But it's also a little higher, and there will still be a lot of discrepancies when you really buy it.

After all, a domestic servant who can only work hard and has a stupid brain is naturally more expensive than a big girl with excellent skills, so you still need to compare and buy it carefully.

What the Yuan Man family needs most now is to do manual work, so she targeted people who were about the same age as his father, after all, they were young and capable.

Older people are not in her consideration, because the older ones still do heavy work, in case something happens, it is not good, she is not a great virgin, in order to take what she needs, she wants labor, and the other party pays labor in exchange for freedom, which is a very fair thing.

Yuan Man didn't want to suffer a loss.

So after spending an uneventful day, Yuan Dashuo also succeeded in bringing back the certificate issued by the old village chief, but the old village chief claimed to be sick and asked Yuan Dashuo to negotiate with the town by himself to enter the file and seal it.

Although he didn't know if the old village chief was really sick or fake, Yuan Man said that it was just right, anyway, he would go to the yamen to find out about the slave sale, and he would do it by the way.

Yuan Dashuo thought about it and had no opinion, but silently took a silver ticket of fifty taels, in case he wanted to buy someone at that time? So let's get ready first.

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Early the next morning.

Yuan Dashuo went to the new yard to lead the ox cart over, and Wen prepared the steaming braised pork in advance, and then put it in a large bowl and put it in a basket with a plate cover.

I was in a bit of a hurry, so I only made one kind of food, but I could get a whole pot.

Yuan Man brought the basket with her, and she didn't carry the basket anymore today, because there was nothing to sell.

There are not many bamboo shoots left on the mountain now, everyone is grabbing them, and its growth is not as fast as people collecting them, so they didn't go to grab them anymore.

After all, they have more important things, and as for what is left of the family, they can keep it for themselves.

When Yuan Man finished preparing and stood outside the courtyard gate, Yuan Dashuo came with Dahei.

The father and daughter got on the ox cart again and headed towards the yamen.

Thinking about things in my heart, time passed in a blink of an eye, and it was only half past eight in the morning when I arrived at the side door of the yamen, the scene was always a little familiar, Gao Tian happened to come to work again, and when he saw the father and daughter, he nodded familiarly and greeted: "Come to do something?" ”

Previously, Cao Guanwu lived in their house for a period of time, and Gao Tian came to pick him up a few times, so the Yuanman family was also familiar with him, and Gao Tian also had a good impression of this family.

Yuan Dashuo greeted him with a smile before saying, "The family is going to open up the wasteland and plant some vegetables, but this old village chief is sick and wants us to come here by ourselves to stamp a stamp." ”

Gao Tian nodded when he saw this, and after asking a word, he asked the father and daughter to find Cao Guanwu directly.

When the father and daughter heard this, of course they agreed.

Seeing this, Gao Tian was ready to go to duty, Yuan Man remembered what stopped him and smiled: "Brother Gao, my aunt made something delicious, you come to eat with Brother Cao for lunch!" The taste is really delicious, keep you haven't eaten it! ”

Gao Tian caught a glimpse of the lid on the top of the bamboo basket that Yuan Man opened, revealing the red braised pork inside, and couldn't help but subconsciously swallow his saliva and say that it was troublesome.

This family is interested in Cao Guanwu, he is naturally happy for his good brother, and at the same time he is happy to be able to rub good food, you must know that he is meatless and unhappy.

Before leaving, Gao Tian asked them to find him and Cao Guanwu if they had anything in the future, as long as they didn't do anything bad, they would definitely help if they could.

Yuan Dashuo just wanted to politely say that I'm sorry to trouble you.

Yuan Man immediately gave a big smile, and said with a particularly flattering smile: "Thank you, Brother Gao." ”

Gao Tian habitually nodded in silence before turning around and leaving for duty.

Yuan Dashuo watched the little girl use food to win the favor of others and make a verbal promise, and shook his head again and again in his heart and sighed, he and his daughter-in-law are not very smart people, why did they give birth to a girl so smart?

He thought about it and attributed this to such a mysterious master as Yuan Man.

After this little episode, the father and daughter found Cao Guanwu's yard familiarly.

Cao Guanwu stayed up all night again, and he didn't get off work because he was so busy.

"Brother Cao!"

When he heard Yuan Mannen's voice, Cao Guanwu thought that he had a delusion, but when he looked up, he saw that it was the father and daughter of the Yuan family who stepped in.

Cao Guanwu looked at Yuan Man's smiling appearance, and couldn't help but dissipate the boredom in his heart, and teased her: "Yo, where did the wind come from to send you over?" ”

Yuan Man smiled and replied to the question: "Brother Cao, I came to see you, I didn't have time to bring you something last time, this time my mother specially made something delicious for you, you can take a look, it's delicious, I also asked Brother Gao to eat with you at noon." ”

As she spoke, she put the basket up, because the aroma of the braised pork was not as fragrant as when it was just out of the pot, but the fragrance still drilled into her nose in wisps.

Cao Guanwu sniffed hard, and couldn't help but exclaim: "It's really fragrant, thank you for me, you have a heart!" He smiled and was still very moved.

In the past few years, there have been people who have secretly given any gifts to the officials, but there are really no home-made foods.

Unless it's your own family.

But Cao Guanwu no longer has any relatives, so he felt moved when he received this heart.

Yuan Dashuo watched Yuan Man naturally sit down opposite Cao Guanwu and chatted with him, he didn't want to interrupt the two children rashly, and Yuan Man didn't mention it after a while.

Cao Guanwu said that it was a trivial matter at the moment, and he hurried to take it for the two of them to build.

He can stamp and keep the bottom of such a trivial matter.