I turned my head to look at the child, a little boy with a gray face, about fourteen or fifteen years old, not very tall, and very thin, and when he saw me turn around, he hurried to me and knelt down, and kowtowed to me.

"Please give her a chance, please give her a chance!"

I crouched down to stop him from kowtowing, took his arm with one hand and asked,

"Child, where is your sister?"

The child's face was full of tears, and his hair was disheveled. In a hurry, he quickly got up and pulled his sister over. My sister was about eleven or twelve years old, her eyes were a little glazed, and her lips were a little chapped.

This is typical malnutrition, coupled with great irritation!

"Nobleman, this is my sister, please take her with you!"

At this time, Shopkeeper Liu also turned around and interjected,

"The brother and sister have no father and mother, have been begging and wandering near Zhuo County, a while ago I heard that my sister was raped by several elderly homeless men, the child picked up a kitchen knife from nowhere, and hacked those people to death.

It happened that I was passing by to buy something, so I rescued them, and when Pei Qian came to investigate, I also answered truthfully,

Fortunately, he is not unforgiving, anyway, it was a homeless man who died, and my brother avenged his sister and received a few compliments from him, so I brought them back, thinking of finding a good family to send them out. ”

I took a deep breath and nodded, the happiness in this world may be similar, but there are all kinds of misfortunes. For example, Lu Fan, such as the groom, and the brother and sister in front of him.

I looked at them pityingly and asked.

"What's your name?"

My sister's mental state is not very good, and she doesn't dare to speak anymore. But the boy was strong, and answered me,

"My sister's name is Xiaoya, and my name is Si'er."

The co-author is a poor child without a surname, who is estimated to have been abandoned by his parents at a very young age. I'm not a philanthropist, let alone a poverty alleviation captain, but I appreciate what this boy did.

As an elder brother, avenging his sister, he has such a strong idea at the age of fourteen or fifteen. Anyway, I'm ashamed of myself.

"Okay, in the future, you will have my surname, your name is Ji Xiaosi, and your name is Ji Xiaoya!"

I don't really have much experience with naming things, it's just a code name anyway, so make do with it.

The little boy thanked me and led his sister by the hand and followed me.

Shopkeeper Liu sent me out of the door, followed by a large number of children, the oldest of these children is only fifteen or sixteen years old, the youngest is eleven years old, I said to Shopkeeper Liu,

"Lao Liu, you have to find me a more reliable housekeeper to manage these children, and find me three more cooks, don't be afraid of spending money, especially the housekeeper, it must be the best!"

Shopkeeper Liu's eyes can't be opened with a smile, for a big list like today, his commission alone is estimated to be dozens of taels.

"Young Master Ji, don't worry, as long as I put a notice at our door, I will definitely arrange it for you within an hour."

"Then it's time to work, I'll take the children to take a bath and change into new clothes."

I'm a young man in my twenties who has just reached the crown, and I am wandering around the street with a large group of children, and the return rate is not too high, and many people point fingers at me, thinking that I am abducting and selling children.

If it weren't for Pei Gan, the captain of the city guarding the city here, who was friendly with me, I probably wouldn't have known how many times I was stopped, and I finally found a bathhouse where I could take a hot bath, so I quickly put the children in.

When the shopkeeper at the door saw me coming in with a large number of dirty children, he actually stopped me and said to me,

"I'm sorry, this official, we don't let beggars take a bath here."

I glared at him and wanted to give him a big mouth, beggar!? Your whole family is a beggar!

I patiently replied, "These are the children I just bought, just to take a bath here, what's convenient?" ”

This little guy is quite stubborn,

"I'm sorry, official, we have a rule here......"

I took out a fist-sized silver cake from my pocket and brought it directly to his eyes.

"What's convenient?"

The man immediately smiled when he saw the silver cake, and smiled at me with open teeth.

"Hey, hey, hey, convenient! Convenient! Definitely convenient! Even if it's inconvenient, you have to follow the convenience," he said, turning back to the children.

"Come on, boys, come inside!"

I smiled disdainfully, but he was just a profiteer who was greedy for money, and it was okay for this kind of person to give him a silver cake and let him kneel down and call his father.

Seeing that the children had gone in, I went to the tailor's shop again, these days, it is very difficult to buy finished clothes, like the kind of place where I buy crown clothes, a dress is ten taels of silver,

That's not for the maid to wear at all, besides, we can't afford a few hundred taels of silver, but we can't afford to lose.

The shopkeeper of the tailor's shop was a middle-aged woman with strips of cloth wrapped around the tips of her two fingers, and I came to him and said,

"Ten pieces of clothing for ten-year-olds and ten-year-olds for fifteen-year-olds and ten pieces of clothing for each of them, how many days does it take to complete?"

This is a big deal in Zhuo County, the woman put down her work and said to me with a smile on her face,

"If the officials are willing to pay for it, it can be done in four days."

Let me pay a little more, it's nothing more than she hired more people, I took out two big silver cakes from my pocket and put them on his counter,

"That's at least fifty taels, isn't that enough?"

The woman took two silver loaves into her bosom and said to me,

"Enough, enough, please leave an address for the official, and I'll send it to you when I get back."

I waved my hand at him,

"No need, I'll pick it up myself in four days."

With that, I walked out. Tossing back and forth for more than an hour in the early morning, I also felt a little thirsty, so I arrived at the teahouse agreed with the weasel in advance.

This teahouse is many times stronger than the Sanhuan teahouse in Luoyang, at least it is a place where people drink tea.

There was a man in Tsing Yi who was telling a story in front of a wooden table, and when it came to the wonderful part, the audience couldn't help but applaud.

"Phew! I saw a big man with a leopard head and ringed eyes leaping over, holding a golden spear and shouting! I am Yan Zhang Yide, and the rats will die soon!

The eight golden retrievers flew in the air, and the heads of ten people were cut off with one turn, and suddenly the bloody General Zhang was covered with clear......"

I took a sip of tea and squirted out, this is too mysterious, and I turned around and cut off ten heads, how awesome it is, if Zhang Fei went to the massacre in Cangshi that year, it is estimated that it would not take so long.

I really don't dare to compliment this exaggerated way of storytelling, but I can't say anything, after all, people don't have to listen to you, right, I looked at the muddy tea bowl in my hand, and couldn't help but shake my head secretly.

When will this green onion, ginger and garlic tea be improved?

Listening to myths and stories, tasting dregs of chaff tea in his mouth, before he knew it, the weasel returned. He tied his mount, the Black Tiger, to the bars of the teahouse and walked in.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw me, pretending to kneel opposite me like a cultural person, picked up my tea bowl, and took a big sip.

"Oh, I'm tired, things are as you expected, my parents don't agree."

I smiled slightly, and I knew that those old guys would not come, and people who were used to living in the countryside would be very unaccustomed to letting him suddenly come to the city.

"If your parents don't come, what about your two girls with big faces and big butts? Didn't bring them here? ”

After listening to my words, the yellow squirrel popped, squirted all the tea in his mouth, and quickly got up and walked out, talking as he went.

"If you don't mention it, I'll forget it, they're still behind!"

I laughed and walked out after him, only to see a carriage slowly and leisurely driving from the corner of the street, this carriage was different from the others.

This is the village cart that pulls crops and feed, there is nothing in the middle, and the two girls sit on one side of the carriage and come straight to us.

I was delighted when I saw it,

"Brother! Isn't this your family's wagon that pulls feed? ”

The yellow squirrel also said very confidently,

"yes, what else would you do, that horse won't be able to seat three people."

I covered my mouth and bent my waist with a smile, when did these two delicate girls ever suffer such anger? Thinking that a few months ago, she was a famous courtesan in Luoyang City, and now she even sat in a donkey cart.

It's not slow, the car slowly stopped in front of me and the weasel, and this guy was very considerate and stepped forward in person, and hugged the two of them one by one.

I couldn't help but spoof forward,

"Brother, in your posture just now, you were seen by Miss Su, what should I do?"

"Ji Wulin, if you dare to tell the truth, we will break off our relationship!"

I smiled lewdly and didn't continue to pay attention to him, and now it was almost time for the children to finish their bath, so I walked straight ahead and led the two of them to the bathhouse.

Sure enough, a group of children were sitting on the floor at the entrance of the bathhouse, and I walked up and clapped my hands.

"Get up, children, don't sit on the ground, it's cold."

I turned back to the weasel and said,

"Now I'll give you a task, take the children to hire a few more carriages, as long as you can go, I still have to go to Suifate, then there are a few things to do."

The yellow mouse muttered, "Why did you leave this matter with the child to me?" ”

I turned around and ignored him, and walked directly to Suiyuanfang,

Lao Liu is still very reliable, and in a short period of time, he found me three cooks and a housekeeper, and he is a big housekeeper!

He is about forty years old, dignified, and looks like he was from a big family.

I asked Lao Liu, "Where did this person come from?" ”

Lao Liu smiled, "Hehe, Young Master Ji doesn't know, this person has been with us for a long time, and he is the housekeeper of the Cai family at Dongjiekou in the past." ”

"Cai Mingsheng's Cai family?"

"Yes, it's Cai Mingsheng, his son killed someone by mistake because of the competition for the Oiran half a year ago.

The county order wanted to cover it up, but the one who died was actually a relative of his daughter-in-law's family, so he had no choice, so he directly convicted the Cai family, not to mention the huge compensation, and his son was also confiscated.

And this housekeeper was sold to our workshop by Cai Mingsheng. As you know, we don't have idlers here, so we have to let him be a bookkeeper behind the scenes. ”

I was a little surprised, I didn't expect that I hadn't come back for a few years, and even the Cai family had fallen, thinking that the Cai family was the largest family in Zhuo County back then, hey, the world may be so impermanent.