"Uncle housekeeper, I feel kind to these two sisters at first glance, they are so pitiful, can you let them go back to my yard with me?" Murong Lan pleaded with a serious face.

When the housekeeper heard this, he carefully looked at the two girls behind her, but he couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth at a glance.

The same rustic village girl is dressed up, about the same age, but it really meets the standards of this eldest lady who entered the house yesterday!

Of course, as the eldest lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, it is not a matter of buying two people to come back, and besides, the master has already agreed, what can he say as a housekeeper?

Therefore, he smiled and said: "That's natural, Miss should indeed have someone waiting by her side, if you like it, it would be great." Just ......"

The housekeeper stopped talking and stopped, and Murong Lan hurriedly asked, "Just what?" ”

From the moment he entered the mansion, this housekeeper uncle showed kindness to himself, and Murong Lan naturally didn't want to embarrass him.

What's more, she had already thought of the rhetoric she should have, as long as he truthfully reported it to her cheap father.

"I just don't know how much silver taels the young lady spent to buy back these two maidservants?" The butler said with a smile.

This eldest lady came to the capital for the first time, and I am afraid that she is not familiar with the prices in the capital, not to mention that there was no one around her to serve her in the past, so he is really curious about how much silver taels she spent on buying these two girls back.

I thought that Murong Lan would give him a number directly, but after hearing this, Murong Lan said: "Uncle housekeeper, don't worry, listen to me slowly calculate it for you, you can see if it's right." ”

Murong Lan actually snapped his fingers as he spoke: "The prices in the capital are relatively high, and things are much more expensive than those in the countryside, so naturally this girl is even more expensive." ”

The housekeeper nodded after hearing this, "What the eldest lady said is very reasonable. ”

Then he listened to Murong Lan calculate little by little: "A bun here costs five yuan, under normal circumstances, if you don't work, two buns can barely feed and wear, and two buns will cost ten yuan."

And we normally have to eat three meals a day, and the night is long, and we may have to eat some supper, so that it is four, and four meals are forty wen, but they still have to work, and they have to eat more, so they have to eat ten buns, which is fifty wen......"

Speaking of this, Murong Lan stopped to observe the butler's face, and saw that he did not show any dissatisfaction, so he continued: "One person has fifty wen a day, two people have one hundred wen, ten days is one thousand wen, that is, one tael of silver, a month is three taels of silver, and a year is thirty-six taels of silver......

She looked serious, and the housekeeper couldn't help it, and wanted to interrupt her: "Miss, you are buying slaves, not raising ......"

Murong Lan didn't wait for him to finish, then glared at him very anxiously: "Uncle housekeeper, can you not interrupt me, I will be confused!" ”

Butler: "......"

A breath stuck in his throat, but he didn't say anything more.

Murong Lan continued to calculate with satisfaction: "If both of them can live a long life, then it will cost three thousand six hundred taels of silver in one hundred years, and these two are both big living people, so they are worth more than buns, so they should be given more."

But you know, where did I get so much silver, and I only had two thousand taels from my father, so I had to talk to the old woman in the flower clothes for a long time, and in the end it only cost two thousand taels.

Uncle butler, you say, am I very good? ”

Speaking of this, Murong Lan seemed to be very proud, as if she had earned two thousand taels instead of spending two thousand taels, and was anxious to be praised by the housekeeper.

However......

The housekeeper stared at her blankly, and his jaw was about to fall.

"Miss, you didn't calculate the account like this." The housekeeper was helpless and funny in his heart, and finally had to say truthfully: "Generally, if you buy a very good girl and come back, it will only cost ten taels of silver." You've been deceived. ”

When Murong Lan heard this, his reaction was a little more than he had just now, and he suddenly burst into tears after a while.

"That trafficker who killed a thousand knives, she lied to me! My money! Daddy's first silver for me, woo...... I thought I had done a great thing! I didn't think that this capital is all black-hearted, and it is ...... to cheat me out of money."

She cried and howled at the same time, and the sound only shook the butler's eardrum pain, and even the old heart trembled a few times.

"My good young lady, don't cry, you're not being laughed at in vain." The housekeeper hurriedly comforted, and then glared at the two girls next to him: "Why don't you help the eldest lady go back?!" ”

What's going on?

How did it suddenly become like this?

I might as well not have asked!

The eldest lady howls like this, if she provokes the excitement and makes a joke, she doesn't wait for the master to come back, but I'm afraid that the women in the house will start to be dissatisfied.

Murong Lan also listened to his persuasion, and really turned off when he heard the words, but there were still tears on his face: "But...... But that's two thousand taels! That's enough for me to buy as many meat buns......"

said that she had to continue crying, but fortunately, the two girls she bought back still had the ability to see, and only dragged people to hidden places.

Seeing this, the housekeeper hurriedly pointed out the direction: "The Yafu Courtyard is over there, and over there is the residence of your young lady." ”

After speaking, seeing that Murong Lan still looked heartbroken, he hurriedly continued: "Miss, don't be too sad, you are a newcomer, you will inevitably have no experience in doing things, it will be good to know more in the future." ”

When Murong Lan heard this, he finally couldn't hold back the tears, and "swish" fell again: "But I have no money on me, and I will be bullied!" ”

She pursed her lips as she spoke, looking like she was used to living a poor life and falling into shadows.

The housekeeper helplessly held his forehead: "It's okay, you are the eldest lady of the house now, and you won't be short of your expenses." The lord has already explained in the morning, and he will give you one hundred and twenty-two cases of money every month in the future, and it will be yours when the time comes, and you can buy whatever you want. ”

"Really?" Murong Lan instantly changed into a smiling face, and she didn't turn the book as fast as her, but she probably realized that her happiness was a little out of place, so she followed with that sad and heartbroken look.

"But...... But the two thousand taels of silver...... Who can help me get it back? ”

After saying this, she seemed to suddenly think of something, and suddenly pulled the arms of the two girls: "Say! Are you colluding to cheat me out of my money? ”

Before the words fell, one of them said even more aggrievedly than her: "What did the young lady say? Didn't you calculate it yourself, saying that our sisters were worth four thousand taels? If you don't say it yourself, you can't ...... anything."

The girl stopped talking, then looked at the girl next to her, and the girl nodded vigorously.

"It's true, miss, that you said it yourself."

Butler: "......"

Miss, you have to give people so many silver taels, you don't want to be stupid, right?!

He said, why are the two girls so outrageously expensive?

Originally, I wanted to wait for someone to investigate afterwards, but I didn't think that it was the eldest lady who made a fool of herself.