Mother Lu came over with tea. Somewhat puzzled, she asked her husband, "What's wrong?" The man was just talking nonsense, so that people could hear and hear, and it didn't matter. ”

Lu Yougui shook his head and said: "Although we have left the Hou Mansion and the East Mansion, and we are the people, after all, we are the sons of the Li family, and we don't want to put this name in our lives." Now the old ladies and gentlemen of Dongfu look up to me and are willing to ask me to make a few dollars, we have a good life, and we should be grateful for the grace of the masters of Dongfu. If you ask Na Mi Sanchuan to go out like this, the people of the Hou Mansion or the East Mansion will hear it, I have no face or a trivial matter, I am afraid that the two mansions will be investigated, and our family will not be able to eat and walk around! ”

Chunying was a little unimpressed: "What's this?" When we left the Hou Mansion, what was the scene, people all over the back streets saw it, who would think that we were leaving with a lot of money? After going to Dongfu, my father was the head of the village for a few months, and now he has done a few errands for Dongfu, and it is not surprising that he has a little silver in his hand, and the origin of this money is above board, and he is not afraid of being checked. Besides, my father didn't really spend money to buy a shop. No one else knows how much money you have. I'm just worried that person is shouting everywhere like this, if it really spreads, it will be difficult for my father to get the business of an intermediary in the future, after all, with this reputation, even if you are honest, people will think that you have deducted a lot, and repeatedly lowered the price, then won't you suffer? ”

Lu Yougui thought about it, and sure enough, he gritted his teeth and said: "That person is a well-known shabby, but because my sister became an aunt to the young master of the master's family, she gained face and became the shopkeeper of the silk shop under the master's name." He doesn't understand the market, but he likes to put on an omniscient appearance, and when others tell him that he is wrong, he also scolds others, so his peers in Beijing disdain to make friends with him. His shop is on the same street as the silk village of the Hou Mansion, and he used to quarrel with me. I thought I was watching a monkey show, and I didn't look at him at all, but I didn't expect to be bitten by him now. You have a point, although he is notoriously broken-mouthed, it is difficult to keep uninformed people believing it to be true, and it is not easy to treat me as a greedy person. After thinking about it, he sighed again: "I knew this was the case, as soon as I saw him, I should have avoided it." What else do you say hello to him?! ”

Chunying comforted: "Dad doesn't have to take it too seriously, originally I thought he was a little bit of a talent, so I was worried that he would cause trouble to my father, but now it sounds like he is a well-known bastard, so don't bother." Whatever he says, just when he farts. The old lady of Dongfu knows us, and last time, Manager Xu listened to the price quoted by his father, didn't he still say that you are kind? They trust you, and they will never listen to a few gossip and become suspicious. As for the Hou Mansion, our family has long since left, what do the people of the Mansion say! ”

Lu Yougui's heart settled down a little, but he always felt that things would not go so smoothly, but for a while, he couldn't think of anything negligent, so he had to put this matter aside for the time being, and said, "That's it, it's always trouble." We have been released by the grace of the master's family, and after all, we still have the reputation of having children in the family, but we have to worry about alarming the master's family if we have a little thing, so it's okay. We are now a drag for the people, even if we really offend the people of the Li family, we will not have to worry about our lives, but the Hou Mansion and the East Mansion are both powerful and powerful, and those who can please should naturally be pleased. ”

Lu's mother nodded approvingly, and pushed her daughter again: "Go back to the house more and ask for peace, the second old lady loves you, you say more good things, no matter what happens, people will not embarrass your father." Chunying frowned, knowing that some concepts were not so easy to change, so she had to smile and open the topic: "Dad went to inquire today, is there any definite news?" ”

Lu Yougui said: "If there are really shop servants who plan to sell, but there are few convicted officials now, only a few, and they are not the people on the cards, so there are few decent shops in their hands." I invited Xing Zhutou to have a meal of wine, and inquired, only there is a good one in the West Fourth Archway, and the shop is still quite large, but the price is not cheap, after all, there are still few industries for sale now. Xing Zhutou said, if I really have the heart to buy one or two places, I will wait patiently for a while, there will be better ones in the future, Ke Wangfu is naturally the inner library to take back, but the Liang family and other more than a dozen big households, the shops under their names almost occupy a small half of Beijing City. When the time comes, we will sell them together, but I am afraid that the price will be less than half of what it is now. ”

Chunying smiled: "Then let's watch slowly, we are not in a hurry." Scarcity is expensive, and when there are more shops sold by officials, the price will definitely drop, so let's wait to pick up the cheap. Lu Yougui nodded, but Lu's mother asked, "There are slaves who are sold?" What's the price? ”

Chunying glanced at her father and asked, "What is my mother asking for?" Didn't you say you wouldn't buy people? If you really need manpower, it's the same to hire two outside, and my sister's family also hires people. If we buy someone back, we will have to pay people tax, which is too cost-effective, and we have been slaves to others, so we naturally know the suffering, so why bother to put that score? ”

Lu's mother was a little unhappy: "Where did I set up the score?" Your sister's family also bought a little girl, and our family is not poor, but it costs a few dollars, why can't you use it?! With such a big house, only you and I are taking care of it, where can we take care of it? I will clean the three main houses, and your brother's house, and prepare three meals for the family, and the clothes of your father and your brother. Every day is so busy that your feet don't touch the ground, although you help, but you usually have to spend a lot of effort just to prepare the dowry, how much can you help? Am you still young?! ”

Hearing her say this, Chunying couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, thinking that she seemed to be negligent, forgetting that it was indeed a little difficult to take care of such a big house at her mother's age, so she said, "Since that's the case." Just hire two people. Aren't there a few families living at the end of the street, all of whom are from poor families? I heard that the female dependents of several of their families are planning to come out to look for work, and we have hired them, so we can ask my sister which family has more diligent women. ”

Mother Lu pouted: "What are you hiring them for?" I haven't said a few words, who knows if it's okay or not? We have a lot of valuable things in our house. It's better to spend a few taels of silver to buy someone back, sign a death deed, and just take care of her food and clothing in the future, at most two or three hundred dollars a month. We don't beat and scold people, maybe we still do good things. If you buy an older one, you can do needlework, and someone at home will help you do needlework. I have survived most of my life, and it is good to enjoy a few years of happiness in old age. ”

Chunying opened her mouth, but closed it, thinking about it carefully, her mother's request was not too much. She is a person of this era, and the thoughts of this era are naturally still in her head: if you have money and a big house, why not buy a few more slaves to work?

Lu Yougui pondered for a moment, and said helplessly: "If you want to buy it, you can buy it, just don't spend too much silver, you have to buy something that can do work." It's just that if you want to buy it, you can buy it in the market, don't go to the official to sell it. You haven't heard of the people who sell like that, we are from Dongfu, don't let people be angry with them as enemies. The people who bought it, but they have to live together all day, so they can't be careful! ”

When Mother Lu heard this, she was just happy: "Okay, okay, I naturally know this kind of thing!" ”

Chunying sighed, and saw that her mother happily ran to her sister to discuss the purchase, so she took the opportunity to say to her father: "Dad, I want to go to Qingrun Store, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to rush back to the capital that day." I don't know if the yard in Lijiazhuang has been sold? ”

Lu Yougui was stunned: "What are you doing there?" The house had long since been sold. Even if it is not sold, it is not convenient for you to live there with a girl's family. After a pause, remembering that Hu Fei's house was in Qingrun Store, he smiled slightly: "No one is there, what's the use of watching the house?" It's better to stay at home. Once you've passed the door, it's okay to see as many times as you want. ”

Chunying blushed: "I'm ...... I'm just going to check it out there...... I'm not going alone, I'm going to ask the potter's driver to take me, and if I can't come back, I'll stay at the hotel. ”

"That's not going to work either!" Lu Yougui said busily, "The young girl's family has a guest house alone, even if there is a coachman with her, the reputation is not good. Chun'er, you are the one who is married, stay at home well, embroider your dowry, don't embarrass your family. In the future, when people will know, Brother Hu is not good-looking. Unlike us, he must have set these rules more strictly. ”

Chunying pursed her lips: "What's this?" I usually take the car back to Dongfu alone, Chongwenmen Street, I often go to walk alone, my father has never stopped once, this time I just went farther, why can't it? ”

"How is this the same? You're going out of the city this time! If you ride a horse, you can still make it back and forth in time, but it is difficult to get by car, unless you only look at the place when you get there. ”

She still had to ask the people in Hu Fei's house about something, but naturally it was too late, so she had to reluctantly say, "I know." "I turned around and began to think of a way, what excuse could I successfully convince my father to let me out of this trip?

After discussing with his family, Lu Yougui carefully inquired about the convict properties that were being sold one after another, looking at its price fluctuations, store addresses, and surrounding environment. At the same time, the sons of other families who went to inquire about him, saw him a few times, and knew that he was a little wealthy, and his methods were sophisticated, and they all started to make friends. Lu Yougui doesn't care about him, he just makes friends with people in a low-key manner. However, no matter how low-key he is, it is also limited, and it didn't take long for Chunying to hear at the house of the second uncle and aunt that there were rumors in the back street that there were expensive people in the back street who had made a fortune, and bought people, land, and shops, and I don't know where the money came from?

Chunying gritted her teeth secretly, and when she returned home, Lu Yougui was silent again, and after a while, she sneered: "Let them say go!" I sit upright, not afraid of nonsense! Then he began to drink glass after drink.

Chun Ying saw that he had drunk too much, so she hurriedly persuaded him: "Dad, what are you doing?!" If you really don't care, why do you drink so much?! ”

"Who drank for a few gossip?!" Lu Yougui hiccuped. I'm sad for myself! Looking at a shop today, the deposit was down, but someone grabbed it. I was not happy to say a few words to him, but he said, I am just a slave, it would be good to have enough food and wear satin clothes, what kind of business and what kind of shop to open?! But the shopkeeper believed him and refunded my deposit, looking down on me. I'm just angry, where am I not as good as that person?! Could it be that if you sell it to him, the shopkeeper can charge a few taels more?! ”

This is a cliché, Chun Ying had to comfort him: "It's okay, this shop may not be good, won't there be cheaper ones in the future?" Let's wait until then. ”

"It's a half-price shop, but it's a little old, just renovate it. Such a large store, even if there are many shops sold by the government in the future, it may not be cheaper than it, and it is a pity to give up. Lu Yougui sighed, "That's it, this is fate, there are many people I know in the capital, everyone knows my origin, and if I want to quarrel with others, I don't have enough confidence." Who called the head of the family also an official? He silently poured himself the wine, with a bit of loneliness in his eyes, and drank it all.

In a few moments, he was drunk. Chunying worked together with her mother to move him back to his room and bed to rest. Mother Lu said while fanning the wind: "It's weird and smelly." Let him sleep here alone, you accompany me to the human market, your sister told me in the morning that there are a few good ones there, and I don't know if they are still there. ”

Chunying was stunned for a moment, and then responded sullenly: "Okay." "listlessly. Mother Lu glanced at her, and happily dragged her apron and prepared to go out.

The so-called people's market is actually on Chongwenmen Street, very close to their home. Most of the servants sold here are "middle and low-class" slaves in the hands of people, and their appearance and skills are mediocre, while most of the high-grade goods are sent to the mansions of large families in Beijing for people to choose.

As soon as Mother Lu arrived at the market, she looked around with great interest, first to see the delicate and clever little girl, then to the honest and honest daughter-in-law with female red skills, and occasionally glanced at the boy between the ages of eight and twelve. Chunying guessed that she was planning to get a companion for Xiaohu to read, and couldn't help laughing.

People come and go in the market, and most of them come and buy people, most of them are brightly dressed, and the huge contrast is the down-and-out image of the people who are sold. Chunying doesn't know if there are any slaves here, but from the dirty but gorgeous clothes on several of them, it can be inferred that a few of them are from extraordinary backgrounds, but unfortunately, they ended up like this.

However, she is not a virgin, and she also knows that the Hou Mansion and the East Mansion where she was born are enemies with most of those criminal officials, so there is no need to get involved in being a good person, but she has buried a risk for herself. She just followed her mother, avoiding pedestrians, and the mother and daughter walked all the way forward.

After walking for a while, Mother Lu seemed to have taken a fancy to a little girl, about eleven or twelve years old, her face was still clean, but her body was thinner, but her eyes were very smart. The former immediately asked someone for a price.

Chunying turned her head to look around a little impatiently, and suddenly found a somewhat familiar figure, with a grass mark on her head, kneeling on the side of the road, bowing her head and saying nothing. Isn't it strange that he didn't have anyone around him, that is, he came privately?

She walked over and cautiously asked, "Are you...... Isn't it Mohan? ”

(I'm so sleepy today that I don't know if I wrote a joke...... ）！ ~！

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