Chapter 67: Buying People
Aunt Green already knew what kind of people they wanted to buy, so she told the steward about their requirements and added some of her thoughts to it. But she couldn't control the final decision, all she could do was give some advice, that's what Madame told her at the time.
They didn't have to wait long before the steward came out with a group of people. The men weren't very well dressed, and some of them looked very thin. There are also a few of them who look like families, and there are two such families.
But not everyone is like that. Two of them don't look thin at all, but rather a little rounded. But that way it looked like it didn't fit into their house, and it always seemed a little weird. But you let her say that she really can't say it, it can only be said that it is a woman's sixth sense.
The people brought out by the stewards were men and women, old and young, and there seemed to be people of every age. Of course, the old ones are not too old, and the small ones are not too small.
She looked at the men first, and she first threw away the two people she thought were a little weird when she saw them at first. In addition to those two, there were five men she felt were the right age.
She also thought about it, the little girl for Bokang can't be too young or too old. It is best to be between fourteen and twenty-five or six, otherwise under thirty. If she is too old, she thinks it can't work, and there is no special reason, just that she simply thinks that the age difference is not too big and it is easy to get along with.
She didn't think it was more than eye-to-eye, and then she looked at Li Bokang next to her. At this time, Li Bokang was also carefully observing these people standing in front of him.
Looking at him, she didn't bother him, and turned her gaze to Aunt Green next to her. Aunt Green was also looking at the person in front of her, but she also saw her gaze and turned her head to look at her.
Seeing this, she took two steps to Aunt Green, and then asked in a low voice, "What does Aunt think, has she seen the right person?" ”
Aunt Green thought for a moment and pointed to the people in front of her, who clearly looked like family, and she followed her hand. There are four of them, two middle-aged couples and two children, a boy and a girl.
The boy looked like he was eleven or twelve years old, and the girl was even younger, and she thought she was only six or seven years old. The two looked like husband and wife were a little better, but they looked yellow and thin, and she felt that they were too thin.
But maybe they were only going to buy two people, and the house was too narrow to accommodate so many people, and she didn't think they needed so many people. So she didn't say anything and looked again.
In fact, Aunt Green probably knew that these four people were asking for more than them, but she felt that this was just right. It's just that she didn't buy anyone, so she didn't speak again.
When she saw that Li Bokang seemed to have finished reading, she asked him, "How is it?" Li Bokang didn't answer her, he asked the person in front of him, "Can you do farm work?" ”
The people in front of them, you look at me, I look at yours, and in the end, fifteen of the twenty or so people nodded. The two people she looked weird at were also nodding, and she felt even more weird.
They didn't look like people who could do farm work at all, but she didn't speak, she wanted to see what Li Bokang was going to do. However, the family that Aunt Green referred to before was also in the nodding crowd. And it also includes the little girl who seemed to her to be only seven or eight years old.
Then Li Bokang asked a few more questions, and in the end there were only five people left, including the woman and boy in the family that Aunt Green pointed out. There were also two men and a good-looking woman, one of whom she found weird.
Looking at the remaining few people, Li Bokang turned his head to look at her. In the end, the woman in the family was chosen, and a man was far away from the other three.
She looked at it, and it wasn't the one she thought was weird, so she didn't have any other opinions. However, both of them looked at Aunt Green, and Li Bokang also knew that Aunt Green was the person Mrs. Chen lent them to help them with their palms.
Aunt Green looked at the person they had chosen and nodded. She thought the two people they had chosen were not bad, but she looked at the woman and thought it would not be easy for them to buy like this. However, she was only responsible for helping to choose people and not for buying, so she still didn't say anything, and she was sure that they would take care of it.
Sure enough, when they had spoken to the steward, the steward said to them, "The woman you have chosen is a family of four, and they are to sell it as a family of four, not just one." He rubbed his hands together as he spoke, feeling a little embarrassed.
Also, looking at what they told him before, and what they just chosen, they knew that they only wanted to buy two people, but he got them a family out. And it's the kind that the family wants to sell together, and it's normal for him to feel a little embarrassed.
However, he looked at Aunt Green vaguely, and apologized to them and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, or you can discuss it again, or I'll pick out some for you and choose again." "They are all well-informed about the news, and it is not difficult to know that he is a person.
And even if you don't look at the face of the monk and see the face of the Buddha, you have to give Chen Jun face to them, so the attitude of the steward will be so good.
After hearing what the steward said, she looked at Aunt Green next to her, and finally she asked, "Then how much does their family cost?" ”
Li Bokang and the person in charge all looked at her when they heard her say this, especially the person in charge. He knew that there was a play, so he said, "What this girl asked is that the two of them are also considered to be more expensive in terms of strong labor, twelve taels of silver each." That boy is also older, and he can work for ten taels. As for the girl, it's only five taels of silver. ”
Then he said, "Girl, don't look at them thin, they are still very good at work when they are full." And that girl, I can't do anything now, but it's still okay to serve tea and water, and I can do more things after two years of training. ”
After hearing this, she quickly calculated in her heart, according to what he said, it would cost thirty-nine taels of silver to buy this family, nearly forty taels, which is a large amount. Although they received almost a few hundred taels of silver during the Chinese New Year, as well as some previous jewelry items, it was much more than they expected.
At the beginning, they calculated that if they bought two, it would cost them a maximum of twenty-four or five taels of silver, but now they would have to spend nearly twice as much.
In the end, the two discussed it again and decided to buy this family, and there were many reasons for this. But whatever the reason, their people bought it anyway.
In the end, the transaction was made for thirty-five taels, mainly because of Chen Jun's relationship with them, but she was still very happy to save money. Because they were bought in official Java, they can directly change their household registration for the better.
This time she didn't have anything to say from the Virgin, and she knew that sooner or later she would have to get used to these things. Living in this era, she has to follow the rules of this era.