However, this matter still had to be discussed with Ye Yuan, thinking about her, she looked at Ye Yuan with her watery eyes: "Ye Yuan, there are too many things in our family recently, can you ask a little girl to come back and help wash clothes and cook?" ”

When Ye Yuan heard Liu Man'er's proposal, he was slightly stunned at first, and then nodded: "Yes." ”

"Alright, then let's go find a tooth woman." With Ye Yuan's permission, Liu Man'er smiled and blossomed.

She was an anxious person, so she found a shop she had worked with, asked him to introduce a good Ya Po, and asked where the Ya Po lived.

After getting the mention of the shopkeeper, Liu Man'er and Ye Yuan followed the route said by the shopkeeper, and soon found the house of this Ya Po surnamed Qian.

When this Qian Ya Po learned of Liu Man'er's intentions, she was naturally very enthusiastic, and hurriedly invited Liu Man'er and the two in.

Liu Man'er told the Qian Ya Po her needs, "The main thing is that there is a lot of work in the family, and I want to buy a person to work at home, our family is an ordinary farmer, not a big family, you go and ask if anyone wants to go first, if you don't want to go, you don't have to force them." ”

Nowadays, there are many ways for this maid to come from, most of them are really poor in the family, so they sent their children to this tooth woman, so that they can sell them to big families as maids, and some maids themselves are sold by some big families, and some are good people who have committed crimes, and they are used as slaves.

In short, everyone comes to be a maid, there is no way to do it, everyone wants to find a better home, preferably a large family, so that it is easy to go in and eat fragrant and drink spicy, Liu Man'er thinks that she does not have this ability, she needs people who can work, those girls who want to enter a large family, she is still not reluctant, she can't afford it.

When Ya Po heard Liu Man'er's words, she asked Liu Man'er to wait for a while, and then went to the backyard to call someone, and after a while, she called more than a dozen girls for Liu Man'er to choose.

Most of these girls are thin and weak, between the ages of eight and eighteen, and some of them are quite delicate, Liu Man'er frowned after seeing it: "I am a countryman, I bought a girl to go back to work, some of you are dressed up like this, dressed better than me, are you really able to work?" ”

"I'm afraid you don't know the hard work of the farmer, now give you a chance, if you can't stand the suffering, you should take a step back, otherwise, if I buy you at that time, then I can't help you in the future, and you won't have a chance to regret it."

seemed to be frightened by Liu Man'er's words, five or six girls who were dressed quite well at that time retreated, and the remaining seven or eight were thin and weak, and they should be children from poor families.

"Stretch your hand out." Liu Man'er said to these girls.

These people did so, and Liu Man'er looked at it, and brushed all those who had delicate palms, leaving three people with some calluses in their palms, which seemed to have worked.

"Look up." Liu Man'er said, the three girls timidly raised their heads, Liu Man'er looked at the three girls and asked, "What will the three of you do?" ”

The girls looked at each other, and the girl on the far left began to answer, "The slave can do laundry, cook, chop wood...... and the maid" The man listed a lot of housework in the house, and said, "I used to do all the work in the house." ”

"Oh, are you still willing to do such a job? You've done it, and you should know that it's hard. Liu Man'er admonished.

The girl stopped talking in an instant, in fact she didn't want to come, but her mother was still waiting for her in the backyard, and she had to come over, and she didn't even dare to retreat.

Liu Man'er asked the next person to answer, and the second girl answered the same question, and Liu Man'er asked her the same question, and the girl said timidly: "As long as you can eat enough, it's okay to work." ”

"Look at your thin and weak appearance, do you have the strength to work?" Liu Man'er felt that her question was a little tricky.

"I don't have a lot of strength now, but when I grow up, I will have a lot of strength." The girl hurriedly replied that she cherished this opportunity very much, because others thought she was too thin and not very good-looking, so they didn't want her.

"Am I not going to raise you, then?" Liu Man'er laughed, "If I raise you, how will you repay me in the future?" ”

"This ......" the little girl pursed her lips, not knowing how to answer.

Liu Man'er smiled and asked the same question to the third girl, and this girl's answer was almost the same as the second girl's, but when Liu Man'er asked the third question, she was also the same as the second girl, stupid, and didn't know how to answer.

After snorting twice, she said, "I'm not your maid, you raised me, I can do more work, is this a reward?" ”

In fact, these two maids Liu Man'er liked them very much, and for a while, she didn't know which one to choose, so she looked at Ye Yuan and said, "Ye Yuan, which one do you think we buy?" ”

"You pick any one." Ye Yuan said, "It's up to you anyway." ”

"I don't know who to choose." Liu Man'er looked at Ye Yuan for help, "The two girls are very good." ”

"Hmm." Ye Yuan also nodded, looked at the two little girls, and asked some more questions, "What's your name?" Where is my hometown? Do you have a medical condition? ”

These questions are all questions to think about, especially the last question, Liu Man'er really didn't think of it.

The two girls answered the questions one by one, one of them was from a remote village in Liyang County, and the other was from other places who fled here.

Liu Man'er really doesn't know which one to choose? She looked them in the eye and thought she liked both of them.

"Who's going to buy, who's going to buy it." Liu Man'er was very entangled, so the tooth woman took a step forward and said to Liu Man'er, "Girl, don't worry, why don't you buy all of these?" ”

"I want to too, but we don't have so much money now, and we only need one person in the family for the time being, and we can't live if we buy too much." Liu Man'er said honestly, and asked this Qian Ya Po, "Are the two girls worth the same thing?" ”

"Yes, these two little girls are eight taels of silver each."

Liu Man'er sighed slightly in her heart when she heard Qian Yapo's answer, she felt that the price of buying a person was really not expensive, it was probably about the same as a ploughing cow, and this was still a child, generally speaking, in this ancient world, the more children were worth more, especially girls, the value was higher.

These two little girls have eight taels of silver, which is already a good price, if it was placed a few years ago, such a little girl, five or six taels can buy a person.

Human life is not valuable, Liu Man'er sighed, and did not bargain with this tooth woman, after thinking about it, she already planned to buy a second girl in her heart, she is local, and she is older, and she can speak dialects.

Although Liu Man'er didn't mean to grind her, she still let her test her strength on the spot, although she was young, but this little girl was able to lift a bucket of water.

In fact, this girl was also a little apprehensive when she saw Liu Man'er asking her to do this and that, she was afraid that Liu Man'er's family would not be good, but thinking that since she was sent to Ya Po during this time, no one cared about her, she was inexplicably a little flustered.

She was sold to this tooth woman on her own initiative by her own father, and she did not sell it for several days, and this tooth woman hated her for wasting her own food, but she said that she wanted her to behave well and find a way to sell herself, otherwise, she would be returned to her father and mother when the time came.

She didn't dare to go back, there were many people in the house, if she was returned back, if she was missing, her father and mother would definitely kill her, and the lady in front of her was so good-looking and beautiful, and it didn't look too bad, it should be okay, if she worked, she could do any job.

He stumbled a little when he was carrying water by himself just now, and now the young lady's brows furrowed, and she didn't know what she was thinking, could it be that she was dissatisfied with herself?

Thinking of this, the little girl plucked up her courage and took a step forward, Liu Man'er saw her movements, a little strange, and asked, "What is the matter with you?" ”

"Madam, Xiaoping can do anything, please ask Madame to buy Xiaoping home, Xiaoping doesn't eat much." The girl suddenly kowtowed to Liu Man'er.

Liu Man'er was also taken aback by the girl's sudden influx, she was slightly stunned, and then said: "You know, I just said that my family's conditions are not good, and if you go, you may have to do a lot of work, just like that, you are still so willing to go to my house?" ”

"Yes." The little girl answered, and she was busy kowtowing again.

Liu Man'er glanced at Ye Yuan, and then said to the little girl, "Okay then, then we'll buy you." ”

"Thank you, ma'am." The little girl raised her head at this time, and she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, but at the same time, thinking of her life after that, she couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive.

"Granny Qian, then we want this little girl." Liu Man'er raised her head and said to this tooth woman, "You see what other procedures you need to do, help with it, and come to you next time if we need it." ”

Seeing that Liu Man'er bought this little girl who couldn't be sold, the mother-in-law showed a relieved smile on her face, and she said: "This is natural, we have cooperation with the government, and this girl's deed of sale is also signed, and I can help you transfer the account today." ”

"Thank you." Liu Man'er got up and thanked him.

After Ye Yuan paid the money, the money Yapo handed over the deed of sale of this Xiaoping to Ye Yuan, and then asked the two of them to wait here for a while, and after a while, a special servant rushed to the county office to help them handle the transfer of documents, and after handing it over to the two, the transaction was completed.

Liu Man'er looked at Xiaoping's girl carefully, she was not yet ten years old, dry and thin, after seeing Liu Man'er's gaze, she couldn't help but lower her eyes, looking gentle and deferential.

"Your name is Xiaoping, right, don't be afraid, you will be my little girl in the future, my name is Liu Man'er, this is my father-in-law Ye Yuan, when the time comes, you go back with us, if others ask, you can say that it is our distant relative."

Liu Man'er said to this Xiaoping, "Let me change your name, how about calling it floating green?" ”

"Mrs. Xie's name." This Xiaoping hurriedly agreed, but in the future, she will be called floating green.

Liu Man'er smiled, touched the little girl's head, and took the little girl to go home, today's peanut business is good, Liu Man'er was also generous, bought some food in the county, and hired an ox cart to go home.