Chapter 36: Slaves

Liu Xiaohua grew up with Lin Yao since childhood, although she has no skills, and she is a little stupid, but her heart is kind, and she is very friendly and patient with others, and it is best to be her own buddy to help her sell goods.

"Okay! Yes! Absolutely!" When Liu Xiaohua heard that it was ten yuan a day, she hurriedly hugged Lin Yao in surprise, "Yaoyao, you are so good, don't worry, I will definitely work hard for you as a cow and a horse, hehe." ”

Lin Yao hurriedly pushed her away and made a look of disgust, "You little body, I don't need you to be a cow or a horse, you better take care of your foot injury first." ”

When leaving, Lin Yao took a part of the cow tendon grass and smashed it for Liu Xiaohua to put on it, and then left with confidence.

When I got home, it was already noon, and the dried fruits in the yard were almost finished, so Lin Yao invited the women who had finished their work to lunch, and then paid them half a day's wages.

After the village women left, Yao's mother came to Lin Yao's side and said again, "Yaoyao, your aunt Sun just told me that your uncle's private school is going to recruit students in the fall, should we send Xiaobao over?" ”

Originally, the children in the family were able to study, so they were naturally happy, but the mother of this child, Su, bullied his Xiaobao a few days ago, and her Yaoyao beat back not to be outdone, and the grievances between the two of them were settled, and she really didn't worry about letting her youngest son go there to study, for fear of being bullied.

As soon as Lin Yao heard Yao's mother's words, she knew that she was worried that Xiaodouding would be neglected and bullied when she went to study with Su's son, so she comforted and said, "Mother, don't worry, I'm going to send Xiaobao to study in a private school in the town, and don't go to Uncle Shengzi, I can't trust the character of the Su family, don't let our Xiaobao be bullied when the time comes." ”

Hearing this, Yao's mother also nodded in agreement, her eldest girl is rich, and she also reads the ground when she goes to the town, but this is inconvenient in the town, and it is not easy for her to see Xiaobao sometimes.

Thinking about it, she pursed her lips and said, "It's good to go to the town to study, but our house is not close to the town, and if something happens to Xiaobao in the private school, we won't be able to take care of it." ”

Lin Yao replied with a nonchalant face, "Mother, what's inconvenient about this, our family has a carriage, if you want Xiaobao, I will take you to the town to see him, and it just so happened that I set up a shop in the town a few days ago, and sometimes I can pick up Xiaobao to have a meal and live at noon." ”

"What? Shop? Yao's mother was dumbfounded, when did her eldest girl buy a shop again? A surprise awaits her every day.

"Yes, mother, otherwise it would be very troublesome for us to sell all day long, this shop was brought down by me with fifty taels, and now it seems to be very convenient."

Yao's mother also reacted, after Lin Yao's ability in the past few days, she is not surprised now, and said happily, "It's really good, our family also has a shop in the town, how decent this is in the village, Yaoyao is really capable." ”

Looking at Yao's mother's small appearance of being a wealth fan who shared honor and disgrace, Lin Yao suddenly couldn't cry or laugh.

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The next day, after Lin Yao woke up and washed up, she changed into her bright yellow skirt and drove the carriage to transport the wooden barrels containing dried fruit powder to the shop in the town.

When she arrived at the door of the shop, she opened the door with the key and found that the shop was already empty, and even the dust had been cleaned, and it seemed that everything had been cleaned.

The dried fruit powder was not heavy, so Lin Yao moved a few buckets of dried fruit powder by herself, placed them in the backyard house, and locked them.

Lin Yao carefully inspected the shop again, and after finding that there was no problem, she went to the iron shop again to bring back the iron basins she had ordered a few days ago.

When she came back, she looked up and saw that the plaque on it was too broken to be used anymore, so she went to a shop that made plaques.

"Little girl, come and make a plaque?" An uncle in a sweatshirt wiped his sweat and came out, looking at the wooden board he was working on just now, Lin Yao guessed that he should be the craftsman who made the plaque.

smiled and said, "Yes, uncle, what type of plaque do you have?" ”

Uncle Wen Yan smiled, pointed to a few miniature plaques on the wall on the side, and said, "The styles are all here, little girl, you can choose for yourself." ”

Lin Yao bent her lips and nodded, walked in and looked at the small plaques with exquisite workmanship, and couldn't help but sigh that the craftsmanship of people in ancient times was really not simple, and after admiring it for a while, Lin Yao finally chose a plaque with gold characters on a black background, and the font on it looked a little like willow font.

After setting the style and missing the name of the store, Lin Yao lowered her head and thought for a while, suddenly squinted and smiled, and said to the uncle, "Uncle, just carve me three words of drunken red face." ”

"Eh, okay, little girl, the deposit is 100 wen, you can give me another 100 wen when you're done." The uncle turned his head and smiled while carving the plaque.

Lin Yao paid the money without objection and left.

On the way, she thought about it carefully, now that the prototype of her shop has been established, Brother Jiang is the shopkeeper, and Xiaohua is responsible for promoting and introducing products, and the materials and plaques for fruit tea have also been prepared, and a few miscellaneous people are needed next, and apprentices who make rose water and fruit tea are needed.

Forget about anything else, this person who makes fruit tea and rose water must be credible, otherwise one day she will run away with her results, and she won't know who to cry with at that time.

Thinking of Lin Yao, he drove the carriage to the slave market, most of the ancient slaves signed a lifelong deed of sale, and the price was very cheap.

In ancient times, everyone needed an identity certificate to live, which was stricter than the modern ID card, and these slaves who signed the deed of sale could not escape from the palm of their master in this life unless the master helped them destroy the deed of sale and restore their free body, so to speak, even if he was asked to be a cow and a horse for a lifetime, or even to die, they could only obediently endure and could not resist.

It is said that the market is actually a few stalls with squatting slaves, Lin Yao looked at them one by one, and found that these slaves were all thin people who were dressed in tatters and had yellow and black faces.

In ancient times, there was a large population and little land, so there were many such slaves, and they were poorly fed, and it was a blessing to be able to survive in good health.

Seeing this scene, Lin Yao couldn't help frowning slightly, accustomed to the equality of everyone in the twenty-first century, and seeing these slaves curled up together like animals, he still felt a little uncomfortable.

But she also knew that she could not do anything with the system on her own, and that most of these slaves were willing to sell themselves for money.

Seeing Lin Yao, the slaves who were still curled up were all kneeling and pounced on her as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and some of them couldn't even speak, babbling and dancing to make her buy them.

has been a slave for a long time, and she has also practiced some in looking at people, Lin Yao looks like a person with an extraordinary temperament and a peaceful temperament, plus she is a little girl, and she can be gentle to people when she falls to the ground.

"Smack!" A middle-aged man next to Tudi slammed his whip at a thin man, and shouted fiercely while twitching, "Cheap hoof, be honest with Lao Tzu, if you scare away the distinguished guests, see if Lao Tzu doesn't kill you." ”

As he spoke, another whip struck.

The middle-aged man was well-dressed, and he fought fiercely and calmly, Lin Yao guessed that he should be the tooth dealer of this stall.

And the man who was beaten curled up on the ground without saying a word holding his head, letting the tooth dealer beat and scold, his hair was scattered, blocking all his face, Lin Yao couldn't see his expression clearly, but I don't know why Lin Yao always had a feeling that he was holding back and not giving in.

This feeling made her feel suffocated, and she couldn't help but step forward to stop, "Stop!"

Hearing Lin Yao's voice, the tooth dealer hurriedly stopped, rolled his eyes, and hurriedly asked flatteringly, "The little girl has a crush on this slave?" It's not expensive, it's only 500 Wen.

Five hundred texts? One of her horses cost forty-five taels of silver, but a man was worth only a fraction of a horse.

What has become of human life here?

Although Lin Yao knew that most of the slaves here were living in such a humble way, and it was impossible for her to redeem them, since she happened to meet him, and this slave was more suitable for her eyes, she couldn't sit idly by.

Lin Yao glanced at the tooth dealer with a cold face, did not answer him, neatly took out five hundred yuan from his arms and handed it to him, and said in a cold voice, "I bought this person." ”

As soon as the tooth dealer saw the silver, he didn't care about Lin Yao's attitude, he hurriedly took the money happily, took out a slip from his arms with a smile and handed it to Lin Yao, "Come, little girl, this is this guy's deed of sale, he is yours when you press a handprint here, and he will be a slave for life, at your disposal." ”

Lin Yao pressed her handprint, accepted the deed of sale, and ignored the tooth dealer, but turned around and squatted down, facing the man whose body was trembling a little, and said softly, "Are you okay?" ”

When the man heard Lin Yao's words, his body trembled for a moment, and then he gasped hoarsely and said, "I can't die, thank you, master." ”

No, Lin Yao had no choice but to reach out and plan to help him up first, preparing to ask a doctor to show him later.

Feeling Lin Yao's touch, the man's body stiffened obviously, he couldn't believe that Lin Yao, a cleanly dressed little girl, would touch him as a dirty slave, he understood that it was the little girl in front of him who looked about the same size as him who bought him, and it seemed that she was very good.

Lin Yao didn't know what he thought, he only felt that he should be a little scared, so his voice was softer, "Don't be afraid, I have already bought you, and no one will bully you in the future, you get up first, and I will help you find a doctor to help you take a look later." ”

Listening to Lin Yao's kind words, the man's eyes buried under his long hair looked at her in disbelief, he didn't know what she liked about him, obviously he was not the strongest and last pleasing slave here, even the tooth dealer looked down on him the most, he thought that he was going to spend this life like this, but he didn't expect to be bought by her, and it seemed that she was going to treat herself, thinking about him, he couldn't help but have a warm current in his heart, and his eyes couldn't help but moisten.

And the heavy hair concealed the changes in his face, so Lin Yao didn't notice the changes in him.

After a long time, the man gasped slightly, stretched out his thin and dirty palm, paused, and then firmly grabbed Lin Yao's thin arm, slowly straightened his upper body, and then solemnly saluted her, his forehead against the ground, and his hoarse voice was sonorous and powerful, "Cheap slave Hunshan, will be loyal to the master for the rest of his life, never abandon him, and never betray." ”

This kneeling made Lin Yao a little dazed, this is a scene that only happens in TV dramas, but she didn't expect it to happen to her one day, she is just a child from a poor family, how can she afford such a big gift from him.

said helplessly in his heart, alas, this child is really poisoned by the ancient rules.

Thinking about it, she hurriedly stretched out her hand, held Hunshan's shoulder and helped him up, "Okay, I don't need you to be a slave to me, you just need to be obedient and help me do things, get up quickly!"

"Yes, the slave will listen to his master!" Hunshan stood up with her strength and replied in a respectful voice.