This?

Wang Xue was baffled by Xi'er's sudden kneeling, but she still hurriedly reached out to help her up.

"Xi'er, if you have something, you can just say it, although we have a master-servant relationship, I don't really regard you and Qing'er as subordinates, so if you really have something, don't be polite to me."

Wang Xue said very seriously, so Xi'er was also a little relaxed.

But she still hung her head, looking like she couldn't speak.

Wang Xue didn't urge her, just waited quietly for her to speak.

After a while, Xi'er whispered: "County Lord, the slave maid heard that you plan to hand over the gambling house to Miss Shen to take care of, so... So the slave thought if she could get a job for the slave's father. ”

Speaking of this, Xi'er hurriedly knelt down again, and said earnestly: "County master, the slave doesn't want you to give him a good guy, just... It's just a normal chore. ”

"If it's an ordinary chore, I believe many places will need people."

Xi'er reddened her eyes and said: "It's not that the slave's uncompetitive father used to work for others and his hands and feet were not clean, so no one dared to use him after a few times, and now he drinks at home all day long, and he either beats or scolds the slave's mother." ”

"Just a few days ago, the slave's mother looked for the slave and maid, and she talked about it, hoping to beg the county lord to find a job for the slave's father to support the family, but before the slave... I didn't dare to trouble you before, but now that I have this opportunity, the slave and maid wonder if she can... But... But don't worry, county lord, this time the slave and maid will definitely talk to the slave and maid's father, and I believe that he knows that it is related to you, so he will not dare to do those shady things again. ”

After speaking, Xi'er kowtowed to Wang Xue.

Seriously, if it weren't for the fact that this person was Xi'er, she would never have agreed.

A repeat offender, you expect him to be corrected, you can't say that there is no hope, but it's not big either.

But since Xi'er begged her for the first time, she wouldn't refuse.

So she helped Xi'er up, and said in a gentle voice: "Xi'er, I promise you, I will let Yazhi leave a place for your father." ”

"Really? Thank you, thank you, thank you! Xi'er was overjoyed and knelt down.

But she was stopped by Wang Xue, she changed her words and said seriously: "But Xi'er, I also have a word with you first, your father can go to Yazhi to find a job to support the family, but the premise is that your father can't have unclean hands and feet, if there is... Then there is no room for negotiation, and you can get rid of people immediately, you don't have a problem with that. ”

If she was in business, she could allow her subordinates to make a mistake, but it wasn't just her own business, so she couldn't do it.

Besides, like her father, if he was given a chance, then he thought it was okay to steal something, and there would be another time.

So once you find out, you have to leave.

"Nope! Xi'er didn't, thank you Lord County! Xi'er hurriedly shook her head.

In this way, she also seems to have confessed to her mother.

As for what bad things her uncompetitive father does in the future, then she won't bother to care anymore.

At breakfast the next day, Xiao Tuanzi asked inarticulate while picking up rice: "Mother, there are more than 20 days left in this autumn siege, you really don't plan to go to the hunting ground?" ”

"I think you kid wants to go." Wang Xue gently poked the little guy's head, poked the little guy's body for a while, and said dishonestly: "I want to go, I want to go, but I still want you to take your son to go." ”

Wang Xue shook her head helplessly, does she want to go?

She didn't want to.

Speaking of which, she still has some resistance in her heart.

The thought of riding a horse and shooting arrows made her feel like her ass was starting to hurt.

Don't ask, ask because her butt once had close contact with the ground, and the cause was a fierce horse.

The past is unbearable, and I think of all kinds of sourness in my heart.

Pick up a bowl of bird's nest porridge and drink it all, and the fragrance will go straight to the head.

"Let's go when my mother is done with this little thing in hand, anyway, let's go to join in the fun, and I don't want to take the first and second ones, so there's no need to take it too seriously."

"Oh, okay then." Xiao Tuanzi nodded and continued to bow his head and cook.

In the evening, Wu Sheng came back with news.

"Let's talk about it in detail." Wang Xue handed a cup of tea to Wu Sheng and said.

Wu Sheng was not pretentious, took two sips and put the teacup on the table, and then said: "Back to the county lord, our brothers have walked around the slums from yesterday to today, and we have basically determined that the number of people there is about one thousand to two thousand. ”

"So much?"

Wang Xue thought that there would be many poor people, but she didn't expect that there would be so many.

If it weren't for the capital, she wouldn't have been so surprised.

But this is the capital, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, but there are still so many poor people who can't eat, wear, and can't afford to live in a house.

I really don't know what the emperor is busy with every day.

I didn't understand this little thing at my feet, and I just dealt with the big things outside.

"Go on."

Wu Sheng continued: "There are a lot of people, and most of them are old and weak women and children, some young people with the strength can go to the street to beg for food, but they will not starve to death, only those old people who can't walk, it is difficult for women and children to live." ”

"Among these people, there are a small number of people who are basically hopeless, and I am afraid that they will die in a short time, so I don't count these people, so I want to have at least five hundred to one thousand taels of silver for food and clothing."

"Ahem, how much?" Wang Xue almost choked herself without a sip of tea.

Wu Sheng was stunned, and then hurriedly said: "Actually, you can still press it, I think three or four hundred taels of silver should be... Yes, too. ”

"Wait, that's not what I meant." Wang Xue hurriedly waved her hand.

What she thought in her heart was that she was mentally prepared to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver.

But she never expected this 1,000 taels of silver.

So are prices in Liang so low now?

Wu Sheng looked at Wang Xue, didn't understand what she meant, and was speechless for a while.

Wang Xue thought for a while and asked, "Let me ask you, how much is an adult's clothes?" ”

"If it is the most ordinary coarse linen clothes, an adult's clothes range from 100 to 300 yuan."

"What about the little ones?"

"There are even fewer for children, ranging from 50 to 100 yuan."

"Where's the shoes?"

"I can't use shoes, ordinary cloth shoes are only thirty or twenty yuan, and some of the better ones are only seventy or eighty yuan."

Wang Xue calculated in his heart, one tael of silver here is equal to a thousand Wen.

In other words, one or two pieces of silver can buy a lot of clothes and shoes.

No wonder...

"What about the food? How do you calculate? ”

"Rice is expensive, so my villain counts noodles, a white-flour steamed bun is two cents, if a person has at least two, it is four cents, and if it is calculated according to two thousand people, it is less than ten taels of silver, which is still rich..."