Chapter 39: How Did Uncle Fall into the Hands of His Mother-in-law?
"Woo, woo!"
When Zhang Zhishu arrived, Han Yu was desperately pulling a slave with a cloak and filth, and he desperately threw a look of help at her while pulling.
"Hey, whose child, what's going on? Get out of the way, get out of the way, don't delay the old lady to do business! "Ya Pozi is from Jindu, she looks like a tiger's back, and her face trembles when she speaks.
"Don't touch him, we bought this slave."
"Yo, it turns out that the little lady wants to buy a slave! This is not good, I'm still crazy when I'm old, the little lady looks here, here are all strong laborers, and one person can top a cow when working in the field! ”
How else can it be said that the trader deceives the dead ghost with one mouth?
Zhang Zhishu looked in the direction pointed by the mother-in-law, seven or eight slaves stood in a row, the older one looked about the same age as the second child of the teahouse shop just now, and the younger one was estimated to be seven or eight years old.
Is this also called strong labor?
may have seen the surprise in Zhang Zhishu's eyes, and the mother-in-law said with a busy and attentive smile: "These bodies are all fine, the lady buys them back for food, don't be able to grow tall and big in two years, and then be a cow and a horse for the lady, and the lady can call as much as she wants!" ”
"Children like this, don't you cry when you don't see it? We'll buy this. ”
No matter how the mother-in-law talks about the lotus, Zhang Zhishu is the one who is designated to be held by Han Yu's arm tightly.
Seeing this, the mother-in-law had no choice but to reluctantly say, "Then it's fifty copper plates, and I'll sell you cheaply." ”
"Bastard! You just said that this slave is old and crazy, and he dares to ask for thirty copper plates like this? Why don't you grab it! ”
Gu Zhong really can't get rid of the problem of yelling and yelling, and he has just been counted by the owner, and he has forgotten it all about it.
He rushed over, pinched his waist and shouted at the mother-in-law menacingly: "You mother-in-law is not honest in doing business, believe it or not, I will find Wu Xingtou to judge!" ”
Each bazaar is managed by the head of the line, and Wu Xingtou of the West Market used to ask Gu Changheng's camel team to bring things, so that Gu Zhong could speak in front of him.
My wife first arrived, and before she came, she heard that everyone here was crazy and hungry, and she said in her heart, it was not worth hurting the harmony for an old madman, and she originally picked it up halfway, not because she spent money to buy it back.
"There is no need to alarm Wu Xingtou for this little thing, just twenty copper plates, no matter how little it is, it will not be sold!"
Seeing this, Gu Zhong wanted to bargain again, but was stopped by Zhang Zhishu, "Twenty is twenty, but you have to wait for a while." ”
As she spoke, she pulled Gu Zhong aside, "Go find your boss to help me borrow twenty copper plates and come back." ”
"Are you really going to buy this madman? It looks like I'm getting old, and it's worth talking about whether I can live if I buy it back! ”
Gu Zhong knew that some women would sell slaves who were too sick to sell at the reserve price, and the buyer and seller finalized that the slaves would be bought back and die at home, and the master's family would also be able to suffer a dumb loss.
Zhang Zhishu didn't explain, just nodded, and her eyes stayed on the slave.
Gu Zhong only felt that the Han family was unreasonable, but he didn't dare to make his own decisions, so he hurriedly ran to Qian Zhuang.
"Don't cry, we'll be able to take him home soon."
Zhang Zhishu took Han Yu, who was holding the slave to the side, and asked softly the guess in her heart: "Is it uncle?" ”
"Woo! Woo! Han Yu burst into tears, and his eyes never left his uncle, who didn't know him at all.
Isn't the uncle of the Han family trapped on the grassland? How did it fall into the hands of your mother-in-law?
Zhang Zhishu had no way of knowing, she vigilantly observed the surroundings, the West Market was mixed, except for people and thugs, the most were sold slaves.
Some were kept in cramped cages like animals, some were packed in sacks, and some were tied hand and foot......
Waiting anxiously, Gu Changheng hurried back, and without saying a word, he handed over the silver and brought the person to Zhang Zhishu.
"He's right, isn't he? Mrs. Zhang put it away, this is a deed of sale. ”
Han Yu had already burst the embankment with tears in his arms.
Zhang Zhishu took the deed and looked at it, and almost rolled up her sleeves to beat her mother-in-law.
"I was fooled, there was no seal from the official household registration office, just a handprint."
"That person definitely didn't buy it through the right way, it is estimated that he picked it up from somewhere halfway, there are many cases now, and most of them are fleeing abroad."
Gu Changheng said and handed Zhang Zhishu a boxy little baggage.
"The gold leaf was exchanged for three hundred and fifty taels of silver, and here are two silver bills of one hundred taels, and the other one hundred and fifty taels were exchanged for broken silver and copper plates, except for the twenty copper plates just now, the rest are all here."
"Hmm."
Zhang Zhishu bowed her head, and took out a few pieces of broken silver from the baggage, forty or fifty taels, and handed the rest to Gu Changheng.
"I'll take the odds and use them as flowers, and I'll leave the rest to you, buy dry food, and I'll leave it to you to get the documents and warrants in the city."
From the west of Liaoning to the south, it is difficult to move an inch without paperwork.
Gu Changheng is familiar with the doorway here, and he can get twice the result with half the effort.
"No, the owner, Mrs. Zhang handed over all the silver to you?"
That's three hundred taels! Even when Gu Changheng was in his heyday, he didn't dare to easily hand over so much silver to a stranger who had only seen two sides!
Why don't you think it's incredible?
If the heavy burden on his hand is always reminding, Gu Changheng can't believe that someone in this world can do this!
"There is no suspicion in employing people, no suspicion is needed, Zhang Niangzi's courage is not comparable to ordinary people."
The courageous Zhang Niangzi is taking the old and the young to do big things.
"Owner, how do you sell this donkey cart?"
"The lady has a good eye, this is a good donkey who just came from Jiangdong, with great strength and fast feet, even the donkey with the car, only two taels of silver."
"What?"
The donkey is two taels, and the talent is worth fifty copper plates.
Seeing Zhang Zhishu's complicated expression, the donkey seller thought that the price was high, and hurriedly explained: "After three years of drought, the cattle, sheep, donkeys and horses in western Liaoning have all died.
The lady can buy it back to grind, can pull the car, this is still a female donkey, and so on in the spring when the water and grass are fat, eat well, and then find a male donkey to match, the little donkey born has to sell a two or three taels, and then the lady will earn! ”
"One or two, just one or two, I don't want a female donkey, I want the male over there."
The male donkey, who was humming hot air in his crooked mouth and nose, saw Zhang Zhishu pointing at it, and immediately pouted his front hooves irritably, humming and turning his head away.
"That one? There is no problem with the price, but the temper is big, and the little lady is afraid that she will not be able to lower it. ”
The donkey seller was a real person, but as soon as he finished speaking, he saw the stubborn donkey who was still unconvinced, and knelt down with a plop!