"What? You used to follow your young lady and didn't even get paid? Li Su's eyes widened, as far as he knew, even if he was a slave, he was paid every month.

Purple Shadow reacted that this man was treating her as an ordinary maid.

"What are you asking for?" Purple Shadow asked rhetorically.

Li Su smiled: "Of course, it's for your family." Staying with me will not make your standard of living lower than it used to be. ”

Ziying was speechless for a while, and said in her heart that if it was calculated according to the living standard of Her Royal Highness the princess in the past, I was afraid that even the richest man in Gusu City would not be able to support it.

"Give as much as you want." Purple Shadow said in a muffled voice, feeling a little uncomfortable.

Li Su thought for a while and said, "I'll give you fifty taels first, and at the end of the month, we'll see the specific situation." ”

"Whatever you want." Purple Shadow's face was calm.

"It seems that their previous standard of living was very high, and fifty taels were not taken into account." Li Su said secretly, thinking of the appearance of the two women, he was not too surprised.

"So, what are you waiting for?" Li Su looked at Ziying.

Purple Shadow: "??? ”

There was a flash of inquiry in his eyes.

Li Su smiled, "What?" Haven't served your lady to dress? ”

Ziying's face darkened, and she glared at Li Su fiercely.

This bastard, damn it.

"Uninteresting." Li Su snorted lightly and got dressed and got up.

Purple Shadow took a deep breath and suppressed the urge to slap the bastard.

After a brief wash, Li Su left the house and bought some meatloaf, buns and broth at a nearby broth shop.

I wanted to have breakfast with my concubine Tian Qi, but seeing Ziying's vigilant eyes like a thief, Li Su snorted, for the sake of spending a night of Spring Festival last night, he was not reluctant.

"What do you need besides the cook?" After eating breakfast alone, Li Su found Ziying, handed over fifty taels of silver, and asked.

Ziying muttered: "Miss likes to write and paint, if you can buy some of the four treasures of the study, it would be great." ”

Thinking to myself... Her Royal Highness the princess was born with a spirit of ancestor, refined the runes, and has the four treasures of the study, but it can be covered up a little.

Li Su looked at Ziying quietly.

Ziying was stunned and puzzled: "Something?" ”

"Haven't you been to the shop before?" Li Suyu asked.

"Shop..."Ziying suddenly realized, at the front of this mansion, there was a calligraphy and painting shop, which was the livelihood of the man in front of him.

In the calligraphy and painting shop, there is naturally no shortage of paper and pen.

"What do you need?" Li Su asked.

Purple Shadow snorted softly, "I don't need anything. ”

“……”

Li Su didn't say much and left the house alone.

Gusu City is quite prosperous, and the streets in the north of the city are full of people coming and going.

When he came to the corner of the street, Li Su found that under a big willow tree, there were more than a dozen people scattered around, watching something.

When I looked over, I saw that there was a woman in her thirties who was selling her husband.

This woman was wearing a cloth skirt sewn with patches, unkempt, and her appearance was not even ordinary, and the only thing that was impressive was probably her figure.

The people around him, mostly the people in the neighborhood, were asking about the woman's situation.

Long ago, Li Su knew that in this era, there was a slave trade.

Gusu City is okay, it belongs to the land of wealth; Elsewhere, some people may not have the qualifications to be slaves, even if they want to.

"The way you look, it's not worth the coffin money at all." A middle-aged tooth man said, "I'll give you twenty papers, and then I'll help you find someone to dig a pit and bury this dead man." ”

The woman pursed her lips and did not speak.

"I'm out thirty articles, I can't do more." The other toothed man's eyes flashed with shrewdness, "If you were ten years younger, you might be worth a coffin money, but now, you still have to be self-aware." ”

“……”

A few more toothed men spoke, and the highest bidder was only fifty cents, and none of them were willing to buy a coffin for the woman.

"Do you know how to cook?" A gentle voice rang out.

Li Su approached from behind the crowd.

The surrounding tooth people were silent for a moment, and the woman raised her head, glanced at Li Su who was speaking, then lowered her head again and hummed softly.

"I need a cook, and if you can do it, I can help you bury your husband." Li Su groaned, he came here to recruit cooks.

If this woman knew how to cook, he would be more than happy to do a good deed every day.

"Can cook." The woman said hurriedly.

"Li Gongzi?" A young toothed man next to him shouted tentatively.

Li Su looked at this person, "You know me?" ”

The young tooth man hurriedly smiled and said: "Villain Liu San, my brother Liu Yong was on an errand under Zuo Qianhu, and at Zuo Qianhu's birthday banquet last year, I had seen Li Gongzi from afar. ”

Li Su nodded and asked, "Do you understand funeral?" ”

"Yes." The young tooth man even said, understanding what Li Su meant.

Li Su took out an ingot of ten taels of silver from his arms and threw it to the young toothed man, "Do me a favor, buy a coffin, bury this aunt's husband, and the rest will be your reward." ”

The eyes of the rest of the tooth men on the lookers were red.

How much is a coffin worth?

The young toothman's eyes lit up, and he quickly nodded and said, "Okay, the villain will definitely help Li Gongzi to be satisfied." ”

As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper and a red seal from his arms, and said earnestly: "This is a deed of sale, just let this aunt press a handprint, and write your name after you go back, and this transaction will be completed." ”

“……”

Li Su did not refuse to let this aunt sign the deed of sale, and he had heard a lot of examples of evil servants devouring the master.

Some of the tooth people around him, after selling some of the cooks in the tooth shop to Li Su to no avail, left disappointed one after another.

"It's good for the master to call the concubine Ayan." The unkempt woman whispered after pressing the handprint.

"Okay."

Li Su nodded, and asked about the woman's situation and the cause of death of the woman's husband.

The women answered one by one.

After about a stick of incense, Liu San ran quickly.

Behind him, there were four strong men and a mule cart pulling the coffin.

Li Su didn't continue to follow, explained Liu San's words, and continued to shop the market.

"The cook has it, and I have to buy some clothes and rouge gouache for the two beauties in the house, plus firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea..."

Throughout the morning, Li Su was purchasing various supplies, and he also packed lunch for Tian Qi and Ziying very intimately.

In the afternoon, come again under the big willow tree in the street.

"Li Gongzi." Liu San, who had been waiting for a long time, shouted diligently.

Li Su nodded and praised twice.

Liu San left with a smile.

Li Su looked at Ah Yan, a female woman who had been keeping her head down.

"Let's go."

"Oh."

Coming to a women's mixed hall, Li Su stopped.

Mixed hall is a bathhouse.

In front of the mixed hall, a middle-aged woman was sitting on a small bench, snorting black melon seeds, looking at passers-by, seeing Li Su stop, she quickly stood up.

"Guest officer, we are ......" She just wanted to say that this was a women's mixed hall, when she saw the female woman Ah Yan behind Li Su.

"Wash her and buy her two more clothes." Li Su approached the door of the mixed hall, took out two taels of silver from his arms, and handed them to the middle-aged woman.

"Okay." The middle-aged woman took the money, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she didn't dislike the strange smell on the female woman Ah Yan, and directly pulled Ah Yan into the mixed hall.