Nongmen Xianggong is a koi

Chapter 173 Eat Less, Can Work

If it is the latter, the friendship will be deeper, and people will miss the person, or the family may come to redeem the person in a few years, and people will be unstable.

But for a family, if you work together, take care of each other, and feel at ease, it will be more difficult for you to have the thought of leaving, and you can use it safely for a period of time.

The clerk laughed and said, "What a coincidence, there really is such a thing. The little one looks pretty good. The one just arrived yesterday is cleaning up in the backyard. Why don't Mrs. Jiang and Mr. Song follow along to have a look?" Bar."

"I won't ask the steward to take care of them anymore. Mrs. Jiang will just look at the most authentic one, so I feel relieved in my heart."

Yaxing has dealt with Jiang Mixia for a long time, and now he is willing to tell the truth.

"to make."

Jiang Mixia and Song Jingyun followed the work to the backyard of the tooth shop.

The backyard of Yaxing is huge, and there are a row of low houses, which are specially used for these people who sell themselves into slavery to live temporarily.

At this moment, some shabby and even ragged people in the backyard were busy washing and sweeping.

The buddy said a few words to the steward, and the steward brought him over.

Four people, two in their 30s, who looked like husband and wife, and two young teenagers, one male and one female, should be their children.

From the clerk, Jiang Mixia learned that the man's name is Ding Fu, his wife Ma Shi, and the eldest daughter's name is Ding Cuihua. Just turned twelve.

The family is on the west side, and it is a tenant in a Zhuangzi. Originally, the grandparents were still there, and they rented ten acres of land every year. The family of six could still eat enough. However, there was a plague of locusts, and there was no harvest. Even Zhuangtou Ren Shan, there is no need to pay rent, just pay the land tax, but still can't afford so much money.

The family of six worked as coolies everywhere, selling all their strength, and managed to scrape together enough money for the farmer, but because of the hard life, the child's grandparents fell ill one after another.

The family is poor, but they are also filial. They don't want to see the old man get sick and go untreated, so they pay money to see a doctor.

After watching it for half a year, my grandparents passed away one after another, and the family owed a lot of money.

With no land, no land and no real estate, the creditor failed to press for the debt, so he persuaded him to sell the children in the family. After thinking for a long time, Ding Fu and Mrs. Ma agreed to sell themselves.

But it was not selling Ding Cuihua and Ding Mao, but the whole family of four sold themselves as slaves to pay off their debts. The only requirement was that the family of four had to work together and did not want to be separated.

For this reason, the person who bought Ding Fu's family of four went around several places before arriving here.

Jiang Mixia roughly understood the situation, nodded slightly, and then looked at the four of them again.

As for the four members of Ding Fu's family, they were quite cramped at this moment, and they only lowered their heads again and again.

"What will you do?" Jiang Mixia asked.

Ding Fu was originally the head of the family. Seeing the buyer's question at this time, he quickly opened his mouth to respond, "I..."

"The little ones, the little ones can farm, and they can also do some simple carpentry work, masonry work, make a bench, and build a hearth. The mother of a child can cook and make clothes."

"The two children are still young and don't know much. My daughter can embroider lace, embroider a handkerchief and so on."

Seeing that Jiang Mixia didn't speak, Ding Fu hurriedly said again, "If this lady is willing to buy our family of four and let us work together, we must work hard and not let the lady down."

"The four of us don't eat much..."

Eat less and be able to work!
Ding Fu is not particularly good at talking, and now he is a little nervous, repeating these few words all the time.

Seeing that Ding Fu, the head of the family, is honest, Jiang Mixia nodded slightly, and then asked, "Is everyone in good health?"

"They're all very strong, and there's nothing wrong with them." Ding Fu was a little embarrassed, "It's just that the baby's mother's eyes are not very good at night. I used to make clothes for people, earn hard money, and stay up late at night, so my eyes were tired."

"But there is nothing to do during the day, so don't delay the work. If there is a lot of work, she will move faster and try to finish it during the day."

Jiang Mixia nodded again, and looked at the four of them again.

After a while, he nodded, "Just this one."

"okay."

The clerk responded, and hurried to prepare the paperwork and sell the deed.

The imperial court stipulated that all deeds of selling one's body should be recorded in the yamen for future management.

The procedures were not too troublesome, and the clerk was familiar with the process. After Jiang Mixia paid the silver taels, the clerk called the document with the seal of the yamen to Jiang Mixia.

After buying the servants, Jiang Mixia and Song Jingyun didn't delay, and directly hired a carriage to go home.

Seeing Jiang Mixia and Song Jingyun come back, Jiang Youcheng and Liu Shi were very happy, and specially picked the fattest chicken from the backyard to kill, and prepared to make red-braised chicken nuggets.

Since he was bought back and became a servant, he must have the duty of being a servant.

Seeing this, Ding Fu rubbed his hands, and said, "Master, madam, let me do the killing. I used to do the job of killing chickens and geese in restaurants, and I'm quite familiar with it."

The daughter and son-in-law are filial, and specially bought someone to help with the work, and Liu Shi did not refuse, "Then you come, the knife was sharpened yesterday, it is very fast, you should be more careful."

He laughed again, "What is it about Mrs. and Mrs. We are farmers, so there are not so many rules. The head of the family and I are older, so we can just call them big brothers and big sisters."

"Sister-in-law, then I'll go and boil some hot water." Mrs. Ma hastily changed her words, and carried some firewood into the stove from the side.

Two siblings, Ding Cuihua and Ding Mao, one went to get the wooden basin, and the other picked up a shovel, preparing to bury the dirty things later.

Looking at this appearance, Jiang Youcheng nodded, "It doesn't look bad."

"Yes." Mrs. Liu agreed, and asked Jiang Mixia, "What are you going to arrange for these four people?"

"Mother, I think so." Jiang Mixia said, "Uncle Ding and Aunt Ma stayed at home to help parents with chores around the house, while Cuihua and Ding Mao followed me and Jing Yun to the county seat go inside."

Mrs. Liu nodded, "Cuihua will follow you. Ding Mao happens to be a male doll, and he is not very old. It would be suitable for him to be a schoolboy with Jingyun."

"It's just that I saw that the clothes they were wearing were a little worn out. There are half-new clothes at home. I'll go and find them."

Jiang Mixia and Song Jingyun wore small clothes earlier, which happened to be worn by Ding Cuihua and Ding Mao. As for Ding Fu and Ma Shi, they are about the same height as Jiang Youcheng and Liu Shi, but they are much thinner. .

Mrs. Ma knows how to make clothes, and it's not a big deal to change them in the past two days.

Mrs. Liu made such a plan and explained it to Mrs. Ma. She even brought some shoe soles and fabrics and asked Mrs. Ma to make two pairs of new shoes for Ding Fu and the others to wear on weekdays.

　Suddenly, I found that the plot of buying someone was written like the one in the outer room... what a coincidence
　　
　
(End of this chapter)