The beautiful pastoral field of Jiangmen girl

Chapter 149 Meeting in the snow (3)
He went back to the front dejectedly, sat on the seat, didn't care about listening to the class at all, and was punished by Mr. Lu to stand.

At this time, Qingshu was sitting at Cheng Yaren's house, talking to Mrs. Cheng, and already knew the result of Mrs. Cheng's first visit to Gu Pingxiu's house.She chuckled softly and narrowed her eyes, "Well, after two days, I would like to ask Mrs. Cheng to go one more time. Just ask, if the Gu Mansion let Gu Yuanhe go out and give Gu Yuanhe a free body, will they agree or not?" No. Naturally, since Gu Yuanhe is free, he will have nothing to do with my ancient mansion, and he will have no relationship with the housekeeper and lady in charge of my ancient mansion."

After hearing this, Mrs. Cheng's hands were sweating, "Miss, which man in this world would cut off the blood relationship with his parents in order to marry a wife, and he will be reviled for a lifetime."

Qingshu straightened her face, "I'm sorry, I scared Mrs. Cheng. That's what I said, I want you to find out whether the other party is testing the sincerity of my Gufu, or if he doesn't like Gu Yuanhe, and I really don't want to get married. .Actually, there is one thing I don't mind discussing with Mrs. Cheng. Gu Yuanhe is not a servant of the Gu family. In my brother's heart, he is not a real brother, but he is better than a real brother."

After hearing this, Mrs. Cheng was shocked.

Qing Shu sighed, "Forget it, Madam Cheng doesn't have to go to Dagujia Village for the time being, but I would like to trouble Madam Cheng to ask if there are any good-natured, hard-working people in and out of this town who are of marriageable age." Girl, if there is a suitable one, please send a letter to the mansion, Mrs. Cheng."

Mrs. Cheng readily agreed.

Qingshu told Mrs. Cheng again that she already knew everything, so she couldn't show her mouth.If Su's mother asked, she said that she came here only to ask Mrs. Cheng to find suitable girls for the unmarried young men in the mansion to talk about marriage.

After leaving Cheng's house, Qing Shu didn't go back home, but left the town in a carriage.

When Zhou Boyan arrived, he saw a woman in a light blue cloak standing with her back to him among the bare trees amidst the white snow.

After bringing them here, Ding Jiabao stopped beside the carriage and stood with Li Dalang.

Xiaojuan stepped forward and saluted, "Master Yan, Miss, please go over and talk."

Zhou Boyan threw the rein in his hand to Gu Shishi, and walked towards the direction where the woman was standing step by step.Next to a string of women's footprints on the snow, there were big footprints belonging to men.

Hearing the sound of footsteps stepping on the snow behind her, Qing Shu squeezed the deed paper in her hand and turned her head slowly.

Zhou Boyan saw that her face exposed outside the cloak hat was red from the cold, but her eyes were still bright, and stopped seven or eight steps away from her, "Isn't it cold? Stand here."

Qing Shu didn't answer this question, "I want to trouble you with something, so I took the liberty to invite you here." Then, she stretched out her left hand that was shrunk in the cloak, grabbed the deed paper and handed it to Zhou Boyan, "Please help me Look, the difference between them, I don't understand these."

Zhou Boyan took a fixed look at her and saw that there was nothing wrong with her face, so he took two steps forward, stretched out two fingers, and clamped a corner of the deed paper.

Qing Shu immediately let go of her hands, retracted her hands into the cloak, and bowed her knees, "Thank you."

Zhou Boyan was very surprised by Gu Qingshu's performance at the moment, he withdrew his hand, and unfolded the folded paper to see that there were two deeds, to be precise, two deeds of sale.The difference is the seal of the yamen.

"Buying and selling slaves must be filed with the government. The so-called filing means that the government stamps a seal and collects corresponding taxes. However, there are two kinds of seals, one is the death contract seal. The servants who stamp this seal are not only I am a slave for life, and if I have children, I will be a slave for life, and I am called a domestic slave." Just like this one, he held up Bian Xiaojuan's contract of sale.

"The other is the deed of living. You bought a servant and made a deed of sale, but if you intend to let the servant redeem yourself, you will ask for a deed of living when you file with the government, just like this one." He raised his hand. Xu Maizi's contract of selling himself.

"What will happen if there is no filing?" Qing Shu asked nervously.

"No? You don't have to worry, the government won't hold you accountable without a record. Of course, the deed of sale without a record is also valid. The imperial court has regulations that allow a certain number of unregistered servants to exist in a large family." He said, Zhou Boyan folded the two prostitution contracts, then held them between two fingers, and handed them to Qingshu.

Qing Shu reached out to take it, "Based on the current situation in our ancient mansion, how many unregistered servants are allowed?"

Zhou Boyan stood sideways, "Although General Zhongwu has passed away, the emperor's four-rank imperial order ordered his wife to be well. According to the law of Da'an, the number of slaves in the ancient mansion must not exceed 15, and the number of unregistered servants must not exceed [-]."

"Those who signed the death contract will be slaves for generations, so they can't redeem themselves, right?" Qing Shu said seriously.

"Not necessarily. Although the body cannot be redeemed, if the master is kind, he can still be released from the house."

After asking and answering like this, Qing Shu finally figured it out.A slave who has signed a death contract is not free to redeem himself if he wants to, but must be gracious and willing to let him go out from the master's family. Moreover, after paying the ransom money to the master's family, he must hand over a sum of money to the government before he can be transferred from slavery to slavery. For a beloved.Moreover, within three generations, they are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination.

Those who sign the deed of life want to redeem themselves, report to the master's family, get the master's permission, pay the redemption money, and then go to the government to cancel their slave status.Naturally, within three generations, no one is allowed to take the imperial examination.

After signing the deed of sale, if the master's family has not filed with the government, the master's family will allow the ransom to be a benefactor directly after death, and they will not be allowed to participate in the imperial examination within five years, instead of three generations.

Furthermore, the slave who signed the death contract had children, and the children were slaves when they were born.A servant who has signed a contract of living has children, and if he does not want the children to be slaves or handmaids, with the permission of the master's family, he can send the children out of the house as a benefactor to be raised by relatives or friends.Servants who have not been formally registered with the government have children. Similarly, they are born as benefactors.

After figuring this out, Qing Shu pondered for a moment, then took out a pearl she was carrying with her, "Do you know its value, my lord?"

Zhou Boyan glanced at it and immediately turned his head.He saw the beads, and at the same time saw her face that was getting redder from the cold, he lifted his feet and walked back, "Talking while walking."

Qingshu was slightly taken aback, but immediately followed, keeping a distance of five or six steps.

"A penny is a penny, and the wealthy households in the south use it for children to play."

Qing Shu listened and inhaled, "Is there a lot?"

"Not many, only occasionally."

"Then, are all the ones that can be encountered this big?"

"No, there are even fewer such big ones." It took his men three and a half years of collecting before they got one hundred and nine beads of this size.As soon as he changed hands, he gave it all to Qingyang.

Qing Shu struggled with him, so he just ran to catch up with him, "Let's talk about a deal."

(End of this chapter)