The Blessing of the Qi Nv of Transmigration

Chapter 43 Bargaining
On the second day of opening, the Zhang family finally sent two servants to help, replacing Zhang Fuzhen and Zhang An, but the situation was worse than yesterday. Merchants and college students came to taste and buy. The busy family didn't even want to talk at night. They simply ate the vegetable and egg lump soup, washed up and went to bed.

It was like this for three consecutive days.In the past three days, people have come to apply for the job one after another. Yang Feier picked two girls, and one boy stayed. The boy was fifteen or sixteen years old and could read a few words. At the age of [-], I gave the three of them a one-night pre-job training in advance, let the boy replace Hu Kang and the twins, and let them go back to study and study, and the two girls asked her to help with some small work in the production room for Wang. , the three of them are all nearby residents, so they don’t need to arrange a place to stay, just ask them to come to work at Chen in the morning and go back at Xu in the evening. They work twelve hours at six o’clock a day, and take care of breakfast, lunch and dinner. With a salary of [-] Wen, the two of them found such a job at the door of their house. Not only did they have money to take care of their meals, they were happy, but they were also diligent and hardworking.

On the 25th, shopkeeper Zhou came to the door specially. Yang Feier led shopkeeper Zhou to the restaurant and sat down. After serving a cup of tea, he sat down and asked, "I don't know what's going on, but I'm sorry, shopkeeper Zhou, you can go there yourself." .”

Shopkeeper Zhou took out a purse from his pocket and handed it to Yang Feier, and said with a smile: "Miss Hu, I am here to give you the bonus silver at the order of the eldest lady."

Yang Feier couldn't help but groaned, and said, "There are so many things going on recently, I actually forgot about it."

Shopkeeper Zhou said with a smile: "Miss Hu can forget it, but we dare not forget it, but there is one thing I need to tell you, that is, what the lady talked to you was to change all the menus of the restaurant and give you 120% of the dividend, but Later, due to various reasons, not all of them were replaced, but some dishes were replaced, so according to the verbal agreement, you can only get the dividends of these few dishes. Separate statistics, because at the beginning of each month you have to make a plan for the current month, calculate the income and expenditure accounts of the previous month, and then calculate the wages of the shop assistants and apprentices, etc., so it has been delayed until now to calculate your dividends. It has been officially launched since the sixth day of August. Counting the dishes from the sixth day of October to the sixth month, the total is [-] taels of silver, all of which are here, you order first."

Yang Feier said with a smile: "What else do you want? You don't know how much money you have every month, how can you make a mistake? I also want to thank you and Mrs. Zhang for taking care of it."

Shopkeeper Zhou said: "Miss Hu also has this ability that our eldest lady can reuse for you. Now I see that your dim sum shop is booming. It's really not easy for you at such a young age."

Yang Feier smiled wryly: "The business is fine, but it's just that I'm too tired to bear it."

Shopkeeper Zhou said: "Why don't you take in a few apprentices like Chef Li? Even if you are as capable as you, one person can't do much."

Yang Feier said: "Even the shop assistants are just looking for, so there is no one who can be selected as an apprentice."

Shopkeeper Zhou said: "There are other ways to choose apprentices. You can also go to the people's children to have a look, pick a few younger ones, and buy them directly. Those children are all slaves. Hands, not afraid that they will learn to take away the craft."

After Manager Zhou said this, Yang Feier couldn't help but think a little more, and said: "Our small farmers have never thought of buying people, and I'm afraid we can't afford it."

Shopkeeper Zhou couldn't help laughing and said: "It's not difficult with Mrs. Hu's current family resources, why don't you ask first tomorrow, the children in that man's house are all hard-working people, the sooner you find a good master, the sooner you can get out of the predicament , it is also a good deed for them.”

Yang Feier said: "But I don't know where to find that kid?"

Shopkeeper Zhou said: "There is a dilapidated nunnery next to the cattle and horse farm in Zhongcai Market. It has been abandoned for a long time. Every morning, there are people who bring people to do business there, but..." After thinking for a while: "Miss Hu went alone but It's not very convenient, it's better to be accompanied by someone."

Yang Feier replied yes, the place must be dirty and messy, I don't know what kind of dark corner it is, it's really inconvenient for a girl to go there, thanked shopkeeper Zhou here, and sent shopkeeper Zhou out again, thinking about it in his heart.

After closing in the evening, the family sat at the dining table to have dinner. Yang Feier said that today the shopkeeper Zhou came to give out dividends.

Yang Feier briefly explained the suggestion of shopkeeper Zhou, and asked everyone to give their opinions. Father Hu said: "We have never bought people before, and we don't know how this business is run. How can we give you any advice? You can make up your own mind." That's right."

Speaking of Hu Kang and his twins having a good meal and going to study in their room, Hu Yongqiang said: "Xiu'er, the two of us have carefully calculated the general ledger of this store opening, including paying the rent deposit, and It cost a total of 98 taels of silver to buy raw materials, and now there are more than 300 taels of silver at home. This time you have more than 100 taels, which should be enough to buy a few people back, but the people you buy back are no more than the short-term labor you are looking for. After that It is our family, food, clothing, housing, transportation, birth, old age, sickness and death, we all need to arrange it, so we must be careful."

Yang Feier said: "Naturally, I know it well. I will ask my father to accompany me to have a look when I get up early tomorrow. If the money is not too much, I want to buy four first. If it doesn't work, I'll sell it later." .”

Early the next morning, Yang Feier, accompanied by Hu Yongqiang, went to the Chinese food market, all the way to the direction of cattle and horses, and smelled the smell of filth on the cattle and horses from a long distance, so Yang Fei took out a mask and put it on. On, somewhat better.

When I arrived at the dilapidated nunnery, I saw two middle-aged men sitting on the threshold of the nunnery. They looked rough and slightly fierce. Seeing someone looking in, they knew that business was coming, so they hurriedly stood up and patted the ashes on their buttocks. , At the same time soliciting: "This master, young lady, do you want to buy someone? Please look inside, young, strong, literate, male and female."

Just like selling ordinary items.

Yang Feier and Hu Yongqiang nodded and stepped in, but there were twenty or thirty people standing or sitting inside, all of them in ragged clothes, disheveled, emaciated, the older ones were seventeen or eighteen years old, and the younger ones were only four or five years old. Most of them are women and children, and there are also four or five teenagers.

Ren Yazi walked over and kicked an eleven or twelve-year-old boy who was sitting on the ground holding the youngest child, and said viciously, "Get up, it looks like you have no bones growing all day long!" The child in his arms was frightened instantly. Crying loudly, the boy gritted his teeth and stood up, holding the child close to his leg. The two girls sitting on the ground over there saw them being kicked, and quickly stood up, shrinking aside, trembling.

Seeing this, Yang Feier was in a bad mood for a moment, so he quickly stopped the boy, and said: "We just take a look, let them do whatever they want. You just said that they are literate, just ask them to stand up. "

The boy shouted at the group of people: "Did you hear that? Those who can read stand in a row. Those who can't read stand back."

After a while, the crowd divided into two teams, and there were about a dozen people in front of them, including the boy who was kicked just now and the two girls next to each other.

Yang Feier took out a pen and paper from the cloth bag that Yang Feier carried with him. The cloth bag was the oilcloth left over from Yang Feier’s custom-made large umbrella. It was double-layered hard, painted in classic blue, and sewn into the style of Hermes platinum bag. It is easy to go out. He held it in his hand, and the pens were sticks of charcoal made by Yang Feier, which were wrapped in cloth, and all four of them were handed over to those people, saying: "Write a poem you are familiar with on the paper, and write a poem with the pen. Pass it to the next person when you finish using it." Another piece of paper was handed out to each person.

After a while, the two girls finished writing at the same time, and Yang Feier took a look. They wrote two paragraphs from the Book of Songs "Fat Tan", and one wrote only one paragraph. It is probably because the charcoal pencil is not used to it, and the strokes are a bit strange. Distorted, but the font structure is very standard, and the overall is fairly neat. It can be seen that they have really practiced some skills, so I asked the two of them where they came from.

Ren Yazi said: "These two are half-sisters. The family used to be a well-known wealthy businessman in the local area. Because his father was addicted to the gambling table, he committed suicide by jumping into the river after losing all his wealth. The family sold everything to pay off the gambling debts. , there is still a deficit, people come to the door every day to press for debts, the two mothers hanged themselves one after another, the two children were sold by relatives, but because they were too delicate, they couldn't do any work, so they went to several houses, at most three or five Months, at least ten days, still being sold by the owner's house. The little lady doesn't know why she wants to buy someone. If she needs someone to work, she doesn't have to choose this one. She has a good introduction to you, and it saves me from changing hands back and forth. "

Yang Feier said: "Let's make a decision first, I'll look at the others."

At this time, another person wrote it, and Yang Feier took it, and saw that the writing on it was half-understood. First, the traditional characters were difficult to read, and moreover, the writing was too sloppy.

Others finished writing one after another, some were good, and some had frequent typos, but the boy finally wrote it. Yang Feier took a look and was quite surprised, only to see a poem written on it:

Shushan is desolate,

Abandoned for ten years,
Work hard to help the younger brother,
There are few stars around.

There is also a sentence written at the back: good lady, if you choose me, please also bring my younger brother, our relatives are gone, and I can't bear to be separated from my younger brother, so weep and kowtow silently.

The handwriting is clear and bright, correct and elegant. It is really rare for a ten-year-old child to have this skill.

Yang Feier looked at those words one by one, and then matched those words with the person. After thinking about it for a while, he said to the boy: "I wonder how much you set the price for?"

Ren Yazi said: "I don't know which one you want?"

Yang Feier pointed to two of the fourteen or fifteen-year-old boys and said, "These two."

Ren Yazi said: "This is a man. He is about to grow up and can read and write. Each person needs 15 taels."

Pointing to the two girls again, he said, "Where are these two?"

Ren Yazi said: "If you want these two together..." Gritting his teeth, he stomped his feet: "You give me a total of 15 taels."

Yang Feier pointed to the boy and child again: "What about this?"

Ren Yazi asked doubtfully, "You want both together?"

Yang Feier nodded.Ren Yazi said: "If I can buy these two together, I will only charge the principal, two ten taels of silver."

Yang Feier said: "If I want all of them, maybe I can give you some price?"

Ren Yazi was overjoyed when he heard the words: "There are 55 taels in total. If the little lady can take them away together, it will be a good deed. We will let you five hundred taels."

Hu Yongqiang said from the side: "The two young ones are not needed, they can't do much work, and they have to provide food, drink and shelter."

Ren Yazi looked at Yang Feier and then at Hu Yongqiang, and said, "Who is the master of the two of you?"

(End of this chapter)