Escape from the desert

Chapter 195 Tao Bai
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jiang Yan also took a good look at those who were not selected.

The ones at the front are strong and vigorous laborers, and the others are followed by men and women. walking dead.

Song Tao's family was looking for the hunchbacked boy.

He was wearing an ill-fitting mandarin jacket, and his skinny limbs were a bit frightening, as if they could be easily broken with a slight fold. A wooden box was tied on his back with a hemp rope, which weighed a little bit, and he could only stand upright by leaning forward slightly.

The rough hemp rope tightly held his shoulders, and the exposed skin outside the mandarin jacket was covered with thick calluses. It must have been carried for a long time.

Everyone here has more or less personal stuff, but it's the first one with such an obvious big one.

Seeing his gentle brows and eyes, he was explaining to the Song family members, his unreserved appearance made Jiang Yan a little more curious.

"You have to take good care of yourself in the future. If someone steals your food again, you have to hide yourself. We are not here, and you can't beat them alone."

"Be stronger and stronger, so that you can be favored by buyers faster."

"Brother, Xiao Shanzi will miss you."

"Thanks to your care these days, I'm sorry that I didn't choose you just now..."

"Uncle Song, don't say that, I am not up to date, you are all thinking of the master's family, with my body, even if you choose me, the master's family will not want me, but it will make you annoyed by the master's family , What you did is not wrong, I know it in my heart."

"From now on, you live a good life. I think Boss Jiang is kind-hearted. In the future, your life will be better than now..."

His voice was as rough as sandpaper being rubbed, and like a grinding disc that hadn't been used for a long time, hoarse like rolling stones and gravel, and full of deep inferiority and helplessness.

Jiang Yan paced behind several people, looked at the few who started to burst into tears as they talked, Jiang Yan coughed a few times.

"Old Song, is this boy from your village?"

Song Tao suddenly turned his head and saw Jiang Yan behind him, frowning with a big Sichuan character, as if he was thinking about something.

Finally, he knelt on the ground and made up his mind, saying: "Benefactor! His name is Tao Bai. He is not from our village. We met him here. He used to be a book boy in a big family, and he knows a few words." , and can do simple arithmetic, although she is thin and thin, she is not sick, it's just that she was tortured by the master before."

Seeing him kneeling down, his wife and children also knelt down, Song Tao continued: "When we first came in, our husband and wife had a high fever, and we almost couldn't survive it. Thanks to Tao Bai's kind care, we can survive. Dare to hope that the benefactor will buy Tao Bai back together, but he knows a lot of things, so I dare to ask the benefactor to see if he is suitable."

Tao Bai was very kind to his family, and he didn't dare to ask Jiang Yan to buy him back. After all, it was a gift from God that their family could be taken away.

But asking Jiang Yan to take a look was the only thing he could do for Tao Bai, the rest was up to Tao Bai himself.

Tao Bai also understood Song Tao's painstaking efforts, and his skinny body knelt heavily on the ground, but he said forcefully with a black face and a hulking shape: "Boss Jiang, my name is Tao Bai, and I can recognize all the commonly used characters, and simple calculations are also easy to understand." no problem."

"Because I offended the previous master, I was trained like this. I can cut rice, dig the soil, wash clothes and cook. I can do heavy work when I feel better."

Tao Bai's eyes were filled with anticipation. He could feel that Jiang Yan was a kind person, and he really wanted to stay with Song Tao's family, so his tone could not help but be somewhat expectant.

It's just that he doesn't have much literacy, and his calculation ability is average. The rich and big families look down on him, and ordinary customers look down on him because they want labor. Therefore, he can only try his best to express that he can learn everything.

He has been with this guy for more than three months, and if he can't sell it, he will be sent to the building to be a boy with thousands of people riding a thousand pillows.

Thinking of those scenes, he couldn't help turning pale, with resistance all over his body.

Jiang Yan didn't know what he was thinking, but just looked at the person in front of him up and down. He looked very clever, knew how to seize opportunities, and knew how to show his advantages. More importantly, he was thin and thin, but he was not seriously ill.

At present, Lin Feng is the main force in keeping accounts and calculating money in the family. The accounts will become bigger and bigger in the future. If they can't be classified at the beginning, it will only become more and more chaotic in the future.

Although Lin Feng has top-notch calculation skills, he does not communicate with others without speaking. Tao Bai can just fill in this gap. The two of them, one on the inside and the other on the outside, should train them well, so she won't have to hire Mr. Settlement.

The most important thing is that there is someone who can accompany Lin Feng. After all, he is only over eight years old, and he and Lin Bei can't accompany him all the time. Jiang Yan can rest assured that there is someone to take care of him.

Jiang Yan didn't speak, but turned around and went back to the stone table. Tao Bai behind him immediately lowered his eyes in a lonely way.

The whole person was more depressed than before, even Song Tao's family of three looked inside the room, and the atmosphere of several people was depressed for a while.

On the contrary, it made a few people around who didn't like them smile and squinted, and even taunted them in a low voice. They were not selected, so naturally they wished that others were not selected.

"Big sister, how are you? Have you chosen everyone?" The old woman looked excited and flattered Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan nodded: "Song Tao's family, the three strong laborers selected just now, and that thin Tao Bai, how much do you calculate?"

"That sick boy?" The old lady rolled her eyes, and she could hardly help laughing out loud when she heard Tao Bai's name.

Someone finally wanted this sick child, and she was getting annoyed with the rice she had to eat for the past few months, and was thinking of sending her to that building to be a servant, but this saved her trouble.

The old woman settled the accounts excitedly, and Old Wu on the side listened to her calculations. Lin Nan and Lin Xi had been learning how to calculate accounts for a while, and they were afraid of being cheated by the old woman, so they also quietly counted where they were with their fingers.

Song Tao's family was 25 taels, three strong men were 36 taels, and Tao Bai was treated as an ordinary woman because he was too thin. The asking price was 9 taels, a total of 70 taels was just right.

Jiang Yan quickly paid the money, and the old lady hurriedly wrote the contract, and gave Jiang Yan the deeds of selling their lives to Jiang Yan, and then waved to Song Tao and the others who were crying at the top of their lungs.

He howled loudly: "Song Tao, hurry up and bring your wife and children here, Tao Bai, pack your things, you have also been selected, your deeds of prostitution are now in the hands of Boss Jiang, from now on she will be yours." master."

(End of this chapter)