Chronicle of Farming in Muxianfu

Chapter 34 Going to the City to Buy a Servant ([-])

Xiao Heng took Mu Ai and walked in with him. Xiao Fu had been with her for two months, doing shopping and other things. Of course, he knew that she was a woman. He was afraid that someone would bump into her, so he took two steps back cleverly. Then he went around to the other side and followed, together with his master, he secretly protected Mu Ai in the middle. Mu Ai glanced at him gratefully, and regretted in her heart, it would be great if she had such clever people under her command. I looked forward to it even more, and made up my mind to buy some good helpers.

As soon as the few people reached the center of the yard, two people dragged a young man towards them, swearing and walking over.Wang Quan asked, "What's the matter?"

The two hurriedly threw the man to the ground, and replied, "Boss, this man was fine yesterday, but he was in a hurry this morning and didn't take a closer look. Who knows when he got a fever, and just got out of the car and passed out." It’s over. I don’t know if it’s a cold or some other strange disease, but the second shopkeeper is afraid that he has the epidemic and hurt others..."

"Okay, hurry up and procrastinate." Wang Quan severely interrupted the man, cursing inwardly, this idiot, didn't you see that there was a buyer, and you can talk about the epidemic, isn't it blatantly ruining your own business.

Then he turned around and continued to greet Xiao Heng and the others. Mu Ai had been staring at the person on the ground just now. This person was only in his twenties, and he didn't know how long he had had a high fever, which burned his handsome face to death. The redness, chapped lips, and tightly wrinkled eyes and eyebrows made it clear that he was in great pain.At this time, when she heard that she was going to drag him down, and she didn't know where to throw him, her dislike for Ren Yazi reached the extreme, so she felt compassion, and it was fine if she couldn't see such a thing or if she couldn't do it. But now that she saw it and it was easy, she must not let her die.

"Wait a minute, Shopkeeper Wang, where are you going to drag this person?" Mu Ai asked coldly.

Wang Quan seemed frightened by her sudden question, he didn't understand how he had offended this young master, so he stammered for a while, "This... this... young master,"

Xiao Heng also guessed that he dragged this person down, it would definitely not be to see a doctor, and saw Mu Ai's expression again, so he made a sound, "Brother Mu, did you fancy this person?"

Wang Quan hurriedly answered, "Oh, the young master has taken a fancy to this man, so I will only charge you half of the silver. What do you think? Although this man is still feverish, I, Wang Quan, promise that he is definitely not a serious illness. A doctor, it will be fine immediately after taking the auxiliary medicine."

Mu Ai couldn't bear to listen to his ramblings, so she nodded, "I've bought this guy, you can find a vacant room and carry him in first, and then bring me a bowl of clean water."

Wang Quan hurriedly arranged for his men to go to Zhang Luo, and after a while, the man was placed on the bed. Mu Ai took the water bowl and sent everyone away, leaving only Xiao Heng, "Brother, help me put him in bed." Help me up." Then he took an aspirin from the ring, thought for a while, poured the water in the bowl on the ground, and replaced it with space spring water, then turned back to the bed, opened the man's mouth, and put Put in the pills and pour in the water.It wasn't until he was sure that he had swallowed the medicine that Xiao Heng slowly laid him flat.

Mu Ai looked up and saw Xiao Heng looking at her with a strange face, thinking that he was strange about the pills she was taking, and without explaining much, got up and said, "Brother, let's go out." Xiao Heng nodded, "Let's go, Wang Quan Still waiting, don’t be so soft-hearted for a while, you must buy some usable ones to go back.”

Mu Ai agreed casually, followed him out of the room, Wang Quan was waiting outside the door, invited the two of them to sit on the chairs placed in front of the main room, and asked Xiao Tonger to bring good tea, and then apologized He said, "My lord, I'll call everyone out. You can choose whatever you want. Don't worry about the price. I'm a famous young man here." Then with a wave of his hand, someone has already led the group of people to line up and come forward. I don't know if he did it on purpose. An old man over sixty years old and a few children around ten years old walked in the front. Xiao Heng frowned when he saw it, cursing in his heart, this king is all Seeing that the younger sister was soft-hearted and easy to bully, he planned to push the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled to the younger sister. He wanted to say a few words out loud, but he was afraid that the younger sister would think that he interfered too much, so he had to hold back his anger and drink tea.

Sure enough, as he expected, Mu Ai was the first to call the old man over, and after a few simple questions, he bought him happily.

Immediately afterwards, they asked several children separately, but luckily they didn't keep all of them. They only bought two men and two women, and then called a family of three. Sensible, but the man's face was pale and thin, obviously he just had a serious illness.Xiao Heng couldn't help it anymore, coughed, and said, "Brother Mu, your house is newly built, you should buy more slaves who can contribute. Besides, there will be a lot of work in the fields next year..."

Mu Ai knew that her brother-in-law was sincerely doing her best. She is a widowed woman, and she plans to try planting rice next year. There must be a lot of work. I hope she can buy a few more strong laborers to go back, and don't take in too many old and weak women and children.How could she not understand these principles, but her instinct was to be ruthless towards the elderly and children.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Xiao Heng sighed, knowing that he couldn't persuade her, so he turned to Wang Quan, the gentleness in his eyes disappeared immediately, replaced by sternness and warning.Wang Quan knew that he had guessed his narrow-mindedness, and his heart shuddered. Thinking of the rumors in the merchant circle about the background methods of Boss Xiao, he felt a chill down his back.Glancing at these people in the yard, it didn't cost a few pennies to buy them, and some even didn't spend a penny, and they were brought back by giving a piece of dry biscuit.Nowadays, if you meet a customer who is willing to take over the elderly, weak, women and children, you can't be too greedy for money, and lose the big because of the small.What's more, Xiao Heng will take care of the business in the future, so he immediately said with a smile, "Oh, Mr. Mu is a kind-hearted person at first glance. I can't see these women and children suffering from disasters. Well, this is also the first time Mr. Mu has taken care of villains. The business was introduced by Boss Xiao again, how about half of the usual price for these villains? There are still a lot of strong laborers behind, and the young master just pick a few more to farm."

Hearing what he said, Xiao Heng knew that his sister couldn't be persuaded anymore, so he acquiesced.

Mu Ai smiled apologetically at him, and bought the family of three again.Then, they selected four sturdy men who were not under 20 years old, simple and honest in appearance, and came from a farming family.Only then did Xiao Heng feel relieved, but when he turned his head to look at the rest of the crowd, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. It turned out that it wasn't the little girl who listened to the persuasion, but that the old, weak, women and children inside were almost bought by her.

Looking at the sky helplessly, he asked, "Brother Mu, do you still have to go home today?"

"Go back, it's not easy for these people to settle down here. Brother, when the housewarming banquet is fixed, I'll send someone over to invite brother to drink. Also, if it's not busy at brother's place, Xiao Fu can lend me another month. I think It may take some time to straighten out the manpower.”

Xiao Heng looked at the people she bought, turned around and called Xiao Fu over, gave him some detailed instructions, and sent him away.Then he said, "If you have something to do, just let Xiao Fu do it. I don't have a shortage of manpower for the time being. In order to celebrate your move to a new house, your sister-in-law and I bought you two carts of useful things in addition to the four maids." Son, I will go back with you in a while. Xiao Fu is going to hire a car, let's wait."

(End of this chapter)