Rebirth of the poor elder sister-in-law

Chapter 79

But this matter still needs to be discussed with Ye Yuan, thinking about it, she looked at Ye Yuan with her watery eyes: "Ye Yuan, our family has too many things recently, please ask a little girl to come back and help wash clothes and cook, okay?" ?”

When Ye Yuan heard Liu Man'er's suggestion, he was startled for a moment, then nodded: "Yes."

"Okay, then let's find a matchmaker." With Ye Yuan's permission, Liu Man'er burst into laughter.

She was impatient, so she found a shop she had cooperated with, asked him to introduce a good matchmaker, and asked about the matchmaker's address.

After getting the shopkeeper's advice, Liu Man'er and Ye Yuan followed the route the shopkeeper said, and soon found the house of the matchmaker surnamed Qian.

Knowing the purpose of Liu Man'er's visit, Qian Mimao was naturally extremely enthusiastic, and quickly invited Liu Man'er and two people in.

Liu Man'er told the prostitute Qian about her needs, "The main reason is that there is a lot of work in the house, and I want to buy someone to go home and work. Our family is an ordinary farmer's family, not a big one. You can first ask if anyone wants it. Go, don’t force them if you don’t want to go.”

These maids come from various sources nowadays, most of them are really poor at home, so they send their children to this prostitute, so that they can be sold to rich families as maids, and some maids themselves are forced by some wealthy families. Some were sold out, and some were good citizens who committed crimes and were used as slaves.

In short, there is no way for everyone to be a maid. Everyone wants to find a better master, preferably a wealthy family, so that they can go in and eat delicious food. Liu Man'er thinks that she does not have this ability. People who can work are also needed. She still doesn't force those girls who want to enter the rich family, and she can't afford to use them.

After hearing Liu Man'er's words, the prostitute told Liu Man'er to wait a while, and then went to the backyard to call for someone. After a while, she called over a dozen maids for Liu Man'er to choose.

Most of these girls are thin and weak, aged between eight and some, and some of them are quite delicate, Liu Maner frowned when she saw it: "I am a countryman, and I bought a girl to go back to work Yes, some of you are dressed so fancy and dressed better than me, are they really able to work?"

"I'm afraid you don't know the hard work of the farm family. I will give you a chance now. If you can't stand the pain, you should take a step back. Otherwise, if I buy you at that time, you will not be able to control it in the future. You will have no chance to regret it."

It seemed that they were frightened by Liu Man'er's words. At that time, five or six well-dressed girls withdrew, and the remaining seven or eight girls were thin and weak, and they should be children of poor families.

"Extend your hand." Liu Man'er said to these girls.

These people followed suit, and Liu Man'er saw that all those people with delicate palms were brushed off, leaving three people with some calluses on their palms, which seemed to have been done.

"Raise your head." Liu Man'er said, and the three girls raised their heads timidly. Liu Man'er looked at the three girls with a serious expression and asked, "What kind of work do you three do?"

Several girls looked at each other, and the girl on the far left began to answer, "Your maidservant can wash clothes, cook, chop firewood..." The man listed a lot of housework in the house, and said, "In the past, all the work in the house I did it."

"Oh, then are you still willing to do such a job? You should know that it's hard work if you've done it before." Liu Man'er warned.

The girl stopped talking in an instant. In fact, she didn't want to come, but her mother was still waiting for her in the backyard. She had to come, and she didn't even dare to back away.

Liu Man'er asked the next person to answer, and the second girl's answer was similar. Liu Man'er asked her the same question again, and the girl said timidly: "As long as you can eat enough, it doesn't matter if you work."

"You look thin and weak, do you have the strength to work?" Liu Man'er felt that this question was a bit tricky.

"I don't have much strength now, but when I grow up, I will have great strength." The girl quickly replied, she cherishes this opportunity very much, because others think she is too thin and not very good-looking, Don't want her.

"Then don't I want to raise you up?" Liu Man'er laughed, "If I raise you up, how will you repay me in the future?"

"This..." The little girl pursed her lips, not knowing how to answer.

Liu Man'er laughed, and asked the same question to a third girl. This girl's answer was almost the same as that of the second girl, except that when Liu Man'er asked the third question, she was also the same as the second girl. Stupid, don't know how to answer.

After muttering twice, she said: "I'm not your maid, you raised me up, I can do more work, is this a reward?"

In fact, these two maids, Liu Man'er, really like them. For a while, she didn't know which one to choose, so she looked at Ye Yuan and said, "Ye Yuan, which one do you think we should buy?"

"You can pick one at will." Ye Yuan said casually, "Anyway, it's up to you to decide."

"I don't know who to choose." Liu Man'er looked at Ye Yuan begging for help, "Both girls are pretty good."

"En." Ye Yuan also nodded, looked at the two little girls, and asked some more questions, "What's your name? Where is your hometown? Are you sick?"

These questions are all things to think about, especially the last question, Liu Man'er really didn't think about it.

These two girls answered the questions one by one. One of them is from a small remote village in Liyang County, and the other has fled here from other places.

Liu Man'er really didn't know which one to choose?She looked into their eyes and felt that she liked these two little girls.

"Who should I buy? Who should I buy?" Liu Man'er was terribly confused, so the matchmaker took a step forward and said to Liu Man'er, "Miss, don't worry, why don't you buy them both?"

"I think so too. It's just that we don't have so much money now, and we only need one person in our family for the time being. If we buy too much, we won't be able to live there." Liu Man'er said honestly, and then asked the matchmaker Qian, "Grandma Qian, these two girls Are they all worth the same?"

"Yes, these two little girls are eight taels of silver each."

Liu Man'er groaned for a moment when she heard Qian Yapo's answer. She felt that the price for buying a person was really not expensive, probably about the same as a cow, and this was still a child. Generally speaking, in ancient times, the younger The higher the value of the child, especially the girl, the higher the value.

Eight taels of silver for these two little girls is already considered a good price. If it were a few years ago, such a little girl could buy a person for five or six taels.

Human life is worthless, Liu Man'er sighed, and didn't bargain with the matchmaker. After thinking about it, she already planned to buy a second girl in her heart. She was from the local area, and she was older and could speak dialects.

Although Liu Man'er didn't mean to test her, she still let her test her strength on the spot. Although she was young, this little girl could actually lift a bucket of water.

In fact, this girl felt a little nervous when she saw Liu Man'er asking her to do this or that. She was afraid that Liu Man'er's family would be bad, but when she thought that no one cared about her since she was sent to the toothmaid during this period, she felt inexplicable. Some flustered.

She was sold to this prostitute by her parents on her own initiative, and she didn't sell it for several days. , At that time, she will be returned to her parents.

She didn't dare to go back, there were so many people in the family, if she was returned, her parents would definitely beat her to death without the five taels of silver, and the lady in front of her was so beautiful , It doesn't look too bad, it should be okay, if you work, you can do any job.

I staggered when I was carrying the water just now, but now the young lady frowned, she didn't know what she was thinking, could it be that she was dissatisfied with herself?
Thinking of this, the little girl plucked up her courage and took a step forward. Seeing her action, Liu Man'er was a little strange and asked, "What's the matter with you?"

"Madam, Xiaoping can do anything, Madam please buy Xiaoping home, Xiaoping doesn't have much to eat." The girl suddenly kowtowed to Liu Man'er.

Liu Man'er was also taken aback by the girl's intruding action, she was slightly startled, and then said: "You know, I just said that my family's conditions are not good, and you may have to do a lot of work if you go, just like this , are you still so willing to come to my house?"

"Yes." The little girl replied, kowtow again hastily.

Liu Man'er glanced at Ye Yuan, and then said to the little girl, "Alright, then we'll buy you."

"Thank you Ma'am." The little girl raised her head, she was relieved, but at the same time, thinking about her future life, she couldn't help feeling a little uneasy.

"Grandma Qian, then we want this girl Xiaoping." Liu Man'er raised her head and said to the toothmaid, "Look at what procedures you need to go through, and help me with it, next time we need it, I will come to you again. "

Seeing that Liu Man'er had bought this little girl who could not be sold, Granny Qian showed a relieved smile on her face, and she said: "Naturally, we have cooperated with the government, and this girl's contract of sale is also signed." Alright, I can help you transfer the title today."

"That's it, thank you." Liu Man'er stood up to express her thanks.

After Ye Yuan paid the money, the prostitute gave Ye Yuan the contract of selling Xiaoping's body, and then asked the two to wait here for a while, and after a while, a special servant rushed to the county government office, After handling the transfer documents for them and handing them over to the two, the transaction will be considered complete.

Only now did Liu Man'er look at Xiao Ping carefully, she was not yet ten years old, she was dry and thin, after seeing Liu Man'er's gaze, she couldn't help lowering her eyes, with a gentle and submissive look.

"Your name is Xiaoping, right? Don't be afraid. From now on, you will be my little girl. My name is Liu Man'er. This is my husband-in-law Ye Yuan. When the time comes, you will go back with us. If anyone asks, you will say it is ours." Distant relatives are fine."

Liu Man'er said to Xiaoping, "Let me change your name to Fu Lu?"

"Mrs. Xie gave me the name." Xiaoping quickly agreed, but she will be called Fulu from now on.

Liu Man'er smiled, patted the little girl's head, and took the little girl home. The business of selling peanuts was good today, so Liu Man'er was generous, bought some food in the county town, and hired an ox cart go home.

(End of this chapter)