Little Fu Bao bought two more servants from two separate households.

When they got back, Xiao Fubao was a little unhappy.

Xiang'er asked:

"Girl, what's wrong?"

"Xiang'er, I'm unhappy. I feel guilty. They are human beings, not livestock. I am a human being too, but I had to buy them, just like buying livestock."

Xiao Fubao said.

They were human beings, yet they were bound by matchmakers and their servants, left to be picked and sold like livestock, and this was even legal.

Although she was mentally prepared before buying the people, she still couldn't help but feel uncomfortable seeing how the matchmaker treated her "goods".

Perhaps, she shouldn't have bought people in the first place.

"Miss, there's no need to blame yourself," Xiang'er said. "Once a slave, always a slave. That's their fate. Our family has always treated people kindly. Perhaps it's their good fortune that they were sold into our family."

These words did not comfort Xiao Fubao.

“Girl, they are all from poor families. They were so poor that they couldn’t afford to eat, or their ancestors were so poor that they couldn’t afford to eat. That’s why they sold their children into slavery, just for a bite to eat.” “Girl, if you can give them a chance to get ahead and help you with your work, it’s better than them being sold to other families and being beaten and scolded, isn’t it?”

Little Fu Bao looked somewhat blank.

In this world, there are many families who cannot afford to eat. They have no fields, no land, and cannot find a way to make a living.

Xiang'er and Cuizhu were not servants bought by her family, but hired helpers. The long-term workers were the same; strictly speaking, they all had personal freedom.

Xiang'er and Cuizhu are Grandma Xiang's daughters-in-law, so it is believable.

These purchased servants were different, which is why Xiao Fubao wanted to buy servants with death contracts. But when she actually saw the slave traders binding them and letting the buyers pick and choose, her feelings changed.

After returning home, Xiao Fubao gave her family a detailed introduction to the twelve-year-old girl. Remembering that the girl didn't have a name, she said:

"My name is Xiao Fu Bao, and you can be called... Tuan Bao!"

As soon as this little girl appeared, the Niu family laughed, with Xie Jinyan laughing the loudest. "What a brat! Even her naming is so unruly!"

Xiao Heng also laughed:

"Since your name is Xiao Fu Bao, she can't be called Tuan Bao, that's a taboo."

That laugh completely dispelled Xiao Fubao's bad mood, and she racked her brains trying to think of something:

"We can't call him Tuanbao!"

"She said she seemed to have been abducted to a matchmaker... Her parents must be very anxious to find her, so let's call it 'Reunion'! I hope that one day, her parents will find her and they will be reunited. After that, she can work with Xiang'er to help me make hair fragrance products."

Little Fu Bao then pointed to several young girls and said:

"You guys too."

Then she sat down and began to ask them what they had done for their previous owner and why they had been asked to leave.

In fact, Xiang'er had already found out all these things. Moreover, if they really broke the law, they would be sent to the authorities for questioning. Other faults wouldn't warrant such punishment. It was just that Xiao Fubao wanted to see if they would tell the truth.

“Replying to the young lady, I used to be a steward in the master’s mansion, but after the family’s property was confiscated, I was released,” a man in his forties said.

"Young lady, I used to do odd jobs. Once... once I bumped into the mistress of that household and her servant... and the mistress sent me away." The woman who spoke was still a little embarrassed.

Xiang'er said, "Then you can fill in your names here!"

“Girl, I…I…I was kicked out of the house because I broke one of the owner’s valuable items,” a girl of about sixteen or seventeen said.

Little Fu Bao said:

"You need to be more careful in the future. If you continue to be so careless here, I won't keep you here."

"Please, more girls, please take me in!" the girl kowtowed.

Another servant said:

"I was originally from a good family, but we were poor, so my parents sold me here to beg for food!"

"I was originally a servant in a wealthy family. Because I was beautiful, I was harassed by the master and young master of that family, which aroused the jealousy of the mistress, so I was sold here."

Xiao Fubao glanced at the girl who spoke again. She was indeed pretty, though not as pretty as Tuanyuan, but she was very pleasing to the eye.

My first impression was that she was pretty and delicate.

The second time I saw it, I thought it was even more beautiful.

The more I look at it, the more beautiful it becomes.

Although we don't know what kind of person she is, we are afraid that she will not stay at home. But we have already bought her, so what should we do?

Xiang'er whispered:

"Why not send her to help Niu San and Niu Mao? If Wei Xiang Zhai had one or two beauties like her, the business would be even better. We can also assess her character. Once we open a shop in the capital, we can send her to a distant place. Since she can't come regularly, it will save us a lot of trouble."

Little Fu Bao nodded and said:

"May I have your name?"

"Her original name was Ruhua. Our servants' names are always given by their masters. Miss, could you please give Ruhua a new name?"

She still knows her place.

Little Fu Bao nodded slightly and said:

"Buying you all means buying a lifelong contract, do you know that?"

A dead-contracted servant is paid seventy or eighty strings of cash. The broker gets half, the servant's family gets half, and they also receive a monthly allowance based on the work they are required to do.

"We'll make you three sets of clothes as soon as you enter, and one more set every month thereafter, plus two sets for a family reunion."

They bought a total of six servants and eight maids.

Xiao Fubao appointed the middle-aged man surnamed Jian, who had previously worked as a housekeeper, to be in charge of purchasing medicinal herbs, and also asked Grandma Xiang to be in charge of managing the maids.

Assign that girl who likes to break things to sweep the yard and prune the dead leaves from the fruit trees in the yard, and don't let her break porcelain.

An elderly woman was in charge of cooking.

The other six followed her to make materials for the fragrance.

Of the six people, two were the housekeeper's daughters.

The two were the younger sisters of two of the servants.

This can also be considered a kind of hostage. If they are sent elsewhere in the future, they will have something to worry about when they are away from home.

When Butler Jian saw that a little girl was in charge of the household, he was quite surprised. What surprised him even more was that such a young child could arrange everything so well.

After a month of brewing, the hair fragrance medicine has been stocked up quite a bit.

After hearing that his family's hair fragrance was popular in the capital, Xiao Fubao started doing some wholesale business.

The retail prices in the store had been inflated.

"Miss, someone from the Tao family has arrived," said Cui Long, the newly hired servant.

"The Tao family?" Little Fu Bao, who was practicing martial arts in the backyard, exclaimed in surprise, "I don't know anyone from the Tao family!" "Ah, it must be the family of Miss Tao, who often buys spices from our shop."

She practiced light-body skills every morning and taught the maids how to make incense in the afternoon.

Xiao Fubao wasn't familiar with the Tao family, didn't know their background, or their intentions. However, she heard from Cuizhu that the Tao family had been a great help to her in expanding her business in the capital, so she felt it was inappropriate to refuse to meet them.

But she was a little girl.

It seemed a bit disrespectful for her to go alone like that. "Second Uncle, Eldest Sister, we have guests."

Niu Yong and Niu Cuihua naturally heard what the servant said.

Since neither Niu Da nor Shen Yu are at home right now, the two of them will have to act as hosts and entertain the servants sent by the Tao family.