Chapter 440: Buying People Again
Lu Xiang pretended to be angry and complained, "I have been waiting for you to come to my house day and night, and I have no appetite. But you are so obsessed with those yellow and white things that you don't even think about me at all!"
Shen Yuezhang blinked her beautiful eyes innocently, looked up and down at Lu Xiang several times, and said crisply: "Sister Xiang, I see that you have become a little rounder these days, why do you have no appetite?"
"Puff!" Tang spat out the tea in her mouth. Following Shen Yuezhang's words, she looked at Lu Xiang, her eyebrows raised in anger, "Lu Xiang! Did you sneak into the kitchen to eat again in the middle of the night?"
"I didn't!" Lu Xiang retorted without thinking, but did not dare to look Tang in the eye.
The result was that she was punished by Tang's family to copy the female training rules.
Shen Yuezhang followed her back to the room, and seeing how dejected she looked, he secretly took out a small cake.
Lu Xiang's eyes immediately lit up again.
Chen Yuezhang made a gesture to keep quiet, "Don't make a sound, save it for your stomach, let's copy the book now! I'll accompany you!"
"Yue Zhang, you are so nice!" Lu Xiang was so moved that her eyes were filled with tears.
Shen Yuezhang asked back: "You are not angry with me? If I hadn't exposed you in front of my aunt, maybe you wouldn't have been punished today!"
Lu Xiang sighed, "Even if you didn't tell my mother, she would punish me because I really ate it secretly!"
Shen Yuezhang: “.”
"Didn't your aunt make sure you had enough to eat? Why are you still eating secretly in the middle of the night?" Shen Yuezhang expressed his incomprehension.
Lu Xiang frowned, "You don't understand, I'm growing up now, and I get hungry soon after eating. But my mother said that girls can't be fat, and if they are too fat they won't be able to get married. She's afraid that I'll eat myself into a fat man, so she won't let me eat this or touch that.
I originally wanted to go to Qingfengzhai to look for you, but she disagreed, saying that I would lose control of my mouth if I went there. Woohoo, I am really miserable!"
"It's really tragic when you look at it this way!" Shen Yuezhang expressed deep sympathy for Lu Xiang's experience.
Lu Xiang looked at her slender figure with envy, and asked with red eyes: "My dear sister, aren't you hungry? Or do you eat less? Or does your mother not give you food like my mother? Look at your body, you are only half my size, weak and fragile. My mother said that I have to be like you."
Shen Yuezhang tilted his head, his eyes full of confusion.
Chun Xing couldn't help laughing out loud.
"What are you laughing at?" Lu Xiangdu asked dissatisfiedly.
Chun Xing quickly knelt down to explain, "Miss Lu, my eldest daughter really has nothing to do with Fu Feng Ruoliu. She can knock this slave away with one punch."
"Nonsense!" Lu Xiang was extremely angry.
Chun Xing was so frightened that she dared not say a word.
Shen Yuezhang waved his hand, "You go out first."
Chun Xing felt as if she had been pardoned and hurried out of the room.
Lu Xiang said, "Sister Yue Zhang is too lenient with the servants. This is not acceptable!"
Chen Yuezhang laughed and shook his head, "She's right, I'm not weak and frail, the reason I'm thin is because I'm active every day, so eating more won't have any effect. If you don't want to gain weight after eating, you can learn boxing or exercise from me. These are what my parents taught me."
When Lu Xiang heard that he could eat without gaining weight, he said he wanted to learn it without even thinking about it.
The two of them spent the day practicing calligraphy and boxing.
Mrs. Tang was very supportive when she knew that her daughter was learning boxing from Shen Yuezhang. She also turned a blind eye to the fact that Shen Yuezhang secretly sent snacks to Lu Xiang, and even wrote a letter to Su Tai, telling her about these things as a joke.
At this time, Su Tai, escorted by a bodyguard and accompanied by Shen Liang and Yu Mei from the Shenzhuang Xu family, came to Qiongzi again.
When Yu Xinghai, the village chief of Xiaogang Village, saw the group of people, he quickly invited them home and respectfully served them tea.
“Mrs. Shen, what are your instructions this time?”
As they were talking, Yu Xinghai noticed Yu Mei standing next to Su Tai. After not seeing her for half a year, Yu Mei seemed to have been reborn. Not only did her complexion improve, but her eyes had also changed, as if she had become several years younger.
It seems that they are living a good life in the Shen family.
Thinking of this, the smile on Yu Xinghai's face widened a little.
Seeing that he was all ears, Su Tai didn't beat around the bush and said directly, "Village Chief Yu, the people I asked for before are still a little short. This time I came here to ask if there are any people in the nearby villages who are willing to sell themselves to me.
The requirements are the same as before. As long as they are honest and hardworking, and not too cunning, I need at least 20 people."
Yu Xinghai was very shocked. They only took away twenty in the spring, and now they want twenty more. It can be seen that the Shen family is really wealthy and powerful.
He didn't dare to be vague, "Mrs. Shen, all the honest people in our village who are willing to sell themselves have gone with you. Don't worry about the rest. I will go to the neighboring villages to inquire for you."
When Yu Mei came back this time, the villagers must have had some ideas when they saw her like this. I'm afraid that many people would like to sell themselves to live a good life like Yu Mei. People like that definitely do not meet Su Tai's requirements.
Su Tai nodded with satisfaction, "Then I'll trouble Village Chief Yu. If it's a woman, each one will cost 4 taels, if it's a child, each one will cost 2 taels, and if it's a man, each one will cost 6 taels."
Yu Xinghai carefully wrote down Su Tai's words and hurried out to do it.
His daughter-in-law cooked for Su Tai and others, and Yu Mei went over to help.
Yu Xinghai's wife immediately asked about everyone's situation, "Have you been bullied in Langya Country? Do people look down on people from Qiongzi?"
Yu Mei shook her head. "We sold ourselves to the Shen family. We just need to do what the master tells us to do. The master's rule is to talk less, ask less, listen more and do more. We don't talk to the villagers on weekdays. In addition, the master's family has a high status in the village, so we servants also benefit from it. There is no possibility of being bullied."
Yu Mei said this, and Yu Xinghai's wife couldn't help but envy, "Look at the clothes and shoes you are wearing now, they are better than mine. You won't be bullied there, it's much better than staying here. What about your son? How is he now?"
"Very good." Yu Mei replied with a smile, without saying much.
Yu Xinghai's wife couldn't find out anything and could only keep it to herself, but she became more and more envious in her heart.
In the evening, Yu Xinghai returned to the village, greeting the villagers along the way. When he arrived home, he couldn't wait to see Su Tai, "Madam Shen, I have already told the heads of several other villages about your instructions. To be honest, there are poor people in every village who are about to die.
I'll explain the pros and cons to them, and highlight your requirements. They'll bring the people here tomorrow, and you can choose them yourself."
"Thank you for your hard work, Village Chief Yu." Su Tai gave Yu Xinghai one or two taels of silver as a token of gratitude.
Yu Xinghai took the money and smiled from ear to ear, then left the room immediately.
After seeing the people leave, Xu said excitedly, "Xiaotai, you can help us look at the options tomorrow. If it's suitable, we will also hire five or six people to help."
She didn't have these thoughts before, but ever since Su Tai bought someone, she saw with her own eyes that Su Tai assigned the household chores to the servants and got out of the way, and gradually she began to have these thoughts.
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