In fact, it was because Su Qingluan was accustomed to the "hiring" method of having others do work, but she was still not used to the "buying a slave" method, which always felt weird.
Su Qingluan didn't care - there was a serious generation gap between people born more than ten or twenty years apart. She was a modern person who traveled through time to ancient times that was who knows how many hundreds of years apart. The generation gap was definitely huge.
Therefore, Su Qingluan didn't worry about why she couldn't fit in well with this era - her generation gap was too serious, and it was normal that she couldn't fit in well. As long as she didn't touch the laws of survival in this era, Su Qingluan felt that she could do whatever she wanted. After all, behind closed doors, no one cared how she lived her life.
After dealing with the two little servants, Su Qingluan turned around and locked both the backyard door and the front door. She turned to Liu Yunniang who was waiting beside her and said with a smile: "Yunniang, let's go. If you want to choose these ingredients, you have to ask me!"
Liu Yunniang walked beside Su Qingluan, glanced at her stealthily, and asked, "Are you...always like this?"
"What do you mean by 'like this'?" Su Qingluan was confused.
Liu Yunniang pointed in the direction the two servants left and said, "These two people are not disabled, and they are male. You must have spent a lot of money to buy them. Why did you give them indentures?" Her expression clearly said: You have lost money on this business, a big loss.
Su Qingluan did not intend to tell Liu Yunniang that she was not used to "using" men and women, who were also human beings, as servants, because Liu Yunniang did not have malicious intentions or look down on others and felt that it was a loss to "buy and release" a slave.
It wasn't that she naturally wanted to order others around, but—in this era, human trafficking was a "commonplace" and even "legitimate" thing. If children weren't sold, many families would starve to death. Su Qingluan hadn't encountered it face to face since traveling through time, but that didn't mean she hadn't heard of it, nor did it not exist.
What's more, there is no concept of "equality of personality" in this era. Even if Su Qingluan explained it, the other party might not understand it.
So Su Qingluan could only come up with a seemingly reasonable excuse: "My family is still in the village. It would be too conspicuous to order slaves around like this. Besides, I am a woman. Even if I buy slaves, I want young girls."
This wasn't a complete lie; Su Qingluan did want to "buy" a few little girls to be her maids, and then find them decent families when they came of age. Otherwise, girls who were "sold" these days would either end up in brothels or be sold as maids, leaving their future entirely up to luck.
However, Su Qingluan does not have the leisure time to train her own staff now. She still has to make good progress in the trial products of Xie Mansion - but more important than that is the "master" of the Liu family in front of her.
Along the way, Su Qingluan and Liu Yunniang visited several meat and fish stalls in succession.
The Su family's offal soup has become very famous recently, so these vendors are very familiar with Su Qingluan.
There is a saying that goes, "Leave a way out when doing things, so that you can meet again in the future." These stall owners are also smart people.
If they see a stranger who is just passing by or who they don't see often, they will try to make a "one-time deal" by taking out scraps or unsalable defective products and trying to sell them to the customer.
If you meet an expert and cannot sell inferior products, then they will take out high-quality goods and ask for 10% or 20% more than the usual price. This is called "killing".
But Su Qingluan was already a familiar face, and everyone saw her everywhere. Furthermore, she was an expert at selecting ingredients, so it soon became that Su Qingluan was the one who quickly and efficiently grabbed the freshest ingredients, whizzing past like a whirlwind, while Liu Yunniang had become a little follower who only knew how to pay and take the goods.
"This fish isn't lively enough, and there's blood on its scales. It looks like it won't live long."
"Why does this meat leak water when I press it? Did you pour water into it?"
"Oh, I see that piece of mutton stuck to the cutting board and placed sideways without sliding off. It's also fresh and tender. It looks good. This is it!"
In just half an hour, in addition to the chicken, duck, fish and meat that were originally planned to be bought, even the vegetables to be served on the table today and tomorrow were bought.
Liu Yunniang's eyes sparkled with stars: "Qingluan, the meat and vegetables you bought are fresher than when I bought them, and the price is cheaper!"
"Because I know the tricks these people use to fool their customers," Su Qingluan turned around and said with a smile, "Besides, we all know each other every time we look up or down, and we know exactly what ingredients and prices are, so they can't fool me."
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