Chapter 189: Naturally Lead by Example
Facing Ah Heng who was carefully looking at the account book, a smile flashed in Xie Jian's eyes. Although his methods were not fair and upright, for the sake of Ah Heng, his sister-in-law and Min Er, he would stick to the bottom line and live up to Ah Heng's expectations as well as the Master's expectations.
It was not until the next day when Chen Heng went to the broker with Nanny Feng to buy a maid that she remembered why she had agreed to take care of Xie Jian's account books last night.
Then I thought about it, it’s no big deal, keeping one set of accounts is the same as keeping two sets of accounts.
Shen Heng was not used to the slave trade and was very resistant to it, but she had to adapt to it after being born into this dynasty.
But she never expected that a mere twelve-year-old girl would cost ten taels of silver.
As far as I can remember, the fourteen-year-old maid that the Shen family bought only cost six or seven taels.
As Chen Heng drank her tea, she kept in mind what Nanny had said about acting like a wealthy family's mistress, but in reality, her heart was bleeding. She bought two at a time, spending twenty taels.
"Madam Feng, these two contracts describe their origins and the details of three generations of their closest relatives. You are an old acquaintance. Even if I wanted to deceive you, with your experience, can you still fool me?" The matchmaker's eyes occasionally strayed to the lady sitting there. She knew that Madam Feng came from Prince Ning's Mansion, and she didn't know which family this lady came from that she could let Madam Feng personally choose someone for her.
"The maids of the nobles all bought their maids from you, how could I not trust you?" Nanny Feng glanced at the contract and respectfully handed it to Chen Heng, then said to the matchmaker, "Let them come out first and let my wife take a look."
When Chen Heng saw the contents of the contract, she knew why the maids here were so expensive. What was written in it was exactly like a political review, whether the background within three generations was clean, whether there were any crimes, what the relationship with neighbors was like, what the family did, and even the life and death of grandparents and the disease they died of were all clearly written.
When she saw the two twelve-year-old girls, she was surprised. Each of them had a pretty face and pure eyes. Combined with what was written on the contract, it was obvious that these children grew up in healthy families. How could their parents be willing to sell them?
Thinking about the fact that there are still many people who have difficulty in even getting enough to eat, it is a helpless act.
"Open your mouth." Nanny Feng stepped forward and examined their teeth one by one, then their figures, shoulder bones, hand bones, and leg bones. After the examination, she looked at Chen Heng and said, "Madam, these two children are indeed good."
"Then let's go with them." Chen Heng trusted Aunt Feng's judgment.
When a family has a child, they must be given a name by the family. Chen Heng looked at these two well-behaved and lovely girls and felt loved in her heart, so she kept their original names: Zhenzhu and Achan.
On the other side, Xia was happily waiting for Madam Feng and her sister-in-law to return home. However, she did not expect that as soon as Madam Feng entered the house, she bowed to her and politely called out, "Greetings, Madam Xia."
It scared her.
Chen Heng was happy next to her.
"Madam Feng, what are you doing?" Xia quickly helped her up.
Nanny Feng smiled and said, "Madam Shen said that she wanted to hand over these two maids to an old woman like me to discipline them. Even so, I should naturally set an example myself." Mr. Xie also talked about this with her privately, and she was happy about it.
Xia Shi was a little uncomfortable with being so serious all of a sudden. She looked at her sister Chen Heng and then saw her sister-in-law nodded. Although she was not used to it, she could only say: "Okay, let's do it as before in private. I'm really not used to it."
"Yes. Everyone has come to meet Lady Xia."
Zhenzhu and Achan came over and bowed.
Xia looked at the two little girls in front of her. She didn't expect them to be so good-looking, even fairer and more tender than the average country girl. How could they be sold? After watching the nanny take the two girls to the servants' room, Xia pulled her sister-in-law over and asked, "How much silver did you spend in total?"
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