Wei Min asked Shiba to hire a servant for A'ruan, and this servant would last for half a month. Normally speaking, there should be many people vying for the job of being the county magistrate's servant, but the difficulty lies in one thing: you need to know sign language.
No one came for several days, and A'ruan had given up in her heart. She smiled and comforted Wei Min:
——I don’t have a precious body that needs to be served by others.
Who would have thought that just two days after he "said" this, someone uncovered the paper and found the yamen, asking if they were still short of people.
When Eighteen heard the news and came to the yamen, the person who had uncovered the paper was sitting on a chair, blowing off the steam from a teacup. On the small table next to her was a gray cloth bundle, and underneath it was the paper she had posted some time ago.
Eighteen saw that he looked no more than eleven or twelve years old, and asked doubtfully, "How old are you?"
When the man saw someone coming, he quickly put down his cup and stood up, blinking his eyes and asked, "Are you the housekeeper?"
The bailiff who brought him in told him to wait here first, and someone would come to see if he was qualified and then decide whether to have him as a servant.
Before he came, he thought he would definitely be able to become a servant, but who knew that the "rich families" would first check the "goods" when selecting people.
He lowered his head and straightened the corners of his wrinkled clothes, smiled at Eighteen, and answered crisply, "I am fourteen this year."
Eighteen uttered a cry of surprise, and looked around the man carefully again, finally stopping in front of him. She stretched out her hand above his head and gestured at herself several times. It was indeed only up to her chest. "Fourteen years old? Then you are too short..."
The man seemed to dislike being told he was short, and wanted to roll his eyes when he heard that. But when he thought the other person was a housekeeper, he lowered his head, rubbed the corner of his clothes, and muttered, "Didn't the paper say that knowing sign language would be enough? Why do you care about height?"
Eighteen had good hearing, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Do you know sign language?"
When the man heard that she had finally asked about the real matter, he raised his head and smiled confidently, his big eyes curved into crescent shapes, "I have been able to do this since I was a child."
Without waiting for Eighteen to ask, he explained everything about his family background, "My mother is mute and can't speak, so my younger sister and I have been learning sign language since we were young."
At this point, the man lowered his head and spoke in a much lower voice, "My mother died of illness two years ago, and my father didn't make enough money to support my sister's education, so I came out to find a job. When my father and I passed by the bulletin board today, we heard someone say that the county government was recruiting a young servant who could speak sign language, so I came here."
The man raised his head, looked at Eighteen with his big, bright almond-shaped eyes, and said, "I am not afraid of hardship, I can do any job, just keep me."
Eighteen met the pair of bright and clear eyes, and seeing that he was speaking so seriously, he wanted to tease him. He deliberately hesitated for a moment, touched his chin, scanned him from top to bottom, narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked maliciously: "Can you really do anything?"
The man glanced at Eighteen suspiciously, took a step back and moved away from her. He raised his hand and pointed at the plaque behind him that read "A Clear Mirror Hanging High" and said, "If this wasn't a government office, I would have thought you were trying to trick me into entering a prostitute's brothel."
“…”
When Wei Min came in, he noticed that the atmosphere between the two was a bit strange. She got straight to the point and asked the man, "Do you know sign language?"
Seeing that Wei Min looked more reliable than Eighteen, the man said hurriedly, "Yes, yes. If you don't believe me, I'll show you how to do it."
Then he raised his arm and gestured:
——Are you the county magistrate?
Wei Min saw that he was really capable, and also saw that the man had clear eyes and was not afraid of people, so he nodded with satisfaction and said, "I am the county magistrate. Now you can pack your things and come with me to see the master."
The man's eyes curved with joy. After he was done with the joy, he suddenly remembered something and hurriedly called Wei Min to ask in a low voice, "Sir, my father is still waiting for me at the gate of the government office. Can I tell him first that you are willing to use me, so that he won't worry."
Wei Min nodded, then thought for a moment and said, "You can take your father with you to see the Lord. The Lord is a very good person, and your father will definitely feel at ease with you following him after meeting him."
The man was so grateful that he wanted to kneel down to Wei Min, saying repeatedly: "You are such a good man, such a good man."
Wei Min smiled and gave him a helping hand, then asked, "What's your name?"
The man answered crisply, "29, I was born on February 9th."
His parents had never been to school, so they simply called him Erjiu. But after they realized it sounded the same as calling his second uncle, so they just called him Xiaojiu.
Wei Min raised his eyebrows and looked at Eighteen beside him, "Twenty-ninety-eight, I think we are destined to be together."
Eighteen looked reluctant.
After Wei Min left, the man picked up the bag on the small table, held it in his arms, and prepared to go out to find his father.
Eighteen smiled at Erjiu in a friendly manner, revealing half of his canine teeth, and said, "I was just joking with you. My name is Eighteen."
Erjiu stopped and looked at Shiba's smiling face carefully. When he saw Shiba's face was frozen with laughter, he said, "This is the first time I've seen a woman with tiger teeth and dimples."
Eighteen raised an eyebrow, "Looks good, doesn't it?"
Erjiu nodded and praised sincerely: "Your smile is prettier than that of the young waiter."
"..." His face drooped instantly. Seeing that she was unhappy, Erjiu lowered his head and ran away.
When A'ruan heard Wei Min say that he had found a young servant for her, she didn't seem too surprised, but seeing that she was happy for her, she smiled too.
Erjiu came in with his father's arm and met Aruan in the main hall.
The two men were about to kneel down in front of Aruan, but Aruan hurried over to help the fifty-year-old man up, waving his hands.
Erjiu's father followed him because he was worried about his child, afraid that he would be kidnapped and sold. When he saw A Ruan asking him to sit down, he hurriedly shook his head and said, "You can't sit down, you can't sit down."
After "talking" to A'ruan for a while, the old man saw that A'ruan had no airs and was very approachable, so he sighed, "There's nothing I can do, otherwise how could I bear to let a man like him go out. After meeting you, I feel relieved. If Xiaojiu does something wrong in the future, you can think of him as a child, and when you beat and scold him...when you beat and scold him..."
Erjiu's father's eyes were wet and he choked with sobs and couldn't continue speaking. He lowered his head and wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve. Erjiu, who was standing nearby, also had red eyes. He rubbed the corners of his clothes with his hands and whispered, "Dad."
A'ruan has never been loved by his mother or father since he was a child. The Zhang family doesn't even treat him as a son, so he is very envious of Erjiu for having a father who loves him so much.
In contrast, Ah Ruan's nose felt a little sour. He patted the back of Erjiu's father's hand soothingly and raised his hand to assure him:
——Don’t worry about leaving the child with me. I think he is a good boy and I will treat him as my younger brother in the future.
Erjiu's father shook his head when he heard this. "That's not possible. Since Xiaojiu is here to be a servant, he must behave like a servant and cannot be lazy and not work."
Erjiu's father pulled Erjiu over and asked him to kneel down and kowtow to A'ruan, saying, "You must serve the master well in the future. The master is like your mother and cannot speak. If he suffers in this regard in the future, you will have to protect him the same way you protected your mother before, do you understand? But you must also be careful not to cause trouble for the master, understand?"
Erjiu kowtowed to Aruan respectfully and said, "Xiaojiu understands."
Wei Min felt that what Erjiu's father had said just now was absolutely right. The reason why she found a servant who knew sign language was that she hoped that A'ruan would not suffer from not being able to speak.
When Erjiu's father left, Wei Min gave him two more taels of silver and said, "Don't worry, as long as he treats A'ruan well, he will never let him down."
After Wei Min returned to the house, only the father and son were left outside.
Erjiu's father touched Erjiu's head, smiled with tears in his eyes, and warned: "My Lord and the Master seem to be good people to you, you must serve them well, you must not have any thoughts that you shouldn't have, and you must be an honest person.
Although the master didn't sign a contract to sell me, you will belong to Lord Wei from now on..."
Erjiu's father couldn't bear to let his son go, and he hugged him and sobbed.
Erjiu felt bad, but he forced a smile and reached out to wipe his father's tears, "Dad, don't cry. It's not like Xiaojiu won't be able to go back in the future. The master is a good person. Xiaojiu will work hard and will definitely be able to come home to see you in the future."
Erjiu's father had always been strong, so he immediately stopped crying, touched Erjiu's face, and said repeatedly: "It's best if you can come back, it's best if you can come back."
At first, A'ruan thought Erjiu was even thinner than he was back then and couldn't do anything. But when he saw him carrying two buckets of water in one breath, he immediately looked at him differently.
It is true that children from poor families grow up early.
Erjiu is good at rough work and is smart and obedient, but she can't embroider and is sloppy at cooking, so the food is barely edible.
Seeing Erjiu looking at the stove with a sad face, Ah Ruan couldn't help but laugh:
--fine. Your family quite likes the food I cook. From now on, you just need to help me light the fire.
When Erjiu saw Aruan raise his hand to gesture this sentence, the tenderness that inadvertently revealed between his eyebrows and the star-like light flashing in his eyes made him look so gentle that he seemed to glow. He immediately felt that the master and the adults must have a very good relationship, and he liked this master with a good temper even more.
Therefore, Erjiu began to dislike Yang Qinyue, who lived in the same courtyard as him. No matter how he looked at her, he felt that he had bad intentions towards adults.
Yang Qinyue wanted to serve Wei Min as a servant and use this as an excuse to stay, but when he saw Erjiu, who was half a head shorter than him, swinging an axe with one arm to split a wooden stake that was thicker than his thigh, he couldn't help but take two steps back.
He might not be able to be a servant like this...
But Wei Min and A'ruan didn't need a servant who could only add incense, grind and brew tea. Such a servant looked more like the master than A'ruan, so Wei Min would never dare to use him.
Therefore, after the case of Ya Zhizhou was over, Wei Min prepared to send Yang Qinyue away.
The author has something to say: The little servant of the Wei Mansion
A-Ruan: You need to know sign language
29: I can
Yang Qinyue: ememem
Wei Min: Will protect the master
29: I can do it
Yang Qinyue: ememem
18. Can chop wood and do work
Twenty-nine: No problem
Yang Qinyue: em……_(:зゝ∠)_
Yang Qinyue: Okay, okay, I admit defeat, I surrender, you are strong, you are really strong_(:зゝ∠)_
29: Hum╯^╰
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