Chapter 173 Eat less, work harder
If it is the latter, the friendship is deeper and the person will be missed, or the family may come to redeem the person after a few years, which will make people feel uneasy.
But if they are a family, working together and taking care of each other, they will feel at ease and it will be difficult for them to have the thought of leaving, and they can live peacefully for some time.
The waiter laughed when he heard this, "What a coincidence, there really is such a thing. I think it's pretty good. I just arrived yesterday and am cleaning up in the backyard. Madam Jiang and Mr. Song should go with me to take a look."
"I won't ask the steward to pick them up anymore. Madam Jiang can just see the real thing, and she will feel relieved."
The dental clinic has been dealing with Jiang Mixia for a long time, and is now willing to tell the truth.
"become."
Jiang Mixia and Song Jingyun followed the workers to the backyard of the dental clinic.
The backyard of the slave trade shop was very large, with a row of low houses, which were specially used for temporary residence of those who sold themselves into slavery.
At this moment, some people in tattered or even ragged clothes were busy washing and sweeping in the backyard.
The waiter said a few words to the manager, and the manager brought the man over.
There were four people, two in their thirties, who looked like a couple, and two in their teens, a boy and a girl, who should be their children.
From the waiter, Jiang Mixia learned that the man's name was Ding Fu, his wife was Ms. Ma, their eldest daughter was named Ding Cuihua, who was thirteen years old this year and was born in the first month of the year, so she would be fourteen after the new year, and their youngest son was named Ding Mao, who just turned twelve last month.
My home is in the west, and we are tenants in a farm. When my grandparents were still alive, we rented ten acres of land every year, and our family of six could have enough food to eat. But we encountered a locust plague and had no harvest. Even though the head of the farm was kind and did not require rent but only required land tax, we still could not come up with so much money.
The family of six worked as laborers everywhere, selling their strength and finally scraping together enough money to pay the village head. However, because life was hard, the children's grandparents fell ill one after another.
Although the family was poor, they were also filial and did not want to see their elderly father get sick without medical treatment, so they paid the money to have him see a doctor.
After half a year, my grandparents died one after another and the family owed a lot of money.
As they had no land, no property and no possessions, their creditors, unable to collect their debts, persuaded them to sell their children. Ding Fu and Ma thought about it for a long time and finally agreed to sell themselves.
But it was not Ding Cuihua and Ding Mao who were sold. Instead, the four members of the family were sold as slaves to pay off their debts. The only requirement was that the four of them had to work together and were unwilling to be separated.
Because of this reason, the person who previously bought Ding Fu's family of four went to several places but never made a move until he came here.
Jiang Mixia roughly understood the situation, nodded slightly, and then looked at the four people again.
Ding Fujia and his three companions felt quite embarrassed at this moment and just kept lowering their heads.
"What will they do?" Jiang Mixia asked.
Ding Fuyuan was the head of the family. When he saw the buyer asking questions, he quickly responded, "I..."
"The little one can farm, do some simple carpentry and bricklaying work, make a bench, build a stove, and his mother can cook and make clothes."
"The two children are still young and don't know much. My daughter can embroider some lace or handkerchiefs."
Seeing that Jiang Mixia didn't say anything, Ding Fu hurriedly said, "If this lady is willing to buy our family of four and let us work together, we will definitely work hard and not let her down."
"There are four of us, and we don't eat much..."
Eat less, work harder! Ding Fu was not a talkative person, and he was a little nervous at the moment, so he kept repeating the same few words over and over again.
Jiang Mixia saw that Ding Fu, the head of the family, was an honest person, so she nodded slightly and then asked, "Are you all healthy?"
"They are both healthy and fine." Ding Fu was a little embarrassed. "It's just that his mother's eyesight is not very good at night. She used to make clothes for others and earned a lot of money. She stayed up late at night and her eyes were tired."
"But if she has nothing to do during the day, she won't be delayed from doing work. If there is a lot of work, she will be quicker and try to finish it during the day."
Jiang Mixia nodded again and looked at the four people again.
After a moment, he nodded, "Let's go with this one."
"Okay."
The clerk responded and hurried to prepare the documents, such as the indenture.
The imperial court stipulated that all indentures must be recorded in the government office for easy management in the future.
The procedure was not troublesome and the clerk was familiar with it. After Jiang Mixia paid the silver, the clerk handed Jiang Mixia the document with the government seal.
After buying the servants, Jiang Mixia and Song Jingyun did not delay and directly hired a carriage to go home.
Jiang Youcheng and Liu were very happy to see Jiang Mixia and Song Jingyun coming back. They specially picked the fattest chicken from the chicken raised in the backyard and prepared to make braised chicken nuggets.
Since you have been bought back and become a servant, you must fulfill the duties of a servant.
Seeing this, Ding Fu rubbed his hands and said, "Master, Madam, let me do the killing. I used to work in a restaurant butchering chickens and geese, so I'm quite experienced."
The daughter and son-in-law were filial and hired someone to help with the work. Liu did not refuse, "Then you come. The knife was sharpened yesterday and it is very sharp. You need to be careful."
He laughed again, "What master and lady? We are farmers, there are not so many rules. I am older than the head of the family, so just call me brother and sister-in-law."
"Sister-in-law, I'll go boil some hot water." Ma quickly changed her words and carried some firewood from the side into the kitchen.
Ding Cuihua and Ding Mao, brother and sister, one went to get a wooden basin while the other got a shovel, preparing to bury the dirt later.
Jiang Youcheng looked at the scene and nodded, "It looks good."
"Yes." Liu agreed and asked Jiang Mixia, "How are you going to arrange these four people?"
"Mother, this is what I think." Jiang Mixia said, "Uncle Ding and Aunt Ma will stay at home and help parents with chores around the house, and Cuihua and Ding Mao will follow Jingyun and me to the county town."
Liu nodded, "Cuihua will follow you. Ding Mao happens to be a boy, not too old, so he is suitable to be a servant to Jingyun."
"I just saw that the clothes they were wearing were a little worn out. There were some half-new clothes at home. I'll go look for them."
Jiang Mixia and Song Jingyun had previously worn small clothes, which were just given to Ding Cuihua and Ding Mao. As for Ding Fu and Ma, their heights were about the same as Jiang Youcheng and Liu, but they were much thinner, so the clothes seemed a little too big for them.
Ma knows how to make clothes. She can just make some alterations in the next two days. Itβs not a big deal.
Liu was thinking along these lines and told Ma about it. She even brought some shoe soles and cloth and asked Ma to make two new pairs of shoes for Ding Fu and the other two, so that they could wear them alternately on a daily basis.
Suddenly I realized that the plot of buying a servant is the same as the one about the mistress... What a coincidence γγ γ (End of this chapter)
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