In the past, I was a little beggar who was avoided by everyone. I had no contact with the lives of the upper class and envied the servants around the adults who were dressed in gold and silver.
I envy them for being able to have enough food and warm clothes. Even being a dog by an adult's side is better than him. People who don't know what will happen tomorrow should live a comfortable life.
But now that I have come into contact with this level, I realized that the slaves around the big shots are only glamorous on the surface, and their life and death depend on the words of their masters.
When alive, you are treated like a slave, and when you die, your whole family is buried with you.
Especially in the previous dynasty, the custom of burying people alive with the dead was very popular. Now it has all been inherited by the Southern Liang.
As for Dajing, Emperor Wu issued an explicit ban, but isn’t there still a saying: Every policy from the top has a countermeasure from the bottom?
Before the funeral, secretly strangle the person to death, and then say that it was your own will.
He is already dead, how can he still jump up and plead for himself? If the owner does not pursue the matter, the government will naturally not make any more trouble than necessary. Therefore, this kind of thing has been repeatedly banned among the people until now, and there is even a trend of it increasing.
Bai Liu and Shunzi used to work in a shop in Weizhou Prefecture, but they had seen with their own eyes that some wealthy families would spend money to buy some young boys and girls from poor families in the countryside, specifically for ghost marriages and burial companions.
People like them who have no one to rely on would become the focus of attention once they left the Qiao family, after all, it would cost a lot of money to find those people. But for them, no one would care if they disappeared from this world.
Especially when the postmaster's mother passed away a while ago, they accompanied the eldest lady to pay their respects. They heard the servants in the mansion talking about whose child was so lucky to be chosen to serve the old lady...
The way they acted so normally made Shunzi and Bai Liu feel creepy.
It just so happened that Qiao Xin had just promulgated the Qiao family's family rules and clan regulations at that time.
One stone can cause a thousand ripples, and those rules caused an uproar in the hearts of the servants of the Qiao family.
What about the master not beating or killing servants without reason, otherwise he will be punished by family law, what about the master of the Qiao family not forcing women to be concubines or have sex with them against their will...
What kind of servants should not be talkative, gossip-mongering, lazy, or lazy? The more work you do, the more you get, and the more capable you are, the better.
These rules not only restrict the behavior of servants, but also set moral standards for the masters of the Qiao Mansion, telling them what to do and what not to do.
It also made the servants of the Qiao family feel at home. Old Madam Qiao really treated them as human beings!
In this case, what else do they have to worry about? If they can live like this for the rest of their lives, even if the Qiao family asks them to be buried alive with them in the end, this life will be worth it.
After hearing the whole story, Qiao Xin finally understood why the eldest daughter-in-law and Nanny Qin sent Bai Liu here. Xu had already begun to cultivate Bai Liu and Shunzi as her confidants.
The daughter-in-law finally started to be more thoughtful. She looked at the pile of indentures placed in front of her.
Qiao Xin said, "You two should get up and do your job well in the future. We in the Qiao family have never done anything that would hurt our morals. The past of Bai Liu is over, but the future is promising. I hope you will cherish it."
"I will remember the old lady's teachings!"
Bai Liu carefully raised her head to look at the old lady, and was relieved to see that her face was calm and not angry. The old lady was telling her to let go of the past and start over.
Qiao Xin asked them to find Qiao Dalang and others to do their job. After all, the staff had been hired, and the shop could officially start the renovation.
Shunzi has been running around for a while, and his time eating and drinking has not been in vain. From the best wood to the manual masonry, he can recommend one or two.
Everyone was surprised when this guy had such a network of connections. He had only been in the capital for more than a month, so how come he was able to thrive better than a servant like Chu Yuan?
"Don't I go to various restaurants to eat every day, chat with the shopkeepers, and ask about the people and things around me?
When I first opened the snack shop in Weizhou Prefecture, I followed the master to decorate it bit by bit. Naturally, I knew what things were needed after a few times.
This time when I came to the capital, I heard that the prince's restaurant was going to be renovated. I just wanted to compare the difference between the capital and Laohu Town.
Anyway, I was just asking around while eating, and only when I chatted with the shopkeepers did they want to talk to me. Later, I wrote down all these places, and went to see them myself, and selected the ones with the best reputation and credibility and memorized them. I thought that they would be useful one day. "
Xu Can looked at Shunzi, then at Chuyuan beside him. They were obviously the ones who paid for meals together, but how come they came up with so many useful things? When this foodie came back, he asked, "Where did you go shopping today? Which store has good food and is not expensive..."
It is true that comparing people will make you die, and comparing goods will make you throw them away!
This boy seemed quite smart before, but now he only cares about eating!
Shunzi recommended the Bai family, a wood supplier to Dalang and his friends, who also lived outside the city.
Their main business is in Northeast China, and they opened a branch in Beijing this year, but they have not yet established a firm foothold in Beijing.
In order to expand the market, their wood is similar to other companies on the surface, but after the purchase reaches a certain price, they will help process the wood into the form you need for free. This saves a lot of trouble.
When the shopkeeper heard that the visitor was the young master of the Qiao family, he immediately gave him a warm welcome. When he learned that the visitor just needed wood for decorating the shop, he smiled brightly.
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