Chapter 162 (1/2)
”You, you.” Fang ruxiu first ordered the two eight or nine year old girls and said, ”stand aside.”
”Yes.” the two girls saw that they had been selected by Fang ruxiu. They couldn't help but be happy in their hearts, so they bowed their heads and went aside.
”I repeat that although I came to buy people, I actually came to recruit people to work.” Fang ruxiu went between the woman and the four members of the family and repeated it again.
After hearing Fang ruxiu's words, the four members of the family trembled again. The woman hugged their two children tightly, but the woman said in an unassuming manner: ”yes, I know. I'm here to work. Although I can't go down to the ground, I can wash and cook.”
”Laundry and cooking?” Fang ruxiu thought. It seemed that there was a shortage of laundry and cooking people in their family. After all, they could hire day laborers for everything in the field. On the contrary, there was no one to help with the laundry and cooking. Thinking of this, she nodded and said, ”can you sew? Can you make clothes and shoes?”
”Yes!” the woman agreed!
”OK, you can also go.” Fang ruxiu saw that although the woman was not well dressed, her whole body was still clean, and the stitches on the patch were neat and flat. She was a clean woman. So she nodded and chose the woman.
Finally, she didn't want the family of four. First, she didn't have an eye with them. Secondly, Fang ruxiu didn't like their appearance. Most importantly, she thought it was enough for her family to buy such people for the time being.
Some people cook and wash clothes, others feed health birds, which liberates ye and Fang Yicheng. We can help with the rest of the chores, so that the family will not be so tired.
”Well, I'll buy three of them for the time being, and I'll buy the rest next time.” Fang ruxiu said to mother-in-law Jiang.
”Just the three of them?” the mother-in-law Jiang asked again. When she saw Fang ruxiu nodding, she began to quote: ”these two girls are eight or nine years old and can work. Let's pay three liang of silver each.”
Three Liang silver? cheap!
”Well, what about the eldest sister?” Fang ruxiu asked, pointing to the woman in her thirties.
”If she wants to wait a minute, she sells herself as a slave, and I don't have the deed to sell herself.” the mother-in-law Jiang asked Fang ruxiu to wait a minute, so she told the little girl around her to invite mother-in-law Chai from the street.
While letting the people return to the front hall to rest, she explained the identity of the 30-year-old woman to Fang ruxiu and others: it turned out that the woman had just died her husband, and her mother-in-law said she was going to sell her. She thought that instead of being sold by others, she might as well find a reliable owner, so she told her mother-in-law and ran to me.
After listening to mother-in-law Jiang's words, Fang ruxiu couldn't help sighing. It turned out that not long ago, this woman was still a little landlady. She didn't expect to sell herself as a slave and be inferior in the twinkling of an eye. However, does her mother-in-law here still have the qualification to sell her daughter-in-law?
Fang ruxiu also asked her this question, and mother-in-law Jiang told them that the woman had been a child's daughter-in-law since childhood. Her relatives never cared about her. She only had her mother-in-law family, not her mother's family. Naturally, her mother-in-law family had the right to buy and sell her.
”Alas!” Fang ruxiu sighed in her heart and waited for her mother-in-law, the firewood mother-in-law, to come.
Having nothing to do, Fang ruxiu also asked about their age and names, and asked them to introduce themselves.
The two girls were eight and nine years old. They had no name. When their parents sold them, they called them Ya Ya, so mother Jiang called them Da Ya and Xiao Ya respectively. The woman's name is Li Lanxiang. She is actually only 28 years old this year. Because she has no children under her knees, she has such a low status in her mother-in-law's family. If she has a son, she must be afraid of selling her.
”Da Ya, Xiao Ya?” Fang ruxiu smiled at the two gray girls and said, ”I'll call you Da Ya and Xiao Ya in the future. Ya is elegant. I think you also have a little aura of intelligence. Maybe your future is unlimited.”
”Thank you for your name, miss.” the two girls fell on the ground and said in unison.
Looking at their appearance, I know that mother-in-law Jiang taught them before. Otherwise, a little girl doesn't know so much etiquette.