jdhmnovel Chapter 118 Buying People
Chapter 118 Buying People
Qian Da sincerely wanted to do Yuxiu's business this time, so all the people he brought with him were dressed neatly and had clear eyes, without any of them looking around randomly.
Yuxiu walked around the crowd and quickly selected eight little girls, two middle-aged women, and two other families. One family was a middle-aged couple with two sons and one daughter. The two sons looked twelve or thirteen years old, and the youngest daughter was only seven or eight years old.
The other family was also a couple, but they had only a daughter who was about ten years old. The daughter was not in good health, and the woman hugged her tightly, her eyes full of tension.
Yuxiu took a look at the little girl and thought that she had just caught a cold. She asked someone to get two doses of medicine and she thought she would be fine after taking it, so she didn't take it seriously.
After she selected these people, she asked Mother Qiu to help her to evaluate them. She felt relieved when she heard Mother Qiu say that these people looked good and seemed to be honest and decent people.
"Miss, you have good taste. These people all look good. However, if you want to run a business, you'd better find a suitable housekeeper. Otherwise, it doesn't make sense for the master to worry about all the big and small things."
Seeing that Yuxiu had no intention of picking anyone else, Mother Qiu quickly leaned over to her ear and whispered a suggestion.
"Besides, with Madam Cui's current status, the people who come to her house in the future will all be high-ranking officials and dignitaries. If there is no one in charge in the mansion, it will not be able to hold up the place, right?"
What Mother Qiu said made a lot of sense. Yuxiu nodded after hearing it. She thought that she should indeed pick another manager to take back. In the future, there would have to be someone to arrange and manage the eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and sleeping of these servants.
"Mother Qiu has given it a lot of thought, but I don't know if she can find the right person."
Yuxiu looked around the crowd and couldn't help but shook her head.
These people seem to be ordinary people. They may be good at their jobs, but they lack the ability to be managers.
"If the young lady wants to find a manager, Old Qian has several of them here."
Qian Da heard it and waved his hand to let the people in the hall go down, leaving only those who Yuxiu had just jumped out.
He gave a few more instructions to a young boy, and the boy ran away quickly, and soon came back with six middle-aged men.
The six people lined up in the yard, bowed to Yuxiu, and said in unison:
"The young one has met the master."
"They all worked as stewards before, but were later sold out by the master for various reasons. But don't worry, young lady, they are just innocent victims, and they are definitely not criminals. If you like any of them, take them back and try them out. If you are not satisfied, you can return them here at any time."
Qian Da looked like he was taking on a lot of responsibility and seemed very confident in these people. Yuxiu smiled and nodded, then turned her gaze to these people.
Although their clothes were shabby, their demeanor could be seen, and they were very different from the previous people.
"I only need two people for now. Either you introduce yourselves and I'll see who is the most suitable."
Yuxiu didn't know who to choose. She couldn't accept all of them, so she asked everyone to say a few words. She was still muttering in her heart that this should be similar to the interview in her previous life.
"My name is Zhang Wentang, I am forty-three this year, I have a wife, Chen, who is thirty-nine years old, and a son who is eighteen years old..."
"My name is Lin Er, I am 38 this year. I have a blind mother and a 35-year-old wife. My two daughters are already married..."
"My little one's name is..."
The six people stepped forward in an orderly manner, explained their situation in detail, then returned to their seats, lowered their heads and waited for the result.
They have become accustomed to such things. The number of people being chosen together is decreasing, and now there are only six of them left. They don't know which two people will be lucky enough to be chosen today.
These people all looked good, but Yuxiu really only needed two people. After discussing with Mother Qiu, she pointed out Zhang Wentang and Lin Er.
"Just the two of them, and call their families out to see if they can be taken away together."
Seeing Yuxiu being so straightforward, Qian Da greeted the young boy again, and the boy ran away quickly again, probably to look for the wives and children of the two men.
Qian Da asked those who were not selected to step down, and then called together the people selected by Yuxiu. It looked like there were quite a lot of them.
The eight little girls, all about fifteen or sixteen years old, were lined up at the front.
Behind them came two women who were dressed very neatly, then two other families, and finally the family members of the two managers were also brought over, making a total of twenty-four people, young and old.
Then came the accounting. The little girls got fifteen taels each, the two women got twenty taels each, the men got thirty taels more, and the boys got twenty taels, the same as the women.
The first family had two half-grown boys, a boy and a girl, plus a little girl, totaling 105 taels.
The second family had a boy, a girl and a sick little girl, and the price was sixty taels.
The price for two stewards is fifty taels.
Zhang Wentang's family, one boy and one girl, plus his eighteen-year-old son, who is also an adult man, deserves one hundred taels.
Lin Er's family only had his wife and mother, so he calculated seventy taels of silver. His mother was blind, so she was not counted.
Qian Da was very skilled at calculating with the abacus and quickly gave an accurate figure. However, since Yuxiu was brought here by Mother Qiu and was a straightforward person, he generously eliminated the decimal point and directly said that he would only take four hundred and eighty taels.
The money for the house had already been paid, and Yuxiu took out a silver note for five hundred taels and placed it on the table.
"Thank you for your trouble, Boss Qian. Please use the extra money to treat the young men to some tea."
When the young men heard this, they came over with smiles on their faces to thank her, which made Qian laugh and curse a few times. Then he put away the banknotes and thanked Yuxiu as well.
After all this trouble, seeing that it was getting late, Yuxiu prepared to go home.
As for the indentures of those people, Qian Da had to take them to the government to register them.
"Lin Er, take Wei Dashan and his family to the courtyard with two entrances and settle down first. I will ask you to do other things in two days."
Wei Dashan was the man whose daughter fell ill, so his wife was called Dashan's.
"Zhang Wentang, you take the others and live in the courtyard with three entrances first. Then clean up the place properly. We will move in tomorrow."
Yuxiu took out a purse and took out some change from it and gave it to Lin Er, and gave the rest to Zhang Wentang.
"While it's still light, you should all pack up and go over there. As for food and bedding, buy some for now. We'll see if we can make unified arrangements tomorrow after we move over."
Although she had plenty of those things in her space, she didn't know how many eyes were staring at her family in the capital at this moment, so it would be a bad idea to create trouble at this time.