Chapter 217

Li Baolu sipped tea lightly and said: "Thank you for your kindness, Mammy, but I can teach my own servants, and there is no need for Da Furen to intervene."

The dowry mother hesitated for a moment, but she still asked bravely, "I heard that the third grandma is going to send them to the mine?"

Li Baolu looked at her with a half-smile and said: "I just said that Da Furen's news is not well-informed, but now it seems that I misunderstood her, she is very well-informed."

The dowry mother didn't hear the irony, and said: "Ma'am, what you mean is that even though these slaves are wrong, the third mistress can beat and kill them, but they shouldn't be sent to the mines. They know a lot about these slaves. Xin Mi, when you go to a place like a mine, you don’t have a clue, let alone old relatives and friends? Their relatives have all begged to the eldest lady. The eldest lady said that if the third grandma can't relieve her anger, she will beat them up. I will take them back to teach them. The third grandma will use the money to re-buy them and let the foster mother teach them well. They will be able to do things in a short time. gone."

A look that was completely planned for Li Baolu.

Li Baolu said righteously: "Although a few slaves are at fault, the crime is not as good as death. Besides, killing slaves is also against the law. I don't dare to do such a thing that is illegal and peaceful. So the good idea of ​​the aunt is still Leave it to her."

Li Baolu took a sip of tea and continued: "Although a few servants are not good, they are not particularly difficult to teach. These two ladies have seen that their bad habits have changed a lot, so just teach them for a while. My aunt is worried about leaking secrets, but I don’t think she has to worry about it. The ancestors of the Zhongyong Hou Mansion followed the emperor from birth to death and were named for their loyalty. I believe the Hou Mansion is worthy of this title, so there is nothing wrong with it.”

The dowry mother almost spit out blood, which mansion doesn't have any dark affairs? The madam is right, the third grandma is indeed difficult to deal with, and she stopped beating around the bush, and said bluntly: "To tell the truth, the third grandma, many relatives of their family have come to Da Furen, how can ordinary people enter places like mines? You If you are really angry, beat them up, and then say a price, and our Hou Mansion will redeem all these slaves."

"The relatives of these slaves have such big faces that they can instigate your eldest lady." Li Baolu stopped calling her aunt, and sneered directly: "Is this Hou's mansion belonged to the Gu family, or a group of slaves?"

"How many lifetimes are the old people, our wife is kind, it's hard to see them separated..."

Li Baolu waved impatiently and said: "I just sent them to the mine for training, why are they separated? Is it possible that absenteeism will kill them? Are you dissatisfied with the imperial court's mining, or are you dissatisfied with the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War who manage the mine?" Are you dissatisfied?"

"Slaves don't dare," the dowry mother bowed her head aggrievedly and said, "I just ask the third mistress to fulfill our madam's kindness, after all, the madam has already promised to go out..."

It means that they will definitely redeem themselves.

Li Baolu twitched the corner of her mouth and said, "It's okay to redeem them, but I'm afraid you won't be able to part with the money."

The dowry mother proudly raised her head and puffed her chest out, "Don't worry, third grandma, our wife can still afford this amount of money."

Li Baolu sighed, "The Zhongyonghou Mansion is really rich and powerful!"

She said: "My slaves are all very capable, so you can redeem them if you want, and you need 10,000 taels per person!"

The dowry mother cried out in a broken voice: "Ten thousand taels?"

She smiled with an ugly face, "Is the third grandma joking with the servant girl?"

"No, no, no," Li Baolu said, shaking her fingers, "I don't know that my slaves are all talented people. With their abilities, they can earn at least one thousand taels a year, and even ten years. Ten thousand taels, at their current age, adults can live another 20 to 30 years, and young ones can live for 40 to 50 years without any problem, the lady has made a lot of money this trip."

The dowry mother choked on her chest, "Third Madam, are you kidding me? They are just a group of slaves, and the highest price for young and middle-aged adults does not exceed fifty taels..."

"That's the price outside. Can those people compare with my servants? Anyway, if you want to buy it, you can pay for it. I'm only willing to sell it at this price. If you can't pay for it, it's fine. The eldest lady is true, and she is still the wife of the family. , even the group of people can’t be shocked.”

The dowry mother backed out of Gu's mansion in embarrassment, stood at the door holding back and holding back, but she still couldn't hold back and spit secretly.

Ten thousand taels!

If you don't want to sell it, don't sell it. Who is disgusting at this price?

The stewards next door, who have been keeping an eye on the movement here, lay in the crack of the door and looked out. Seeing the dowry mother leaving angrily, they couldn't bear it any longer and opened the door to stop them. The little girl Qingling slammed her Coughed, looked at them arrogantly and said: "Stop chasing, think Da Furen is a good person? She said that you would say things you shouldn't say when you go to the mine, and urged the wife to beat you all to death."

Qingling said triumphantly: "But is our wife that kind of ignorant person? My wife said that killing slaves is also against the law, so I don't want to kill you. I just want to teach you well. If you don't thank your wife, go after that What are you waiting for?"

After that, he slammed the door and went back.

The faces of the several stewards turned pale and green, which was very exciting.

"This is sowing discord!" The steward of Buzhuang gritted his teeth.

"But the eldest lady didn't save us," another steward said in a low voice, "but she promised us last night, we didn't go to the second lady, and it's too late to go now."

It was indeed too late, before Li Baolu's snacks were ready, the officials sent by Wei Cong arrived, knowing that they were prison slaves, they tied them up and left without hesitation.

Li Baolu gave them a few packs of snacks, and waved goodbye to them at the door, "Take care of them, let them learn to be hardworking and brave, and stop cheating and playing tricks."

The officials almost laughed out loud, shrugged their shoulders and assured Li Baolu: "Mrs. Gu, don't worry, I promise that they will never do anything corrupt and deceitful when they come back from the mine."

Li Baolu happily watched them leave. Their family members almost cried to death in the yard. The head of the family left. They were old, young and young, and the rest were women. Wouldn't it be better for Li Baolu to poke and crush them?

Li Baolu turned to look at them, the old lady who was crying heartbroken was covered by her daughter-in-law, and looked at Li Baolu with fear and worry.

Adults are fearful, while children are hostile.

Li Baolu asked the children to come to the front and asked them, "Do you know your identities?"

The children pursed their lips.

"You are slaves," Li Baolu looked into their eyes and said, "Maybe you don't want to be slaves. It's actually not difficult for me. As long as you pay back everything that should be paid, I will let you redeem yourself."

As soon as the eyes of the women in the courtyard lit up, Li Baolu looked at them with a half-smile and said, "But now you still have to pay back what you owe, so you can only continue to be my slaves. You may have forgotten how to be my slaves." It's a qualified servant, but it doesn't matter," Li Baolu pointed to the servants beside him and said, "Do you remember them? They are all servants who have served you before. From today onwards, your job is to do what they have done before. Yes. I'll take you back to the Grange when you've learned how to be a slave."

Li Baolu looked at them without a smile in his eyes and said: "You are different from others. I was very angry because of the previous incident, so this is a punishment for you. You don't have monthly money until I get angry. If you don't complete the corresponding work , or deliberately sabotage the farm, I will starve you and send you to the mine." Li Baolu looked at the old lady with a cold look in her eyes and said, "Whether old or weak, women or children, I think people in the mine should Would love you to go there."

Everyone shuddered.

Young and middle-aged people in that place may not come back, let alone women and children like them?

Only then did everyone suppress the thoughts in their hearts, and lowered their heads honestly.

Only then did Li Baolu leave them and go back to the next door, and all the servants followed, leaving only the family of the slave who committed the crime.

"Old Li stays at the gate, Dongfeng and Nanfeng," Li Baolu looked at the two half-old children, and said with a headache, "Your names are really ugly, who gave them to you?"

The two boys lowered their heads, "The former young master took it."

"Then what were your names before?" Li Baolu asked expectantly.

"My name is Goudan."

"My name is Ergouzi."

"...Why do you all like to have trouble with dogs?" Li Baolu changed the question, "Then what do you want to be called?"

The two children looked at her blankly.

"Forget it, let your uncle come back and ask him to give you a new name. You two are too young to do much work in the farm, so just stay here and run errands for us and help us when the time comes." What."

"We can be book boys." Dongfeng said with his chest out.

"Oh, but my uncle and I don't like to use book boys."

The two children were very disappointed.

Li Baolu explained: "We like to do it ourselves."

She looked at the girls standing in two rows next to her. She wondered if they would be bullied if they were sent to the farm. She looked at the two women beside her.

Seeing this, the two wives understood, stepped forward and said: "Madam, don't worry, the old wives will take care of them."

Li Baolu was silent for a moment and said: "The two old people have no children and are old. It must be inconvenient to live alone. These girls have no elders. They are young and have little experience. There are always many things they don't understand. Why don't you just accept it? Let them be granddaughters, have you helped each other?"

The two old ladies froze for a moment, then they were ecstatic. After realizing it, they knelt down and kowtowed, "My servant thank you for your kindness, thank you for your kindness."

The girls also knelt down one after another.

Li Baolu helped them up and said: "You don't have to be short of breath when you go back to the farm. If someone bullies you, just report it to me. I hate the kind of people who bully men and women the most. But you should stand up on your own. When you get to the farm, I will I will ask someone to distribute some land for you to plant.”

Looking at the six beautiful girls, Li Baolu hinted: "The stewards of the farm have been copied now, and they are temporarily managed by the farmers, but they are only tenants, so they are not easy to trust for a long time. If you do well, I will hand them over to you." It doesn't matter."

The girls were stunned, obviously not understanding what Li Baolu meant, but the eyes of the two old ladies lit up.

They have seen what this lady has done in the past few days.