A farmer's daughter who traveled through time: Marrying a sickly man

After a while, Mrs. Xu came in and asked them to go to the backyard to choose someone.

"Madam, the people I have are all innocent, you can choose with confidence." Mrs. Xu enthusiastically led Xia Tian and others to the backyard.

When they went in, they saw several rows of people standing in the yard, about forty or fifty people.

There are more girls, and the whole family is there.

Xia Tian saw that some of those people were looking at her eagerly, while others lowered their heads and dared not look at them.

She felt a little uncomfortable, but fortunately these people seemed to be in good spirits. It seemed that Mrs. Xu was quite kind and did not treat them too harshly.

In the summer, I asked the girls to stretch out their hands and looked at their nails first. Fortunately, they were basically clean.

She was planning to train these people and put them in the teahouse, and those who were not clean would not be accepted.

Together with Ningxiang and Cuiyun, she picked ten girls aged fourteen or fifteen. These girls had clear eyes and wore neat and clean clothes, which made Xia Tian very satisfied.

I asked Xu Ya Po, and found out that most of them were sold by their parents because of financial difficulties, and their backgrounds are relatively clean.

Xia Tian asked Mu Feng to pick a few more boys. Mu Feng chose four who looked seventeen or eighteen years old and were relatively strong.

Then he picked six boys, also around fifteen or sixteen years old.

Just as she took two steps and was about to take another look, one of the ten girls she had chosen suddenly took a step forward and knelt directly in front of her.

She was startled and was about to scold her when she heard the girl say, "Madam, could you please buy my brother as well?"

The girl had a pretty face and no patches on her clothes. She was kneeling on the ground and looking at her eagerly.

"Your brother?" Xia Tian was surprised. "Where is he?"

When the girl heard her question, her face also showed anticipation, "That, that little kid over there." She pointed at the kid and quickly called out, "Xiao Zhou, come here quickly."

When the little boy heard his sister calling him, he looked over here, then glanced at Mrs. Xu timidly, and only came over after seeing Mrs. Xu nodded.

Mrs. Xu sighed and glared at the girl helplessly.

The girl looked away guiltily.

The little boy looked very thin. He walked to his sister, knelt down and kowtowed to Xia Tian first. Then he raised his head and introduced himself clearly, "Madam, my name is Xiao Zhou. I am eight years old this year. I eat little and can do a lot of work." After that, he kowtowed to Xia Tian again.

"Madam, these two are siblings. Their parents passed away, and they have no grandparents, so they were sold by their uncle." Mrs. Xu came over to explain to Xia Tian, "These two siblings have been with me for three months. Every time someone likes the elder sister, she always takes her younger brother with her, so they have never been sold."

Mrs. Xu didn't want to lie, so she explained the situation directly. Whether it would succeed depended on the luck of the brother and sister.

If this lady could buy these two siblings together today, it would solve a big problem for her.

After all, she is doing business here and it is impossible for her to support them forever, so she made them stand separately today, for fear that they would get hurt again.

Too bad it backfired!

Mrs. Xu highly recommended them, "Madam, these two siblings are really hardworking and down-to-earth. And this girl is also very skillful and learns things very quickly."

"Oh?" Xia Tian also became curious and asked the girl, "What's your name? What can you do?"

"Madam, my name is Xiao You. I can make many snacks, I can also embroider, and my brother can read." When Xiao You heard the lady's question, she felt that she might be able to buy both her and her brother back today, so she quickly promoted herself and her brother.

Xiao You kept calling themselves "slave" and "servant". This was what Mrs. Xu asked them to call themselves after they came here.

I just hope they are well-behaved and smart so that they can be chosen by buyers sooner.

When Xia Tian heard that the girl named Xiao You could make snacks and embroider, he knew that Mrs. Xu was not lying, otherwise she would have been bought by someone long ago.

"Your brother has been to school? Then do you know how to read?" Xia Tian was really surprised. He didn't expect that there was someone who could read.

"Madam, my younger brother has studied there for a few years, and I know a few of them," Xiao You said modestly.

Seeing Xia Tian's interest in the two, Mrs. Xu quickly added, "Madam, I forgot to mention that the father of these two siblings was a scholar."

Xia Tian understood that these two siblings had a miserable life. When their parents were alive, they were probably treated like pampered children. Unexpectedly, after their parents passed away, they were sold out by their own uncle.

How cruel of you to have such a young child!

He sighed, and without asking any more questions, he said directly to the siblings, "Okay, then both of you come over here."

When Xiao You heard that Xia Tian wanted them to be siblings, she happily pulled her brother and kowtowed to Xia Tian several times before thanking him and standing beside him.

Xiao You had reminded her just now, and she had forgotten to ask them what they could do. Now that she knew, she asked the few people she had selected. Fortunately, although none of them could read, they were still smart at working, so they were all kept.

What surprised her was that among the four boys picked by Mu Feng, two of them knew some martial arts, which really pleasantly surprised her.

She plans to train the people she picked today so that they can help her build up her business in the future.

The second courtyard she entered also needed to be cleaned up, and then these people could move in directly.

The young ones had all been picked. Xia Tian saw that there seemed to be a couple with a child about eight years old next to them. The man looked to be in his forties and the woman was about the same age. They were looking at her with a look of reluctance on their faces.

Xia Tian followed their gaze and saw that they were looking at the people she had just chosen.

Confused, she asked Mrs. Xu, "Who are those two older people?"

Mrs. Xu looked over and quickly introduced to Xia Tian, "This couple from the He family are a whole family here. Two of the people Madam just picked out are their children."

The He family of five was sold to her together, and they have been with her longer than Xiao You and his sister.

Because they wanted the family to be together, but no one bought it. Today, she had to use threats and inducements to make them agree to separate, otherwise she really couldn't afford it.

Originally, there were four strong and healthy children in their family, and it would have been easy to sell them, but unfortunately they had a child, so the buyer hesitated and didn't want it anymore.

When Xia Tian heard that this was a family, he turned around and asked the daughter and son of the previous family to stand up. Uncle He saw this and thought that the lady was going to change her mind, so he quickly pulled his wife to kneel down in front of Xia Tian and said, "Madam, please buy these two children. We won't come with them."

For so many days, all the buyers refused directly when they heard that they wanted to move in as a family, including a child.

Mrs. Xu said that if no one wanted them today, she would sell their entire family to do hard labor.

In desperation, the family had to reluctantly separate.

Unexpectedly, when it seemed like they were about to get married, because they couldn't bear to part with their two children, they looked at each other a few more times and were discovered by the lady.

But you must not ruin the child's good fortune.

The old He couple kowtowed and begged her. Xia Tian quickly asked them to stand up first, and then asked gently, "Uncle He, Aunt He, what did you two do before?"

Before Old He and his wife could answer, Mrs. Xu interrupted and said, "Madam, Old He used to be the shopkeeper of a wealthy family, and his wife also used to work in the kitchen of a wealthy family."

"Yes, ma'am, later on the master's house was ransacked and our family was sold out," Uncle He added.

Xia Tian didn't expect to gain so much today. It seems that he didn't do his homework well and didn't understand the steps of buying people.