After crossing over: kidnapping a female hunter to be the stepfather of the three cubs

Zhao Huanxi rolled his eyes. "You're still trying to act like that with me!" He turned to the trafficker and said, "How much silver do you want for these three people?"

When the trafficker saw that Huanxi had picked out good "goods", he hurried forward and began to introduce them:

"Madam, you have good taste. The two cooks are thirteen taels of silver each, and the one who can sew is more expensive, mainly because she has a daughter. Here, that one."

Huanxi looked in the direction the human trafficker pointed, and saw that there was indeed a little girl behind the young woman, but she was hiding in the crowd and could not be seen for a while.

The little girl was about five or six years old, as thin as her own daughter a few months ago. Her eyes were full of panic and timidity, and she was looking at her mother eagerly.

"Then how is this calculated?"

"Well...how about twenty taels of silver for both adults and children?"

Twenty taels, he really dared to ask for it. You could buy a cow for that price. She shook her head and said, "That's too expensive. I don't want it. I'll take the two cooks instead."

The trafficker quickly tried to make amends, smiling, and said, "We can negotiate the price. We allow children to be brought along when we sell people, so the price is a little higher. How much silver do you want, and we can discuss it."

"Forty taels together." Huanxi stretched out four fingers.

It was like signing a labor contract. She only wanted the other person to be able to mend clothes, and she didn't ask for a certain amount of money. Twenty taels of silver could hire a good embroiderer to make her clothes for several years.

Obviously... this is a bit out of her price range. She's not doing charity, so even if she wants to sympathize with these people, she has to consider whether she has the ability to do so.

Hearing the forty taels, the trafficker was stunned for a moment. This was like cutting into the aorta. Cutting off six taels of silver in one go was too much...

Xu Qingzhao stood up at this time and said to Huanxi, "Huanhuan, I remember there is another one at the corner of the street. Let's go check it out."

Huanxi nodded and asked the trafficker, "Can you sell it? If not, I'll ask again."

The trafficker gritted his teeth and thought, even though he would earn less, it was better than losing money if he stayed for a few days. So he nodded in agreement.

When the women heard that they had been bought, they immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed to express their gratitude.

Those who were not chosen secretly regretted it, and a few brave ones even stepped forward to promote themselves. Although this couple did not look like a wealthy family, they looked like they were from a good family.

So the woman with a child who was not selected was a little angry. She was the one who asked first, but someone else got there first.

Looking at his daughter, he hardened his heart and knelt down in front of Huanxi and the other two. His eyes would occasionally glance at Xu Qingzhao, giving Xu Qingzhao goose bumps.

"Master and Madam, please, please take my daughter away. Even though she's young, she can do anything. She can even be a concubine when she grows up."

When the little girl heard that she was going to be separated from her mother, she immediately hugged the woman and cried and refused to let go.

Zhao Huanxi: What's going on? Even my concubine told everyone...

Looking at Xu Qingzhao, there must be a way to have sex with the concubine. There are only women in his family, where can he have sex with the concubine?

Besides, the reason I didn't choose this woman just now was because there was something dishonest in her eyes. I didn't like her shrewdness, so I didn't choose her. Is this moral kidnapping...

I have no morals, so I can't kidnap her.

"Get up, get up. What are you doing? If everyone learns from you and cries like that, will I still be able to do business? I'm letting you be with your daughter out of kindness, but you don't appreciate it, right?" The human trafficker stepped forward and scolded the woman, then turned around and smiled apologetically.

"I'm sorry, this person has just been sold and hasn't been trained yet, so he doesn't know the rules. Please wait a moment, I'll go get her indentures."

Zhao Huanxi and Xu Qingzhao sat on the chairs and ignored the woman's crying. They just looked at each other, and everything was said without words.

Seeing that the two people at the top didn't respond at all, the woman was completely anxious. Her daughter was born beautiful, what if she was bought by a bad family, what would she do if she was sold to such a place?

"Madam, please have mercy on me. I can chop wood and farm, and I know about medicinal herbs. My daughter is also able to endure hardships. Please accept us."

Wait... do you know medicinal herbs?

"Can you grow medicinal herbs?"

When the woman heard Huanxi's question, she quickly said, "Yes, yes, yes. I used to be a mountain dweller. I ended up like this after marrying a bad man. I can grow some simple medicinal herbs."

Zhao Huanxi began to feel conflicted. If this woman knew how to grow medicinal herbs, it would really save her a lot of trouble. She looked at the little girl and found that she was indeed a little beauty.

When the human trafficker came back, Zhao Huanxi asked the price of the mother and daughter.

"Her husband arranged for this mother and daughter to be sold. They seem to be in a village not far from here. If you want them, madam, they'll be fifteen taels."

Zhao Huanxi readily paid fifty-five taels of silver, took the indentures of several people and left the brokerage firm.

Then I bought a lot of coarse cotton cloth from a nearby cloth shop, loaded it into the carriage, and added people to it. It really made life difficult for Shufeng, the good horse...

By the time we got home, it was already around eight or nine in the evening, and it was completely dark. After knocking on the door, we called the people in the car into the yard and then moved the goods inside.

Yu Yan understood that this was a human transaction, but the three children were unaware. They simply thought they were new guests and were very curious about the two new little girls.

Zhao Huanxi sat in the main seat in the reception room, Yu Yan and Xu Qingzhao sat on both sides, and the three maids were either standing or sitting, all waiting for Huanxi's words.

The four women and two little maids who had been bought knelt neatly in the hall. Huanxi didn't want them to kneel down, saying that it was their first meeting, and if they didn't set some rules, they might be easily fooled in the future.

"What are your names?"

"Madam, since you have bought me, please give me a name." These were said by the two women who cooked.

It looked like the two knew each other, and they seemed to have been sold from the same mansion. They were quite knowledgeable about the rules.

"Do you still remember your previous names? How old are you?" Huanxi asked.

"My name is Chunliu, I am twenty-four this year." "My name is Xiahe, I am twenty-three this year."

Huanxi thought for a moment and said, "Your original name is good, so let's use it. From now on, you will be responsible for washing clothes, cooking, and preparing three meals a day. Is that okay?"

"Yes." The two answered in unison.

Zhao Huanxi then asked about the remaining two mother-daughter pairs. The woman who could embroider was called Yuanzhen. She was twenty-one years old, the same age as Yu Yan. Her daughter was called Baoer.

As for the last couple, the mother is Linghua, 24 years old, and the daughter is Xiaodan.

After learning the names of these people, Zhao Huanxi started to lecture them with a stern face:

"These are my three maids, Zhao Pan, Zhao Yin, and Zhao Nian. This is my maid's master, Miss Yu Yan. This is my distinguished guest, Xu Qingzhao. Let me introduce him first..."

Seeing that they had all finished reading, he continued:

"Let me be frank. Do your job well and fulfill your responsibilities. I won't treat you unfairly, but if there are those who are cunning, cunning, or talkative, don't blame me. My Zhao family is small and can't accommodate them. "

"Madam is right." Several people said.

"Also, my family isn't one to give you a hard time. If you do well in a few years, you can come home and get married. I won't interfere. But if you do something shameful and filthy, I'll throw you into the mountains to feed the tigers! Do you understand?"

"understood."

Huanxi exuded an aura that truly resembled the mistress of a household on TV. After she finished her lecture, she distributed some cloth to the women and told them to sew their own clothes. She also took a few of them to rest. On the way back, she bought some buns on the way back and shared them with everyone, so they weren't hungry.

When Huanxi saw that everyone had dispersed, he called Xu Qingzhao to the study to discuss the matter of buying more land.