FH Chapter 66
上瘾了！
[Be Addicted!]
Li Jin Hu did not yet understand the matter of men and women, he only heard that when couples become married and sleep in the same bed, they will have small children. He and his sister both came out this way.
“So, if you don’t understand, you need to read more.”
Li Haitang opened her mouth and found that she couldn’t explain it, so she had to change the topic, “Jin Hu, what kind of page boy do you want?”
“I haven’t thought about it either, think of a smooth one.”
Li Jin Hu touched his chin, pretending to be old.
“In fact, well… you can’t look at people by their appearance.”
Li Haitang rubbed the corner of her forehead with a headache, she always felt that she did not educate herself, her little brother might have a tendency to grow crooked and turn into a face-con, everything looks at the face before one speaks.
“Sis, I know it all.”
Li Jin Hu blinked, pointed to the front of the carriage, although his brother-in-law is a bit ugly, but he can do martial arts, can cook, can hunt, and can open locks, even if he can’t earn silver in the future, he can still go to loot houses, mixing a mouthful of food, it’s not a big problems.
“Robbing a house, this is good.”
No wonder inevitably there is always a chivalrous thief on TV, robbing the rich and helping the poor, especially fulfilling. Li Haitang regretted one thing, time was limited, she didn’t have time to cook all things in one pot—treat different persons or things indiscriminately.
Xiao Lingchuan heard the siblings’ dialogue, almost did not fall down, he just took his wife to rob once, she got addicted, what to do in the future? Is he going to change his profession and find a mountain chief bandit to take over?
After the delay at Li’s house, the group went to the town and it was already noon.
Xiao Lingchuan expected to go to Deer City before dark, and if he wanted to buy a page boy, he was afraid that he would still be delayed for a whole day.
“Sister, when our mother bought the courtyard, she found a middleman in town.”
Ruan listened to people’s introductions and looked for the mediator Huang Ji. The middleman Huang Ji had been open for more than twenty years and had a good reputation, the shopkeeper was honest, and she had never heard of any of his previous convictions for cheating or swindling’s record crime.
“Huang Ji can.”
Xiao Lingchuan had heard a little about it, the middleman are equivalent to modern intermediaries, buying and selling houses, fields, and populations, training small maids for big families, and a wide range of business.
Northlanders are tall, most like the soft women of the south. Rich people entrusted the middleman, good luck, but also to buy a tempered Yangzhou thin horse.
The three of them went straight to Huang Ji, the mate heard that he came to buy a page boy, with an awkward face.
“Wife, a page boy has to be literate, we are all poor families here to sell their children, there are no literate ones.”
The mate wanted to take the business, but there was no one who met the requirements, unlike a handyman in the family, who could casually find someone with strength.
“Let’s see, why don’t we buy little maids?”
There are a few small maids in the broker that recognise words, ready to be sold to big families to serve the young lady, as long as they can afford the price, whoever sold is sold.
“The maids won’t do, I don’t want maids.”
Li Haitang thought about it and asked the fellow mate, “It’s best to be a half-grown boy around twelve or thirteen years old, do you have any here? It doesn’t matter if the person can read or not.”
“Yes there is.”
The mate scratched his head, thinking that the shopkeeper had said that they have to do business innocently and cannot earn black hearted silver, still he endured the pain and said, “You guys definitely can’t look at them.”
“Oh? Is there something wrong with your body?”
No one is born literate, as long as the recognition is not stupid, obedient, loyal, everything can be cultivated later.
Little brother Jin Hu was smart enough, Li Haitang was worried that she would always play smart and suffer big losses in the future, so, he wanted to find an honest person to put by his side and follow.
“No, this one is definitely not.”
Buddy waved his hand repeatedly, there is a problem with a glance can be seen, before he also has a three-day sickness, where the theatre troupe fancy to buy away that looking strong and good-natured boy, smashed in the hand. More than half a year yet it has not sold.
“Then take us to take a look, just in case we hit it.”
Li Haitang insisted, the mate took people to the backyard, saw a stout boy wearing rough clothing splitting firewood, he does things one by one, and looked very hardworking.
“Not bad, he’s the one.”
Li Haitang seeks his little brother’s opinion, Li Jin Hu nods, anyway, it is just to bring someone around to accompany him, when he is tired of studying, he can accompany him to talk, and go home to help deliver a message is good.
“Wife, you have to think about it.”
The mate introduced, chopping wood boy called Chen Er Gou, whose parents died early. Aunt and uncle disliked him can eat, sold people to the middleman, and signed a death contract.
It is not that Chen Ergou uncle and aunt are cruel, that a large family is also bitter, his uncle broke his leg, drinking medicine every day, his aunt rely on people sewing, to support a large family, not easy to live.
The family has no strong labour, several people have to eat, Chen Er Dog not enough to eat, his aunt forced him to have no choice but to go to the door to ask for help.
“He is only twelve, in the town can not find work. His aunt begged our shopkeeper. Not silver from selling people, only begging to find him a family with enough to eat.”
The shopkeeper wanted to give silver, Chen Er Gou’s aunt refused, saying that she was not ashamed to take her nephew’s redemption silver. She has the time, and occasionally takes some saved snacks, to see this nephew.
Every family has its problems, not because Chen Er dog’s aunt and uncle sold him, but because it said that the other person is cruel, in fact, sometimes they give a lot of thought to this matter.
Chen Er Gou also knows that every day he is doing the work with all his heart, but he eats really much, by himself, almost the amount of food in four or five people.
“He was sold out once before, and within three days, the other party sent the person back.”
The mate, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, still remembers the man with a crying expression, eating ten steamed buns at a meal, who can stand it ah?
“En, eating is a bit much, however, my family isn’t bad with that bit of food.”
Li Haitang was embarrassed and regretted not emptying the Qin family’s storehouse; they lived on the mountain, only the yard could grow some sweet potatoes, potatoes and Chinese yams. Their food relied on picking up at the rice and grain shop.
With multiple rice buckets in the house, she considered buying fields and then tenanting them out for some rations each year.
“Chen Er Gou, the name is too earthy.”
The Foothills Academy are all scholars, earthy is easy to be laughed at, she turned her head to look at Li Jin Hu, “You give Er Dog a new name.”
“You guys are really willing to have me?”
Chen Er Gou couldn’t believe it, it was said that, when he was sold out, he still had monthly silver every month, he knew that his aunt had left the only good food for him, if he had the money, he would have to buy medicine for his uncle to treat his leg injury, and he would also have to buy good food for his younger siblings.
“You be my page boy, from now on you will be called Si Xi.”
Li Jin Hu saw that Chen Er Gou was naive and honest, and was quite obedient, so he immediately made a decision.
“Good Fortune, position, longevity, and happiness ranks fourth, so it’s called Four Happiness, Jin Hu made a good name.”
Li Haitang also pretends to be a cultured person, by the way, commented, four happiness, grounded, not pretentious, whether as a page boy, as a servant, this name is suitable.
Li Jin Hu scuffed the ground with his toes and silently took a step back, he just likes eating Four Happiness Dumplings, does it need to be so complicated?
The mate was genuinely happy for Chen Ergou, this time he was considered to have found a generous family, hopefully he won’t be returned again, a price, “Five taels of silver.”
When Chen Ergou sold his body, the middleman didn’t give any money, it was equal to picking up someone for nothing, five taels of silver was his meal money for half a year, and he didn’t ask for more at all.