After the discussion was over, Liu Guangyuan said hesitantly: "Master, if we leave, you must be careful in the house! There are really too few people in our house!"
Liu Haojia said: "Uncle Guangyuan, don't worry. I have borrowed some people from the Zhang family and will be here in the afternoon! As long as they are here, nothing will happen in the house!"
After hearing this, Liu Guangyuan said with relief: "That's good! The second young master is still flexible and has arranged things in advance!"
Liu Haojia said: "Not only that, I plan to buy a group of people back today, especially to buy more children and raise them myself, so that the house will be lively!"
Liu Guangyuan was overjoyed when he heard this and said: "Okay, our Gu Ningbo Mansion must do this kind of good thing!"
Liu Haojia was stunned when he heard this. He thought to himself, this matter of buying people as slaves cannot be a good thing, right? Or did I hear wrongly?
Liu Guangyuan saw what he was thinking and said: "Second Young Master, although our Gu Ningbo's mansion has fallen, we still have enough food and supplies, so you don't know the situation outside! If our mansion only buys some ordinary servants , it’s just a business! But if you buy more children like you said, it would really be a good deed! Because except for some outstanding girls and handsome little boys, all other children are You won’t live long!”
Liu Haojia was very surprised when he heard this! Because what Liu Guangyuan said was completely different from what he saw in movies and TV series! In the movies, when there is a disaster, parents will always put a straw mark on their children's heads and sell them to find a way for their children to survive! Why is it turned upside down in the real world? So he hurriedly asked Liu Guangyuan what was going on?
Liu Guangyuan sighed and said: "As a parent, if you are not forced to a dead end, who would be willing to sell your children! Girls are okay, they can be sold to brothels or widowers when they are raised. The same cannot be said for boys! Better luck Some were sold as concubines, and the unlucky ones were even castrated! Other children were either sold to beggars, had their limbs broken or made wounds, and were thrown on the street to beg; or they were sold to circus troupes. , put them in jars to raise dwarfs for fun! The rest that no one wants will be sold to the mines at low prices, because there are many places in the mines that need thin people to crawl around! So these children will not live long. of!"
Liu Haojia said in surprise: "How could this happen? At the very least, those children are also goods in the hands of Renyaozi. Aren't they worried about losing money when they treat these children like this?"
Liu Guangyuan said: "Second Young Master, the children in Renyazi's hands are either abducted or bought from the victims! But those children are too young to work, so Renyazi is not willing to buy them at all. ! Even if they buy it, the girl can still give some money, but the boy will just throw down two cakes and take it away! So apart from spending a few cakes, they didn't spend much at all. How could they lose money? "
Liu Haojia said angrily: "But aren't the servants of every wealthy family raised from children? How come no one buys it?"
Liu Guangyuan said: "There are indeed many wealthy families in need of servants, but don't forget, Second Young Master, anyone who can afford one is from a wealthy family, and there is no shortage of children in the family! These children have been trained since childhood and are loyal. The level is much higher than buying a child! That is to say, people like ours need to buy children. Like some larger families, they have to send out a lot of children every year!"
After Liu Haojia heard this, he couldn't accept this kind of thing after receiving modern education! Although he had joined the mercenaries and was used to seeing death, he was still fighting each other on the battlefield. Life and death were determined by fate and he couldn't blame others! This made him completely unable to understand how people could be so cruel! So the aura on his body was a little unstable for a while!
Liu Guangyuan didn't think anything after seeing it, but he felt that the second young master seemed to have become a little cold! But Liu Guangting is not Liu Guangyuan who has never left the house! He had been wandering outside for many years and had participated in gang fights, so when he saw Liu Haojia's appearance, he was shocked!
He couldn't help but think to himself: "Has this second young master also killed someone? Only those who have had human lives on their hands can have such a cold aura!"
But then he thought about it, the second young master has never left the house in his life, and he is only a few years old, how can he have the ability to kill people! So he became happy instead! Because of Liu Haojia's performance, in his opinion, he was a born general! So he felt that if the second young master in front of him joined the army in the future, he would definitely become rich!
Thinking of this, he felt eager in his heart! After all, as servants like them, they can only live a good life if their master's family is prosperous! In the future, if the master's family has a lot of power, they will release their servants as officials when good things happen. Then I will be able to stand alone!
Liu Guangting was thinking about this when suddenly there was a knock on the door, and he heard Jinbao saying outside: "Master, Second Young Master, the Zhang family sent a shopkeeper over with a few people, and also carried a box, saying it was with The second young master agreed to give it away and give him money!"
Liu Haojia explained to Father Liu: "Our Uncle Zhang said hello, and we will first pay a sum of money from him so that Uncle Guangyuan and the others can use it when they go out. Later, we will use the payment for snow candy to pay off the debt!"
Father Liu nodded to express his understanding and agreed: "Then you go and greet me."
Liu Haojia came back soon after going out. Behind him, the two Jinbao brothers were carrying a wooden box, which looked quite heavy. Liu Haojia reached out and opened the wooden box. There were layers of wooden boards inside. The top wooden board had a small groove on it, and there were nine golden statues inside! Take out the gold equinox, there are three layers below, and they are all filled with silver equinox!
These gold and silver erections are about half the size of a palm. Viewed from the front, it looks like a double-edged axe. Viewed from the side, it looks like a flat boat. One side is slightly convex and the other side is slightly concave. The raised part just fits into the recess of the board. However, due to the technical reasons of refining and pouring at that time, the gold teat was pretty good, but the silver teat had many air bubbles on it, resulting in the silver teat not being very smooth.
The sunken place on the front of the silver stem. Four characters are engraved vertically in the middle: Zhang's Tibetan Silver. There is a line of words in each of the four corners: real flowers and fine silver. There are also two gourds engraved on both sides, which are derived from the homophonic pronunciation of the word Fulu. They look pretty good!
Seeing these things, Liu Haojia couldn't help but frown! The financial capabilities of the Ming Dynasty are really poor now! When traveling for business, you have to carry a large amount of gold and silver, which is really dangerous and inconvenient! Although I have planned to open a bank in the future, I can only use this backward transaction method for now.
