Li Baolu drank the tea lightly and said, "Thank you for your kindness. It's just that I can teach my own servants, and I don't need the help of the eldest lady."

  The dowry maid hesitated for a moment or 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 said that the information of the eldest lady is not well-informed, but now it seems that I misunderstood her, she is very well-informed."

The dowry maid didn't hear the irony, and said: "The madam means that even if these servants are wrong, the third grandma wants to fight or kill them, but they shouldn't send them to the mines, they know a lot about having children. Xinmi, when you go to a place like the mine, you don't have a door on your mouth, not to mention who doesn't have old friends and relatives? Their relatives have all begged the eldest lady. The eldest lady said that if the third grandmother couldn’t relieve her anger, she would beat them up, and I took them back to teach them. The third grandmother took the money and bought the approved ones again, so that the nurturing mother would teach them well, and they would be able to do things in a short time. already."

   A look that was completely planned for Li Baolu.

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

Li Baolu took a sip of tea and continued: "Although a few minions are not good, they are not particularly difficult to teach. These two **** have changed a lot from their bad habits, and they will only need to teach them for a while. My aunt is worried about the leak, but I don’t think she has to worry about it. The ancestors of the Zhongyong Houfu followed the emperor from birth to death and got their name because of their loyalty and bravery.

   The dowry maid almost vomited out a mouthful of blood. Which big mansion doesn't have some private affairs? Madam is right, the third grandmother is indeed difficult to deal with, and she no longer beat around the bush, and said bluntly: "To be honest with the third grandma, many relatives in their family have asked the first lady, how can ordinary people enter the mines and other places? You If you are really angry, beat them up, and then come up with a price, and our Houfu will redeem all these slaves."

   "The relatives of these slaves have such big faces that they can instruct you to move your eldest madam." Li Baolu was no longer called the aunt, and sneered directly: "Is this Hou's house owned by the Gu family, or a group of servants?"

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

Li Baolu waved his hand impatiently: "I just sent them to the mine to train, why do I want to separate them? Could it be that they will die if they are absent from work? Are you dissatisfied with the opening of the mine by the imperial court, or are you an adult from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War who manage the mine? Are they dissatisfied?"

   "The slaves don't dare," the dowry maid bowed her head aggrievedly: "I just ask the third grandmother to fulfill our wife's kindness, after all, my wife has already promised to go out..."

   means that they will be redeemed for them.

  Li Baolu twitched the corners of his mouth and said, "You can also redeem yourself for them, but I'm afraid you won't be able to give up the money."

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

  Li Baolu sighed, "The Marquis of Zhongyong is indeed rich and powerful!"

   She said: "My slaves are very capable, so you can redeem them, but one person has to pay 10,000 taels!"

   The dowry mother cried out loudly: "Ten thousand taels?"

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

"No, no, no," Li Baolu shook her finger and said, "Mummy doesn't know that my servants are all talented people. With their ability, they can earn at least one thousand taels a year, and they can earn it in ten years. 10,000 taels, with their current age, adults can live for another 20 to 30 years, and young ones can live for 40 to 50 years, and the eldest lady has made a profit this time."

   The dowry choked on her chest, "What are the three ladies joking, they are just a group of slaves, and the highest price for young adults is not more than fifty taels..."

"That's the price outside. Can those people compare with my minions? Anyway, you can buy it and pay for it. I'm only willing to sell at this price, and it's fine if I can't get the money. The eldest lady is true, she's still the wife of the family. , even the subordinates can't be deterred."

   The dowry maiden withdrew from the Gu residence in a daze, stood at the door and endured and endured, but still couldn't hold back and secretly spit.

  10,000 taels!

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

The stewards next door who have been paying attention to the movement here lie on the cracks of the door and look out. When they see the dowry go away in a huff, a few people can't bear to open the door any longer and want to stop people, the little girl Qingling takes it seriously. With a cough, he looked at them arrogantly and said, "Stop chasing, think the eldest lady is a good person? She said that when you go to the mines, you will say things that you shouldn't say, and she will beat your wife to death."

Qing Ling said proudly: "But how can our wife be that kind of ignorant person? The wife said that killing slaves is also illegal, so I won't kill you, just teach you well, you don't thank your wife, go after him. What are you waiting for?"

   After saying that, he slammed the door and went back.

   The faces of several stewards turned pale, which was extremely wonderful.

   "This is to sow discord!" Butler Bu Zhuang gritted his teeth.

   "But the eldest lady didn't save us," the other 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 really too late. Li Baolu's snacks arrived before the officials sent by Wei Cong. Knowing that they were slaves, they were polite and **** and left.

  Li Baolu gave them a few packets of snacks, and waved goodbye to them at the door, "Take care of them more, let them learn to be diligent and brave, and stop cheating and cheating."

  The officials almost laughed out loud, shrugged their shoulders and assured Li Baolu: "Mrs. Gu put a hundred hearts and promise that they will never dare to commit corruption and deceit when they come back from the mine."

  Li Baolu happily watched them leave. Their family almost cried to death in the yard. The head of the house left, they were old, young and young, and the rest were women. Isn't it just letting Li Baolu poke the circle and squeeze it flat?

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

  The adults are fearful, and the children are hostile.

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

  The children pursed their lips.

   "You are slaves," Li Baolu looked into their eyes and said, "Perhaps you don't want to be slaves, but it's not difficult for me. As long as you pay back everything you deserve, I will let you redeem yourself."

The eyes of the women in the courtyard lit up, and Li Baolu looked at them with a smile instead of a smile: "But now you have paid back what you should have paid, so you can only continue to be my slaves. You may have forgotten how to be A qualified servant, but it doesn't matter," Li Baolu pointed at the servants on the side and said, "Do you remember them? They are all servants who have served you. From today onwards, your job is to do what they have done before. Yes. When you learn how to be a slave, I will send you back to the Grange."

Li Baolu looked at them without a smile in her eyes and said, "You are different from others, because I was very angry about what happened before, 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 destroying the farm, I will starve you and then send you to the mine,” Li Baolu looked at the old lady with cold eyes and said, “Whether the old or the weak, women and children, I think the people in the mine should Would love to have you there."

   Everyone shuddered.

  The young and middle-aged people who go there may not be able to come back, not to mention these women and children?

   Then everyone suppressed the thoughts in their hearts and bowed their heads honestly.

  Li Baolu left them and went back to the next door. All the servants followed, leaving only the family members of the slaves who committed the crime.

   "Old Litou left the gatekeeper, Dongfeng and Nanfeng," Li Baolu said, looking at the two and a half-old children, with a headache: "Your name is really ugly, who gave it to you?"

   The two boys bowed their heads, "The old master took it."

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

   "My name is Dog Dan."

   "My name is Ergouzi."

   "...Why do you all like to get along with dogs?" Li Baolu asked another way, "Then what do you want to be called?"

   The two children looked at her blankly.

"Forget it, wait for your uncle to come back and ask him to give you a new name. You two are young, and you can't do much work in the farmhouse, so just stay here, run an errand for us and help us. What."

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

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

   The two children were disappointed.

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

   She looked at the girls standing next to them in two rows. She didn't know if they would be bullied when they were placed in the farmhouse. She looked at the two old women beside her.

   The two old ladies understood and took a step forward: "Madam, don't worry, the old ladies will take care of them."

Li Baolu was silent for a moment and said: "The two old people have no children and no daughters, and they are old, it must be inconvenient to live alone, but these girls have no elders, they are young and have little experience, and there are always many things they don't understand, why not just recognize them. Since they became granddaughters, have you helped each other?"

  The two old ladies were stunned for a while, and then they were ecstatic. After reacting, they immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

  The girls all knelt down one after another.

Li Baolu helped them up and said, "You don't have to be short of breath when you return to the Grange. If someone bullies you, just report it to me. I hate those who bully men and women the most. But you should stand up by yourself. I will ask someone to share some of the land for you to plant."

Looking at the six girls who looked like flowers and jade, Li Baolu hinted: "The stewards of the farm have been copied, and they are temporarily managed by the farmers, but they are only tenants, so they can't be trusted for a long time. If you do well, it will be handed over to you. It's okay."

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

   They can all see what this lady has done these days.

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