"Hello Madam." The lady who received Yang Haiyan was a middle-aged woman with a charitable face. "May I ask what your wife needs? Do you want to buy a house or someone? Or something else?"
Yang Haiyan: "I want to buy both a house and people, but I have to buy a house first, and then buy people."
When Yama heard this, she was a big customer: "I don't know what Madam wants for the house? Madam, please sit down and talk." Yama has read countless people, so she is naturally discerning. With her hands, it was obvious that she was not doing rough work, so she knew that this lady could make money.
"Thank you." Yang Haiyan sat down.
When she sat down, Granny poured her tea.
Yang Haiyan didn't touch the tea. Outside, she wouldn't drink tea without someone to accompany her. If something happened, it would be bad. Yang Haiyan said: "I want to buy a shop, preferably one that is connected to the yard. The yard is slightly larger, which can accommodate both the people and the master. Then, if the yard has a back door, it has to have a large hall. My husband is The officers under the Marquis usually entertain their colleagues at home when they come back, and if the hall is too small, there may be no room for people."
Yang Haiyan did not specify Qin Fang's identity, but only the officers under the Hou Ye were enough to make Ya Po be careful. To put it bluntly, this is just borrowing the power of Yonghe Hou, but although Qin Fang is with the commander Aoqian, he is indeed under Yonghe Hou, so it is not wrong to say so.
Sure enough, after hearing this, Ya Po took on a more serious attitude than before. "Please wait a moment, I'll see if any of the houses registered by Guanya are suitable for you."
Yang Haiyan: "Excuse me."
Granny Ya quickly looked at the booklet: "Madam, you want a big yard, but there is no big yard connected to the facade. Generally, the big yard is where the rich live, where the rich live and those who do business. The place will not be in the same place. You see, is it okay to have a small yard? Or the yard and the shop are separated?" The main reason is that the resources in the town are limited.
Yang Haiyan heard this: "How many rooms are there in the small yard, can you accommodate the servants?"
Ya Po: "Among the few attached yards, there is a yard in a good location. In the downtown area, there are three main rooms in the small yard at the back. If you want, I can show you."
Yang Haiyan: "Yes, then go and see."
The yard is in the center of the town, so it is quite close to the slavery bank, and it is only five or six hundred meters away.
Ya Po first took Yang Haiyan to see the shop, the shop was closed, because the shop and the yard are together, plus the location, so the price is not cheap. "Look, ma'am, this is the yard. There are cloth and rouge gouache sellers nearby. Women pass by a lot."
Yang Haiyan thought to herself that if she wanted to start a pastry business, she would have to open a place with more women.
Granny Ya said again: "There are two doors in the yard. The back door is the one entering from the store. How about we go in through the front door?"
Yang Haiyan: "Well."
After Yang Haiyan was optimistic about the yard and the facade, she made a decision directly. In fact, this yard is really good. The shop is at the back door, and the main entrance can entertain guests. The reason why it was not sold is that the yard was vacated not long ago, and the head of the household just resold it. The second is that the price opened by the head of the household is five taels higher than the market price.
It is not easy for the people in the town to make money, and 5 taels of silver is not a small amount for them, so even if there is a buyer who is fancy, they want to repay the price, or think about it again.
The market price for this yard is 30 taels, the buyer opened it for 35 taels, and Yang Haiyan had 500 taels of gold in her body, and she paid back the price with a tael of silver and the deal was made at 34 taels.
She did not have 34 taels of loose silver on her body, so she sold 1 tael of gold, 2 taels of gold = 100 grams, 340 yuan per gram, 100 grams of gold = 34,000. Speaking of this, the platform is also really mysterious. Anything that needs to be traded on the platform needs to be weighed and sold, and the platform will automatically divide it.
With 34,000 yuan in hand, Yang Haiyan bought 100 taels of silver, 100 taels of silver = 5,000 grams, 5 yuan per gram, and spent 25,000.
Ya Po took the head of household and Yang Haiyan directly to the town chief's house to transfer the property. There was no county government in the town, and the town chief handled these matters on behalf of the county government. Yang Haiyan paid 34 taels of money and a commission of 1 tael of silver.
After the house procedures were completed, Ya Po became more enthusiastic towards Yang Haiyan. Who wouldn't like such a generous boss.
Then, they went to the tooth shop to see the next person.
Granny: "Madam, what kind of servant do you want to buy?"
Yang Haiyan: "Be diligent, preferably around 35 years old, it can be a family. It's better if you can read, but not young and young girls."
If it is young, Qin Fang is sometimes absent for a month, Even if it was a servant, she didn't want to gossip. If it's a little girl, what if your thoughts fall on Qin Fang?
Therefore, Yang Hai still chooses men and women around 35 years old, because according to this age, in this era, they can be her and Qin Fang's father and mother, and it is not easy to gossip.
A literate servant?
This made Ya-po a little embarrassed: "The servants who want to be literate must come from big families. But servants from big families, who are reduced to Yaxing, must be sold by the master's family, and there is another kind of family crime. Something happened, and it was sold by the court."
The reason why the family committed a crime and was sold by the imperial court was to sit together.
For example, the Yang family where the original owner is located, the Yang family has an accident, and the Yang family is killed, but they will sit in the sideline, and the sideline will sometimes be sold. This situation also exists the court sells people, and the money earned in the court.
Yang Haiyan: "Sold by the master? That's not very good. If the trouble in the previous master's house is not very good, wouldn't I suffer if I buy it back?"
Ya Granny: "It's hard to find servants who want to buy literacy in our place."
Yang Haiyan: "Then it's okay illiterate. Do you have any have acceptable conduct?"
Granny Ya thought for a while: "I really can't see this kind of behavior."
She can't guarantee that if something happens, then she won't be found?
Yang Haiyan: "Then you call everyone out, let me take a look."
Ya Po: "Good." She said that she went in and after a while, she came out with women and men of the right age, all around 35 years old.
Those people were wearing Yaxing clothes, and their faces were not very good. Of course, it is impossible for Yaxing to support people in vain and it is extremely kind to ensure that they will not starve to death.
Granny Ya: "This lady wants to buy someone. If the lady asks, please answer honestly."
"Yes."
Seeing that it was a beautiful and gentle lady who smiled before saying a word, the women and men were a little excited and hoped that they would be selected, because it was really hard for them to live in Yaxing, so many people were crowded together and they had never eat a full meal.
Yang Haiyan: "Among you, there are unrestricted men and women who are literate?"
Everyone was silent for a while, literacy? What a blessing this is?
At this time, a middle-aged man came out: "Madam, I can read."
Yang Haiyan looked at him: "Are you literate?"
The man said: "My name is Hong Xuexi, I am a student of my studies, and I am a hopeful person. I was enlightened by my father when I was young. My father once went to a private school and wanted to take the imperial examination, but later died of a serious illness. After my father passed away, in order to live, I started hunting, my leg was injured while hunting, because it was too serious and the cost of treatment was extremely high. At that time, the silver was used for other purposes, so I gave up."
Yang Haiyan: "Your name seems to come from a scholar's family, so how can you sell your body ?"
Hong Xuexi was a little restrained: "Because my daughter-in-law was giving birth before the deadline and hurt her body and needed money. I... sold myself." But he was a lame man, and it was worthless to sell it. But if he didn't sell it, he would have no money, so he sold himself cruelly.
Yang Haiyan: "...then you sold yourself, don't you never see your wife and children again?"
Hong Xuexi: "Madam, I'm a local, my wife and children are in the country." After speaking, he knelt down, "I beg Madam to buy me, and I will definitely repay your kindness."
Yang Haiyan was not a kind person, but when he heard that this man sold himself for his wife, he moved a little bit of pity. She looked at Granny Ya: "how does he sell it?"
Ya Po: "Two taels of silver." In fact, when Jam Bank bought Hong Xuexi, it also spent one tael of silver.
Yang Haiyan nodded and said to Hong Xuexi: "You stand aside." Then he looked at the crowd: "Are you still literate?"
No one spoke.
Yang Haiyan asked again, "Among you, are there any people who are good at cooking?"
A woman said, "Madam, I used to be a cook in a big family. Can you see me?"
Yang Haiyan looked at her, she couldn't tell at first glance what kind of character she had, but sometimes there was no fate between people, and one had to look at the fate. Yang Haiyan had a good eye for this woman, at least she was thin and thin, and her face was sallow, but this face still looked kind. Yang Haiyan nodded: "Okay. But whether it's you or this Uncle Hong, if you don't do well with me, I won't leave you. It doesn't matter if you are stupid or honest, master and servant are loyal. is the most important."
Uncle Hong and woman : "Yes."
Yang Haiyan paid the money and went back with their promissory note. Uncle Hong was 2 taels of silver and women 6 taels of silver. A total of 8 taels of silver was spent, plus the 35 taels of silver that had been purchased for the house and the commission before, the 43 taels of silver were gone.
When they got to the yard, Yang Haiyan asked Hong Xuexi and the woman to clean up. The woman's name was Fan Cuiliu, who turned out to be the cook of a big family. The main wife and the concubine of this family fought fiercely. Once, the concubine took advantage of the kitchen, which caused the main wife to have a miscarriage. Therefore, the kitchen staff changed a lot. This is how Fan Cuiliu was sold. .