Chapter 10: The Slave Market (2)

"This is where the words are", Cao Renyi's face froze, and then the smile on his face appeared again: "Slaves are all lowly people, how can there be any people who can read and write, but there are a few people who can do martial arts, but most of them are unruly and difficult to discipline, what does Zhen Dalang want these people to do?" ”

"Am I still going to talk to you!"

Zhen Qian's face sank, the intention of the buyers in the hall was a taboo in the shopping mall, which was not much different from snooping on trade secrets between merchants, Cao Renyi should not understand!

Cao Renyi immediately laughed and said: "Zhen Dalang misunderstood, there are many people who can do martial arts, there are soldiers who survived on the battlefield, there are also green forest heroes who rob houses, and there are also many people who help the mansion to take care of the house, so there is a question!" ”

He misunderstood Cao Renyi, but when he said this, Zhen Qian understood a lot in his heart, there is really no essential difference between buying slaves and selecting goods.

Soon Cao Renyi put the slave contract of martial arts in front of Zhen Qian, and there were even Xiaoao mountain and forest bandits and horse thieves arrested by the government, but they were all accomplices, and the first offender had already been beheaded by the government, but these people made Zhen Qian not much interested.

"Is that all?"

Seeing that Zhen Qian was dissatisfied with the slave in his hands, Cao Renyi said with a look of disappointment on his face: "What kind of slave does Zhen Dalang look like, and I can also consult Zhen Dalang if I say it?" ”

What kind of slave do you want, I'm afraid I can't give an accurate definition in my heart for a while, I thought for a moment and said: "One is a slave who can read and write, of course, I don't expect to have a high level of talent, as long as I have studied a private school, under the age of forty, the younger the better." The second type is a young man like a guard, who has experience in long-distance travel, is skilled in bows and horses, and it is best to drag his family with him, and if he is a Hu person, he can also consider ......".

Cao Renyi suddenly realized, he didn't want the duck in his hand to fly, so he naturally thought about how to make this business.

"It is indeed not easy to find a scholar that Zhen Dalang said, even if the conditions are lowered, I am afraid that it will take a long time to get an opportunity, and it is hard to find, but I have a slave family here that may be suitable for Zhen Dalang!"

Zhen Qian had just read the slave contract in Cao Renyi's hand, and he really didn't find any slaves who could read and write, so he asked strangely, "Tell me about it?" ”

Cao Renyi took out a few slave contracts and put them in front of Zhen Qian and said, "It's this slave!" ”

Zhen Qian frowned, Cao Renyi didn't dare to deceive himself, could it be that he was wrong!

"Stonemason!" Zhen Qian knew that Cao Renyi had something to say, but he was not in a hurry.

Cao Renyi nodded and said: "Zhen Dalang doesn't know, this Song family of six is specially carved epitaphs for the tombstone, but it's a pity that the times are not good, and they owe a huge amount of money to be sold as slaves, this family meets the requirements of Zhen Dalang to read and write, I don't know if Zhen Dalang is satisfied!" ”

A family that carves epitaphs for the dead, which makes Zhen Qian completely speechless, it is really suitable for the request he just made, but he feels extremely awkward.

"How much do you say these six people are!"

Zhen Qian thought in his heart, and casually flipped through the slave contract of this family, the old, middle and young people were exactly three generations, three boys and three girls, and the youngest daughter was also fifteen or sixteen years old, if she didn't owe a sum of money, it was estimated that she would have started a family.

"Now that Zhen Dalang has spoken, it would be unkind to overcharge Zhen Dalang's money in the future, how about fifty times!"

Zhen Qian cracked his mouth, this is not to say that Cao Renyi's bid is high, on the contrary, this price is much lower than he expected, it seems that Cao Renyi really doesn't want to make his own money.

I don't know what Cao Renyi thinks in his heart, does he want to get rid of it in a hurry, thinking of this, Zhen Qian said quietly: "A family that helps the dead carve epitaphs, what's the use of you selling it to me?" ”

Zhen Qian's words inadvertently touched on Cao Renyi's weakness, who has nothing to do to buy a slave who can carve epitaphs for his family, taboo not to say it, even if he wants to use it, he can't find a suitable place, he can't expect people to die every day in the family! This is also the reason why this slave has not been sold, thinking that since Zhen Qian wants someone who can read and write, isn't this slave just right?

Cao Renyi's face was also stiffened, and he was broken by Zhen Qian's face, his face was a little unbearable, and he was a little unwilling to stop it, and he was afraid that the other party would make a fuss about this matter, since he had already said it, he couldn't admit it: "If Zhen Dalang feels that the price is high, we can talk about it again, how about fifty runs?" ”

Zhen Qian shook his head and said, "Boss Cao is not kind, I mean to buy someone who can read and write, but not everyone buys it!" ”

Cao Renyi gritted his teeth and said: "Forty runs, it can't be lower!" ”

Zhen Qian was about to laugh out loud in his heart, and he made a lot of money by buying a family of six for forty yuan, so he accepted it when he saw it: "Forget it!" Don't embarrass Boss Cao, forty is forty! It's all a good deed, and someone will come and contract this slave family to me!" ”

Cao Renyi didn't feel good in his heart, he lost a lot of money by selling the Song family of six in forty times, but the current situation seems to be reversed, if he wasn't in a hurry to say anything, he wouldn't have sold this slave so cheaply.

Cao Renyi, Zhen Qian, and the officials of the government, and finally the six members of the Song family all signed and pledged the slave contract, and the business was completed.

Cao Renyi waited for Zhen Qian to give him money, but after waiting for a long time, he didn't see any movement from Zhen Qian, and he couldn't say clearly in a hurry: "Zhen Dalang, do you still want to buy some slaves, I still have singers, Silla maids and orchids here, do you want to bring someone to take a look!" ”

Zhen Qian is not interested in women at all now, this is not to say that there is anything wrong with his physiology, or that his sexual orientation is deviated, and he has no time to think about enjoyment at all now.

"You really don't have the escort samurai I'm talking about here?"

In Zhending, the Zhen family already belongs to the top wealthy families, Cao Renyi dared to offend Zhen Qian, and his eyes rolled and said: "If you want to say that Zhen Dalang wants a guard warrior, I really have one here, but this person has a violent personality, and he is a Yan Ya person, and he has injured the main family after selling it several times, if it weren't for the fact that the main family was reluctant to have a little money, he would have beaten this person to death a long time ago, does Zhen Dalang want to meet this person?" ”

"The Devils!"

The people of the Yan Tatar are living in the northeast of China, and their ancestors can be traced back to the "Su Shen" of the Shang and Zhou dynasties and the "Lu Lou" of the Warring States period, and many people may not know about the Yan people, but their later name was changed to Jurchen (女直), that is, the Manchu people who established the Qing Dynasty in modern times.

In addition to the Manchu tribe in later generations, the indigenous peoples in Northeast China such as the Evenki and Xibe people are all descendants of the Ya people.

The people live in the mountains and jungles, mainly fishing, hunting and animal husbandry, and the harsh living environment has created them to be born fierce warriors, but now the people are also scattered sand, and they are still in the stage of tribal society, and they will have to climb for another three or four hundred years to really rise.

Zhen Qian suddenly became interested, "There is such a person, bring it over and let me see it!" ”

Soon I heard the sound of the iron chain outside the door, and two big men walked in with an iron hook and chain to a dark-skinned savage, and the wild man screamed in his mouth, and there was still no sign of stopping the struggle after being chained, of course, Cao Renyi is not a good man and a woman, and the reason why he has not killed this person is probably because he is worried about the chicken and the egg.

The strong man was pushed into the house, and immediately gave people a strong sense of oppression, with a height of more than one meter nine, a weight of no less than two hundred pounds, a basketball-sized head connected to a thick neck, eyes like copper bells, panting like a cow, and a look at the heart to know that this person is by no means a good kind, as if it is like a black iron tower that makes people feel suffocated.

"Is that the guy?"

Cao Renyi's face showed a look of pain, this slave didn't let himself worry less, losing money was still a trivial matter, almost because of this person, he almost got into official affairs, but he felt a little painful when he was killed, and he became a hot potato in Cao Renyi's hands.

"This person's name is Ayana Ye, more than two years ago, he injured someone in the Andong Protectorate and was sold to Datang, and not long ago he injured a guard in the last master's house, and he was sold again, and he has been sold four times, and he still doesn't know how to repent, if Zhen Dalang wants to buy this person, you must be careful of his temper, so as not to hurt Zhen Dalang's daughter!"

"Does this person speak Tang dialect?"

Cao Renyi nodded and said: "This person can understand Tang dialect and can speak some Tang dialect, but this person is unwilling to communicate with Tang people, Zhen Dalang better be careful!" ”

Zhen Qian was secretly happy in his heart, but his face was full of thoughts and contradictions, as if he was struggling with whether to buy or not to buy it, "How much money are you willing to sell this person!" ”

Seeing Zhen Qian open his mouth to ask the price, he wished that Zhen Qian would buy this person, but he was worried about causing unnecessary trouble to himself, so he said with a smile: "This person is irritable and irritable, and he is not controlled, Zhen Dalang really wants to buy this person?" ”

"You don't have to worry about that, as long as the price is right, I'll consider it!"

Cao Renyi also wanted to make a quick move, but he was a little worried, and he was eager to shirk his responsibility and said: "The price is negotiable, but it must be explained in advance that once this person is bought, what happens in the future has nothing to do with me!" ”

"That's nature!" Zhen Qian didn't want to continue to entangle with Cao Renyi, he didn't like this person in his heart, and this person was skilled in jungle warfare, and he was exactly the person he wanted, "Boss Cao, let's make a price!" ”

"Twenty times!" Cao Renyi opened his mouth and said.

"What! Twenty ...... Why don't you grab it! Zhen Qian jumped up suddenly, although he wanted to buy this person, he didn't want to be slaughtered by Cao Renyi.

"Eighteen runs! Couldn't go any lower! ”

"Fifteen times, one more point of this business will be blown up!" After speaking, Zhen Qian got up and left, but was pulled by Cao Renyi and said, "Seventeen!" ”

"Sixteen! What happens to this person in the future has nothing to do with you! ”

"Deal!" Although Cao Renyi's flesh hurts very much, if this person is not short-tempered, at least he can sell for more than twenty-five times, although it is far from his psychological price, but he can sleep peacefully without the trouble in the future.