Chapter Twenty-Five: A Chance Encounter at the Dock
The main purpose of the summer trip to the market is to buy women to go back to work, and the main target is the women of poor families. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info However, considering that he and Lin Weiye also need to be taken care of in their daily lives, and looking at the women in front of them who are upright and tearful and sad, I really can't bear it, Xia Nan picked a few ones that are more pleasing to the eye, and the prices range from ten taels to fifteen taels.
When the crowd here saw that someone was generous, they immediately made a commotion. The rumors spread in the crowd, and the refugees, the old, the young, the men, and the women, crowded to the front, more and more, surrounded them, and begged them to take them in, not to sell them for money, but to give them food, and for a time it became a mess.
Fortunately, Liu Quan had some insight, and hurriedly squeezed out with a few guards, asking the officials present to help maintain order. In the summer, Nan spent money generously, and smashed a few taels of silver, and the officials hurriedly looked for the official teeth to come over, and wrote the deed of sale at the general price.
This summer, Nan was ruthless, no matter those sad and sad officials, as long as they were from poor families, it didn't matter if they were older, and they didn't care if they were younger, there was only one standard - to be able to work - a woman in her twenties and thirties at this age was in the age of fighting, but thirteen or fourteen years old could also do things, which was completely different from the middle school students who carried schoolbags to school and played with mobile phones in the old time and space.
The people around soon discovered that these people were particularly fond of women, especially the rough women of poor families who were not cared about at all in the past, regardless of appearance, they saw one by one, and those who were nearly thirty years old were also taken in, and those who were in good health were even more welcome.
Xia Nan was generous, and for every time he bought one, he gave 500 yuan to the officials present. The official in charge of the bullet pressure simply arrested all the women in the field, who were not bought by anyone, whether they were willing or not, and wrote the deed.
It didn't take much effort, and one hundred and eighty women had already been bought. Seeing that these people were so arrogant, they hurriedly went up to ask for a sale, Xia Nan shook his head: "Isn't it a waste of time to inspect them one by one, the women in your hands, don't want to quote more than ten taels, no matter whether they are big families or scholars, I just need to be able to work." ”
After some bargaining, in the end, dozens of girls in the hands of Renya bought all of them according to five taels, and for a while, the black pressure in front of the abandoned temple was full of people.
Xia Nan instructed Liu Quan to rent a big mule and horse shop at a high price, quickly raise the fire to cook, and ask a few doctors to be on standby. Those who signed the deed here, one for every twenty, were escorted by two guards to the inn. And he was sick and weak, and he ordered a mule cart to be hired to carry him.
Liu Quanbao was a mule and horse shop on a nearby street, and the boss who received the money was originally very happy, but when the batches of refugees were sent over, the boss's face turned white, and after the number reached two hundred, his face turned blue again.
This kind of mule and horse shop is the lowest-grade inn for the peddlers and pawns to drive the carts, and no one will ever charter the entire shop, thinking that they have slaughtered the wronged heads of other places, but they did not expect to be used as a refugee concentration camp.
Xia Nan directed the resettlement of refugees - to be precise, these refugees who signed the deed, that is, Liu Quan's absolute deed, were already his slaves, and the power of life and death was in his hands - there were too many people and too few rooms to be resettled indoors, so he had to give priority to the placement of the sick and weak, and the relatively healthy ones were placed in the open air, and porridge was cooked first to feed them.
For these women, who didn't know if there would be a tomorrow a moment ago, it was a great joy to have a host to provide food, and as for sleeping in the courtyard, wouldn't it be several times better than the dirty and messy human market? Most people drink porridge with a bowl in their hands, and their faces are happy.
There was one thing he didn't expect, but Liu Quan secretly took matters into his own hands to do it for him.
Among the women bought from the hands of human teeth, there are many who have a bit of beauty, and their skin is more delicate than that of ordinary refugees. Liu Quan selected a few of the most outstanding and sent them to the best room for placement, in his opinion, these are the maids around the master in the future, maybe there will be a pillow person who is favored by the master, and at this time it is better to burn the cold stove than to be favored by people in the future and then to please.
The doctor who was invited also came and treated the sick and weak. In fact, there are no serious diseases, most of them are hungry, a little conditioning for two days, gradually eating, and slowly returning to normal - those who are really weak have already died in the human market, and the bones of the body that can survive are not much worse.
Xia Nan was worried that he was only about 20 people, and he couldn't manage so many people, and he was afraid that someone would run away. Liu Quan told him not to worry, the slaves who signed the deed did not dare to run around, and they would be severely punished if they were caught by the government, and these people could have something to eat, but they couldn't get rid of them. Xia Nanyan was relieved when he heard this, his plan was to buy a batch and transport a batch, recruiting about four or five hundred people.
The next day, Xia Nan left ten guards to watch at the mule and horse shop, and took Liu Quan, Yang Youji, and the other ten guards to contact the transport ship.
When I arrived at the wharf, I sent Liu Quan to contact the boat, and Xia Nan casually took a look at the scenery. After walking a short distance, I saw a lot of people gathered in front of me to watch the excitement, and when I got closer, I saw that there were actually a few ruffians surrounding two men and one woman, three blonde and blue-eyed foreigners!
In the old time and space, because of the relationship with foreign companies, Nan did not deal with foreigners in the summer, and after crossing over, he saw mostly yellow-faced and thin aborigines, and suddenly saw a few foreigners in the Ming Dynasty, and there was a feeling of meeting acquaintances.
He felt itchy for a while, and pulled open the soy sauce party that was watching and squeezed in to see what was going on. The people who were picked up by him were watching the excitement but were disturbed, and they were about to open their mouths to greet the immediate female relatives of his family, but they were glared at and pushed by Yang Youji and the guards who followed, and they had no temper, and the greetings that came to their mouths were swallowed back and obediently flashed to the side.
Squeezing in to see clearly, two European men protected a young European woman, vigilantly looking at several ruffians opposite, and the young woman excitedly pointed to each other and gestured something.
A few ruffians shouted: "Fanpo, what are you pointing at, don't you think we can take your purse?" ”
Xia Nan's English is very good, the English of the 17th century and the English of the 21st century have not changed much, and I can basically understand what the woman said, meaning that the other party stole her wallet. In order to confirm, he asked a soy sauce party next to him: "Brother Tai, what the hell is going on?" ”
The soy sauce party, known as Brother Tai, was very useful and explained in detail what happened.
It turned out that after the three golden retrievers got off the boat at the dock, they were targeted by a few ruffians who often steal outsiders at the dock, and a few deliberately stepped forward to bump into it, and then got the purse of the mother-in-law, and was about to withdraw, but I didn't expect the mother-in-law to be very alert, and found in time that a few ruffians looked at each other and there were three people, and they were the home field, but they didn't go, and turned around each other to find fault.
The people present actually knew these ruffians, but first, they only stole outsiders and not locals, and secondly, they didn't look down on overseas fanyi, so they only watched the excitement, and no one came forward to support justice.