When Lin and others managed to tidy up the yard and house, everyone was full.

Zhen Dafu took out a small piece of silver and said flatteringly: "These kitchen knives, spatulas, etc., as well as the two drawer locks that were accidentally broken, I will leave a tael of silver as compensation. Look at it, Mr. Li."

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Zhang Shiwen looked at Shujie: "Brother Jie, since nothing has been lost and your mother has just left, why not let them go once? God will punish evil people for their evil deeds." That foot will last half a year at least.

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Shujie nodded: "I listen to Uncle Zhang."

Shuwen immediately ran over and took the silver from Zhen Dafu's hand and handed it to Aunt Li. Aunt Li weighed it and nodded.

Zhen Dafu pushed further and said: "Girl Yao, you don't like Cuizhu anyway, why not give it to your grandmother? Your grandmother is old, and it would be better to have more maids around to serve you." He did not forget what Cuizhu said just now, just in case.

When she is sold into a building, she will really reveal everything.

Shuyao pouted: "My eldest brother is about to sell the green bamboo for money to hold a white banquet. My eldest uncle's family runs two restaurants, and he has to take four servants with him when he goes out. Isn't he willing to buy an extra maid for my grandmother?

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"That's right," Sister-in-law Jiu Jin has never seen such a shameless person, "You, a son, don't respect your mother, but you want a six-year-old granddaughter with no father and no mother to serve as a maid for your grandmother? Do you know what that means?

Shameless?"

"..." Zhen Dafu gritted his teeth with hatred. He didn't expect that a six-year-old girl could be so sharp-tongued and impeccable. "Then can I pay for it?"

Shuyao nodded: "Okay, three hundred taels"

"What? Three hundred taels can buy a hundred maids, you are robbing the silver," Ms. Lin yelled. Does this damn girl know how many things one tael of silver can buy?

In Dazhou, the average maidservant is between five or six taels to twelve taels. For a little maid under ten years old, two or three taels is enough. These are all dead contracts like Cuizhu, while living contracts are cheaper.

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Shujie frowned: "You don't have to buy it, I don't want to sell her to you yet. My mother told me that she would be sold to the building."

Shu Yao secretly gave a thumbs up to her eldest brother and stood obediently next to Shujie without saying a word. It was great to have her here!

Cuizhu rushed to Zhen Dafu and knelt down: "Uncle, uncle, hurry up and buy my body deed. I don't want to go to the building."

Zhen Dafu glared at Shujie and said bitterly: "Even if she is sold to a building, it will cost at least twenty taels of silver, right?"

Shujie raised his chin slightly coldly: "I am willing. My mother said she would sell her to a building. I am willing even for a tael of silver."

Zhang Shiwen and others listened, and after watching for so long, they immediately thought that Cuizhu colluded with Zhen Dafu and his wife to plot to betray Shuyao and was discovered by Zhen Zirou, so they must punish her after leaving her last words. Since Zhen Dafu was afraid of being exposed by Cuizhu and wanted to buy it

She really deserves to let him lose some money. The three poor children are short of money. "Business is a matter of mutual consent. If you don't think it's worth it, just don't buy it. As for where they want to sell it and how much it will cost, it's none of your business."

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Mrs. Lin waved her hand and said to the four servants: "Why are you standing there? Get the master onto the carriage and let's go." She would not be so dazed that she paid the "sky-high price" of three hundred taels of silver to buy green bamboo.

Such a lazy and mean-spirited maid. Moreover, her brother Lin Dayong had long wanted to get rid of this bitch, but they still wanted to use Cuizhu, so Dayong was asked to stabilize her first.

"Lin Huaixiu, stop here," Cuizhu was furious. He didn't care about her life or death after using her. It's not that easy! "If you dare to abandon me and step outside this door today, I promise to let your Zhen family accompany me."

Die together, I have hidden all the evidence. Including your delicious food..."

"Shut up!" Sweat broke out on Zhen Dafu's forehead, "Xia Shujie, I bought the green bamboo, but I don't have so much money with me today. You give me the deed first, and I will send someone to you tomorrow.

Send me three hundred taels of silver notes."

"Pfft" several people couldn't help laughing.

Sister-in-law Ajuan sneered: "You are smart, but everyone else is a fool? You have to be a bit good at cheating, right? Do you know that you pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other hand?"

Zhen Dafu's face turned red. He really just wanted to defraud him out of the deed and had no intention of actually sending a banknote. However, he was exposed and laughed at by these people in front of his face. He really couldn't bear it.

Shujie said coldly: "Okay, you go, if you want Cuizhu, just take the banknote to Baihua Building to redeem the person tomorrow."

Zhen Dafu knew that he would never be able to take advantage of anything today. This courtyard was incompatible with him and always had a strange atmosphere, so it was better to leave as soon as possible.

He took out three banknotes from his arms, each with a face value of one hundred taels, which was exactly three hundred taels. They were the bills collected at the village yesterday, but they had not been collected yet because he was in a hurry to go out.

"Tch, you are really a talkative guy who tells endless lies. He even tried to deceive three orphans. What kind of uncle are you? Never come to Xitang Street in the future." Sun Da grabbed the banknote.

Put it in front of Zhang Shiwen: "Chief, please check this person, this person is too untrustworthy."

Zhen Dafu glared at Sun Da with disdain: "These are all bank notes from Huitong Bank. They are redeemable throughout the Great Zhou Kingdom. Each bank note has the peony watermark and special seal of Huitong Bank. Can they be faked?" These poor people

, not many people have seen a hundred taels of silver notes, right?

Zhang Shiwen looked at it carefully, nodded and handed it to Shujie: "Give him the body deed and let them go, so as not to be an eyesore here."

Shuyao ran into her room and quickly came out with a piece of paper and handed it to Shujie. Shujie looked at it, signed his name on it to confirm the transfer, and asked Shuyao to use cinnabar ink pad to seal his fingerprints.

He handed it to Zhen Dafu: "You can go to the county government office to transfer the ownership."

Zhen Dafu and Mrs. Lin were furious. Where did this damn girl hide her things? They searched the whole house and couldn't find it. They only had to dig three feet into the ground, right?

Shuyao's big black eyes met Lin's dead fish eyes: "My mother said that you can't see her when she is standing behind you, so how can you find the place where she puts her things?"

Zhen Dafu and Mrs. Lin felt chills running down their backs. They turned their heads and looked back in unison, with frightened expressions on their faces: "Let's go."

Cuizhu also felt that there was a sinister wind. She took a nap while kneeling in front of the soul last night, and she really dreamed that Zhen Zirou was spitting out a long blood-red tongue and asking for her life (this was a typical day for her to be thoughtful,

I have a dream at night, and there is a ghost in my heart, so my head is full of ghosts).

Taking out the door key from her purse and returning it to Shuyao, Cuizhu chased after Zhen Dafu and his entourage as if running for her life.

Shuyao looked at Cuizhu's back and said to Fu: With the viciousness of Zhen Dafu and Lin, now that they have grasped Cuizhu's body bond, why not shut her up completely immediately?

Zhang Shiwen said to Aunt Li and Sister-in-law Ajuan: "You live close by, so please take more care of our three children. If anything happens, let me know, and I will come over often to check on them."

Just as Aunt Li was about to speak, she heard crying from outside the door: "Madam, Hongmei is still a step too late."

A moon-green figure staggered in, followed by a little girl of four or five years old.

"Aunt Mei" Shuyao cried and rushed forward, here she is, Aunt Mei is finally here, and she can finally hold Aunt Mei again.

Hongmei was originally Zhen Zirou's personal maid. When Zhen Zirou left Murong Mansion, she took the eldest maid Hongmei and the little maid Cuizhu with her.

Half a year after settling down in Yulin Town, Zhen Zirou released Hongmei's deed, and Hongmei married one of Xia Linxuan's apprentices and returned to her hometown with him.

A month ago, Zhen Zirou learned that Hongmei's husband-in-law died of illness six months ago, and that Hongmei and her four-year-old daughter were kicked out of the house and driven into a shabby thatched house. She asked someone to bring a letter and money to Hongmei, asking their mother to live there.

The girl came to Yulin Town. Xia Linxuan had just left at that time, otherwise Zhen Zirou would have asked Xia Linxuan to pick her up.

In the previous life, when Hongmei arrived, Shuyao was about to leave with Zhen Dafu with Shuwen. Regardless of the threats and threats from Lin and others, Hongmei cried and persuaded Shuyao, saying that their siblings were indeed the daughters of Xia Linxuan and Zhen Zirou.

, but Shuyao, who was completely brainwashed by Cuizhu and Lin, believed that she was a noble lady, and her "biological father" who yearned for wealth in the capital sent someone to pick her up. Shujie, who was anxious, could not find the birth dates of his younger siblings.

Paper, could only watch helplessly as they were taken away by Zhen Dafu.

At the age of 14, Shuyao was married to the fool Ma Juntao "according to the engagement". After escaping from Ma's sedan chair and almost being sold to a building, Shuyao was bought by Hongmei with money and has been following Hongmei's mother and daughter.

He lived anonymously in the countryside until Hongmei died of illness from overwork.

Fortunately, three years later, the Ma family was convicted, and the entire family died and was exiled. Shuyao was able to live in the sunshine again, no longer afraid of being caught back.

But in the end, Hongmei's daughter Xiutao was killed by Zhen Keling for Shuyao.

Hongmei hugged Shuyao tightly: "Miss? Is she so old? She really looks like my wife. Girl, Hongmei will go and burn incense sticks for the master and his wife first."

Hongmei, who burned incense and kowtowed in front of the mourning hall, came out and kowtowed to the neighbors: "Hongmei thanks everyone for your help on behalf of my husband and wife."

Everyone was shocked, and Aunt Li hurriedly stepped forward to help Hongmei up: "What are you doing? Captain Xia and Madam Xia helped us so much during their lifetime, isn't this what we should do? What's more, everyone in the neighborhood

"It doesn't matter if you're here, we are worried that there are three children left in the family and there is no one to take care of the house." Aunt Li knew that Zhen Zirou sent a letter to Hongmei and her daughter.

Hongmei choked with sobs: "Don't worry, everyone, I, Hongmei, am just begging for food, and I will take good care of my three little masters." Hongmei has a good skill in making tofu.

Many people in the neighborhood knew Hongmei and knew that she was the personal maid who had been with Zhen Zirou for many years, so they all believed in her words. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. This was good. Although she was a former servant, she was still able to take charge.

Sir, at least someone has taken care of things like cooking and washing, right? Then he said, "If you need help with anything, please ask everyone for help." Then they left. We are all poor people who work for a day to make a living, and there are many things at home.

Gotta get busy.
Chapter completed!