[Comprehensive martial arts] Hundreds of no taboos

The first thing you do when you have a family is to hire someone.

According to my habits in the first half of my life, I should actually buy people, but I add up the two worlds in the dynasties with strict laws. The children bought are illegal regardless of whether they are sold by their own parents or not. Long-term workers.

Although it is a bit inconvenient, I still prefer this kind of law, which is more humane.

I'm going to hire a cook and two maids. I don't need a housekeeper, I can do it myself.

As soon as the sun rose early in the morning, I came out of my house and bumped into a familiar person coming out of the family opposite. Ru Guanyu originally had no expression on her face, but when she saw me, she smiled politely and said politely: "Miss Qi, I heard that Mrs. Xu moved to a new house a few days ago, and I was wondering which one the new house would be. I didn't expect the girl to move here."

This is the doctor from the Ministry of Criminal Affairs who entrusted a friend to register for me last time.

Others are polite to me, of course I am also polite, I nodded to him, "Hua Langzhong is early, are you going to court? Last time I didn't see clearly the darkness in the prison, now I see that Hua Langzhong is not big." , is really young and promising."

Hua Langzhong smiled, and said: "Where is it? It's just a lower official. I'm ashamed to say that, except for seeing Tianyan in the palace examination that year, Hua has been in Beijing for many years, and he has only been going around in the Ministry of Punishment."

At his age, if he takes a step up, he must be a servant. There are only two servants in the Ministry of Punishment. If he wants to be an official, there is really no other way but to spend time waiting for him to become an official. I comforted me with some sympathy: "Think about the good, you A healthy young man can survive for a long time."

The corner of Hua Langzhong's mouth twitched slightly, but he still politely accepted my comfort, got on the carriage and headed towards the court.

My eyes turned around his three-entry mansion, which was at least several times more luxurious than the one I bought for 4 taels of silver. Thinking of Hua Langzhong's style of conversation, I couldn't help but sighed deeply, unless he He has been greedy since he became an official, and he has been greedy for tens of thousands a year, or he is a pure local tyrant like Bai Yutang. After thinking about it carefully, it is more likely that Hua Langzhong's family has money.

After all, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, how could any official dare to live in such a luxurious mansion so blatantly?

I found a stall to have breakfast.

The capital here is bigger than Bianjing, but the types of food haven’t changed much, and I can’t even find some food that I was familiar with before. It's delicious, but it can't be eaten as a meal. After walking for a cup of tea, I ate a big bowl of wonton noodles at a noodle stall that smelled good.

I wanted to drink some soy milk at first, but I don’t know what’s wrong with the soy milk here, it’s fine if it’s not white, and it smells weird, so I didn’t drink it.

After breakfast, I went straight to the “Renmin Bank” that I was optimistic about the day before. Although the name has changed, it is not much different from the bank I remember. Moreover, the term of a long-term worker can even sign up for 40 years. Basically, a person can All the years of active work are included. Most of the people waiting for employment are relatively tidy, and there are also broken pots, dirty and smelly, and those who come to hire people go around them.

Seriously looking for work is divided into regions. For example, the east side is full of maids who are not too old. If they are too old, it is not easy to teach the rules. Those looking for physical work, as well as "technical talents" such as cooks, carpenters and bricklayers, can enter the labor force and wait for customers.

I picked two maidservants who were smart but not very pretty. They were about thirteen or fourteen years old. They were sisters. They came from Yunnan. There were a lot of brothers and sisters in front. The stupid son of a landlord's family, a young man in his twenties with only a five-year-old IQ, ugly and fat, the younger one was forced to marry a 40-year-old bachelor, because he couldn't have children, he was beaten for more than a year The older one, the two sisters hit it off and ran out, running as far as the capital in one breath.

The young one is called Zhang Cuicui, who is smarter, and the older one is called Zhang Honghong, who looks a bit haggard, but no matter how haggard she is, she is still at the same age as a flower, so she is not too ugly. The neck and behind the ears, which are easy to get dirty, are wiped clean, which can be seen to be really clean.

I signed a short contract with them for five years, and the monthly payment was two taels. When they got married, I would give each of them a dowry of 20 taels of silver, which was very generous.

Then there is the cook, the price of the cook is much more expensive, good cooks don’t sign long-term contracts, I went back and forth for a long time, and finally I chose He Gui, a middle-aged chef who used to run a restaurant at home and then fell down, with a monthly salary of 20 taels. The contract is only for three years, and in addition to food and housing, he has to bring his wife and son to work.

Fortunately, I bought a second-year house, and the cook said that I don't need to live in a very nice room, and I can also work as a porter part-time.

I took Chef He and Hong Hong Cuicui home together, and by coincidence, I bumped into Hua Langzhong again at the door of our house.

It's just that compared to the gentleness and amiability in the morning, the Hua Langzhong who came back from the court obviously looked unhappy, and his brows were also tightly frowned. Out of concern for the neighbors, I asked him: "Hua Langzhong, what happened? "

When Hua Langzhong saw it was me, his face softened a little, but his brows were still frowned, and he said softly: "It's not a big deal... The family passed on a message, and my seventh brother followed his fox... The friend from the rivers and lakes has left home. I left a letter saying that the return date is uncertain."

I wondered, "Is your brother young?"

Hua Langzhong sighed, obviously he is not very old, but he has a worrying tone of a parent, "He will be 23 next year, it stands to reason that the family should not restrain him, but since he was young... he was blind and sensible Very, I don't know how to reject people, his friend is a gangster, how can a big man take care of him? Last time I went out, I don't know how much weight I lost when I came back!"

I persuaded him, "Young people always like to run around the rivers and lakes. If you have friends by your side, even if you suffer a little bit, it is the only way in life. It sounds like your brother also likes to go out."

Hua Langzhong sighed again, expressing an attitude of "I understand the truth but I'm just worried about my brother".

I couldn't help feeling a little envious, not envious of Hua Langzhong's younger brother who was loved by his family at first glance, but envious of Hua Langzhong... He also has someone who can be pampered after all.

After saying goodbye to Hualangzhong at the door of the house, I settled Honghong Cuicui, paid them wages in advance, and asked them to buy some necessities. It was much easier for Cook He, and their family had fallen to the point of renting a house. Right now, I'm just going back to rent a house and move things here.

Chef He didn't go, his wife moved back and forth three times with his teenage son. Cook He took the food money I gave him, went out to buy vegetables, and then cooked a large table of dishes. The 20-year-old wine was brought out.

I don't intend to show off the master's profile. In the end, I'm just too lazy to work on my own, and I don't want to ride on others' heads to be a boss. I ate lunch with Hong Hong Cuicui and Chef He's family. Hong Hong Cuicui ate well. Not good, they sat a little farther away in a sensible way, while Chef He's family were wealthy people, and their eating movements were prettier than others.

After lunch, I was ready to go out again. This time I wanted to withdraw some money. I wanted to find a carpenter to build a better-looking canopy bed. I had never seen a canopy bed before, but I fell in love with it when I saw it, because the canopy bed works well. It is complicated and the materials used are expensive. Although the original owner of this house sold the house, the bed was moved away. After seeing a canopy bed, I don't want to sleep on that ordinary bed anymore.

There are quite a few banks in the capital, but most of them have no guarantee. The Datong Bank where I saved my money was jointly opened by the government and the Hua family, the richest man in Jiangnan. I kept my banknotes with me, and when I left the bank, I planned to find a reliable carpenter's shop.

Then I saw the white-clothed boy blowing sugar at the previous sugar man stand.

He was still pouting and blowing the candy figurine, and the stall owner skillfully squeezed the candy bubbles he blew out into a... unclothed female body.

I was standing at the corner of the alley. After the young man finished blowing, he raised his head in satisfaction, and met my eyes. He let out a groan, and a large blush spread across his face as if on fire. After reaching behind, he smiled at me with some embarrassment: "Yes, it's you."

He didn't bring any entourage today, and the sword behind him was changed, but he didn't look like a swordsman, but like a rabbit that was picked up by its ears.

The corner of my mouth twitched, "Don't hide it, I've seen it all, it's nothing..."

The young men are seventeen or eighteen, and they are easily impulsive when they see a hole in the wall.

The young man smiled dryly, his handsome face was flushed strangely, and his star-like eyes were shining with a clear color, but he was holding a naked female sugar figure in his hand hidden behind his back...

Well, it's still a little bit obscene.

As if he saw what I was thinking, the young man covered his flushed face with one hand. I thought he was going to say something, but he suddenly turned his back and squeezed out the stall owner in a graceful shape. The provocative female sugar figure bit it into pieces, and then said with a face full of sugar, "You didn't see anything!"

The stall owner smiled cheerfully, and tried to shirk responsibility, "I am so old, and this is the first time I have accepted such an order, young man, thirty cents!"

The young man was blushing, and while taking out the money, he argued: "It's not because you said you could do it, that's why I didn't think of bragging about it! You made me ashamed..."

He didn't bring any copper coins, so he took out a five-liang silver ingot and handed it to the stall owner. He blushed and gave me a look, and said in a low voice, "You won't tell anyone, will you?"

I said honestly, "Don't worry, I don't even know you."

I don't know what was going through the mind of this magical young man for a moment, he immediately said: "Gao Tang, my name is Gao Tang."