Chu Zhaohui to go to the foot of the East Mountain to deliver medicine, so get up very early, when he freshened up and went downstairs, wood is squatting at the villa gate, two ears and the whole body of the dog's hair are erect, heard Chu Zhaohui's footsteps, wood turned back to Chu Zhaohui wagging his tail, and then turned the dog's head to continue to squat in front of the gate, as if there is a curfew outside the gate exists.
Chu Zhaohui took his toes and flicked the wood away, opening the villa gate. As soon as he opened the gate, Chu Chao Hui found Rat and Huo Si Zhong standing at the bottom of the villa gate steps.
"Good morning, my lord!" As soon as Rat saw Chu Chao Hui appear, he immediately jumped in front of Chu Chao Hui and bent down towards him to greet him. Huo Sizhong, who was following Rat, panicked and followed Rat's movements.
"Up quite early." Chu Chao Hui nodded at Rat.
"My lord, we've cleaned up the courtyard, what to do next, please command me, my lord!" Little Rat held out his small chest with a bit of a show of merit look.
Chu Chao Hui looked at the yard, found that the dead branches and leaves in the yard have been picked up by the two children into a heap, he looked towards the eastern sky, the sky is only slightly white, these two children get up before dawn, got up and picked up garbage in the yard gently, he was upstairs and heard the sound of sizzling in the yard, and thought that it was a small animal that ran into the yard.
"Good job! But in the future, don't pick up garbage by hand, there are brooms, and your hands must be cleaned when they get dirty."
"Yes, my lord!" Rat looked at his little hand and thought that it was just stained with a bit of dust, not dirty at all. But the lord had taken special care of it, so he would have to keep it in mind in the future.
"Si Zhong, you take Rat to wash his hands, in addition to carrying the water in the kitchen water tank full." Chu Chao Hui assigned tasks to the two children and opened the courtyard door to go out, turning back to close the door before heading towards the gap opening.
Rat watched Chu Chao Hui disappear into the trees before turning toward the well, where Huo Si Zhong was pressing water with a pressure pump.
"Whoa! There's water that way!" Rat was very interested in the pressure pump, and pushed Hoschung out of the way to get up there and pressurize the water himself.
"No water play! His Excellency ordered us to carry water!" Huo Si Zhong resented Rat's hand-grabbing and foot-grabbing maneuvers.
"I'm not playing, rotten elm, if I'm not the one who pulls you up to work, how will you get compliments from adults." Rat pulled Huo Si Zhong to get up with him, but he was just too unfamiliar with the villa's yard and wanted Huo Si Zhong to help guide him.
Zheng Yuming was the last one to get up in the villa, and when he went downstairs, Huo Sihua had already freshened herself up and was following closely beside Woody, who was looking at Rat with all his eyes and ears, now that the object of Woody's vigilance had changed.
"Good morning, my lord!" Rat was again the fastest to jump in front of Zheng Yuming to ask for good morning.
"Good morning, my lord!" The Huo siblings, compared to Rat, appeared to be latecomers.
"Well, good morning! You three come with me to the kitchen to learn how to cook." Zheng Yuming looked at the three children with good essence and decided to start training these three children to do household chores, in the future when the slaves come, it's not good for the slave master to cook for the slaves, that would make the slaves feel that the master has no prestige.
Chu Chao Hui returned from outside the valley, the three little ones in Zheng Yuming's instructions, made a successful first breakfast, breakfast is very simple, white congee with noodle lumps, with porridge dishes are Zheng Yuming cousin sister-in-law pickled pickles.
In the next few days, Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming cleaned up the villa and the workers' room, some conspicuous things were put into the villa attic, the warehouse was cleaned up, the tools were moved to the greenhouse, and the three warehouses that were cleaned up would be the slave's excess rooms.
Turn to the beginning of the month, Huo siblings and wood was left in the villa, now Huo Sizhong and Huo Sihua, will already be cooking alone, leaving these two children and puppies in the villa will not starve to death, Huo Sizhong, although not as quick-witted as the rat, but do things steadily, delivering his things are always a board and uncompromising implementation.
Rat is too resourceful, Chu Chao Hui is uneasy with him, and goes to Dacheng to buy slaves, Rat is brought along by Chu Chao Hui.
When I left the valley early in the morning, Wu Da's mule cart was already waiting not far away.
The group of four rushed to Dacheng and first went to Wu Mu's house to get 500 gold, which was the payment Wu Da took from Healer Xu for delivering medicine last time. After taking the money, they were led by Wu Da to the slave market.
The slave market had already been open for an hour, and it was filled with people, yelling and shouting, with offers and counter-offers being made in all directions, and those slaves waiting for their buyers seemed to stand with their hands hanging down like livestock, to be inspected and selected at will.
Chu Chao Hui, Zheng Yuming and his group of four were in the slave market with mixed feelings. Wu Da was used to it and had no feelings. Rat was turning his eyes around as if he was looking at a novelty. Zheng Yuming's face was the worst, seeing slaves that were not treated as human beings, his heart had been churning with a kind of depression. Chu Chao Hui is expressionless, seriously selecting slaves, even with other buyers, break open the mouth of the slave to check the teeth, very quickly, Chu Chao Hui picked up more than a dozen young and strong, most of these selected people are bachelors, no relatives together with the kind of auction.
Just when Chu Chao Hui was ready to buy another slave to make up the whole number of twenty, there was a commotion at the entrance of the slave market, a twenty-something years old burly man with his hands tied was escorted in by a few people, this big man with a face of horizontal meat, his neck was straight and full of unruly and untamed.
This burly man had a good physique, and once he entered the slave trading market, he attracted several people to trade, but after talking to the sellers, the buyers all shook their heads and left.
Chu Chao Hui looked towards the robust slave and did not go up to ask for the price, only looked in the crowd of people who fled to Dacheng City to sell their bodies, this group of slaves had already been selected by Chu Chao Hui, the robust slaves who were alone had already been picked by him, now the remaining ones were having relatives being auctioned at the same time, Chu Chao Hui was ready to randomly order on one.
A physically stronger young man was pointed by Chu Chao Hui's finger, and this young man walked out in the envious gazes of the crowd. The two of them, Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming, had outstanding looks and looked noble, treating the small slaves around them very kindly, looking like good masters.
This young peddler is in a good mood, his business is very good, not yet to the afternoon, the hands of the slaves have been out of half, tomorrow and then sell a day, the slaves are estimated to be out of the hand, with more and more slaves, the buyers are fewer and fewer, today's business is booming so that the owner of the generosity of the price of the Chu Chaohui have a quick concessions, the two quickly reached an agreement to buy slaves from him, all are 5 gold one, that is, 500 Wu coins, or 2,500 yuan. The two quickly reached an agreement that all slaves bought from him would be 5 gold each, or 500 Wu coins, or 2,500 RMB.
Bought twenty slaves under Wu Da's mule whip lined up in two lines, ready to go to the trading market officials branding, just walked two steps, Chu Chao Hui last to make up the number to buy that slave suddenly kneeled down.
"My lord! Please! Buy my father too!"
Chu Chao Hui face sank, regretted to buy a this slave with second thoughts, there are relatives elsewhere will be attached, will not be at ease to stay in the valley, and Chu Chao Hui came to buy slaves is not a good deed, he can not afford to support and not interested in buying the old and sick.
"You're a dead man! It's a blessing that His Excellency is willing to buy you, if you don't know any better you'll be thrown into the Yangtze River!" As soon as the peddler saw that the slave he sold was in trouble, he hurriedly whipped it with his whip, fearing that Chu Chao Hui would return it if he was unhappy.
"My lord! My father is not good with his feet, but he knows how to make iron, if you buy my father you can let him help you make iron tools, my father still has a strong arm." The young slave heard the peddler threaten to throw the long river, his head kowtowed even harder, the slaves that couldn't be sold, the peddler suspected of bringing back the trouble, would throw these slaves into the long river and drown them, the young slave's father was crippled on one leg, coupled with his relatively old age, in the eyes of the buyer it was equivalent to being sickly and disabled, and the end of the failure to sell would be to feed them to the fishes in the long river.
"Making iron?" Chu Chao Hui moved slightly. "Which one is it?"
"It's the one sitting in that corner." The young slave saw hope, ignoring the peddler's whip, rolling and crawling towards a corner, dragging a middle-aged slave close to forty years of age in front of Chu Chao Hui, this middle-aged slave's two legs walked one high and one low, with a wooden expression, reacting only after being dragged by his son in front of Chu Chao Hui, following his son to kowtow towards Chu Chao Hui non-stop.
"Just buy the father and son." Jung Yuming's nose turned sour.
"Alright, how much is this old slave." Chu Chao Hui had already decided to buy it when he heard that the middle-aged slave could make iron.
"300... No, 250 Wu coins." The vendor was overjoyed, not realizing that waste could be turned into money.
"My lord! Buy us! Buy our family..." The slaves with the father and son pair fell to their knees.
Chu Chao Hui did not show any more mercy, paying the price of the crippled middle-aged man's body and leaving with the slaves, leaving a plea behind his head.