Traveling through books: Traveling through time with a golden finger to become a soft rice man

At first, Yang Yuanzu wondered why Lin Ting'an came to Yahang and let others earn the agency fee in vain. Later, he realized that Yahang was more reliable.

Lin Ting'an spent the whole journey learning about the fate of dangerous elements with Yang Yuanzu.

It is said in the county that there was a Mr. Ding who went to the slave exchange and bought a slave. However, within a few days the slave murdered Mr. Ding's family and ran away.

However, the population movement in the Ning Dynasty was strictly controlled, and the slave was captured by the county government within a few days.

Later, when the county magistrate investigated, he found out that the other party was a prisoner of war from the enemy country. He had been waiting for an opportunity to take revenge because he was resentful.

Lin Ting'an solemnly emphasized to Yang Yuanzu that when buying slaves, never buy prisoners of war, otherwise you will not know how you died.

Of course, you can't buy criminals with bad intentions. Their nature is bad, and if you keep them around, they may be killed one day.

Most of these criminals are greedy and lustful people, who have either robbed money or insulted female brothers.

There are also some people from other clans who have been affected because they have committed serious crimes. Lin Ting'an said that these people from the other clans can be bought into the house, and they can be regarded as innocent people who have been affected by the family.

In addition, there are the poor people who are forced by life to work as servants.

These servants are generally divided into two types.

A kind of person who signed a deed of betrayal and entered the house, they can no longer return to their home.

The other type only signs a living contract, and you can go home naturally when the time is up. You can also take leave to go home if there is an emergency at home. There will also be holidays during the Chinese New Year.

However, the wages they earn are much less than those who sign a contract of sale.

The two came to Yaren to explain their needs and emphasized that they must be of good character.

Yaren introduced the two of them to two ordinary people who came from poor families and were servants. There were relatively few unlucky slaves like Xiao Fan who were affected by the family.

The Daning Dynasty had relatively loose restrictions on the number of servants. As long as they were members of the gentry class, they were eligible to hire a hundred servants. If they wanted to hire more servants, they could only be adults with official status.

However, servants, like their masters, have to pay the head tax, so ordinary families without any financial resources cannot afford to maintain servants. Even Yang Yuanzu and his family only dare to buy two or three if they make money.

This is only a rule for ordinary servants. If you are a slave, it is different.

Although the slaves of the Daning Dynasty had no status and were like objects, and could be beaten and killed at any time, they were still required to pay the same capitation tax as ordinary servants. This led to the aristocratic families preferring ordinary servants with innocent backgrounds.

Due to status restrictions, merchants generally use slaves.

Yang Yuanzu is now a nobleman. Although he is the scholar with the lowest reputation, he is also qualified to hire servants.

Lin Ting'an used to be a businessman, so he could only choose the one he wanted from slaves carefully.

Now because of Yang Yuanzu, Lin Ting'an has expanded his selection. Compared with the half a year it took him to purchase four born-exceptional slaves, today he only spent a stick of incense to select a woman who can cook. and a teenager used as a book boy.

Compared to the careful selection before, this time he chose very easily. He only needed to ask about the servant's family situation and the reason for becoming a servant.

Both of them came to work as servants because their families were too poor to take the blame.

Women have a living contract, just like working. They sign a contract with a time limit. When the time is up, they can go home. If they have something to do, they can also ask for leave from their master's family. After getting approval, they can go home to visit.

Lin Ting'an signed a five-year living contract with the woman.

The boy is a man. Because his family is poor, he signed a death contract. Very few men here will be abandoned by their families.

Lin Ting'an inquired and learned that he was not the only man in the boy's family, but he also had three younger brothers, all of whom were boys.

Because there were too many children in the family to support, his parents decided to sell him, the eldest son, in exchange for food rations and money to support the family.

After finding out about his family background, Lin Ting'an asked Yang Yuanzu for his opinion. Yang Yuanzu said that everything depends on his wife, and Lin Ting'an immediately decided to take care of these two people.

Yang Yuanzu showed the scholar's identity card to the Yaren and completed the deed agreement between the two.

The woman's name was Kang Chunhua, and Yang Yuanzu and the others called her Aunt Kang.

The boy is the eldest in his family, and his family calls him Da Wa Zi. His father's surname is Su, so he is also called Su Da.

After all, Su Da was not a serious name, and now that someone had arrived at their home, Lin Ting'an was thinking about giving the person a name, so he asked Yang Yuanzu for his opinion. Yang Yuanzu just said that his wife Lin Ting'an would take care of it.

Lin Ting'an:...

Lin Ting'an smiled helplessly and dotingly, Yang Yuanzu was planning to be the hands-off shopkeeper all the time.

Lin Ting'an only learned some simple words for business, and later learned some other words after he was with Yang Yuanzu. It is not difficult for him to choose a name now.

After thinking for a while, Lin Ting'an said, "How about Suning?"

Yes, yes, but why does Yang Yuanzu sound so familiar to him?

Lin Ting'an continued: "The word "Ning" is taken from the word "jiazhai An Ning".

Yang Yuanzu nodded and replied: "The name has a very good meaning, so let's call it this. Husband, you are so talented!" Lin Ting'an also thought this name was good when he heard the compliment.

When they went back, Lin Ting'an taught them how to drive a carriage, and Yang Yuanzu followed along to join in the fun, cheering for his wife from time to time.

The few people returned to the village jokingly. Yang Huahua had been waiting at the door early in the morning. When he saw the two coming back, he happily stepped forward and looked left and right to see where his gift was.

The first thing he saw were the two strangers brought back by his elder brother and brother-in-law.

The two of them were dressed in shabby clothes and each carried a cloth package. They did not look like guests visiting his home.

"What is this?" Yang Huahua asked puzzledly.

Lin Ting'an asked Yang Yuanzu to stay and explain, while he took the new two people to familiarize themselves with the family affairs. Before leaving, he gave Yang Yuanzu a look, and then handed the two wooden boxes to Yang Yuanzu.

Yang Huahua looked at the two wooden boxes and didn't care about the two newcomers. He pestered Yang Yuanzu and asked, "Big brother, are you giving this to me?"

Yang Yuanzu smiled and asked, "How did you know it was given to you?"

"You'll know it just by looking at it!" Yang Huahua said charmingly.

Yang Yuanzu stopped teasing Yang Huahua and handed the thing directly to Yang Huahua. Yang Huahua opened it and saw that it was a gold pendant, and the pendant was a blooming golden flower.

For them, gold is the most valuable thing.

Yang Huahua put on the gold pendant and ran to his bedroom. There was a large mirror with a clear view, which his elder brother had made and given to him.

Yang Yuanzu did not let him tell the outside world about the mirror, so he could only keep it for himself and use it in a low-key manner in his bedroom at home.

Yang Huahua looked pretty in front of the mirror for a while, then put the gold pendant inside his clothes and put it away.

After Yang Huahua left like a gust of wind, Yang Yuanzu found Aunt Chen and gave the things to Aunt Chen.

Aunt Chen opened her mouth with joy when she saw it was a gold bracelet. After putting it on her hand, she would look at it from time to time and show off the gold bracelet on her hand to everyone she met.

Finally, under the publicity of the gold hairpin, gold pendant and gold bracelet, a few more thieves came to the Yang family.