In fact, a family like the Sheng family could easily ask the pawnbroker to bring people to the mansion for Sheng Minmin to choose, but they needed to notify her in advance. Sheng Minmin was in a hurry so she came directly.

The manager is a man in his early 30s, who looks simple and honest, and makes people feel good about him.

The servant brought tea, and Sheng Minmin went straight to the point and stated her needs.

"I want to buy a group of servants who can sign death contracts. I am not picky about their appearance, age, or whether they are married or not. I only have two requirements. First, they must know martial arts, but it doesn't matter if they are not very strong. Second, they must have a clean family background."

The steward looked embarrassed and said, "Madam Huang, we don't have any servants who can fight for the time being, but we do have some who are very strong."

The steward had been in Kyoto for many years and recognized "Huang Yaning".

Sheng Minmin nodded slightly. It was not easy to find a servant who knew kung fu, and she didn't expect to buy one in one go.

"It's okay. If you find someone later, let me know. Bring the strong ones up to me first."

The steward quickly agreed and went down with a smile. Soon he led about twenty people to stand in the yard.

There are men, women, old and young.

The manager asked them to come forward one by one and introduce themselves, holding in one hand a large bucket at least 2 feet high and filled with water in front of them.

Sheng Minmin looked around and unexpectedly found a good seedling.

One of the girls, about 12 years old, was able to lift the big bucket easily with one hand.

The manager explained that this little girl was a little special, and if you wanted to buy her, you had to buy her whole family.

It turns out that this girl's parents and sister all work in the dental clinic. Because the head of the family was her grandmother, who was not related by blood, the family of four was kicked out of the house after her grandfather passed away, so her background is clean.

The girl's father had no land, so he had to take his wife and daughter to do odd jobs to make a living. However, they couldn't make much money from odd jobs, and the girl's mother happened to be seriously ill.

The girl's father originally wanted to sell his two daughters to pay for his wife's medical treatment, but his wife was reluctant to do so.

The father had a bit of a fierce personality, and after thinking about it, he decided to sell the four of them. The money from selling themselves was very cheap, and he only asked the owner to buy them all at the same time.

Seeing that Sheng Minmin seemed interested, the manager asked someone to bring the remaining three people over.

This family looked ordinary and didn't seem to be very smart, but Sheng Minmin bought them all because of the eldest girl's strength.

She selected a few "strong and powerful" women, paid the pawnbroker money, and someone immediately went to the government to register. Sheng Minmin quickly got the deeds of these people.

After finishing their business, the group went straight back to Sheng Mansion.

"From now on, your name is Qingchi, and you will stay with me." Sheng Minmin said to the newly bought strong maid Zhao Daya.

Qingchi agreed happily. As for Qingchi's younger sister Zhao Xiaoya, who was only 8 years old, she was handed over to the governess in the mansion to be trained for a period of time.

Qingchi's parents, Uncle Zhao and Aunt Zhao, were called in separately by Sheng Minmin. No one knew what Sheng Minmin said to them, and they left the house immediately.

*

Taohua Village, Feng family.

The Feng family has changed a lot recently. The youngest girl in the family has changed from her previous cowardly appearance to being arrogant and even asking to sit at the table...

The people in Taohua Village live a decent life. They can eat three meals a day, and in the morning they usually have mixed grain porridge with some pickles.

Lunch and dinner are mostly multi-grain vegetable cakes, and a little rice porridge with fruits and vegetables.

The people among the Feng family who had the best food were his two grandchildren, the eldest of whom had a boiled egg every morning.

The second group consisted of Old Man Feng and the two people who did the heavy work, Old Feng Da and Old Feng Er. Except for the lack of eggs, these three people had the thickest porridge.

The third group is Old Li and Little Li. They don’t seem to eat the best or the most, but they have money and often eat secretly, otherwise Old Li and Little Li wouldn’t have grown so fat.

The rest were the maids from the second room, Feng San Ya, Feng Si Ya, and Feng Wu Ya. These three maids could not eat good food but they could eat their fill.

Only Feng Liuya could only get half a bowl of thin porridge every morning and evening, and she also had to do a lot of work.

Last time, Old Man Feng agreed to let Feng Liuya come to the table for dinner. Logically, Feng Liuya's life would get better and better, but the actual situation was the opposite.

Because Mrs. Li changed the Feng family's food.

In the past, Mrs. Li had always disliked the youngest girl in the family. What happened two days ago caused everyone in the family to be beaten and embarrassed. Mrs. Li had developed hatred for the youngest girl and wanted to kill her.

But the old man values ​​his reputation and would never let his family become a laughing stock in this turbulent time.

Old Mrs. Li knew the old man's bottom line very well, so she thought for a whole night before coming up with a way to torture Liu Ya without people gossiping.

She moved all the food and seasonings in the house into the room and even locked the cellar.

Every day she would take out an old pumpkin as big as a washbasin and ask the three maids from the second room to cut half of it in the morning and add water to cook a pot of pumpkin soup, and then cut the remaining half and cook soup in the evening.

Not a drop of oil, not a grain of salt, not a grain of rice...

It can be said that the Feng family never ate so badly even during the years of famine.

After eating it for two days, Mrs. Li saw that the little girl had a sallow complexion, dull eyes, and spoke as if she was about to die...

The dying look made Old Mrs. Li feel relieved and proud.

Humph.

Want to fight with Mrs. Li? No way!

As for the other members of the Feng family, Old Mrs. Li secretly gave them a lot of food, so they looked pretty good.

Huang Yaning is suffering a lot now.

Last time she deliberately made a scene in front of the villagers to fight for her rights. She thought her life would get better but unexpectedly it became more difficult.

From childhood to adulthood, she has been meticulous about her food, clothing and daily expenses.

She was tired of eating the finest bird's nest, shark's fin, ginseng and pigeon soup, things that others could never afford in their entire lives, when she was a child.

The worst fabric for clothes is silk, because too rough fabric will scratch her delicate skin...

But now, she was wearing a patched dress and straw sandals, and sleeping in a straw stack in the woodshed.

After eating the bland pumpkin soup, I was so hungry that my hands and feet felt weak and my head was dizzy.

She felt that if she continued to eat like this, she might starve to death...

In addition to not having enough to eat, they also had to do a lot of work, such as boiling water, cooking, washing clothes, sweeping the floor, feeding chickens and pigs, and going up the mountain to collect two baskets of firewood in the morning and two baskets in the afternoon.

Feng Sanya and her two sisters have stopped being lazy these past two days and have been doing similar work as her. Huang Yaning couldn't find any fault with the Feng family even if she wanted to.

Originally, she could have used the money to find someone to secretly buy some food, but the three sisters watched her very closely, leaving her no chance...

Not having enough to eat, not having enough clothes to wear, working in the cold wind, and having to endure chilblains on the hands, ears, and feet...

Huang Yaning had never experienced cold in her previous life, so she had no idea that frostbite was so uncomfortable.

It's not so uncomfortable when you're distracted while working during the day, but at night the frostbite areas are so itchy that you can't sleep.

She hadn't had a good night's sleep in the past two days. Even when she fell asleep, she would dream about her past life and had nightmares one after another. As a result, she became thinner and felt very depressed in just two days.

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