[Red Mansions] The big maid struggles daily

Talking about buying and selling a prostitute to teach the opportunity, listening to the girl in the wall is secretly frightened

In recent days, the days have gradually shortened, and Mrs. Chai has only taken care of some places for the little girls, but it is not a good time to take advantage of the lack of clothing and food in the severe winter to collect poor girls.Aunt Chai folded her hands, secretly thinking about where to go to buy talents in winter.

Mrs. Chai has been a matchmaker for more than 20 years, and she specializes in girls' business. She has a lot of acquaintances: some places have more mountains and less land, and a year of hard work is not enough for the whole family to chew. Naturally, she has to sell them. There are still some places where the mountains are good and the water is good. If it is a good year, the whole family can eat enough and clothe themselves warmly. It is not easy to sell their children out, but they can’t support the young children raised in such a good place. Each of them has a pink face like a flower bone, and the teacher resold it a few days ago and sold it at a profit of ten times and a hundred times-this alone makes people's teeth go away from time to time like a leech seeing blood. In the last incident, I was always looking forward to the day when these beautiful places with beautiful mountains and rivers would be hit by a disaster, so that I could make a fortune.

Aunt Chai moved her finger and spit. She does have a few good places to support her mother-in-law, but the weather has been good in the past two years. I am afraid that I will not be able to accept a few girls. money for the journey!It happened that her family had recently added a baby, and it was time to spend money. Aunt Chai's eyeballs moved, and her eyes were like eagle hooks. She stared straight at the girls who were sewing in front of the house, and there were only five or six girls left. The hairy girls who haven't left their heads are all beauties. Mrs. Chai was originally inspired by the rich family who raised a lean horse in the front street. These few good births will be raised for a few years, whether they will be made concubines or sold to the Qinlou Chu Pavilion, it will be a very profitable business.But at this time, the money is not available, and when these girls are eating and drinking for nothing, they have to sell two or three at a price to survive.Fortunately, although the girls are young, they can gradually see good colors. The old bustards in those dirty places like girls of this age the most, and the prices they give are more straightforward than those of rich families.

Thinking of Bai Huahua's income, Aunt Chai felt better. Suddenly, she heard the loud cry of a baby coming from the East Wing, "My dear grandson", and turned her fat buttocks to the East Wing with a smile on her face.

Zhu Xiu glanced at Aunt Chai's back from the corner of her eye, and let out a breath secretly, but she didn't dare to stop the work she was doing. As expected, Aunt Chai started to yell and curse in a broken voice: "You little whore, you are so hungry!" You are lazy if you are wrong! Sooner or later you will sell it to the black coal kiln, warm your feet for those niggers, and see if you dare to steal and play tricks!" The two little girls next to Zhu Xiu, who looked up and relaxed their bones, quickly picked it up. Embroidered tassels.It wasn't until it was dark that the eldest sister of Aunt Chai's family drove them back to the house, and Zhu Xiu's back relaxed.

After serving tea and water for Miss Chai and serving dinner, Zhu Xiu calmed down and thought about Mrs. Chai's actions in the afternoon.

This Mrs. Chai is only about forty years old, she has a well-rounded and mature face, but she is really not a charitable person. It has only been a month or so since Zhu Xiuyi dreamed to sleep in this crappy feudal society. I saw a dozen girls, big or small, walking back and forth in this small yard like the bottom of a well. Listening to those people's private words, some were sold to poor villages as child brides-in-law, and some were sold to businessmen and wealthy households to make money. Those who bought houses, and those who sold themselves in brothels, and the best ones were sold to rich families as slaves.

Zhu Xiu was not reconciled to being bought and sold, but she didn't dare to reveal any obvious differences, for fear that Aunt Chai would pour a bowl of dumb medicine down and sell it in a dirty place.

On the second day after coming here, Zhu Xiu saw with her own eyes a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl who refused to give up. She was dragged back by her hair before she escaped from the second door in the middle of the night, and asked Aunt Chai, who came out with her shoes, to slap her repeatedly. I took more than a dozen earbuds, and the next day the cock crowed, filled the medicine and sent it to the hall. At noon that day, Mrs. Chai sent someone to buy knuckles and ate wine in the courtyard, throwing away the girl's sweat towel while eating. The son crushed the ground with the bright red embroidered shoes on his feet, looked at the remaining girls and said cruelly: "That hoof dares to make trouble with me, so I will send her out early! Now, it's not too long, people are honest! It’s only cheaper for those dead turtle slaves..."

The terrified Zhu Xiu was terrified, restless at night, and secretly peeped for half a month. Zhu Xiu understood this Aunt Chai's temperament, but if she got impatient, this Aunt Chai's bomber would be sold to a dirty place. If nothing else, those places always sell well.

If an ordinary girl has a skill, Aunt Chai will sell it to a wealthy family at a high price, and the younger ones like her will be raised for a period of time before trying to sell them.

From that day on, Zhu Xiu regarded herself as a dumb person, she carefully compared her every move to others, she listened to every word of others and kept it in her heart, fortunately her current body was malnourished and thin and small , but he is used to the work, and he seems to be very dexterous, and he can often do the work with his hands.

In the dead of night, Zhu Xiu sometimes smiled wryly and rejoiced, thankfully she didn't come here whole, otherwise, with her pampered shell, she would only ask her to destroy the two embroidery bases, and if she couldn't last a day, she would ask Aunt Chai to take care of her Selling it in a building, even though it is now in this bastard place where every day should not be called the ground is not working, at least there is still a trump card coming, just draw it slowly, there is always a way to survive.

Zhuxiu was eating sorghum porridge in this room without knowing the taste, and over there, Miss Chai shouted loudly: "Come here, two people!... Xiu girl, come here!" It was Mrs. Chai's new grandson who pulled a bag. The clothes need to be washed by people. Because Zhu Xiu has always been reticent and quick to work, Miss Chai remembered it.Zhu Xiu didn't dare to delay, and the rest of the little girls looked at me and I looked at you, but you didn't dare to really call Miss Chai and so on. A girl with half-high hair and three-strand braids stood up biting her lips, "Next time It's not my turn," he said, ignoring Zhu Xiu and leaving.

In the east chamber, Aunt Chai was sitting on the couch holding a little baby wrapped in a red envelope, her smiling eyes were narrowed, and it didn't make sense to see Zhu Xiu walking in timidly.Beside her, a young woman who was drinking soup from a sauce-colored glazed arhat bowl put down the bowl when she saw this, and smiled at Sister Chai, "Sister, go to sleep, I don't want to bother my sister about this anymore." With a smile, "I'm doing it for my nephew. When my nephew is healed, it's my heart." Although she was talking, she didn't see the pile of dirty clothes and quilts that she had changed a little closer to the door. It was Aunt Chai. He also persuaded her to rest, and waited until Zhu Xiu and the two put the dirty quilt out in the wooden basin, and then Sister Chai got up, laughed and said a few words before going away.

It was already dark, and the cool wind in the night after autumn made people's backs numb. The two of them worked together to remove and wash the quilt, rubbed their three-strand braids on their arms, and looked at the few dirty clothes in the basin. Glancing secretly at the east wing room where the lights were on and the windows were closed and muttering, she glanced at Zhu Xiu who was washing with her head down, gritted her teeth and left quietly.Zhu Xiu rolled her eyes, she just didn't know, and after a while, she straightened up, moved the wooden basin to the corridor not far from the east wing, and continued to wash with the light from the paper window.The woman who was watching the night at the small gate rolled her eyelids, and when she saw her working honestly, she ignored her.

Like the small clothes that are afraid of tearing the fine cotton, the Zhuxiu was lightly and gently washed carefully, the sound of the water was barely audible, and the sound in the east chamber became clearer.From the corner of her eyes, she saw the gatekeeper closing her eyes and loafing in the distance, Zhu Xiu kept moving her hands, but her ears were puffed up, and she didn't miss a single word of private conversation in the east chamber at this moment—she discovered it the first day , her unusual talent of hearing and eyesight in her previous life also followed, and her good ears, which were not very useful in her previous life, have saved her several times these days.

I just heard Mrs. Chai in the East Chamber say: "It's all for my mother's half-life experience. If you understand it or not, you just keep it in your heart. Even the eldest sister must not say it. After all, the eldest sister is going out. Our family's livelihood is all Depending on these, you can't ask her to take her to her husband's house!"

The woman surnamed Yan—the daughter-in-law of Aunt Chai didn’t want to, so she pondered for a moment before laughing and said: “Mother said this too early, Bao’er is still young, Bao’er’s father is not strong, and neither is the daughter-in-law. It's useful, but I have to worry about buying and selling."

Aunt Chai squinted at Mrs. Yan's uncomfortable expression, curled her lips and said, "It is because of Bao'er and his father that you have to take it over, not to mention anything else. Just go and walk a few times and I will tell you in detail, and you will get started."

Mrs. Yan was worried, her man was weak, and after she married in, she waited at home all day long, listening to the neighbors muttering behind her back, saying that her father-in-law died early because of her mother-in-law doing this business, and her man She was born with a medicine jar, only a bitter sister-in-law at the age of seventeen or eighteen who still can't find her husband's family.After listening to a few sentences too much, even her natal family gradually distanced herself from her. The more Mrs. Yan complained in her heart that her mother-in-law's dirty business was hurting the whole family, the more she believed in the theory of retribution from the underworld. Stay far away, if it weren't for Aunt Chai's greatness, the fat son who she earned with her life would never want to be touched by this old godmother.

Muttering for a while, Mrs. Yan apologized and said with a smile: "Mother valued me, and my daughter-in-law is grateful. It's just that this business hurts people's peace. My daughter-in-law is young, so I'm afraid she can't hold back the situation. If something goes wrong, wouldn't it ruin Chai Ya for nothing?" Besides, there is only Bao'er alone, after all, it is lonely, if there are more younger brothers, our Chai family will be more prosperous."

Hearing what the daughter-in-law said, it was clear that she was hurting Yin and virtue, Aunt Chai became angry, and looked at her eldest grandson who was sleeping soundly, Fang reluctantly suppressed it, her face was blue and she didn't speak.Mrs. Yan patted her fat son, holding a smiling face and saying a lot of good things, Fang coaxed Mrs. Chai to turn around, and only heard: "Come on! Come on! It's my grandson after all, so I have to sell my son in the courtyard. One, to feed him."

When Mrs. Yan heard this, she became a little anxious. Except for a few thick women who watched the yard and followed Aunt Chai to buy and sell, her family didn't have a serious girl. They always ordered those Aunt Chai to buy them. If these little girls are sold, they will not have to work for her in everything, maybe they will have to serve the domineering sister-in-law.He hurriedly said: "When is this? Didn't the former daughter-in-law mean to keep those few for two years before selling them? I see that although those few are all good, they are very thin after all. How many do you raise?" It takes a year to show the color at the selling price. It is sold at this time, who is willing to spend that kind of effort to take care of these people, it has this kind of effort, I heard that this kind of age is not needed, as long as those who are younger It has been taught since childhood."

After chatting in the middle of the night, Aunt Chai got sleepy and she wanted to show off, "Your children know a lot about their families. Although it is more valuable to raise them for two years, they are also at the right age. There are so many of them who are around nine or ten years old." Young masters like it! Don’t be afraid if you are thin, there is no medicine in those places, after a few doses, your appearance will come out, and your figure will come out..."

It was the first time that Mrs. Yan heard about it, she pursed her lips and smiled: "Mother is joking, if there is such a good medicine, I will buy two pairs for my younger sister. My younger sister is feeling uncomfortable because of her skin and hair these days. I just sent the newly acquired lead powder to my sister."

Aunt Chai spit hastily, "Bah! What do you think those are good things? After taking those medicines, they will be more delicate than flowers in three to five years, and they will be very useful. After the flowering period, that person will grow old." It’s scary to be sick!” Seeing that the grandson was startled loudly, Busy Baby coaxed him to sleep soundly before showing off again: “I heard that the prescription is very precious, why do you think it is? This prescription is from the Feiyan Hede is handed down, those two are the ancestors of the prostitutes, if not all the rare treasures in the world are close to them, how can these two sisters be so bright for so many years? Just like that, didn’t they give birth to half an egg? , it is the medicine that cures it!"

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Zhu Xiu's heart was overwhelmed, and she clenched her hands tightly to resist the thought of running away. After a long time, she dried her clothes with trembling hands and moved back to the back room.

The author has something to say: Zhu Xiu: What kind of hole card is this, what kind of trick? !No, I have to gnaw on some ginger to suppress my shock.

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Zhu Xiu: Spices, snacks, and gold and silver curds are in other people’s purses!In addition to ginger, I have recently added pomegranate peels to my purse.