Transmigration: A Farm Girl's Brocade

Chapter 108: Chapter 108: Huge Loss (For the He’s Jade Disc +)_1

Chapter 108: Chapter 108: Huge Loss (For the He’s Jade Disc +)_1

Li Yaren sneered, “Are you trying to fool ghosts? If you’re so poor, how can you afford to buy several dozen acres of land and even afford servants?”

Shopkeeper Cui softly explained how the Qian family unexpectedly dug up a few valuable plants in the mountains, sold them for money, and bought the land. Middleman Wong also testified, and only then did Li Yaren believe it.

Except for the daughter of this family, Li Yaren agreed to sell all these people to the Qian family.

What Qian Yixiu most wanted to help was that little girl, and upon hearing this, she pulled on Shopkeeper Cui’s sleeve.

Shopkeeper Cui also wanted to help the girl and said, “Boss Li, the girl doesn’t want to go to that place. If you forcibly take her there and she ends up hitting the wall, won’t you have to return the silver you’ve received? Name your price for her. If the child’s family doesn’t have enough money, I’ll make up the difference. Let’s do a good deed by giving this girl a way out.”

Li Yaren had wanted to sell the girl to the brothel to earn more silver. Seeing that someone was willing to pay more, fulfilling the previous owner’s wish to have her sold into the mountains, he nodded and said, “The Brothels Courtyard has offered twenty taels of silver for this girl, while the other four come to a total of twenty taels.”

Shopkeeper Cui looked down at the young siblings and asked, “How does this price sound? You only need to pay twenty-five taels, and I will cover the extra fifteen taels for the girl.”

Qian Yixiu shook her head, “There’s no need. We can afford it.”

Although Shopkeeper Cui was a decent man, it was best not to owe favors for one’s own servants.

Qian Sangui was resting on a chair when Qian Yeejin came over to tell him she and her sister had bought a family of servants. Upon hearing the reasons, he felt this family would be troublesome and didn’t want to accept them. But he was also afraid to refuse; traders were often treacherous and heartless, and he feared they would hold a grudge against his grandchildren. Reluctantly, he gritted his teeth and agreed.

Qian Sangui only had a little over five hundred taels of silver, and the money to make up for the shortfall in buying the land was also advanced by Shopkeeper Cui. He had agreed to repay him when he returned from handling affairs in the provincial city.

Once the silver was paid and the contract signed, the family came over to kneel and kowtow to the Qian family, acknowledging their new masters.

This family consisted of five members: the man, Jin Hua, was thirty years old; his wife, Lady Wei, was twenty-nine; their twelve-year-old daughter, Jin Xiaoyu; their eleven-year-old eldest son, Jin Xiaofeng; and their eight-year-old youngest son, Jin Xiaolei.

Seeing such a family, Qian Sangui shook his head and sighed heavily, his voice trembling as he said, “My household is full of the old, weak, sick, and disabled. We wanted to buy a couple of able-bodied workers to do labor and protect the home, but they… ah, there’s only one able-bodied man, and even he looks frail, while the other four are either women or children. It’s truly…” a loss.

Although he didn’t utter the last three words, everyone knew what he meant.

Feeling frustrated and angry about spending so much silver on servants who were extremely unsatisfactory, his face became even paler, and his body started to shake a bit.

Qian Yixiu lowered her head feeling embarrassed. She had intended to help the little girl, but she hadn’t expected to bring back a household of servants that weren’t very useful. If she caused her grandfather’s illness to worsen, her sin would be great.

Li Yaren laughed after hearing this, “I still have several able-bodied men. Buying two more to do work is an option. Able-bodied men for ten taels of silver each, a very good deal.”

Qian Sangui waved his hand, gasping as he spoke, “Enough, my family is already poor. We’ve spent so much silver on these people; buying more would mean we couldn’t even afford food.”

Shopkeeper Cui’s face also turned red, as if he had influenced the two children’s decision to buy this family of servants. The adults had clearly wanted to buy strong servants capable of working and protecting the household, but the two children ended up choosing such a family.

I shouldn’t have done this; though I wanted to help the girl who hit the wall, how can I justify helping two ignorant children spend so much silver on servants that aren’t practical? Forty taels of silver could sustain a farmer’s family for ten years.

What should I do if Qian Sangui gets so angry that something bad happens to him? I couldn’t live with myself.

Shopkeeper Cui was extremely embarrassed. But the deed was signed, and there was nothing he could say that would change anything. Besides, one shouldn’t offend middlemen so easily.

Qian Yeejin, Middleman Wong, and Li Yaren went together to the County Government Office to handle the paperwork for buying land and people. Shopkeeper Cui, not reassured, followed them as well.

Seeing that Qian Sangui was not feeling well, and that Jin Xiaoyu’s wound on the forehead kept bleeding nonstop, to the point where Lady Wei’s handkerchief couldn’t staunch it, Yixiu called for a donkey cart. She had Jin Hua carry Qian Sangui, with Lady Wei supporting Jin Xiaoyu, and together with the Jin Xiaofeng brothers, they all went to Baohe Hall.

Zhang Zhongkun took Qian Sangui’s pulse and administered acupuncture, saying he was exhausted and had gotten angry. He recommended Qian Sangui rest and recuperate for a while after returning home, and to avoid overwork and anxiety. He then prescribed five sets of medicine.

The doctor treating Qian Xiaoyu’s head wound said, “Miss, the cut on your forehead is quite severe, I’m afraid it will leave a scar.”

The young girl softly said, “It doesn’t matter, it’s better if it leaves a scar.”

Jin Xiaoyu, with her head wrapped in a circle of white bandages, seemed to feel a bit better. She knelt down before Yixiu and kowtowed, her voice trembling with tears, “Thank you, Miss, for your life-saving grace. Without miss’s intervention, I would have suffered a fate worse than death. I would brave any danger, climb mountains or dive into flames to repay Miss’s kindness.”

The young girl was delicate and charming, with the air of a refined lady.

With a simple gesture, she had saved a precious and beautiful life; Yixiu couldn’t help but feel secretly pleased. She said, “I don’t need you to climb mountains or dive into flames, just do your duties well and work hard.”

Glancing back at Qian Sangui’s ashen face, still sighing non-stop, she quickly hid her joy and pursed her lips, remaining silent.

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The Qian Hua Family knew very well that their master had bought them as a last resort. They tried to be as inconspicuous as possible, shrinking to one side, not even daring to breathe too loudly.

More than half an hour later, Qian Yeejin returned. He held the deed in his hand and said to Jin Hua, “I’ve changed your family’s surname. From now on, you’ll no longer carry the Jin surname; you’ll follow our family’s surname, Qian.”

To completely sever their ties with their past and ensure their loyalty, he had changed their surname from Jin to Qian when completing the deed.

Yixiu looked approvingly at her little brother. Such a true six-year-old thought things through so thoroughly, he was almost devilishly clever.

From then on, the Jin family would be known as Qian Hua, Lady Qian Wei, Qian Xiaoyu, Qian Xiaofeng, and Qian Xiaolei.

Grateful for their new names, the group kowtowed again to their master to show their loyalty.

The weak Qian Sangui said, “Not only is my family poor, but from now on, life will be very hard. If you don’t want to endure these difficult times, we won’t force you. We can send you back to the trader right now.”

Qian Hua kowtowed again and said, “I thank you, my master, for saving my daughter. Without you, my daughter would have been sold to places of ill repute. After surviving such hardship, being able to stay together as a family and serve a kind-hearted master is already a great blessing…”