mtl008 Chapter 157: 7 New People
Chapter 157: 7 New People
Wang Ronghua had never seen such a thing before. She frowned and then helped the woman up.
"Get up quickly. I can't stand your kneeling to me. We farmers don't accept that." Wang Ronghua said as he helped the man up.
"Hey, I..." The woman was speechless and just looked at Wang Ronghua with hope.
"Then let's call those two children out and have a look." Wang Ronghua nodded and looked at the middleman.
Zhao Guocheng also agreed. It was really cruel to split up the family like this, but they had already bought four, and two more would obviously be too many. When they came, they had originally planned to buy only two people.
"The two men came out very quickly, but I didn't expect that they were followed by an old man who was slovenly, with messy hair that was almost completely white, and a white beard all over his face. There was not a single clean spot on his body, and he looked stupid.
Even after coming out, he didn't dare to come over and stood aside, watching everyone from afar.
"Madam, these are my two sons. I hope you will buy them. Our family will be loyal to you and will not dare to disobey or betray you." The woman said this and wanted to kneel down and kowtow again.
Wang Ronghua stopped it.
"Let me ask them two questions. What are your names? Have you ever been to school?" Wang Ronghua asked.
"Madam, my name is Qin Hai, and this is my younger brother Qin He. We two brothers attended a private school for a few years, and we can read and write simply." Qin Hai said after bowing.
"Then are you willing to follow me back to farm? We are all farmers and can only make ends meet," said Wang Ronghua.
Qin Hai looked at his parents and then nodded.
"As long as we can be with our parents, we can go anywhere. We will work hard, and it's good enough to have enough to eat." After Qin Hai said this, he pulled Qin He to kneel down to thank him.
Zhao Guocheng immediately helped Qin Hai and Qin He up.
"Mom, I want to buy that old man." Suddenly Zhao Shiying pointed at the old man at the edge who was looking at everyone with a dazed look on his face.
Zhao Guocheng was shocked.
If this person is given to you for free, you can't even accept him, so how can you buy him? It seems like this old man has mental problems. Zhao Guocheng looked at Zhao Shiying with a bitter face, feeling that his daughter was joking.
Wang Ronghua also looked at the old man. To be honest, he was not within her consideration. After all, he looked even more miserable than the beggars on the street.
When the others saw this, they thought, this is the crazy old man. Why does the crazy old man want him but not them?
Everyone looked at the little baby Zhao Shiying with puzzled eyes.
Only the middle-aged man was excited, so happy that he even stuttered when speaking.
"Young...young lady, you are really kind-hearted. This old man has been with us for a long time. If you want to buy him, we only need a hundred coins." The middleman quickly stated the lowest price. Although these hundred coins could not offset the expenses of the old man here, it was good enough to be able to sell him and no longer cause trouble for them.
He would burn incense for three days to thank the Bodhisattva for sending such a sucker to take the plague god away.
At this time, the crazy old man also looked at Zhao Shiying. As he looked at her, his eyes became much clearer, and then he grinned and laughed.
I don’t know what I remembered.
Wang Ronghua hesitated and looked at her little girl: "Nannan, can you tell me the reason?"
Zhao Shiying blinked her eyes. Reason?
[It seemed like there was no reason. As soon as she saw him, she felt sorry for him and thought that if she took him with her, his illness would definitely be cured, and there would be one less poor person in the world. And there was a voice in her heart that kept shouting, asking her to buy this old man. ]
Zhao Shiying didn't know how to start the conversation, but her inner thoughts were known to Wang Ronghua through her voice.
Zhao Guocheng and Wang Ronghua were both stunned. It turned out that Nannan wanted to buy the old man because she felt sorry for him.
"Okay, then buy it." Wang Ronghua turned and looked at the middleman.
After some bargaining, the deal was settled at a price that satisfied Wang Ronghua, and all the indentures were given to Zhao Guocheng.
The crazy old man was given some advice by the middleman, who told him that there was a kind-hearted person willing to take him home to live out his old age, and asked him to keep quiet and not make any noise or cause any trouble for others.
Perhaps the advice had worked, the crazy old man was actually very quiet, not making any noise like a child. He only glanced at Wang Ronghua's family from time to time, and most often looked at Zhao Shiying, the three-year-old baby.
When they arrived at the market, Wang Ronghua got off the cart holding Zhao Shiying. Zhao Guocheng stopped others from getting off the cart and waited on it.
Wang Ronghua came back soon. After getting on the cart, Zhao Guocheng drove the ox cart directly towards home.
Arrived at Guxian Village.
Many people at the entrance of the village saw Zhao Guocheng driving the ox cart back, and then they were surprised to see so many people on the ox cart.
Who are these people? Why are so many of them coming all of a sudden?
Especially when the villagers saw the crazy old man, they were so scared that they took several steps back.
Fortunately, Zhao Guocheng drove faster at this time and drove away without waiting for the villagers to ask questions.
"What's going on at Zhao Laoer's house? Why are there so many people coming back suddenly? Let's follow them and take a look."
Some villagers were curious.
"Let's go together." Several women agreed immediately and followed the oxcart to the end of the village.
"We're home, everyone, get off." Zhao Guocheng stopped the ox cart and smiled as he let everyone go into the yard first.
The seven people got off the ox cart one by one, and then stood in the yard at a loss, all very stiff.
Zhao Guocheng unloaded the ox cart, Wang Ronghua put Zhao Shiying down, and then looked at everyone.
"Everyone, clean yourself up first, and then have lunch. After lunch, we will do other things in the afternoon." After Wang Ronghua said this, she let Zhao Shiying go play because she was going to make lunch.
Zhao Guocheng fetched two basins of water.
Zhao Shiying came to the crazy old man, pulled the corner of his clothes and went to a basin.
"Wash it clean. This water is clean. It's hot water my father made." Zhao Shiying pointed to a basin of steaming water in front of her.
The crazy old man finally understood something. He raised his head and looked at Zhao Shiying gently. He nodded and obediently began to wash himself, of course, washing his hands and face and wiping his hair.
Others started to clean up as well.
Wang Ronghua prepared a simple lunch, with cornmeal pancakes and two stir-fried dishes, one was pork belly with black fungus, and the other was green vegetables.
But even so, it was a very satisfying meal for these seven people.
After all, they had been eating rather poorly during this period, and had never had a full meal. Every day they had two steamed buns, and the day passed like that.
How could it be as sumptuous as today? Not only were there pancakes fried into golden brown, but there was also meat. Although each person only got two slices, for them this was enough.
It was the best meal they had had in months.
After dinner, someone knocked on the door outside the yard.
"Is it Zhao Guocheng's family?"
"Yes, the food has been delivered, right? Have you eaten? If not, have something to eat here." Wang Ronghua saw that it was the shop assistant and greeted him with a smile.
"We've already eaten. Should I just move these things in?" The guy looked around the yard and asked curiously.