The Blessed (Book 1)

181. Buying People (1)

Early in the morning the next day, after sending the children to school, Ling Jingxuan asked Lady Yang to use the little jars for jam to stuff four full jars of spicy jerkies and spiced dried meat slices for Chu Ci and his son. Lady Yang was worried that the kids might starve in school, so she used the oiled paper to wrap some for each of them and stuffed in their bags, and told them to eat some when they felt hungry.

After sending the kids away, another busy day had begun. Because of the kids’ fight thing, they no longer made jam after dinner. There were still a lot of wild fruit in the warehouse to be cleaned and decocted. Under Yan Shengrui’s insistence, Ling Jingxuan could only stay home to make jam, while all the others went into the mountain again. The only one who had nothing to do was Ling Jinghan in the pavilion.

“Master Xuan, Guarantor Liu said he could only bring people here by noon.”

The factory for the jam making covered a very large area, which was divided into two parts, on one side was built a lot of reservoirs used for washing those wild fruits, while on the other side was a long row of large cooking ranges, on each of them was a bit iron pan. When the restaurant was urging too often, Ling Jingxuan would use the three of them together. Today was the same case. When Song Gengniu went to report things, Ling Jingxuan who was busy among the three big iron pans just nodded casually signaling that he got it, but didn’t say one word. Song Gengniu also didn’t think much, directly went out and walked toward the mountain. As long as there was work, he’d go into the mountain to help after sending the kids to school.

At noon, the family got together for lunch. Since the economic condition at home improved, Ling Jingxuan completely ignored the rules of the two meals a day, and changed it to three meals a day. At first, Ling Chenglong and his wife still felt it was a little luxurious and complained it before him obliquely, but instead, they had to listen to his convincing words every time. Gradually, they were used to three meals a day. Even Zhao&Han couple got used to it. Even when they didn’t have to run up, they’d make some food at home at noon.

Another change was taking a nap. Not only Ling Chenglong and others, Ling Jingxuan even asked Song Gengniu and his family to do that. The reason was it’s good for their health. Anyhow, he was a doctor, who dare not believe him?

“Master Xuan, Guarantor Liu is here with people.”

Thanks to wolf daddy and the two cubs, these days, the six dishes and the soup on the table all had meat. As Song Gengniu came in to report, Ling jingxuan put down his chopsticks and said, “Bring them in.”

Seeing that they were almost all full, Ling Jingxuan meant to ask them to select people with him.

“Yes.”

After Song Gengniu went out, Lady Yang and Song Shuiling deftly removed the remnants on the table. Ling Jinghan looked at his big brother and said, “How many people are you planning to buy this time?”

“I don’t know, let’s take a look first, it mainly depends on their quality. Later, you guy also try to select two. In the future when our business grows big enough, we’ll have to buy more. So learning how to select people isn’t a bad thing.”

Shrugging, leaning on the chair, Ling Jingxuan narrowed his eyes, a total ‘material comforts lead to sexual desire’ decadent look.

“We also have to do that? Jingxuan, I can’t. You can just pick some randomly yourself.”

Hearing that they also had to learn to select people, Lady Wang hurried waved his hand. She heard from Lady Yang that some servants had already formed that kind of shameless characters being sold between human traders. If they bought some bad servants, they’d be acting like they were the masters. They were born farmers. How would they be those tricky servants’ match?