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Chapter 245 Saved Old Man Jin!
Later, when Shen Ruyi saw that life in the county was so difficult, she decided to hire women as well. The two daughters-in-law of Master Ma brought about a hundred young women to the farm to cook and do odd jobs!
In fact, there was no delicious food, just simple brown rice, cabbage and radish.
There wasn't much meat left in Shen Ruyi's space, so she fed the workers cabbage, radish and brown rice, and kept the workers well fed.
The two daughters-in-law of the lawyer were very considerate. They arranged some women to cook and took the women to level the ground around the farm. After burning the weeds, they cleaned up all the trees.
After ten days of construction, Shen Ruyi’s Jubao Garden was finally completed on the nineteenth day of the first lunar month!
Shen Ruyi couldn't wait to move in. To be honest, she was now too pregnant and felt that she might give birth at any time.
When she appeared in front of everyone, she was wearing fox fur. Her fox fur was wide enough to cover her already big belly. Every day, Shen Ruyi would use spiritual spring water to nourish herself and her children!
Shen Ruyi had not seen a doctor many times, but she felt that she might have two children, because sometimes she could feel fetal movements in two places in her stomach. She probably inherited her mother's gene for multiple births!
Although she had no experience of pregnancy, Shen Ruyi was a thoughtful person. She felt that it would be even better if she had two children. With the help of the Lingquan Space, she would definitely be fine.
After Shen Ruyi's manor was completed, he selected eighty young men from among the farmhands and hired them as guards. He let them live in the two rows of rooms in front and behind his manor, taking turns to guard the safety of the manor!
These young people were carefully selected by Shen Ruyi. These eighty young people were handed over to Zhaocai and Jinbao, who were divided into two batches to train them in simple kung fu!
They are all young and strong men who have never married. Some are only fifteen or sixteen years old, and some are seventeen or eighteen years old. People here are so poor that they have to eat dirt. There are indeed not many boys from poor families who can get married.
The young men were spotted by the owner of Jubao Garden and came here to work as security guards. They became the envy of people far and near.
The wages paid by Jubaoyuan are not low. A security guard’s monthly salary is one or two taels of silver!
Shen Ruyi also called the two daughters-in-law of the master's family, chatted with them for a while to get closer to them, and then hired both daughters-in-law of the master's family, and asked them to hire ten young and strong women to work as servants in the farm, with a monthly salary of one or two taels of silver.
The reason is very simple. In such a big farm, with about a hundred people, they have to wash clothes and cook every day, right?
The men have to go out to work in the spring, so there must be at least ten or eight maids in the farm.
The two daughters-in-law of Master Ma, Mrs. Da Zhang and Mrs. Xiao Zhang, were cousins. They married the two sons of Master Ma. They were both diligent and capable. They were paid one or two taels of silver a month, which was the same salary as that of young and strong men. In an instant, they straightened their backs.
When the two daughters-in-law returned home and told the boss that they had been hired by the lady of the Jubao Garden as housekeepers, Master Ma's family was so happy that they went crazy.
Master Ma was not stupid. He did not allow his two sons to work as long-term laborers. If there were short-term helpers, he would let his sons work there, because he felt that if there was work for his two sons at the county government, they would have to come and work as yamen runners.
Although the yamen runners don't earn much money, if his nephew Dahai gets promoted and becomes rich in the future, won't he help his cousin?
After Shen Ruyi settled down here, the manor was staffed with guards and maids.
Even though Jubao Garden was already on the right track, there were still a dozen carpenters left in the front yard to slowly work on the remaining details.
The backyard of Jubao Garden has been completed. The backyard where Shen Ruyi lives does not allow farmhands and maids to enter. Only two maids and Zhaocai Jinbao can enter the backyard. The rest of the people are in the front yard, or in the side rooms in the front and back manors.
Today, Shen Ruyi planned to take Zhaocai and two maids out of the farm and go to the pawnbroker in the county town to buy a few servants to serve her.
These hired people can only do the work, but the ones who serve her in the inner courtyard and live in her house and work for her must be people she bought, because she and her child have special status and she cannot take any risks!
The carriage traveled for more than an hour. This time, the road leading out of Jubao Garden had been repaired to be very flat and wide, so there was no problem for two carriages to run side by side.
Before, Shen Ruyi insisted on practicing Taoism first. In fact, it was because she understood that it might take many years to build a broad road. If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. This is an eternal truth.
This time, Shen Ruyi took people to the pawnshop and bought two women from there. It was said that these two women had worked in the landlord's house before, but the landlord had no surplus food, so he sold them.
One is called Aunt Zhang and the other is Aunt Cai, both are old women around 40 years old, with big hands and feet, you can tell at a glance that they are capable of doing housework.
Aunt Zhang's husband is called Uncle Zhang. He also used to work for the landlord, driving a horse-drawn carriage, farming, and doing everything else.
After looking at a few little girls, they were all skinny, with only a pair of big eyeballs left. There were probably five of them about twelve or thirteen years old. Shen Ruyi took a look and eliminated the one whose eyes were rolling around and who pushed a little girl aside, and the one who squeezed forward.
Shen Ruyi bought two maids, a man, and four young girls, spending a total of eighty taels.
Then he asked Zhaocai to buy a carriage, which was not much different from the one he had at home, and it cost another thirty taels!
After buying everything, Shen Ruyi only spent more than one hundred taels of silver. She really felt that this place was too poor. Both people and carriages were very cheap.
I hope I can bring a little life to this poor place!
She thought about it and found that there was a lot of fabric in her space, some of which she had taken out from Lao Chen's house many years ago. She thought it would be okay to take them out and make clothes for the workers, otherwise they would not dare to wear good clothes.
Shen Ruyi took people to a small cloth shop. The cloth shop basically sold some rough cloth, and there was no good material. Shen Ruyi looked around and bought a few pieces of cloth at random, put them in oilcloth bags, and put them in the carriage!
On the way back, Uncle Zhang was driving the carriage happily, pulling a few old women and maids. They were all very happy squeezed in the carriage!
They also heard that the owner of the house today was particularly generous and had built a large manor on the mountain. They were bought here to enjoy themselves!
When they were almost at the foot of Jubao Mountain, Zhaocai suddenly shouted, "Madam, there seems to be a person lying on the road ahead. We can't pass through."
They lifted the curtain of the carriage, and the wind started to blow outside. The wind was quite strong, bringing mud and sand everywhere, making it look yellow. There was a person lying in the middle of the road ahead. If their carriage rushed over, it would definitely crush the person.
Shen Ruyi motioned Zhaocai to go over and take a look. Zhaocai ran over, squatted down, checked and shouted: "Madam, this is an old man. He seems to have been beaten. There is blood on his head but he is not dead yet!"
Shen Ruyi sighed and said, "Xiao Bi, go and ask Uncle Zhang for help. He was hit on the road and there is blood on his head. He must have been robbed.
In this remote and poor area, robbers don’t even let go of the elderly when they encounter them…”
Uncle Da Zhang and Zhaocai helped the old man to the back of the carriage and pulled him, and the two carriages went straight home!
In this way, Shen Ruyi accidentally saved Old Man Jin's life. After arriving at Jubao Garden, both carriages entered the backyard.
After Shen Ruyi saw a few people coming down, their eyes were still clear and honest. She asked them to help unload the things on the carriage, and then drove the carriage to the stable. Then she came to the main room to say something.
Several people finished the work quickly and put the old man in the side room.
A quarter of an hour later, in the main room, Shen Ruyi was sitting at the top with a calm expression, while a man, two old women, and four little maids were kneeling on the ground below.
Shen Ruyi looked at a few people and gestured to Xiaobi, who then walked over with a brocade box.
There were bright red round beads in the box. Several people looked at each other. Shen Ruyi said: "This is the tranquilizing pill I prepared for you. After you take this tranquilizing pill, you will be the loyal servants of Jubao Garden. You can never betray Jubao Garden in your whole life!
If you dare to betray your master and have a rebellious heart, then this pill will take effect and make the disloyal person die from his intestines!"
The seven people kept kowtowing to show their loyalty: We will never betray our master, we are all loyal...
Xiao Hong: "Madam just wants you to take a loyalty pill. Your words are useless!"
The seven people all swallowed a red pill with fear. They couldn't tell whether the pill was sweet or bitter!
They were all filled with fear and vowed to be loyal to this lady, otherwise they would die without knowing how...
When Xiaobi was about to put the pills away, a gust of wind suddenly blew in, and an old man rushed in, snatched the brocade box, and poured the remaining dozen red pills into his mouth!
"Hmm... sweet... you little kids, you don't even give the delicious food to the old man..."
Everyone! ! !
Shen Ruyi...
I’m really worried that the old man will choke!