Chapter 374 Contract of Sale
He ordered his personal maid to bring twenty taels of silver to Mrs. Cao.
Mrs. Cao didn't reach out to pick it up.
She saw that her goal was almost achieved. As long as Mrs. Cao felt guilty, guilty, and afraid, she could take the opportunity to ask for a few thousand taels of comfort money from her.
At that time, after paying off the debt of two thousand taels, there will still be one or two thousand taels left for her to take care of in her old age, buy a few maids and women to serve around her, and she can also enjoy the feeling of being an old lady from a wealthy family.
How nice.
As for her son, he was just injured anyway, so just spend a few taels of silver to buy some good repairs.
If you get injured once, you will get several thousand taels of silver, which is worth it.
However, seeing Mrs. Cao showing a fearful expression, her goal was about to be achieved, but she was overturned by a few words from Mrs. Cao, which even caused her to be criticized by many people.
Mrs. Cao's old face flushed red, she stared at the twenty taels of silver, gritted her teeth and refused to take it, and said, "My Anzi got into the dog hole, that's because your family owes my Anzi, your son..."
"Auntie."
Mrs. Cao's face darkened and she interrupted her coldly, "I gave you money to treat Zi'an because we are still distant relatives. Otherwise, my Cao family members would have been beaten to death last night. Zian, there’s nothing you can do to reason.”
Then he came closer and warned her in a voice that Mrs. Cao could hear alone, "I hope you will be careful about what you say and don't talk nonsense. You have to know that that matter has been spread all over the capital." No one knows this, but if we really want to investigate it, it was Zian’s idea. If it hadn’t been for his idea, nothing like that would have happened.”
"My Cao family does not owe Cao Zian anything. You know how much money Cao Zian got from me. If you are still unwilling to give up, then fine, I hope you mother and son can survive until tomorrow."
Huh, no matter how aggressive she is, she doesn't mind killing for the sake of her children.
None of the women in the inner house had killed anyone.
For that matter, she spent not only 10,000 taels of silver on the Cao family's mother and son, but 8,000 taels of silver, which was enough for her to buy a big village. Even if it was to buy human lives, it would be enough for her to buy several.
But this mother and son not only did not appreciate her, they also repaid kindness with hatred and came to trouble her again and again.
It would be a shame for such a person to die.
There was a trace of murderous intent in Mrs. Cao's eyes. When Mrs. Cao felt it, she trembled all over and took a few steps back in horror.
In the end, she cherished her life and did not dare to continue the trouble.
After receiving twenty taels of silver, he asked two of Master Qin's men to carry Cao Zian back to Cao's house.
If Cao Zian still doesn't pay, Master Qin will sell Cao Zian and Mrs. Cao, and take away the Cao family's house.
Old Mrs. Cao was crying and fussing, rolling all over the floor.
At this moment, the Zheng family came to take possession of the house. They kept saying that the house was the dowry of their girl. If their girl died and had no children, the dowry should be returned to her mother's family.
Not only the house, Xishi of the Zheng family also brought Lady Cao's dowry list, and she wanted to take back all Lady Cao's dowry according to the list.
There was a dowry worth thousands of taels of silver in total.
After Mrs. Cao's death, Mrs. Cao took possession of those things as her own. She also pawned several pieces of jewelry and sold them for wine and meat.
Mrs. Cao didn't want to give the rest, so she blocked the door at the door like a cheat and wouldn't let anyone from the Zheng family enter the house.
The people from the Zheng family who came today were not only the Zheng family, but also their relatives, including five or six strong men.
Seeing Mrs. Cao blocking the door, two men stepped forward, each pulled an arm, and pulled Mrs. Cao aside. The remaining people rushed into the house and began to move Mrs. Cao's dowry.
Master Qin's people stood aside and did not intervene.
"Oh, I'm not going to live anymore. You damn ones are robbing my Cao family's things. You're going to die a good death. You'll have no descendants. I'm going to fight you..."
Seeing that the Zheng family threw everything belonging to her and Cao Zian out of the house, she was so angry that she cried and cursed. She even wanted to get up and hit the Zheng family Xi Shi, but Master Qin's people grabbed her, tied her up, and blocked her. mouth, and threw it into a corner.
Haha, just kidding, there are orders from above. The Zheng family comes to take over the house. If they suffer a loss, they have to help.
In short, we can't let the Cao family's mother and son live in peace.
With Master Qin's help, the Zheng family quickly threw all the belongings of Cao's mother and son at the gate, leaving only Lady Cao's dowry in the house.
Finally, the dying Cao Zian was also carried out.
Old Mrs. Cao screamed, kicking her feet and crawling towards Cao Zian.
Master Qin returned the deed of the house to the Zheng family. This was a small compensation given by Xia Zihan to the Zheng family because of his guilt.
If she hadn't taken advantage of the girl from the Zheng family, the girl from the Zheng family wouldn't have married Cao Zian, and she wouldn't have died.
When she learned that Cao Zian was going to take action against Lady Cao, she came to the Cao family to rescue her, but unfortunately she came a step too late. The Cao family's mother and son had already taken Lady Cao away.
After that, she investigated all the houses under Mrs. Cao's name, but unfortunately she could not find out the whereabouts of Mrs. Cao.
Finally, in a village under the name of Cao Huasheng, the whereabouts of Lady Cao were found, but her people arrived a step too late, and Lady Cao was already dead.
She had no choice but to tell the Zheng family the truth in a miniature painting, hoping that the Zheng family would come forward to redress Lady Cao's injustice.
She also spent a sum of money to have a neighbor of the Cao family go to the government office to testify. However, she did not expect that at the critical moment, Mrs. Cao would send someone to surrender and save the Cao family's mother and son.
It would be nice if the Cao family's mother and son were rescued, so that she could let the Cao family's mother and son enjoy more suffering. Let her mother and son suffer ten times a hundred times the hardships she endured in her previous life.
This is how the Cao family's mother and son ended up today.
But Xia Zihan still felt guilty for the old couple of the Zheng family.
Although the main reason for Lady Cao's death was that she was too suicidal and Cao Zian couldn't bear it and wanted to kill her, Xia Zihan still felt that all of this happened because of her.
Lady Cao will die, and she is partly responsible.
From now on, she will send people to take more care of the Zheng family.
It can be regarded as a filial piety for Lady Cao.
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The Cao family's house was taken away by the Zheng family, and the Cao family's mother and son were taken away by Master Qin.
He Donglin came to report, "County Lord, the Cao family's mother and son have been obtained, how do you plan to arrange them?"
"Let them sign a contract of sale first." Xia Zihan said coldly.
In her previous life, Cao Zian sold Nuan Yu and Nuan Xiang. In this life, she wanted Cao Zian and her son to taste what it was like to be sold into slavery.
Hum...
Xia Zihan raised his lips and sneered, and added, "The interest on the two thousand taels of silver will be repaid with their monthly payment. When the repayment is completed, we will pay them the monthly payment again."
He Donglin has black lines all over his forehead.
Two thousand taels of silver, how many lifetimes will it take to pay back?
The monthly payment of the Cao family's mother and son is like that of the fruit farmers in Zhuangzi. They only have one tael of silver a month, and the two of them only have 24 taels of silver a year.
Two thousand taels of silver, even without interest, would still have to be paid back eighty years.
Does the county head understand that she wants people to work for her for a lifetime?
This calculation is truly unprecedented and unprecedented.
Wonderful, wonderful.
Mrs. Cao and her son were forced to write a deed of sale and sold her to Xia Zihan, who put her to work in an orchard.
Because there were foxes and a group of little beggars training in the orchard, the previous fruit farmers were either scared away or fired by Xia Zihan, and went to Yahang to buy some fruit farmers and women to work.
The fruit farmers she bought were slaves, not tenants, and they had a deed of sale in Xia Zihan's hands. Xia Zihan was not afraid that they would betray her.
When He Donglin sent Mrs. Cao, her son, and her son there, he specifically asked Mr. Lin there to arrange all the hard work in the village to be done by Mrs. Cao, his mother, and his son.
If you don't do it, or if you don't finish the work, or if you don't do what the dealer wants, you will be whipped and beaten.
Of course, Xia Zihan was kind enough to use the best medicine for Cao Zian's injuries and illnesses, and he recovered as quickly as possible.
After being raised, Cao Zian was like the old lady Cao, working like a cow or a horse, working exhaustingly.
They still get beaten, don’t have enough to eat, don’t wear warm clothes, get up earlier than chickens, eat less birds, and cook more than cows. They also sleep in the woodshed on weekdays, and the mother and son build a dark and shabby bed together. A tattered and smelly quilt.
The servants in Zhuangzi treated them as if they were gods of plague. They stayed away from them and did not dare to approach them, for fear that they would be implicated in something.
The mother and son live in dire straits, heat, and storms all day long.
Within a year, Mrs. Cao, who was only forty-one or twelve years old, was as old as a seventy-year-old woman. Her body was skinny, her complexion was yellowish-white, and her body was covered with whip marks accumulated over a year. She was just like the one who had just arrived in the capital. The arrogant and red-faced wife of the Cao family seemed to be two different people.
And Cao Zian was even more miserable than Mrs. Cao.
He became mute. When he first learned about it, he gave up on himself sadly and was distraught. He was severely punished by the guards, and his body was covered with whip marks and blood. He did not dare to have any evil thoughts again.
The guard was specially sent by Xia Zihan to supervise the work of the mother and son. The guard's task was to hold a whip behind the Cao family's mother and son. If they saw that they were working slowly, they would whip it down.
Xia Zihan really treated them as cattle and horses.
And after knowing that Xia Zihan hated Cao's mother and son, Chu Lin, who was training in Zhuangzi, would go over and toss the mother and son from time to time.
The life of mother and son was made ten times and a hundred times more miserable than Xia Zihan's previous life. The anger in Xia Zihan's heart that had been suppressed for several years finally came out.
Of course, this is all for later, let’s talk about the Xia family and the Cao family first.
Mrs. Cao's tolerance towards Cao Zian in public was praised by everyone.
Mrs. Cao's good reputation for being tolerant and righteous spread from ten to ten, and even the previous stigma of the Cao family was completely wiped away.
This unexpected surprise made Mrs. Cao happy.
Mrs. Cao took the opportunity to take her two daughters to attend various banquets and gatherings. It didn't take long for her to arrange a marriage for Cao Huawen.
The other party is the second son of the Zhang family, the second brother of Zhang Qiongrou, and the second young master of the Zhang family.
(End of chapter)