The county government had already collected the poll tax for the first half of the year in their village. Song Yong took a large amount of goods and Zhang Fangyuan earned a large sum of money, which happened to be enough to buy two servants and go back.

    In fact, he had mentioned this matter after Ruijin and Ruili were born, but Xu He didn't agree immediately. However later he realized that it was indeed inconvenient if he took care two children by himself.

    Although the two children were not as noisy as ordinary children, and his aunts still helped him. But after all, there were two of them, when the two cubs were good, he could do other things in his free time, but when the two cubs were making trouble, it was hard to coax them alone.

    In the end Xu He also agreed to this matter, but the couple agreed to wait a little longer.

    After all, if you could avoid the poll tax for a year, it counted as a year. After the time for paying taxes ended, you still had to have the thick face to go through the formalities. After all, the poll tax for servants was twice as high as that of ordinary people.

    There hadn't been any major disasters in the past few years. Although there were some rain disasters last year, it was not successive natural disasters after all, and it was unlikely to go so far as to make ordinary people sell their children and female relative, and the business of selling human were not particularly good.

    "Big brother, do you want to buy local people or people from other places? We have them in our shop."

    "I don't care if they are local or from other places, as long as they are in good health and their age is moderate."

    The middleman immediately brought them to Zhang Fangyuan. Two servants, a man and a ge'er, the man was around eighteen years old, and the ge'er was around sixteen.

    "Both of them are all healthy and strong." The middleman let the two servants to open their mouths by themselves: "Look, big brother, the appearance of their teeth is good."

    The people in the shop were all thin, so Zhang Fangyuan paid attention to their physiques. He saw that the man was tall and broad-framed, he looked honest and we'll behaved, and the ge'er also looked smart, so he asked: "What's the price?"

    Hearing the words, the middleman knew that he liked the two servants, so he waved his hand to let the servants go down first, and then he said to Zhang Fangyuan: "The servants are not cheap these days, if big brother wants both of them, then I can give you a sincere price, fifteen taels."

    Zhang Fangyuan frowned: "The price for horse is not that expensive."

    "Oh, big brother, now it's peaceful and prosperous time, it's hard to buy servants, so it's hard to do business like us. How about it, I’ll give you a tael less.”

    Zhang Fangyuan was indifferent, and he said in one go: "Ten taels, if you can sell it, then I will buy it, if you can't, I will give up."

     "Hey, there is no big brother like you, how can you pay at this price?"

    Zhang Fangyuan said: "If you have difficulties, I also have them. Let's discuss the price, and we don't buy or sell by force. If we can't negotiate, I can go look elsewhere."  

    "Don't!" The middleman hurriedly kept Zhang Fangyuan from going: "You two, come here and see your new master, you will have a place to live in the future."

    The two servants came to see Zhang Fangyuan and called him master respectfully.

    The middleman led Zhang Fangyuan to go through the formalities, and said: "Big brother really knows how to go around the price, which is really rare. I also sincerely make friends with big brother, otherwise I really can't bear to give you this price. Look at both of them, they are very good, if it was someone else, I could give them the price sixteen or seventeen taels."

    Blow, just keep blowing.

    Zhang Fangyuan turned a deaf ear to what the middleman said, these guys in the city were all eloquent.

    After paying the money, Zhang Fangyuan led the two back to the shop first, and asked the two people to stay in the shop first. He picked up some small things, and waited for the documents given by the middleman to go to the yamen to go through the formalities.

    People in the yamen were the most snobbish. If you didn't bring some gifts, they would always try to make things difficult for you, but if you brought some gifts for them,  they would get things done very quickly.

    Later, Zhang Fangyuan returned to the house with the two servants.

    It just so happened that someone took a pile of cloth from the yard, and when they returned to the village, the villagers looked at the people Zhang Fangyuan brought back with their necks stretched, thinking that they were the shop assistants in the city who came to pick up the goods, but no one thought that they were servants, so Zhang Fangyuan didn't need to talk a lot.

    "Why did you come back so early?"

    Xu He was drying beans in the yard, and when he heard the sound of a carriage, he came out to take a look, and then he saw Zhang Fangyuan bringing two people back.

    "This is my fulang. From now on, you will follow fulang's orders when doing things at home."

    Zhang Fangyuan pointed to Xu He and introduced him, and the two servants also respectfully called him.

    Originally they were surprised, how could the master took them to the countryside, and was a little puzzled how could a villager buy servants. They only found out when they arrived in the village, it turned out they were landlord and wealthy family.

    The servant had no ability to choose the master, so they could only accept their fates and rely on God's arrangement, but when they saw that the environment of the Zhang's family was not much worse than the family in the city, they were inevitably relieved.

    "You take them to know about the family, so that they can get things done as soon as possible."

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