Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 233 2 sisters

He is one of the few good employers in the capital city who enjoys a good reputation.

Therefore, the families who were bought by Hualei at this time were secretly glad in their hearts. They were glad that at the lowest point in their lives, when they were penniless, they met a good boss, and that they should have no problem surviving.

Especially the pregnant woman and her family, they were grateful to Hua Lei for not separating them from their family.

After paying the money and getting the indenture, Hualei and Uncle Fu prepared to return to Baihua Manor with the newly bought slaves. The young man sent the remaining people back to the backyard. Suddenly, a girl of eight or nine years old rushed out from the team, dragging a little girl of five or six years old, and ran to Hualei. Before she could say anything, her sister knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Hualei more than a dozen times. When she raised her head, her forehead was already red and her face was already full of tears. Hualei was so scared that she jumped aside.

Manager Chen sighed softly and stepped forward to explain to Hua Lei that the two sisters were bought from the northern capital five months ago. Their mother died of heavy bleeding when giving birth to the little girl.

In order to continue the family line, the father soon married another woman. With a stepmother, there was a stepfather. The father of the two girls began to ignore his two daughters. However, fortunately, the two sisters' grandparents took care of them and gave them food.

A year later, the stepmother gave birth to twin sons, and the father looked down on the two daughters even more. The family was already poor, and with two more mouths to feed, they became even poorer. As a result, the lives of the two sisters, who were already having a hard time, became even more difficult. Not only did they have to do all the housework at home, but they also had to work in the fields every day.

However, as if things didn't get worse, half a year ago, the sisters' grandparents passed away one after another. As a result, the sisters had no food to eat. They often went hungry for three meals a day and had one meal every two days. They were also often beaten and abused by their stepmother. The family was already poor, and with the unkind stepmother, the two sisters were sold out.

This vicious stepmother originally wanted to sell the younger one to be a maid in a wealthy family, and after raising the older one for two years, she could be sold directly to a wealthy family in the town as a concubine for a higher price.

When the pawnbroker went to buy the younger one, the older one held on to the younger one tightly and refused to let the pawnbroker sell her. Later, when she saw that even her own father was determined to sell her sister, she could not stop him, so she sold herself and was sold to the pawnbroker along with her sister.

However, since they came to the pawnshop, many wealthy families wanted to buy one of the two sisters to be a maid in their home, but the older one insisted on buying both of them. Many families did not like to buy sisters or brothers from outside to be slaves.

If they were placed in two places to serve, gossip would spread. If they were placed together to serve the master, they were afraid that the two servants would be of one mind and harm the master, so for several months, the two sisters had not been sold.

After listening to Manager Chen's narration, Hua Lei sighed softly. She looked at the two little girls and asked, "You two sisters still want to sell together?"

The older girl nodded and said to Hualei, "Miss, please buy us together. My sister is still young and doesn't eat much. I can also eat less. I only ask you to buy both of us. I can do a lot of things. I can do everything at home. I feed the chickens and ducks at home, and I can also do the work in the fields." After saying that, she kowtowed to Hualei several times, and this time she pressed her sister's head to the ground as well.

Hualei nodded and asked Uncle Fu to pick up the two girls. She turned around and asked Manager Chen, "Manager Chen, are these two girls clean? If I buy them now, their father will come over and say he doesn't want to sell them anymore. I don't want to do such a hassle."

"Don't worry, Miss Hua. The indentures were signed by their father, so the kind of thing Miss Hua said won't happen. And these two girls are indeed pitiful. Their mother fled there alone with the villagers and married their father, so these two girls don't have an uncle's family to help them.

Miss Hua is kind, if we buy them together, it will give these two girls a place to live. Although the younger one can't do any heavy work, as they said themselves, they don't eat much. "

Hualei sighed and said, "I don't need them to eat. As long as there are no sequelae, I will buy them. How much silver? Two."

"Miss Hua is kind-hearted, so I will make a concession. The original price for the two is eleven taels of silver, so Miss Hua will pay ten taels of silver." Manager Chen replied.

Therefore, Hualei spent another ten taels of silver to buy the two unfortunate sisters and placed them with Tian Xiaohe and Tian Xiaolian, asking them to take care of the two sisters.

During the day, they helped to pick up duck eggs, or took a bamboo stick to help herd the smallest batch of chickens and ducks, and did whatever they could. At night, they let Tian Xiaohe and Tian Xiaolian live in the same room with the two sisters, and let them learn to read and count with the children in the village, and learn to write their own names.

However, the older girl was determined not to use the sisters' original names, and asked Hua Lei to help her change her name, saying that she wanted to follow the last name Hua.

Hualei asked the sisters about their birth dates, but she couldn't remember her and her sister's exact birthdays. She only knew that she was born in summer and her sister was born in autumn. Hualei thought about it and named her Qingxia and her sister Qingqiu.

Clear the past, be clear about the present, and hope that they will have a bright and clear future. Qingxia and Qingqiu were very happy and automatically wrote their names as Hua Qingxia and Hua Qingqiu.

In this way, these two names followed the sisters for their whole lives. And the sisters also followed Hualei for their whole lives. A long, long time later, the two sisters became Hualei's right-hand men in the business world, helping Hualei to take on many things and making Hualei's life much easier.

Hualei brought the newly bought servants and placed five of them in Baihua Manor. The female servants learned to make snacks from Aunt Zhao, and the male servants learned to make toothbrushes from Uncle Zhao. The shortage of servants in Baihua Manor was slightly improved.

Hua Lei placed the two sisters and two of the other families in Yuanying Manor, and also placed the pregnant woman in one of the families to work with Kong Xiaoya. The two pregnant women were not much apart in terms of pregnancy, so having a companion would help them to encourage each other and learn from each other.

People of all ages need friends they can talk to, especially during the special stage of pregnancy when women’s emotions are very unstable and they are prone to symptoms of depression and panic.