Chapter 69: Buying people

"Brother Li Feng, we are here to eat hot pot, why do you let us beauties work again?" Yan Shuyi said with some dissatisfaction.

Li Feng sighed and said: "What can I do? There are really too few people around me. You are here. How can you not help me?"

Li Li asked: "Brother, you can ask the dentist to buy some servants to help you work."

"Buy a servant." Li Feng thought for a while and realized that he really needed some help.

This is the good thing about feudal society, you can buy anything, and people can buy it.

Yesterday, you didn't find any by yourself, and you had to play tricks with others. It would be more cost-effective for you to buy them directly. Although you feel uncomfortable buying slaves, you can sign a contract with others, and those who work for you wholeheartedly can return their free status.

Thinking of this, Li Feng stopped what he was doing and said: "Okay. Let's take a rest. The pub is about to open and hasn't hired people yet. Li Zhi, you and Shuyi go to the dental shop together and ask them to call Twenty

I want a strong young man, someone who can settle accounts, someone who has been a steward or housekeeper."

"Okay, okay, I haven't been to the dental shop yet." Li Lizhi jumped up happily.

Yan Shuyi said: "Brother Li Feng, aren't you going?"

"I still have something to do, so I won't go."

"How about that? You are short of people here, and we don't know who you are missing. We might as well go together, and you can protect us by the way."

"Brother, let's come together." Li Lizhi also joined in the act of coquettishness.

Li Feng thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll also experience the feeling of on-site recruitment."

The three of them put down what they were doing, said hello to Xu Hu and left the tavern.

The decoration of the tavern is almost completed, and Xu Hu has been keeping an eye on it every day for the past few days, fearing that there is something missing.

Li Feng, led by Yan Shuyi, arrived at a dental shop without much effort.

"Brother Li Feng, this tooth shop is the largest tooth shop in Chang'an, and behind it is the prince. So the wives and daughters of prisoners often come here to sell.

Don't you want to find a better woman to be a waiter? We can definitely choose a woman you are satisfied with here." Yan Shuyi said.

Li Feng said in surprise: "You know this place very well. Do you come here often?"

"What am I doing here? When this place first opened, the prince invited many young people to come and support him. I have been here too, so I know that Li Zhi and Li Wan have also been here."

Li Lizhi nodded and said: "Yes, we have all been here, but we have never bought anyone. Brother, if you want a servant, just ask the Yaman here."

"This is the Prince's property. Why are there so few people? It stands to reason that everyone should patronize him."

Li Feng saw that the people in the hall were in twos and threes. There were not many people at all, not even slaves.

"Pfft." Li Lizhi laughed. This was exactly the same question as when she first came here.

When she saw so many people, she also asked her brother the prince why there were so few people in the hall. Was it because he was not giving face to the prince's brother?

"Why are you laughing?" Li Feng asked with a frown.

Li Lizhi chuckled and said: "I laughed at my brother who only saw the surface. In fact, all the people who came here to buy slaves went to the private rooms. This is what the prince said. Since everyone has paid, then we must provide everyone with a satisfactory environment. The hall

There is so much chaos, how can we satisfy our customers?”

Li Feng nodded and said: "What the prince said makes sense, chaos in the hall is not satisfactory.

Let's go. We also want a private room. Then we can slowly select people."

"Okay." Li Lizhi and Yan Shuyi said at the same time.

Under Yaren's arrangement, Li Feng and the others came to a private room.

"Are you satisfied with this private room?"

Li Feng looked at the small private room and said: "That's it, I want twenty strong men with quick hands and feet and strong strength, and ten cooks who can cook, both men and women.

Of the twenty women, I need to have a delicate appearance, and I also need one to be a bookkeeper, a steward, and a shopkeeper.

That’s it for now, I’ll tell you if I need it, and you can bring me the person I want first.”

"Okay, sir. Please wait a moment, sir. I'll be back soon."

Li Feng nodded.

After Yaren walked out of the room, not long after, he brought a group of people, all of them men.

They stood aside very respectfully, showing no intention of overstepping their bounds at all, and acted obediently.

Yaren said: "Sir, these are the strongest male slaves we have here. You can take your time to select them."

Li Feng nodded, then stood up and said, "This seems to be more than twenty."

"Yes, there are fifty here."

Li Feng said: "Don't I only want twenty? Why did you bring so many?"

"Give guests the right to choose."

"Okay. I want all these fifty people, and you go pick out twenty women for me." Li Feng said.

Yaren was shocked and said: "All of them?"

Li Feng nodded and said: "Yes, I want them all. My family is short of people, so it's no problem if I want a few more."

"Yes, yes. I will help the guest select some reliable female slaves now." Yaren said.

Li Lizhi waited until Yaren left and said, "Brother, why do you need so many people?"

"Of course you are working for me." Li Feng explained with a smile, and then said to the fifty male slaves: "You will work for me for ten years. Within these ten years, I will pay you wages, feed you, and give you food."

Clothes for you and shelter for you.

Just be loyal to me. Listen clearly. You are loyal to me. It’s not like someone has more power than me, so you just listen to him instead of me.

Ten years later, I will give you your freedom. After you are free, if you want to stay and work with me, I will sign a labor contract for you. We are in an employment relationship. If you don't stay, there is no problem with whatever you want to do.

But you cannot reveal my affairs and the secrets of my workshop, otherwise I will pursue you to the end.

In ten years, if you want to get married and have children, I agree. If you want to live outside when you have money, I also agree.

Regardless of whether you want to start your own business within ten years or ten years later, just tell me that I think it is feasible, and I will pay you to start the business, with a 50-50 split of the profits, and at the same time you will regain your freedom.

In other words, if you want to be your own boss and want to regain your freedom immediately, then work harder. Anyway, if you have any good ideas, feel free to mention them, and I won’t be stingy with rewards.

I will return your deed of sale to you later and write a new deed of sale for ten years and a confidentiality contract.

The confidentiality contract means that the secrets of the workshop cannot be revealed at any time or anywhere. Once someone reveals it, the price will be to restore the status of a slave, and you and your family will become slaves.

Okay, I have said so much, please digest it well, now you go out and wait for me."

The fifty strong men really didn't digest Li Feng's words for a while, which made them stunned for a while, resulting in no response to Li Feng's last words.

Seeing that everyone was unmoved, Li Feng's face darkened and he said, "Don't my words have any effect?"

"Yes, Master."

Only then did everyone react, bowing and saluting Li Feng, then went out one after another and waited in the lobby.

"Brother Li Feng, why after you bought them, you just let them work for you for ten years before giving them back their freedom. Isn't this a great loss for you?" Yan Shuyi asked in confusion.

Li Feng said: "It's very simple. I only need their loyalty for ten years. After ten years, if I can't keep those people, it will be my mistake. Besides, didn't I say that as long as you have the ability?"

, I will also restore their freedom early."

"Yes, why do you do this? You are their master, and their things are yours. Why do you want to give them half of the profits and give them their freedom? I really don't understand." Yan Shuyi said.

Li Feng sighed in his heart and thought to himself: "This is the woman who has been poisoned by the feudal society."

"You'll know later."

Seeing that Li Feng didn't explain, it was hard for Yan Shuyi to ask again, so she would talk about it later.

Not long after, the Yaman came again, and this time he brought more female slaves than before.

"Brother Li Feng, why do I feel like this fan seems to regard you as a traitor and let him slaughter you?"

Li Feng smiled and said: "It's okay, he will regret it later."

"Sir, there are eighty female slaves here, you can choose as you like." Yaren said with a flattering smile, as if to say, "Sir, you want all of these eighty slaves."

Li Feng nodded and said: "Okay, then pick slowly. Pick one by one, and you pick with me. If I choose one, you will give me her deed of betrayal."

"Okay, sir." Yaren said excitedly.

Li Feng said to the eighty female slaves: "All those of you who are literate should stand up."

"Swish, brush, brush."

Thirty-four women stood up at once.

"Well, that's good. People who can weave have also come forward." Li Feng said again.

Suddenly fifteen more people stood up.

"Someone who has been a cook come forward."

Another person stood up.

"Very good, these people will stay for now, and everyone else can leave." Li Feng said.
To be continued...