Chapter 63: Little Bamboo
In the past, when he secretly went to the brothel to do business, although he dare not say he knew all the employees there, he was familiar with many of them and at this moment, sitting at the door, this beautiful ger, he was naturally very familiar with.
Not to mention Wu Qingyuan, his memory is basically perfect, this ger is still an informant who has traded with him, this was only a few months ago, he can’t forget that easily.
Since they all know each other, this ger sits on the ground at the door of the inn crying pitifully, Amo has always been warm-hearted, and helped him, first he brought him in and they sat down to eat together, Wu Qingyuan has no opinion, he is indifferent but not really heartless, this ger sitting at the door and crying is really quite eye-catching.
“Zhu-ge, what happened, why are you here?”
After finding a corner position to sit down and letting them serve the food, Amo asked first.
In the past, those little people in Hualou did not dislike him, did take care of his business, and he was very grateful in his heart, although this ger had a low status, but in fact, most of them were poor people, and their temperament was easier to get along with than many people in the village.
“I…. Woo hoo, Amo, it’s gone, there’s nothing left, the silver I’ve saved for so many years has all been stolen by the pickpockets on the streets…”
As soon as he mentioned the sad event, Jiang Zhu, who was burying his head in eating, suddenly raised his head, cried sadly again, and intermittently told his experience.
Speaking of which, although this ger named Jiang Zhu is only in his twenties, his life can be described as having many ups and downs and he has experienced many things.
He was originally the ger of a rich family, although he was born to a concubine of an old man, but he was liked by the old man and lived a rich life of brocade clothes and jade accessories, but who knew that natural disasters and man-made disasters would come, the business idea of the rich family lord only gave them debt and the entire family business was lost.
His grandfather couldn’t withstand the blow, and jumped into the river to escape the debt, leaving the orphan and widow in the backyard to face the creditor, and finally because of his beautiful appearance, he was favored by the creditor and brought home to their house.
At that time, he was only fourteen or fifteen years old, and he was originally a rich young master, but he ended up becoming a plaything. The plaything in the room was often being bullied by the lady and concubine in the backyard, naturally he was sad in his heart, and after staying in the bully’s hands for a period of time, he accidentally met a long-term worker in the house.
Although the long-term worker was not good-looking, he was alone and from a poor family, but his personality was very good, he was very concerned about him when they first met, often helped him, cared about him, at that time, the young man who had just experienced big ups and downs was the time when his heart was most fragile, and soon the two developed a relationship, and he fled with the long worker to settle in Shiqiao Town.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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So later, the worker married a woman as the main wife, and he, the ger who had never even met with a matchmaker, became a redundant person in the household- the worker changed his mind, and sold him to the brothel for silver under the urging of his wife!
After experiencing so many things, although he was only a teenager at the time, Jiang Zhu also quickly matured, fate has already doomed him to the point where he couldn’t resist and can only accept change, so with his beautiful appearance, coupled with the attitude of obedience to his fate, his life in Hualou is also quite good.
Now he is twenty-five years old, he is old and can no longer keep that lifestyle up, and he himself has saved enough money for his future retirement, so he redeems himself and prepares to find a place where no one knows him and live a good life again.
But his luck was really bad, he just took a boat to this Jiangyi county town, ready to rest for the night and then hurry to leave again, but he didn’t find an inn, and his money bag was stolen halfway along the way, and his baggage was robbed, and now he didn’t even have a set of clothes except the ones on his body.
“Oh, that’s what I saved with great difficulty, that was my lifesaver, these abominable thieves- they don’t want to let people live, Amo, where do you say I can go now? Could it be that I will jave to return to Hualou, I just came out, I’m already this age, who will like me…..”
Jiang Zhu cried very sadly, he had been really unlucky.
Seeing him crying sadly, Amo didn’t know how to comfort him for a while, unlucky like this, words of comfort are useless, only to help him come up with a solution is the real comfort.
It’s just that there is no way to do this, those thieves have no fixed place, they are not familiar with life here, they can’t find anyone at all, it’s useless to report to the officials, and they can’t catch anyone for a while, so they can only admit that they are unlucky, but the problem is that those silver are the guarantee of Jiang Zhu’s future life.
Jiang Zhu himself knows these problems, so the more he thinks about it, the sadder he gets, crying and really wanting to die- but he won’t really try to die, so many experiences he has survived, and he doesn’t want to die until the real desperate end.
“Boss Wu, I heard that you have done some small business recently, I wonder if you have any work for me? I really have no place to go, and Aunt Hua Lou will definitely not want me again…”
Crying to the end, Jiang Zhu looked at Wu Qingyuan tentatively and asked, it really was all or nothing at this time, if he was not thick-skinned, he could only go to be a beggar, and he had no other ability to make a living.
“What will you do?”
“I know words, and when I was at home, my father asked a Mr. Shujuku to teach me how to read, and I could also do calculations, show up and do chores, and I could do kitchen work.” Knowing that there is hope, Jiang Zhu tried his best to recommend himself.
“What have you read with Mr. Shujuku?”
“I know all the four books, five scriptures, and eight strands.”
As a former rich young master, Jiang Zhu has read books, in fact, he is very knowledgeable, but he is a ger, and learning can’t fill his stomach.
“Well, you can stay at my house for a few days temporarily, I’ll take a look at the work for you first…..”
Wu Qingyuan thought silently for a while and nodded.
“Thank you, Boss Wu!”
The young man who was taken in cried with joy.
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That night, Wu Qingyuan opened a room for Jiang Zhu in the inn, and waited until the next morning to return to Shiqiao Town by boat with Jiang Zhu and eighteen slaves and the things purchased for the slaves.
Because there are more slaves, Wu Qingyuan can’t arrange all of them to live in the town for the time being, he can’t live in the house in the town with so many people, and these slaves have just bought it back, and he still needs them to be trained and brainwashed before they can be put into use, so after going back, he temporarily arranged these people back to the village, and sorted out the barn used to store charcoal at home for these people to live in.
Let these people live in the warehouse- and it is not that he treats people badly, but the conditions are limited now, and at the beginning, his goal is to win over people’s hearts, one must know that most people’s hearts are greedy and not easily satisfied, even if there is a death contract to sell themselves, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no accidents with several who have hidden intentions.
Moreover, these people’s status at this moment is his servants rather than guests, and this is the case in this era, he cannot demand everything by the standards of modern man, and overthrowing the hierarchy is against all the people here.
For Wu Qingyuan’s arrangement, the slaves who were bought back had no opinion, and everyone was prepared in their hearts the moment their status was lowered to a pariah slave, regardless of the living conditions, as long as they did not meet a cruel master, they would worship the Buddha and return the wish.
Soon, Wu Qingyuan began a busy life again, running from one end to the town every day, busy with the business in the store, and busy training these slaves.
There is also the business of carbon kilns, Zhang Dazhu’s injury has healed, and he can come and help, Zhou-ger is also learning to deal with it, but he is still a little uneasy, and he must also pay attention to the time but thanks to him being a supernatural and having strong energy, otherwise such a tired and busy body would have collapsed early.
Amo looked very distressed every day, tried his best to keep the shop good when he was away during the day, cooked him soup when he went back at night, and really went up to the hall and the kitchen, whether in business or life, the nineteen-year-old boy gradually began to mature.
As for Jiang Zhu, Wu Qingyuan went back to find a few books to test him, and made sure that he didn’t panic, and he really had some knowledge, thinking that Zhao Haisheng did a good job that time before, and Amo was also familiar with him, so he could only take people in- Zhu-ge had been helping Amo do some chores during the day, and tutoring Lin Tianbao’s homework at night.
Lin Tianbao’s head is indeed one who can understand better- he just went to private school to read a few days and his brother praised him many times, but no matter how clever the homework is, there will still be problems, but although Wu Qingyuan has read books, he can’t test the four books, five classics, and eight strands of things, and Amo only learned to read and write, neither of them asked in college, and they couldn’t answer difficult questions for children.
Before he also thought about asking Lin Tianbao to ask for a show before he tutored after school to cultivate the child well, but he never found the right person.
At this moment, Jiang Zhu is just right, he used to come from a rich family, and he has a certain amount of noble blood in his stomach, even if he is just a down-and-out ger now, his behavior has been assimilated by the city without the nobility of the former young master, but in fact, the learning is not worse than those talents, and it is still okay for him to tutor Lin Tianbao’s coursework.
As for his identity, Wu Qingyuan, an open-minded modern person, will not care, and Amo is familiar with him, knowing who he is, and will not care.
So Jiang Zhu settled in the Wu family like this.
T/N: Back to 2 chapters per week as I’ve taken extra units and now have classes from Monday to Saturday. Bonus Chaps still avail but it will be uploaded within two days instead of the original one. TYSM
Jiang Zhu’s life is pitiful, I am glad he now got his peaceful retirement life.
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Poor JZ :< I hope his life will only be better and better!
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