Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside-Chapter 171 Selling Oneself [2]

He Sanlai hurriedly went to plead with Third Grandpa, Third Grandma, Gu Dashan, and Mrs. Cui.

Mrs. Cui has always been one who disliked taking charge; if Gu Dashan agreed to buy them, she would agree.

Third Grandma pitied Mo Chunyue and actually wanted to buy the couple.

As to why buying instead of hiring them to work, Third Grandma wasn’t that naive. She knew He Sanlai had been a scoundrel; with people like him, it’s better to hold their indenture in hand to avoid trouble.

Third Grandpa asked Gu Dashan, "Dashan, what do you think? To buy or not to buy?"

Dashan was the head of the family; such important matters still needed his decision.

"Me?" Gu Dashan was a bit stunned, but having escaped famine on the road and through the recent experience of selling tofu, he was no longer feeble and had his own ideas. Thinking about the question Gu Jinli just asked He Sanlai, this He Sanlai knew about Zhang Niu and other local scoundrels.

He recalled something Elder Qin said on the road of escape: "To deal with a bad person, you must use a bad person’s methods."

Ever since they arrived at Da Feng Village, they invariably encountered various issues. They are rule-abiding farmers; facing shameless scoundrels, they had no choice and still had to rely on the likes of He Sanlai to deal with those shameless people.

Gu Dashan already had an idea but still asked Gu Jinli a question, "Xiao Yu, He Sanlai has worked for the Lu Family, considered as one of them. If we buy him, will the Lu Family be irritated and retaliate against us?"

Gu Jinli smiled, "Dad, do we have little enmity with the Lu Family? This won’t make much difference."

And buying He Sanlai could also divide the power of the local scoundrels, anything divided becomes weaker.

Gu Dashan felt much relieved, he looked at Third Grandpa and said: "Uncle, as long as they don’t live with us, I have no objections, please decide."

Gu Dashan, being a farmer, still preferred living with his own family members. Outsiders moving in would make him uncomfortable.

He Sanlai and Mo Chunyue listened with widened eyes, eagerly looking at Third Grandpa, waiting for him to speak.

Third Grandpa remained silent. Seeing him not speaking, He Sanlai and Mo Chunyue became extremely anxious; unable to help it, He Sanlai shouted, "Third Grandpa Gu?"

Mo Chunyue tugged at his sleeve and immediately shut him up, waiting obediently.

Moments later, Third Grandpa said, "For the matter of Lu Dezhu, our families are grateful to you. Considering your role in passing messages to us, our family will buy you, but you must remember who your masters are. If you dare commit any act that betrays our family, no matter how big or small, the end will be death!"

Third Grandpa stared at the couple and said, "Don’t think we can’t do it. We are famine escapees, having seen more dead bodies than you—ask the girl from the Mo Family, how many people died on the road of famine?"

Mo Chunyue recalled the road to escape where people fought over food leading to fatalities, and couldn’t help but shiver, nodding to He Sanlai, affirming what Third Grandpa said.

Seeing this, He Sanlai turned pale. Although he had helped the Lu Family vandalize the villagers’ homes, he had never killed.

He always thought himself tough, but now compared to Third Grandpa and those who survived through piles of corpses, he was truly insignificant.

"I, we remember, definitely would not dare to act against the master family," He Sanlai promised, somewhat fearfully.

Mo Chunyue followed up and assured, "Rest assured, Old Master, our couple will not do anything against the master family."

"You know it now," nodded Third Grandpa, satisfied with their assurance.

Gu Jinli then said, "Remember what you said today. If you can’t remember, it doesn’t matter, after all, it’s your lives at stake. If there’s trouble, you’ll be the ones to die."

She said warmly to them, "A reminder, children born to slaves are slaves too, belonging to the master family. So don’t think after having children, for their sake to lead a wealthy life, you can act against our Gu Family with money. It’s useless; if you dare, your children will end up even worse off than you."

He Sanlai and Mo Chunyue turned pale upon hearing this, quickly saying, "No, no, we will never betray the master family for our children."

Hearing this, Gu Jinli was half satisfied and then looked at Mo Chunyue and said, "Handle the Mo Family’s issues yourselves as a couple. If the Mo Family people dare to come and cause a ruckus at our home or our workshop, and it happens twice, I will sell you deep into the mountains where you’ll never return."

The Mo Family people are troublesome and greedy; as long as Mo Chunyue has no money, it’s okay, but if it leaks that Mo Chunyue sold herself to serving their family, Mo Family would surely come asking for money.

She didn’t mind beating up the Mo Family severely, but it was too bothersome; she didn’t want to step in personally, thus warned Mo Chunyue and her spouse in advance.

He Sanlai hadn’t thought of the Mo Family issue, upon hearing Gu Jinli’s words, he said, "Don’t worry granny. Although Chunyue is the granddaughter of the Mo Family, I married Chunyue for five taels of silver; Chunyue has no ties with the Mo Family, and they dare not trouble your family."

"Really?" Gu Jinli looked toward Mo Chunyue: "Ask your wife, if you have money, wouldn’t the Mo Family cling to you? If they can’t reach you, wouldn’t they come to our house causing trouble?"

Mo Chunyue knew the Mo Family people, they were a bunch of shameless rogues, bloodsuckers with no limits: "Sister Xiao Yu is right, my maternal family, we must guard against."

She also assured Gu Jinli: "Don’t worry Sister Xiao Yu, our couple will definitely stop the Mo Family from bothering you."

Gu Jinli said, "Empty promises are useless. Like this, if Mo Family comes making trouble once, we’ll deduct a month’s salary from your couple."

Only when it involves money will Mo Chunyue and her husband take it seriously.

He Sanlai was choked; he felt Gu Jinli was truly ruthless, knowing his family was poor yet using money to punish them, truly clutching their lifeline.

Yet he couldn’t refuse, "Alright, we agree."

Third Grandpa saw they had no objections, looked at Gu Dashan, "Decide on how much indenture silver and monthly salary to give them."

He was old, unsure how long he would live, needed to bring Dashan up, so these matters had to be decided by him.

Gu Dashan was still a little nervous, looked at Gu Jinli, seeing that Gu Jinli didn’t speak, he hesitantly said, "When we escaped the famine, in the Prefecture, buying a person cost one tael of silver, but here is not the Prefecture, we’ll give you the normal price. Three taels of silver per person, monthly salary is three hundred cents per person, but our family won’t provide for your food and lodging, you must go back to your own homes to eat, are you willing?"

He Sanlai had worked as a laborer for a few days, exhausting and only earning ninety cents; now the Gu Family offered them three hundred cents per month, although not providing food and lodging, they needed to cook at home, but the monthly salary was very acceptable.