Chapter 295: Taken as a Servant

Jiang Xiaoxiao frowned as she listened to the ins and outs of the matter, feeling that those people were truly heartless, not caring about others' lives for the sake of a little silver.

"So—" Jiang Wei's gaze swept over Jiang Xuelien's tightly pinched fingers, "you came to this wilderness wanting to seek death?"

Jiang Xuelien bit her lip and didn't speak.

She didn't actually come here to seek death, but wanted to find a knife to chop off her sixth finger.

But how was this any different from seeking death?

In this era, she was penniless, without a single relative or friend; the pain caused by a severed finger, if not handled properly, would lead to inflammation and infection, resulting in death. In this wilderness, there was simply no one who could save her.

"What is your name?" Jiang Wei sized up the young girl in front of her and suddenly asked: "What kind of work can you do usually? Can you clean, can you cook?"

Jiang Xuelien was stunned, then nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes! My name is Jiang Xuelien, I can do any kind of work."

Not to mention cooking and cleaning the house, she was even willing to do dirty and tiring work like cleaning the chamber pot for others.

As long as someone could give her work to do, she would be extremely grateful; how could she dare to be picky.

"That's fine." Jiang Wei pointed to the horse carriage beside her with her chin, "Then get on the carriage, come with me, go to my house to work; I will give you twenty wen of wages a day, and provide food and lodging."

"Ah?" This time it was Jiang Xiaoxiao's turn to be stunned.

Her mother just kidnapped a little girl like this?

Jiang Wei glanced at her and said: "Our two-story small villa is still missing someone to clean; she is just right."

Makes sense.

Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded; her mother was busy with the soap workshop all day, and now going back, she would probably be even busier. And she herself was too young, and her stature was too short, so climbing a table was difficult; the house indeed needed a servant.

This little girl named Jiang Xuelien looked to be fifteen or sixteen years old and looked quite honest; she was a suitable candidate.

And at this moment, Jiang Xuelien was stunned on the spot by the conditions of twenty copper coins of wages and food and lodging offered by Jiang Wei.

She widened her eyes in disbelief, and it took a long time for her to react; she hurriedly waved her hand and said: "I, I don't want wages, as long as you can give me a mouthful of food to eat..."

Halfway through her sentence, she suddenly realized that her six fingers had been exposed in front of Jiang Wei, and she was so scared that she hurriedly covered her sixth finger, biting her lip tightly, not daring to speak, fearing that Jiang Wei wouldn't want her anymore.

However, Jiang Wei just glanced at her fingers indifferently, with no emotional change in her eyes, and her tone was as indifferent as ever: "Don't just stand there stupidly, get on the carriage."

After speaking, without waiting for Jiang Xuelien to speak, she got on the horse carriage on her own.

Jiang Xuelien was likely meeting such a cold and aloof person for the first time; she was stunned for a moment, even forgetting to cover her fingers.

"Your name is Jiang Xuelien, right? Then I will call you Sister Xuelien from now on." Jiang Xiaoxiao smiled and pulled Jiang Xuelien up, "Don't kneel anymore, hurry up and get on the horse carriage; my home is in Yong'an Town, very far from here, and it will take several days of travel."

"N-no..." Jiang Xuelien waved her hand directly, "H-how can I sit in the horse carriage? I'll just walk below."

At this time, Jiang Wei poked her head out from the front of the carriage and glared at her coldly: "If you dawdle and waste my time again, I really won't want you."

"I, I... I'm sorry!"

Hearing this, Jiang Xuelien panicked immediately; she couldn't care about anything else, and immediately hugged Jiang Xiaoxiao and jumped onto the horse carriage.

The speed was so fast that even Jiang Xiaoxiao didn't react.

After reacting, Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at Jiang Xuelien's pale face and slight panting, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

But it had to be said, when facing a person as inferior and sensitive as Jiang Xuelien, her mother's words were indeed the most effective.

Just as the two sat down, Jiang Wei, sitting in the front, flicked the horse whip in her hand, and the horse carriage moved immediately.

The road in the wilderness was bumpy, not as stable as the bluestone road in the city.

Jiang Xuelien, however, was full of curiosity; it was her first time sitting in a horse carriage, and even though she was still a bit reserved, she couldn't help but look around.

One moment her fingers were touching the soft blanket under her, and the next she was lifting the carriage curtain to look at the scenery speeding by outside.

Her thin, small face was full of unstoppable excitement.

Jiang Xiaoxiao, watching from the side, wanted to laugh; she reached into the box on the tea table, took out two date paste and Chinese yam cakes, and handed one to Jiang Xuelien with a smile.

Jiang Xuelien subconsciously wanted to wave her hand to refuse, but just as she was about to speak, Jiang Xiaoxiao quickly stuffed the date paste and Chinese yam cake into her mouth.

The soft, glutinous, and sweet pastry melted in her mouth.

Jiang Xuelien widened her eyes, holding the pastry in her mouth, her throat moved, and she subconsciously ate it.

It was simply too delicious!

She had never eaten such delicious pastries.

Jiang Xuelien's face was full of surprise and joy, as if she had forgotten her previous reserve, and was intoxicated by this delicious taste...

Jiang Xiaoxiao, seeing this, smiled and stuffed two more into her hand, then took two more pastries and went to the front.

Lifting the carriage curtain, she sat beside her mother and handed the pastries over.

Jiang Wei glanced at the pastries and said coldly: "I don't like this, you eat them yourself."

Jiang Xiaoxiao pouted: "This date paste and Chinese yam cake is clearly very delicious, sweet and glutinous..."

After speaking, she stuffed one into her own mouth.

Her mother is really something; why doesn't she like sweets? Clearly, eating sweets can make people feel better.

Jiang Wei looked ahead and said again: "After leaving Xuzhou City, we will reach the nearby town in a few dozen miles. Whatever you want to eat, we'll eat there."

Jiang Xiaoxiao, eating the date paste and Chinese yam cake, mumbled: "Aren't we in a hurry to travel? Are we going to rest there for a night?"

"We'll see." Jiang Wei only said.

It didn't matter whether they rested or not; it was mainly that the horses needed to rest, be fed water, and eat.

She had food for people in her space, but no forage for the horses.

Jiang Xiaoxiao thought for a moment and said: "Then let's rest in the town for a night. Mother, why don't we find another coachman? Ten days of travel, if it's just you driving the carriage alone..."

Before she finished speaking, Jiang Xuelien poked her head out from behind and said hesitantly: "T-that... actually, I know how to drive a horse carriage; why don't I try it?"

"You?" Jiang Wei turned her head and looked at her suspiciously.

Half an hour later.

Jiang Xiaoxiao and her mother sat in the carriage, still feeling a bit unbelievable.

The horse carriage was moving forward steadily, and the speed was only faster, not slower, than the one Jiang Wei drove.

Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but lift the carriage curtain and poke her head out to ask Jiang Xuelien in the front: "Sister Xuelien, isn't this your first time sitting in a horse carriage? How do you know..."

Jiang Xuelien held the horse whip in her hand, driving the carriage skillfully, and still had time to turn her head and smile at her: "It is indeed my first time sitting in a horse carriage, but I have seen people driving horse carriages on the street before, and then I don't know how I just knew how to do it."

Jiang Xiaoxiao: "..."

A genius.

She knew how to do it after seeing it only once.

She didn't even have any practical operation, and she knew how to do it as soon as she started. ===== CHAPTER 296 =====