Chapter 137: Adding People

Cheng Feng temporarily stopped thinking about Lin Wan'er's sudden feelings.

The current Lin Family was not something Cheng Feng was confident he could take down.

Moreover, Cheng Feng only wanted to make money and practice martial arts right now.

Some things cannot be rushed, but once his strength is great, they can be done.

The current Cheng Feng was still somewhat weak.

After saying goodbye to Shopkeeper Zhang, Cheng Feng went straight to the Hong Sect and drew out one hundred taels of silver.

Now that the new residence has been bought, all that remains is moving.

The silver on his person had been used up, so Cheng Feng could only temporarily misappropriate the Hong Sect's reserve silver.

It was not a big problem, just one hundred taels.

Cheng Feng would just take a little less of a dividend next month.

Money is a man's courage; he called for Babai and went to the Tooth Agency again.

After chatting with the shopkeeper, a new batch of people had arrived recently.

Cheng Feng could no longer worry about so much now.

Once a residence is bought, people must live in it; his own women certainly would not have to suffer anymore.

The women had been with him for quite some time, and it was time to let them live a good life.

Arriving at the Tooth Agency, Shopkeeper Zhang had gone out on business, so Cheng Feng entered the Rear Courtyard with familiar ease.

Today, he, Cheng Feng, would ensure the new courtyard was no longer cold and cheerless.

With silver in hand, the world is mine.

Before coming, Cheng Feng had written his requirements on a piece of paper according to his conditions, so it would be easy to find and not laborious.

After carefully verifying the requirements with the clerk, Cheng Feng came before a middle-aged man who was said to possess rich management experience.

But looking at the frail and elderly middle-aged man before him, Cheng Feng covered his face and said, "Is there some misunderstanding about what a middle-aged man is?"

The clerk was not annoyed; the Tooth Agency's records must have been verified, but whether they were exaggerated depended on how the person at the time wrote them.

Change to the next one; no, the height is truly too short.

Change to the next one; no, the shifty-eyed look is truly unbearable to watch.

After looking around, he still had not found a suitable one, so Cheng Feng simply stopped looking for a male steward.

Look at the attendants.

Regarding the selection of male servants, Cheng Feng leaned toward young, strong men with good Root Bone, totaling twenty, who would be responsible for performing various types of physical labor and receiving basic skills training when necessary to ensure the efficient completion of various tasks.

But looking at the sallow and thin people for sale, Cheng Feng was speechless; with these thin arms and legs, they were not even as good as Hong Sect disciples.

Change and look at the next one.

For the selection of the inner courtyard female steward, Cheng Feng needed a woman with rich experience and excellent management ability, who would be responsible for supervising the daily work of the maid team and ensuring the cleanliness and harmony of the inner courtyard environment.

But looking at the clerk's helpless and innocent gaze, Cheng Feng gave up.

In terms of selecting maids, Cheng Feng paid great attention to their appearance, Root Bone, and personality traits.

He did not want to find those who were gossipy; of course, he did not want ugly ones either, as he was the one paying the money.

After all, he was not selecting maids to satisfy his own selfish desires. Therefore, he could lower the age requirement for these maids slightly, so that their personalities would still have a chance to be cultivated.

The most critical thing is that the Root Bone of these maids must be good; this is the top priority.

After layers of selection, five maids finally met the conditions. Being able to select so many suitable candidates this time, Babai deserved much of the credit; if it hadn't played a major role, I'm afraid this trip would have really ended in returning empty-handed.

As for the cook, since he had not been able to find a suitable male attendant earlier, Cheng Feng gave up on that idea. He decided to choose a female cook as well, so at least he wouldn't have to consider too many issues regarding age. However, Cheng Feng's requirements for the cook's culinary skills were quite high.

Fortunately, he really did discover a few experts with exquisite culinary skills this time. In Cheng Feng's personal test, the dishes cooked by two mothers were indeed quite good in taste. However, they both brought two girls, which made Cheng Feng feel it was inappropriate.

Cheng Feng originally wanted to change to another person to take a look, but Babai, based on the requirements Cheng Feng had put forward, whispered from the side: "Judging solely from their appearance and bone structure, these two cooks were quite beautiful in the past, and the Root Bone of those two little girls is quite good."

After hearing this, Cheng Feng immediately understood what Babai wanted to express. After all, in Babai's eyes, what was called beautiful must certainly be the type that Cheng Feng liked!

At this moment, looking at the two mothers before him whose eyes were full of expectation, Cheng Feng felt extremely helpless in his heart; were they really planning to turn his courtyard into a Kingdom of Women?

However, although he was extremely unwilling in his heart, Cheng Feng ultimately gave up the idea of refusing.

Forget it, forget it; just treat it as doing a good deed to accumulate some virtue!

Just two children, and they are good materials for practicing martial arts; not a loss, not a loss.

When thinking about his two sons living in an environment full of girls in the future, Cheng Feng couldn't help but associate it with Jia Baoyu, the protagonist of a famous biography from his past life.

That guy was always a bit effeminate, which was absolutely not what he wanted to see.

Thus, he did not hesitate to take Babai to the men's section and carefully selected ten young men with excellent Root Bone.

Immediately following that, he decisively "took them all in one go." Adding the five girls, two mothers, and two children, the total cost was a mere nineteen taels.

Among them, the two little girls were only about six or seven years old, and Cheng Feng thought they could become Chen Zhu's playmates so she wouldn't feel too lonely.

While waiting for the contract engraving to be completed, Cheng Feng tried to have a simple exchange with these people.

The faces of those selected were full of exhaustion and unease, but their eyes revealed a glimmer of expectation for the future.

"Are you all from the east?" Cheng Feng asked softly, trying to break the silent atmosphere.

"Yes, the east is now engulfed in the flames of war, and we are all people who escaped," a young man sighed, his voice full of helplessness.

"The road of fleeing must have been very difficult," Cheng Feng lamented; he could imagine that kind of displaced life.

"Sigh, who's to say it isn't," the young man shook his head. "Many people died on the road; some died of illness, some died of hunger, and others were killed by those soldiers. It is already a great fortune that we people could survive."

Cheng Feng was silent; he could feel the fear and despair deep in these people's hearts.

He knew that although these refugees had temporarily found a place to settle, their hearts still had nowhere to rest.

But Cheng Feng was also powerless; his own family matters were not yet finished, and with this and that lacking, how could he have spare sympathy to help others?

If they hadn't voluntarily sold themselves into the Tooth Agency, Cheng Feng would probably never have seen them in his entire life.

Let alone having any intersection.

But what Cheng Feng can guarantee is that, by following him, there will at least be a full meal to eat.

It won't get to the point of being so hungry that one's chest sticks to one's back.