According to Hu Daniu's description, it did look like fresh abalone. Su Tang nodded and continued to ask, "How much money did he ask you to compensate?"
"Thirty taels!" Hu Yang said this number in a sad voice.
How much could an acre of their thin farmland be sold for? Thirty taels of silver was an astronomical figure for their family. If they hadn't cared about the two young children, the couple would have hanged themselves long ago, but they didn't regret their death. Let the children bear it!
If they were all abalones, this amount of silver would be appropriate. But, Su Tang looked at Hu Sulan, could this little girl be worth thirty taels of silver
Hu Daniu and Hu Yangshi looked at Su Tang's eyes and said, "Ms. Su, you must have noticed it too. Even though we are parents, we are fine with our children.
But we are not big-hearted people. There are a lot of girls like our Sulan in the Sujiatun. Not to mention the smart and capable ones like the Zhou family Xiaocao, they are the relatives of Miss Su’s family Su Nuan. Compared to my girl Zhou Zheng, how is she worth thirty taels of silver? "
Mrs. Hu Yang is really her own mother, and what she says is very true. She thinks that her daughter is very good, but she also knows that her daughter is not a fairy, so how can she be worth thirty taels of silver.
Hu Daniu also smiled bitterly, "They still don't know what their intentions are, and we can't let go of our daughter."
The two of them are not stupid and sweet. They are not sure whether what happened this time was an accident or a trick, but Huang Xing asked them to use their daughter to pay off the debt of thirty taels. This matter is definitely not that simple.
Even if there is no problem, they are reluctant to sell their daughter, let alone if there is a problem, so they would rather the whole family find a more reliable master to take refuge in. Even if they become slaves, it is good for the family to be together.
Su Tang and Hu Daniu thought the same thing. There must be something wrong with this, but they couldn't be sure immediately. Su Tang looked at Hu Sulan who was kneeling beside her. The little girl had just lowered her head and was kneeling with her parents and younger brother. Nor spoke.
Just now when Hu Yangshi said that she was not worthy, Su Tang felt that Hu Sulan moved, as if she had something to say, so she asked Hu Sulan, "Sulan, what do you have to say."
When Hu Sulan heard Su Tang ask herself, she looked up at Su Tang, then glanced at her parents, then gritted her teeth and said, "I am willing to be sold. If you sell me, my parents and younger brother can still live a good life. I don’t want to drag my father, mother and brother into selling themselves as slaves!”
Hu Sulan was ten years old, and she knew what it was like to be sold into slavery. Her parents loved her, she knew it, but she was their daughter, and now she had to repay her parents. She didn't want the whole family to sell themselves.
"You silly girl, what do you know!" When Hu Yang saw her daughter being so obedient, she hugged her and burst into tears.
The children of the poor have long been in charge of the family. When Su Tang saw this scene, he sighed in his heart, he is a good boy.
When Su Nuo saw them like this, she was about to cry. Even though she saw her sister shaking her head at him just now, he still couldn't help but reach out and pull her, "Sister!"
This kid, my family bought so many servants before, but I didn't see how he was doing. It was just like this when I met familiar people.
Su Tang glanced at him, then looked at Ziyuan, "Go to the west and ask Zhou Xiaocao from the Zhou family to come here to meet me."
After hearing Su Tang's instructions, Ziyuan didn't say anything. She bowed and went out. When she was going out, she happened to bump into Mubai coming in. When he saw her, Mubai asked, "Is the lady in there?"
Ziyuan nodded, and Mubai walked in immediately, "Miss, Jiang Hong and the others are home!"
"Are you here already?" Su Tang didn't expect Jiang Hong and the others to arrive so quickly.
(End of chapter)