Chapter 927: Benefits and loyalty

Su Wan did not believe in wasting time as soon as she was done purchasing the slaves, she handed them their responsibilities.

" I will not change your names, you can keep your name and ident.i.ty which you were born with," she told the slaves who had their heads lowered. When they heard that they could keep their ident.i.ties they were stunned. Shouldn"t Su Wan change their names and give them new ident.i.ties now that they were her slaves?

Su Wan, of course, noticed that the slaves she had purchased were confused but she did not mind. She waved her hand and then said,

" As long as you all do a good job, I will allow you to take your leave. I have purchased you for fifty taels each which means as long as you all work for five years for me, I will free you of the tag that holds you down."

" County Magistrate, d… do you mean to say that we can become normal commoners?" Mo Chang asked with a thumping heart. He never thought that one day he would get the chance to return to being a commoner after being sold as a slave by his parents.

Su Wan nodded. She leaned on her chair and stared at the slaves whom she had purchased and then said, " I am not an unreasonable woman. As long as you do a good job, I am willing to reward you, if you do not betray my family and take care of your responsibilities well then naturally you will get a chance to redeem yourself. Five years of loyalty and I will hand you all your slave deeds."

No sooner did she finish speaking the light which had been extinguished in the eyes of slaves, once again ignited. They could redeem themselves does that not mean that they had another opportunity in front of them?

Seeing that they all seemed to have understood what Su Wan was trying to tell them, she nodded and continued, "It"s up to you what you are going to choose. If you stay loyal to me then I will naturally reward you but…" her voice turned cold and upon noticing the change in her voice the slaves gulped in terror. Though the woman in front of them was young, her aura made them shiver.

" If there is a reward then there will be a punishment as well. If you dare to go against my family—— though I am not unreasonable… I rarely overlook treachery. If you dare to betray me or my family then I will make sure that even your coming generations will die as a slave."

Her words fell heavily in the hearts of the slaves as they all shivered and then fell on their knees.

" We will not dare to go against you, county Magistrate!"

" Yes, we will stay loyal to you till the end!"

What a joke! This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that they might never get in their lives again. They could redeem themselves!

" Very well then," Su Wan nodded as she turned to look at Lin Jing who nodded and then handed her the deeds that Yi Ran had given to him earlier. " One tael a month, four sets of clothes for every season for children, two for adults.

The cost of sickness and injuries will be taken care of by me, so even if you all catch a cold or fever make sure to tell me instead of waiting until it worsens as it will affect productivity. If you want to leave after five years, you only need to give me a month"s notice such that I can hire another person in your place.

And remember before leaving you all will need to not only teach the new person in charge but you will also have to sign a contract in which you will be agreeing not to share any information about my family to someone else."

Everyone looked at one another, this was slavery? They haven"t been treated this well even when they were commoners!

" W..What if we still want to work here but redeem ourselves?" Long Xun asked with a tremor in his voice.

Su Wan"s eyes softened as she heard his query and then said, " Then your salary will be increased until it reaches ten taels for all the hard work that you have done for five years.

You will be given health insurance in which you only need to submit three hundred copper coins each month and in case you face life-threatening —— which is something I hope you will never, then all the costs from your treatment to medicine will be taken care of by the Lin family."

" You will be given a house in the servants" quarters with bonuses and promotions applied, in respect to your position. Of course the higher the position the more the salary will be. Let"s say your father wants to stay as the housekeeper of my family for five years after redeeming himself, then he will get fifteen taels per month as salary."

She then paused and added, " If your family stays with my family for more than twenty years, then I will hand pensions to the elderlies over fifty years of age every month. And in case someone dies because of old age or any illness, it will also be taken care of us."

Fifteen taels?! Monthly pension?

Long Xun"s eyes widened and so did his sister and mother"s.

Madam Long looked at Su Wan and asked, " T..Then does that mean that us women will also get salaries ?"

In the past she was not given a single penny as the master of the house said that she was just an extra baggage that he purchased together with her husband. In fact other than small tips even her husband did not get anything.

" Why won"t you be paid?" Su Wan questioned back with a raise of her brow. She looked at the woman in front of her and then stated, " If you do your tasks well then you will naturally get paid, it does not matter whether you are a woman or child, if you do labour then I will naturally pay you. Of course, the salary will differ as a child cannot do the same amount of job as an adult."

The reason she handed so many benefits was simple, eternal loyalty was nothing but a sham. It was only when interests were tied up that people stayed loyal till the end.