In different periods in ancient times, different prices and the conditions of maids were different, and the price of buying a maid was also different. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, buying an underage ordinary maid was about five taels of silver, while a skilled or beautiful maid was about twenty taels. At that time, one tael of silver was equivalent to five taels now. In the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, ordinary maids could probably buy sixteen taels of silver, while ordinary maids could sell twenty-five taels of silver in the Qianlong period, and one tael of silver in the Qianlong period was equivalent to modern 22 yuan.

in ancient times, because of low productivity and poor living conditions, people at the bottom usually turned off the lights and slept when it was dark, so having a baby became their only thing? Entertainment? Programs, but ordinary people simply can't afford to raise too many children, so they often keep boys with labor and sell girls to rich people as maids. In this way, although the maids are sold, they still have monthly money to support their families, so selling girls to others as maids has become a hot industry in ancient times.

We often see on TV that people can buy a girl's deed of sale if they give me one or two taels of silver, but it was not so simple in ancient times. A novel written in the Qing Dynasty called "The Story of Awakening Marriage" tells the story of the late Ming Dynasty. It says that a woman from a poor family accidentally broke it while mending clothes for a rich man's son. As a result, the son asked the woman to pay seven taels of silver. The woman couldn't get that much money at all, so she only sold her 11-year-old daughter and got five taels of silver, and the five taels of silver was still hard to get from many buyers. Therefore, we can know that the ancient girl's value can be bought for more than one hundred and twenty taels of silver. In the Ming Dynasty, one or two taels of silver was equivalent to 5 yuan, which means that a servant girl can buy her life-long use right for only 2,5 yuan.

Although the maidservants are bought by the buyers, they still have a monthly income, but the monthly income is much lower than that of the general employment relationship, which is entirely based on the owner's preference. They often get a few coppers a month to maintain their general living expenses, and those who sign the indenture cannot leave the buyers at will, unless the buyers return the indenture to the maidservants and go to the government office to cancel their slavery.