"We are slaves, why are we uncomfortable?"

Azhu regained his normal color, looked at her and looked at her with a cold gaze and said, "Unless you are not a slave." ”

Qing'er's heart suddenly jumped when she heard this, and then she stepped forward and grabbed her arm and smiled affectionately, "Good sister, I am also the daughter of a good family, what kind of slave is it, but this natural and man-made disaster happens every year, so I ......live in exile everywhere."

This sentence said to the bottom of Azhu's heart, "No matter whether we were nobles, young ladies or commoners in the past, we can't change the facts now." ”

Qing'er was taught another lesson by her, her little face turned white, and she nodded.

"Yes, Sister Azhu, you're right. ”

"We were born slaves. ”

"Born to be looked down upon. ”

Ah Zhu saw that Qing'er seemed to have been hit, and Hu'er couldn't bear to say again, "As long as we repay our master well, we will have the opportunity to regain ......our free body in the future."

Is it really good to just be free?

In this troubled world, freedom is better than becoming a slave with a surname and a family, and a place to live and live.

Seeing this, Qing'er diligently helped Ah Zhu pick up a rag to wipe the tables and chairs, and said with a smile, "Then Sister Ah Zhu, I'll help you wipe the table, after wiping the table, let's go to the deck for a walk, you see how good the sky is outside, you can follow me, I promise not to run around, I just want to go out to breathe, I guess you also want to go out for a walk." ”

"Okay! ”

Ah Zhu thought about it and agreed to Qing'er's little request.

After the two of them finished sprinkling and sweeping, they went out and boarded the deck, Qing'er touched everywhere, looked, and smiled, "Sister Azhu, your Cheng's big ship is really big, it's the first time I've seen it." ”

"I used to sit with Cheng Lao, but at that time, my Cheng clan's big ship was not so big. Ah Zhu looked at the building ship in front of him and recalled, it looks like it is much bigger than before, but it doesn't seem to be anything except for the big one, "These building ships should have been built by Gongzi in recent years." ”

"The two girls must not know that now our Cheng's big ship is definitely the largest building ship in Kyushu. One of the ship's sailors, who was wiping the deck, said proudly.

"Really?"

Qing'er looked at the approaching sailor with adoring eyes, and called him Tao Taoran, "Brother Sailor, then you tell me, it's the first time I've seen such a big ship, you see this is my Sister Azhu, she also wants to know." ”

Ah Zhu wanted to refute when he heard this, but he saw that she was full of interest, and several sailors couldn't help but think when they saw the two watery maidservants, and the flowers on their mouths were all good, "The two girls look like they haven't been out on weekdays, don't you know...... Not only do we not need a slender man to pull fiber on the shore now, but when the wind is strong, we don't even need oarsmen. ”

"Impossible!"

Qing'er didn't believe it, and Azhu, who was standing by the railing, also turned his head curiously to look at it.

"Do you see these four sails?" said the sailor, smirking, pointing to the four great sails standing on the ship.

"We rely on them to ride the wind. ”

"It's so powerful, how did you do it......"

"This, as the saying goes, a good wind with strength, send me to the sky, this is the same for the boat, on weekdays, the wind and waves are strong, the boat can swim without being rowed, and now with these four sails, we can gallop the river, and it is not a problem to travel two or three hundred miles a day......"

Ah Zhu, who was standing on the side of the ship, heard Qing'er ask more and more and always felt that something was wrong, so he resolutely stepped forward and interrupted, "Okay, we should go back!" and then pulled Qing'er and turned into the cabin, and several sailors wanted to say again, "Alas, what are the two sisters leaving, let's talk about ...... again"

But Ah Zhu glared back at them with a slightly gloomy face, "The Cheng family didn't raise you to let you gossip here, just do what you have to do!"

Several sailors nodded stupidly and returned to their respective posts.

"Alright, alright...... Sister Azhu, I won't ask any more, isn't it just fun, let's talk a little more?"

Qing'er will accept it when she sees it, and she is ready to find a chance to talk to this sailor brother next time.

"It seems that you still didn't listen to what Madame taught you last time, and we as slaves and maids are to listen to what we should hear, not to listen to what we shouldn't hear, and not to ask what we shouldn't ask. Azhu said in a deep voice.

Qing'er was secretly annoyed when she heard this, and her good opportunity was disturbed by this Azhu again.

However, it was still a mistake to be careless, and it took a long time to dispel Azhu's doubts again and expose the matter.

When they got off the ship, it was exactly noon, the sun was blazing like a fire barbecue Jingling City at the foot of Tianmen Mountain, some merchants were busy unloading and loading goods, in addition to their building ship on the shore caused a burst of onlookers and exclamations of the people, there was another big ship parked, every man who moved goods was wheat-colored, shuttling on the shore, it seemed that the small market wharf was very dirty.

Cheng Qingqing frowned slightly and clamored to leave, pulling Mi Huang and they hurriedly got into the car, Cheng Jia couldn't twist her, and after a while, they came to the most prosperous Chengxi market in Jingling, surrounded by wine shops and inns with lime powder walls of different heights on both sides of the market.

The only special thing is that in the small mountain city of Jingling, the pottery is even more exquisite than that of Yingdu.

However, it is still far from the prosperous city of Yingdu or other countries of the princes, but there are some merchants who come and go here, as well as some surrounding barbarians, so it is still very lively.

Cheng Qingqing saw this bustle and hurriedly ordered someone to stop, and the group of them walked into the market.

Cheng Qingqing saw all kinds of beautiful potters clamoring to buy a bunch on the side, but in the bustling crowd, Mi Huang suddenly walked to a stall and beckoned to them, "This rouge is very good-looking, you can take a look." ”

Cheng Qingqing glanced at it and was not interested, shook the feather fan in his hand and said in disgust, "This kind of cheap fat powder hurts the skin, and there are many better ones in my family than this, right, second brother?"

"When I get back, I'll send some new ones to my wife. ”

"Hmm. ”

Cheng Jia nodded and said softly, "And these fat powders contain too much lead, which is not good for the body." ”

In this era, fat powders are all containing heavy metals.

Pregnant women should not use these heavy lead powders.

"Really? I'm just going to take a look. ”

Mi Huang sniffed for a while, and immediately smelled a sweet and greasy smell of fragrant powder that made her dizzy, but still said, "But I still bought this, and Siqin paid for it." As the words fell, while picking up the fat powder, the afterglow swept towards a farmer picking vegetables and a strong man with a cart behind her, as well as a few sneaky figures mixed with passers-by, only to see that they saw her stop and walked a few steps and stopped, pretending to sell vegetables and buy things.

"Yes, miss. ”

Siqin was ready to come forward and pay.

But he was stopped by Cheng Qingqing with a smile again, "Okay, it's all the second brother who pays today, how can you let us pay, my brother is too faceless." ”

When the words fell, he glanced at Cheng Jia meaningfully.

Cheng Jia coughed lightly twice and ordered Jing'an to take the money.

Mi Huang didn't stop it, anyway, she didn't mean it, let Cheng Jia pick up the box of rouge she picked and paid for it, and asked the stall owner on the side, "By the way, stall owner, is there any restaurant inn near here that has a private room?" The child fell asleep and wanted to rest. ”

"No, the Jingling Grand Inn in front of us is the best in our Jingling City. Seeing that they were dressed luxuriously and their accents did not look like that of the locals, the hawkers pointed to the big red sail signboard mentioned earlier.

"Okay, thank you!Then let's go to the inn over there and take a rest!" After finishing his words, Mi Huang led Cheng Jia and them to the inn, and the flow of people behind them moved again.

When she arrived at the door of the inn, Mi Huang suddenly paused, then patted her forehead, and walked back, only to see a few people about to meet her head-on, and immediately turned to the side of the road, and the cart stopped abruptly in front of her, looking at her and scolding, "If you don't look at the road when you go out, you are looking for death!"

Fortunately, Cheng Jiayan quickly pulled her back, and said nervously, "What are you doing, how do you walk like a child! Do you know how dangerous it is?"

"yes, yes, it's on the street, it's full of cars and ......"

Cheng Qingqing's eyes suddenly looked at the second brother's big hand holding the princess, and she couldn't help but laugh, and said seriously, "Fortunately, my brother has quick eyes." ”

Under his nervous gaze, Mi Huang suddenly jumped in his heart for some reason, and the tips of his ears were slightly hot, and then pushed his hand away, patted the phoenix purse embroidered on his waist, and said in a low voice, "Hmm...... I just thought my things had fallen on the stall, but it turned out to be on me, maybe I thought it was bad. ”

After finishing speaking, he smiled at the driver who almost hit her just now, "That didn't surprise you, did it?"

The coachman was stunned.

Then, without saying a word, he pushed the cart around them.

Cheng Qingqing slipped away when she saw that the coachman didn't say anything and scolded someone, and said to Qiaoyun and them, "Qiaoyun, Evian, scolded Miss Ben for him, he almost hit a pregnant woman, and he didn't even say anything about Daoqian, what kind of man is it!"

"Yes, Miss Four!"

Evian and the others stepped forward as they said, and Mi Huang pulled them and said, "Forget it...... I'm fine again, let's go in and rest, and it's noon, and I'm hungry. ”

"How can this be counted?......"

Cheng Qingqing still wanted to say no, and even wanted to find someone to stop the chauffeur who fled in front, but was pulled by Cheng Jiayi, and suddenly changed her face and said, "Let's go, I'm tired of holding Fei'er, let's go in and sit." ”

His eyes fell on the purse on Mi Huang's waist, and he somehow remembered the last time he made a big fuss in the Purple Smoke Palace, Mi Huang used this reason, several people opened three rooms, Mi Huang went upstairs, and his footsteps paused, and sure enough, he called all of them into the room, and his face sank and said, "Have you found it?"

"Found what?"

Cheng Qingqing was puzzled.

"There were a few people following us all the time, and they stopped when we stopped, and they walked when we walked, and they followed us for a long time from the time we landed. The driver who almost hit me just now was obviously a practitioner, and I turned around so quickly that I actually stopped as soon as I said stop...... And their group of people all have high temples, and they are tall and strong, unlike ordinary people, obviously good skills, the vegetable farmer who sells vegetables has not sold a single vegetable for half a day, and when he sees the guests, he rushes to the side......"

Mi Huang walked to the window and pointed to a few suspicious people on the street through the window, "You see, the other guests are coming in or out, and the passers-by are leaving one after another, and they are standing outside this inn, as if they are waiting for someone." ”

"Who are they waiting for?"

"Wait for us?" Cheng Qingqing said.

Except for her brother, it was the first time they had come to Jingling.

Cheng Jia quickly looked out of the window, and saw that on the not very spacious street, some unknown people were squatting outside the inn, or leaning on the pillar in front of the door of the opposite restaurant, and kept looking into the inn from time to time, acting suspiciously.

"Ya, you go out and have a look, don't alarm the other party. ”

Cheng Jia snapped his fingers, and suddenly a secret guard fell from the eaves and ordered.

Mi Huang raised his hand slightly, "No, Ya, ...... you do this?"

Ya nodded, glanced at Cheng Jia, and saw that he also nodded.

"Good. ”