The yard is not big, but it is chic, the unique delicacy of the Jiangnan water town, in this small courtyard is vividly displayed, a woman in coarse cloth clothes is washing clothes while humming the slang of her hometown, and not far from her, Mao Wei stared at the girl, her eyes were a little red, her lips opened and closed, and she seemed to be humming along.

The girl turned around by chance and couldn't help but be surprised when she saw Mao Wei singing along, "My lord, how can you also sing the slang songs of our hometown?"

Mao Wei smiled bitterly: "Are you also from Tianhe County, how did you end up in such a distant place as the Chu State?"

The girl's face darkened, "A few years ago, the Qi people broke through Dayan, burned and looted in Tianhe County, and the little girl's father was also a little wealthy in his hometown, so he fled with our family and fled all the way to Jiangdong County of Chu State, and then settled down."

"Since your family is not bad, why did you come out to do these laundry and cooking chores?" Mao Wei walked up to the girl, squatted down, and asked curiously.

"Fleeing all the way, itself has exhausted our little money, settled here, what kind of money, these two years, we have already been poor, a few days ago, we encountered a hurdle that we can't get over, there is no way, I can only sell myself into slavery."

"Sold into slavery?" Mao Wei said in surprise.

"Yes, my only brother committed an accident in Jiangdong County, in order to save him, he needs a large sum of silver, but we are now in a poor family, there is so much silver, fortunately, there is no endless road, at this time, someone came to the door and was willing to buy me to be a girl, and the family sold me."

"How can there be such ruthless parents!" Mao Wei said angrily.

"The adults are wrong, it's not that my parents are ruthless, but I volunteered, if our sister and brother can only survive one, then of course I would like to be the younger brother, he is the only boy in our family, besides, I'm not doing well now, and the adults are also very good to me." The woman smiled and said, "At the beginning, I was most worried that the people who bought me would sell me to the building again, and after thinking about it along the way, I felt that it was impossible, but those people gave my father five hundred taels of silver, just like me, chess, qin, calligraphy and painting will not be the same, even if they sell me to the green building, how can they sell me back to the capital!"

Seeing the woman's smiling appearance, Mao Wei smiled bitterly, those who kidnapped him were really willing to work hard.

"I'm not an adult, I'm just a prisoner of theirs!"

"My lord said and laughed, where is there a prisoner like you, I can see it these days, there are many guards in and out of this courtyard, and the daily meals of the adults are all exquisite, if this is also a prisoner, I am willing to be such a prisoner every day." The girl laughed.

"There are some things you don't know, maybe there is something different about me as a prisoner!" Mao Wei stood up: "The people who bought you, the people who arrested me, are really painstaking."

"For the sake of Mr. Mao, even if you put some effort into it, it's worth it!" Suddenly there was a sound of talking at the gate of the courtyard, Mao Wei turned around, saw the old man who disgusted him, snorted, turned around and walked towards the house.

The girl quickly stood up, wiped her wet hands on her skirt, and bent down: "My lord."

"Well, you've done a good job, Mingtai, and send another five hundred taels of silver to this girl's house. Your name is Ah Ping, right?" Looking at the girl with a smile, Zhongli said.

"Yes, sir!" Mingtai respectfully agreed behind Zhongli.

"Thank you, sir!" Ah Ping was surprised and delighted.

Zhongli laughed, "Also, what happened to Ah Ping's younger brother, you go and ask, and wipe out what he committed, so that the money you gave will not know whose hands it will fall into in the end."

"Don't worry, my lord, I'll do it right away."

Listening to Zhongli's words, Ah Ping was surprised and delighted but a little incredulous, "Boss, my brother was fighting with someone and killed someone by mistake."

"Don't say it's a mistake, even if he deliberately kills someone, I can wipe it out!" Zhongli said disappreciatively and pointed to the courtyard where they were, "Do you know what this place is?"

"I don't know!" Ah Ping shook her head and said, when she came in, she was brought in through a corner door, only knowing that this place was big, big.

"This is the county guard of Jiangdong County, and it is the place where the largest official of the Chu State in Jiangdong lives, can you smooth out your brother's little matter?"

"Thank you, sir!" Ah Ping knelt down with a thud. Prostrate again and again." Ah Ping wishes the boss all the best, and Ah Ping is willing to be a cow and a horse to repay the kindness of the boss."

Zhongli laughed: "You don't need to be a cow or a horse, you just have to wait for Mr. Mao in the house, well, talk to him more when you have nothing to do, and tell him more about the short things in the parents."

"Yes, don't worry, Mr. Mao is also a very good person."

"Of course, of course he's a wonderful guy." Zhongli smiled and walked towards the house.

Mao Wei sat there with his back to the door, staring at the goldfish shaking their heads and tails in the slowly advancing stream outside the window.

"Mr. Mao's complexion looks much better!" Zhongli smiled and sat down beside him, "You should be in good shape, right?"

"You don't have to take such pains, I won't promise you, it's better to kill me as soon as possible." Mao Wei's voice was deep and authentic.

Zhongli raised his eyebrows, he keenly observed that when Mao Wei said this, the corners of his eyes jumped slightly, and his gaze also turned to Ah Ping, who happened to be walking by the edge of the pond with a basin.

"It's actually easy to kill someone!" Zhong Li said: "Just like the girl who just walked over, any person in this courtyard can take her life with one palm, but it is much more difficult to get a person to serve sincerely, but now this girl is willing to do anything for us, because I just saved her family."

"Mingtai, go and kill this girl!" Zhongli echoed.

"Wait!" Mao Wei turned his head in shock and anger, "You just told her so much, why are you going to kill her again in the blink of an eye, and if you go down with a knife, she will never survive again."

Zhongli stretched out his hands, "Because Mr. Mao, you are bent on death, this girl was originally bought by us to serve you, if you die, what is the use of keeping her, not to mention that she knows so much about us, do you think our Black Ice Platform will keep her?"

Mao Wei gasped and glared at Zhongli, "You're a devil."

Zhongli laughed, "I can't see it, Mr. Mao is still an amorous seed, and he hasn't been with this Ah Ping for a few days, but I can also understand that he is a stranger in another country. Forget Mr. Mao, I'm not kidding you, although my Zhongli is doing some dark things, but he is not a person who kills, let's talk about serious things, which attack half a month ago, I think Mr. Mao must have guessed who did it, right?"

Mao Wei turned his head away and did not speak.

"Supervision Yuan, the secret agency of the Great Han Kingdom that you want to work for, I don't say it, Mr. Mao can guess it, right?" Zhongli smiled and said, "Mr. Mao experienced the formation that day, do you think they are here to save you, or are they here to kill you?"

Mao Wei hung his head in pain.

"It seems that Mr. Mao is also an understanding person, of course, Mr. Mao is a top student of Jicheng Comprehensive University, so he can naturally think clearly about the joints here, they are here to kill you, because they know very well that even if Mr. Mao is snatched away, they can't take it back, the best way, of course, is to get rid of it. Mr. Mao, at that time, in order to protect you, I Zhong lost more than 50 good hands, and the elites I brought out were almost swept away on that day, and they even used explosives, this is Mr. Mao's specialty, this thing, there shouldn't be many in the Han Kingdom now, in order to kill you, even such a big killing weapon was used, I really didn't expect it." Zhongli smiled: "But the more this is the case, the happier I am, because this proves the value of Mr. Mao from one side. It was worth it for Yi Bin, the vice president of the Supervision Yuan, to take the risk of personally leading the action team to do it, and I killed these dozens of people but saved Mr. Mao's life."

"Even if they want to kill me, it's because you kidnapped me first, and I won't listen to you and serve you." Mao Wei muttered.

Zhongli remained silent, "Mr. Mao, you are not irreplaceable in the Great Han Kingdom, are you?" You're just one of their many talents in this area, and you may be better than most of them, but can you compare to the director of the One True Academy? But when you arrive in our Great Qin, it will be absolutely different, because you are the only one. At this point, I think Mr. Mao should understand that Qingyuan is just a wild Taoist, so he relied on the research of explosives to seal the Hou, Mr. Mao, you also have this stunt now, and when you reach our Great Qin, it is easy to reach the height of Qingyuan. Why not? People live for a lifetime, grass and trees for a while, is it possible that a great talent like Mr. Mao is willing to die by being nameless, burying his body in the wilderness, and no one cares?"

Mao Wei Huoran turned his head, looked at Zhongli, and roared sharply: "Even if I submit to you and help you do things, what's the use? Your Great Qin will eventually be destroyed by the Great Han, explosives, hehe, do you think that with explosives, you can fight against the Great Han? What do you know? Wang Shang personally told us at the Yizhen Research Institute that explosives are just the most primitive weapons, and the Great Han has begun to research more powerful weapons, and as far as I know, it is close to success. After all, the Qin State will be destroyed by the Han Dynasty, even if I am sealed in your Qin State, I can still be a few days, but I will inevitably die after all."

Zhong Wei's head jumped, Mao Wei's inadvertent words, but it revealed an extremely confidential information, he said quietly: "The so-called more powerful weapons are just an upgraded version of this explosive, Mr. Mao, anything is difficult at the beginning, we have explosives, and naturally we can research more weapons on his basis, this is not a problem, Great Qin has been established for hundreds of years, and there are countless skilled craftsmen in China, as for you saying that the Great Han can destroy Qin, I don't believe it, you might as well sue you, The Han army, which you are proud of, has just been defeated by the Chu army, and a whole group army of tens of thousands of people is now surrounded, and its destruction is only a matter of an overnight matter. Even the Chu State can defeat them, let alone our Qin State?" (To be continued......)