July 20, 17th year of Yongping.

It happened to be the whole two months that Zhang Xiang came to Nanchu.

These two months are a leisurely and comfortable time for him.

Every day, someone sends food and drink, and puts it in modern times, which is the real life of immortals.

You don't have to do anything, you don't have to work hard for life every day.

Of course, after a long time, it will feel boring and boring.

Although he has adapted to the current leisurely life, he will suffocate to death sooner or later if he has nothing to do all day.

He hadn't seen him since he came back from the capital from the princess lady, and she never took the initiative to come to him.

And without her order, Zhang Xiang didn't want to go to her.

Because she was always cold to him, Zhang Xiang felt very bored.

During this time, of course, Zhang Xiang did not always stay in the house, he would occasionally go out for a stroll, and the little slave would often follow him as a follower.

Princess Gaoping said that in the future, the little slave will be his personal maid, and he can tell the little slave what he needs and what he wants to do.

At first, Zhang Xiang felt that the little slave was sent by the princess to monitor him, and he should be afraid that he would cause trouble!

But gradually, Zhang Xiang got used to it, whether it was the princess who sent him to monitor him, or if he really wanted to be a maid for him, it was good to have someone to talk to when he was bored.

After all, the entire Pony Mansion is a princess, and the only one who can talk to him is a slave.

On this day, Zhang Xiang caught the carp from the pond in Fuli and cut it into fillets for barbecue.

"Isn't the princess not going to let you do these things again?"

The little slave said, but she was also helping to use bamboo sticks to run the fish fillet, she was used to following Zhang Xiang to do this kind of thing, which can be described as handy.

Zhang Xiang snorted and said: "Her west room is far away from me, and she can't see it anyway, you shouldn't tell her, right?" ”

"Hmm—" The slave shook his head.

Zhang Xiang smiled and said, "That's right, you know, I know, unless you don't want to eat." ”

"I really want to eat it, too!" The little girl smiled playfully.

"Quick, the fire is ready, give me the shaved fillet..."

Zhang Xiang laughed and took the fish fillet handed by the little slave.

While flipping the fish fillet, Zhang Xiang asked, "By the way, little slave, what does the princess do every day?" ”

The little slave thought for a while: "Learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs!" ”

"Is it like this every day?"

"yes, what else else can I do?"

Zhang Xiang pouted: "Isn't that too stuffy." ”

The little slave replied: "The princess has always been like this, she was like this when she was a child in the palace, and then when she grew up, she went to her own princess's mansion, and she was freer, at least she was out of the palace, and she could go to the streets." Now that I have come to Pingzhou, it is even better, there are often the wives and ladies of dignitaries in Pingzhou, and the young lady invites the princess to the banquet. ”

Zhang Xiang sighed, even so, he felt bored.

When he first came, he was haunted by the novelty, but he didn't think so, but now the novelty is gone, and if he continues to do this every day in the future, he thinks he will go crazy.

Thinking of the princess's life, Zhang Xiang suddenly felt a little sympathetic to these royal children.

In them, there is no meaning in life at all.

Although the food is fine, I don't have to worry about food and clothing.

But in terms of happiness, it is estimated that even an ordinary person is not as good as an ordinary person.

And there is no freedom at all in marriage, and it is up to the old emperor to decide and marry someone he doesn't like.

Thinking about it this way, then this princess hates him, and he feels that it is understandable.

The little slave also seemed to feel Zhang Xiang's mood, and said softly: "Actually, the princess is quite pitiful, she has lived in the palace since she was a child, I don't know how lonely she is, I can only get along with the eunuchs and palace maids every day, and because she is a princess and has a noble status, the eunuchs and palace maids actually don't dare to talk to the princess, only I have been in the palace for a short time that year, and I don't know the rules of the palace very well, so I dare to say a few more words to the princess, and the princess has left me by my side." The princess rarely sees her mother, I entered the palace that year, and after entering the palace for a year, I saw Concubine Cheng come to see the princess twice, and I had to get the permission of the queen. ”

"The rules in this palace are too strict!" Zhang Xiang was speechless.

The little girl also nodded hurriedly: "It's not!" I actually didn't like life in the palace very much, but luckily I only stayed for a year, and the princess took me out, otherwise I wouldn't know what to do. ”

"Little slave, why did you enter the palace back then?" Zhang Xiang asked suddenly.

Thinking of this, the little girl said a little sadly: "The slave maid is a native of Yingzhou in the west, when there was a great drought in Yingzhou, there was no harvest, many people had no grain at home, and the government's disaster relief had not yet arrived, so I followed my parents and many people to escape the famine all the way to the east, but my parents starved to death on the way to escape the famine, and some villagers helped to bury them on the road." They left me with the only piece of bread they had left, and I ate only a little bit of it, and I was reluctant to eat it, and then it was snatched away. After arriving in Xuanzhou, I was already dying of hunger, and then I met Lord Zhizhou, who helped the refugees in Xuanzhou, and I survived. At that time, there were many boys and girls like me, whose parents had died on the road, so Lord Zhizhou arranged a team of soldiers and horses to send us to the capital, and then we were brought into the palace by a father-in-law, and the boy became a eunuch, and we girls became palace maids. ”

"You were 10 years old."

"Hmm..."The little girl slowly chewed on the grilled fish fillet, and tears could not help but flow.

"Blame the poor thing." Zhang Xiang sighed softly and comforted: "Don't cry, it's all over." ”

"Pony, I didn't cry, I just missed my parents." The little slave choked up and tried to hold back her tears, but the more she held back, the more she flowed.

Zhang Xiang was also a little panicked, he couldn't see a girl crying, how could he say that he cried when he cried!

Woman, it's troublesome.

He scratched his head and said, "Okay, okay, don't cry, let's not talk about this, okay!" ”

"Don't cry, don't cry, you don't have to worry about me." The little slave stubbornly held back his tears again.

Her crying made Zhang Xiang think about his parents who didn't know which plane they were in.

He had no choice but to keep a straight face: "Okay, don't cry, let others see it, you still think I bullied you, if you cry again, I'll be angry." You still have your parents' graves crying, I don't think my parents know where to cry, you shut up for me. ”

Sure enough, when he was serious, the little slave was frightened, and quickly closed his mouth, and his tears stopped.

This was the first time she had seen a colt angry!

Then she asked, with wide eyes, "Does the colt miss his parents too?" ”

"Hmm." Zhang Xiang nodded honestly: "But I won't cry." ”

"If the colt cries, it's a joke!" The little slave snorted, amused by his serious appearance, and his mood improved a lot.

Zhang Xiang said unhappily: "What do you call this?" You girls are only allowed to cry if they think about their parents, but we men can't cry? I don't want to cry, crying is a fart, and crying can't let me see my parents. ”

Belch...

The little slave opened her mouth in surprise, as if she didn't expect that the colt, who had always given her a polite and polite impression, would say such a vulgar thing.

Of course, she didn't dare to refute it.

The two talked like this, and Zhang Xiang had almost eaten it, so he stuffed the remaining two strings of fish fillets to her, and said in a commanding tone: "These two skewers belong to you, if you don't finish eating, I will be angry." ”

The little slave had no choice but to obediently stuff the fish fillet into his mouth.

Zhang Xiang went to the pond to fetch water, extinguished the charcoal fire on the ground, and then clapped his hands with satisfaction: "Destroy the evidence, it's done." ”

Then he turned to the little slave and said, "I'll go shopping on the street and buy some things, the princess hasn't been coughing a lot these days!" I'll cook her a home remedy in the evening, and it should get better faster..."