Nina was a little happy a little early, it was not only the three of them who were named, and the so-called "roll call" was only pointed out outside the cage in advance, and it was sold to the Zhu Mansion of the Bacheng Chinese clan as the lowest-level slave.

The city of Batavia was built around Dutch buildings such as the fortress of the Dutch East India Company, the harbor, and the warehouses on the banks of the Cilion River. In 1699, the registered population of the Western calendar once reached nearly 10,000, most of whom were Chinese merchant immigrants and ordinary Chinese laborers who participated in the construction of Bacheng in the early days. It is now the end of 1739 in the Western calendar, the household administration staff of the East India Company has just completed the census of the population in the city, and the class structure of the Chinese in the city has undergone great changes, starting from the port area and the Shenfu Lane across the bridge from the East India Company fortress, most of the residential areas, including the East City Gate, are inhabited by Chinese, and the Chinese residents in the city have gradually changed from early Chinese laborers and immigrants to wealthy and powerful Chinese merchants, Kapitan, Lei Zhenlan and some skilled craftsmen.

The largest mansion in Huaqu belongs to the five richest Chinese merchant families in Huang, Yang, Su, Zhu and Lei, which are the richest Chinese merchant families in Bacheng, controlling almost half of Bacheng's planting, fishing, handicrafts and retail industries. The ancestors of the Huang, Yang, and Su families have all produced several Jiabidan, and the ancestors of the Su family are even the first Jiabidan Su Minggang of Bacheng.

Among the five major families, the Zhu family's mansion is closest to the Dongcheng Gate, which is the smallest of the several major family mansions, but the Zhu family owns nearly 100 shops, plantations, lumber yards, brick factories and a wharf outside the East City, and its financial resources are comparable to the sum of the Huang, Yang, and Lei families.

Compared with the other four ancestors who started their business from scratch, the origin of the Zhu family is somewhat mysterious. The ancestors are said to have migrated from Dai Yan in Borneo to Semarang and later to Batavia. At that time, the Kingdom of Banten was conquering the small kingdom of Pachacharan of the Bakuan Hindu sect, and Sultan Mulana Muhammad was only six years old and was assisted by the chief minister Menkubumi. The ancestors of the Zhu family bribed Mengkubumi with 138 pieces of gold in exchange for a piece of land near the bay east of Hatakaba to establish a family village. During the expansion of the Dutch East India Company on the island of Java, the Zhu family exchanged a poll tax of 2 lieles per person per month in exchange for the protection of the Dutch and the turn of a blind eye to the Zhu family's village. The Zhu family, on the other hand, has been investing in the expansion of the village, becoming a small Chinese fortress with deep wooden walls, independent of the Netherlands and Banten, and has the ability to independently resist pirates and bandits.

The Zhu family is a hundred-year-old family, the power has been inherited by the long house, there are more men and fewer women in overseas Chinese, and most of the men in each room intermarry with the local clans, so they have a close relationship with the nobles of the kingdom such as Banten and Matalan, and the side clan daughter of the third room in the past few years married an official of the Dutch East India Company, and her position in Batavia is more stable, subject to the rules set by the ancestors of the family, only the long room must marry a Han girl.

The current head of the Zhu family's house, Zhu Wuzhan, the original wife of the old man, gave birth to two sons, the eldest son Zhu Dayou has always lived in a simple house, never saw guests, the second son died early, and only one of the youngest sons, Daluo, is now assisting the old lady in charge of the housework of the fortress, but after all, the concubine is a concubine, and the family business is not allowed to participate, and it is still in the hands of the old man.

Mrs. Zhu often lives in Zhu's fort and never comes to Bacheng, and the Zhu family's business in Bacheng is mostly managed by the house stewards. The second, fourth and fifth rooms of the Zhu family have been extinct, and now only the third room and the sixth room are still there, the old lady of the sixth room has been sinking in recent years, recuperating in the Zhujia fort, only one son often lives in Bacheng, the brothers of the same generation of the old lady only have the third room old lady Zhu Wuming is healthy and healthy, and likes to be lively, so the Zhu house in Bacheng has become the mansion of the old lady of the third room, and the design and construction of the practical thought.

When Zhu Junyi and other new slaves were sent to Zhu's Mansion by Erlang's men, Gao Sheng and the others were amazed by the momentum of Zhu's house and admired it, but Zhu Junyi was secretly frightened.

The gate of Zhu Mansion is the traditional house-style gate, the beam frame bears the roof, the tile ridges, it is a completely independent single building, five rooms and three doors style, it seems to be falling on the central axis of the main house, the front eaves purlin is decorated with flowing cloud painting, there are finches under it, hug the frame, the remaining plug, the horse board, everything is available, the red lacquered plate door is listed with nine vertical and horizontal ninety-eighty-one brass door nails, six and a half people high red lanterns are hung side by side, there is a stone lion on the left and right in front of the door, it is actually a male and a female, looking at the main road in front of the door respectively. The red pillar of the high platform is magnificent and magnificent.

This? Zhu Junyi didn't have much research on ancient buildings in his previous life, so he couldn't see any reason, and he always felt that something seemed wrong. Recalling that I had traveled to Beijing in my previous life, and I had also seen several famous princes' mansions, the Zhu family's courtyard was more magnificent than those palaces.

"No matter how rich this Zhu family is, it won't be so ignorant, right? Emperor Laozi's most distressed son doesn't have such a brilliant mansion! Are they not afraid of taboos? The emperors of feudal society cared about these things! Zhu Junyi muttered in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it. After thinking about it, this is Batavia, where the Emperor of Heaven is far away, no matter how powerful the Qianlong Emperor is, he can't control it here, no wonder the Zhu family can be so unscrupulous.

On the way here, the houses passed by were both Chinese and Western-style, but they were not as good as half of the Zhu family in terms of size, area, and luxury.

Of the more than 20 new slaves who were sold into the Zhu family, there were thirteen girls, none of whom were over eighteen years old, and in addition to the nine boys such as Zhu Junyi and Gao Sheng, Zhu Junyi was undoubtedly the youngest.

The delivery of the new slave is very simple, there is no acceptance and signature and other formalities that Zhu Junyi thought about, the two sides chatted separately, nodded and completed, the Zhu family came out to receive the new slave is a middle-aged Papuan woman with a sharp voice, short and fat, wearing a silk muslin, like an identity, with a mustache and more than a dozen house slaves holding eyebrow sticks, as soon as the unique archipelago accent of Chinese opened his voice, Zhu Junyi almost couldn't stop laughing, but as soon as the black-faced aunt reported his identity, he couldn't help laughing out loud, It turned out to be a typical Chinese name - Chunmei.

Chunmei chose left and right among the new slaves, and judged more than a dozen girls one by one, "Hmm! This one is more pleasing to the eye, that is...... The smell is really annoying,...... Assigned to the washing and dyeing room in the front yard, wash and wash to remove the smell. ”

"Where is this burned soot, black and not slippery, just looking at it makes me annoyed and disgusted, and the eyes of the executives are really getting more and more useless, how can I arrange it? The big grandmother likes to eat fast now, and the green willow next to her happened to die a few days ago, so she simply sent it to the big grandmother's room, instead of the unlucky one who served the big grandma. ”

"This one is good! Look at this small figure, it is called a rich state, and it looks like a blessing, and now there is a lack of a good listener around the second young master, so arrange to serve the second young master. ”

Chunmei commented on one, and the mustache behind her made a note in the notebook, nodding and being very respectful.

Gao Sheng and Zhu Junyi are small, boys, far away from Chunmei, Gao Sheng is a straight person, and he can't help but snicker: "I look at this old lady's eyes are also a bad one, that 'big bucket' also said that she is blessed, what kind of eyes......"

"Don't speak, be careful of the misfortune that comes out of your mouth." Zhu Junyi lowered his head and lowered his voice to remind that he had observed for a long time, but he saw a little way.

"What do you say? Where did it come from? ”

Zhu Junyi was really helpless against Gao Sheng, for fear that Gao Sheng would keep asking questions and causing trouble, so he had to explain carefully: "You don't understand, this Obasang sent anyone who is beautiful and beautiful to the front yard, and arranged those he doesn't like into the back house, which is a scheming." Although we have to run sooner or later, in this house in the future, we have to pay attention to avoiding such people. ”

Gao Sheng was stunned and asked in a daze: "Brother Jun, what is Ou...... Bar? ”

"It's a brutal shrew, a fierce wife." There are natives who don't know Chinese, Zhu Junyi lowered his head and laughed very evilly.

The two brothers bowed their heads and slumped their chests, trying their best to endure laughter, but they couldn't help but have a "poof", like two quails from afar.

"Brother Jun!" Gao Sheng asked again: "Your father's surname is Zhu, and this family is also surnamed Zhu, according to me, your father will not be the master of this family, right?" ”

Zhu Junyi was stunned for a moment, since he lost the idea of taking refuge with his father, he really hasn't pondered his life experience anymore, and now that Gao Sheng's words reminded him, he also had questions.

Is it possible? It shouldn't be possible. He thought about all the information about his biological father mentioned by his mother: Zhu Dashuo said that he was a maritime merchant, except for a piece of jade pendant that looked antique, and he didn't leave any half-penny copper, and he had not heard from him for more than five years. The Bacheng Zhu family is wealthy, and there is no reason why the children of the family need to travel in the mountains and seas and go out on adventures against the salty wind and egg rain. Although I don't know what Chunmei's identity is in the Zhu family, looking at Chunmei's style of hugging each other, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with that Zhu Dashuo.

"Wait a few days, I'll ask around for you, maybe ......"

"No way!" Without waiting for Gao Sheng to finish speaking, Zhu Junyi categorically refused, "We are still in the wolf's den, we are not free, don't look for trouble, cause trouble in vain, if it affects our escape plan, there will be no chance to get out of trouble." ”

"Smack!" There was a crisp sound in the distance, and the two brothers looked up in amazement, but saw Nina holding her left cheek with her hand, kneeling and pulling the corner of Chunmei's skirt, and begging for mercy loudly: "I'm not, I'm really not, I've grown up with Abba since I was a child, and I haven't been to any Seven Flowers or Ten Flowers......"

"It's so smooth to talk back, and you still say that it's not a bitch from the Flower Pavilion? Relying on being able to say a few words, start to play right and wrong now, if you are left in the house, it will definitely be a scourge in the future, and you must hook up with three and four, and charm the master! I can't tolerate you! Obediently make miscellaneous fires in the front yard room, don't see people, and don't enter the back house for a single step, otherwise, you will be thrown back to the Flower Pavilion and go back to be the lowly business of the thousand people! ”

It turned out that although Nina had a slightly dark skin on her face, her appearance and figure were outstanding among the women, and she committed Chunmei's taboo, and Chunmei was bent on giving a dismount, so she slandered Nina as a girl who escaped from the Bacheng brothel Flower House. Nina was always the daughter of a tribal leader, and she spoke Mandarin, unlike other girls who couldn't understand it at all, but only knew how to nod her head and flatter and argue for herself. Chunmei listened to Nina's straight Chinese (she thought it was just, Nina's Chinese was actually only average), and she was even more jealous, so she slapped her hand and limited Nina's range of activities, not giving Nina any chance to meet people at all.

"Yes, I see." Nina wept sadly and had to bow her head.

"Jiasan!" Chunmei let out a sigh and shouted.

"Yes, Fourth Grandma." The mustache responded flatteringly.

"From now on, you have to show her to me, if I see her in the place next to the room, take care of your flesh and skin."

"Yes. Be. The minions must not leave an inch. "Mustache Jiasan lowered his head and smiled secretly, he had already taken a fancy to Nina in the crowd, knowing that this woman would definitely commit Chunmei's jealousy, so he had to think of some dirty and tiring work to arrange, and he behaved well, maybe he had a chance to take advantage of it."

Gao Sheng saw Nina being beaten from afar and her stomach was on fire, and he raised his leg and just wanted to rush up to make a move, but his right index finger was grabbed by Zhu Junyi fiercely, and he was anxious: "Brother Jun, what are you stopping me from?" ”

Zhu Junyi had no choice but to hurriedly say: "Why are you always so reckless!" At this time, you will only cause trouble to Sister Nina, do you think that Sister Nina's beating is not enough? ”

Gao Sheng's heart was cold, he understood the meaning of his words, and only heard him say again: "This slap, I will get it back for Sister Nina sooner or later, but not now, now we all have to be patient, if I really want to help Sister Nina, I will find a way to escape with her." ”

Gao Sheng nodded in agreement, but his face was angry.

The new slaves were all assigned work by Chunmei, and most of the mediocre girls were arranged into the back house, and the boys were mostly arranged to be small slaves in the front yard.

Gao Sheng was angry with Chunmei, and when Chunmei arrived, although he didn't grit his teeth and look at each other angrily, he didn't have a good face, which made Chunmei very unhappy, so he simply arranged for him to be a chai slave, specializing in chopping firewood and doing chores.

"This cub is good-looking." When Chunmei saw Zhu Junyi, she was a little surprised, and asked again after a while: "Have you ever read a book?" ”

Zhu Junyi pretended not to have read, and showed that Nuo Nuo was weak and trembling like a child, which made Chunmei very satisfied, and said to Jia San: "This cub is so small, he can't lift the pot, he can't hold the shovel, and it's a burden wherever he puts it. Just ask him to serve the little master of the sixth room! ”

It was as if the house slaves had heard the most ridiculous joke and laughed flatteringly. Zhu Junyi remained silent, but he was in trouble in his heart, the three of them had a back house and two front yards, which was not conducive to their escape plan......