At the side door of the mansion where Zhu Youzhen now lives, a fragrant sedan chair stands very eye-catching at the door, and the four sedan chair men bow down, facing the direction from which Zhu Youzhen came, as if they are waiting impatiently, and there is a small servant standing in front of him, in a green robe.

Those who can wear robes must have a high status in the house.

Sun Chuanting doesn't send an official errand, what does he send a small servant to do? Zhu Youzhen muttered and stopped in front of the little guy.

The little guy took a step forward and bowed his head: "Little Sun Yun, knock to see Your Highness." ”

"You were sent by Lord Sun? Get up and talk back. ”

"Yes." Sun Yun stood up, "Lord Sun sent a villain to deliver a letter to His Highness. Lord Sun said, His Highness will understand when he sees it. ”

Sun Yun handed a sealed letter to Zhu Youzhen with both hands.

Zhu Youzhen tore open the seal, looked at it, and frowned: "What the hell is going on?" ”

After Sun Yun dictated, Zhu Youzhen understood.

It turned out that Shaanxi was plagued by bandits, and the governors of the three sides died in battle, and the court did not pursue his family, which was regarded as no reward or punishment.

However, Hu Tingyan, the governor of Shaanxi, was afraid of taking responsibility and concealed and did not report it, which caused the trouble of bandits to become more and more serious, and eventually grew to more than 200,000, and most of Shaanxi was plagued by bandits.

The imperial court was so angry with Hu Tingyan that he was sentenced to beheading.

According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, as long as it is not a crime of rebellion, when the whole house is beheaded, only men over three feet above are beheaded, and men and women under three feet are not beheaded, but sold as official slaves, and they cannot be divorced from the country unless the case is rehabilitated.

Hu Tingyan himself was arrested in the northwest of Shaanxi, and in order to avoid long nights and dreams, he was corrected on the spot and passed on to the three sides. Most of his family members are in Beijing, only one concubine with her daughter is in Shaanxi, the concubine has died in the chaos during the banditry, and only one daughter, Hu Xinxue, is in Shaanxi.

Shaanxi is too far away from Beijing, and Hu Xinxue is a woman with inconvenient mobility, so she was auctioned off in Shaanxi.

Originally, this official lady was auctioned, and there were a lot of big families who snapped up it, and it could be sold at a minimum reserve price of one hundred taels. Sometimes when you meet someone who originally had a crush on this young lady, it is not surprising that she will come out with hundreds of taels or even a thousand taels. In Suzhou Mansion, someone once spent 2,200 taels of silver to auction off the daughter of the Suzhou prefect who committed the crime, which was a record for the population auction of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Shaanxi has just experienced the plague of banditry, and large families are the primary targets of these bandits, and they have suffered heavy losses.

People were slaughtered and their wealth plundered.

Those lucky enough to have escaped this catastrophe also had a certain loss of property, or had lingering palpitations, and had little interest in this beautiful prisoner.

If the auction is aborted, Hu Xinxue will become an official prostitute, and "the one who will turn it off and the one who will climb".

Although Sun Chuanting had any friendship with Hu Tingyan, he still couldn't bear to see his colleague's daughter fall into the dust, so he paid out of his own pocket and spent a hundred taels to buy a slave and maid, ready to stay in the mansion to enjoy.

But considering that Zhu Youzhen was alone and in Shaanxi, he gave Hu Xinxue to Zhu Youzhen. Because it was a private matter, he asked the little guy in the house to send it, and he didn't use the official errand.

After listening to Sun Yun's narration, Zhu Youzhen's brows gradually stretched into the sun: "Then why didn't Lord Sun stay in his own house?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, Lord Sun estimated that he would come to Shaanxi to take up his post, and the time would not be too short, so he came with his family."

"Oh." Zhu Youzhen responded indiscriminately, in Daming, there are also maids and servants, this Sun Chuanting, will not take the opportunity to arrange a beautiful spy by his side? After thinking about it, this Miss Hu has just experienced the pain of losing her home, her parents are dead, and I am afraid that the burial has not even been completed, so how can she be in the mood to be a spy for others now? Besides, Sun Chuanting is in charge of Shaanxi's civil affairs, and there is no conflict with himself, and it is useless to send a spy, and it is dangerous.

Zhu Youzhen took a look at the fragrant sedan chair, what kind of person is this Miss Hu?

Seeing this, Sun Yun immediately retreated to the side of the small sedan chair and patted it on the top of the sedan chair: "Hu Xinxue, get off the sedan chair." ”

The car curtain moved lightly.

A pair of azure embroidered shoes covered with a three-inch golden lotus first came out through the curtain, then then a blue-gray long skirt and a small jacket.

Finally, there is a white and delicate face.

Zhu Youzhen took a closer look, although Hu Xinxue was dressed in plain clothes, she had the demeanor of everyone's ladies. It's just the first loss of his parents, the blows are continuous, and his delicate face is faintly full of grief.

"His Royal Highness King Shin is here. Hu Xinxue, you will be a believer in the king in the future, why don't you go up and bow down? Zhu Youzhen hasn't spoken yet, Sun Yun has already made decisions for Zhu Youzhen.

"Slave and maid knock to see Your Highness." Hu Xinxue kept her head down, not daring to look at Zhu Youzhen, perhaps disdainfully.

"Slave? Aren't you a young lady? "Zhu Youzhen's eyebrows turned into crescent moon again, could it be that Sun Chuanting cheated me? Buy a maid to be a young lady and give it to me?

Hu Xinxue's eyes were red, and her white face just formed a pear-white pink, which looked more and more exquisite. She raised her head to look at Zhu Youzhen and found that Zhu Youzhen was frowning, obviously not with a mocking expression. But the sourness in her heart is still in her eyes, and there is light, "The slave is no longer the previous Miss Hu." ”

Only then did Zhu Youzhen remember that Hu Xinxue had been sold into slavery, and the identity of the young lady naturally did not exist. She will be bound by the deed of sale for the rest of her life, and with the deed of sale, she will circulate in the "talent" market.

"Your Highness, this is Hu Xinxue's deed of sale." Sure enough, Sun Yun took out a folded piece of yellow paper from his arms.

This is the deed of sale that determines Hu Xinxue's life fate.

So far, Zhu Youzhen has no choice but to push the boat down the river. But Zhu Youzhen insisted on giving one hundred taels, which was Hu Xinxue's selling money. In this way, Hu Xinxue was not given to Zhu Youzhen by Sun Chuanting, he just bought it for Zhu Youzhen #.

The mansion where Zhu Youzhen now lives originally belonged to a general in Yansui. The general's family disappeared after the bandits in Shaanxi, and their whereabouts are still unknown, and now the mansion has become Zhu Youzhen's temporary residence.

In addition to the kitchen, dining hall, living room, and study, there are 12 bedrooms, Zhu Youzhen asked for a bedroom and a study, and the rest of the rooms are inhabited by soldiers of the special combat team.

The Siwu Battalion had already returned to Beijing, and only the special combat team remained in Shaanxi as Zhu Youzhen's personal guard. But these twelve rooms were far from being able to accommodate 300 soldiers, so the captain Wang Mujiu took 30 soldiers to live to protect and serve Zhu Youzhen, and the rest of the soldiers lived in the barracks.

Hu Xinxue's arrival, no matter what her identity is, she must be arranged in a bedroom, and Li Jun, who is in charge of accommodation, is in trouble:

"Your Highness, does this Miss Hu live in ......?"

Zhu Youzhen realized that the atmosphere was wrong, glared at him fiercely, and knocked on his head again: "Where do you say you live?" ”

Li Jun shrunk his neck and smiled awkwardly. Finally, Hu Xinxue was arranged next to Zhu Youzhen's bedroom on the left hand. This is to make it easier to take care of Zhu Youzhen, and even if Zhu Youzhen turns over in bed, Hu Xinxue next door will know.

During dinner, Zhu Youzhen sat alone at the dining table. As usual, it is four dishes and one soup, frugal and affordable, which does not cost a few dollars and does not lack nutrition.

Hu Xinxue stood on Zhu Youzhen's left side and waited.

Despite all kinds of grievances and concerns, she quickly entered the role. In Zhu Youzhen's temporary mansion, she is the maidservant who serves Zhu Youzhen.

"You can also sit down and eat, and you don't have to stand." Zhu Youzhen thought it was Wan'er.

Hu Xinxue was stunned for a moment, tilted her head, her big eyes stared at Zhu Youzhen, her little nose moved slightly, and her small mouth also opened, but she didn't make a sound. She didn't understand what Zhu Youzhen meant.

Only then did Zhu Youzhen realize that there was something wrong with his feelings, and he smiled awkwardly: "There is no need to be restrained here, when I was fighting, I often ate at the same table with the soldiers." ”

At that time there was a war, okay? Hu Xinxue sneered in her mental belly, and her eyes also moved away from Zhu Youzhen's body. From beginning to end, she didn't say a word.

Zhu Youzhen was not very accustomed to this atmosphere of "eating without words", three pickpockets and two bites, and solved the dinner like a storm, without any prince's temperament, which made Hu Xinxue's eyes widen in shock, forget her identity, shake her head, and arch her waist, she even doubted whether this was the prince who grew up in the palace since childhood, or the military general who starved on the battlefield for ten days and a half.

"Hmm." Zhu Youzhen coughed lightly, and Hu Xinxue came to his senses.

She trotted and went to the kitchen to bring a basin of water and asked Zhu Youzhen to wash his face.

I don't know if she is shy or not used to serving men, so she just held the basin and sent it to Zhu Youzhen. In order to avoid intimate contact with Zhu Youzhen, her head was tilted to one side, and she still didn't say a word.

"Oh, I just had dinner, how can I drink such a big pot of tea? I'm not a cow. Zhu Youzhen protested.

"Poof." Hu Xinxue laughed so hard that her jade arms were weak, and her hands were unconsciously loose.

With a "clang", the basin fell to the ground. The water soaked the shoes, socks and trouser legs of the two of them.

Hu Xinxuejiao's face flushed, the first time she was a maidservant, she ran errands. But this is all thanks to Zhu Youzhen, she bit her silver teeth, glanced at Zhu Youzhen, and smiled shyly.

"So you look pretty good when you laugh!"

Then, of course. Hu Xinxue slandered again, "Your Highness, your shoes and socks are wet, let's wash your feet first and change your clothes!" ”

"Huh? So you're not dumb? Zhu Youzhen grinned exaggeratedly, his eyes widened, and his expression froze there.

"You're dumb!" Think about it, it's not right, people are the prince, their own masters, not their own maids. Taking the opportunity to scoop water, Hu Xinxue twisted her body, avoided it, and went out of the door, only to hide her small mouth and snicker, this prince!

When she came back, Hu Xinxue finally held back her laughter, but the anger on her face had faded a lot: "The prince sits down, and the slave maid comes to wash the prince's feet." ”

"You ......" Zhu Youzhen didn't know if Hu Xinxue had completed the transformation from a young lady to a maidservant, "Let's put it there first, I'll do it myself." ”

Didn't people just knock over the basin? Will it still knock over the footbasin? Besides, that's also the beginning of you, Lord Wang...... Hu Xinxue didn't speak, but just expressed her determination with actions. She put the wooden basin in front of Zhu Youzhen and began to take off Zhu Youzhen's shoes.

Now that you're mentally prepared, I don't mind enjoying a free foot bath. If this is a foot bath city in Beijing, it will cost more than 300 yuan, and it will be even more expensive in heaven and earth.

Hu Xinxue obviously didn't serve anyone, especially men. She was hesitant and tinkered for a while before taking off Zhu Youjian's shoes and socks on one foot.

Then rest this bare foot on your lap and take off your shoes and socks on the other foot.

Finally, Hu Xinxue completed taking off a man's shoes and socks for the first time in her life, and she was secretly happy, this thing of serving people doesn't need to be learned at all!

She lifted Zhu Youzhen's feet and put them in the hot water in the wooden basin.

"Mom, are you plotting to kill your husband?" Zhu Youzhen screamed, his feet were reflexive, he bounced up from the wooden basin, hooked his toes, and fell to the ground with a basin of hot water.

It really knocked over the footbasin.

However, this was overturned by Zhu Youzhen, not Hu Xinxue.