Since you are willing to do this, then so be it, Qi Ke lowered his head and took the pile of identity documents and flipped through them, and found an unexpected thing, what was written on the documents was a civil registration instead of a slave registration.

“…… Free body? ”

Qi Ke muttered, becoming more and more confused about what they were doing when they were all free people and had come all the way to find her.

Seeing that there were more and more curious people coming to watch, Qi Ke didn't let himself become a hobby of monkey theater watched, so he raised his chin slightly and threw down a sentence.

"It's all standing, if you have something to say, put the mule cart outside first, and then clean it up when you turn around, don't worry that you can't lose it."

"Miss Xie."

The butler's voice choked, and he wiped the corners of his eyes with the dirty cuffs that had changed color, and the people behind him were the same as him, and the journey was too much to hone people's hearts and wills.

When the group entered the gate, Qi Ke first took the people to the well, and divided a few pieces of pancreas for them to wash their faces and hands one by one.

"Wash your hands and face before eating, you are dirty, tsk, I was cleaner than you at that time."

Qi Ke counted the number of them as he spoke, and the two small mule carts actually carried nine people, five men and four women, and they were all adults, no old people and children.

The nine people were so dirty that they barely washed their hands and faces after washing for a while, and gave their pancreas a little smaller, Qi Ke took them to the inner house with a little satisfaction, but did not enter the house, but stood in the courtyard where they entered, the warm spring sun sprinkled on his body, Qi Ke felt that the irritability just now had receded, and he had the patience to listen to them.

"Alright, here first, you can think carefully about how to convince me to keep you." Qi Ke left them where they were, she raised her feet and went into the house and took out a plate of steamed cakes, "You divide it first, at the bottom, even if you can't convince me, I won't kick you out on an empty stomach." ”

Qi Ke naturally did not have many pastries in the house to pad his stomach, nine people divided one point, and one person with three or four mouthfuls was gone, but this steamed cake was sweet, and the sweets made them recover some strength after being physically and mentally exhausted.

"Let's talk about it first, what's going on with you? What's going on in the capital? ”

"Miss, the capital, the capital...... It's almost over. The housekeeper said that he wanted to wipe his eyes again, but when he saw that the eldest lady was displeased, he lowered his hand.

"Why is the capital almost finished? The land of the Son of Heaven, why is it over? ”

"There hasn't been a few snows in the whole winter, let alone the people, I heard that it is difficult to drink water in the palace, and the spring water of Jitou Mountain, which is specially used for officials and nobles, has dried up."

Qi Ke was taken aback when she heard it, the daily drinking water of the people in the capital was still okay when she left Beijing, at that time it was said that there was a good water vein in the capital, but I didn't expect it to be so bad after a winter.

"And what's going on with you?"

"The Qi family collapsed, and we couldn't support our descendants, so we took the opportunity to get back the deed of sale and restore our free body, and the capital couldn't stay anymore, and the drought in the north could only flee to the south, and then ...... Then I remembered that the eldest lady was here, so I came to try my luck. ”

"Why do you want to come to me? I didn't think about what if I didn't make it to my destination safely. Didn't you come for nothing? ”

"The eldest lady gave a bag of silver before leaving, and with that bag of silver, our group was able to make it to this neighborhood, and when we came, we thought that if we didn't find the eldest lady, we could also make a living with the little silver we had left, and we could not set up a food stall. But if you find the eldest lady, you may have a new way to live. ”