There are more than 10,000 servants in the Xu Mansion, and there are only two or three thousand servants in the Guangling Mansion, there are more than 1,000 servants in the ancestral house of the Xu Mansion in the city, and there are thousands of tenants and servants in some manors such as Xujiazhuang outside the city.

In front of him, there was a fire in Xufu, and less than 300 people survived.

Xu Wenshu looked at these people in front of him, with mixed feelings, and his voice trembled a little, he never thought that Xu Fu would be defeated in such a situation one day, "Those who are willing to stay can stand on the left, and those who want to leave can stand on the right." ”

On the meadow of the island in the middle of the lake, two or three hundred people stood quietly in place, as if they were considering how to choose.

The little maid who shouted just now stood on the left with Zi'er, and soon there were some people standing with Zi'er and them.

Watching the crowd slowly staggered in front of them, some people stood to the left, and the vast majority went to the right.

When two maids ran past the ladies at the corner of the verandah, and also trotted to the right, Mrs. Liu's face changed slightly, and if you didn't look closely, it would be difficult to find the iron blue color that disappeared in an instant.

One of the girls was a dowry girl she brought from her mother's house.

Xu Fu was in trouble, and he actually wanted to abandon himself when he died.

Mrs. Liu leaned slightly sideways, showed a very generous posture towards the maids behind her, and whispered, "If you want to leave, you can also go by yourself." ”

Several maids standing behind Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Liu, and Mrs. Xu Yuhui hesitated for a moment, and two more seventeen or eighteen-year-old maids trotted away.

Looking at the backs of a few little girls, it seemed that they were completely going to leave this cage and walked very decisively.

The three ladies all felt a little lonely and sad, these maids were all their personal maids, and they were all people who served in front of several ladies in the backyard on weekdays, and their status was far higher than that of other ordinary servants in the Xu Mansion.

Now, the life-and-death crisis is still there, and those things in the past are too fragile compared to life.

Xu Fan stood on the verandah on the second floor, looking down at the servants of the house walking back and forth on the grass.

In less than half a cup of tea, the crowd was divided into two pieces.

There were only about twenty people on the left, and the vast majority of them stood on the right.

Xu Fu is in trouble, and there are still more than 20 people and servants who are willing to stay, which is already good.

These people all risked their lives to stay, and the main reason was that the two masters of the Xu Mansion agreed to the release deed.

If there is no birth contract, if they dare to leave the master's house, they will be captured and sold by the government, and they may be slaves for life.

Xu Wenshu and Xu Yuhui glanced back at Xu Fan on the second floor, and there was some bitterness in their eyes.

Xu Fan knew the sorrow of the two, and when the Xu Mansion was in danger, there were so many people who wanted to leave.

He finally nodded, turned and disappeared into the verandah.

Seeing Xu Fan's cold back disappear at the door of the main hall on the second floor, Xu Wenshu and Xu Yuhui turned around at the same time, their eyes returned to clarity, and looked at the more than 200 servants of Xu's house on the right.

Among this group of people are sturdy family servants, young maids, and subordinates who drag their families.

Xu Wenshu exhaled heavily, showed a smile to the people on the right, and said softly, "Since you have decided, each person can receive twenty taels of silver in a while, and in the afternoon, you can go to the Guangling Mansion to apply for the birth deed paperwork, and return your freedom." ”

Hearing this, the faces of the people standing on the right showed happy and excited joy.

They are the subordinates of the Xu Mansion, but they didn't expect that they would finally be able to get their birth deeds back one day.

Xu Yuhui came to the more than 20 people on the left, counted them carefully, and was quite relieved that 29 people stayed.

Six small nurses, seven maids, five family servants, and four rough grandmothers.

The rest are already very old grandmothers and old men guarding the storeroom, and it is estimated that there is nowhere else to go.

"Come with me." Xu Yuhui gave a word of instruction to everyone and slowly walked towards the small bridge at the edge of the island in the middle of the lake.

"Master Yuhui... Where are we going? ”

Zi'er looked curious, thinking in her heart, didn't these people stay to take care of the young ladies and young masters of the various provinces?

The others also looked at Xu Yuhui's back nervously, not knowing where everyone was going to be taken.

Coming to the verandah of the small bridge by the lake, Xu Yuhui asked more than a dozen government officials to lead the way to the government office, and said, "Go and withdraw the birth deed from the government for you." From now on, you will also be free men. ”

"Really?!"

"Great!"

More than twenty people had surprises on their faces.

Hearing that it was to withdraw the birth deed in the government for them, Zi'er stopped, bowed slightly to Xu Yuhui, and said softly, "Master Yuhui, I won't go." I will be a member of the Xu Mansion in the future, whether you want me or not, I will follow the young master's side. ”

Xu Yuhui turned around, looked at Zi'er carefully with tired eyes, and frowned, "This is what Brother Fan meant, you go to the mansion with me first." ”

Without waiting for Xu Yuhui to finish speaking, Zi'er broke away from the crowd directly and ran towards the attic of the island in the middle of the lake, with two lines of tears on her face.

Xu Yuhui looked at Zi'er's slender back, couldn't help but shook his head, and didn't wait any longer, but led everyone towards the main gate of the Wave Garden, where more than a dozen government officials escorted them.

Even after a night of searching and arresting the whole city, Wang Wenhua was still not at ease, so he asked the government to send some more errands.

He also specially ordered the officials of the city defense battalion to carefully check suspicious people near Xu's mansion.

There is a piano room on the right side of the second floor of the attic of Huxin Island, which is divided into two sections by a screen, and the interior furnishings are simple and simple.

The inner room is transparent from north to south, and the long veil reaches the ground, slowly swaying under the breeze on the lake.

In front of the south window, a seven-stringed guqin is placed on the long table, and a beast-headed incense burner is placed in the corner of the desk, in which sandalwood rises.

Xu Fan was dressed in a plain white brocade robe, sitting cross-legged on the futon in front of the long desk with his eyes closed, his back straight. The morning sun sprinkled on his delicate face, with a faint golden glow.

Panicked footsteps on the verandah outside the room were heard, and the sound of a girl crying.

Xu Fan's sword eyebrows trembled slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes, and a fierce aura flew over the curling smoke in the corner of the long case.

A white sandalwood mist swirled out of the window.

"Zi'er?"

The door of the piano room was gently pushed open, and Zi'er, who was wearing a purple dress, had a beautiful goose egg face and completely cried.

"Young master, don't you want Zi'er anymore?" Looking at Xu Fan's delicate face with a smile, Zi'er finally couldn't hold back and cried.

"What's wrong?" Xu Fan really couldn't figure it out, and after staying up all night, Zi'er was crying now.

"How could I not want you? No, shouldn't you go to the government with your uncle? How did you come back again? ”

Xu Fan slowly got up, came to the outside of the screen, sat on a chair, reached out and rubbed Zi'er's hair, and made her long black hair messy.

"Here, wipe your sweat well." Xu Fan pulled out a brocade handkerchief from Zi'er's cuffs, gently stroked Zi'er's forehead, wiped the sweat stains, and chuckled, "What's wrong, my Zi'er girl." ”

Zi'er grabbed the Jinpa in Xu Fan's hand, pouted, and said angrily, "Why did the young master ask me to withdraw the birth contract?" ”

"I just want to give each of you the right to a fair choice. The current Xu Mansion is a dangerous place. Xu Fan exhaled softly, and then he understood why Zi'er was crying.

"I'm not afraid! I want to accompany the young master for the rest of my life. Zi'er swallowed the word "you" that was about to blurt out and replaced it with the word young master.

"It's okay, as long as you don't leave, you can always stay by my side."

Xu Fan flicked Zi'er's forehead lightly, and said with a smile, "You go and tell the two clan uncles to go to Guangling City to buy some more good wine and come back." Since we have chosen to leave Guangling, it is time to sell some of the city's properties. Just enough to buy alcohol. ”

After that, Xu Fan looked at Zi'er standing in place stunned, frowned and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Young Master, our Xu Mansion has suffered such a big change, you still want to drink?!" Zi'er pouted again in anger, waving her little pink fist in front of her chest, and said indignantly.

"You don't understand!" Xu Fan got up, grabbed Zi'er's slender shoulders with both hands, slowly pushed her out of the piano room, and instructed, "This matter is sooner rather than later, hurry up." ”

Although Zi'er was puzzled in her heart, she still had to do what her young master told her.

In the future, the burden of the entire Xu Mansion will fall on the young master, and he will no longer be able to live as carefree as before.

When Zi'er's figure disappeared at the end of the verandah, Xu Fancai closed the door of the piano room, sat back in front of the piano case, and stretched out his five fingers to gently clasp the strings.

"Hum~"

As soon as he let go, the guqin made a crisp sound.

According to the original plan, Xu Fan restored the True Solution Gourd as soon as possible through the wealth of the Xu Mansion, and let the True Solution Gourd's spirit awaken before that place was opened.

Now, the wealth of Xu Mansion has almost been lost, and in order to save himself, Xu Fan has absorbed the true solution gourd to give birth to the purest trace of heaven and earth spiritual essence.

Looking down at the dilapidated gourd in his hand, Xu Fan's eyes flashed with fierceness, but he still said lightly, "What's your name?" ”

"Bai Luohe!"

Xu Fan finally asked her name, and before that they were just using each other. After the transaction is completed, they are strangers to each other.

Xu Fu suffered, the girl in the white dress did not fall into the well, and helped Xu Fan to defend the wave court without hesitation.

If it weren't for Bai Luohe, Xu Mansion might not have been able to survive two or three hundred people.

Xu Fan is in charge of the Wave Garden, and those people in the Xu Mansion who fled to the Wave Garden, if it weren't for Bai Luohe's action, they might be able to survive.

"Good name, I'll give you a chance to control your own destiny." Xu Fan gently touched the worn-out gourd in his hand, and his voice became more and more ethereal.

Bai Luohe's long and beautiful beauty frowned slightly, and a touch of incomprehension appeared in her smart eyes, "What do you mean by this?" ”

"Didn't you want to get rid of the control of the Yin-Yang Gate before?"

"Yes, I'll help you find out the news of the Yin-Yang Gate, and you can deal with it!"

The incomprehension in Bai Luohe's eyes dissipated, and instead a suspicious look appeared, looking at Xu Fan's back, as if he had just met.

"The Yin-Yang Gate is just a small thing. I'm going to fix it once and for all, and not just to get you out of control. ”

In addition to indifference and coldness in Xu Fan's eyes, there was no longer the cynicism of the past, he stroked the dilapidated gourd with his right hand, and a trace of remembrance appeared in his eyes.

"Master, I'm going to soar! I couldn't be happier hosts! As long as I swallow that Infinite Wine Domain, I can transform into human form. No longer an ordinary machine spirit. ”

There was a touch of water in Xu Fan's eyes, as if he had returned to his previous life.

Dressed in a white robe, he stood on the bank of the Tianhe River in the Wuji Wine Domain, listening to the crisp excitement and excited shouts of Zhenjie.