The maid in green looked at the five people who came in with a little surprise, and if you looked closely, she looked pretty good.

Liu Zhuang, Liu Wu, Wang Guangyun, and scholar Zhao Xiu, you look at me, I look at you, and they all swallowed their saliva.

"With this order, you may enter and take out those you want, but you must not stay for more than two quarters of an hour."

The guard who led Li Yang and the five people in took out a token and showed it to Li Ming, and spoke softly, Li Ming took the token and secretly stuffed some silver to the guard, and the guard took the silver and squinted his eyes, and turned his back beside him.

"Let's go."

Li Ming waved his hand and rushed in with the four of them like wolves.

"Let's not move the four of us first, let the eldest brother finish picking first."

After entering, Wang Guangyun spoke softly, Liu Wu, Liu Zhuang and Zhao Xiu all smiled and nodded, Li Ming chuckled and didn't say much when he saw this, and strode in directly.

“…………”

The palace maid's residence was located in a small building on the south side of the palace, with a small courtyard and several wooden houses. The yard is planted with flowers and trees, and the clear water flows, making people feel fresh and pleasant.

The residence itself is a delicate building, with pale blue painted facades and blue curtains hanging from the windows, giving it a sense of lightness and beauty. Entering the residence, you can see a small hall with paintings and brocades hanging on the walls and a carpet on the floor.

On either side of the hall are two bedrooms, with a double wooden bed and several blue and white porcelain bowls on the sides of the bed. The windows in the bedrooms are blocked by glass and red curtains, and the sunlight from the outside shines through the windows, filling the room with a warm glow.

Stepping out of the bedroom is a small kitchen with pots and pans and a few small stools. Above the kitchen hangs a plate shelf filled with jade dishes.

Further back is a simple bathroom with a barrel and a fumigation room with towels and bath towels hanging from the walls. The whole residence creates a beautiful and harmonious living environment for the palace maids, although the space is not large, but the decoration is warm and pleasant.

The noise outside the palace was also cut off, allowing the maidservants to have a quiet and secluded place to live.

The green-clothed goddess in the courtyard was a little panicked, but Li Yang didn't mean to target her, but turned around and walked directly to the building.

As soon as he entered the building, the rooms on the left and right were full of maidservants, Li Yang walked to a room, and the maidservants who had just gotten up in it were taken aback, but they relaxed again when they saw the token.

Li Yang glanced at it and asked directly: "Where does the most beautiful maid live?" ”

"Well, on the top floor."

The two maidservants in the room who were quite good pointed upstairs, Li Ming thought about it, and the people who came here to play wanted to climb to the top floor to see, first, the scenery was good, and second, they were afraid of omissions, so the most beautiful was also reasonable on the top floor, and immediately climbed quickly along the stairs to the fifth floor.

When he got to the fifth floor, he found that there was only one room here, and when he entered the room, a woman in red, a woman in green, and a woman in white looked at it in a panic.

Li Yang took a closer look at their appearances, and they were all satisfied, and immediately showed the tokens in his hand, and brought them out directly in a slightly stunned look.

Then went down to the fourth floor, there were five rooms here, Li Yang asked the three of them to wait inside, walked into the first room to take a look, and saw a woman with bright eyes and bright teeth at a glance, showed a token and beckoned, and directly brought her out.

I followed to the second room, and I didn't find anything satisfactory, so I entered the third room, my eyes lit up again, and I called a beautiful girl out directly.

Then I entered the fourth room, the fifth room, and I didn't find anything satisfied, so I took the five women around me to the third floor below, and when I arrived at the third floor, my eyes lit up, and I immediately looked at a maid who went out.

"How old are you?"

Li Ming stepped forward and lifted her chin, stretched out his fingers to rub his fingers against her lips, and asked with a chuckle.

"Sixteen years old."

The maid's face was slightly red, Li Yang nodded with satisfaction, reached out and carried her on her shoulder, patted her buttocks, and brought it out with the five maidservants behind her.

"Big brother, why did you come out so quickly, it's not a quarter of an hour."

Seeing Li Yang come out so soon, the remaining four people were a little surprised, and Wang Guangyun couldn't help but say.

"Yes, big brother, why don't you pick and choose carefully."

Liu Wu couldn't help but open his mouth to advise, obviously this kind of opportunity is extremely precious.

"No need, the four of you go and choose, don't rush out, you must read it again, find what you like and come out."

Li Ming chuckled and shook his head and said, Wang Guangyun and the others blinked, but they also smiled and said yes, followed by Li Ming and hugged his fist and turned around and rushed to the wooden building.

Li Ming still put down the little maid on his body, one hand reached through her collar, and the other hand reached into the clothes of the most beautiful red-clothed maid on the fifth floor, playing comfortably.

"By the way, I'll just take you away, so you don't have anything to pack?"

Li Ming looked at the six maidservants who came out with their clothes and didn't bring anything, and asked with some curiosity, and the red-clothed maid and the fifteen-year-old maidservant girl who were held and kneaded in Li Yang's arms spoke again and again: "Master, we didn't have anything when we came here, and we couldn't bring anything when we went out, this dress is already a reward." ”

"Yes, sir, we don't have anything, so we don't need to bring anything, we can only go out in the clothes and shoes on our bodies."

The fifteen-year-old little maid also spoke, Li Ming suddenly smiled and shook his head, knowing in his heart that the status of these maidservants was low, and having nothing was the norm, and he was instead obsessed.

The handmaid was a woman who served as a servant for the wealthy in ancient times.

They had to bear most of the housework, and the wealthy often bought handmaidens to share the housework, which made the handmaidens a private property, and the owner had absolute power to buy and sell or pawn the handmaidens at will, and also had the right to decide on the marriage of the maidservants.

In other words, the master has the power to bind the maid for life, which means that the maid's right to freedom is absolutely restricted. Maid is generally called by the Chinese.

Similar words include, servant, concubine, slave girl, Tsing Yi, maid, girl, barefoot, etc. A person who is currently doing this kind of job is generally referred to as a maid.

The maid is also differentiated, the maid is what we often call the maid ring, is the ancient woman who served as a slave for the royal family, the government or the rich and noble, and can be divided into three categories: palace maid, official maid and private maid.

There are generally four types of sources of servants, one is because of the crime of the parents, the children are implicated and sold by the government, of which the man is a slave, the woman is a maid, this is the official maid.

On the other hand, the poor are unable to survive and are forced to sell their daughters as handmaidens, which is especially common in times of great famine. The third category is the abducted and robbed women who were illegally sold to other places by traffickers, such as Xiangling in "Dream of Red Mansions"; In addition, there are also some women who are slaves of other people's families because their parents are slaves, and they are born into other people's maidservants, that is, children born in the family. These two types are private maids.

There is also a kind of palace maid who is recruited to the palace as a maidservant, also called a palace maid. The maidservants who served in the palace, they were sent to serve the emperor, empress and other royal relatives, and they were generally released from the palace and returned home at about twenty-five.

Handmaids were a rather miserable group in ancient society, often getting up early and going to bed late, serving the master's diet and daily life, washing vegetables and lighting fires, cleaning rooms, washing clothes and other work every day, and some also weaving cloth to earn economic income for the master.

In ancient society, people were divided into three, six, nine, and other classes, and occupations were also divided into three religions and nine streams, and Shinong and industrialists naturally belonged to the upper nine streams and enjoyed a higher social status, while outside, such as prostitutes and beggars, were at the bottom of the society, and if you looked down to the lower part of the social structure, you could see the most humble profession in ancient society - slaves.

Men are slaves, women are maids, at the bottom of society, more humble than beggars and prostitutes, lose the most basic personality and freedom, depend on others for life, commit themselves to others for servitude, and often buy out at one time or completely free of charge, it can be said that once the ancient people were slaves, compared with living people, they were more like "private objects" for the "master" to play with at will.

The earliest slaves and maids came from war, and in ancient times on earth it can be seen from the oracle bone inscriptions of Yin Ruins and the bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty that both the Shang and Zhou dynasties and their rival tribes strove to capture prisoners of war and plunder each other's populations in military operations, and a large number of captives obtained were used for sacrifice, while a considerable part would be reduced to slavery.

During the Warring States period, slaves were more frequently circulated, and in addition to captives, the official family also took criminals and their families as slaves.

Usually, most of the slaves and maids of large families are bought from poor families, and we see this as the common "selling yourself into slavery" in film and television dramas.

Selling themselves into slavery is often desperated poor people, or forced into slavery in order to pay off debts, and in any case, once the "deed of sale" is signed, it is equivalent to discarding dignity and freedom.

After becoming a slave, the first thing is to lose the name, which must be a very serious matter in ancient times when the concept of clan was particularly strong.

The deprivation of the name is the master's declaration of ownership of the slave and maid, and it is usually just replaced by a random code name.

Even if the slave has the opportunity to have a name one day, she cannot restore her name, but needs the master to give her a surname, of course, this is not a gift, with the master's surname, the same surname can not be married, this is actually to avoid their own children and grandchildren from intermarrying with the children and grandchildren of domestic slaves. In the final analysis, this is due to the deep-rooted concept of hierarchy, in the eyes of the master, a slave for one day is a slave for life.

As a slave, even if you regain your freedom, even if you restore your surname, you are inferior in terms of identity and status, and this status will even extend to future generations.

Although Li Ming felt that the maidservants in his mansion had a much better life, the maidservants were always servants, and he could only guarantee that life would not be too sad in the future.

Li Ming thought in his heart, and waited in place until the end of two quarters of an hour, during which in order to show his generosity with rain and dew, he not only hugged the little maid and the maid in red, but also hugged the other maidservants, only to see Wang Guangyun, Liu Wu, Liu Zhuang, and Zhao Xiu One of the four giggling girls came out with a maidservant.

Servant girls, with the level of the four of them, naturally everyone is not lacking, but the maids in the palace are naturally different from ordinary people, not to mention anything else, these maidservants with the worst appearance are also very rare outside, and each of them is no worse than those ladies.

Otherwise, why would they be so excited?

Of course, if it weren't for this, the emperor would be embarrassed to be commensurate with a beauty and give it to Li Minglai.

Li Ming took a look and found that the four of them had chosen well, so he couldn't help but nod with satisfaction, and then turned around and left the palace with them, and left the palace under the guidance of the guards.

Five of the ten beauties sat in a carriage, and under the traction of the carriage, they drove all the way out of the palace and came to Li Ming's mansion.

Xiaohe and Yu'er, who had already cleaned up the room, had become Li Ming's two-room concubines, and several other maids in the house were also brought here, leading this group of beautiful maids into the room.

Of course, Zhao Xiu, Wang Guangyun, Liu Wu, Liu Zhuang, and the four of them didn't need their arrangement, they all took them back and raised them in their own rooms.

That night, Li Ming gave his six handmaidens to two concubines, and two of them were by his side, and the fifteen-year-old handmaid and the red-clothed handmaid who stayed by his side played with him.

Of course, although they are servants, they are still not disadvantaged in food, clothing, housing and transportation, which also makes these handmaidens very happy.

After assigning the maidservants, Li Yang asked them to familiarize themselves with the house first, and then took four followers to the hunting ground on horseback.

Since the saddle and stirrup can't be shown to people, Li Ming rode horses with only reins and no stirrups and saddles between entering and exiting, but fortunately, the four of them all have internal strength and true qi in their bodies, and they learn very fast on horseback, and they can already run like flying.

When they arrived at the hunting ground, Li Yang led them all the way to a small military camp, and with his arrival, the soldiers assigned to him immediately took action and quickly assembled on the training ground.

There were a total of 300 people, 25 people in a row, a total of 12 rows, and the ones standing on the training ground were already quite neat and standard.

Yes, three hundred people, although Li Ming now has the weight to lead five thousand soldiers into battle, but he wants to personally select his soldiers, it is not so quick to get together, it takes time, and now everything is still focused on this national competition.

Therefore, before the end of the Great Contest of Nations, he trained these 300 people, and did not officially prepare his 5,000 men until the end of the Great Contest of Nations.

In fact, the emperor also gave him the opportunity to directly draw soldiers and horses to form his own soldiers and horses, but compared to this, he was more willing to choose by himself, and only when such soldiers were used could he rest assured.

"Thirteen days to go......

(End of chapter)