The Great Fire Country, one of the twelve kingdoms canonized by Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, is located in the southeast.

The fire country is Miao City, and it is named because there is Miao Mountain nearby.

Although it has now entered the cold winter, there is still some heat in the south-burning country, and some people in the national capital are wearing thin clothes.

Qi walked back respectfully, with a straw rope tied to his hand, and the other end of the straw rope was held in the hand of Shu Jiao Fairy Qianqianyu.

Fairy Shu looked at the bright sunshine all around, the lively pedestrians, the goods full of eyes, with a happy smile on her face, she liked the excitement and finally saw the metropolis, and the joy in her heart was naturally overflowing.

Fairy Shu took Qi to the front of the palace and said to the guard guarding the door: "I have a slave to sell to the fire lord, go and tell me quickly." ”

Hearing Fairy Shu's words, anger appeared on the guard's face, and when he wanted to say something, he saw that Fairy Shu was freshly dressed and looked extraordinary, so he had to suppress his anger, and saluted Fairy Shu slightly: "Please wait a while, the little one will go and tell Neicheng." ”

Fairy Shu didn't say anything, and looked at Qi with interest. Kai still bowed his head respectfully, calm as usual.

"It's really strange, you're going to be sold to the fire lord by me, why don't you speak?"

"The small one has nothing to say, the small one is like duckweed in the water, catkins in the wind, everything is decided by the small one."

Qi replied neither humbly nor arrogantly, Fairy Shu nodded and said nothing more.

After a while, the guard came back and said, "Nei Cheng has already agreed, I wonder how much the fairy is going to sell this person?" ”

"It's not much, it's okay to have three shells, this price is not too high."

The guards are not even high, under normal circumstances, an adult male slave is twenty shells. reach

The guard took out the three shells, and Fairy Shu took the three shells, laughed, and then handed Qi over, took out a pill again, and said, "Take this antidote, and your three corpse pills will be solved." ”

Qi respectfully took the antidote and took it, Princess Shu smiled and then turned to leave.

The guards led him to a room that was empty, with only a wooden shelf with ropes on which to bind people, and in the middle of the room, a brazier on a tripod, in which firewood was burning, and an iron was burned in the firewood, which was burning red.

There were three people in the room, two strong men with five big and three thick, and a thin man who was a little thin, who was sitting on a chair and drinking water, and when he saw Qi coming, he waved his hand to the guard, and the guard left respectfully.

When the two strong men came over and were about to grab Qi, Qi said respectfully to them, "Please also ask the three adults to untie the rope in my hand, and the small one has something to take out." ”

The strong men looked at each other, looked at each other, and then looked at the thin man sitting there again, the thin man nodded, and the two strong men helped Qi untie the rope in his hand.

Qi took out a money bag from his arms, then took out two pieces of broken gold and handed them to the two strong men.

When the two strong men saw the broken gold, their eyes were full of smiles. But the thin man shook his head and said, "You are ours, you are already a slave, and nothing is yours." ”

Qi sighed, then walked to the thin man's side, gently lifted the table, and then put it down and said, "What I ask is not to put this mark on it, anyway, no one will know that I have this mask on my face, sir." ”

The thin man saw the beads in Qi's hand, swallowed his saliva and said, "We are here to seal in the middle hall, this is the mercy of the national prince." ”

Kai nodded, watching the thin man take the beads from his hand.

After a quarter of an hour, someone outside the door said, "Have the slaves been disposed of?" Necheng is going to arrange his position. ”

The thin man nodded, let the strong man open the door, and Kaiya left respectfully.

After walking out of the door, Qi followed the servants around the palace, Qi silently remembered this palace in his heart, and he walked through the corridors of the three wings before arriving at the backyard.

This backyard is also divided into four entrances, with three patios and five gardens, and he estimated that this inner palace is almost half the size of Taoze City.

When he arrived in the backyard, the servant said to him proudly, "You can serve Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”

Kai nodded, followed the servant's instructions, and went to the front of a room.

"Slave Ah Niu, ordered to serve Her Royal Highness the Princess." Kai knelt on the ground and said respectfully to the inside.

A lazy and soft female voice like cotton said, "Before you came here, did you hear about this palace? ”

"Slaves don't know, they need to know, slaves only know what His Highness asks slaves to do, and slaves will do it."

"What if this palace asks you to cut off your left and right hands?"

"Slaves won't do it, slaves are not willing to serve His Highness with their bodies."

There was a burst of laughter from inside, this laughter was full of strange charm, so that Qi's heart couldn't help but itch, and he had an urge to open the door in front of him and see the beautiful woman inside.

However, he quickly suppressed his urge and pinched his thigh hard to keep himself calm.

Again, the princess said in that languid voice, "Don't you want to open the door and see what kind of person your master serves?" ”

"Your Highness, if a slave does not have His Highness's permission, he cannot open the door without permission."

"Then Hongu now orders the door to be opened."

Qi said that he obeyed, and then opened the door, and at first glance, he saw Her Royal Highness the princess lying on the desk.

The cyan silk clothes, the hibiscus jade belt, fluttering like a fairy, the green silk is like a dai, lined with a white jade face plate. Small nose, dotted with two points of autumn water. The ears are small, and they hang with a phoenix gold pendant. Water-patterned shawl, half-covering white arms. Embroidered clouds under the clothes, hidden jade feet.

Kai just glanced at it, then lowered his head, not daring to look again.

"What's the matter, isn't Hongu beautiful? Or that you are a blind man, raise your head and take a good look at Hongu. ”

Qi raised his head, looking at Her Royal Highness the Princess with eyes like dead fish, looking at such a pair of eyes, Her Royal Highness the Princess sighed and said: "What disgusting eyes, you lower your head and tell the palace who sold you here." ”

"It's Fairy Shuyao."

"It turned out to be that girl, what did she send you for? What do you want to do with Hongu? ”

"A slave is just a slave, and it is impossible for a slave to know this." To tell the truth, he didn't know what Princess Shu Yao wanted to do, brought himself here, and sold himself into this palace.

But soon, Qi thought that it was because of Boyi, as long as Princess Shu Jiao told Boyi his whereabouts, then Boyi would naturally clash with the Fire Country.

Thinking of Fairy Shu's intentions, Qi sighed secretly in his heart, it was really a superficial plan, and it shouldn't be what Fairy Shu would do.

Her Royal Highness pondered for a while, shook her head, and said, "Whatever she wants, you're just a slave, so stay here." ”

Kai said yes, the princess waved her hand, and Kai closed the door, then sat at the door, quietly looking outside.

When it was time for dinner, another slave came to change shifts, and Kai also arrived at his room, a room that was not very large, but ten slaves slept, and these slaves did not take a bath, and when Kai entered the house, he smelled a pungent smell of sweat.

Qi looked unchanged, found an empty corner, sat there and fell asleep.

In the morning, their breakfast was a bowl of vegetable soup, and he had adapted to this life over the years.

He wasn't going to leave, he wanted to know what tricks Fairy Shu was doing, he knew that Fairy Shu Yao must still be nearby, and he had to do things by himself.

As for the antidote, Qi didn't believe that Fairy Shu would let herself go so easily.

A month after entering the palace, he mingled with the group of slaves, and he also learned about the princess.

This princess is very famous in the country, but this reputation is not a good name, but a reputation of indiscretion, and it is rumored that men often stay in the princess's room, and the men always look tired when they leave the next morning.

Although these men didn't say anything, many people understood in their hearts what was going on, although the hundred officials in the court had admonished, but it had no effect, and the fire prince was very doting on his precious daughter.

Qi didn't pay attention to these things, anyway, everything was too far away from him, and he estimated that Fairy Shu was going to find him.

In the month and a half of entering, when Kai rested at night, he finally waited.

"Listen, you must change to the night shift tomorrow, and when the second shift comes, I will appear, you just need to open the door."

Qi's ears sounded like a mosquito-like voice, and he understood that this was Fairy Shu Jiao using the sound to tell himself.

The next day, he continued to wait, and when he arrived, he watched a handsome man come out of the princess's room with a tired face.

He ignored it, sat there, and after a while, Kai said inside, "Your Highness, can you replace me here tonight?" ”

The princess still said lazily, "Whatever you want, you can stay here as long as you want." ”

Kai didn't say anything more, and sat until the second watch in the evening.

Tonight it is a full moon again, and the moonlight is like silver, shining in the quiet courtyard, as moving as autumn water.

Fairy Shu did appear as promised, she was like a cloud, fluttering down.

Fairy Shu looked at him and gestured to him.

Kai shook his head, and the door to the princess's room naturally opened.

"Fairy Shu, why are you so sneaky? Now that you're here, let's come in and sit down. Her Royal Highness the princess was sitting on the couch and looking at Fairy Shu with a serious expression.

Fairy Shu smiled and flew in, then sat next to Her Royal Highness the princess and said with a smile: "Senior sister, shouldn't you cultivate your Wangshu Gong today?" If you miss this fifteenth, you will have to wait another month. ”

"Thank you Fairy Shu for your concern, I don't know if Fairy Shu came late at night for that thing."

Fairy Shu shook her head and said to Her Royal Highness the Princess: "No, I came here to know the whereabouts of Marquis Yu, I know that Marquis Yu's letter is from you, Senior Sister, and I ask Senior Sister to show Senior Sister." ”