Chapter 9: Be My Slave
"Thank you for saving your life, thank you, little servant", I was already kneeling, my head bowed to the ground, but I didn't dare to move, just waiting for the man to speak,
"You are the little thief," he said, but he only played with the piece of jade, and did not look at me.
"If you go back to your lordship, the official has never stolen anything, and I am really afraid",
"You have not stolen it, so what is it", he put the jade in front of me,
"Back to the adult, the little one doesn't dare to hide it, but this is not the villain's object, it was lost by a prince back then, the villain is lowly, and there is no blessing to see the prince again, but this jade does not dare to slack off for a while, wipe it every day, worship, just wait for when the prince remembers, and then return to Zhao",
"Well, you are also religious, and I believe what you say, but you are so interested in this piece of jade, but now you don't know his master, so you know that you are all muddy, so you can be guilty",
"You are not the one who played Zhang Sheng, you come over and paint your makeup for me, do you still want to put on makeup", I saw King Zang at the beginning of the year, and he said it to me again,
King Chengzang half-squatted down, and held up my face with the folding fan in his hand, "It was the king's carelessness back then, I only knew that you were handsome, but I didn't know that you were a young man, and this murder and arson were also capable", but he smiled coldly, "Today, I just took back this jade, and I will send you back to prison in a while, the law of the country cannot be violated",
"The prince said and laughed", I stared straight at him, but he was confused for a while, but when he squatted down, I saw the dagger hidden in his boots, and I took it out of his boots," The prince first robbed the prisoner in the court, and has already violated the holy authority, and now he has returned the official, and the official is okay with his own body, but it just puts the prince in deep danger, isn't it the sin of the official, this dagger is the dagger that the princess wanted to give to the dead official, the life of the official was saved by the prince, and the official is grateful to Dade, and now the prince has taken it, and it can be regarded as the officer's report in case".
"Well, since you have said, 'My life is mine), then from this day on you will be my slave, are you willing?'
"Little officer, thank you, master",
"Lingguan, in order to hide people's eyes, you can't use this name, and the age will also give you two years older, and then you will be eighteen, eighteen, eighteen, you will be called eighteen, handsome, eighteen, and you will be given the surname Zhang, since you have entered my Zhang mansion, I will give you the surname Zhang",
"Zhang 18, this name is very beautiful, thank you for the name",
"And you, you need to make a note, your life is mine, I will also put this dagger between my boots, if one day I am annoyed and tired of you, I will take your life at any time"......
In this way, I became a slave of Zhang Yu, the king of Chengzang, this year I was sixteen years old, this moody man, can ignore the king's law, disobey the will, rescue me from the prison, maybe I should have a new hope for my life, but intuition and reason are telling me that when a humble person who cannot choose his own destiny becomes a fascinating prey at the right time, then his life is doomed to suffering, and I am just falling from one hell to another......
Although King Chengzang called me a slave, he didn't let me do heavy work, just let me take care of his daily life, he would let me study ink when he wrote, let me prepare for travel, let me serve and change clothes when I sleeped, and keep vigil, just like that, he let me be with me all the time, I didn't dare to go against his will, and waited carefully, just a little King Chengzang didn't allow me to sing anymore, so as not to swagger, but he didn't know, for the servants, the play was too big, entered the cemetery, worshiped the ancestors, and then became a drama for life, although I couldn't go on stage, but I didn't dare to throw down my skills, looking for no man's land late at night, singing to the moon, but also elegant, but my singing skills are no longer appreciated, is well known, and inevitably has a sense of loneliness and self-appreciation.
On this day, King Chengzang went to Luoyang on business, but left me in the house to do some housekeeping, to be able to take a break, not to see him for a few days, it is also a good thing, who wants King Chengzang to leave, the old lady sent someone to summon me, I was shocked, so I had to go away in panic,
"Slave Zhang 18 knocked to see the princess, the princess is blessed",
"You are Yu'er's servant, Zhang Eighteen",
"Back to the princess, it is a slave",
"I've heard of you for a long time, I heard that you are cautious, you are also clever, and Yu'er is also handy with it, I just listen to these, but I am not surprised, but the people in this house say that there is a jade brother in the house, handsome and extraordinary, wonderful like a lotus, this is interesting, come, raise your head, let me also see",
I slowly raised my head, timidly, but I didn't dare to look directly at her, just followed the eyes,
"Hmm-", "Okay, it's really worthy of the name, this is how good I see you as a jade brother, haven't I seen it before",
"The princess is serious, the status of the slave is low, how can she be blessed to have a relationship with the princess, the slave just wants to be able to serve by the princess's side, which is the greatest gift from God to the slave", the princess is not a person who is easy to fool, she must remember that I was the official back then, or she is just not sure,
"Brother Yu can also sing",
"Minions, minions—",
"Okay," she interrupted me, "What Zhang Eighteen, you demon, you were hard to count back then, today I'm going to see who will protect you",
"The princess won't, the princess already knows the origin of the slave, of course, she should also know how the slave was rescued by King Chengzang and how she became Zhang Eighteen",
"Bastard",
"If the princess has to hold on to the slave's past, it will only be unfavorable to King Chengzang, princess, stop being angry",
"You",
"The slave understands, the princess naturally understands, of course the slave will not ignore the princess's wishes", I knelt up straight, picked up the glass flower bottle on the table next to me, and fell to the ground, "The slave damned and broke the princess's flower bottle, and I hope the princess will forgive",
The princess was already annoyed and angry, anxious and angry, "Pull him down, throw him into the slavery bureau to be a coolie, and let people whip him eighty times a day at three o'clock in the afternoon, and I will watch him fend for himself."
I laughed and said, "Thank you, Princess, for your kindness."
"I didn't give him food for three days......
The princess was really vicious, as she wished, the slavery bureau was my purgatory, and she gave me all the heavy work and tiring work, and she had to be whipped every day, but eighty lashes were insignificant, and the servants grew up with whips since childhood, but they spurred me every day, and the flesh did not grow well, so the skin opened and the flesh bloomed, and on the third day, the new wounds and old wounds, and in addition to the daily labor, I had a high fever, I was the one who was sent by the princess, and no one dared to care about me, or no one cared about the life or death of a slave, and in the middle of the night, I was thrown outside, and I was tired, so it was good to go like this......