Feng Heming

Chapter 144 I want to sell myself as a servant
In the private room, the diner served Jiang Yuanxi's dishes, and the fragrant smell lingered in his nostrils.

Jiang Yuanxi couldn't help but smiled, "I never imagined that these restaurants can make such delicious stir-fried dishes without spices."

Li Zhongwen poured the wine for himself, and said: "Spices are worth thousands of gold now, how can these restaurants afford them, but it is not difficult for these restaurant owners. Although it is not as delicious as the ones with spices, it is still good. tasty."

Shao Sihu gave him a sideways look, and finally stopped staring at him, and turned to look at the dishes on the table eagerly, and couldn't help swallowing his throat.

Li Zhongwen looked at Jiang Yuanxi in surprise, "Are you abusing him? Starving him? Why does it seem like he hasn't eaten for several meals?"

Jiang Yuanxi glanced at him angrily, ignored him, picked up the chopsticks first, picked up a piece of meat and put it into his bowl, then Shao Sihu happily picked up the chopsticks and began to bury his head in his lunch.

While the child was in a turmoil, Jiang Yuanxi ate leisurely, but his speed did not slow down by half. After a while, half of the food had been consumed.

The corner of Li Zhongwen's mouth twitched.

Are these two reincarnations of starving ghosts?

Eating is like fighting a war, and no one is robbing them. If there is not enough food, just call. Is there any need to be so scary?
Li Zhongwen forgot to drink for a while, holding the wine cup in his hand, he watched blankly as the two of them swept away the ten dishes on the table.

The rice in the small wooden bucket also bottomed out.

After Jiang Yuanxi finished eating, he took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped the corners of his mouth gracefully. Shao Sihu followed her example and also took out a handkerchief to wipe the corners of his mouth.

"Little Tiger, do you want to continue strolling outside? Or go home?" Jiang Yuanxi asked.

Shao Sihu didn't even need to think about it, "Go for a stroll outside."

When he said this, he also glanced at Li Zhongwen who was opposite him.

Seeing this, Jiang Yuanxi turned his head to look at the desk behind him, and asked the guards and A Fang behind him, "Are you ready?"

"Go back to Fifth Lady, we've already used it up." The head guard replied.

"That being the case, Ah Fang goes to pay the bill, let's go shopping."

Jiang Yuanxi nodded to Li Zhongwen, "Mr. Zhonglang, please leave now."

Li Zhongwen said "Ai ai" twice, "Wu Niang, are you leaving like this?"

Before Jiang Yuanxi had any reaction, Shao Sihu glared at Li Zhongwen fiercely, because of his intimate "Wu Niang".

Jiang Yuanxi looked at Li Zhongwen in surprise, "If you're full, why don't you leave?"

Li Zhongwen choked, and watched Jiang Yuanxi leave with Shao Sihu and others.

After Jiang Yuanxi went downstairs, Li Zhongwen drank the wine from the cup in his hand in one gulp, got up as well and said, "Pay the bill, let's go too."

"Xiaohu, today I will take you to see the entire capital, and you should remember the roads of the capital well."

It's rare for her to come out once, so she took advantage of today to relax and take Xiaohu for a walk. Starting tomorrow, she will return to the ethnology and martial arts arena again.

While the two were walking, a little boy walked up to him, who seemed to be about the same age as Shao Sihu.

"Ok?"

When the little boy ran into Shao Sihu, he grabbed him and said, "Give it back to me."

These three words carry a kind of coldness.

At this time, the guards of the Jiang family half protected Jiang Yuanxi and Shao Xihu, and half surrounded the little boy. In the hand of the little boy caught by Shao Xihu, there was a purse.

A Fang frowned and reprimanded: "You can't learn well at a young age, what can you do wrong, do you have to be a thief?"

Shao Sihu had already snatched back the purse from the little boy's hand, held it in his hand cherishingly, patted it up and down lightly, and wiped the places the little boy touched seriously, ignoring the little boy.

Being reprimanded by Afang and surrounded by the Jiang family's guards, the little boy didn't panic at all, and he didn't care about the purse that was taken back. He looked at Jiang Yuanxi, and with a "plop", he knelt down in front of her.

"I want to sell myself as a servant, and I beg my little lady to agree."

This change made Afang and the surrounding people look at each other in blank dismay. Didn't this kid steal something?How did you become a prostitute?
Jiang Yuanxi looked the little boy up and down, "You steal things just to get our attention, and then sell yourself as a servant?"

Just now, the little boy's way of stealing things is unbearable to look at. He deliberately walks up to Xiaohu's side carelessly, and stretches out his hand blatantly. She can't bear to watch it.

The little boy kowtowed, "Yes, my little lady is clear."

Jiang Yuanxi chuckled, "Then your method is too stupid, do you think I will take people who steal things as servants?"

The little boy smiled miserably, and kowtowed heavily again. There was already a bruise on his forehead, "Little lady, please forgive me, I have no other choice."

He stretched out his hand and took off his shirt, and there was a sound of gasping around him.

Jiang Yuanxi squinted his eyes and looked at the little boy's upper body. The criss-crossing whip scars, fist and foot scars on his body all told how he had been beaten.

"Little lady, you are the only noble person I met who didn't hit me. You didn't hit me indiscriminately, so I sold myself to you as a servant."

Not only Jiang Yuanxi understood what the little boy said, but also the other onlookers. This boy was trying to see which master's temperament would not be cruel and heartless, but he used this method to test
"You use this method to test, have you ever thought about what to do if you are beaten to death?"

Jiang Yuanxi couldn't figure out how this kid would use this method to test, it was too risky.

The expression on the little boy's face gradually became sad, and he kowtowed again, "Because I am responsible for the safety of the other 25 children."

Jiang Yuanxi was also stunned, "The other 25?"

Seeing that the little boy was about to kowtow again, she waved her hand, and a guard stepped forward, helped the little boy up, and signaled him to put on his clothes. Autumn and winter are coming, and if you are not careful, you will catch cold.
"I don't like this. If I don't want to, even if you lose your life, I won't agree. You don't need to use such bitter tricks."

The little boy pursed his lips, looking at Jiang Yuanxi with a look of fear and fear. This little lady, who will be about the same age as him next year, made him feel a sense of awe. His instinct was that what she said was true. .

"What did you mean just now that you are not the only one who wants to sell yourself as a servant, but also 25 children who sell themselves together with you?"

Jiang Yuanxi understood that he was afraid that the master's family would be cruel and would bring other children into the pit, because if the servant was killed, as long as he paid a sum of money, the master would have nothing to do, so he used himself as bait, They would not hesitate to catch a host who was relatively reassuring to sell themselves, even if they might be beaten to death.

"Why do you and those 25 children have to sell yourself?"

Generally speaking, they sell themselves as slaves because they cannot survive. This kind of servants who are not born with children are usually the lowest level, and their lives are often not guaranteed. To gain the trust of the master, you must use Go on for generations to prove the loyalty of your offspring.

The little boy twitched the corners of his mouth miserably, "A fire has made us orphans and widows unable to survive. If we don't sell ourselves, how can we support our younger brothers and sisters? Are we going to watch them die with our own eyes?"

Jiang Yuanxi's pupils shrank suddenly.

(End of this chapter)