There was water on the deck. The little girl tried to get up twice but failed. The bearded man swung the whip again and was about to hit the child.
Suddenly, the man felt a flash before his eyes, as if something flashed past, came and went. His whip missed and hit the deck hard, but the little slave who was lying on the ground disappeared.
The whip hit the deck with a loud sound, and with a "snap" sound, it directly hit the boat owner. The old man screamed and cursed: "Are you going to die? This boat is on the river. If you break it, I will send you to feed the fish and shrimp first!"
The bearded man was also a ruthless guy. When he heard the boat owner speak so impolitely, he raised his whip without saying a word and was about to hit the boat owner.
After such a commotion, the boatmen were not happy with it and rushed up to fight with him. In addition, the passengers who were watching the fun also blamed the bearded man, so it didn't take long for the bearded man to stop. He also knew how stupid it was to destroy the deck on the ship, but he soon remembered why he accidentally hit the deck, so he hurriedly looked around and finally fixed his eyes on a place. He saw a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old pulling his little slave to ask questions. There was a man wearing a bamboo hat standing next to her. For some reason, he always felt that the man under the bamboo hat was staring at him, and he immediately felt a chill all over his body.
"Hmph!" He calmed himself down, snorted angrily to give himself courage, and walked forward a few steps before shouting: "How dare you! Are there robbers on this ship? That's my slave, why did you steal him?" He wanted to curse, but he couldn't say a word when the ugly words came to his lips. A sense of danger invaded his nerves. He intuitively believed that if he cursed, he would be ruthlessly wiped out by the other party. But the slave was his, and there was nothing wrong with him getting it back, so he shouted again - "Bitch! Come back to me quickly!"
The little girl was so frightened by him that she was trembling, but she couldn't help but walk towards the bearded man. She was a slave, and her contract of sale was in someone else's hands. What else could she do if she didn't go back?
But before her calf had taken two steps, Feng Yuheng pulled her hand back and immediately pulled the child back.
The bearded man saw it clearly and asked unhappily, "What on earth do you want to do?"
Feng Yuheng winked at Wang Chuan, who immediately raised his voice and said, "Don't you have eyes? We are inspecting the goods!"
"Inspect the goods?"
"Nonsense!" Huang Quan cursed, "Aren't you a slave seller? We want to buy this girl, so we have to check her first to see if she is obedient."
When the man heard that the other party was buying slaves, he immediately put on a smile, took a few steps forward, and began to sell his slaves non-stop. Feng Yuheng was annoyed by what he heard, so he pulled the girl back to the elegant room. Xuan Tianming ordered, "Buy it." Then he followed in, leaving Huang Quan and Wang Chuan to trade with the bearded man.
As soon as the three of them entered the private room, Xuan Tianming immediately turned around to close the door, and then he heard Feng Yuheng pulling the girl and asking anxiously: "Tell me quickly, where did this red rope on your wrist come from?"
The little girl had a red string on her wrist, it looked ordinary, even the bearded slave owner didn't pay much attention to it, thinking it was just an ordinary string, so the little girl wore it. But Feng Yuheng recognized that the red string was taken out from the space, and Zirui took it and put it on his wrist because he thought it looked good. The string was not something from this era, and she believed that such craftsmanship was impossible in this era, but because it was already very dirty, it was really hard to tell if you didn't look carefully.
The little girl was a little scared and hid timidly. At this time, Wang Chuan's voice came from outside: "Master, it's ready."
Xuan Tianming opened the door and took a contract of sale. After closing the door, he waved at the girl and said, "We have bought you. From now on, we are your masters. When the master asks you questions, you might as well answer truthfully!"
When the little girl heard that she had been bought, she looked at Feng Yuheng and suddenly realized that she would be much better off with this sister than with the bearded man. But she still asked worriedly, "Will you beat me? Will you not give me food?"
Feng Yuheng shook her head, "No. As long as you know how to talk and know how to speak, your future life will be the same as an ordinary maid. You just need to serve wholeheartedly."
The little girl breathed a sigh of relief, and then she told the origin of the red rope: "The bearded man locked us at the dock for three days. The next day, which was two days ago, a group of people came to the dock to wait for the boat. One of them was carrying a large cage covered with black cloth. When the cage passed by me, the black cloth was blown open a little by the river wind, and I saw a little brother inside. He also saw me, but the black cloth was quickly closed again, and I couldn't see him, but the red rope fell out of the cage." The girl pointed to the red rope on her wrist as she spoke, "I thought it looked nice, so I picked it up and put it on. The bearded man came to see it once, and found that it was just a torn rope, so he didn't care about me and let me put it on."
The little girl was talking about other people's affairs, but when she talked about the boy in the cage, her face showed some pity. She said, "That little brother is so pitiful. There is very little space in the cage. He must feel very uncomfortable curled up in there."
The more Feng Yuheng listened, the more her heart ached. When she heard that the space in the cage was very small, she almost collapsed. Xuan Tianming pressed her shoulders and kept saying, "Calm down, calm down." Then he asked the girl, "Did the group of people get on the boat? Did you see them?"
The girl nodded. "Yes, they got on the boat too. They left two days ago."
They stopped asking questions, and Xuan Tianming personally sent the child to live next door with Huang Quan and the others. When he came back, he said to Feng Yuheng, "Just now, a boatman said that the wind on the river was very strong all day yesterday, and it didn't get weaker until night. The wind blew from north to south, and it didn't stop until this morning. This shows that the ship should have been delayed on the river two days ago, at least shortened by half a day. Qingzhou has already made arrangements, as long as the ship docks, they can't escape even if they have wings."
At this point, there was no other way except to believe that the support from Qingzhou would be able to stop them. Feng Yuheng was a little tired, and his heart was burning with anger, so he simply went back to the space to take a shower. When he came out again, Xuan Tianming was fiddling with a few buns, not knowing how to eat them.
"What's wrong?" she asked. Where did the buns come from?
Xuan Tianming said, "It was sent by the boatman, and it's considered dinner. It's said that this is dinner for the elegant rooms. The people in the ordinary rooms at the back only have porridge that's as thin as water. The poor people at the bottom have nothing at all, and can only eat the dry food they brought with them." As he spoke, he pinched the bun in his hand and broke open another one: "It's as hard as a rock. I think the filling is probably rotten cabbage."
Feng Yuheng shook his head helplessly, "Put it down quickly. I'll go to the space to cook some noodles. I'll call Huang Quan and the others to come over and bring a few bowls. Then I'll call all the brothers up. We can squeeze into the two private rooms and have a bowl of noodles."
Xuan Tianming nodded and watched her enter the space. Then he went out and instructed the secret guard at the gate to inform everyone to gather in the two private rooms for dinner.
Feng Yuheng put a lot of hand-rolled noodles in her space, which were usually rolled by the cooks in the mansion. She took a lot of them and put them in her space. These things would not be replenished automatically, so they would be gone after they were eaten, and she could not cook ten bowls. Fortunately, there were noodles in her space, which were inexhaustible. She cooked a big pot and took them out one bowl at a time, and she brought out a total of twenty bowls.
Soon, the secret guards were equally divided into two private rooms. Faced with the noodles that their princess had conjured up from nowhere, these people did not ask. Anyway, what the princess gave were all good things. With these fragrant and steaming noodles, who would be willing to eat the pig food given by the boatman?
People were eating noodles happily, and Feng Yuheng brought some meat pies that he had taken out before to the people. There were not many meat pies, and they were also made by the chef before. After cutting them, each person could get half a piece.
The little girl who was bought was simply stunned. She had never eaten such delicious food in her life and she didn't dare to pick up her chopsticks for a moment.
Huang Quan saw that she didn't eat, and asked in confusion: "Aren't you hungry?"
Wang Chuan was speechless. How could she not be hungry? The child's eyes were red from hunger. She was afraid to eat. So she stuffed the chopsticks into the child's hand and told her: "Eat, follow our young lady, and you will have a happy life in the future."
The little girl then dared to eat the noodles, and she wolfed them down, even faster than the boys. After finally finishing a bowl of noodles and eating half a pancake, the child's face regained some color. She told Wang Chuan, "I haven't eaten for three days. Three days ago, even if I ate, it was only one meal a day, and it was porridge." After saying that, as if she remembered something, she turned her head and asked Feng Yuheng, "Sister... No, Miss, are you going to save that poor little brother?"
Feng Yuheng looked at her: "Why do you ask that?"
The little girl said quickly: "He is so pitiful, miss, please save him. I can serve him and I will not cause any trouble to you if I save him."
Feng Yuheng's nose felt sore, and she turned her head away without saying anything. Wang Chuan stroked the child's head and told her: "Don't worry, I will definitely save her."
After finishing their meal, people left quickly. Wang Chuan wanted to stay and help wash the dishes, but Feng Yuheng refused. She went into the space and washed the dishes herself, then took out the bedding from the space.
Maybe she was too tired, she slept very soundly that night. She only felt Xuan Tianming stroking her hair again and again, and after just a few strokes, she fell asleep.
It was a dreamless night, and it was not until the early morning when white mist appeared in the sky. Xuan Tianming suddenly sat up from the bed and listened alertly to the movement outside.
Feng Yuheng was also startled by him and asked casually, "What's wrong?"
At this time, a voice came from outside: "Your Highness, Master."
"Come in." Xuan Tianming spoke directly.
Ban Zou pushed the door open and walked in, handing a small wooden box to the two of them. "I just went to the bathroom, and when I came back, I saw this box in front of the door." Ban Zou was a little annoyed. Such a thing happened just after he left. If someone tried to assassinate him, his life would be over.
Suddenly, a sense of fear came over him inexplicably. Feng Yuheng put his hand against his chest and stared at the wooden box.
Xuan Tianming also realized that something was wrong, and half turned around to block Feng Yuheng, and opened the box to take a look. Ban Zou was startled, fearing that there was a hidden weapon or poison in the box, and was about to step forward to help Xuan Tianming block it. But he saw Xuan Tianming suddenly raised his right hand and stretched it behind him, accurately covering Feng Yuheng's eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Don't look."
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