As she said that, she squatted in front of Chen Ji and reached out to help Chen Ji take off her boots.

Chen Ji hurriedly withdrew his foot: "No, I'll do it myself."

Xiaoman wondered, "Young Master, what did I do wrong?"

Chen Ji whispered: "You did nothing wrong, but you don't have to do these things again in the future."

Xiaoman widened his eyes: "What are the nonsense of the young master? Why don't the maid do this... Do you want to drive me away?"

Chen Ji smiled and said, "Xiaoman, if you have not been sold as a maid since childhood, what do you want to do the most?"

Xiaoman squatted in front of the wooden basin, supported his chin with his hands for a long time, then lowered his head and whispered: "If I hadn't been a maid when I was nine years old, I would have been waiting at home to get married. My parents would find me a family, either a butcher, a tenant, or a concubine to whom I sold it as a concubine. Anyway, there is no difference."

Chen Ji's smile slowly calmed down, and he was silent for a moment and asked again: "If it were the past, what would you like to do the most?"

Xiaoman thought for a while: "I want to help the young master marry a legitimate daughter of a high school family... Young master, how do you think Miss Zhang Er is like? She is beautiful and has a good brain, and..."

Chen Ji interrupted: "It's not what you want to do for me, but what you want to do yourself."

Xiaoman was stunned for a long time, and then whispered: "What do you think about these things are the things that the official thought about. We maids don't need to think about these things. Sister Liqiu said that maids can't think about these things. If you think too much, you will feel that life is hard, and if you don't think about it, you will be fine."

Chen Ji said seriously: "You can think about it now."

The next moment, he took out a yellow paper from his sleeve: "I promised you that if you can leave Guyuan alive, I will help you turn back. Xiaoman, you will not be a maid in the future, and you will no longer have to do things in a humble manner. You can have your own life."

Xiaoman was stunned at first. His life? Why did the young master speak strangely? There was no such statement in the past.

Then, she suddenly took the contract happily: "Ah, when will the young master get it back?"

Chen Ji explained: "I will go back to Longmen Inn to pick up my luggage before you, and I will take this from Liang's luggage."

Xiaoman was full of joy: "I didn't expect that the young master was still thinking about it."

Chen Ji shook his head: "I didn't make a special trip to get your body contract. I was worried that after Chen Wenxiao died, Liang's family would regret it, so he went to find the deed and land contract left by his aunt. But I didn't expect that she did not carry it with her."

Xiaoman muttered, "Those things are locked in the capital, and they will definitely not be carried with you. Moreover, the land deeds and house deeds must be clan elders, and the people are witnessing them before they can go to the government to replace them. It is useless to get them back... But, but where will I go in the future?"

She has been waiting for many years, but now she has become a free person, but suddenly she is confused.

Chen Ji thought for a while: "When I go back to the capital, when I want to return to my aunt's property, you can be the shopkeeper. If you want to go to Gubulou, go to Gubulou and Yujingyuan, go to Yujingyuan."

Xiaoman pretended to be angry and said, "Young Master is really good at joking. Yujingyuan is a fireworks place in the eight great alleys. What's the point of being a little girl? If you want to go, you will go to Gufu Tower."

Chen Ji said sincerely: "Then go and be the shopkeeper of Gubu Building."

Xiaoman looked at him, then lowered his little head again: "If I go, who will serve you? Then you will have to blame me if you don't have enough food or clothing or not."

Chen Ji joked, "If you don't want it, give it back to me."

Xiaoman hurriedly said, "No, no!"

At this time, Zhang Xia and Zhang Zheng pushed the door open and entered.

Xiaoman hurriedly carried the wooden basin and walked out in a hurry, almost hitting Zhang Zheng.

Zhang Zheng turned around and said, "Why are you in a hurry?"

...

...

Xiaoman went out the door and wandered in the corridor with a wooden basin, not knowing where he should go for a while.

She put down the wooden basin and unfolded her body and looked carefully.

However, it was read on it, "Yao Man, the servant's clerk, has been called by the master of Chen's family and will go to Chenmen to serve for the service. He will not delay the violation. If there is any resistance, he will be left to the boss to deal with the punishment, and this article will be subject to the rule."

Yao Man.

She was about to forget her original name.

Xiaoman looked at the contract and suddenly wanted to leave. From now on, the sky is high and the sea is wide, and there is no restraint. She is an official, and she still has the money she saved over the years. She can live a good life wherever she goes!

But……

Xiaoman turned around and looked at Chen Ji's closed door. He couldn't just leave like this, that was too conscience-free.

After a while, her eyes turned: "It's not considered a conscience to help the young master do something before leaving!"

She quietly touched Wang Gui's guest room. When she arrived at the door of the Ding Room, she took out a dagger from her sleeve and inserted it into the crack of the door, trying to pick the latch from the crack of the door.

But strangely, the door was not closed.

Xiaoman noticed something was wrong and immediately pushed open the door. Where was Wang Gui's figure inside?

She held the dagger in the back hand and walked around the house with murderous intent. The bed had not moved, and the cup on the table had not moved, and it didn't look like she had lived in someone at all!

Xiaoman frowned and went downstairs, finding the person who was taking the time to take action: "Hey!"

After thinking about it, he turned around and saw that it was Xiaoman, and hurriedly said, "Miss Xiaoman, is your master calling me?"

Xiaoman said angrily: "Everyone said that my young master doesn't recognize you as his apprentice! I'll ask you, have you ever seen Wang Gui?"

Qi Jingju recalled: "I have seen it. As soon as we settled down, he led a horse out and said he would buy some items for Mrs. Chen."

Xiaoman asked in a deep voice: "When did you leave!"

Qi Jingjing replied: "I'm afraid it's been more than an hour."

Xiaoman said in his heart that it was broken. The disaster was so alert that he ran away in advance!

"The disaster has been left for thousands of years!" Xiaoman returned to the guest room in anger.

Seeing her like this, Chen Ji said in confusion: "Where did you go out? Who messed with you?"

Xiaoman sat on the small stool and felt a suffocating, saying in a muffled voice: "I'm fine."

After saying that, she moved her butt, turned her back to Chen Ji and the others, thinking about how to get rid of Wang Gui after returning to Beijing.

As she thought about it, Xiaoman suddenly stood up and put the body contract back in Chen Ji's hand: "You can keep this for me first, and you will give it to me when I want it."

Chen Ji was confused and had to put away his body contract again: "What's wrong with you?"

Xiaoman muttered, "Why is that Wang Gui so difficult to kill? He didn't even die in Guyuan. I just wanted to kill him, but he ran away."

Chen Ji was stunned: "Running?"

Xiaoman nodded: "It's so thief."

After Xiaoman mentioned this, Zhang Xia also frowned and said, "All the servants in the Chen family died, and he was the only one left. It was a bit extraordinary. He was captured by the Tiance Army before, but he was not dead."

Chen Ji's heart moved and suddenly asked, "After you were caught in the cellar, did the Tiance Army separate you from each other and turn you back?"

Zhang Xia shook his head: "No... No, Wang Gui was the first to be caught. It took about dozens of breaths to catch the second person. These dozens of breaths are not enough."

Chen Ji nodded: "Don't think about these things for now, let's talk about the topic just now."

Zhang Xia said to Chen Ji: "From Guyuan to the capital, pass through Qingyang, Tongchuan, Yuncheng, Taiyuan, and Hulu, a total of 2,600 miles. It is the first month of the year, and it is probably February when we go to the capital. Lord Chen urged the prince to leave quickly, but in fact he was worried that if he stayed there, he would miss Chen Wenzong's imperial examination."

Chen Ji was stunned when he calculated the time...

Zhang Xia continued to say at this time: "Along the way, I saw that Liang and Wang Gui had been conspiring with something. After you go back, you might as well move out of the Chen Mansion. Either move into my Zhang Mansion or buy a small house. It's better than being in the Chen family..."

Seeing Chen Ji distracted, she asked curiously: "What are you thinking?"

Chen Ji came back to his senses and said in a little disappointed manner: "I just thought that Master should have arrived in Lushun, and I don't know if they are doing well."

...

...

In the dark night outside Lushun Port, a large brig was moving towards the port in the waves.

An old man stood at the bow of the boat, holding his hands and letting the sea breeze whistle.

The sailors on the boat were putting up their sails and shouting horns.

The old man looked silently at the dark sea and the harbor getting closer and closer, and turned back to the cabin.

In the cabin, Liang Gou'er was lying on the bed and was sleeping soundly. Liang Mao'er looked at Zhu Yunxi in the narrow cabin, waving the wooden knife again and again, sweating profusely.

Old man Yao glanced at the three of them and said, "I'm ready to get off the boat. The people from the Military Affairs Office will pick us up on the shore to the capital of Jingchao. Prince, I will ask you again last time, don't you regret it? If you regret it, don't care about the floods in this world, don't care about the great cause of the dynasty. Just be more selfish and stay on the boat, it's still time."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yunxi slowly put down the wooden knife in his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Don't regret it."
Chapter completed!