When he came back from the iron shop, Ma Chao was so tired that his whole body seemed to fall apart, his sweat soaked through his clothes, and he sticked sticky to his body: if it weren't for his special physique, his body would have recovered quickly. If you change it to a normal sick number and go there for a walk, you might have hung up a long time ago!

The old slave looked at Ma Chao's tired appearance, and felt distressed for a while. is preparing to carefully serve Ma Chao to change clothes and wash. But Ma Chao was a little reluctant: We are also big princes, although we don't want to be extravagant, but we have to have a little beauty to serve, right? Let an old man serve with his hands and feet, Ma Chao was indescribably awkward in his heart.

Respect the elderly! Do you understand!

Xu is luck came, and before the old slave was waiting for Ma Chao's wide clothes, he heard someone outside the door calling: "Has Chao'er ever slept?" ”

"But auntie?" Ma Chao heard the voice, hurriedly answered, and then opened the door and let Liu in.

Liu didn't come alone this time, behind her, there was also a little maid in a ephedra dress, the little girl was about fourteen or fifteen years old, the tight-fitting dress set off the convex figure, under the two curved willow eyebrows, a pair of watery eyes, there was a little frightened and uneasy.

"Auntie, what is this?" Ma Chao asked loudly, but his heart was already boiling: Isn't this Liu going to give himself a superb little maid?!

"Oh, this, auntie... My aunt saw that Chao'er lived a simple and bitter life, and she couldn't take care of herself when she wanted to come to the hospital. This little maid has been with me for three years, but she is obedient and sensible, if Chao'er does not give ......up, "Xu is still a little estranged from Ma Chao, and when he called himself 'aunt', he also glanced at Ma Chao's expression, and saw Ma Chao's respectful and cordial appearance, so he put his mind at ease. And the next words, the more he spoke, the more fluent he became.

"Don't dislike, don't dislike. Oh no, it's Chao'er who thanked Aunt Xie for taking care of her. "Although Ma Chao has rushed to kill from the Blood Sea Bone Mountain a few times, after all, he has not experienced this kind of enjoyment of the 'second generation of officials', and for a while, he has lost some ground.

And when Liu saw Ma Chao so restrained and interesting, he couldn't help but smile lightly, but his heart was a lot more steady: this child accepted his kindness, and he looked so grateful, he must have remembered his kindness very much...... This kid wasn't like that before. Fortunately, a month ago, I thought that this child wanted to be sarcastic about himself in a different way, but I didn't want to, this child has really changed for the better......

The previous Ma Chao regarded the Liu family as an enemy chief, either indifferent and ignore, or insulting. And Ma Chao is superb in martial arts and has a cold personality, which can even support Xiliang's hope. As a result, Ma Teng did not dare to reprimand Ma Chao too much. Liu had no choice but to stay away from Ma Chao. Fortunately, Ma Chao didn't care about Ma Xiu, Ma Tie, and Ma Yunlu, and also coached the martial arts of these three younger siblings.

But a family can't always be like that. When Liu heard that Ma Chao was assassinated, he also felt a pain in his heart. But he didn't want Ma Chao to take the initiative to say goodbye to him, at that moment, although Liu was inexplicably relieved, he still couldn't believe the moody Ma Chao.

This time, before he came, he had the intention of making Ma Chao sarcastic again, and he also wanted to reconcile with Ma Chao, but he didn't want to, this kid is really better now, not only is he very respectful and polite to himself. Well, with women's intuition, Liu also feels that Ma Chao is truly kind to himself.

At this time, it made Liu very happy, and there were naturally more words. Ma Chao listened on the sidelines, and occasionally took a few words.

"Chao'er, don't be polite, if this little maid doesn't meet Chao'er's mind, there are still some smart maids there ...... aunt" Liu sat in Ma Chao's room and looked around at Ma Chao's furnishings: "Chao'er's life is also very simple, although we don't say that it is a big family, but after all, the Ma family is General Fubo, and you are now General Zhao Wu of the imperial court, how can you ......"

Ma Chao didn't hear Liu's last words clearly, but just interrupted and asked: "Auntie, like such a slave, how many are there there?" Well, my aunt used to be in her mother's house, how many ...... Male and female slaves? ”

Ma Chao really didn't know the name of the slave in the Han Dynasty, so he had to ask tentatively.

"Oh, Chao'er is asking those servants and shades, right?" Liu was not annoyed by Ma Chao's interruption at all, a sincere family, how could he speak so politely, Ma Chao could be like this, he could be regarded as truly communicating with himself.

In fact, during the Three Kingdoms of the Qin and Han dynasties, male slaves were called servants, and female slaves were maids. Ma Chao and Liu talked about this in front of the little maid, which actually hurt people's self-esteem. But Ma Chao just wanted to know the current situation of those slaves in the Han Dynasty from Liu's mouth at this time, and he had no choice but to give the little maid an apologetic look. But the little maid was so frightened that she took a step back, which made Ma Chao extremely depressed.

"The concubine's mother's family, although it is not the first family in Beidi County, there are nearly a thousand slaves and servants in the family. And when you marry your father, the concubines also have dozens of maidservants and hundreds of strong maids. It's just that your father has put all those strong men into the army. Many of the Wu Chiefs and Shi Chang in the Xiliang Iron Cavalry were the concubines' original companions. Although Liu didn't know what Ma Chao was asking for, he picked up what he knew and told Ma Chao.

After hearing this, Ma Chao couldn't help but be awe-struck in his heart: but he didn't want to think that there were so many slaves in the late Han Dynasty, that is to say, this slavery has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It seems that it's okay to make a small fuss by yourself, but if you rashly become the vanguard of human rights, you will definitely be attacked by those scholars and households, and there will be no place to bury you!

Thinking about it, I remember that it was also mentioned in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that when Liu Bei was in Xuzhou in the early years, Lu Zhu's family had "ten thousand servants", and the servants were slaves. When Mi Zhu gave his sister to Liu Bei as his wife, he also used 2,000 slaves and a large amount of gold and silver currency as a makeup. At that time, Liu Bei told the truth, he was a warlord and a down-and-out household, and he didn't want to get the Mi family's funding, so he "relied on this to recover"!

In this case, Ma Chao has a plan in his heart. However, Ma Chao is still not very clear about the origin of these slaves. Therefore, I couldn't help but ask Liu's again, I thought that Liu's women were Taoists, but I didn't know this, but I didn't think that Liu's was not the kind of foolish woman who didn't go out of the door, and what she said was orderly.

"The main source of these servants is prisoners of war. In the chaotic times, in addition to the head can lead the army, the living prisoners of war are even more military achievements; secondly, the officials and prisoners, their families, and the slaves and maids that the officials and prisoners originally owned; In the end, I bought it from a slave market. ”

After Ma Chao heard this, he immediately understood why the ugly brother was able to find the old craftsman so quickly, it turned out that as long as he went to the slave market to go around, those slaves had everything. And the slaves in his iron shop are probably also bought by Han Feng from the slave market.

"I can read some history books, and my aunt also knows that these slaves and servants are much better at this time than before. Even if these slaves and maids make mistakes, although we, the masters, can be whipped and punished at will, we can no longer kill them without permission, but can only sell them. Nowadays, large families also regard their servants as private property, and use the number of servants to show their wealth and prestige. Liu didn't know why Ma Chao was interested in the topic of servants, but at this time she was happy in her heart, and since Ma Chao was willing to listen to this, she also talked more.

And when Ma Chao heard this, he felt a little better in his heart. raised his eyes, and then looked at the little maid that Liu sent him.

Seeing Ma Chao like this, Liu thought that Ma Chao was at the age of curiosity about the opposite sex at this time, so he got up and left with a look that seemed to be smiling but not smiling......

'Auntie, you come back, it's not what you think...... I just thought, well, I do....... But I'm sick now, uh... No, I'm not sick! Ma Chao finally saw Liu's smile, and couldn't help but babble nonsense in his heart.