Three Kingdoms New Malaysia Super League

Chapter 80 I'm Not Sick!
After returning from the iron shop, Ma Chao was so tired that his whole body seemed to be falling apart, his clothes were soaked in sweat, sticking sticky sticks to his body: if it wasn't for his special constitution, his body would recover quickly.Then change to a normal patient number, go there for a walk, maybe you will die long ago!
The old slave looked at Ma Chao's exhausted appearance, feeling distressed for a while.He was 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 and corrupt, but we must have a little beauty to serve us, right?Asking an old man to serve him with hands and feet, Ma Chao felt unspeakably awkward.

To respect the old!understand!
Perhaps it was luck, before the old slave undressed Ma Chao, he heard someone calling outside the door: "Has Chao'er ever slept?"

"But Auntie?" Ma Chao heard the voice, hurriedly answered, and opened the door to let Mrs. Liu in.

Mrs. Liu did not come alone this time. Behind her was a maidservant in a ephedra dress. The little girl was about fourteen or fifteen years old. , In a pair of big watery eyes, there was a little panic and uneasiness.

"Auntie, what is this?" Ma Chao asked aloud, but his heart was already boiling: Could it be that Mrs. Liu wants to give him a top-quality little maid? !
"Oh, this, aunt... Seeing Chao'er's life is simple and cold, auntie can't take care of herself when she is sick. This little maid has been with me for three years, but she is obedient and sensible. If Chao'er will not abandon..." Xu Shi and Ma Chao are still together A little unfamiliar, when I called myself 'Auntie', I took a look at Ma Chao's expression, and I was relieved when I saw Ma Chao's respectful and friendly expression.But the next words became more and more fluent.

"I don't dislike it, I don't dislike it. Oh, no, it's Chao'er who thanks Auntie for taking care of me." Although Ma Chao has rushed from the bloody bone mountain several times, after all, he has never experienced the enjoyment of "the second generation of officials". All of a sudden, there was a bit of a back and forth.

Seeing Ma Chao being so restrained and funny, Mrs. Liu couldn't help but cover her mouth and smile a little, but felt a lot more at ease in her heart: this kid accepted his kindness and showed such gratitude, presumably because he remembered his kindness very much. In my heart... this child was not like this before.Fortunately, the sudden change a month ago, I thought this child was trying to make fun of himself in another way, but I didn't think that this child has really changed for the better...

The former Ma Chao regarded the Liu family as an enemy, either indifferently or insultingly.And Ma Chao is superb in martial arts and has a cold and stern personality, so he can really support the hope of Xiliang.As a result, Ma Teng did not dare to reprimand Ma Chao too much.Liu had no choice but to keep Ma Chao at a respectful distance.Fortunately, Ma Chao didn't care about Ma Xiu, Ma Tie, and Ma Yunlu, and even taught the martial arts of these three younger siblings.

But a family can't always be like that.When Mrs. Liu heard that Ma Chao was assassinated that time, she felt a twinge of pain in her heart.But she didn't expect Ma Chao to take the initiative to pay her respects. At that moment, although Liu was inexplicably relieved, she still couldn't believe the moody Ma Chao.

This time, before I came here, I wanted to make Ma Chao ironic again, and wanted to reconcile with Ma Chao, but I didn't think that this child had really changed for the better now, and not only was he very respectful and polite to me.Well, relying on her female intuition, Liu also felt that Ma Chao was sincerely kind to her.

This time, Mrs. Liu was overjoyed, and naturally said a little more.Ma Chao listened and occasionally added a few words.

"Chao'er, don't be polite. If this little maid doesn't suit Chao'er, there are some smart maidservants from my aunt..." Mrs. Liu sat in Ma Chao's room and looked around at Ma Chao's decorations: "Chao'er's life is also very simple. , although we don’t say it is a famous family, but the Ma family is after General Fubo, and you are now a fifth-rank General Zhao Wu in the court, how can you..."

Ma Chao didn't understand the last part of Liu's words, so he just interrupted and asked, "Auntie, how many slaves like this are there? Well, how many... male slaves and female slaves did Auntie have in her natal house before?"

Ma Chao was really not sure about the names of slaves in the Han Dynasty, so he had to ask tentatively.

"Oh, Chao'er is asking those children and shady households?" Mrs. Liu was not at all annoyed by Ma Chao's interruption. Sincerely a family, how can they speak so politely? Ma Chao can truly talk to himself if he can do this. .

In fact, during the Qin, Han and Three Kingdoms periods, male slaves were called children, and female slaves were called maidservants.Ma Chao and Liu talked about this in front of the little maid, which actually hurt her self-esteem.But at this time, Ma Chao just wanted to know about the current situation of the slaves in the Han Dynasty from Mrs. Liu. He had no choice but to give the little maid an apologetic look.But the little maid took a step back in fright, making Ma Chao extremely depressed.

"Although the concubine's natal family is not the most prominent family in Beidi County, there are nearly a thousand slaves and maidservants in the family. And when I married your father, there were dozens of maids and hundreds of strong boys in my concubine's dowry. It's just that your father filled all those able-bodied boys into the army. Many of the corporals and even chiefs among the Xiliang iron cavalry were my concubine's dowry back then." Although Liu didn't know why Ma Chao asked these questions, but He picked up what he knew and told Ma Chao.

After Ma Chao heard this, he couldn't help feeling awe-inspiring: But he didn't expect that there were so many slaves in the late Han Dynasty, that is to say, this slavery has already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.It seems that it's okay to make small troubles by yourself, but if you rashly become the vanguard of human rights, you will definitely be attacked by those noble families, and you will die without a place to die!
Thinking about it, I remember that it was mentioned in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that when Liu Bei was in Xuzhou in the early years, there were "ten thousand children in Mizhu's house", and children were slaves.When Mi Zhu gave his sister to Liu Bei as his wife, he also accompanied her with 2000 slaves and a large amount of gold and silver coins.At that time, Liu Bei told the truth, he was a down-and-out warlord, and he didn't want to get funding from Mi's family, so he "relyed on it to revive"!
That being the case, Ma Chao has a plan in mind.However, Ma Chao is still not very clear about the source of these slaves.Therefore, I couldn't help but asked Liu Shi again, I thought Liu Shi was a woman, but I didn't know this, but I didn't think that Liu Shi was not the kind of foolish woman who didn't go out, and she actually spoke in an orderly manner.

"The main source of these children is the prisoners of war. In troubled times, in addition to the head can lead the military merit, the living prisoners of war are even more meritorious; the second is the official prisoner and the family members of the official prisoner and the slaves originally owned by the official prisoner; finally, the slaves The market sold it."

After Ma Chao heard this, he immediately understood why Brother Chou was able to find the artisans and old farmers so quickly. It turned out that as long as he went to the slave market, the slaves had everything they wanted.And the slaves in his iron shop were probably bought by Han Feng from the slave market.

"After reading some history books, my aunt also knows that these slaves and servants are much better than before. Even if these slaves make mistakes, we masters can whip and punish them at will, but we can no longer kill them. We can only resell them. But now the big family The prominent families also regard children as private property, and use the number of children to show their wealth and prestige." Liu Shi didn't know why Ma Chao was interested in the topic of children, but at this moment she was very happy, since Ma Chao was willing to listen to this , she also talked a little more.

When Ma Chao heard this, he felt a little better.He raised his eyes, and then looked at the little maid Liu Shi sent him.

Seeing Ma Chao like this, Mrs. Liu thought that Ma Chao was at the age of being curious about the opposite sex, so she got up and left with a smile that was not a smile...

'Auntie, you're back, it's not what you think...I just thought, well, I really wanted to...but I'm sick now, uh...no, I'm not sick! When Ma Chao finally saw Liu's smile, he couldn't help talking nonsense in his heart.

(End of this chapter)