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Chapter 241 Slaves

Ji Yun still nodded and trembled even harder.

Ji Wan sighed again, but what she should say still has to say, "He is a serious offender and cannot worship after his death. From now on, you will stay with me. I will let you leave before returning to Beijing."

"Sister Wan...No, young lady."

Ji Yun opened his swollen eyes and said timidly, "Can we not leave?"

Ji Wan raised her eyebrows.

"Why?"

Ji Yun lowered his head, his voice soft and weak, "Grandma and mother are both dead, and father is going to die too. I... no, I have no relatives and brother."

It was because she had experienced too many changes. While she became timid, she understood the human nature and consciously changed her name.

"Uncle and aunt are kind and will definitely take us in. But we are the bodies of sinful slaves and will definitely implicate our uncle's family. Brother Ping still wants to participate in the martial arts ceremony, Brother Cheng has not yet married, and Axiang and Alan have not yet been married. If we go, it will only become their stain."

She whispered, "I have done many wrong things in the past, but it is retribution to the point where I fall to this day. I dare not add any more sins."

To be honest, Ji Wan was still quite surprised that she could say this.

It seems that I have really grown up and I have already learned to think about others.

"But you are underage, you cannot open a government office."

Ji Yun's eyes were full of nervousness, "Can we... stay?"

Perhaps she felt that this request was too much, so she couldn't help but shrink her neck and her face was full of anxiety.

"Stay?"

Ji Wan smiled, "My mother has already been separated, and I have no reason to take you in. You are just slaves and servants who stay here."

"It's okay."

Ji Yun twitched, and his voice became even smaller, "We are official slaves, and we have no relatives to protect us. After we go out, we are despised. Ah Song is still young, and the slave has no property and cannot support him. It is better to stay in the Duke's mansion. Even if we are slaves and servants, there will always be a place to live."

In recent years, life of luxury and food has not improved her to be a petite lady, and she has never forgotten what life she had lived before entering the Yuan family. As a slave to a wealthy family, she always has food to eat. Compared to being despised and insulted everywhere she goes, she is so many times better.

"If you want to think clearly, staying with me can only be a slave. When you go out, you will be free."

"At present, what's the difference between slaves and good people?" Ji Yun lowered his head, laughing bitterly, "My mother died in prison and served, and her father was even more of a criminal. A Song, who had been an official slave, would never be able to enter the officialdom. Even if he went out to find a job in the future, no one would want it. After he went out, he could only sell it to others as a maid or a concubine, or a toy that didn't even have a title..."

It is precisely because of this that even if Ji Hai and his wife take them in, and when she gets married at the age of age, no one will be willing to marry them. Even if they are concubines, not many families are willing to. Even if the uncle is willing to support their siblings for the rest of their lives, she can't stand the strange gazes of others.

"Stay at the Duke's Mansion, at least..." She glanced at Ji Wan secretly, her tone was even weaker, "There is a place to live and there is food to eat."

Moreover, Ji Wan will not bully them.

Ji Wan could probably guess what she thought, "Do you know that slaves are not free, and your children in the future can only be slaves. Unless you encounter a general amnesty, it will be like this for generations."

Ji Yun didn't think so much, so he was stunned.

Seeing this, Ji Wan shook her head, "You are saying something without reason. People in the world say it like a knife. If you two live with your uncle, it will affect Axiang and Alan's future marriage. If you go back to the countryside, you may not have a foothold. It is not impossible to stay with me."

She thought something.

Originally, she didn't want to care about Ji Yun and Ji Song's life or death anymore. But after returning to Beijing, her mother would definitely ask. With her mother's temperament, she might send someone to take the siblings to the capital. In her mother's eyes, Ji Yun was just a spoiled wild girl. Moreover, her temperament has changed in recent years, and she has long forgotten the grievances between the children before. After all, she didn't know that Ji Yun had accidentally killed her daughter, and Ji Wan could not tell the strange fact that she had resurrected herself by borrowing a corpse.

Even if he didn't stay in Xiao's house, his mother would probably entrust her parents' home to accommodate the two siblings. No one in the capital knew them, so changing their identities was easy.

Ji Wan believed that she was not generous enough to let the person who had harmed her continue to live the life of a daughter-in-law. After some deep thought, she had made a decision.

"Asong."

She looked at Ji Song, "Where are you? Are you willing to stay in the Duke's Mansion?"

Ji Song opened his swollen eyes like walnuts, and looked at her blankly, with no idea at all.

"I…"

Ji Yun pinched his arm, and Ji Song immediately changed his words, "I'm willing."

If you say that Ji Song and Ji Wan actually have no grudges, and the fights and quarrels when they were young are nothing. So Ji Wan still felt a little pity for Ji Song, "Since you all want to, then stay."

Ji Yun looked surprised and hurriedly pulled his brother down to kneel down.

"Thank you for your kindness in taking in the young lady. In the future, I will repay the young lady as a cow or a horse."

“There is no need to repay.”

Ji Wan sent a message to the housekeeper, "In addition to the two of them, how many official slaves were assigned to the Duke's Mansion this time?"

The Wuyang Bofeng clan has a large population, and they are all implicated by Wuyang Bo. The man exiled and the woman rushed into the sect. However, the slaves in the mansion became official slaves. Among the families in the north, only the Duke of Anguo Mansion won the most holy heart, and the number of official slaves was naturally the most.

"Reply to the young lady," the housekeeper said respectfully. "In addition, there are twenty-six people in total. There are sixteen maids, four maids, four maids, and four servants."

Ji Wan nodded, "These people will arrange to go to the village. As for the two of them... I plan to let Ji Song follow you. He has read books, can learn words, and help you. It is still OK."

The housekeeper bent over, "Yes."

Ji Wan glanced at Ji Yun casually again, "Let her go to the garden to help with flowers and plants."

"yes."

The housekeeper naturally knew the relationship between the two and the young lady, so he was ordered to take them down.

This is the first time Ji Yun and Ji Song have seen such a grand house.

Although Ji Wan's family lived in Dengxian, they were also a house with three entries, but they were far less rich than the Duke's Mansion, and the servants were not as rich as the Duke's Mansion. Yuan Zhai and Ji Zhai, who later lived in later, must be even smaller than the Duke's Mansion in front of them. The servants with a large family with some status were all richer and more gorgeous than ordinary people.

Ji Song was a little nervous, "Sister..."

Ji Yun held his hand, "Asong, remember, we will be the servants of the Duke's Mansion in the future. You must obediently listen to the butler's words. You can do whatever he asks you to do, and you are not allowed to cry or ask your parents. As long as you do things seriously, no one will bully you, do you understand?"

Ji Song nodded obediently.

"Um."

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