The Xu Mansion had over 10,000 servants, while the Guangling Mansion only had two or three thousand servants. The ancestral residence of the Xu Mansion in the city had more than a thousand servants, and some manor houses such as the Xu Family Village outside the city had tenants with thousands of servants.

But in front of us, there was a fire in Xu Mansion, and only less than 300 people survived.

Xu Wenshu looked at the people in front of him with mixed feelings, and his voice was trembling a little. He never thought that Xu Mansion would be in such a situation one day, "Those who are willing to stay can stand on the left, and those who want to leave can stand on the left.

right."

On the grassland of the island in the center of the lake, two to three hundred people stood quietly, seemingly considering their choice.

The little maid who called just now stood on the left side with Zi'er, and soon some more people stood with Zi'er and the others.

Watching the crowds of people in front of you slowly passing by, some people stood towards the left, while the vast majority of people went towards the right.

When two maids ran past the ladies at the corner of the verandah and trotted to the right, Mrs. Liu's face changed slightly. Without careful observation, it would be difficult to spot the livid color that disappeared in an instant.

One of the girls was a dowry girl she brought from her parents' family.

The Xu family was in trouble, and death actually wanted to abandon him.

Mrs. Liu turned slightly sideways, showed a very magnanimous gesture, and whispered to the maids and women behind her, "If you want to leave, you can go there on your own."

Several maids standing behind Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Xu Yuhui hesitated for a moment, and then two more maids aged 17 or 18 trotted away.

Looking at the backs of these little girls, they seemed to be leaving this prison completely and decisively.

The three ladies all felt a little lonely and sad. These maids were all their personal maids. They usually served the ladies in the backyard, and their status was much higher than that of other ordinary servants in the Xu Mansion.

Nowadays, the life and death crisis is still there, and those things in the past are too fragile compared with life.

Xu Fan stood on the veranda on the second floor, looking down at the servants of the mansion walking back and forth on the grass.

In less than half a cup of tea, the crowd was divided into two parts.

There are only about twenty people on the left, and most people are standing on the right.

When the Xu family is in trouble, it is good to have more than twenty servants willing to stay.

These people risked their lives to stay, and the main reason was that the two masters of the Xu family agreed to the release agreement.

If there is no birth contract, these people who dare to leave the master's house will be captured and sold by the government, and they may be slaves for life.

Xu Wenshu and Xu Yuhui looked back at Xu Fan on the second floor, with some bitterness in their eyes.

Xu Fan knew how sad the two of them were. When the Xu family was in crisis, so many people wanted to leave.

He finally nodded, turned around and disappeared on the veranda.

Seeing Xu Fan's cold back disappearing from the entrance to the main hall on the second floor, Xu Wenshu and Xu Yuhui turned around at the same time, their eyes clear again, and they looked at the more than 200 servants of the Xu family on the right.

Among this group of people were strong servants and servants, young servants and maids, and servants with families.

Xu Wenshu exhaled heavily, smiled at the people on the right, and said softly, "Since you have decided, each of you can receive twenty taels of silver in a while, and you can go to Guangling Mansion Office in the afternoon to apply for the birth deed documents, and you will be free.

.”

Hearing this, everyone standing on the right had happy, excited expressions of joy on their faces.

They were servants of the Xu Mansion, and they never expected that one day they would finally be able to get their life deeds back.

Xu Yuhui came to the 20 people on the left and counted them carefully. He was quite pleased that 29 people stayed.

Six young servants guard the courtyard, seven maids, five servants, and four maids.

The rest were elderly nuns and old men guarding the warehouse. They probably had nowhere else to go.

"You guys come with me." Xu Yuhui told everyone and walked slowly towards the small bridge on the edge of the island in the middle of the lake.

"Master Yuhui...where are we going?"

Zi'er looked curious and thought to herself, aren't they the ones who stay to take care of the young ladies and young masters of various mansions?

The others also looked at Xu Yuhui's back nervously, wondering where they were being taken.

Arriving at the small bridge verandah by the lake, Xu Yuhui asked more than a dozen government officials to lead the way to the government office, and said, "Go and withdraw the life deed from the government office for you. From now on, you will also be free people."

"real?!"

"Very good!"

The faces of more than twenty people showed surprise.

Hearing that they were going to withdraw their birth certificate from the government office, Zi'er stopped, bowed slightly to Xu Yuhui, and said softly, "Master Yuhui, I won't go. I will be a member of the Xu family from now on.

Whether you want me or not, I will stay with you."

Xu Yuhui turned around, looked at Zi'er carefully with tired eyes, frowned and said, "This is Brother Fan's intention. You can follow me to the government office first."

Before Xu Yuhui could finish speaking, Zi'er broke away from the crowd and ran towards the attic of the island in the center of the lake, with two lines of tears on her face.

Xu Yuhui looked at Zi'er's slender back and couldn't help but shake his head. Instead of waiting any longer, he led everyone towards the main entrance of Botaoting. More than a dozen famous government officials were guarding them.

Even after a night of manhunt throughout the city, Wang Wenhua was still worried and asked the government to specially send some more officers.

He also specially ordered the officers of the city defense camp to carefully check suspicious people near Xu Mansion.

There is a piano room on the right side of the second floor of the Huxin Island attic. The piano room is divided into two sections by a screen. The furnishings inside are simple and simple.

The interior is transparent from north to south, with long curtains reaching to the floor, slowly swaying in the breeze from the lake.

In front of the south window, a seven-stringed guqin was placed on a long desk, and an animal-head incense burner was placed on the corner of the desk, from which curls of sandalwood rose.

Xu Fan was dressed in a plain white brocade robe, sitting cross-legged on the futon in front of the long desk with his eyes closed, his back straight. The morning sun shone on his delicate face, casting a faint golden glow.

I heard panicked footsteps on the veranda outside the room, and the cry of a girl.

Xu Fan's sword eyebrows trembled slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes, and a sharp breath flew past the curling smoke from the corner of the long case.

A white sandalwood mist swirled out of the window.

"Zi'er?"

The door of the piano room was gently pushed open, and Zi'er, wearing a purple dress and a beautiful oval face, was completely in tears.

"Master, don't you want Zi'er anymore?" Looking at Xu Fan's delicate face with a smile, Zi'er finally couldn't hold it back and cried out.

"What's wrong?" Xu Fan really couldn't figure it out. After spending the night, Zi'er started crying now.

"How come I don't want you? No, shouldn't you and your clan uncle go to the government office? Why are you back again?"

Xu Fan slowly stood up, came outside the screen, sat on a high chair, reached out and rubbed Zi'er's hair, making her long black hair messy.

"Here, wipe your sweat." Xu Fan pulled out a brocade handkerchief from Zi'er's sleeve, gently stroked Zi'er's forehead, wiped away the sweat, and chuckled, "What's wrong, my Zi'er?"

Girl."

Zi'er grabbed the brocade handkerchief in Xu Fan's hand, pouted, and said angrily, "Why does the young master want me to withdraw the birth contract?"

"I just want to give each of you a fair choice. The Xu Mansion is a dangerous place now." Xu Fan exhaled softly, and then he understood why Zi'er was crying.

"I'm not afraid! I want to stay with the young master all my life." Zi'er swallowed the word "you" that was about to blurt out and replaced it with the word "young master".

"It doesn't matter, as long as you don't leave, you can always stay with me."

Xu Fan lightly flicked Zi'er's forehead and said with a smile, "Go and tell the two clan uncles to have someone go to Guangling City to buy some good wine. Since we have to choose to leave Guangling, it's time to start some industries in the city.

It’s about to be sold. It’s just used to buy wine.”

After saying that, Xu Fan looked at Zi'er standing there blankly, frowned and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Master, our Xu family has suffered such a big change, why do you still want to drink?!" Zi'er pouted her lips in anger again, waved her little pink fist in front of her chest, and said angrily.

"You don't understand!" Xu Fan stood up, grabbed Zi'er's delicate shoulders with both hands, slowly pushed her out of the piano room, and said, "Get this matter done sooner rather than later."

Even though Zi'er was extremely confused, she still had to follow her young master's instructions.

From now on, the entire burden of the Xu family will fall on the young master, and he will no longer be able to live as carefree as before.

After Zi'er's figure disappeared at the end of the corridor, Xu Fan closed the door of the piano room, sat back in front of the piano table, stretched out his hand and gently clasped the strings with his five fingers.

"Buzz~"

When you let go, the guqin made a crisp sound.

According to the original plan, Xu Fan used the Xu Mansion's wealth to restore the True Solution Gourd as soon as possible, and revive the True Solution Gourd's weapon spirit before it was opened in that place.

Now, the Xu family's wealth has almost been lost. In order to save himself, Xu Fan absorbed the purest trace of heaven and earth spiritual essence bred in the true solution gourd.

Looking down at the old gourd in his hand, Xu Fan's eyes flashed with fierceness, but he still said calmly, "What's your name?"

"Bai Luohe!"

Xu Fan finally asked her name. Before, they were just using each other. After the transaction was completed, they were strangers to each other.

When the Xu family was in trouble, the girl in the white dress did not add insult to injury, but instead helped Xu Fan defend the Wave Garden without hesitation.

If it weren't for Bai Luohe, two to three hundred people in the Xu family might not have survived.

Xu Fan was in charge of Bo Tao Ting. Those people in Xu's mansion who fled to Bo Tao Ting might have been able to survive if Bai Luohe hadn't taken action.

"It's a good name. I'll give you a chance to control your own destiny." Xu Fan gently touched the old gourd in his hand, his voice becoming more and more ethereal.

Bai Luohe's long and beautiful face frowned slightly, and there was a hint of confusion in his smart eyes, "What do you mean by this?"

"Didn't you want to get rid of the control of Yin Yang Gate before?"

"Yes, I will help you find out the news about the Yin and Yang Sect, and you will handle it!"

The confusion in Bai Luohe's eyes dissipated, and suspicion appeared instead. He looked at Xu Fan's back as if he had just met him.

"The Yin Yang Gate is just a small matter. I will solve it completely, not just to get you out of control."

Apart from being indifferent and cold, Xu Fan's eyes no longer had the cynicism of the past. He stroked the old gourd with his right hand and a trace of reminiscence appeared in his eyes.

"Master, I'm going to ascend! Master, I'm so happy! As long as I swallow that piece of Wuji Wine Realm, I can turn into a human form. I will no longer be an ordinary weapon spirit."

There was a mist in Xu Fan's eyes, as if he had returned to his previous life.

Wearing a white robe, he stood by the Tianhe River in Wuji Liquor Domain, listening to Zhenjie's crisp excitement and excited shouts.


Chapter completed!