"What is this for? Are you going to send me a monthly report in turn?"
Shen Hao glanced at the banknotes in the box without flipping through them, and continued to stir his chopsticks to eat the noodles.
"No, this is my monthly routine. I, I want to ask the master for something." Xia Nu heard from Hu Tian that you need to show "expression" when asking for help, so this was her expression.
When Shen Hao figured out what this stupid slave was thinking, a black line appeared on his forehead. This idiot is stupid again! He actually took the monthly money he gave him and prepared to "show" him?
"Put your things away. Your monthly routine is your monthly routine. You are my slave, and your life is mine. You ask me to do things based on my mood, and you even give me a banknote. Are you planning to bribe me? You What do you think?" Shen Hao raised his hand and grabbed Xia Nu's ears and pulled them.
"Ouch! Master, I know I'm wrong. Stop pulling your ears. They're going to fall off!" Xia Nu was pulled so hard that her whole body was lying on Shen Hao's knees, her little feet fluttering, but she didn't dare to struggle too much.
Shen Hao twisted it hard again before letting go.
"Say, what's the matter?"
Xia Nu's eyes were filled with mist, she was really hurt. She quickly put away the box containing the banknotes, then she shrank her neck, rubbed her ears vigorously, and explained: "I, I saw a toothache at the east gate yesterday. There are two children of the Fox tribe in the fleet, and I, I want to ask the owner to buy them."
Shen Hao glanced at Xia Nu, who was kneeling in front of her and kowtowed. He was not in a hurry to speak. Instead, he finished the noodles in the bowl and took a few big gulps of the noodle soup. Then he wiped his mouth and said: " You go to Butler Hu tomorrow and ask him to ask for help from Yaxing. Okay, go boil some water, I want to take a bath."
"Ah? Oh! Thank you, Master! I have boiled the water. You go back to the house first and I will bring it to you in a moment."
Shen Hao stood up and returned to the house with his hands behind his back.
...
The next day, when Shen Hao came back from his business trip, he saw two little fox girls at home, eleven or twelve years old? Following Xia Nu, they timidly blinked at Shen Hao and looked at her curiously.
"This is the master? Call me master!" Xia Nu happily twisted the two little fox girls out from behind with one hand, and then proudly introduced Shen Hao to them.
"Hongsi has met his master!"
"Jinxiu has met the master!"
The black line on Shen Hao's head looked at Hu Tian beside him. He wanted an explanation. Who gave the names of these two little fox girls? So weird?
Hu Tian understood the idea and suppressed a smile and said: "Master Shen, the names of these two fox girls were given by Xia Nu? She said they sounded nice. In addition, because these two fox girls had just arrived at Yahang, most of the training was It’s not finished yet, and there’s still a lot to learn. Do you think we should stay at home and teach it ourselves, or should we send it back to the dental clinic and let them help teach us the rules?”
As expected of a silly slave, she definitely named her after the items in the clothing store she often went to. Red silk... brocade... forget it? Although it's a bit vulgar? Shen Hao didn't bother to change it, since it wasn't his name anyway.
"We've all brought them back, why are we sending them back? You work harder and teach them." After saying this, Shen Hao glared at Xia Nu, who shrank her neck and moved to Shen Hao's side. She bent down slightly, knowing that she was about to be beaten. Pulling the ears? So it was convenient for Shen Hao to do it.
Shen Hao didn't try hard, he just wanted this stupid slave to be sensible. How many times did you pull it? Then let go.
"Let's put some food on, I'm hungry."
While eating, Shen Hao was a little curious and asked the two little fox girls, "How old are you?"
"Reply to the master? Hongsi is eleven and a half years old."
"Me? Me, Jinxiu is twelve years and one month old!"
"How did you get arrested?" Shen Hao likes to talk about things while eating. He doesn't have much time at home. If Hu Tian and others want to report something to him, they will choose this time. So Shen Hao usually sits in the main room and eats, while the rest of the people stand at the door and go in immediately when they hear the call.
The two little girls were still a little scared. They glanced at their sister Xia who was encouraging them with an encouraging look. They mustered up the courage to say to each other: "We are from the same village...we were kidnapped by the wolf tribe. I left, but I met a human army on the way... and then I was sent here."
An army?
Hu Tian hurriedly explained: "Master Shen, what they are talking about is actually a slave caravan. They are all children who have never seen the world. When they see the crowd, they think it is an army."
Shen Hao nodded, agreeing with Hu Tian's explanation. At the same time, he also asked curiously: "Can the slave caravan even defeat the wolf clan's raiding team?" In the past, I only knew that the slave caravan was extremely tough outside the Zhuhuo Pass, but I didn't expect that even the organized wolf clan would have to avoid it. them.
Hu Tian shook his head: "I don't know about this."
While talking, Li Erfu's food arrived, and Xia Nu taught the two little girls how to serve it.
The two girls were also well-behaved. Seeing that Shen Hao didn't look evil, they became a little bolder and kept looking at their master secretly with flickering eyes. I heard Sister Xia said that her master was very nice, and there was nothing to worry about except that she liked to pull her ears, which bothered her a little.
And the smiling butler Hu was also very nice. He brought them two new clothes and new shoes as soon as he came. He also followed a fat uncle to the kitchen for a meal of sauced pork elbow. This was the best they had ever eaten. of a meal. The two girls thought that except that they couldn't see their families, this place might not be so bad.
"Do the wolves often visit your village?"
"Well, they come every year during the autumn harvest. They came here last month. Every time they take away half of the food in the village, and sometimes they kill people."
“In the past we only robbed food, why are we robbing people this time?”
The two girls looked at each other, and finally Jinxiu said, "I heard from grandma that no one in the wolf tribe knows how to farm. They are short of people to farm, so they want us to farm on their land."
Shen Hao hummed and said nothing, but his brows wrinkled slightly.
The fact that the two little fox girls could be intercepted by the slave caravan means that the village where they originally lived was in the northwest of Nanman near Zhuhuo Pass, and it was also within the scope of the slave caravan's activities. According to Shen Hao's previous judgment, the barbarians had given up on their northwest and huddled in the southeast. The northwest was deliberately left to the Jing Dynasty to wreak havoc.
Since it was deliberately left to the Jingjiu Dynasty to wreak havoc, why did it suddenly start robbing the population? Wouldn't this arouse the Jingjiu Dynasty's vigilance?
Or do the barbarians shrinking in the southeastern border have a reason to do this?
Out of habit, Shen Hao unconsciously thought about it. After finishing the last meal, he always felt that the wolf clan's behavior was very abnormal. When he stood up and saw two girls clearing the table, he asked again: "Do you know which wolf tribe is robbing you?"
"Master, we recognize him, he is from the red-eyed wolf tribe."
Red-eyed wolf tribe? This is the most numerous wolf clan, and has always been the main force in the wars with the Jing Dynasty. The leader who set up the Frost Moon Flag in the wolf clan before was this red-eyed wolf clan.
