Chapter 7: The Troubled Years
On weekdays, in addition to doing the daily chores required by Steward Lin during the day, Xiao Yuyang also has to serve the second lady with a rude personality in his free time. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info often as the second lady's attendant, carrying the four treasures of the study, and following the other attendants and the second lady to the private school. At the same time, like the other attendants on the side, he waited for the second lady's orders at any time. Even though Xiao Yuyang has always been very careful, there are always times when people make mistakes. From time to time, he was reprimanded by other attendants for being a little slower to react.
When I returned to my room at night, Xiao Yuyang, who was tired, had to wash the clothes that were soiled that day with cold water, and I could only sleep late at night every day. Before dawn, I have to get up early and go to Steward Lin to get today's chores. If the task is not completed or you go a little late, you will be reprimanded by Steward Lin, and even severely deduct Xiao Yuyang's food and winter clothes. One day, Steward Lin punished Xiao Yuyang for a trivial matter, and asked Xiao Yuyang to clean the snow outside the house in the snow with goose feathers.
As for why Steward Lin made Xiao Yuyang so difficult, the reason was still on the second miss. Because of the rude second lady, she is young and ignorant, and often deliberately finds fault. After a while, he said that the clothes brought by Steward Lin were not suitable, and for a while, he said that the food was not in accordance with his taste, making things difficult for Steward Lin everywhere, and sometimes even complained to Mrs. Lin, so that Steward Lin was inevitably reprimanded by Mrs. Lin. Although Steward Lin was dissatisfied, he dared not speak out in the face of the second miss, so Steward Lin could only vent his grievances and anger on Xiao Yuyang, a scholar who was the second miss, which made Xiao Yuyang bitter.
At the beginning, Xiao Yuyang was too young to meet Steward Lin's requirements in many things, so Steward Lin just took advantage of this to deliberately let Xiao Yuyang not eat, which made Xiao Yuyang hungry. And Steward Lin threatened Xiao Yuyang every time, so that Xiao Yuyang did not dare to tell others about the various abuses he had suffered, even Aunt Wang, who raised him, often sent people to watch Xiao Yuyang's every move all the time.
It may be that God has mercy on poor Xiao Yuyang, after living outside Nanyuan for a year, Aunt Wang, who raised Lin Yuyang, suddenly sends people around her to visit Xiao Yuyang from time to time.
As time passed, Aunt Wang learned from the person sent that Xiao Yuyang had lost a lot of weight, not to mention, and often had a lack of energy and a dish, so she was puzzled. The visitor also asked Xiao Yuyang many times if he was bullied, and Xiao Yuyang avoided the questioning of the visitor for various reasons, and the specific reason was reluctant to say. After learning about this situation, Aunt Wang was even more sure that Xiao Yuyang was being bullied.
So the experienced Aunt Wang, after careful consideration, came up with a way to quietly follow Xiao Yuyang from morning to night for three consecutive days while avoiding other servants. During these three days, Aunt Wang saw with her own eyes the other servants of the Lin Mansion seeing that Xiao Yuyang was young and deliberately made things difficult for him. At the same time, he also unexpectedly learned that Xiao Yuyang was not only assigned a lot of chores by Steward Lin outside Nanyuan, but also abused. For example, he did not wipe the tables and chairs in the ancestral hall, and was punished by Steward Lin. Sometimes, Steward Lin even deliberately made things difficult for Xiao Yuyang and didn't give him food.
After that, Aunt Wang quietly sent someone to approach the servant who had been working with Xiao Yuyang for a long time, and secretly learned that the culprit for today's situation was the second lady. Everything was because the second lady deliberately made things difficult for Steward Lin, which made Steward Lin resentful, and Steward Lin didn't dare to show a trace of disrespect in front of the second lady, so he could only secretly vent his anger behind his back. Every time Steward Lin was troubled by the second miss, he vented the resentment in his heart on Xiao Yuyang, who had been following the second miss for a long time.
Aunt Wang, who grew up with Xiao Yuyang since she was a child, was furious in her heart when she learned the ins and outs of the matter, knowing that Steward Lin's difficulties lasted for a whole year. So Aunt Wang secretly found an opportunity to report the matter to Mrs. Lin, and when Mrs. Lin called Steward Lin to inquire, she never thought that Steward Lin seemed to have heard some rumors and had already been prepared.
Faced with Aunt Wang's questioning, they were all perfunctory by Steward Lin one by one, and the responsibility was completely pushed away. Aunt Wang also felt helpless about this, and only hated that she hadn't collected enough evidence of the crime at that time. In the end, Mrs. Lin had no choice but to punish the attendants who had bullied Xiao Yuyang for a long time and drive them out of the Lin Mansion. As for Steward Lin, he was only reprimanded by Mrs. Lin for a few words, and the matter was over.
Aunt Wang saw that Lin Gao did not get the punishment he deserved, so she proposed to her wife to take Xiao Yuyang back to the South Courtyard, otherwise she would offend Lin Gao because of her complaint this time, and now Lin Gao didn't dare to do anything to Xiao Yuyang, but once the limelight passed, Xiao Yuyang would be even more sad in the future.
Two days later, after the discussion between Mrs. and the head of the Lin family, Xiao Yuyang has now offended Lin Gao, the housekeeper of the Lin family. Although Lin Gao didn't say anything on the surface, with Lin Gao's character, he would definitely retaliate against Xiao Yuyang in private. In order to protect Xiao Yuyang's safety, the kind-hearted Mrs. Lin thought about it, so she proposed to send Xiao Yuyang to Wutang, after all, in the entire Lin Mansion, there was only an independent Wutang, which was not under the authority of Lin Gao. The people of the martial arts hall only obeyed the orders of the current head of the Lin family. The internal affairs of the martial hall were not only out of the reach of Lin Gao, the housekeeper of the Lin Mansion, but even the other elders of the Lin Mansion could not interfere, which was the best shelter for the young Xiao Yuyang. In addition, Mrs. Lin Long felt that Xiao Yuyang was getting older, and it was time to cultivate it well, so Mrs. Lin proposed to send Xiao Yuyang to the Lin Family Martial Hall, and was immediately decided by the head of the Lin family, and Mrs. Lin also specially handed over the task of taking care of and training Xiao Yuyang to the head of the martial arts hall, Yi Yong.
When Mrs. told Aunt Wang about this, Aunt Wang readily agreed. Because the Lin Family Martial Hall is the place where the Lin family cultivates the elite of the guards, only those who are loyal to the Lin family can enter it for further study, and the status of the Lin family is quite high, second only to the Lin Family Medicine Hall, and it is currently the best place for Xiao Yuyang. In addition, the reputation of the head of the Volunteer Sect is well-known in the Lin family. Not only is he outstanding in battle, he has a good martial arts, but he is also humble and sympathetic to his subordinates, and he is respected by everyone in the Lin family.
So on the night after the head of the family agreed, Mrs. Lin asked Aunt Wang to take Xiao Yuyang back to Nanyuan, resettle in Nanyuan, and hand her over to Aunt Wang to take care of.
At this point, the matter was finally resolved, and Aunt Wang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Half a month after Xiao Yuyang returned to the South Courtyard, Mrs. Lin sent someone to send Xiao Yuyang to the martial arts hall more than ten miles away from the Lin Mansion.
In the past half a month, Xiao Yuyang has been taken care of by Aunt Wang, and his body has gradually recovered, but Yuyang's heart will always leave some shadows. Fortunately, Yuyang was young, and under the careful care of Aunt Wang, he soon returned to his former liveliness.
When Xiao Yuyang was sent to Wutang, Aunt Wang would also come to see Xiao Yuyang every month. But after all, Wutang is the important place of the Lin family, and even after getting the special permission of the Lin family master, he can only go to Wutang to visit Xiao Yuyang once in a month.
Whenever the weather was cold, Aunt Wang would always ask someone to send some charcoal fire, clothes and other daily necessities to Xiao Yuyang; she was afraid that Xiao Yuyang would not be able to eat enough in the martial arts hall and starve, so she would sometimes secretly take some delicious food and quietly ask someone to send it to Xiao Yuyang's room in the martial arts hall, and constantly ask people to bring him to encourage him to persevere and practice martial arts seriously.
Xiao Yuyang remembered Aunt Wang's kindness to him, although he was the youngest member of the martial arts, but all the people in the martial arts were very concerned and loving about Xiao Yuyang.
In Wutang, Yuyang's childlike nature has been released to the maximum, after all, Yuyang is still young, and it is the nature of children to love to play. When he entered the martial arts hall, Xiao Yuyang was often naughty and mischievous, and every time he was severely reprimanded by the head of the Volunteer Sect afterwards. But Xiao Yuyang still goes his own way, and he is right when he should get into trouble, and he is quite helpless about the head of the righteous and brave sect, he has been the head of the sect for so many years, and he really has no way to deal with the young Xiao Yuyang.
And Wutang also has such a naughty ghost, the martial arts field, which has always been serious, will also be because of some naughty behavior of Xiao Yuyang from time to time, which makes the training team members can't help but let out bursts of laughter, which makes the tense training atmosphere suddenly a lot easier. As long as Xiao Yuyang is not too excessive, he will not interfere too much, too much restraint on Xiao Yuyang, and it will not be good for his future growth. The training in the martial arts hall is too heavy, and with the rain and sun, it can adjust the tension of the players from time to time.
Yuyang's age is still too young, according to the idea of the leader of the righteous and brave sect, not to interfere too much to restrain Yuyang, in fact, in order to tap the potential of Xiao Yuyang. And Xiao Yuyang also knows how to control the sense of proportion, and generally when other team members are conducting important training, he will not go to the martial arts field too much to disturb the team members' training.
In addition to training the Lin family's armor and the Lin family's guards, the head of the Yiyong sect will also train Xiao Yuyang alone in his spare time, after all, Yuyang will become the second lady's personal scholar in the future, if he doesn't have excellent skills, he can't do it, plus Yiyong found that Xiao Yuyang's physical physique and balance are good, although he looks a little weak and not frightened, but his physique is still not bad, and it is suitable for martial arts.