The next morning, just after dawn, I could already hear the high-pitched and loud rooster crow.

After a few ringing times, I couldn't bear to pull the quilt over, blindfolded my head, and turned over to go back to sleep.

Last night, Mr. Wei was so angry that he smoked, and he tossed and changed the bed and bedding, and the time to really sleep was probably only two or three hours, I was really sleepy, so I thought about sleeping a little longer.

Unexpectedly, in this White Cloud Valley, in addition to the crowing rooster disturbing people's dreams, other people also deliberately did not teach me to rest; Before I could close my eyes and fall asleep again, I heard the powerful knocking sound of "tuk tuk tuk" sounding one after another, and there was a posture that I kept knocking without opening the door.

Unable to bear the disturbance, I had to hastily wrap my coat, pull on my shoes, staggered to pull the door latch, glared at the strange boy who knocked on the door with displeasure, and asked angrily, "Who are you?" Early in the morning...... What's the matter? ”

As if he didn't notice my hidden anger, he said gently: "I am a medicine disciple of Baiyun Valley, and my master sent me to ask Your Excellency to get up and go to the medicine house to talk. ”

Since he was polite, I didn't have a good seizure, I looked at the sky, it was probably five or six o'clock in the morning, I couldn't help but rub my sour eyes, and I was depressed: "It's so early...... Is your teacher Mr. Wei? Did he say what it was? ”

"The master just sent me to invite Your Excellency, but the others didn't say anything." He smiled apologetically and leaned sideways inquiringly.

――Did you invite me to have breakfast with you?

I pressed my abdomen, and I was indeed hungry...... In the fierce battle between the Sandman and the God of Food, it was the God of Food that prevailed.

I nodded and compromised, "Okay, wait a minute. ”

I went back to my room to wash up, and it took some effort to get dressed—I sighed that I had gradually become accustomed to being served, and that it was inconvenient to suddenly have no attendants by my side. Secretly accusing himself of developing more and more in the aspect of arrogance and lasciviousness, he patted his face, shook his spirits, and followed the young man to the medicine store.

Along the way, I found that the place where I lived was a very remote courtyard, a detached house, although it was quiet, but it was also very simple; The further I went, the more I peeked into the other courtyards of the manor, and I vaguely felt that there was no more dilapidated place than where I lived—presumably the arrangement of this residence was also intentional by Mr. Na Wei.

It also shows that his hostility towards me is true, not that I am too careful.

I just don't know, where does this hostility come from?

The boy led me to an unguarded medicine house, and I was gone.

I looked around, but I didn't see the tables, chairs, dishes, chopsticks, or the food that I was looking for, just a pile of firewood and a rusty axe—it didn't look like I had been invited for breakfast.

I felt a kind of indignation in my heart that I had been fooled, and my stomach was screaming with hunger, and I was about to go home, but I saw a man in a black robe walking out of the medicine house.

Facing his smiling gaze, even though he was unwilling, he still greeted patiently: "Mr. Wei, good morning." ”

"It's not early, the chickens have crowed three or four times." He patted the dust on his hands, glanced at me nonchalantly, and asked with a smile, "Your Royal Highness King Ling, haven't you had breakfast yet?" Aren't you used to it without someone to serve? ”

"It's okay, it's okay." According to the hungry lower abdomen, I couldn't figure out what he meant, so I snorted and prepared to leave.

Unexpectedly, he suddenly pointed to a pile of firewood spread on the ground, and said with a smile: "I can't hide it, the valley is narrow, the money is tight, and he never raises idlers. ”

-- Listening to what he meant, he actually disliked me for eating and living here for nothing, and asked me to chop wood to pay off my debts?

"It's not that this king doesn't pay...... "Most of my money is in the hands of the accompanying guards, and I only have a few large silver tickets left, but despite this, it is more than enough to buy a small courtyard, can't I afford to pay for food and room these days?"

"Heh, doesn't His Royal Highness King Ling think that everything in this world can be solved with silver?" Who knew that he didn't look at the silver ticket I handed over, but instead looked awe-inspiring and inviolable, and sneered, "My rules in Baiyun Valley are to support yourself and don't look forward to others-besides, these firewood are prepared for boiling the medicinal materials you need to boil King Ling." ”

The implication is that I should chop all the firewood by myself, so as to save the delay in medicine.

- Cut, I don't believe in him as a dignified valley master, and he does everything himself.

To put it bluntly, isn't it to make things difficult for me?

Anyway, I am the one who asks for help, and I am naturally the one who bows my head first.

Since he intends to see me make a fool of myself, then I will accompany me to the end...... It's just that I always have to find out why he's targeting me so much.

Thinking about this, I didn't bother to deal with him any longer, rolled up my sleeves, and bent down to pick up the axe on the ground—the axe weighed about seven or eight pounds, and the handle was a rough hardwood that had not been polished.

I held a log upright, then held the axe high above my head with both hands and chopped it down. With a click, the blade of the axe stuck on the bevel of the log, and the tiger's mouth shook back violently, as if it was about to tear open the muscles.

"Hmph, His Royal Highness King Ling is slowly chopping, I'll go do things first." The man surnamed Wei crossed his arms and looked at me for a while, and when he saw that I was wolf, he smiled more and more proudly, waved his hand, and left—the mockery in his eyes could not be hidden.

"Damn!" I took the log for him, and chopped it down with an axe, but only widened the crack wider; And the tiger's mouth actually burst out of a bloody mouth, and I couldn't help frowning.

It's no wonder that he despises me, my body is really weak......

"Hiss-" I barely chopped a few firewoods, and the wound at the tiger's mouth became more and more severe, and there were even more broken sawdust piercing into the flesh, which taught me to grin and retreat.

Glancing at the pile of firewood, which had reached my knee height as if it had not diminished at all, he sighed and resigned himself to lifting the axe, which weighed more than a thousand pounds to me.

I don't know if it was because my mind was too relaxed, my eyes were not focused accurately, or if my muscles were too tired and I lost my strength, but when I reacted, the axe had missed the upright log and smashed straight towards the instep of my foot—I could see the axe whizzing down with a sharp castration, and I seemed to be able to foresee the flesh and bones of this foot separated and the blood blurred.

Oops-I was horrified, but I couldn't help but close my eyes and wait for that moment to come.

The next moment, there was no expected severe pain, but a light hand in his hand, the axe he was holding was pulled out of his palm, and then fell into a warm embrace.

A familiar voice sounded in his ears, and his cold voice was no longer calm and calm, but rarely brought a trace of tense trembling, nervous, worried, and mixed with a little panic: "What are you doing?" ”

My heart seemed to skip a beat, and I opened my eyes abruptly to meet those eyes that were no longer indifferent...... The heartbeat slowly recovered, and only then did I feel a layer of cold sweat on my back.

I felt a pang of joy when she clenched her wrist hurt - a pain that proved that she cared about me.

Thinking like this, even if I was taught to break this wrist in an instant, I would be willing and would not frown.

Determined, I turned away from her gaze, and said casually, "As you can see, I'm chopping wood." ”

I felt her gaze wander probingly over my face a few times, and the hand holding me gradually loosened - the sudden disappearance of warmth taught me to breathe a sigh of relief, but it was also difficult to hide the loss.

"Your Highness......" quietly looked over, only to see that she was wearing a tight-fitting dark practice uniform, her long hair stood up high, she was holding a purple and blue sword, her sideburns were slightly sweaty, and her body was filled with a warm vitality after exercise - it was a kind of hormonal breath that people couldn't stop.

I felt that I would lose my mind if I got any closer to her, so I turned away as if I didn't feel anything, picked up the axe that had fallen to the ground, and jokingly said, "It's not good to be untrustworthy...... What did you promise me yesterday? It's just the two of us here~"

“…… Jane. Her sigh made my heart tighten, and the hand holding the axe used its strength - unconsciously touching the wound, and I subconsciously screamed in pain.

"Did Wei Shu ask you to do it?" She grabbed my hand, flipped it over softly but forcefully, revealing her injured palm, and asked in a deep voice, seemingly casually, but with great care, she carefully picked out the crumbs embedded in the flesh.

I guess that the Wei Shuding in her mouth is undoubtedly the one surnamed Wei, and she has the intention to sue him in front of Jiang Zhuo, and after thinking about it, she feels naïve; Besides, Jiang Zhuo's current identity is just my escort, and the person surnamed Wei treats me with such an attitude, how can he give her a good look?

However, having said that, if I show weakness and coquettishness, can teach Jiang Zhuo to be soft-hearted, greet me with warmth, and comfort me with kind words, it is more important than anything else.

Thinking of this, I also let go of my cheeks, deliberately bit my lip, made a look of grievance and forbearance, and said in a mournful voice: "I was called here by my disciple early in the morning, and I thought I was invited to breakfast, but who knew that Mr. Wei actually said that there are no idlers in this valley, so I have to chop these firewood to pay off the debt; Poor me, helpless, hungry, and really have no strength...... Alas, who taught me to ask for help? ”

At the end of the words, I thought of the poison in my body, and I didn't know who was the poisoner, in a confusing situation, and the danger was everywhere, but it was really a little sad.

Jiang Zhuo listened to my complaint silently, and did not answer, but took out the wound medicine that seemed to never leave his body, carefully wiped it on my wound, and casually tore a piece of fabric under the hem of his clothes, and wrapped it around my palm as gauze.

Her movements were very quick, and her serious eyes were vaguely gentle, and I could see the deer in my heart crashing, and I could hardly feel the sting of the wound.

After three or two bandages, I was still savoring the touch of her fingertips brushing my palm, when I saw her lift the axe on the ground, weigh it a few times, and then silently chop wood for me.

I took a few steps back, looking at her silent back chopping wood, and I only felt that a clear spring was rising from the bottom of my heart, bubbling and bubbling, and even the water vapor that escaped was sweet.