I heard a little movement just now, and I thought that someone was ambushing here to watch or something, but I didn't expect to see one...... Child?

And he was a very beautiful child.

It's just that such a good-looking child wears coarse cloth clothes that have been washed white. If you think that his life is not good, but the childish appearance is not bad, and the bones of the body are not thin.

However, all these contradictions are explained when I see the food in the child's hand.

That heavy mixed color and disgusting smell......

Swill.

Yang Jiu couldn't help but shrink his pupils, and a stream of sour water came straight to his throat, but he was quickly suppressed by him.

Actually, he had eaten it before, but it was a long time ago.

Regardless of his physiological reaction, Yang Jiu is now paying more attention to this child.

He couldn't have sneaked into the house by sneaking past the defense of the hospital, and even if he did, he wouldn't be so perverted and stealing swill, right? So this kid must be from the Lu Mansion, and obviously he is not treated so well, so that the subordinates are better off than him.

Yang Jiu quietly observed and analyzed the child's identity, watching the child shrink from surprise to fear, Yang Jiu hooked a smile of unknown meaning.

Although he endured it well, the flash of indifference and vigilance, and even a little resentment, did not escape Yang Jiu's eyes. These emotions, including forbearance itself, were all too familiar to him.

"What's your name, little one? I only arrived in Lu Mansion yesterday, uncle, my name is Xibei, you can call me Uncle Bei. ”

However, the child still cowered in the corner and did not respond.

"Are you a boy or a girl? Is he also a descendant of the Lu Mansion? ”

The little guy looked like he was eleven or twelve years old, his face had not grown, and he was a little unisexious.

“……”

"Why are you eating this? Are those people bullying you? ”

“……”

"Well, you're not going to be dumb, are you? It's a pity, it's a pretty child. ”

Although he still didn't respond, when he heard Yang Jiu's evaluation of his appearance, his petite body shrank slightly.

Yang Jiu narrowed his eyes, not knowing what he thought.

"I don't mind if you just stay for a while, but Uncle Pei still has to work, and I'm not used to having people next to him, so it's not good if I hurt you. As you can see, my workload is not low, and I may not be able to finish it if I am distracted. Emperor Yang shrugged helplessly with a sad face.

This obvious dismissal, the little guy finally ceased to be inaudible. Standing up tremblingly, holding the broken bowl in his hand, he walked out around Yang Jiu with low eyebrows.

Yang Jiu turned around and saw that the little guy was looking around left and right very carefully. Yang Jiu knew that this was looking for the person he was talking to just now.

It's a kid after all, and it's not enough...... Yang Jiu sighed.

Pretending to chop firewood for a while, Yang Jiu estimated that he had dispelled the little guy's suspicions, so he dropped the axe and started tracking again.

He was still a little worried that the little guy would report his abnormality, although there was no evidence, but the newcomer would usually be more supervised. As a local gentry who has inherited a hundred years, Lu Fu is still vigilant.

But along the way, he found that the little one was getting more and more remote, and finally stopped by a stable. The broken bowl in his hand is gone, probably hidden somewhere when he chopped wood.

From a distance, he watched the little guy struggling but skillfully cleaning and taking care of the horses, and after waiting for a while, there was no movement, and Yang Jiu left.

Returning to the firewood room again, Yang Jiu finally began to work seriously. Fortunately, no one was watching here, otherwise I would have been shocked by Yang Jiu's machine-like precision and neat movements, which seemed to never tire of tiredness!

At noon, after serving the masters, it was the turn of the people to enjoy lunch again.

Yang Jiu once again squeezed next to Lu Feng with the favorability of the morning brush, and after all kinds of flattery, he finally asked about the topic.

"Brother Lu, little brother, I saw a child who looks handsome today, but why is he eating swill? Is he also a subordinate of our Lu Mansion? Why don't you eat with us? ”

Lu Feng was stunned for a moment, and then showed the sinister and obscene smile of the morning. "I didn't expect you to meet so soon! That person, speaking of which, is also the master of our Lu Mansion, the eleventh young master, Lu Xiuran. It's just that his mother is a **, and the master has not been very welcome, so I guess it's not my own species. It's just that his mother died early, and there was no one to protect her, so she couldn't get the slightest benefit in this Lu Mansion and was bullied. A few years ago, I somehow offended the sixth young master, and that day was even more ...... Gee...... In short, the sixth young master asked us subordinates not to give him a good face, not to let him into the kitchen, not to secretly give him food. Where is he still like a master, worse than our subordinates! If it weren't for the different identities in the end, otherwise all of us could take that kid casually...... Hehe, although he is a kid, he really looks like a stunning ......" As he spoke, Lu Feng showed Yang Jiu a look that an adult understands.

Yang Jiu agreed.

But he was sneering in his heart, sure enough, there is such a thing in people's hearts everywhere. Praise the high and the low, especially the child who was originally a higher status than them, but can be despised and bullied by them, which is more likely to make them have a pathological sense of superiority.

"Xibei, I see that you are also a good person, and kindly remind you to stay away from that kid. Do you know how the original wood-splitting process went? It's the stupid big man who looks at the kid pitiful, and secretly sends him food, and he doesn't know how long he has been doing it, anyway, the sixth young master was in a bad mood a few days ago and was in a hurry to find the kid and couldn't find it, so he searched most of the backyard before he found it in the firewood room...... The wood-splitter was beaten out and s......norted, "A cold snort, presumably laughing at the man's stupid kindness."

Yang Jiu smiled a little wryly, and thanked the landing steward for his suggestion.

That's right......

Although it sounds quite pitiful, the stories he has experienced since he was a child or heard from others are much more miserable than this. Therefore, it can't cause too many waves in his heart.

It's just that those obsidian-like eyes suddenly flashed in his heart, and as a person who thought he was still flesh and blood, Yang Jiu was somewhat touched.

I sighed in my heart.

As if to divert his attention, he looked at the dishes on the table.

"Did Lu Fu eat so well at noon? Black chicken and red dates, which aunt's wife is this to make up for her body, right? It's a waste to have so much left......" As a qualified poor peasant class, Xibeijun sighed.

"Oh, this is what the third lady asked the kitchen to do, a few days ago, the martial arts practice said that the hand was cut, Miss Qianjin is more delicate, I heard the little girl who was waiting in Furong Garden say that it was such a big wound......" Lu Feng said, comparing the length of about an inch with two fingers, with a little disdain in his eyes, "I am clamoring to use the best gold sore medicine, and I am making up for it every day...... But it's okay, anyway, the good things that can't be eaten are all cheaper for us in the end, but it would be better to make up for ten more days and a half months! ”

Hearing this explanation, Yang Jiu's heart moved slightly. It turns out that the smell of blood in the morning is because of this, but I always feel something strange that I can't explain......

The time left for the next person to eat is very short, so I will not say more after a few small talks. And Yang Jiu had something in his heart, and he ate even faster. Almost the first one got off the table.

After returning to the firewood room to work for a while, according to the estimation of the morning time, Yang Jiu quietly slipped to the place where the swill was poured at the back of the kitchen, and sure enough, the little guy was already taking the little broken bowl in the ride.

Yang Jiu frowned, looked around and saw that there was no one else around, and shouted in a low voice as he approached.

"Lu Xiuran."

The little guy shook his body, quickly scooped a bowl of swill, and was about to shrink and run away. But how could his speed be faster than Yang Jiu!

Lu Xiuran only felt that his front feet moved, and the weight in his hands disappeared in the next moment. Looking at the tall and unfamiliar figure behind him in horror, against the light, he couldn't see the expression of the person who came. The sound of swill being poured into a bucket was in my ears, and my heart was already cold, and poisonous resentment!

He had already recognized this person as the new guy he had seen outside the firewood room in the morning, and as soon as he called out his name, he understood that this person already knew his situation in the Lu Mansion. It's just that I didn't expect this strong man, who looks quite loyal and has a fairly friendly attitude in the morning, to be so eager to come to find his trouble...... Scold.

Although he had long been used to it, Lu Xiuran still felt chills from his heart to his body. He lowered his head, not daring to let anyone see the burning hatred in his eyes.

"Follow me." Yang Jiu ordered indifferently and unquestionably.

Lu Xiuran's body was slightly stunned, he didn't raise his head and didn't respond otherwise, but he had already guessed Wan Duan in his heart.

Yang Jiu didn't say anything more, let alone leave him any time to think about anything else. Leaving this sentence, Yang Jiu turned around and left.

Yang Jiu didn't care how much Lu Xiuran made assumptions and struggles in his heart, but in the end, he still heard the sound of squirming footsteps behind him, hooked his lips and smiled, and there was appreciation in his eyes that he didn't know.

Although the place where the swill is poured is in a corner, but that side is just facing the firewood house, and this small section of the road connecting the firewood house usually does not pass by at all except for collecting the chopped firewood, so the road is very smooth and not found by others.

And the small courtyard of chopping firewood happened to be on the other side, separated from the firewood house and the hut where Yang Jiu lived, and the sight was perfectly obscured.

When he arrived at the small courtyard of the firewood house, Yang Jiu asked Lu Xiuran to find a place to sit down. He went to a well in the courtyard to fetch a bucket of water, poured it into a wooden basin, and asked Lu Xiuran, who looked suspicious, to wash his hands.

And Yang Jiu himself could only wipe his hand that had touched the bowl that had scooped the swill with a cloth towel just now. Because the exposed hands are also covered with makeup, naturally they can't see water.

Lu Xiuran looked at the expressionless face, and his thoughts were complicated. Finally, with a little sneer, he washed his hands according to Yang Jiu's instructions.

After he finished washing, he dried his hands on the shabby but clean clothes on his body, and was dragged into the wooden house belonging to the wood-splitting guy by Yang Jiu without any resistance.

Yang Jiu could clearly feel the little hand he was holding trembling and instinctively resisting.

Although I somewhat understood why, I couldn't help but roll my eyes.

Little brat, you're really thinking too much, I'm not interested in young children!

Oh, no, it's that I'm not interested in men!

Soon, Lu Xiuran's resistance was replaced by consternation.

He looked at the big bowl of white rice and the plate of miscellaneous meat and vegetables on the table, and he understood everything in an instant! It was precisely because he understood Yang Jiu's intentions that it was even more unbelievable!

"You, don't you know what I'm doing in the house? Why do you treat me like this? ”

Obsidian-like eyes looked at Yang Jiu fixedly, as if he was afraid of missing every subtle expression of the other party.

Yang Jiu smiled, "You can come to me for three meals in the future, it's not good to eat those things all the time." You're not too young, you should know that the safest place is the most dangerous place, right? You were caught in the firewood room last time, and they shouldn't suspect it anymore. You eat slowly, don't be kind to me, but you were choked to death. I'll go out to work first. He avoided answering Lu Xiuran's question.

Lu Xiuran bit his lip and watched the tall and burly figure walk out of the room. I can't say anything about it.

At the beginning, the uncle who chopped wood also secretly sent food to himself, but it was definitely not as absolute as this new man, so unresistible, as if he was not afraid of anything.

Are you really not afraid or are you just a reckless man?

But it's incredible, I seem to think that this strange man can give me a sense of security, unlike the uncle before, although I have accepted help and been moved, but I have always known in my heart, and I know that sooner or later it will be discovered.

But I still took advantage of that honest man.

Thinking of this, Lu Xiuran laughed self-deprecatingly.

Could it be that the uncles who chop wood are all such fools?

The wooden table was placed by the window, and Lu Xiuran seemed to eat the delicious food that he had never remembered leisurely but quickly, and his demeanor was unexpectedly elegant.

From time to time, his eyes jumped over the window to look at the man who was still vigorous with a huge axe. I guessed how long this stupid uncle could help me......

Also, is he really doing it out of kindness to help himself?

Touching his face, he knew very well how attractive his appearance was to others. Although, this is also the reason for bringing yourself such humiliation.

…………

[Lord Silver, do you pity him?] ]

[Sort of, I always feel like us.] If you have nothing to do left and right, you may be able to trigger some interesting stories by intervening in other people's lives~]

[Okay, Xiaobai is 100% in favor of the main silver.] I just think that this kid is too deep-minded, so don't threaten you in the future. ]

[…… Xiaobai, I didn't expect you to be able to recognize people's hearts with one program...... The technology of your time is really ......] Yang Jiu responded casually.

[Some of the most basic emotions are written into our program, such as happiness, sadness, anger, and other highly recognizable emotions can be read and expressed.] ]

[Tsk, it's unimaginable, I don't know how to feel.] ]

The two of them chatted like this, and it wasn't until Lu Xiuran walked out with the dishes, chopsticks and plates that Yang Jiu stopped what he was doing and looked over.

"I mean, little brat, how long has it been since you've had a good meal, and this plate is cleaner than licked?!"

Yang Jiu's directness made Lu Xiuran ashamed, lowered his head, hurriedly ran to the well, put down the dishes and chopsticks, and began to draw water with his little arms.

The wells here are all equipped for a strong man like Yang Jiu, even if Lu Xiuran fetches less water, the weight of the bucket itself is enough to make him tired and hum.

But just as he was about to scoop some water out with a wooden scoop on his side, he suddenly noticed a shadow falling on his head. As soon as I looked up, I felt a pain in my forehead.

suppressed the dissatisfaction and inexplicability in his heart, and looked at the person in front of him with pitiful eyes.

Unexpectedly, the man scolded him in a vicious tone: "Are you stupid!" Those people bullied you so much, and you still gave them to lighten their work burden?! The face was furious.

Lu Xiuran was stunned on the spot.

Ju, is it for this?

"I, I thought...... I'll wash it for you......"

Yang Jiuyi rolled his eyes, "Do you think I look like such a kind person?" I don't get paid, and I wash the dishes for others? Silly boy, the kung fu of stealing and playing tricks is still far behind, let's learn from my uncle! Things go down the table, and I just sneak them into the kitchen when I eat at night. ”

Lu Xiuran continued to stay ......

What about that loyal and honest old man, silly uncle?!!!

Looking at the little kid's stunned face, Yang Jiu couldn't help but change his smile when he stared. "Okay, okay, when you're full, go back to your business, don't bother me here."

He was taken away again......

In fact, I am often disliked and drunk by those so-called brothers and sisters and even subordinates, but for the first time, I was driven away, unexpectedly, not uncomfortable?

With his back to the uncle named Xibei, Lu Xiuran touched the corners of his mouth that couldn't help but upturn, and felt inexplicable......

And when he returned to the stable, thinking of today's dramatic unfolding, he thought about it again and again, and did not find out which master this new uncle would be planted to deceive and play with him. On the contrary, I feel that it is unbelievable that a person who has just met and has not spoken a few words can let himself get along with him so naturally and relaxed!

Stroking the smooth fur of the horse, Lu Xiuran muttered: "Da Hei, I met a strange uncle today, I have never seen such a strange person!" I just don't know, in a few days, when he sees the situation clearly, he will be able to treat me so well......"

"Eleventh Young Master, Sixth Young Master tells you to hurry up." An impatient voice from a servant came.

Lu Xiuran's face instantly turned cold.