- After Chen Jiu left, Lin Shan also walked out of the bedroom, his face returned to his usual calmness, and his eyes changed to a sense of purity.

Nowadays, his hearing is abnormal, although it is caused by illness, but not all of the five senses are troubled by him, and sometimes it can also play some beneficial roles. For example, just now, he had already heard the sound of footsteps going back and forth outside the door, which was actually from a person. This man waited for a long time, obviously having something to tell.

Just now he just didn't say anything to Chen Jiu, in fact, he was also a little attached to the warmth at that time.

After cleaning up that little bit of warmth and returning to his usual rational and meticulous state, Lin Shan walked out of the bedroom and saw Jiang Chao pacing back and forth, and asked directly, "Did something happen yesterday?"

In the days when Lin Shan lived in the small town of Northland, he was still dressed as he used to teach at Lizheng Academy, wearing a cloth shirt, and he did not wear a high crown, but only wrapped his hair with a cloth belt, and his outfit was very low-key.

At this time, I saw Lin Shan, who had been sleeping all night, and his hair was still as neat as when he went out yesterday, which showed that he slept last night like a stone that had not moved a bit.

Just smelling some wine made him sleepy like this, and thinking about it only made people feel shocked.

Jiang Chao couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

Lin Shan rolled up his sleeves, folded his arms in front of him, and said, "Go to the study."

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After leaving Lin Shan's bedroom, Chen Jiu was about to ask the maid to go to the kitchen to make some refreshments, when he saw the maidservant Lan Ya coming over.

Yesterday, Lan Ya was unpleasant when she was cleaning up the dining room with a few other maids, and those maids only conveyed a few words to Chen Jiu. They thought that if Lan Ya had said the original words, if they had told the old wine, they would probably make their eldest sister unhappy for several days, so they made some concealments. Besides, Lan Ya doesn't chew these rotten gossips every day, and occasionally makes mistakes, and everyone tolerates it and it passes.

Last night was also because Lin Shan's condition was different, and Chen Jiu had no patience and spirit for anything else. About what her little sisters told her yesterday, when they saw Lanya at this moment. She remembered something, but she didn't care. Lanya is still one of her clever little sisters.

Lin Shan is not strict with the servant girls in the residence, in fact, his daily life is carefully taken care of by Chen Jiu, and there are very few places where other maidservants can be called. It's still early. Except for the maidservants who happened to be on duty today, the rest of the maids either hadn't gotten up yet, or were still washing.

Seeing Lan Ya in neat clothes at this time, Chen Jiu no longer had other thoughts, and after a word or two of greetings, she ordered Lin Shan's morning refreshments.

Lan Ya seemed to be very happy to agree, and when Chen Jiu left with confidence, countless pores seemed to suddenly appear on her face, absorbing all the joyful smiles, and her eyes gradually deepened.

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In the study.

After listening to Jiang Chao's report, the strange scene that a team of subordinates saw yesterday evening. Lin Shan also began to ponder.

Looking at Lin Shan, whose eyes were slightly lowered and thinking silently, Jiang Chao hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't bear to give a hint: "If you want to track down the true traces of Liao Shi, those short-tailed foxes in the corner courtyard of the residence can come in handy."

Lin Shan was still pondering. Wen Yan just said casually: "How to use it?"

"Although the guards who followed Liao Shi yesterday evening didn't last long and lost it, a few of them saw Liao Shi sitting on the frame that was flying close to the ground, unscrewing the gourd and drinking the old wine." Jiang Chao explained slowly, and finally said his own idea, "Although Sister Jiu's clay pot is empty, with the special domestication that those short-tailed foxes have received, just let them sniff the empty wine pot again." There will be a reward. ”

"Then ......" Lin Shan was about to agree with Jiang Chao's construction, but when the words came to his lips, he hesitated slightly.

After a pause, he beckoned, and Jiang Chao approached the table and bowed to his ears. Listen to him say a few words in a very slight voice.

When he stood up straight, Jiang Chao's face was obviously puzzled, and he asked hesitantly: "Adults are used to cutting the edges clean, why do you want to arrange it like this this time?"

Lin Shan stared at Jiang Chao for a moment, but still did not answer. He just said lightly: "If I don't explain this matter anymore, will you still do the arrangements you just ordered?"

Jiang Chao no longer hesitated when he heard this, and immediately replied respectfully: "Don't dare to disobey."

Lin Shan really didn't explain anything, just raised his sleeve and said, "Then let's go."

Jiang Chao took the order, arched his hand to Lin Shan, who was sitting behind the desk, and then exited the study.

Lan Ya, the maidservant who had been waiting outside the study for a while, saw the door open and Jiang Chao walked out, as if the discussion in the study had ended, so she walked towards the study with the hot soup and snacks that had been prepared.

When she passed by Jiang Chao, she was suddenly stopped again.

Stretched out his finger and probed the sand pottery soup urn, glanced at the two pastries on the tray again, and then said with a slight smile: "Please don't mind, Miss Lanya, Jiang may be a little too cautious in doing this, but now that the old pharmacist has left here, Lord Lin had a strange situation yesterday evening, and I have to pay careful attention today and in the future."

"Well, this Lanya knows, she will pay more attention." Lan Ya replied softly, a gentle smile on her face, not showing any hint of affection.

Jiang Chao thought for a while and then said, "Usually, Lord Lin is taken care of by Sister Jiu every day for food and drink, and there is no need for a rough man like me to ask. However, Sister Wine will occasionally be delayed by some affairs, so she needs the help of a clever girl like you. In the future, if you encounter something like today, you can make it clear to the inside, no matter how busy Lord Lin is, you will not keep you waiting outside. ”

Jiang Chao was stating a practical situation, but he didn't want Lan Ya to draw another meaning from his words.

She hurriedly squatted down to salute, apologized and said, "It's Lanya who did something wrong, and she shouldn't just know how to wait." Wait any longer, and the soup will be cold. If it warms up, even the taste will be lost. ”

Jiang Chao hurriedly helped her up, and said warmly: "Don't be so polite, Jiang doesn't mean to blame you, you can go in."

Walking into the study with a tray and a slight bowed head, Lan Ya raised her eyes to look behind the desk, and saw that Lord Lin, who was extremely respected by everyone in the residence, was sitting on the chair, and seemed to lean all the weight of his body on the back of the chair. He tilted his head slightly. I don't know where my eyes stopped on the roof of the study, and I don't know what he was pondering at the moment.

Lan Ya put down the tray on another small table against the wall in the study, then opened the lid of the soup urn and scooped out a small bowl of warm and incomparably light mushroom and yam soup with a soup spoon.

I heard the soft clatter of the bowls. Lin Shan put away the questions in his mind, got up from the chair, and walked to the small table and sat down. Under normal circumstances, he rarely dined at the desk, which was clearly shoe-length and wide-shoe-wide.

Fingertips pinched the handle of the narrow porcelain spoon, bowed his head slightly and tasted the warm clear soup, when he raised his head, he stood aside with his hands tied, and Lan Ya, who was a little nervous, heard him ask slowly: "This soup is your craft?"

Lan Ya's heart became even more nervous.

Outside just now, Jiang Chao's words were very tactful. Lin Shan's meals have always been taken care of by aged wine, which is true. But Chen Jiu didn't occasionally take care of this side because of things as Jiang Chao said. Although Chen Jiu opened a winery in the town, the business of the winery gradually prospered, but she did not mean that she was unpopular, because the focus of her daily affairs has always been on Lin Shan's side.

Aged wine almost never misses the affairs of Lin Shan's side, but accurately calculates. Today was the first time Lan Ya had the opportunity to cook Lin Shan's breakfast.

Nervousness is a feeling that she can't avoid in her heart at this time, her sensitive nerves are worried, I don't know if Lin Shan will ask this, is it because she has done something wrong.

She wasn't nervous for long, though, because she didn't wait for her to answer this very simple question. Lin Shan, who had already noticed that her hands that were naturally hanging by her side began to clench slowly, said again: "This soup tastes good, and it is very comfortable to drink, thank you for your craftsmanship." In the past, it has always been aged sake to do these things, and it is actually good to change the taste once in a while. ”

Although it was praised, you can see the expression on Lan Ya's face at the moment. It was as if the surprise was greater than the joy.

No one has ever complimented her on the soup she makes.

Because she really doesn't have the talent to cook soup, and the food she cooks tastes mediocre, about the same as when she heard those mothers-in-law say when she was in General Mu's mansion before, her cooking level is enough to cook raw food and eat the dead.

At this time, Master Lin, who heard everyone in the residence respecting and obedient, praised the delicious soup she cooked. In addition to wondering if she was still dreaming, another thing she immediately wanted to do was to taste the soup in this urn herself, and whether her skills had really improved a lot unconsciously?

However, although she was suspicious in her heart, and did not have the opportunity to verify it immediately, in her opinion, there was really no need for the adult sitting in front of her to pretend to praise her, and his next move also proved once again that the praise he had just made was his true feeling.

Lin Shan put down the porcelain spoon he was holding at his fingertips, picked up the small soup bowl that was no more than the size of a palm with one hand, and drank the bowl of lightly boiled warm soup in three or two sips like drinking tea.

If anyone was holding a large bowl of soup in both hands, the posture would definitely look a little rude, but at this time, the small soup bowl in Lin Shan's hand was not much bigger than an ordinary tea cup, and the temperature of the clear soup was indeed not suitable for a thin spoon to taste slowly, and the way he drank the soup like this was a little more casual in the eyes of Lan Ya, who saw this scene for the first time.

What's more, from a certain point of view, this is undoubtedly the most honest compliment to Tang Hao.

Seeing Lin Shan put down the small soup bowl, Lan Ya hurriedly took a step closer and asked softly, "Sir, do you still need the maidservant to serve you another bowl?" Although the voice is soft, the meaning is full of joy.

But to Lanya's surprise and disappointment, Lin Shan shook his head.

In fact, he had drunk a bowl of soup so quickly, not necessarily because he thought the soup tasted delicious, and half of the reason was that his keen and sick sense of hearing had already heard another guard coming towards him, and his footsteps were in such a hurry that he was obviously coming with something.

Last night's long hibernation did make some things pile up to today, and I had to put in a little more energy and be patient.

It didn't take long for the guards who were hurrying towards this side to enter the study, and they had reported something yesterday evening, and then went to look for Shanliang in a circle of forest cedars outside the town.

Shan Liang saw that the maidservant girl he had only seen yesterday was also in the study, and when he swept his eyes on the table, he knew what she was doing here. Nodding at her, as if he had said hello, Shan Liang moved his gaze back to Lin Shan's face, walked to a very close distance and whispered a few words, and Lin Shan stood up after hearing this. Went out of the study with Shan Liangxing.

After walking a few steps away, Lin Shan suddenly stopped, remembering that whenever he left, his study would inevitably be locked. And just now he was in a hurry. Neglecting this, he left a servant girl in the study.

But he didn't turn around and go back to lock the door, only paused for a moment. In recent days, he has begun to clean up the drafts in his study, and the important parts of the manuscripts that were originally piled up on the shelves have been cleaned up first, leaving only a few fragments of the manuscripts. Therefore, even if the study was burned to ashes by a fire, it would not cause him any loss.

As for the servant girl who cooked the soup deliciously, she was not the object of his questioning.

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Seeing Lin Shan and his guards walking away, the maidservant Lan Ya retracted her gaze, and was about to pack up the dishes and leave. However, when her eyes touched the soup urn with the clay lid open, and looked at the clear soup that still had wisps of hot air floating out of the urn, she suddenly had another thought in her heart.

He walked to the inside of the study door, and at a very fast speed, he peered out to the left and right, and saw that there was only one guard standing outside the door. It's no different from standing outside with a tray in my hand. The guard was still standing a little farther away, and it was probably because Lin Shan didn't want anyone to hear what he was talking about in the study just now, so he lined up the guards first.

Lan Ya retracted her gaze, walked back to the small dining table, no longer hesitated, picked up the big spoon she had just used to scoop the soup and stirred it into the soup urn, and then tilted her neck. Swallow half a spoonful of broth.

Immediately after, she almost spit out the mushroom and yam soup she had just swallowed in her throat.

Sure enough, it is worthy of the soup that I boiled, but it is still so unpalatable.

Lan Ya pursed her lips and tried to swallow back the clear soup that had been halfway pouring from her throat to her mouth. She took out the handkerchief from her sleeve and wiped the dripping soup that had accidentally spilled from the corner of her mouth, and the expression on her face gradually sank.

It's not because the soup is so bad. The fruits of one's own labor, no matter how bad they are, will never make them too disgusting, just as people will always tolerate their own shortcomings.

She felt a hint of hatred because she felt that the adult had just deceived her.

She didn't know that with the degraded taste of the forest cedar now, she tasted the clear soup she had boiled and forgot to put salt. In fact, it really fits his feelings. Therefore, what he said just now is true, but he tastes it with the taste of ordinary people, and of course it is impossible to accept this saltless taste.

In the past, when Chen Jiu served Lin Shan for dinner, he didn't dare to do it to such an extreme, and he didn't put salt in the meal at all! Therefore, after Lin Shan tasted this soup, he only felt that the taste of this soup was really the first time.

But Lan Ya, who didn't know about this situation, could only think in an extreme way at this time: Lin Shan, when weaving lies, could actually express himself so perfectly; His deceptive words are so persuasive.

She actually believed it just now!

She seldom trusts what an outsider says as she did just now, so her trust is actually extremely fragile. The words of praise that she had just believed and rejoiced in had been overturned in such a short period of time, and outsiders could not imagine how strong the anger had rolled up in her heart at this time.

Putting the soup spoon on the tray, she didn't continue to put away the small bowl that Lin Shan had used on the side. Still standing at the table, her gaze had begun to scan around the study.

- Sure enough, people can only trust their own words and rely on their own choices!

It was when Lin Shan's injury was out of danger that Lanya was sent by Kyoto to the small town of Northland to become a handyman maid in the residence, and she has been here for nearly two years. She has passed by this study many times and had the opportunity to come in a few times, so every time she can rarely come in, she will carefully observe the environment in the study, which can be regarded as curiosity.

At this time, recalling the study room she had observed before, and comparing it with what she saw in front of her now, Lan Ya couldn't help but squint.

In the study, almost all the square pieces of paper, brochures, picture scrolls and other things that were filled with the left and right rows of wooden shelves should have been cleaned up seventy percent by now. All the scrolls are gone, and more than half of the booklet is missing, and the remaining thirty percent of the things are about all pieces of paper that are a little messy, and you don't need to turn them over to know that these things are not very important.

Lan Ya raised the corners of her mouth with a cold expression.

No wonder he left the study this time and did not lock the study as he had done before. In fact, he doesn't trust his subordinates very much, just because he knows that there are no important things in the study, so he will be so "relieved"!

But Lan Ya's purpose in stopping and looking around in the study was not to look for any books and scrolls. In fact, she often has doubts about Lin Shan's "paintings" and thinks that there is no beauty at all. If the coax was to be sold on the market, she sarcastically felt that the silver that could be sold might not even compensate for the consumption of pen and ink. And most of the people who bought his paintings thought that the scroll was quite thick, and it was good to take it back to the table.

Lan Ya was just looking for the bottle of medicine at this time.

She's been thinking about it since yesterday.

In the quiet darkness of the night, she lay in bed. Although the eyelids are closed, the mind is clear. Summing up the fragments of an evil story she had heard in the last two months, and piecing them together, she was able to summarize a relatively complete piece of information.

After the old pharmacist left, it won't be long before Lin Shan will leave here. However, although Lin Shan's injuries were healed on the outside, they actually left a very serious legacy on the body. Silver strands began to appear in his hair, which was the most obvious sign. Even if the ugly old medicine man concocted a pigment that could dye a person's hair, but as a servant girl who served him closely. Some changes in the hair and skin of the body cannot be hidden.

And then there is the sentence that the guard Shanliang accidentally said yesterday.

Lin fir can't be drunk? Why can't you dip? What happens if you get drunk?

Watching Lin Shan was carried back from outside by the guards yesterday, like a lifeless stone, and slept for a long night, Lan Ya could probably guess that if Lin Shan was drunk. What the result will be.

I don't know if this hypocritical guy has any other taboos in life, but just the fear of alcohol is enough for him to endure. His subordinates are all free from alcohol and pleasure, and although they will try to be in moderation for his sake, there will inevitably be a time to run into them.

In this case, though. The old pharmacist can still leave, and he must have left some clever tricks to help Lin Shan deal with these taboos.

Liao Shi, who is good at making medicine and is respectfully called "old pharmacist" by everyone in the residence, if he leaves any tricks, it is probably medicine.

Recalling the scene when Lin Shan had just been carried back from outside by the guards, Lan Ya also remembered that two people on the spot repeatedly mentioned the word "medicine". Although this one word doesn't mean much. But in Lan Ya's heart, who had already thought about it for a while, it was like the word in a sentence that was just wrong.

Find out the bottle of medicine! Then, when Lin Shan, a hypocritical guy, wants to leave this place, he will use this medicine as a bargaining chip in his hand, so that he will most likely not be sent back to General Mu's mansion to suffer.

It's just stealing a bottle of medicine, and I don't know if I can steal it today. Compared to the methods of the two cruel women in the back house of General Mu's mansion. This little stealing of oneself can be ranked among the good.

――Kind people occasionally do small things, and that's the kind of person I am.

The original scroll books in the wooden lattice were almost emptied, and it was easy to see through at a glance, and Lan Ya's eyes finally fell on the overly spacious desk in the study. Under the inside of the desk, there are a number of drawers.

Lan Ya made up her mind, but she didn't immediately approach the desk to pull the drawer. She first walked to the door of the study, and the second time she poked her head out and glanced out of the door with great speed, making sure that the guard outside the door was still standing in the same position, looking straight ahead, and had no intention of coming. Then she withdrew her gaze, looked back at the desk, and walked over.

Of course, Lin Shan couldn't put such an important bottle of medicine in a drawer, no matter how tightly guarded the study where the desk was located.

Although the maidservant Lan Ya had already decided that Lin Shan was a hypocrite she despised, his identity was there after all. Lanya knew very well what she would face if her stealing in this study was discovered by the guards outside.

She restrained herself from shaking her hands too much, and tried to pull the drawer as gently as she could, so that the sound of the drawer opening and closing was as soft as possible.

If she used the gentle fingers of opening the drawer at this time to serve a businessman who had been nervous and tired for a day, even if the businessman had been through the ups and downs of the business world for a long time and had a cold heart, I am afraid that she could get a different feeling under the impetus of this gentle and thin fingers.

It took a long time to check all the drawers, but in the end nothing was found, and the maidservant Lan Ya was a little disappointed, and at the same time, her heart swelled with great anger.

She only thinks at this time, for this bottle of medicine. She's bound to win. But she seems to have forgotten that when she first started the idea of stealing medicine, she was actually just holding a mentality of trying.

Although at this time, she had inexplicably firmly believed that there must be a bottle of medicine in the study that she could rely on to blackmail Lin Shan. But the process of inspecting the drawers took so much time that she didn't dare to risk staying in the study any longer, even if the guards outside were no longer afraid.

I have to say that her self-consciousness is quite accurate.

When she had put away the dishes and had just picked up the tray, she turned to see that the guard who had been standing guard far away from the door had entered.

Seeing that Lin Shan hadn't returned for a long time, the guards thought of closing the door of the study. But he was obviously a little surprised that there was still a person in the room, and when he just walked to the door of the study and just glanced inside, his expression froze slightly. But. When he saw the maid's face clearly, and recognized her as the one who had just come to bring breakfast to the adults, and had stood outside with him before, and had chatted with each other for a few words, the slightest doubt in the guard's heart was quickly put down.

"Are you still there?"

The guard was just a greeting. didn't have too many other intentions, but when Lan Ya, who was a thief, heard it, it made her heart tremble.

Thinking quickly in her mind, after a pause, Lan Ya explained a little nervously: "I thought Mr. Lin would come back in a while, so I waited here for a while." He only drank a small bowl of soup for breakfast, how could that be enough? ”

Count her wrong. The guard had the same idea in his heart. If he was to deliver food to Lin Shan, and he saw the adults suddenly go out halfway through eating, he would definitely continue to wait for a while.

--If the guard had just stood in the study, seen with his own eyes the determination of Lin Shan's bowl, and saw the lord shaking his head and refusing the maid's request, he would certainly not have thought like this again.

-- If that happens. The evil thoughts that this servant girl may have deliberately stayed in the study must be clearly engraved in the sane mind of the guard.

But this qiē didn't happen, so the maid who stayed in the study and waited for Lord Lin to come back was still a good maid who could think about the adults in the eyes of the guards.

"This morning. The kitchen is on duty, if Mr. Lin comes back and needs some more food, the little brother can summon the little maid. Seeing that the suspicion on the guard's face had disappeared, and the servant girl Lanya's tense mind was also able to relax a little, and there was more room for thinking in her mind, she added a few words to ease the atmosphere of the scene, "This soup is already cold, and the little maid can't wait any longer." ”

The guards understood and leaned out of the way.

Lan Ya smiled lightly, and stepped out of the threshold from the guard's side with the tray, and after walking a distance, she couldn't help but take a brown look. Her gaze seemed to fall on the face of the guard who had just closed the door and happened to turn around, and the guard saw the maid who was walking away and smiled back, and smiled back.

- He didn't know that it was not him who the servant girl Lanya looked back at, but the unlocked door.

Although the lock on the door can be closed without a key, the guard is not sure if the adult forgot the key in the study when he left, since the adult did not care about the lock, it is inconvenient for him, as a guard, to interfere too carefully.

Seeing that the door of the study was just hidden, Lan Ya's smile at the guard was a little happy at the end. It's just that what she is happy about is that her stealing plan has a second chance, not that she sees someone who is pleasing to her.

Even the guards don't lock the door, so it looks like I still have a chance.

It's just that...... This study seems to be about to be emptied, and the bottle of descendants will not be hidden elsewhere?

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When Lin Shan and his group of guards returned to the town from a hundred miles away, it was already nearly evening. It seems that from yesterday evening to this evening, the transition of time is so fast that it is just a switch of pictures.

Looking at the smoke column rising above the kitchens of every household in the town, and vaguely hearing the sound of the spatula scraping on the iron pot, Lin Shan felt that while his mind was calm, he also clearly felt that he was really tired after tossing and turning outside for a day.

After dinner, wash up and rest, the day can pass so quickly and so easily.

One of the guards saw their adults looking up at the roof of a house for a long time, and he followed suit. But apparently the corner of his gaze was very different from Lin Shan's, and soon everyone saw him raise his hand and point somewhere, laughing and saying, "Look, the smoke from that family's chimney is the thickest, and their family should be able to eat smoked rice tonight."

One of the guards walking side by side with him also looked over there and said casually, "Maybe it's because the firewood hasn't dried it."

"Maybe it's a child who burns the fire in front of the stove, and the craftsmanship is not good!"

"I've only heard that cooking requires craftsmanship, just squatting in front of the stove to light the fire. It's also a craft?"

"As soon as I heard you say this, I knew that you were a man who only knew how to eat. The skill of burning the fire in front of the stove is great, and first of all, saving firewood is equal to consumption, even in the countryside. Collecting firewood also takes time and energy. Again, a room full of firewood smoke, can you let the people who cook on the stove still open their eyes?"

"you...... He also said that I, don't you also open your mouth for dinner, and you will just say a few words verbally. ”

Listening to a few guards around him have a heated debate about a pillar of cooking smoke, although it sounds a little boring at first, but when you think about it, this can be regarded as a busy day outside, and you can find a little light topic after returning to the quiet town.

Lin Shan suddenly smiled and said: "Burning a fire in front of the stove is actually really a science, and I can only open my mouth for food."

Several of the guards were stunned.

Lin Shan did not speak again. But his thoughts suddenly flew away, to when he was still in Xingjia Village a few years ago. Lai was not at home that day, and he had the privilege of cooking a talent that he almost never used, but it turned out that the child who was burning the fire in front of the stove controlled the heat very well. But standing next to the big iron pot, he still boiled a pot of rice into a mess.

That meal was really unpalatable and unforgettable, and the look of the child sitting at the table holding the bowl and frowning with disdain was also unforgettable to him, and when Li Shi came back, the child pulled her hand and grumbled for an hour, and he also remembered.

Those memories were not pleasant, but when he thought about it now, he couldn't help but hook the corners of his mouth.

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In the morning when the sun will be burning. Lin Shan didn't leave half an instruction, and suddenly went out with a few guards. Because of the changes in her mood caused by yesterday's events, Chen Jiu didn't pay much attention to it at first, and she also needed some separate time to sort out her feelings.

After keeping watch in Lin Shan's bedroom all night, she was really tired, and explained some trivial matters and precautions for breakfast and lunch in the residence to the kitchen. So she went back to her room and rested, and slept until the afternoon.

It wasn't until late afternoon that she had a letter, because Lin Shan's departure was delayed.

But she wasn't like the guards who had been found yesterday. ran out to find someone in person, because the guards sued her, Lin Shan originally went out with a group of more than a dozen people, and it seemed that there was something to do.

Fortunately, in the evening, he finally returned.

It was only at this time that the aged wine began to wash the pot and cook. The reason why she started the fire so late was that it was actually a test of people's patience and mood to cook here, and before Lin Shan came back, her mind was a little flustered; Second, the kitchen on this side of the residence is in charge of the food of more than 20 people, and when the fire starts must be considered first.

When Chen Jiu washed the rice and put it in the pot, and just put the lid on the pot, she saw Lin Shan coming from outside. Behind him, there were three guards holding the box in their arms.

As soon as Lin Shan walked into the kitchen, he called out the maid who was burning the fire in front of the stove, and then asked the three guards behind him to put down the box and leave.

Chen Jiu was stunned and said, "What are you going to do?"

"Burn the fire." Lin Shan dragged a box to the stove, and then sat calmly on the stool where the fire-burning maid had sat just now, looked at Chen Jiu and said, "I will also be a slave under the stove today, but I don't know if Miss Chen will accept it?"

Chen Jiu heard the hint of banter in his words, and couldn't help but say, "Don't make trouble, it's time to tell your subordinates to watch jokes."

"The boxes were all brought in by them, and the jokes have long been enough." Lin Shan smiled disappreciatively, then looked at Chen Jiu and asked, "How about it, does Miss Chen accept me, a slave with poor craftsmanship?"

"How dare I ......" Chen Jiu clenched her sleeves and covered her lips and laughed, but she quickly remembered something again, smiled, looked at Lin Shan and said seriously: "Brother Lin, what's wrong with you today?" How could you suddenly remember...... Do this kind of thing? Either way, it's too different from who you are, and you shouldn't be sitting under the stove......"

Lin Shan looked at Chen Jiu and said sincerely, "It's okay, because I'm only willing to be a stove slave for you alone."

Chen Jiu didn't speak again, but the words she heard in her ears had pierced the softest corner of her heart, and she actually had many things to say, one of which was almost about to blurt out. She silently questioned: Is this a promise? There was both joy and apprehension in my heart.