(It's almost more than 50,000 words, and I should be able to enter the new book list this week, and I ask all book friends for recommendation votes, thank you!) ）

"What's the matter?"

The noise outside made Zhao and Ju very unhappy, and Li Yezhi's escape made him realize that not everything was under his control. The treatment of these orphans should have been graceful and powerful, but he was powerful, but grace was not enough. After all, these orphans are flesh and blood and emotional people, originally Zhao and Ju thought that they should be grateful to Dai Decai if they were placed with good food, drink and sleep, but they didn't expect such an outlier as Li Ye.

Fortunately, there is only one Li Ye...... But he is definitely not a good head, and if these children encounter unsatisfactory things in the future, they want to run away like him, what should they do?

This question bothered Zhao Youju for a while, and even affected his next plan, one day, what he taught these children would be something beyond this era. He didn't want the people he had cultivated to become his opponents, and the idea of "I love my teacher but I love the truth more" could never exist, at least until he had established a solid foundation.

This is also the purpose of "two whatevers" when he first met the orphans.

"Young Master, someone from the nearby Zhuangzi came and said that he had captured our family's fugitive slave." Xiao Cui looked at Zhao Youju cautiously, from the face of this young master who was only seven years old, it was difficult for her to see the joy, anger and sorrow, his face was always a faint thoughtful look, and he never saw the brightness and liveliness that a young man should have.

"Was Li Ye sent back?" Zhao Youju frowned, this is another trouble.

"Young Master......" Xiao Cui lowered her eyebrows, Zhao Youju's methods over the past few days had made her forget his age, although his words were very peaceful, and he couldn't hear the meaning of anger, but Xiao Cui still felt a chill. But thinking of all the rules in that family, she still had the courage to plead: "Young Master, he is still ...... young."

"He's still young?" Zhao Youju glanced at Xiao Cui in some surprise, and then said with a smile: "Are you younger than me?" ”

Xiao Cui was dumbfounded when he asked this, but seeing Zhao Heju actually laughing, Xiao Cui's heart was relieved, the eldest young master didn't seem to be in such a bad mood today, maybe Li Ye's result would not be too bad.

Since the family has increased its population, the front and back doors of Yuzhang Villa have been guarded. The front door was guarded by Zhao Xi's domestic servant, who was not very old, seventeen or eighteen years old, he was originally a small servant of a rich and noble family, but he was beaten and sold because he stole the young master's paper to learn to write. He naturally changed his surname to Zhao, although he is a servant of the lowly servant, but he likes sage books, and when he hears the gentlemen's Zi Shiyun, he will shake his head and shake his head, only saying that this "Zi Yue" is a very amazing thing, otherwise why are the gentlemen often hanging on their lips, so they gave themselves a big name "Zi Yue". After arriving at Yuzhang Villa, I saw that those newly bought children could study, but I had to guard the door and sprinkle, and I had already complained about my belly, but I was very attentive to my work, and when I had free time, I would chase after the invited gentlemen and children to ask some words, Zhao and Ju had some sympathy for him, but he was already past the most suitable age for learning, otherwise Zhao and Ju would definitely include him in this group of children.

"What's the matter, so noisy?" Seeing that Zhao Ziyue was blocking a group of people, Zhao Heju glanced at it, and then asked in a deep voice.

This kind of thing was supposed to be done by Zhao Xi or Zhao Yong, but today is special because the father and son are not there, Zhao Yong went to Susong (Note 1), and Zhao Xi went to the mill, which was above the mountain stream, and they were building two more dams by steps to increase the number of mills.

"Young Master, they said that Li Ye was stealing melons from them." Zhao Ziyue said respectfully.

For his young master, Zhao Ziyue's thoughts are completely different from those children, he only hates that he didn't meet such a master earlier, otherwise he wouldn't have worked hard to read and write. Therefore, he looked at Li Ye's gaze and was quite unkind: the eldest young master treated him like this, he didn't know how to cherish it, but he wanted to escape from Yuzhang Villa, and he was still doing the business of stealing chickens and dogs outside, calling people to come to the door and breaking the face of the master's family.

Li Ye's nose was blue and his face was swollen, and there was both shame and anger in his eyes, as well as fear. Fugitive slaves were caught stealing and sent back to the master's house, this is a big crime, thinking of the strict regulations in Zhao Heju's family rules, Li Ye shuddered, if he was really beaten and sent to the official, he would be a dead end!

"Young Master." Therefore, when Zhao Youju's eyes swept over, he squeezed a smile and nodded. Although in the past two months of getting along, he found that the slave face and the knee were not pleasing in front of the eldest young master, but the habits he had developed over the years were impossible for him to change immediately.

Zhao Youju didn't look at him squarely, his gaze crossed him, and stopped directly at the triumphant melon-watching boy.

This young man was only eleven or twelve years old, his eyes were naughty, and after staring at Zhao Heju for a while, he sighed in disappointment: "That's it, return this little thief to you." ”

The boy who watched the melon was a child of a rich family in the countryside, and he was a well-known naughty man in the nearby township. When he heard the name of the eldest young master of Yuzhang Villa, he wanted to come to see and see, and it happened that Li Ye sent him to the door, and after beating Li Ye, he brought his family Zhuang Ding. He had some thoughts of competing with Zhao and Ju, but when he saw that Zhao and Ju were only seven or eight years old, he felt that he was bullying the small with the big, so he felt tasteless.

"Why did the momentum come so violently that it died down?" Zhao Youju refused to let him go.

Zhao Youju asked this question very clearly, and the melon boy didn't understand very well, but guessed that there was nothing good in it, he rolled his eyes at Zhao Youju: "You are Zhao Youju?" I heard from the villagers that you are extremely smart, I want to come and see, you are such a smart character, why is the servant at home a thief? ”

Seeing that the melon boy was sharp, he didn't look like an eleven or twelve-year-old child at all, Zhao Heju's eyes lit up, this young man was a little interesting.

"You keep saying that he is a thief, what did he steal from your house?" Zhao Yoju asked.

"Stealing the melons from my field!" The boy will raise his head.

"Where is the evidence? If there is no evidence, how can it be said that he stole your family's cold melon? Zhao and Ju asked again.

"I knew you would deny it, so I brought all the cold melons!" The young man pursed his lips, these days he has heard a lot of rumors about Zhao and Ju, every time his parents teach him, they will cite the example of Zhao and Ju, he is not angry in his heart, and he also intends to break Zhao and Ju's face, so he made a look at the Zhuang Ding. Zhuang Ding smiled and brought a basket containing five large cold melons, which looked extremely tempting.

"I didn't steal, I didn't steal!" Li Ye panicked at this time, and he argued loudly: "I just touched the melon, I didn't steal it!" ”

Note 1: Susong County, Anhui Province, belongs to Anqing City, and was an iron-producing base in the Southern Song Dynasty.