Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Past of the Four Stewards
The sun was high and it was a sunny day.
After lunch, Yun Qianyu and Yun Bailing went to the kitchen with dishes and chopsticks to clean, and Yun Tombsheng, who was sitting at the table, found a mirror and carefully observed whether his face was better.
"Dizi, look, isn't it much better."
After a night and half a day of recuperation this morning, half of Yun Tombsheng's face was almost better, although there was still a faint pain when he touched it, but it didn't look so swollen.
"Well, you can't see it if you don't pay attention." Handifu nodded, and lowered his head to tease the turquoise four-legged snake tied to the table leg.
Just now when a group of people were eating, the four-legged snake slowly woke up, but everyone's eyes were on the table, naturally no one knew, the four-legged snake rested for a while, and after coming back to his senses, he found the right direction and quickly rushed out of the door.
Fortunately, it was tied with a rope, and when it rushed forward, the table it pulled shook as soon as it shook, and as soon as everyone looked down, they saw a four-legged snake running quickly out of the door.
The turquoise four-legged snake with a rope tied around its neck rushed forward with too much force, and its buttocks passed, and its head was still tied to the table, so it turned around, and several people hurriedly tied it up with their hands and feet.
Han Difu squatted down to look at the four-legged snake, the turquoise little animal was obviously a little scared, and shrank back desperately, the young man reached out and poked its tiny scale armor, cold.
According to Yun Bailing, who knows a little about all kinds of rare small animals, this should be a vegetarian animal, although the color looks bright, but it is not poisonous.
There was a small red dot on the side of the four-legged snake's ear, and its small claws scratched everywhere, apparently not understanding why it had just eaten something, and woke up here, desperately trying to break free from this restraint and escape back to the great courtyard where it had lived for a long time.
"Childe, the cage has arrived."
Lan Jianshou walked into the hall quickly, and after arching his hand to Yun Tombsheng, he continued to speak: "Do you put the cage outside in the courtyard or take it to the hall?" ”
"The sun is a little hot outside, so it's better to put it on the edge of the small pool, which happens to be empty over there." Handifu reached out and touched the shivering little four-legged snake.
"That's right, let's see how big the cage is." Yun Tombsheng got up and walked out as he spoke, Han Difu teased the little four feet again, and when he stood up and stretched, Yun Tombsheng walked in with an iron cage.
Yun Tombsheng put the cage on the ground with a satisfied face, this small beast cage is about the height of his waist, and the width is about the same, and it is slightly longer, although the volume is not small, but the degree of delicacy is not discounted in the slightest.
The main body of the cage is welded with a small iron rod the thickness of a baby's finger, and the interface is finely polished without any trace of affecting the appearance, like the usual birdcage enlarged.
"Lock it up."
Yun Tombsheng called Han Di's Mansion to help, and Yun Tombsheng, who opened the iron cage, suddenly remembered the letter that Yun Qianyu had written, turned his head and shouted to Lan Jiansheng to wait, and then trotted to the table to take the letter and handed it to Lan Jiansheng, who was standing outside the door.
"Let the cloud shopkeeper deliver this letter to Li Yuanmao in Yunyue City." Yun Tombsheng put the letter in the hand of the Lan Sword Attendant, turned his head and left.
Lan Jianshi looked at the three big characters of Yun Tomb on the envelope, and suddenly showed surprise, he had heard that the eldest prince was not good at calligraphy, and today he knew that it was all people's rumors, such words may not be written by the old man in the literary world who carved this way, how could the eldest prince of Yun be a person who does not learn and do not know.
Lan Jiansheng, who bowed to Yun Tombsheng, walked quickly to the front door, and it was her duty to run errands back and forth.
Yun Tombsheng and Han Difu teamed up to untie the rope of the little four-legged snake and threw it into the iron cage, closing the door before it had time to run out.
Yun Tombsheng and Han Difu took the cage to the promenade by the pond, not because the cage was heavy, but because it was too large to hold, in the process, the little four-legged snake ran around desperately, hoping to find a way out in the cage.
Just as the two teenagers were folding grass around the small cage to tease the four-legged snake, Lan Jian went and returned, with a tall old man in a black robe, the old man had silver hair, and his anger was like Yuanyue.
Lan Jianshou walked to the side of Yun Tombsheng and said, "Childe, the housekeeper is here." ”
"It's the fourth butler." Yun Tombsheng looked up, smiled lightly, lowered his head and continued to tease the little four-legged snake.
The old man with a silver head looked at Yun Tombsheng carefully for a long time, bowed slightly and said: "The old man has seen the eldest prince, and he was about to break the realm yesterday, so he didn't come to greet the eldest prince immediately, and asked the eldest prince to punish him." ”
"The fourth housekeeper's breakthrough is the first priority, and there is no need for it to take care of it." The young man who stood up didn't smile, looked at the fourth housekeeper with an ancient face, and continued: "I don't know what is going on with the fourth housekeeper here?" ”
"The old man is mainly responsible for the safety of the eldest prince." The silver-haired old man in the ink robe bowed slightly, and he did not react to Yun Tombsheng's sarcastic words.
"Didn't she say to let the black rhino come over? Why do I need you? Yun Tombsheng stood in front of the old man, a pair of young eyes couldn't help but look at the old man in front of him, in Yun Tombsheng's memory, the four housekeepers seemed to have never changed over the years, and they had always been this unsociable.
"The black rhino is still young, although the combat power is extremely strong, but this is the capital where the dragon and the tiger are located, I am afraid it is difficult to take care of the eldest prince, and the old man can help one or two." The four butlers were still calm.
"Well, if you don't have anything to do, go ahead, don't call it any housekeeper in the future, just call it the fourth housekeeper." Yun Tombsheng waved his hand.
"Yes, the old man is retiring." The old man with a dead face bowed slightly and turned his head to leave.
Yun Tombsheng looked faintly at the four housekeepers who were old and strong, and the dark golden patterns on the old man's robe flickered in the sun, sometimes inconspicuous, sometimes dazzling.
Finally, the young man couldn't help but speak: "If you make a mistake, you should die, otherwise what is the rule." ”
The fourth steward trembled, and stood in the sun for a long time, the white hair shining in the sun was actually a little transparent, and it was not until a soldier in the front yard reported that a blacksmith and a carpenter had come, and the old man raised his feet and continued to walk.
The arrogant housekeepers killed by Yun Yazhi back then were his fellow brothers, because he didn't fit in, he survived, but living didn't make him happier, he witnessed the tragedy of the master for decades, and he suffered day after day for decades, on the one hand, he was a fellow friend, and on the other hand, he was the ethics that he should have as a subordinate.
When the screams of that day reached his ears, the old man sat paralyzed in front of the grave of the dead master as if he were in ruins, and sat for several days, and everyone only knew that the four butlers had not left the tomb for three or two days, and no one knew when his black hair turned into silver threads.
As if deliberately humiliated, he has been the fourth housekeeper all these years, even if he tried hard to put aside this title, but no one paid attention to him, he had always been the fourth housekeeper, and he was already the fourth housekeeper when the senior brothers died that day, this title followed him like a spell, so that he couldn't hide, and if others mentioned it once, he would go back to that day once, and suffer once.
The four stewards with tears in their old eyes muttered: "Four stewards, four stewards ......"
Yun Tombsheng looked coldly at the Lan Jian attendant who was looking at the fourth steward with an unbearable face, and said with a slight sneer: "Put away your compassion, you don't have this qualification." ”
Lan Jianshi was alarmed in a panic, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and pleaded guilty.
Yun Tombsheng put his hands behind his back, looked at the woman kowtowing like garlic in front of him, his eyes were full of indifference, and he said coldly: "Get up, let me ask you, what level is the fourth housekeeper?" ”
For Yun Tombsheng's sudden indifference, Lan Jianshi was not surprised at all, thinking about it, Yun Yazhi could teach Yun Qianyu, an ice beauty who was always high above and never put other people's lives at heart, how could there be real equality in the eyes of Yun Tombsheng, who got along with her day and night.
He is the only son of the Cloud Tomb Villa, and he is qualified to look down on anyone.
"Kill me with one move." Lan Jianshi stood up and stood respectfully to the side.
Yun Tombsheng squinted his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking, and after a long time, he continued: "Among the people you have seen in the mountain villa, who do you think is stronger than him? How many points does your master, Great Elder and him, win or lose? ”
Lan Jianshi lowered his head and thought for a long time before he spoke: "At present, I have only seen the White Phoenix Protector and the Black Dragon Protector among the masters in the mountain villa, plus my master and the four masters of the four butlers.
With my level, I can only see that they are probably people of the same level, and it is difficult to see who is stronger, but I guess that the Black Dragon Protector and my master may be stronger, and if my master and the four stewards face each other, they should win by seven points and draw by three. ”
Yun Tombsheng nodded, and called Han Di's Mansion to go to the gate to see the new carpenter and blacksmith, and Yun Qianyu and Yun Bailing, who had finished cleaning the pots and bowls after a while, also came.
The crowd quarreled about the renovation of the gate, some proposed to spread it under the wheels, saying that the wheels would not be so loud, and some said that it would be better to change the sliding gate to the kind that was flat open, and in the noisy chattering of the clouds, the craftsman began to carefully dismantle the gate.
Obviously, with the strength of ordinary craftsmen, they couldn't hold this gate that was almost like a small city gate, and the Lan Sword Attendant and the guards in front of the gate shot together to smoothly and steadily tear down the gate inlaid with a tall divine beast.
A group of craftsmen were terrified while working, they were all masters of the largest shops here, and when they received the job, they happily packed up their things and prepared to go, after all, who would not be happy with a lot of silver.
It's just that when I heard that I went to work in the water and clouds in the south of the Xiaojiang River, many people began to be nervous involuntarily, and these businessmen were still relatively flexible, and they naturally knew the strength of Xueyu Villa, and it could be said that they were strong dragons who came to the capital.
In addition to the royal family, the head snake of the earth, the other head snakes may not really be his opponents, especially after the news that one of the Mahayana level masters speculated by the Lanting Pavilion Martial Arts List was from the Snow Rain Villa, everyone's opinion of the Snow Rain Villa went to the next level.
It is rumored that after many masters studied the aura left by the woman in white after hitting the Zhennan Wangfu that day, they thought that the woman at that time was already infinitely close to the attack power of the Mahayana level, not to mention that so many years had passed.
It can be said that the influence of Snow Rain Villa in the capital is already on the same level as that of some family families, just like this time Miss Snow beat Yun Dagongzi, many people have begun to worry about whether Snow Mansion can withstand the anger of Snow Rain Villa.
Although some people disdain this, thinking that Xueyu Mountain Villa does not have the ability to cover the sky with one hand in the capital, and it is impossible to do anything about the Snow Mansion, but in a sense, everyone has begun to compare Xueyu Mountain Villa with the old family that has been entrenched in the capital for thousands of years.
It is natural to be cautious when working in such a force, after all, it is difficult to earn money from rich people; They are rich and powerful, so the price is also high, and it is precisely because they are rich and powerful that they are also demanding and more picky, and they don't want to bring back a penny if they don't do it well.