Zhencheng's house has three floors, the first floor has a large living room, kitchen and shower room, two small rooms and a warehouse, the second floor has a master bedroom and two guest bedrooms, as well as an office study, and the third floor is an open space, except for knives, guns, sticks and a few chairs, there is nothing left, is where he usually rests and stretches.

And Ling Meng was arranged by him to a guest room on the second floor close to him.

While using spiritual power to enhance Ling Meng's sense and affinity for spiritual power, there was a knock at the door on the first floor.

"Do you remember this feeling?" Ling Meng nodded, "Then remember, you have to meditate for at least three hours every day to feel the spiritual power, you are now the most sensitive period, if you lay a solid foundation now, it will also be very helpful for your future exercises." ”

"Let's go, let's go get something to eat now. "Take Ling Meng back to the first floor.

When the door was opened, there were three servants and maids standing outside, three of them a little older with various cleaning utensils, and the very young maid with some freshly baked bread and a kettle.

"My lord, we were called by the head maid to help you clean the house, can you start now?"

"Okay, go get busy. You don't need to help me get it too clean, I'm not used to it. Help me clean up the dust and you're good to go. "Seeing them holding all those messy cleaning utensils, Zhencheng had a headache.

"Are you the summer night?" asked the girl with the bread.

"Yes, sir. ”

"Come in, I'll leave some trivial matters to you later. Taking the bread and milk handed over by Summer Night, Zhencheng put it on the table and placed it in front of Ling Meng.

"Sit down, naturally, I'm not a big fan of people who are too conventional, if there's anything you want to wear, you can wear whatever you want. "In the face of a somewhat restrained summer night, Quake City seemed friendly.

"I'll give you a gold coin every ten days for expenses, and if it's not enough, tell me. As for your salary, I will pay you two gold coins a month at the beginning, and then I will help you add some depending on the situation. ”

"My lord, is it too much?" Generally speaking, the salary of an exclusive maid is one or two, but it is indeed a little more for a newcomer.

"It's nothing, I'll give it to you, and you should already know it, I want you to teach him to read and write, and some proper etiquette, I'm not sure if it's a difficult task, so you just take it. After a pause, Zhencheng continued, "You should teach him to read and write from one to four o'clock at noon." In addition, this child can't eat meat, and you need to pay attention to the diet, is there anything else?"

Summer Night thought for a moment, "No. ”

"Well, the two rooms over there are all yours. Those who want, those who don't, what you want to put in your own arrangement, today first. I don't have to prepare my meal in the evening, I shouldn't be able to come back. It seems that thinking of the work that has been piled up, Zhencheng is a little helpless.

"This child's name is Ling Meng, if you are hungry, eat it quickly. It seemed that Zhencheng didn't start eating, and Ling Meng was also there watching him silently, and only then began to eat slowly under his orders.

"This sister's name is Xia Ye, you have to listen to him well in the future, you know. ”

"Yes. ”

After eating two long breads and drinking a large sip of milk, Zhencheng stood up, "Ling Meng, after you finish eating, continue to meditate." Summer night, do whatever you want in your spare time, then I'm going out. ”

After watching Zhencheng leave, Ling Meng continued to eat his little bread. And the summer night looked at Ling Meng quietly on the side, Ling Meng's image to her was very thin, her bare arms could even see a lot of scarred wounds and although it was good, there were still some traces of scars on it, her eyes seemed to be looking at bread but not focused, very ethereal.

After eating, Ling Meng silently bowed to Xia Ye, and then silently returned to his room on the second floor to begin meditation.

Xia Ye was stunned for a moment, Jing Guan Ling Meng was only a child adopted by Zhencheng, but his status was still higher than him, how could he bow to the maid? However, when she should come over, Ling Meng had already gone upstairs, and she couldn't even stop it, it seemed that there would be no shortage of things to teach, so thinking about it, she walked towards the room that Zhencheng said, and after that, this was her other home.

As time passed, Ling Meng's routine began to stabilize, with short meditation and long physical exercise in the morning, study under the guidance of the summer night after lunch, and long meditation in the evening.

Day after day, more than two years have passed in the blink of an eye, except for some special days, Ling Meng has been living a repetitive life, more than two years except for growing taller and hair longer, he has not changed anything, the only thing that has changed is probably that after more than two years of getting along, his mind has calmed down a little.

In the past two years, Zhencheng would occasionally take him to the duke's house as a guest, and the duchess would cook for himself when he was a guest, as for bringing Ling Meng, it seemed that the duchess and her little daughter wanted to meet him, the lady seemed to be out of love and compassion, and the girl seemed to treat Ling Meng as a small animal that was picked up, and wanted to know how the injured Ling Meng was doing.

In addition, the daughter of the duke named Xue Ling would occasionally bring the maid directly to Zhencheng's house to find him, and every time she came, she would bring some strange desserts for Ling Meng to eat.

There were some things that happened in between, that was what Ling Meng had just come to live here, some people knew that Zhencheng had adopted a child, and people who thought they had a good relationship would bring their children to the door in the hope of promoting the children's feelings, and Zhencheng didn't say anything about it, he felt that it would be good for Ling Meng, who was hurt by the heart, to get along with the children, but he didn't know that those children were just pretending to be friendly on the surface, but secretly they looked down on him very much, and even bullied him when he asked him to play, until he was bumped into by Xue Ling, she taught those evil children a hard lesson, and said to Ling Meng that if someone bullied him, he could go to her, and she would protect him。

Since then, Ling Meng always felt that her heartbeat would be strange every time she got along with her, and she was often at a loss, which made Xia Ye who watched from the sidelines feel very interesting.

In addition to Xue Ling's youngest daughter, the Duke has an eldest son and eldest daughter.

The eldest son is seventeen years old, his name is Xue Feng, he has already gone to Wangcheng to study with his grandfather last year, Ling Meng has seen him twice, he is a person with a temperament similar to the duke, except that he is not mature as the duke, he is simply a copy of the duke.

The eldest daughter is thirteen years old, her name is Xue Yun, different from Xue Ling's cuteness and sweetness, but she inherited her mother's dignified atmosphere, but that was just an illusion, pretending to be a good girl in front of adults, Ling Meng had seen her a few times, but every time they met, he was teased, although he didn't feel malice, but Ling Meng was still a little afraid of her.

As for the girl who was with Xue Ling last time, she was the daughter of the duke's sister, her name was Mu Xuelian, because her mother was the financial manager of the Xue family, and she was also being cultivated in that direction, so the number of times she saw her could be counted on one hand, and she would only meet at the big party during the New Year.

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At this time, it was just after the spring of the year, and the snow gladiolus planted in large quantities in the castle began to wither, which was a sign of early spring, which made Ling Meng, who liked this flower, a little disappointed.

On this day, Zhencheng, who had eaten breakfast, did not go to work immediately, but carefully looked at Ling Meng, who was sitting opposite.

He has grown a lot taller, and compared to when he first came, he couldn't land well on his feet, but now he is more than enough. The cheeks that had been emaciated were also full, and the thin body was much healthier than it was then, although it was not strong after two years of exercise.

"Xiaomeng, it's been two years since you came here in a blink of an eye. You're in a lot faster than I thought, I was going to arrange for you to go to the academy next year, but now you're physically strong enough. I thought about it a few times, wondering if it would be too early, but you never let me down, so I finally made the decision to let you go to the academy. ”

"It's all up to Uncle Wang's arrangement. ”

Looking at Ling Meng's unchanged face, he sighed that this child was too stable, although he had taken him out many times, but except for him and Xia Ye, no one could become friends, and even if he and Xia Ye were only on the surface, the deeper heart had never been revealed to anyone, he wanted to make Ling Meng more lively.

"Since that's the case, then I'll go and help you arrange, I will officially go to the academy at the beginning of February, and I will have two days off every eight days, and I usually live in the academy and come back after the holidays. ”

"By the way, summer night, are you going?"

Xia Ye, who originally thought that she had nothing to do with her, was suddenly shocked, if she guessed correctly, wasn't it the place to cultivate the prefect's institution for the Duke's family?

"Chief, isn't that a place to cultivate talents for the Duke?"

"Yes, but I think it's okay with your abilities, or are you just going to be a battle maid?" During this time together, Zhencheng discovered that Xia Ye also had a cultivation talent, and had been trained.

Xia Ye thought for a while, "Thank you for your appreciation, but I have been cultivated with the quality of a maid since I was a child, so I know that I have the qualifications to become a strong person, this is probably not ability, but heart." ”

"In this case, you don't have to be presumptuous, but since you are not here, then I won't say anything, you will work two days every eight days from February, I don't need you to take care of me. But don't worry, I won't give you less salary. ”

"Boss, this is not good! I have been ...... usually."

"It's okay, it's not your problem, it's what I told you not to use. I make a lot of money but use very little, and I don't need to use the money, so you should help me, and it's not bad to buy some gifts for your family in your free time, you usually work hard enough. ”

"......" Xia Ye opened her mouth and was stunned for a moment, then bowed deeply, "Thank you, Chief." ”

"Because I'm happy with you, you don't have to take it too seriously. Okay, then I'm leaving. Do whatever you have to do. ”

After breakfast, Ling Meng usually started to move his body after meditating for a while on the third floor, but recently his spiritual power seemed to be saturated, so he directly started to warm up, such as squats, jumping on the spot, handstands, etc., and then a series of exercises such as dancing and swinging swords.

On summer nights, I will go to buy today's necessities, and it is not easy to eat and drink.

After coming back, if he has time, he will compare with Ling Meng, and the original teaching and literacy will be used to practice with Ling Meng when he has already learned.

Despite his age and physical advantages, it is often easy to fall into a difficult situation in sparring with Ling Meng without using all his strength, which is better when training with bare hands, and it is easy to fall into passivity after picking up a weapon, and then he can only rely on his physical advantage to pull it back. The most uncomfortable thing is that he tried to rub his arrogance several times, and even if he fails, he will not have mood swings, but the next time it will be more difficult to defeat.

This made Xia Ye have to admit that Ling Meng was indeed an amazing guy.

"If there is nothing else, can I ask you for advice today? After cleaning up the dishes, Ling Meng invited Xia Ye to guide him in a polite manner.

"Okay, then you wait for me, I'll go change my suit. As soon as he tidied up the kitchen, he turned back to Ling Meng while wiping his hands and said, "You go up there and wait for me first." ”

As a strong person, she often has to be used as a sandbag, so she needs some protection, but Ling Meng is very measured in terms of the severity of her shots, so she is also happy to practice with Ling Meng.