"I knew I would have let you stay in Suzhou for a few more years. Zhao Chengdan sighed, the remaining bit of father-son affection in his heart had long since disappeared, and Zhao Xiu at this time was just a burden in his opinion.

At this moment, a servant girl dragged the barrel and walked past the front of the hall.

The maid was thirteen or fourteen years old, looking weak, with a girl's peculiar weakness, but her expression was very stubborn, dragging the wooden barrel that was half her height and moving to the other side step by step.

"Little cicada. Zhao Chengdan put Zhao Xiu on the Taishi chair, stepped forward alone, put his hands behind his back, looked at the figure of the maidservant, and shook his head slightly.

The maid turned her head and said a little dazedly, "What does the master command?"

Zhao Chengdan coughed and said with a little embarrassment: "Little Cicada, you don't have to do these chores from today onwards." ”

He thought that the servant girl would show a happy expression, but after hearing this, the other party still looked at him blankly, thinking of what happened to this servant girl in the past two years, Zhao Chengdan sighed, there are jealous women in the family, and even the maid with a little posture can't tolerate it.

Two years ago, he encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation, so he chatted with this maid named Xiao Cicada in front of this hall, and then she was driven to the back house to do chores by her own jealous woman, which was two years.

"In the future, the little master will hand you over to raise, and I will instruct my subordinates to give you money every month. After speaking, without waiting for the maid to react, she flicked the sleeves of her robe and left the lobby as if she had fled.

Zhao Xiuqi's face was pale, and he stretched out his chubby little hand, and raised a middle finger at Zhao Chengdan's departing back.

The maid's somewhat dull gaze turned to Zhao Xiu, and her gloomy gaze suddenly lit up, she picked up Zhao Xiu with some pity, touched Zhao Xiu's little head, and laughed happily.

Zhao Xiu sighed in her heart, is it really okay to hand him over to such a bullied and stupid little girl to take care of?

"Young master, you will sleep in this room in the future. The maidservant carried Zhao Xiu back to her residence.

Zhao Xiu's eyes are a somewhat dilapidated warehouse.

Inside the warehouse are stacked with daily laundry and water carrying utensils, and at the other end is a clean bed.

The maidservant put him on the bed, and Zhao Xiu didn't smell any pungent smell, but smelled a unique fragrance of the girl from the bed.

"Little master, in the future, you will sleep here, and the slave will sleep on that end. The maidservant pointed to the wall on the other side, and was about to get up and go to the sleeping bunk, but as soon as she stood up, she was pulled by Zhao Xiu.

"No, it's too humid on the ground, and you'll get rheumatism if you sleep on the floor!"

The maid was held by Zhao Xiu's hand, looking at his serious eyes, a little crying and laughing. She knew that Zhao Xiu was for her good, her heart warmed, and she said softly: "Little master, there is only one bed here, and the slave can't let you sleep on the ground." ”

Zhao Xiu grinned, "Let's squeeze and sleep together." ”

Although these words came from the mouth of a three-year-old child, the maid blushed, shook her head, and said, "No, the master will beat me to death." ”

"That's it, I'm still young, just sleep at the end of the bed, you sleep at the head of the bed, and we'll sleep apart. ”

The maidservant tilted her head, thought for a while and didn't come up with any other better way, nodded and said, "That's fine, when I save the money, I can buy a bed in the future." ”

Zhao Xiu sighed in his heart, the dignified son of Zhao Mansion actually asked a maid to buy a bed for him out of her own pocket.

"Don't call me young master in the future, just call me Zhao Xiucheng, what's your name?"

"Xia Chan'er...... However, if I don't call you young master, I will be said by others to be inferior. The handmaiden's expression was a little aggrieved.

Zhao Xiu laughed, pointed to his chest with a fat little finger and said, "Do you think I look like a young master?" ”

Xia Chan'er nodded, she heard from other people in the house that the master was going to pick up an illegitimate child back in the past few days, most of them were the child in front of her, looking at the chubby Zhao Xiu, she felt a trace of pity in her heart.

It's all poor people.

"Squeak!", Xia Chan'er pushed open the door of the warehouse, and a ray of sunlight came in from outside.

The soft sunlight shone on Zhao Xiu's face, like a pair of kind hands caressing his face.

As the sun sets, the whole world becomes hazy and peaceful, Zhao Xiu looked up, enjoying this moment of tranquility, from today onwards, he is only afraid that there will be no more peace in the Zhao family.

......

Time flies.

Two years have passed in the blink of an eye, and in the past two years, only Xia Chan'er and Zhao Xiu have relied on each other.

Zhao Yu has dozens of grandchildren, and there are countless capable and talented teenagers in the clan, and Zhao Xiu, the grandson, has long been forgotten by him.

Xia Chan'er has taken care of him with his mother and sister in the past two years, although he no longer has to do those rough jobs, but his life is very restrained. At the beginning, the steward of the house would also withdraw some silver taels to Xia Chan'er to use it as the cost of raising Zhao Xiu.

But a few months later, the steward didn't have a tael of silver to pay her, and Xia Chan'er understood that this was all ordered by Madame.

Zhao Chengdan's alimony to Zhao Xiu, although it would be deducted by Mrs. Zhao at first, there was still some of it, but later, Mrs. Zhao simply pressed down the alimony and did not pay Xia Chan'er a penny.

How dare the people in the house say more.

Xia Chan'er and Zhao Xiu live on her monthly salary, and the most important thing for cultivators is that they are full of qi and blood, and their cultivation resources are sufficient. Zhao Xiu couldn't even eat enough, let alone expect the Zhao family to give him the spirit stones for cultivation.

On this day, Xia Chan'er was working outside, and Zhao Xiu stayed alone in the abandoned warehouse.

In the past two years, the Zhao family has not given him half a spirit stone, and he has not even passed on the exercises of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

His status in the Zhao Mansion was not even as good as that of the children of his subordinates, at least those children could try to impact the condensation period when they were five years old.

If he wants to unlock the abilities in the system, he must absorb enough aura, but he doesn't even know how to absorb the aura of heaven and earth.

Just when Zhao Xiu was in a daze, a cry came from outside the door, and then the door of the warehouse was pushed open suddenly, and Xia Chan'er covered her mouth and rushed into the house sobbing.

Her sideburns were scratched apart, and when Zhao Xiu saw this, she suddenly had a bad premonition.

"Sister Cicada, which bastard bullied you?" In the past two years, he and Xia Chan'er have relied on each other, and their feelings for each other are better than their relatives, and Xia Chan'er's appearance makes him distressed and annoyed.

Xia Chan'er sobbed a few times, shook her head, and didn't speak.

Zhao Xiu's heart was irritable, and at this moment, a group of children came to the door, all of whom were five or six years old. The first person was dressed in brocade clothes, fat and big, half a head taller than Zhao Xiu, this person's name was Zhao Hu, although he was a side disciple of Zhao Mansion, but ordinary people in the mansion did not want to provoke him.

Guy Zhao Hu's father is extremely high in cultivation, and he is also a famous genius in the Earthquake Heaven Palace, although he is from a side lineage, but he is quite valued by Zhao Yu.

It's just that the battle between the descendants of the Zhao family and the collateral family has been going on for a long time, and the people from the descendant line have never looked down on those collateral children, even though Zhao Hu's father is highly talented, but those descendants of the Zhao family are still unwilling to associate with him.

As a result, Zhao Hu could only operate in the Zhao family's outer mansion, and his usual playmates were also the children of those side lines, or the children of some disciples outside the Earthquake Heaven Palace, and even the children of some disciples.

I thought that it was someone in the house who didn't know how to live or die who bullied Xia Chan'er, but I didn't expect it to be these children.