"Brother Zhishui, we have arrived. Yuetong jumped down from the carriage, looked at the quiet mansion in front of her and stretched lazily, and muttered with some dissatisfaction: "After five days of driving, I'm almost exhausted." ”

"Who told you to go to the 100,000 mountains to catch some demon beasts. Murong Xiaoxiao, who got out of the car closely, glanced at her, and said a little helplessly, "If it weren't for you, this little girl, begging me, I wouldn't have suffered this sin, and now I'm not tired of shouting, but you are calling." ”

Dugu Zhishui finally got out of the car, he didn't intervene in the conversation between the two girls, just silently looked at the mansion in front of him. Judging from the courtyard wall, the area of this mansion should be very large, Dugu Zhishui looked at it and was surprised to find that his line of sight could not see the boundary of the courtyard wall at all. In addition, the door of this mansion is also very particular, it is only the palace can use five rooms and three open doors, the main entrance is two red wooden doors with a height of five meters, the door body is made of thousand-year-old mahogany, inlaid with gold door nails on the door body, nine vertical and horizontal, and a pair of gold lion head door cymbals. In front of the main entrance, there are two stone lions made of white marble, which are exquisitely carved and lifelike, and the tall courtyard complements each other, adding a sense of majesty.

Next to the main entrance are two side doors, usually the entrance and exit of the people in the house are generally from the side door, the main gate is usually closed, only when there are distinguished guests, or when there is something important in the house, it will be opened. Dugu Zhishui followed Yuetong and Murong Xiaoxiao into the mansion from the side door, and there was a small courtyard with many exotic flowers and plants planted in the courtyard. Bypassing the shadow wall, passing through a corridor, and another courtyard, Dugu Zhishui followed Yuetong through the mansion for nearly half an hour, until he turned dizzy, and Yuetong finally stopped in a garden.

"Brother Zhishui, you wait here for a while, I'll go see my father first, and when I come back, I'll take you to the housekeeper to arrange a job for you. Yuetong said to Dugu Zhishui.

"Okay, I'm sorry for you. Dugu Zhishui smiled and nodded.

"Let's go, Sister Xiaoxiao. Yue Tong beckoned to Murong Xiaoxiao.

Murong Xiaoxiao glanced at Dugu Zhishui lightly, didn't say anything, turned around and left with Yuetong.

Looking at the backs of the two of them gradually moving away, Dugu Zhishui sighed lightly, he could feel that Murong Xiaoxiao didn't like him. Whenever she looked at him, there was always a touch of contempt in his eyes, although she hid it deeply, but it could not escape Dugu Zhishui's eyes. "Because I'm just an ordinary person who can't cultivate?Heh, this world is really realistic", Dugu Zhishui sneered in his heart.

In one hall, a middle-aged man sat in the first place. His facial features were upright, and there was a touch of heroism between his eyebrows, and at this moment he was leisurely sipping tea, when suddenly, as if sensing something, he raised his head sharply and looked kindly at the girl who was rushing from afar.

This middle-aged man is Yue Changhao, the cousin of the current head of the Yue family of the Great Xia Dynasty, and also Yue Tong's father. Yue Tong is Yue Changhao's only daughter, so Yue Changhao has been very fond of Yue Tong since he was a child.

"Daddy, I miss you. Yue Tong shouted coquettishly as she ran, and when she ran in front of Yue Changhao, she threw herself directly into his arms, Yue Changhao caressed Yue Tong's long hair dotingly, and said with some reproach: "You girl just leave, I and your mother have been worried for several days." ”

"Hehe" Yue Tong smiled wryly, and then handed over a small wooden box as if offering a treasure, "Look what this is." ”

"What is it?" Yue Changhao took the wooden box curiously, opened the lid of the box, and a warm aroma suddenly filled the entire room, "This is ...... How did you get this girl?"

"I asked Sister Xiaoxiao to accompany me to the 100,000 Mountains to pick it. Yuetong said a little proudly.

"What? You girl went to the 100,000 Great Mountain?" Yue Changhao's face sank suddenly, and he said solemnly: "How can you take your sister Xiaoxiao to such a dangerous place, what if something happens to you? ”

Seeing that her father's face was a little bad, Yuetong didn't dare to smile anymore, she weakly explained: "We didn't go too deep, I originally just wanted to go there to hunt some fun monsters as pets, but we seemed to be lucky, and we happened to find this fire lingzhi in a remote cave, and my father's birthday is coming soon, so ...... I want to give you a gift. ”

"Alas......" Yue Changhao sighed, "As long as you are happy, it is the best gift for me and your mother, and you are not allowed to do this kind of thing in the future, you know?"

"Oh......"

The middle-aged man put away the wooden box containing the fire lingzhi, and then remembered that there was still someone standing next to him, and smiled apologetically at the moment: "Xiaoxiao, I'm bothering you this time, this little girl will let you do this kind of thing again in the future, you don't pay attention to her." ”

Murong Xiaoxiao had been quietly watching the father and daughter from the side, and gradually, her vision was a little blurred. She really envied Yuetong, since she was a child, the most she heard her father say was to urge her to cultivate, how she hoped that one day she could get along with her father like this. In a trance, a faint sourness surged into her heart. Hearing Yue Changhao talking to her, she came back to her senses from her reverie and hurriedly replied, "Uncle Yue, it's out of the way." ”

Although Murong Xiaoxiao's status is higher than Yue Changhao's, for some reason, every time she sees Yue Changhao, she always feels very nervous, and her tone of voice unconsciously becomes particularly respectful.

......

In the garden, Dugu Zhishui was wandering a little bored, and when he walked past a flower, a blue shadow suddenly pounced on his chest as fast as lightning, and he couldn't dodge, and was thrown to the ground by the blue shadow. The blue creature moved extremely fast, and after it pounced on Dugu Zhishui, it wanted to bite his neck, but Dugu Zhishui subconsciously blocked it, but was bitten by the blue creature on the arm. A sharp pain struck him, and Dugu Zhishui waved his other hand and smashed it fiercely at the head of the sneak attacker.

At this time, Dugu Zhishui found out that the original attacker was a blue flame mink, which is a variant of lightning marten, with a faster speed and more powerful strength, but its nature is more bloodthirsty and difficult to tame.

The two sharp teeth of the Blue Flame Sable plunged deep into Dugu's flesh, and two streams of blood gurgled out of his arm. Dugu Zhishui endured the severe pain and kept beating the head of the Blue Flame Mink, trying to coerce it to let go of itself, but doing so seemed to anger the Blue Flame Mink even more, and the blue demonic eyes became more and more fierce.

Just when Dugu Zhishui was struggling, a soft call came from afar, "Xiaolan, where have you been? Come back soon......

Hearing the call, the blue flame mink's eyes seemed to flicker, but he still clenched Dugu Zhishui and refused to let go, the call came from far and near, and finally came to Dugu Zhishui's side.

"Stop, what are you doing, hurry up and let go of Xiaolan!" a girl in a white brocade robe shouted with a gloomy face when she saw Dugu Zhishui hitting the head of the Blue Flame Mink with his fist.

This girl is in her twenty-eighth year, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, a good figure, and quite beautiful. However, at this time, her face was not very good-looking, and she obviously found that the blue flame marten bit Dugu Zhishui's arm, but she was scolding Dugu Zhishui.

"Xiaolan, come back quickly. The girl called again, and the blue flame marten finally let go of Dugu Zhishui, and it roared fiercely at Dugu Zhishui, before rushing into the girl's arms like flying. The girl nervously examined the Blue Flame Mink's body and was relieved to find that it had not been injured. Then she looked indifferently at Dugu Zhishui, who had just struggled to get up from the ground, and said angrily: "Whose subordinate are you? Don't you know that this Blue Flame Marten is my pet? No one in the entire Yue family dares to move, and even a lowly servant of yours dares to beat it? Are you too long?"

Saying that, this girl actually hit Dugu Zhishui's chest with a palm, Dugu Zhishui lost all his spiritual power, and with the strength of his current ordinary people, he couldn't dodge this palm. Before he could see the girl's movements, he had been knocked out by the girl's palm, and he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood. A feeling of tightness in his chest suddenly made him worse than death, and he struggled on the ground, his face flushed, like a drowning man.

"What's going on?" An exclamation came, only to see Yuetong hurriedly running over, she saw Dugu Zhishui struggling on the ground, and hurriedly went up to help him up, slapped him on his vest, and a mouthful of stuffy blood spit out of Dugu Zhishui's mouth, and his face gradually returned to normal.

"Sister Xin'er, why are you doing this?" asked Yuetong.

"This is your servant? He dares to fight my pet, doesn't he take me seriously?" the white-robed girl sneered and said with some sarcasm.

"Sister Xin'er, how can you be so unreasonable, what is your pet, the people of the Yue family know very well, as long as it is a normal person who comes here, they can see what is going on, it is obviously your pet who was injured first. Yuetong was also stimulated by the white-robed woman's words, she obviously meant that Sang scolded Huai, and was sarcastically mocking her family for not knowing whether to live or die.

"He's just a lowly servant, how can his life be as precious as my pet's. The white-robed woman smiled lightly.

"You ......" Murong Xiaoxiao, who was watching from the sidelines, stopped Yuetong from arguing with the white-robed woman, and she said softly: "Why is Sister Jianxin so mean, no matter how you say it, you are still a family, how can you act like an enemy." ”

"Heh, since it's our family's business, it shouldn't be your turn to take care of it, right?" the white-robed girl sneered, "Okay, I'll spare the life of this thing that doesn't know how to live or die today." With that, the white-robed girl turned around and left proudly.

Dugu Zhishui's nails had already sunk deep into his palms, and the red blood was dripping down one by one, and a sense of humiliation that he had never felt before overwhelmed him. Yuetong looked at the back that was gradually moving away with an ugly face, and suddenly remembered the injury on Dugu Zhishui's body, and looked at him a little anxiously: "Brother Zhishui, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have left you here alone." Does your injury matter?"

Yuetong's face was full of self-blame, and Dugu Zhishui didn't realize that his good impression of him had increased a little. "It's okay, a little skin trauma, it'll be fine in two days. Dugu Zhishui barely squeezed out a smile, when the girl was humiliated before, he really wanted to go up and fight with her, anyway, he had nothing left, and he would die. But he was afraid that doing so would bring trouble to Yuetong, Yuetong had a life-saving grace for himself, and he couldn't be so selfish......

So, the matter was closed.

Later, Dugu Zhishui learned that the white-robed girl turned out to be Yue Jianxin, the youngest daughter of Yue Changqing, the current head of the Yue family, who was pampered and domineering since she was a child, and Yue Tong was just a collateral child, so Yue Jianxin's status in the Yue family was much higher than Yue Tong's, and even compared to Yue Tong's father.

And Murong Xiaoxiao is the daughter of the master of Taixuanmen, one of the three major forces of the Great Xia Dynasty, and her status is equal to that of Yue Jianxin, she and Yue Tong met by chance on the snack street in Anping City, and then the two felt like-minded, so they became good friends.

Speaking of the Yue family, we must first start with the power of the Great Xia Dynasty. The Yuwen family, the royal family of the Great Xia Dynasty, is undoubtedly the strongest force in the Great Xia Dynasty, otherwise it would have been overthrown long ago. Outside of the Great Xia royal family, there were three great forces in the Great Xia Dynasty, which were the Yue family, the Mu family, and the Taixuanmen. However, in recent years, the Yue family has gradually declined, and the Yin family, another strong family, has gradually risen, and if the Yue family continues to fall, it will presumably be replaced by the Yin family soon.

The Yue family, the Yin family and the Mu family all served in the Great Xia Dynasty, and held the military and political power of the Great Xia, because the Taixuanmen belonged to the sect, and they regarded themselves very highly, and they were unwilling to participate in the military and political affairs of the Great Xia Dynasty, so the Yue family, the Yin family and the Mu family were called the three major families of the Great Xia.

In addition, the Great Xia Dynasty also has forces such as the Drunken Dream Pavilion and the White Bone Palace, whose strength is very feared even by the Great Xia royal family, but these are all big forces whose sphere of influence spreads throughout the Eastern Plains or beyond the territory of Great Xia, so they are not among the three major forces in Great Xia.

Dugu Zhishui lived in Yue's house under Yuetong's arrangement. After Yuetong's father, Yue Changhao, met with him, he handed it over to Yuetong, and Yuetong left him by his side. This made Dugu Zhishui a little surprised, after all, he was a boy......

For Yue Tong's father Yue Changhao, Dugu Zhishui has a good impression, he feels that he is a very easy-going person, in Yue Changhao's body, Dugu Zhishui does not feel that domineering momentum, and his words and deeds are full of respect for others.

Nominally, Dugu Zhishui is Yuetong's slave, responsible for helping her with chores and doing some heavy work, but in fact, Yuetong has a girl who has heavy work to do? Most of the time, Dugu Zhishui has become the object of her chat and complaints. However, Dugu Zhishui has always had a question in her heart, that is, why Yuetong is so close to her, if it is just because of kindness, she can arrange a job for herself, there is no need to keep herself by her side......

He once tested Yuetong's tone side by side, but this girl was very alert, and she was fooled by her every time, and Dugu Zhishui could only be helpless about it, and then he stopped asking this question.