"What?"

The two of them had a brief argument, and the housekeeper's eyes were red and he was almost crying. For more than ten years, he had lived a life worse than that of pigs and dogs.

There was no way because he had a close relationship with Wen Nanai before, so even when she was expelled from the Wen family, she was still not hurt.

But it was different for her. After she was expelled, she lived in there like a ghost, neither human nor ghost. Every day she had to think about how she was going to survive and when she would die.

He had not originally been so negative and pessimistic, but he did not know when it started, this pessimism was like a poisonous snake that tightly surrounded him, spitting out its tongue from time to time to try to imprison him.

Even the master had inexplicably begun to doubt himself.

Sometimes he even secretly wanted him to leave the family without having to do anything himself and let him go.

He has lived in the Wen family as a butler for decades. He will not allow himself to be expelled from this place for any reason, nor for anyone!

So he also followed this second-generation rich kid, hoping that this former second-generation rich kid would be able to give him a way out one day.

But he thought too much. Even that shrewd old man didn't intend to give him a chance to live, so how could he let him go? It was simply a fantasy.

So he had no choice but to live like this until one day this second-generation rich man said that as long as he killed Wen Nana, he could go back to being the butler who was respected by everyone.

It has to be said that he was moved, but he didn't dare to act. In the end, he told Wen Nana the fact tremblingly.

"I have no choice. I don't want to die. Can you understand me?"

The butler almost collapsed to the ground, but within a few seconds, white foam began to appear in his mouth, and from time to time, black blood gushed out.

The housekeeper must have died a long time ago.

"Butler, butler, what are you doing?"

Zhu Nie, who was standing nearby, quickly sent someone to check it out, only to discover that it was the extremely poisonous Crane's Beak Red, which would kill anyone who got a little bit of it on them.

I'm afraid this thing is hidden under this person's tongue.

But why did you end it so suddenly when you were talking so excitedly?

"Clean up the place, and return to the palace."

Zhao Xin gave his orders calmly, then turned and walked away. Wen Nanai was a little confused by the butler lying beside her, who was already dead.

Then I felt a little suffocated in my heart.

This man died silently in front of him. Even he could not accept this fact and felt like he was dreaming.

Although the butler said everything, she didn't want him to die. After all, the person who had taken care of her since she was a child, who was basically like an elder brother, was dead.

Pop.

A slap hit me in the face.

Wen Nana, who had been trying hard to hold herself together, sat on the ground with trembling lips. Looking at the group of people carrying the things away, she felt a surge of sadness in her heart, and her eyes were already red.

“What are you doing!?”

Zhu Nie had just seen the emperor off when he saw Wen Nanai slap him in the face and then sit on the ground crying. He had originally planned to sit back and do nothing, but he didn't expect her to cry so hard in broad daylight.

In order to prevent people around from laughing at her, he came over and pulled her finger.

"Don't cry, don't cry. There are so many people around here. It would be embarrassing if you continued crying."

"I'm all dead, so why should I be afraid of losing face? Now I have no one to rely on, so I'll leave this place this afternoon."

She seemed to have made up her mind. She would leave immediately in the afternoon and didn't plan to play house games here anymore. Besides, it would be of no benefit to him to stay here.

So I don’t plan to stay here anymore.

“Where are you going!”

Zhu Nie frowned, he really didn't expect this person to be like this.

He said before that it was right here, but now he actually said that he regretted it.

"Do you regret being here?"

"I don't regret it. On the contrary, I'm very happy with the time I've been with you. It's really not a big deal to talk about regrets. Besides..."

She doesn't want to be here anymore.

So I hurried back to pack my bags, planning to leave on my own soon, not asking for any monthly allowance or anything like that, and planned to go back to my own place and lie down.

It's just a waste of time and youth here.

"Didn't you agree to stay here and live here? Why are you changing your mind now? How are you going to settle this matter after all the brothers of mine were sacrificed?"

"I'll pay for it."

She had no intention of taking action this time, and just kept backing down and saying that she would pay the money. As for the rest, she didn't want to explain.

She was in a good mood, but this incident ruined her mood.

"Pay me money, do you think that paying me money can compensate for the mental damage suffered by my brothers?"

Zhu Nie was unwilling and even made things more difficult. Wen Nanai on the opposite side clearly heard the threat from Zhu Nie's mouth and smiled inexplicably.

"If you can't even pay me, what else do you want to do?"

"Here, you're almost a rough guy with us anyway."

The two of them discussed it for a while, but the voice from the other end was so loud and scary that she tried to speak but the words got stuck in her throat and she couldn't utter them no matter what.

There's no way. It's impossible to put it into words.

"No, I have to go."

The two people had an endless argument.

*

Zhao Xin sat up, looked at the news that the Grand Council had just given him, and threw it down. The paper fell lightly to the ground, making the group of people look pale.

"This is what happened to you."

"We...this is what we ended up with."

She swallowed, there was nothing she could do, the result was already there, and this was what she wanted to show the emperor, so... although she didn't know what the emperor meant, the atmosphere in the room was inexplicably low.

"There's no manpower left. Are you all busy with your work or are you all inexplicably eating the salary I gave you? Is this how you show your filial piety to me?"

The person from the Military Affairs Office opposite curled his lips.

"Your Majesty, the key is that those people really have strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities. They can occasionally find someone. There's nothing we can do about it."

"Nothing can be done? I gave you so much money to be the face of the court, not to let you all keep saying that there is nothing you can do. Do you understand?"

This time the emperor was far less easy to talk to than before, and his words actually sounded fierce and tense, like the last words of execution before the verdict.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."

The man swallowed his saliva, and naturally didn't know what to do.

Besides, the emperor is also the executor of words. Who knows why the emperor has been inexplicably angry all the time recently.

"Well, I want you to come up with a solution. Why do all the people we send out always get wiped out?"