Butler Zhang said he didn't understand.

Nan Zhu shrugged. "Young Master is jealous! Before, when he was with Master Wuwang, he could eat Junior Sister's food every day. Now that Master Wuwang is gone, Young Master can't eat it anymore. But Young Master Chen can eat it, while he can't. Isn't that jealousy?"

Butler Zhang: ? ? ?

As far as he knew, Miss You Ran was still a baby, so what kind of food could she possibly eat?

"And what exactly is this fried dough stick?" he couldn't help but ask.

Nan Zhu smiled mysteriously, "This is a new type of food sold at Miss You Ran's restaurant in the capital. No other restaurant can make it!"

After thinking it over, Butler Zhang understood!

If Miss You Ran had Zhao Mama make fried dough sticks separately and send them over, it would be as if Miss You Ran had made a special one just for the young master!

Sure enough, half an hour later, Zhao's mother came over carrying a food box, and Butler Zhang greeted her with a bright smile.

Then, Steward Zhang felt that the dark clouds that had been pressing down on the entire manor for more than ten days had completely dissipated!

...

The old clan chief acted swiftly, quickly gathering fifty or sixty able-bodied men, half of whom went to clear the mountain, and the other half to build the instant noodle workshop.

A small portion of the men were from Sanyang Village, while the majority were from the neighboring Zhao Family Village.

Considering that Zhou only had a few female relatives at home, the lunch allowance was converted into three coins a day and added to the wages, saving the trouble of preparing lunch, and only providing some hot water as usual.

The people of Zhao Village were overjoyed. In this year of famine, being able to earn thirteen coins a day during the off-season was much better than going to the county town to carry heavy loads and do manual labor.

Within a few days, a piece of wasteland at the foot of Dongshan Mountain had been cleared out, and pits had been dug according to row spacing, just waiting for the saplings.

Xiao Youran also recruited a few uncles to tidy up the two acres of land outside her backyard, digging ridges and burying base fertilizer as Jiang Youchen had instructed the villagers.

With everything prepared, Butler Zhang indeed led a convoy of cars and parked in front of the old house.

The dozen or so carriages were laden with saplings, and... well, potatoes that Xiaoyou Ran had put in the carriages beforehand.

In less than half a month, the eastern mountain was covered with various fruit trees.

At first, Xiao Youran noticed that the fruit trees were different kinds, so she asked, "What kinds of fruit trees are there?"

Butler Zhang thought for a moment and said, "We have... pears? apples? peaches?... all sorts of things, there should be nearly ten kinds. I just don't know what they will turn out to be, but you all just keep an eye on them and plant them! Just keep watering and fertilizing them."

Xiao You Ran: ……

"Wouldn't it be difficult to maintain different kinds of fruit trees together?"

A villager from Zhao Family Village voiced her concerns.

Butler Zhang pointed at Xiao Youran and said, "This is what Miss Youran said back then. She listed more than a dozen kinds of fruit! This old servant went to great lengths to find out."

Xiao You Ran: ……

You have to swallow the mistakes you made back then, even if it hurts!

However, at that moment, Xiaoshan suddenly ran over, shouting, "Guild Leader! Guild Leader!"

Xiao Youran asked curiously, "Xiaoshan? What are you doing here?"

"Fourth Brother! Fourth Brother is missing!" Xiao Shan said anxiously.

"Fourth child? Where did he go missing?" Butler Zhang asked curiously. "They've been digging holes on this mountain for the past few days. Your children can't play on this mountain."

Xiao Shan stamped his feet anxiously, "It was...it was Sister Cui'er who said she would bring us to the mountain to play hide-and-seek. She said the gang leader would be here too. We haven't seen the gang leader in a long time, and we thought it was you who invited us to come and play! But while we were playing, Siwa disappeared!"

Xiao Youran's heart skipped a beat, and she asked, "Where are you playing hide-and-seek? Who else is playing?"

"Brother Stone, there's Brother Stone too, he's looking over there right now!" Xiao Shan pulled on Xiao Youran's sleeve and headed south.

Xiao Youran nodded to Steward Zhang, who understood and quickly beckoned to the two servants beside him, "Follow me!"

After turning onto two side roads, they were getting closer to Zhongshan. This half of the mountain was uncultivated and still overgrown with miscellaneous trees. In the distance, the group saw Stone's figure moving ahead, but he was standing on higher ground, with several large rocks and miscellaneous trees blocking his view. Xiaoshan called out to Stone a few times, but Stone seemed not to hear them.

Xiao Youran took two quick steps, then suddenly stopped, her eyes widening.

She clearly saw a hand with a black sleeve reach out from behind the stone and shove him forward violently.

Xiaoshan saw it too, and screamed, "Brother Stone!"

Then, in a panic, they ran forward without thinking.

Xiao Youran lightly touched the ground with her toes, used the Soaring Cloud Eighteen Steps, and quickly ran towards the stone.

Steward Zhang didn't care about anything else and shouted at a servant behind him, "Go and save them!"

The servant then lightly touched the ground with his toes and ran forward even faster than Xiao Youran.

Before Xiao Youran could even be surprised by the number of skilled men under Steward Zhang, she arrived to find Shi Tou being held in the arms of a servant, his face covered in blood.

She reached out and checked; thankfully, there was still a breath.

She gestured to the servants to put the stone on the ground and pleaded, "Please help me find Siwa, a little boy who is only four or five years old!"

The servant looked troubled. "Miss You Ran, there are dangers in these mountains. This servant should protect you even more."

Butler Zhang came running up, panting. Without saying much, he took out a signal flare from his sleeve and fired it before saying to Xiao Youran, "Miss Youran, please rest assured, our people will be up soon."

Just then, Xiaoshan ran up to them, and Xiaoyou Ran pulled him aside and asked, "Are you playing hide-and-seek around here? What color clothes is Siwa wearing?"

Xiaoshan nodded, his panic evident on his face, but after thinking for a moment, he said, "Blue, dark blue clothes."

The servant and Steward Zhang exchanged a glance, nodded, and then used their lightness skill to fly to the treetop to look around, but their eyes remained fixed on Xiao Youran.

He knew, of course, that Miss You Ran was his master's junior sister, and therefore a more important person.

Xiao Youran quickly took out hemostatic medicine and bandage from her sleeve, and quickly treated and bandaged the coin-sized wound on Shi Tou's forehead.

Then, with a cold face, he asked Xiaoshan, "Was Li Cuier wearing black clothes today?"

Xiaoshan shook his head, tears streaming down his face. "Sister Cui'er was wearing yellow... Waaah, Brother Shitou, please don't die..."

The children were brought up the mountain by Cui'er. I wonder if this matter is related to Li Cui'er? If it is, why would Cui'er harm Shitou and Siwa?

Soon, several figures flew up from the foot of the mountain, but after searching for a long time, they could not find the Fourth Child.

Suddenly, Yuujin had a brilliant idea. He called out "Shiro" twice and summoned Shiro.

Led by Xiaobai, they finally found the fourth child in another pit.

Seeing the corner of the blue clothes peeking out from the soil, Xiao Youran felt her heart sink.

Was it buried?

Is he still alive?