Chapter 245: Taking Advantage of the Situation

Gu Jingchun: "Raise your head."

Mao Zixiao slowly raised his head and was stunned for a moment when he saw Gu Jingchun's appearance, then he lowered his head in panic.

Gu Jingchun: "Where are you from?"

Mao Zixiao: "Local."

"I...my parents are dead."

As he spoke, he knelt down in front of Gu Jingchun.

"Girl, please, let me stay. I have no family and no home. If I leave, I will starve to death."

Gu Jingchun: "How could he, a grown man with arms and legs, starve to death?"

Gu Jingchun's words made Mao Zixiao choke. He had no way to refute it and could only kneel on the ground and kowtow continuously.

Gu Jingchun looked at the blood gradually oozing from his forehead and had some guesses in his mind.

However, Gu Jinxi felt a little bit reluctant, and could not help but pout and look at Gu Jingchun pleadingly.

"Mother..."

Gu Jingchun looked at Gu Jinxi and thought that this was an opportunity to teach Gu Jinxi a lesson, so he nodded.

"Okay, since you want him to stay, then let him stay first."

As she spoke, she looked at Mao Zixiao again.

"However, you can't be his personal servant for now, so just start with sweeping and cleaning."

Upon hearing this, Gu Jinxi immediately nodded happily.

"Mom, I knew you were the best."

Gu Jingchun smiled and patted Gu Jinxi on the head twice.

"That's good to know."

After Gu Jingchun finished speaking, he looked at Mao Zixiao again.

"In that case, then you can start sweeping the yard."

Mao Zixiao was puzzled: "Where are you sweeping?"

Gu Jingchun gestured to the ground beneath his feet.

"all."

Mao Zixiao: ...

all?

Such a big yard?

Shouldn't he have only been cleaning Gu Jinxi's yard? How did he end up cleaning the entire county magistrate's yard?

When Gu Jingchun turned around with Gu Jinxi, they met Chen Hechuan's face.

He didn't know how long he had been standing behind the two of them, looking at Mao Zixiao. When he saw Gu Jingchun's eyes, he immediately smiled, walked forward, took Gu Jinxi's hand, and walked forward together.

The backs of the three of them look sweet and harmonious, and they look like a family of three that others envy.

After sending Gu Jinxi back to the yard, Shen Hechuan asked Gu Jingchun.

"Is there something wrong with that person just now?"

Gu Jingchun shook his head.

"I don't know, I just feel like something's wrong."

Chen Hechuan: "I investigated him, and the facts are indeed as he said."

Gu Jingchun nodded.

She wanted to take this opportunity to verify something, so she didn't explain to him what was wrong for the time being.

After all, a person without parents cannot have neat and clean nails and no calluses on his hands.

For the next three days, Mao Zixiao started sweeping the yard as soon as he opened his eyes. When he returned home, he was so tired that he fell into bed and fell into a deep sleep.

After three days of hard work, he had only cleaned half of the yard.

Seeing that Gu Jinxi was about to forget about him, he couldn't help but feel very anxious.

I started thinking about various ways to get close to Gu Jinxi.

Over the past few days, he has observed the daily routines of Gu Jingchun, Chen Hechuan, Gu Jinxi and others, and has roughly figured out the time they will leave.

So, after he made sure that Gu Jingchun and Shen Hechuan had left, he secretly went to Gu Jinxi's yard.

Gu Jinxi was reading out of boredom, and was naturally delighted when he saw Mao Zixiao.

When Mao Zixiao saw him, he immediately took out a small wooden doll from his arms and placed it in front of him.

He originally wanted to use this thing to please Gu Jinxi so as to get closer to Gu Jinxi again.

After all, children are the ones who don’t like this kind of thing. They will definitely like it very much when they see it this time.

Unexpectedly, Gu Jinxi just took a look and frowned in disgust.

"Who did this?"

"Why is it so ugly? So rough."

The Maozi flute that I had carefully made for several nights broke quietly in my heart.

“Is this… is this ugly?”

When Mao Zixiao first met Gu Jinxi, he took out a simple bamboo helicopter.

Gu Jinxi has seen many high-precision things, but this is the first time he has seen something so simple and fun, so naturally he can't put it down.

However, after playing with the thing for a while, he made another one that same night and upgraded it.

After that, I lost interest.

Seeing Mao Zixiao again at this moment, he thought he had prepared something good, so he was full of expectations, but he didn't expect it to be so disappointing.

He sighed in defeat.

"Hey, I thought you would have something fun."

"Forget it, I'd better go read a book first. You should go and sweep the floor quickly."

Mao Zixiao: ...

When he saw Gu Jinxi was about to leave, he didn't care about anything else and immediately took out all his treasured things.

"Who said I don't have good things? Look, what is this?"

As he spoke, he took out a hidden arrow from his arms.

The sleeve arrow is very exquisite and can fire three arrows at a time. It is not only fast, accurate and powerful, but also easy to hide.

This was given to him by his master. He likes it very much and uses it to save his life in critical moments.

Now, in order to gain Gu Jinxi's trust, I had no choice but to take this thing out with a painful heart.

Gu Jinxi took a look and couldn't help but look at Mao Zixiao with some pity.

It seems that his guess was right, he really had never seen anything good.

Looking at Mao Zixiao's expectant eyes, Gu Jinxi thought that since they were good friends now, he should share his things with him.

Therefore, he couldn't help but take out a more delicate and smaller sleeve arrow from his sleeve.

"Look, this is a real hidden arrow. It's half the size of yours, but it can fire seven arrows in a row."

"Besides, the speed is extremely fast. If I shoot at you now, you won't have any chance to dodge."

Upon hearing this, Mao Zixiao was so frightened that he immediately took a step back and his legs fell to his knees uncontrollably.

"Don't kill me, don't kill me."

Gu Jinxi paused for a moment before sheathing her hidden arrow. She looked at him and said, "Why would I kill you for no reason?"

Mao Zixiao breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the sleeve arrow was put away.

He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and asked casually.

"How do you have such a powerful thing?"

Gu Jinxi's face was filled with pride, "My mother gave it to me."

"What about yours?"

Mao Zixiao was also very proud.

"Mine was given to me by my master."

Gu Jinxi's big eyes rolled around.

"It seems that your master is also very powerful. He can actually make such a powerful hidden arrow."

Mao Zixiao nodded.

"Of course. Although my hidden arrow is not as powerful as yours, it is still better than any other hidden arrow on the market."

He said this and sighed.

"Master's legs are not good, but he still gave this thing to me for my sake. It shows that he loves it very much."