Chapter 2
No matter what you think in your heart, at least you should do things thoroughly on the surface.
Shen Jiao carried the bowl out and poured the medicine back into the jar, making sure it was still warm when he wanted to drink it.
I didn't stay outside for long. I went back to the bedroom, lit a calming incense, found an inconspicuous place to sit down, and that was it.
This person is really unpredictable. No matter what I do, it will be wrong, so let's just follow the rules for now.
When the master is sleeping, there must always be someone on duty and no one will leave without orders.
It's really boring.
Shen Jiao sighed silently in his heart.
I counted on my fingers and realized that only one month of these boring days had passed. There was still a long time before the end of the three-year period. It was really... great!
A master who loves to make trouble is always better than one who loves to go crazy.
The Valley Master is a person that I really don't want to face.
As for this...
Shen Jiao glanced at the lump on the couch that occasionally squirmed.
He's just a willful young man, and his methods of torturing people are so boring. But... we still have to be careful, because people can do anything when they are impulsive.
If you want to live a boring life, you have to figure out how to serve him to his satisfaction...
I definitely can't get a refund, is there any other way?
She was thinking quietly, and occasionally a groan or two of pain could be heard from under the quilt, but it soon returned to silence.
Xue Shun fell asleep due to the pain. When he woke up, he still felt uncomfortable and had a dull pain. His intestines twisted and fell down from time to time. When he touched his entire abdomen, it was cold. His body was wet with sweat, but he couldn't warm his intestines.
He has been like this since he was a child. Sometimes he would not feel well for several days, and sometimes he would have an attack every few days. He himself was annoyed by it. He had clearly stayed in a brothel when he was a child and lived such a lowly life, yet he still had a delicate body. How could he not be annoyed?
He couldn't even remember the first time he felt pain. Was it when someone opened his mouth and poured boiling water into his stomach? Or when he was kicked so hard he couldn't stand up? Or when he was locked in the woodshed for days without food or water, and was vomiting blood due to a fever...
If you think about it carefully, he was quite lucky. He survived so many hardships and lived until the old man remembered that he had a lover outside and took him back.
After so many years of recuperation, he has gotten much better, but why can't he help but want to yell when he feels a little pain?
He knew clearly that no one wanted to pay attention to him, and everyone wanted to ignore him like that liar, but he still had to pretend to be hypocritical. Even the old man would only send a doctor and a maid, and never even come to see him. How could he still not help it?
I felt irritated and my stomach hurt even more.
Xue Shun said nothing, he knew there was only one 'liar' in the room.
He said nothing and ignored his liar.
It was useless for him to yell and scream. It was better for him to just bear it. But this way... it seemed to make him feel even more uncomfortable and depressed.
Xue Shun wiped his eyes to dispel the tears, lifted the quilt and took a breath.
"Young Master is awake, do you want to take medicine?"
“…Bring it here.”
The medicine was still warm, and the bitter taste made people frown. Xue Shun drank it all as usual. He felt a little nauseous, so he covered his mouth with a handkerchief for a long time before he forced himself not to vomit.
He waved away the candied fruit that Shen Jiao handed over. Eating it would make him feel more like vomiting, but there was no need to do so. He was used to bitter food and didn't like sweet food.
Shen Jiao would not persuade him. If the master didn't want to eat, then he didn't want to eat. Whether he would feel better after eating was not her concern.
"Tell someone to get some water. I need to wash."
Xue Shun felt uncomfortable and sticky all over, and he didn't like it. He wanted to feel cooler even when he was sick.
"yes."
Shen Jiao responded and went out to call for help.
Jin Yu and the other maids naturally had to persuade her.
Taking a bath on an empty stomach can easily cause dizziness, and people who are sick cannot stand the cold.
These were all old clichés that everyone knew, but Xue Shun knew it clearly in his mind and decided to wash it anyway.
They also said that they would be punished if anything went wrong.
Xue Shun kicked them all out, leaving only the "liar" who seemed to care about nothing.
Shen Jiao took off his cherry-red undershirt, revealing a lean and strong body with some ugly old scars scattered across it. There were some blue and red marks on his abdominal muscles, which were caused by his own massage.
What kind of person, when in a lot of pain, would torture themselves harder? Does that make them feel better?
Shen Jiao was a little curious, but didn't say anything.
Yao Nu was in good health and rarely got sick, so she didn't quite understand how painful illness was, but Shen Jiao could see it.
After soaking in the water for a while, Xue Shun's face turned even paler, his breathing became a little disordered, and more and more fine beads of sweat began to flow down.
Shen Jiao wiped it off for him with a towel.
He closed his eyes and smelled a pleasant herbal fragrance passing by his nose. He looked for the source in a daze, then put his head against her hands, groaned softly and said, "...My head hurts...Please give me a massage..."
This was easy. Shen Jiao rubbed his forehead and lightly pressed the solar plexus. Spiritual power flowed into his head along the acupoints like warm water, wandering through the meridians, and his tense spirit relaxed.
The first thing Xue Shun did after he woke up from the feeling of blacking out and dizziness was to open her hands and angrily tell her to get out.
What a bad temper!
Shen Jiao cursed in his heart and left obediently. He felt a little relieved. It was a happy thing that he didn't have to help Xue Shun take a bath. He had too many things to do.
However, his clothes were not as good as hers. When Shen Jiao helped him change his clothes the next day, she saw several scratches and torn places.
Jin Yu, who was holding the clothes, also saw it. In the past, she would have been busy getting medicine for him.
But recently, she has become more courageous and has also learned to keep silent like Shen Jiao. Yinhua, Tongbao and others have followed suit.
The maids didn't know how to restrain themselves and were all trying to fool him.
The tea at night was always cold. If Shen Jiao was not on duty, no one might respond even if he called out two or three times.
Xue Shun saw it all, but he let it go and just made do with it, not having the heart to care about it. Anyway, these people had wanted to treat him like this for a long time, so what was the point of caring about it? Just beat them all up, kicked them out, and then replaced them with another group. Would they be true to him?
Come on...
The days went on like this, and within half a month something happened. He fell ill at night and shouted a few times but no one answered. He couldn't bear it anymore and when he got up to look for someone, his eyes went black and he fell to the ground. He was unconscious all night, caught a cold and had a high fever, and he even vomited a large pool of blood.
This was a big deal. The lady had even sent people to inquire about the matter. All those who were supposed to be on guard that night but didn't were driven out. Tongbao, the head maid, was not spared either. Although the people who came seemed to care about him, they implicitly blamed him for not taking care of himself, which made people worry for no reason.
He also said that the village was short of manpower in preparing for the grand event recently, and all the young masters were busy, so some omissions were inevitable, and they were chattering like ducks.
Shen Jiao found it annoying just to listen to it.
Xue Shun actually listened to the whole thing, sitting there tense and politely saying, "Thank you for the trip, Aunt Zhang. Please tell my brothers that things are busy in the farm, but there is nothing urgent here. There are enough people in the courtyard, and the girl my father gave me is very kind, so there is no need to send anyone else."
"Young Master Seventeen has always been sensible," Nanny Zhang praised him and added, "but what's the problem with the people around Young Master Seventeen? Madam has already selected them for you. They are all loyal and respectful maids who would never do anything like a slave bullying his master.
"Seventeenth Young Master, just rest assured and recuperate. If there's anything wrong, just send someone to tell them. Madam is your mother. Although not your biological child, we are all the owner's bloodline. Madam always treats all the young masters in the manor equally. There's no need for courtesy between mother and son. Otherwise, if something happens, people will think that Madam is being harsh on us."
She said jokingly.
Xue Shun smiled and said, "How could there be such a person? Everyone knows that mothers are the most compassionate. Not to mention father's children, they even take good care of the kittens and puppies they picked up. A few days ago, I saw Xuantong from a distance. It was really big. I'm afraid it must be a strange beast. It's worth all the years of worry from mother."
Nanny Zhang's smile was genuinely better. "Seventeenth Young Master has a good eye. That beast is a real talent. After years of raising it, it's finally of some use. It'll be able to transform in a few days. It chases Madam and Sixth Young Master around every day, jumping around and being very clingy."
He smiled again and shifted his body, already feeling a little restless sitting still. Nanny Zhang said at the right moment, "Look at this servant. Once you start talking, you can't stop. You've disturbed the Seventeenth Young Master's rest. It's really Madam's instructions that this servant should keep a good eye on the Seventeenth Young Master."
"Seventeen is so grateful for my mother's love and care that I can't express it enough. How could I find it disturbing?"
Nanny Zhang said a few more words before leaving.
Xue Shun asked Jin Yu to see her off. He watched Nanny Zhang walk around the screen and called Yin Hua with all his strength, "Take the new arrivals and settle them down. Shen Jiao will stay. I'm not feeling well, so I'll leave now. Please reward them for me."
"yes."
Yinhua was very honest and went there immediately.
Xue Shun's body also went limp.
Shen Jiao held a half-full bowl of porridge in his hand and asked, "Master, the porridge is cold. Do you want someone to heat it up?"
Xue Shun: ...
"No, I'm not hungry."
His tone was gentle just now, but when he spoke to her, it became stiff again. Shen Jiao really didn't know what he was thinking...
If you’re not hungry, then don’t eat.
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