Chapter 41
【Good luck. 】
The system always says this.
Xue Lang was a little annoyed by what he heard: [Can't you say something else?]
There was no response from the system.
Xue Lang cursed: [You are an artificial idiot.]
The system remains silent.
Okay, Xue Lang has gotten used to it. This thing has a low sense of technology and seems to be cold and violent.
He ordered someone to bring him food and ate while waiting for the reaction from the main courtyard.
Shen Jiao sat in the woodshed with a hungry stomach, and really wanted a bowl of hot sesame oil chicken rice with Huadiao wine.
Although it is not suitable for such hot weather, it tastes really delicious.
Have some chilled cold melon after the meal.
Only then would she feel homesick.
She wanted to return to that abandoned winter, well-fed, warmly dressed, lying on a pile of straw, sleeping soundly until dawn. The fire in the stove had just died down, and inside, there was a large roasted sweet potato. She used a fire chopstick to pry it out and ate it with great sweetness. She initially saved most of it, but when no one came back, she ate it all, chewing the melon rind and the bones of the sesame chicken. Experience tells me that frozen melon is edible, but it's best eaten while still icy, with a crunchy texture and a unique flavor. But her mother insisted on thawing it, snatching it from her. She still remembers that awful taste. The thawed melon tasted like death, just like herself, cold after the warmth of the house had dissipated...
"Sister, what are you thinking about?" Qiongzhi asked weakly.
"I want to eat," Shen Jiao said sadly, "I hate being hungry."
"Who would like it?" Jin Yu's tone sounded more like Yinhua.
Shen Jiao didn't refute, but turned her head to look at Yinhua: "She will die if this goes on."
"What's the point of saying this? We will die too, it's just a matter of time. He won't come to save us," Jin Yu muttered to himself, "It's all his fault. It's all his fault..."
He looks very resentful and not very rational.
Qiongzhi was calmer and placed her hopes on her calmly: "Sister, what should we do?"
Shen Jiao saw the seriousness in her eyes and was surprised: She was actually asking me what to do? Did she trust me so much?
Wouldn't it be embarrassing to say just wait for death?
"Wait." Shen Jiao said concisely.
Qiongzhi sighed deeply: "Yes, there is nothing we can do except wait."
The woodshed became quiet again.
This time the wait wasn't too long, and soon someone came. It was an acquaintance, Aunt Zhang.
The old man was very fierce. He first said a few words to Xue Lang, then beat and scolded the maids, and then ran straight to the woodshed. Yinhua was carried away, and Shen Jiao was held in the hands of two maids and taken out.
Jin Yu and Qiong Zhi were still imprisoned and could not speak even if they wanted to.
Shen Jiao followed silently and obediently, and saw that the road was leading to the main courtyard.
"Don't you want to ask?" Nanny Zhang said without turning her head.
"What do you want to ask?" Shen Jiao asked in confusion.
"Don't you want to ask where you're going?"
"It's not up to me to decide."
"Why don't you ask?"
"Is it necessary?"
Nanny Zhang turned around and looked at her, then stopped talking. Perhaps she thought she was right.
They walked to the main courtyard in silence, like a group of ghosts in the night.
It was Shen Jiao's first time entering the main courtyard and also his first time meeting the lady.
It's not what she thought.
Looking at Aunt Zhang's expression, Shen Jiao had thought that the Fairy Liuyun, who once sang and danced with swords everywhere, had become an exhausted or calculating woman in seclusion. However, it seemed that this was not the case at all.
There were at least eight handsome young men sitting around her, and she smiled as brightly as a young lady. Judging from their intimate behavior, these... were definitely not her sons.
The eldest white cat lay at her feet and looked up at her casually. It was Xuantong, but for some reason, it had a black head.
Come to think of it, the first two times I saw him, he also had black hair, maybe he had dyed it.
Shen Jiao glanced at her and then looked away: "This servant greets the madam."
Something was running towards me, and in front of me was a pair of bare feet.
"Raise your head." A clear female voice came from above.
Shen Jiao straightened up obediently, and stood in front of her with her bare eyes: "Play?"
Shen Jiao: ...
Kids, wear some clothes and don’t think about playing all day.
Seeing that she didn't answer, Xuantong put his hands on his hips again and said, "Speak!"
His character is really similar to Xue Lang's.
"I dare not."
"Are you afraid to speak, or are you afraid to play with it?" the clear female voice asked again.
Trying to play tricks in front of these people would be an absolute humiliation. If she had any smart people in her, she would be doomed, and it was very likely that all of them were smart people.
Shen Jiao answered honestly, "I dare not play with it, so I don't know how to answer."
"Why not?"
"Without the master's orders."
"Master? You mean that hypocritical fool? He's not here."
A hypocritical and silly child? Is that Xue Shun? This metaphor is quite appropriate.
"A slave is someone who holds a bond."
Before Shen Jiao left, the master repeatedly reminded him to distinguish clearly who was the master.
Shen Jiao thought that she had two masters, one was herself, and the other was the person who held the body contract, and the others did not count.
Xue Shun...obviously doesn't have her indenture.
"It seems you're still using the same old rules. In that case, I don't need to ask why you're not doing your best for him. According to your rules, if you don't hear the master's orders in person, nothing counts, right?"
"Madam is right."
Luo Wendi gave a look, and the man next to her chuckled, took out a piece of paper from his arms, unfolded it, and shook it in front of her.
"Look carefully, girl, but this?" He smiled.
"That's it." Shen Jiao nodded.
He suddenly raised his hand and tore the paper in two with a "swish". A flame ignited and the two halves of the paper turned to ashes.
Luo Wendi held up his chin and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
"To answer Madam, I think he is a damn lunatic. It is very troublesome to repair this kind of thing."
"Hey, where is your bond with him? It's not nice to scold your own master, right?"
"So I waited until he finished burning before I scolded him."
The young man looked really unhappy, perhaps because others were asking him to give them money, as if they had made some kind of bet.
Luo Wendi laughed heartily: "You are quite good at dealing with my temper. Don't worry, I have already bought you. It doesn't matter if you don't have a personal contract. It's just a piece of paper. If your heart is not loyal, no matter how much paper you have, it will be useless."
She meant something.
Shen Jiao also heard it clearly. Logically, she should have bowed down and sworn to the sky to prove her loyalty, but she didn't. She was a little dumbfounded.
Luo Wendi didn't care and asked again: "What are you thinking about?"
Shen Jiao: "How much did you spend on me, Madam?"
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