Chapter 2 Half a Pancake

How can this be the look a human would have?

This is clearly a... vicious dog!

Chu Ran shuddered subconsciously, and when he lowered his head, he found that he was covered with goose bumps.

He touched his arm, then quickly got up and left.

As he was about to leave, he vaguely heard someone behind him say to the young man, "You two keep an eye on him. Let him kneel here! Kneel until this time tomorrow and then let him stand up! Don't give him any food during this time!"

As expected, Chu Ran had a nightmare when he was sleeping at night. One moment he was chased by wolves, and the next moment the wolves chasing him disappeared. Suddenly, a vicious dog appeared in front of him, and the vicious dog stared at him coldly with its green eyes. Then, Chu Ran woke up.

Today, just like yesterday, he took two pancakes and continued to run back to his original position to wait.

The voices he heard when he was leaving yesterday evening were not hallucinations, because when he went there early in the morning, the young man he saw yesterday was kneeling in the middle of the path.

He must have started kneeling since last night.

Chu Ran looked at the other person silently, then found a secluded spot in the lush grass and sat down.

Few people pass by this road on weekdays. At the end of the day, Chu Ran only saw a few living people, but among these people, none of them was the person Chu Ran was waiting for.

The sky gradually darkened.

The sun sets completely and night falls.

The two palace maids who were staring at the young man left one after another. After they left, the young man kneeling on the ground did not get up immediately, but struggled forward on his knees. He crawled to the place where the brown sugar osmanthus cake fell yesterday evening, picked up a few relatively intact pieces, and began to eat them voraciously while lying on the ground.

The cake was covered in mud and had been stepped on, but it didn't seem dirty at all.

After he finished eating a few pieces on the ground, he stretched out his body and arms to pick up the piece that was far away. When his fingertips were about to touch the piece of osmanthus cake stuck to the ground, suddenly, half a piece of pancake appeared in front of his eyes.

The boy raised his head, Chu Ran bent down and handed him the remaining half of the pancake in his hand. His Adam's apple rolled slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but before he could speak, the boy almost snatched the pancake from his hand and buried his head in eating.

He ate very quickly and almost choked several times. Chu Ran wanted to remind him, but he swallowed the words back when they came to his lips.

After he swallowed the last bite of the pancake, the boy seemed to have regained some strength. He slowly stood up, turned around and left.

He still looks cold and indifferent.

I understand. A cool boy.

After two days of waiting, not only did he not get anything, but he also didn't feel full. Tonight, Chu Ran planned to go to the small kitchen to find something to eat.

There was a small kitchen very close to the duty room where he lived. When the palace maids and eunuchs were hungry, they would come here to secretly find something to eat.

But today, Chu Ran looked around but didn't find anything to eat in the small kitchen. He sighed and was about to return empty-handed when suddenly, his ears were pinched hard and a strange voice came from behind him.

"I was wondering, I haven't seen you all day, you came here to steal food, come out with me!"

He grabbed Chu Ran's ear and carried him out of the small kitchen.

Chu Ran felt like his ears were about to be pulled off by the other party. He could only follow the other party's strength and try his best to follow him.

The other party dragged Chu Ran back to the yard. He pinched Chu Ran's ear with one hand and pointed at the pile of toilets on the ground, which were piled up like a small mountain, and said in an overly sharp voice: "Yesterday's toilets were not washed, and today's toilets were not washed either. Are you collecting these for us to wash?!"

Chu Ran's ears hurt so much that he could only shout, "I know, I know! I'll wash them now! I'll wash them now!"

The other party then let go of Chu Ran's ear. Chu Ran couldn't help but raise his hand and touch his ear, which was burning with pain.

Before leaving, the eunuch pinched the soft flesh on Chu Ran's waist hard, leaving a purple mark on it, and then he walked away angrily.

Chu Ran looked at the toilet that was filled with a strong and foul smell, and his mentality, which had been stable for the whole day, finally collapsed.

This is cleaning the toilet! He has hardly cleaned the toilet at home!

When the work was finished, it was already daybreak. Chu Ran dragged his tired body, not even bothering to change his clothes, and fell directly into the bed.

After a while, Chu Ran climbed out of bed and reluctantly walked to the closet to change clothes.

Forget it, I'd better change into some clean clothes before going to bed.

I feel like I'm about to be marinated.

The sun was high in the sky, and the warm sunlight was shining into the empty room through the hollow carved windows. Chu Ran was wrapped in a quilt, dreaming comfortably about becoming rich suddenly in the warm sunshine, and then he was woken up.

The person who woke him up was Guo Maoxue, the eunuch who pinched his ears last night.

Chu Qinglin is only fourteen years old now. He entered the palace at the age of five and has been there for nine years. Although he is considered an old man in the palace, he is always oppressed and bullied by the older eunuchs because of his young age, low position and lack of support.

Guo Maoxue is one of them.

Forget about the others, at most they can just stay away from them if they can't afford to offend them. But it's not the same for Guo Maoxue. Guo Maoxue and Chu Ran live in the same yard, and they see each other every day, so there's no way to hide even if they want to.

Guo Maoxue called Chu Ran up and assigned him a bunch of work. Chu Ran worked on the side while Guo Maoxue lay on a recliner, drinking tea and supervising the work.

While Chu Ran was working, he cursed Guo Maoxue's ancestors in his heart.

By the time we finished the work, it was already dark.

Chu Ran then realized that he had not eaten a single bite of dry food from last night to tonight.

He was now tired, sleepy and hungry. Lying in bed he felt as if his bones were falling apart. If he wanted to get up he would have to reassemble all his bones again.

But Chu Ran is too lazy to move now.

And even if he went to the canteen to find food now, it was too late. At this time, there was nothing left in the canteen.

“Boom.”

There were strange noises coming from the yard.

Chu Ran didn't want to care.

“Boom.”

“Boom, boom.”

"Boom, boom, boom."

Someone was throwing stones into the yard.

Chu Ran turned over, feeling angry.

You did it on purpose, didn’t you?

It’s not over yet, right?

Guo Maoxue had just gone out, and Chu Ran was the only one in the room. Chu Ran got up from the bed with a dark face and the lawsuit on his head.