You want to play games? Trying to make me back down like this? Dream on! I came to your mansion with other business to attend to. A small act of impatience can ruin a big plan. It's just chopping wood, right? That's no problem for your grandpa!
"Have you seen enough? Hurry up and get to work! Do you still want to eat lunch?" the servant scolded fiercely.
"I'm going right now!"
After the servant left, Shen Ye picked up the axe on the ground and tried to chop wood like the people in TV dramas. To split a log in half, you need a lot of arm strength, but Shen Ye is a modern person who has never done manual labor, so where would he get such strength?
He put in all his strength, but still couldn't chop a single piece of wood properly.
"Chopping firewood is much harder than I imagined. There's so much wood, and two large vats of water to carry. Looks like we won't be able to have lunch today," Shen Ye complained, looking at the round logs.
Fortunately, he was born with a handsome face; just standing there looking worried was enough to charm many maids. Soon, he was surrounded by them.
Then a brilliant idea struck him. "Hello, fairies! I was tricked into coming here to do hard labor. Someone is jealous of my good looks, so they're threatening my sister's life to force me to work for them for free." As he spoke, Shen Ye made a gesture of wiping away tears, which made the maids feel a surge of sympathy.
"How pitiful."
"yes."
"It's wrong to be handsome, that's so pathetic."
"......"
Immediately, the surrounding area was filled with voices accusing the person who had threatened Shen Ye. Shen Ye looked at the group of maids with a forced smile and continued, "It's one thing if you don't pay me, but see this pile of wood and those two big vats? I'm not allowed to eat until I finish chopping them. I haven't eaten for three days. If I don't eat this meal soon, I don't know if I'll see the sun tomorrow. I don't want to die. I still want to take my sister home... Waaah..."
The more they talked, the worse it got. Some of the maids, feeling sorry for their aunts, rolled up their sleeves and said, "I'll chop it for you."
"How could you possibly chop so much firewood all by yourself in such a short time? It's almost dinnertime," Shen Ye added fuel to the fire.
"I'll help too."
"Me too."
"Me too."
"Just watch from the side, and we'll make sure you get lunch today."
"Really? But isn't it a bit much to trouble you like this? Besides, this is all men's work. You girls have delicate hands, how can you do this kind of rough work..." Shen Ye pretended to be embarrassed.
"You're the first person to say that we women can't do rough work because our hands are too delicate. We women are born with a lowly life, and no one has ever cared about us like this before."
"Yes, if my father thought the same way, he wouldn't have sold me to the village bully. If the prince hadn't happened to pass by and saved me that day, I would have been beaten to death long ago."
“When I was at home, I never ate a single piece of meat, not even scraps. My brother ate all the good meat.”
"......"
Looking at them like this, Shen Ye felt a little guilty. In ancient times, women had a low status. Even if they married into a wealthy family, if their family was powerful, they had to endure their husbands having multiple wives and concubines. If they didn't have a powerful family background, they wouldn't be taken seriously at all. Even if they were beaten to death, no one would say anything. Let alone the daughters of poor families.
"It's getting late, let's hurry up and finish chopping this pile of firewood so we can have dinner."
"Um."
Soon, a pile of firewood was chopped and neatly arranged in the woodshed, and two large water vats were filled with water.
Although Shen Ye felt a little guilty about taking advantage of them, he thought again that it wasn't really taking advantage of them. They helped him today, and maybe they would need his help tomorrow. This was called mutual assistance, and it wasn't excessive!
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