Chapter 754: Kneeling
The estate's manager stood on a high ground, supervising the workers in the tea garden as they picked tea.
After hearing Zhu Chuideng's purpose, he looked at him with some sympathy and repeated Yue Mushan's words to him verbatim.
"Butler Mu said that summer is here and the young lady loves to eat winter melons. Since Zhu Changgong is good at farming, he specially sent you to look after the watermelon field."
"I hope the construction workers can understand the young lady's deep affection for the house and her family, and not let it interfere with their work."
The manager spoke very bluntly, Zhu Chuideng's transfer was Yue Mushan's idea and he had no say in the matter.
He gave the key to the melon field to Zhu Chuideng and said, "Just focus on your work first. Who knows, the eldest lady might remember you one day and call you back to her family."
After listening to this, Zhu Chuideng frowned slightly.
He felt that he and Yue Mushan got along well, and he had never been jealous of Yue Mushan, so why did Yue Mushan still not tolerate him?
Zhu Chuideng said, "Butler Mu asked me to come here to do something and said I would be allowed to return home after a day. Why did you assign me a new errand?"
The manager looked at the simple young farmer and felt like sighing.
Why? Because the cat demon was targeting him.
The fight for favor in the harem is a battle without the smoke of gunpowder. The winner is favored exclusively, while the loser is left as the leftover food in the cold house.
People like Zhu Chuideng who only know how to act recklessly will only be marginalized and driven away. Victory belongs to people like the cat demon boy who are both reckless and good at intrigue.
How could the country folk defeat those monsters? Their tricks were very powerful.
This kind of thing is not uncommon in the wealthy families in the city. There are countless people who have started out as slaves with kindness and gentleness, and finally succeeded in taking over the wealthy families' homes.
The steward remembered the eldest lady's methods.
Moreover, how could Butler Mu dare to go against the eldest lady's wishes and send Zhu Chuideng away without telling her? Butler Mu would only observe the eldest lady's words and expressions and act according to her wishes. It seemed that the eldest lady suddenly wanted to teach Zhu Chuideng a lesson.
The eldest lady was born with an innocent evil and loved to play with people. When Zhu Chuileng was at his most excited, she would suddenly throw him away with a cold face, and then watch him suffer and doubt himself, enjoying the pleasure of completely dominating his emotions. When he was completely disappointed in her, she would suddenly show her kindness, making him return to her with gratitude, and after a while, she would throw him away again.
This cycle will repeat itself several times, and after a few cycles, Zhu Chuideng will be trained to be the eldest lady's most loyal slave, always worrying about her gains and losses.
The manager saw that Zhu Chuideng's eyes were bloodshot and he was in a daze. Zhu Chuideng had been working hard these days, and he admired him very much. He couldn't help but want to persuade Zhu Chuideng to turn back.
"Have you ever thought about your future?"
Zhu Chuideng smiled helplessly, "Yes."
Zhu Chuideng understood the hidden meaning of the manager's words.
He was of humble status and could not be a husband of the house, nor even a servant of the king. He could only be a nameless farmhand for the rest of his life.
The real world is not like in operas where a father can gain status by relying on his daughter. He is just a farmhand employed by the eldest lady. Even if he is honored to have a child with the eldest lady and the child becomes the master, he is still a slave who cannot be seen in public and is not even qualified to hold the child.
The eldest daughter is not a very loyal person. After playing for a while, she gets bored and starts looking for new things to do. The waves behind her push the waves in front of her, and the waves in front of her die on the beach. Zhu Chuideng is on a road of no return.
The steward said, "You have hands and feet. Go back to the countryside and farm. As long as you work hard, you can have enough food and clothing. Why do you have to try to get rich by marrying into a wealthy family?"
Zhu Chuideng still smiled frankly, and lowered his voice: "I just like the eldest lady very much."
"You're right. Maybe after a few days, the young lady will remember me."
When Zhu Chuideng said this, the manager knew that his previous words were in vain. Forget it, it’s hard to persuade a foolish person with good words.
"Then you just wait patiently."
Zhu blew out the light and went back to look at the land.
At night, the moon was like a slice of orange in the deep blue sky. Zhu Chuideng lay on a pile of straw in the field, resting his head on his arms and with a tattered straw hat folded under his head. He would think of oranges. It was Ye Xiaoman who said that he peeled oranges quickly and well, and she liked to let him feed him with his fingers.
The watermelons were buried in the vines and leaves, forming dark shadows. I watched the shadows fade away amid the chirping of insects, and the watermelons showed their original outlines in the sunset glow.
He missed Ye Xiaoman so much that he couldn't sleep all night again.
The carriage stopped at the back door. Ye Xiaoman tried to stand in the shade of the eaves, listening to the cicadas chirping among the leaves, but she still felt very hot.
"Aren't you ready yet?" Ye Xiaoman asked again.
"The cooling magic array in the car has lost its effect. Butler Mu went back to get a replacement array stone and should be back soon." The servant who was holding the umbrella for Ye Xiaoman answered. The umbrella was also equipped with a cooling magic array that could bring in gusts of fresh breeze.
The servant was about to ask Ye Xiaoman if she wanted some ice water when he suddenly heard the rumbling sound of a cart approaching. He stopped talking and looked behind Ye Xiaoman.
Seeing this, Ye Xiaoman turned around and saw someone who shouldn't be here.
"Miss."
Zhu Chuideng, who was sitting at the front of the cart and driving it, stopped the mules and horses and jumped off the cart in a dashing manner.
The back of the car was loaded with watermelons, with morning dew still on their green skins.
"Zhu Chui Deng," Ye Xiaoman said with amusement, her eyes rolling. "I didn't ask you to go back home, so why did you leave your post?"
Zhu Chuideng said, "I went to the city to do some work for the steward, and I remembered that the eldest lady loved to eat winter melon, so I stopped by to visit my family."
As he spoke, Zhu Chuideng had already stood in front of Ye Xiaoman. The shadow cast by his tall body covered Ye Xiaoman. Ye Xiaoman looked up at him with squinted eyes.
Zhu Chuideng must have come here in a hurry. There was a little sweat on his tough and handsome face. The cloth that tied his hair behind his neck was slightly wet with sweat. The ends of his black hair rested on his bronze skin, and the lines on the side of his neck were clean and neat.
She was inexplicably tempted to reach out and touch the ends of his hair on his shoulders, but was afraid of being pricked by the hard stubble.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Zhu Chuideng looked at her deeply and asked, "Miss, don't you want to see me?"
Ye Xiaoman laughed it off. "How could that be? Ah Mu said you applied to go to the farm outside to look after the melon fields. I thought you were trying to avoid me."
Zhu Chuideng said, "I will never try to hide from you."
Ye Xiaoman smiled and said, "That's good."
She looked at Zhu Chuideng's haggard face because of her, and felt proud.
With just a few words, he said that her plan to play a trick on Zhu Chuideng was a trick of Yue Mushan. Indeed, Yue Mushan had such an intention for a long time. Zhu Chuideng was good at it, and she had been a little obsessed with Zhu Chuideng recently. Yue Mushan had long wanted to send Zhu Chuideng away and wait for a year or two to let her forget about Zhu Chuideng's existence.
Zhu Chuideng was very tolerant and didn't dwell on the small details. He looked at the carriage and asked, "Miss, are you going out today?"
"Well," Ye Xiaoman replied, "I'm going to Chepan Village to buy some aged grains."
She said, fanning herself with her hands.
Zhu Chuideng saw her little face was red from the steam: "Hot?"
Before Ye Xiaoman could answer, Zhu Chuideng had already taken off the straw hat hanging behind his neck. The wide brim of the hat instantly blocked out the sunlight that had escaped the net under the shade of the house.
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