The man said to Zhou Xiaodu and Zhou Xiaodu with an expressionless face: "It is inappropriate for the master and the servant to sleep in the same place. This will not be allowed in the future."

Zhima frowned, "Then where should he sleep?"

Jianzhu lowered his head and replied: "When I return to the second young master, I will naturally arrange for him to go to the courtyard where the servants live."

Zhima's face darkened, "I don't agree, I will live with him."

"This is what the master wants. If the second young master doesn't agree, go and talk to the master. I'm just following orders. Please don't blame me." After Jian Zhu said this, he forcefully pulled Zhou Xiaodu out.

Seeing Zhima coming to stop her, Zhou Xiaodu shook his head at him. She was just sleeping on the same bunk, so what does it matter? She was sleeping wherever she was sleeping.

Sheng Yuchi's instructions were naturally not as detailed as arranging where Zhou Xiaodu would live, but he had informed the people around him early in the morning that the second young master was not allowed to interact with those poor and low-class people anymore, and he needed to be made to adapt to the young master of the Sheng family as soon as possible.

identity.

Therefore, even if Zhima went to talk to Sheng Yuchi in person, it would only be in exchange for a painstaking ideological education.

The job assigned to Zhou Xiaodu by the manager of the Sheng family was to crack firewood in the backyard.

Zhou Xiaodu looked at the pile of firewood that had formed a hill in front of him and thought, he was here to do a task and not really a person, so why should he be chopping firewood for the Sheng family?

Then he said to the general manager: "General manager, I am not in good physical condition. Is there any easier job? Look at my thin arms and legs."

The old manager smiled contemptuously, "You are here to be a current man, not to be a master. If there is a job for you, it will be good, and you still have the nerve to be picky... If you don't want to do it? Then get out!"

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Zhou Xiaodu could only nod helplessly, "Do it, do it, I'll do it!"

She watched the old manager leave, then sat down and basked in the sun all day. It wasn't until the sun went down that she got up and cracked a few sticks of firewood in a symbolic gesture.

When the servants in the kitchen came to get firewood, they saw these few pieces of firewood, which were not even enough to cook porridge. They couldn't help but scolded angrily: "What did you do? You have been lazy all day, haven't you?"

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"I'm not strong enough to chop wood, please forgive me, please forgive me!" Zhou Xiaodu replied perfunctorily.

"I think you mean it!" the servant yelled.

With a "hoo" sound, Zhou Xiaodu swung the woodcutter towards him.

The servant trembled in fear, "You, what do you want to do? You said a few words and you went under the knife, right?"

Zhou Xiaodu: "...I just want to say, look at my thin arms, which are so skinny that I can lift the knife. How could I be deliberately trying to trick you?"

"Hmph! You kid, just wait for me!"

Zhou Xiaodu shrugged nonchalantly, threw away the knife, and went back to rest.

As soon as he entered the house, he found countless pairs of eyes looking at him.

Zhou Xiaodu smiled and said hello, "Hello, big brothers. I'm new here. Please take good care of me in the future."

The servants nodded in return, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.

Zhou Xiaodu walked to his bunk, picked up the luggage left on the bunk, touched it, and raised his eyes, "Who took my money?"

Everyone looked at each other, "I don't know, it's not me." "What kind of money? Don't accuse a good person wrongly!" "If you look again, are you remembering it wrong?" "Who knows if he really has money in his bag? Maybe.

He is deliberately blackmailing people." "Yes, look at how poor he is. How much money can he have? Who cares about his things!"

Zhou Xiaodu looked around, "No one admits it?"

She walked slowly to the door, closed it, and said slowly: "There is no name written on the silver, so even if it is found, I don't know who the thief is..."

"That's right, even if we are willing to let you search, how can you prove that the money is yours and not ours? You can't wrongly accuse a good person!" said a person next to him.

"Who says it can't be done?" Zhou Xiaodu smiled softly, "Since you don't know who the thief is, then you are all thieves."

"Hey! Why are you so arrogant?!"

"It's none of my business. How come you lost something and I'm a thief? What's wrong!"

"You brat, watch your mouth and don't talk nonsense!"

"Who cares about your few broken coins?"

"I see, he is just looking for trouble. Just fix him and he will be honest!"

"A country boy is a country boy. If you can't stand something on the table, you won't know the heights of the sky when you first come in. You might rush into the master tomorrow."

All the servants cursed in displeasure.

"..."

After a cup of tea.

Zhou Xiaodu quickly ransacked all the other nineteen bunks and counted the belongings one by one in front of the servants on the ground who were beaten to the point of being unable to get up.

"Since you don't know which money was stolen from me, then it is all my money." She said confidently.

"You are so unreasonable!" someone protested.

Zhou Xiaodu gave him a threatening look.

The man immediately closed his mouth in fear.

"I know who stole your money!" A servant couldn't help but said, "It was Sun Laoer who stole it, it must be him! He was so poor that he borrowed money from me two days ago, how could he suddenly have so much?

Silver! He must have stolen it!"

Everyone turned and glared at Sun Lao'er. They were right, it must have been Sun Lao'er who had stolen it. It was him who had done bad things and implicated them.

"You are such a mouthful! I won this money from gambling in the past two days!" Sun Laoer shouted.

"Pull him down! The people at the gambling house told me yesterday that you have never been able to repay your debt. Are they willing to let you enter the gambling house to gamble again? Where did you get your gambling capital?"

"It's you, it's you!"

"I see, it was Sun Laoer who stole it!"

"I, I..." Sun Laoer didn't know how to refute, so he could only say with a guilty conscience, "I didn't steal it..."

The servants looked at Zhou Xiaodu and said flatteringly: "Brother, since the thief has been found out, can our money be returned to us?"

Why should I return the money I stole to you based on my ability?

Zhou Xiaodu was reluctant at first, but he thought that he still had to stay in the Sheng family to search for clues, and he didn't want to start a grudge against his servants for such a small amount of money, so he nodded and returned all the silver.

After this episode, Zhou Xiaodu's reputation has spread among the servants of the Sheng family. Everyone knows that there is a very arrogant and capable boy named Zhou Xiaodu, and no one dares to offend her, even

There are also many people who rush to recognize the elder brother as the younger brother. This is a story for another day.

Probably because she was sleeping among servants and the smell of sweat that she had suppressed for a long time made her uncomfortable, Zhou Xiaodu dreamed of some memories from the past while half asleep and half awake that night.

That year there was a severe drought and famine, and the people were in dire straits, and everyone was eating each other.

She was surrounded by several refugees and was pinned to the ground unable to move. The strong sour smell penetrated her nose and almost made her feel sick to her stomach.

In the midst of panic, a luxurious sedan passed by, decorated with gold beads and hanging with white gauze with auspicious cloud patterns and embroidered orchids. The fragrance overflowed, as if it came from the sky, and was incompatible with this dirty and chaotic world.

Some refugees rushed up to ask for some alms, but were killed by the black-clothed guards in front of the sedan with their swords.

It's just one knife, clean and sharp.

She appealed to the sedan for help, shouting at the top of her lungs, "My lord, save me! Please save me! I am willing to be a slave, a maid, an ox or a horse, please save me!"

The sedan didn't stop for a moment, and the guards in black didn't even look at her.

In troubled times, there are so many unlucky people like her, so why should he save her alone?

She desperately glanced at her crying brother and made her last plea, "Don't touch my brother. As long as you don't touch my brother, you can do anything. Please... He is only six years old, he is only six years old."

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The person on the body laughed ferociously, "Why don't you touch them? Children with tender skin and tender flesh are rare these days. We have prepared the firewood. Don't worry, we will let your siblings die together."

"Sister... Bad guy, let go of my sister, wuwuwu..."

The cry of the younger brother and the man's ferocious laughter echoed between heaven and earth, deafening.

A few rays of cold light suddenly flew out of the white gauze sedan that had already gone away. She didn't see what they were, but when she reacted, the refugees had already died.

At the end of the dream, a white robe flew out from behind the sedan curtain. It was exquisitely made, and its dark patterns shone in the sunlight. It fell slowly like a cloud and covered her body.

At that moment, she knew that the chance to survive had come.

When Zhou Xiaodu woke up with a frown on her face, it was still dark. She looked at the room full of sleeping servants with heavy eyes, and suddenly wanted to pull them all up and beat them up again.

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