Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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There was no impenetrable wall in Ning Wang’s Mansion. The news that Lu Huan was called to Mei’an Garden by the old lady soon reached the ears of Ning Wang’s wife.
She gritted her teeth and threw the teacup heavily onto the table, causing the tea to spill out, startling the servant who came to report.
The servant knelt down in panic: “Madam, please calm down!”
Lady Ning Wang angrily said to Nanny A beside her: “What on earth is the old lady thinking? Could it be that because of what happened by the stream last time, she really favors that bast**d?!”
“Wenxiu was punished by her to reflect on his mistakes behind closed doors for a whole month. By the time he comes out, the daylilies for hunting in Qiuyan Mountain half a month later would have all turned cold! It turned out that she wanted that bast**d to go in Wenxiu’s place!”
Nanny A saw that Lady Ning was furious, so she knelt down hastily and said, “As long as you don’t want that bast**d to go, can he really go?”
Madam Ning sneered, “There will be a hunting party at Qiuyan Mountain. Several princes and the children of the major families in the capital will go. How can a mere bast**d be present at such an event? He even managed to trick the old lady into letting him replace Wenxiu! What can he do?”
Nanny A said, “There is still half a month before the hunting trip. Madam, there are many ways to prevent him from showing up on that day. Why worry? If there is any accident, where he can’t even leave the Ning Palace and can’t even get on a horse, how can he participate in the hunting trip in Qiuyan Mountain then?”
After hearing this, Lady Ning’s expression looked a little better.
——Indeed, just a bast**d.
Although this bast**d was extremely tough and had a strong vitality, which was why she had not been able to kill him all these years, if she really wanted to kill him, wouldn’t it be easy to make him disappear from Ning Wang’s Mansion?
She looked stern and asked the servant a few more questions about what Lu Huan had been doing recently.
Ever since the old lady ordered that a mansion be given to him and that the servants were not allowed to disturb it, no servant dared to approach the remote old woodyard. After all, even Ning Wang was afraid of the old lady, so no one in the mansion dared to disobey her orders.
The answer she got was, of course, that the bast**d spent three taels of silver, purchased a lot of work tools, seeds, and some chickens, and started growing some vegetables and raising chickens in the yard.
When Lady Ning heard this, she laughed sarcastically. She thought he was going to use that little bit of money to bribe his servants or do something big. She didn’t expect that he just wanted to keep warm and have enough food and clothing, so he raised chickens and grew vegetables in his small corner.
Forget it. This poor kid has no ambition. I was too wary of him.
….
Mrs. Ning relaxed her guard a little.
As for Lu Huan, he began to wait for that person to reply to his note from the next day.
When he opened his eyes in the morning, he felt nervous. He jumped out of bed before putting on his outer robe. Wearing only a thin undershirt, he walked to the table. Then with a complicated and indescribable feeling, he picked up the paper and looked at it.
But on the front, there was only his ink mark that penetrated the back of the paper, and there was no ink spot from anyone else.
“…”
Lu Huan didn’t give up, instead he turned the paper again and looked at the back.
However, the reverse side was also blank.
Lu Huan lowered his eyes slightly, and a trace of disappointment flashed across his dark eyes that he himself was not aware of…
But he quickly raised his head, put the paper back on the table, continued to press it with the inkpot, and put the lantern with the oil burned out aside to make it more conspicuous.
He thought that according to the pattern of that person’s appearance, that person should not have appeared last night, so it was normal that he did not see the handwriting he left behind.
Wait three more days.
A rooster crowed outside the house. Lu Huan planned to go out today and exchange some food for a bow and arrow to prepare for the hunting in Qiuyan Mountain in half a month.
However, the bows and arrows sold by small vendors in the street market were all low-quality bows and arrows used by ordinary hunters. The bow string had insufficient tension and the arrowheads were not sharp enough. If he wanted to get a good bow, it was better to buy birch wood and feathers and carve it himself.
Birch wood and feathers were both rare materials. If he wanted to buy them, he would need at least five taels of silver.
These five taels of silver was not a small sum. The monthly salary of the steward of Ning Wang’s Mansion was only three taels a month.
Lu Huan frowned and stopped thinking about it for the time being.
He put on his old robe, bent down and touched the animal skin that the man had sewn on it, and his fingertips immediately felt a rough and scratchy feeling.
But when he thought of someone sewing it stitch by stitch, with dense stitches, his eyes and eyebrows, which were usually expressionless and even indifferent, could not help but reveal a bit of tenderness.
No matter how rough it was, it being warm was enough.
He glanced at the overly luxurious fox fur coat that the man had given him in the closet. Although it was elegant and luxurious, he had no intention of touching it, nor did he have the idea of pawning it for money because he was short of money.
He walked out of the house and, like he had done in the previous few days, went into the chicken coop to see if there were any new eggs.
When the chickens saw him approaching, they fluttered and flew up.
Lu Huan looked at the cold-proof shed that the man had built for his chicken coop. He was familiar with the tarpaulin paper and other materials used, but the way the entire cold-proof shed was built with wood was extremely strange. He had never seen such a structure in any ancient book or in the homes of chicken farmers.
But the strange thing was that under this weird and novel cold-proof shed, the temperature inside was obviously much warmer than the freezing cold outside.
In other words, this cold-proof shed was very novel and useful, and even to this day no wealthy family had ever used it.
But how could that person create it——?
Lu Huan was extremely confused and curious. He approached the hen coop, reached out his hand and was immediately stunned.
He couldn’t help showing some shock on his face –
Because when he reached out his hand just now, he actually touched more than just a few eggs, it seemed like there were dozens of them!
The coop was a little too dark, so Lu Huan went back to get an oil lamp, then hurried back to light it up, and took out the eggs one by one. The more he took out, the more surprised he was, because in just one day, the number of eggs laid by these twenty or so hens was beyond his imagination!
By the time they were all taken out, the straw on the ground was almost covered.
Lu Huan frowned and counted them. There were about sixty-eight eggs.
…They were piled up into a small hill.
The hens looked at him innocently, then gathered around the feed and began pecking at it frantically, as if the feed contained some kind of stimulant.
He:”……”
Lu Huan learned from ancient books that, generally speaking, a hen could only lay one egg a day.
What’s more, this was an extremely cold winter. Many places had suffered from harvest failure and frost disasters. The number of eggs laid by hens should thus be greatly reduced. The chicken vendors in the streets outside were all frowning, worried that they would not survive this winter.
But what about him——?
Why were these hens laying eggs like crazy?!
Still raining?
Just before he came in, a hen sneaked in to lay eggs?!
He looked at the feed and the cold-proof shed that the man had set up here again with a strange expression, and felt extremely complicated in his heart.
…If it were before, he would probably think there was something fishy going on and would not trust that person easily, but after these few days, he had temporarily decided that the person had no intention of harming him. In that case, these eggs should be fine.
Thinking of this, Lu Huan’s face, as white as snow, was covered with a layer of warm light from the oil lamp in his hand.
He lowered his eyes to look at the eggs. After a moment, he slightly raised the corner of his mouth, found a basket, sat on the ground like a child, and put in the eggs one by one.
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