Chapter 62: Chapter 62: Character

This family, including the dog, he didn’t understand at all.

Xie Jingchen rubbed his temples and said, “This, I can’t help you with.”

Young Master Su said, “Why not, Mom didn’t say you couldn’t help me open a door, only not to dig a dog hole. A dog hole is a dog hole, and a door is a door, they’re different.”

“What’s the difference for you?” Xie Jingchen asked.

“It’s a big difference. You crawl out of a dog hole, and you walk out through a door. One’s embarrassing, the other’s not, isn’t that a big difference?” Young Master Su explained clearly.

Xie Jingchen looked down at him, trying to persuade him, “I’m afraid even if I help you open a door, your father will seal it up.”

His intention was to convince Young Master Su to give up on this idea. He should know his father better.

The result—

Young Master Su said, “Brother-in-law, you’re right, we can’t open a normal door. Even though it’s deserted here, who knows if my dad will come by. So you should help me build a door like a secret chamber, where it looks like a wall from afar, but it’s actually a door.”

“Oh, and the switch to open the door needs to be inconspicuous, preferably somewhere I can’t easily reach, so my father won’t suspect.”

“….”

“You even know about secret chambers?” Xie Jingchen was a bit surprised.

Young Master Su said, “Of course, I even know about secret passages. Originally, I wanted you to help me dig a secret passage straight from the bustling street to under my bed. But if I don’t leave the house, my dad might get suspicious and move me to another room, making the secret passage useless, so I gave up on that idea.”

Lucky he gave up on that, otherwise it would have been a massive project.

Soon, Xie Jingchen realized he was wrong.

Young Master Su’s new idea was completely different from what he thought.

Young Master Su said, “If you can’t help me open a door, you could also help me dig a secret passage. But the entrance can’t be in my room; it has to be under my dad’s bed, so he won’t find it.”

He thought about it and added, “Better to prepare all three options.”

Xie Jingchen, “….”

So young, and he already understands the concept of concealment and having multiple escape routes.

But asking him to dig a passage under his father-in-law’s bed…

Xie Jingchen rubbed his forehead.

He couldn’t handle it.

He turned and started walking back.

Young Master Su was stunned for a moment, then caught up, saying, “Brother-in-law, it’s such a small favor, just help me out. After all, I’m your brother-in-law. Have you heard the saying?”

Young Master Su clung to Xie Jingchen’s arm, while Little Black bit onto Xie Jingchen’s brocade robe to help him.

Xie Jingchen felt helpless.

“What saying?” he asked.

“The brother-in-law comes first!” Young Master Su exclaimed.

“….”

“Your sister is the biggest, I need to discuss it with her before deciding,” Xie Jingchen, unable to confront him directly, passed the buck.

“It’s such a small thing, and you need my sister’s approval?” Young Master Su was shocked.

“Big things, small things, your sister decides all,” Xie Jingchen said seriously.

“Can’t be this bad, can it?” Young Master Su asked.

“….”

“Then if I want to borrow some money to go shopping, that’s out of the question too?”

“….”

“Brother-in-law, we’re suffering together, aren’t we?”

“….”

Just then, Su Jin came over and happened to hear this, smiling and asking, “What shared suffering?”

“No money, no freedom,” Young Master Su said dejectedly.

“….”

Su Jin glanced at Xie Jingchen.

You actually complained to my brother and slandered me.

Xie Jingchen, “….”

What are you looking at?

Does this look like I’m complaining?

Xingxing came over and said, “Little Black, let go, don’t tear the master’s robe.”

Little Black didn’t move.

When Young Master Su let go, it released its bite.

Xingxing looked at Xie Jingchen’s robe happily, “Little Black didn’t pee on the master; it likes the master.”

Xie Jingchen, “….”

“It dared to pee on people? How come you didn’t warn us,” Su Jin was surprised.

“Warning wouldn’t help, Little Black never gives up until it gets what it wants. On the mountain, it peed on the Marquis. If it hadn’t been your dog, it would have almost been stewed by the Marquis.”

“The first time it didn’t succeed, later Little Black peed in the Marquis’s shoes while he was sleeping.”

“….”

“The Marquis said Little Black’s fearlessness was a bit like the spirit of our Qingyun Mountain, so he didn’t kill it and even fed it several bones. That’s why Little Black likes the Marquis,” Xingxing said.

Quite a characteristic dog.

It’s a miracle it hasn’t been stewed yet.

After walking for a while, Xie Jingchen suddenly asked, “Where’s the Marquis Mansion’s kitchen?”

Su Jin was a bit confused.

Xingxing raised her hand and pointed, “Master, the kitchen is over there.”

After saying that, she asked, “Master, are you hungry? Shall I bring you some food?”

“No need.”

Xie Jingchen started walking towards the kitchen, with Little Black following closely beside him.

Xingxing happily said, “Little Black really likes the master.”

Su Jin suppressed a laugh.

Silly girl, it’s not that your dog likes the master, it’s biding its time.

…

Outside the kitchen, not far from the pavilion.

Xie Jingchen sat on a stone stool, with a plate of braised ribs on the stone table beside him.

The dish looked and smelled delicious.

He had just asked a maid to bring it over.

Xie Jingchen picked up a rib and threw it on the ground to feed Little Black.

Then—

He witnessed how clever the Qingyun Mountain dogs were.

Little Black didn’t eat.

It looked at him, then at the plate on the table.

Xie Jingchen pondered its gaze, then pointed to the plate and said, “All of this is for you.”

Little Black turned around, ran down the steps, and peed on a nearby rockery.

After it was done, it ran back, jumped onto the stone stool, then onto the table, and happily started eating.

He finally tamed this dog.

Xie Jingchen was both amused and exasperated.

After Little Black finished eating, he stood up.

As he just stepped out of the pavilion, a woman approached and suddenly knelt down, begging, “Young Master, please take me back to the Duke Mansion, I can’t survive here any longer.”

Xie Jingchen recalled he had sent a cook to Dongxiang Marquis Mansion, so he asked, “What’s wrong?”

The woman was in tears, “The people at Dongxiang Marquis Mansion eat too much. There’s not even half the number of people from the Duke Mansion, but they eat more. In the past few days, I have to make over a thousand meat buns a day. I never want to make buns again in my life.”

A thousand meat buns——

Xie Jingchen rubbed his forehead.

Considering the intensity of the servants’ training, it’s normal for them to eat a lot.

“I can’t take you back to the Duke Mansion,” Xie Jingchen said.

The woman, with tears in her eyes, desperately wanted to return to the Duke Mansion, knowing she had no chance, she said, “Then please send one or two more cooks, so I have some company.”

Xie Jingchen frowned, since when did the Duke Mansion’s servants dare to speak to their masters like this?

“Who taught you to say this?” Xie Jingchen asked.

“I begged the Marquis to let me go back, and he said if I felt lonely, I could ask the Young Master to send a few more cooks from the Duke Mansion to keep me company, but they need to be skilled,” the woman replied.

“….”

Just as expected from his father-in-law.

“Stand up.”

“Young Master, you agreed?” The woman was overjoyed.

Xie Jingchen felt powerless.

No choice but to agree, is there?

No matter who told him, it’s still true that Dongxiang Marquis Mansion needs two more cooks, and he has to send them.

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