Urban Sims

Chapter 19 Conversion Methods
On the way back, Zhou Ming couldn't figure it out.

How did the pig-like son of the butler Bunode become Edward's attendant?

It's not that Zhou Ming is envious or jealous, but he is thinking about how, with the same background as a commoner, why is Baum, the son of the butler Bunode, able to defeat those second sons of the nobles who are more outstanding in other territories, and become the man who everyone dreams of? Knight squire?

The ability of Steward Bunode's son?

Or Bunode's own ass?

Or is there a hole in Edward's head, and he would rather choose a teammate who is like a pig than a partner with superior ability?

"Perhaps it is because of an inexplicable vanity and absolute confidence in his own strength that Edward would rather choose a servant who can serve others and flatter himself than choose a talent who is useful to him ..."

"This will definitely become Edward's fatal weakness..."

Zhou Ming, who has been a human for several lifetimes, has a very clear insight into human nature. As long as the opponent has obvious weaknesses exposed, Zhou Ming will have the confidence to use his own mind to defeat him!
"Alright, after Bunode's son becomes a knight servant, at least Bunode's current thoughts will no longer be on punishing and abusing me. His top priority now is to raise a large sum of money to give to him. My son Baum bought a suit of knight equipment, these equipment are very valuable, in a short time, he will not intentionally trouble me."

Zhou Ming is very familiar with the profession of knights. Every knight is piled up with money. It takes [-] acres of land to support a knight, not including a good war horse that needs thousands of silver coins to buy. , a set of armor worth hundreds of gold coins with amazing defensive power, as well as spears, epees, shields, crossbows... all need to consume a lot of money.

Of course, the cost of equipment for a knight attendant is much lower, but you still have to buy a good horse, a sword, a set of leather armor, and a shield, and the total cost is 80-100 gold coins. , I guess it's a bit choking.

However, to Zhou Ming's surprise, within a week, Bunode's son, Baum, was wearing a leather armor with a layer of shoulder guards on the outside, holding a mid-length saber in his hand, and riding a horse. The tall gray horse appeared energetically in front of all the citizens of Granland.

"Corruption, apart from corruption, I can't think of a baron's domain steward who can scrape together so much money in seven days."

Zhou Ming concluded that the housekeeper Bunode, a guy with dirty hands and feet, must have taken a lot of money and pocketed it in the process of managing Gran's income and expenses.

However, it has nothing to do with Zhou Ming whether or not Bunode has been corrupted. I didn't deliberately make it difficult for myself anymore, that was enough, I was not afraid of offending a gentleman, I was afraid of offending a villain, and I was afraid of the villain thinking about it.

Not only that, Zhou Ming also started another plan in order to make villains like Bunode no longer "miss" him.

……

evening.

Under the dim oil lamp, on the cozy dining table.

According to one-third of the previous dinner, Zhou Ming chewed and ate a piece of bread slowly, clapped his hands, and left the bowl without drinking his favorite goat milk and pea soup.

"Brother, why do you eat so little these days? You have lost a lot of weight recently?"

Seeing that her brother only ate such a little for dinner, Alice felt a little distressed.

In the past few days, my brother didn’t know what happened. He obviously still had so much food at home, but he suddenly reduced the amount of breakfast by half and the amount of dinner to one-third of the usual amount. He deliberately didn’t eat enough. for what?
Brother's handsome face had become a little thinner in the past few days.

"Alice, don't worry, my brother will take care of my body. If my brother is hungry, he will definitely eat more."

"If you're not hungry, brother, why have you lost so much weight recently, and your face is not as good-looking as before."

"I'm not thin, I'm losing weight. Don't you think my muscles are too eye-catching in this town? I can't be so eye-catching now, I have to lose them, otherwise, I'll have your brother's muscles." I have suffered a lot." Zhou Ming explained.

"It's not eye-catching, it's called good-looking, I don't want you to reduce it, it's not good-looking." Alice pouted and sulked.

"It's okay if it doesn't look good."

Zhou Ming sighed, patted Alice's head, walked to the backyard, and picked up the birch pole with a deeply dented handle and a shiny oily shaft. In the night with only a little starlight, Facing the fuzzy human-shaped wooden target, he started today's spear sprint training.

……

Time flies, two months have passed.

Now Zhou Ming can no longer see his original appearance.

Lost more than 30 catties!

Now, all the muscle groups in his arms, thighs, chest and abdomen have disappeared, and the pads on his buttocks have become much thinner.

Instead, there is a shriveled face with cheekbones that can almost be seen through eye holes, ribs on the chest, a thin layer of paper on the belly, and a delicate body that can be blown away by a breeze.

And, in daily life, his walking corpse-like state...

"Little Ryan was completely ruined, Bu Nuode is so cruel, he won't even let a child go..."

"The devil has corrupted Little Ryan's heart, and the devil is sucking his life. If Little Ryan can't get out of that blow, maybe it won't be long before we won't see him."

"Hey... If only the parents of this child were here, he wouldn't suffer so much."

Even Bunode, the housekeeper who often ridiculed Little Ryan by the field, gradually ignored this little man. Slowly, in Bunode's eyes, Little Ryan was almost the same as those skinny and malnourished farmers. It's not worth it for him to go out of his way to sarcasm and target him, and he doesn't think it's interesting to tease such a poor person.

However, when Zhou Ming returned home after work every day, when his gray eyes suddenly shot a hale and hearty light, his truest side appeared in front of him.

"In the past two weeks, when I was working as a weekly worker, the number of times the housekeeper Bu Nuode taunted me was 0, the number of punishments was 0, and the number of times he even talked to me was close to 0..."

"Yesterday, when Edward rode out to hunt, he no longer stared at me with contempt and disgust, only indifference..."

"The nicknames of 'Smart Little Ryan' and 'Lucky Little Ryan' are no longer heard by the children in the town..."

"The former clever and lively little Ryan, who repeatedly performed miracles and was very self-motivated, has almost died in their hearts, right?"

Ha ha.

Isn't this exactly the effect he wants to achieve?
It is a very cost-effective thing to use only [-] catties of flesh that can grow back at any time, in exchange for the self that "died once" in the impression of others.

Besides, only the original self "died", didn't those "memories" of hatred, ridicule, ridicule, and sarcasm dissipate along with it?
but……

Only Zhou Ming himself understands that he has always been alive, but in a different way, in a way that others can't figure out, but will surprise them in the end.

Moreover, it will make "them" pay a heavy price!

(End of this chapter)