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Looking at Yan Wenmo in his arms, Jiang Wenbai smiled, his expression somewhat self-deprecating and helpless. The reason for this was that he suddenly remembered what happened in the past.

In fact, strictly speaking, Yan Wenmo was not a particularly qualified servant, and could even be said to be extremely poor.

As a handyman, she shouldn't be running around, nor should she be nowhere to be found all day long, but she seemed to be really busy, so busy that she couldn't even guarantee Jiang Wenbai a normal meal.

Therefore, he would go to Ouyang Xian's place for free meals from time to time. Ouyang Xian did not dislike Jiang Wenbai's behavior of eating and drinking for free. Instead, he felt that Yan Wenmo did not do his job well and was running around, which was a great rebellion.

Therefore, one day, Ouyang Xian, who couldn't bear it any longer, looked at Jiang Wenbai who was swallowing big mouthfuls of food beside him and complained in a depressed tone:

"That servant in your yard is really bold. He doesn't even prepare meals for you and just runs around all day long. You're spoiling him too much."

Hearing this, Jiang Wenbai paused while eating, then said hesitantly:

"He was still young, and he said he missed his family and wanted to go down the mountain to see them, so I..."

Before Jiang Wenbai finished speaking, Ouyang Xian slammed the table angrily. The food on the table shook a few times, which showed that he was really angry.

Ouyang Xian looked at Jiang Wenbai with a look of disappointment and angrily scolded him:

"He's just a servant, how can he have the nerve to make requests? You're such a pushover, you agreed as soon as he said something. Look at you, you've starved yourself to this point, has he ever cared about you?! I'll ask him to get out tomorrow, and I'll find you a good one."

After hearing this, Jiang Wenbai silently put down his bowl and chopsticks and stood up.

Seeing this, Ouyang Xian looked at him and said hesitantly:

“Are you full?!”

Jiang Wenbai shook his head. Ouyang Xian looked at him and wanted to ask more questions, but he seemed to understand something. He dragged him back to his seat in a bad mood and said helplessly:

"Okay, okay, let's keep him! Let's keep him, okay?! You are the direct disciple of the head of the Haotian Sect. You can do any kind of menial work you want. Why do you want a menial work that can't do anything?!"

As he spoke, he glared at Jiang Wenbai, who was still eating, and couldn't help but mutter:

"Don't talk about me, Jiang-Junior Brother. You really can't let your errand boy do whatever he wants. For example, when it comes to sweeping the yard, he only sweeps the room you live in, and doesn't touch anything else. It's as if the leaves in the yard are lives that will die if they are touched, and you have to sweep them yourself."

After saying this, he seemed to be energized and continued to speak:

"That's fine, but don't even think about asking him to serve you tea, water or food. You have to come to my yard every day. A few days ago, I saw that your disciple uniform had a hole in it, and you were clumsily mending it yourself. Can't you let him mend it?! What do you want that servant to do?! Are you going to provide for him?!"

In response to Ouyang Xian's complaints, Jiang Wenbai wisely chose to remain silent and continued to eat.

Seeing that Jiang Wenbai did not agree, Ouyang Xian looked at him with some disinterest and said unhappily:

"If you don't want to say it, I'll say it for you. OK? You be the good guy and I'll be the bad guy. Okay?!"

Jiang Wenbai thought about it, said nothing, and continued eating, which was considered as his tacit agreement. Then, the next day, Yan Wenmo was taken away by Ouyang Xian and scolded. After she came back, she looked angry, but when she saw Jiang Wenbai, she looked embarrassed and apologetic.

She approached Jiang Wenbai cautiously, lowered her head, and said softly:

"Sir, I didn't mean it, don't be angry"

Jiang Wenbai looked at her and said nothing, but asked:

"What are you busy with every day?!"

Yan Wenmo looked up in surprise, looking at Jiang Wenbai who was full of curiosity, scratched his hair awkwardly, and said awkwardly:

"I felt like I couldn't do anything right, so I went down the mountain to ask them how to be a good handyman, but... it seemed very difficult to learn."

Jiang Wenbai looked at Yan Wenmo, who was frowning and gloomy, and pondered for a while before asking:

"Have you eaten yet?!"

Yan Wenmo seemed to remember something, took out a bag of cakes from his arms, handed it to Jiang Wenbai, and said with a reserved and flattering tone:

"Sir, this is the sweet-scented osmanthus cake I bought at Baiweiju. You haven't eaten yet, right? Would you like to try it?!"

Jiang Wenbai took the osmanthus cake handed to him by Yan Wenmo, but did not open it. Instead, he looked at her and said gently:

"From now on, apart from sweeping the yard, serving tea and water, and going to the canteen to get meals, you don't have to do anything else."

Hearing this, Yan Wenmo was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said obediently:

"it is good"

But Yan Wenmo was used to being a young lady with everything provided for her, so it was a little difficult for her to do chores now. After all, she had never done anything like sweeping the floor, and she didn't even know how to make tea. So it was better for her to go to the cafeteria to get food.

Therefore, Jiang Wenbai had no choice but to watch his servant sweeping the floor clumsily, then cutting his finger on a bamboo stick, frowning pitifully as he bandaged himself.

Even when making tea, he would burn himself and the cup would break. As for the food, although it was not inedible, he did not like it very much. On the contrary, the other party ate it with relish.

He began to doubt, did he really need this chores?! Did he really need this chores?!

Until one day, Yan Wenmo took leave again, and he welcomed the first guest of the courtyard, a disciple of another elder.

The disciple held a jade pendant and said to him respectfully:

"Brother Jiang, this is the jade pendant that your servant lost. I wanted to return it to him in person, but he doesn't seem to be here. Why don't you give it to him?"

Jiang Wenbai looked at the young man in front of him and couldn't help but asked in surprise:

"Where did he pick this up?! But he lost it himself?!"

The disciple shook his head and said:

"A few days ago, she was helping me catch a civet cat that ran up a tree, and accidentally fell down from the tree. I was busy checking on his injuries at the time and didn't notice the jade pendant. I passed by yesterday and found that the jade pendant had fallen under the tree. That place is quite remote, and there were only two of us there. I guess the jade pendant must have fallen down at that time, so I asked you to give it to him."

Jiang Wenbai responded subconsciously when he heard this, and then took the jade pendant from the disciple. Upon seeing this, the disciple bowed and left.

Seeing the person leave, Jiang Wenbai could not help but take a look at the jade pendant in his hand. The jade pendant was engraved with the familiar Yan family emblem and an exquisitely carved peony flower.

The word "Yan" is engraved in the center of the peony flower, while on the back of the jade pendant, two more words are engraved in unknown characters.

Since he didn't recognize that kind of handwriting, Jiang Wenbai naturally didn't know what Yan Wenmo's real name was.

It was just that the word "Yan" reminded him of Yan Qingshuang, the fiancée with whom he almost broke off the engagement.

I heard that the Yan family was destroyed on the day she came to cancel the engagement. She was so weak, and she must have died after hearing this bad news. Is Yan Shisan... a relative of hers or someone related to her in some way? !

I think he used a pseudonym to come to Haotian Sect to work as a handyman in order to avoid his enemies. In this way, there is a reasonable explanation for his clumsiness.

After all, a spoiled young master naturally wouldn't know how to sweep the floor, let alone serve tea, cook, or do laundry. Thinking of this, he silently clenched the jade pendant with a complicated look on his face.

He remembered that after his parents learned the news that the Yan family was exterminated, they almost immediately sent people to look for Yan Qingshuang, but for some reason, they could not find her. In the end, they heard the news that Yan Qingshuang was dead.

Therefore, her parents felt extremely guilty about this and thought that if they had kept her, she would not have died. In addition, they had angered the teacher and left, so they were punished by their father to kneel in the ancestral hall, and thus they escaped the disaster.

He thought he was the only one in the world who had lost both parents and clan members, and was left alone with no worries, but he did not expect that Yan Shisan was the same.

It is said that they sympathize with each other because they share the same fate. Therefore, since they are both wanderers in the world, Jiang Wenbai is more tolerant of Yan Wenmo, and can even be said to spoil him.

There were several times when Yan Wenmo accidentally got into trouble and was so scared that she hid and dared not go out. It was Jiang Wenbai who took the initiative to take the blame for her. In the end, Ouyang Xian looked at Jiang Wenbai who was punished to kneel and couldn't help complaining:

"That errand boy of yours is really... oh, I don't know what to say to you! Do you really have to spoil him like this?!"

Jiang Wenbai looked at Ouyang Xian's helpless expression, pursed his lips, and said softly:

"It's not a big deal, why do you have to be so fussy about it, brother? Besides, it's my fault for not being strict with my subordinates."