After rebirth, I became a national teacher

Before dawn.

In the small kitchen of Qiongzhi Courtyard in the Jingnan Marquis' Mansion, the servants have already started to get busy.

Even if the wife still has a poor appetite, the breakfast should still be prepared with guaranteed quality and quantity.

In a corner of the yard, a nine-year-old boy in a brocade robe was blowing the stove with great effort. After a while, he was choked by the black smoke and tears were streaming down his face.

Beside him, the kitchen maid was standing with a whip in her hand, and said impatiently:

"Second Young Master is taking so long, when will Madam be able to have breakfast? Are you deliberately slacking off?"

As he spoke, he whipped the boy on the back with the whip in his hand.

Pei Xuan screamed when he was beaten, his eyes full of hatred.

Two days ago, he was called back to tend to Zhang before the academy let him take the exam for the clothing holiday.

He originally thought that Zhang was really ill, so he immediately put down his studies at the academy without hesitation, asked for leave and came back to fulfill his filial duty.

I never expected that as soon as I came back to serve tea, Zhang would attack me.

It was obvious that she deliberately failed to take the teacup properly, causing it to fall to the ground and break, splashing tea all over him, but she turned the tables and accused him of deliberately scalding her with the tea, and made him kneel outside the house to reflect on his mistake.

The autumn sun was very strong, and he was forced to kneel outside the main room.

The maids and old women outside the house all looked at him with strange eyes, and some even laughed at him openly.

He was punished to kneel for an hour, until his legs were almost broken, before he was allowed to stand up.

When he returned to his yard, what was waiting for him were leftovers.

He was already full of anger, and when he saw that his servants dared to neglect him like that, he naturally flew into a rage and smashed all those things.

Before he could go to the kitchen to settle accounts with the servants who had neglected him, someone else came from the main courtyard.

It was Qingliu, the head maidservant beside Zhang, who said that she had passed on the lady's words and accused him of being "too pampered in daily life and not knowing how hard it is to earn a meal". She made him get up every morning with the people in the small kitchen to make breakfast for the lady.

On the one hand, it was to show filial piety, and on the other hand, it also taught him to cherish material resources, so that he would not grow up to be a playboy who was ignorant of the sufferings of the people.

With two big hats put on him, Pei Xuan had no choice but to do it.

It was not until then that he realized that his stepmother was deliberately making things difficult for him and tormenting him.

Otherwise, the entire Bo Mansion's internal affairs were under her control, and the kitchen would never suddenly start to neglect him.

This made Pei Xuan feel unprecedented panic.

He had obviously been trying very hard to please Zhang all along, so why did she suddenly start to make things difficult for him?

After spending a lot of his own money, he finally found out the reason:

My stepmother and father had a quarrel!

The reason for the quarrel was that on the night of the fourteenth, his father met his biological mother, Aunt Chen, and did not go to pick up his stepmother who was hosting a banquet at Mingyue Tower.

Even though his father promised to bring his biological mother back to serve his stepmother, the stepmother was still furious and took it out on him.

Therefore, he was completely implicated by his hateful biological mother!

If she had just come back and worked as a cook for her stepmother, how could these chores have fallen on him!

Even though his family was ordinary before, his incompetent parents never asked him to cook a meal or wash dishes.

Now that he has become the distinguished young master of the Earl's Mansion, in an era when gentlemen stay away from the kitchen, he actually has to light the fire and cook for others. It is simply humiliating.

But even though he knew that his stepmother was deliberately humiliating and torturing him, he was simply unable to resist.

Whether it was the maids and servants who were eyeing him covetously, or the moral justice, they all suppressed him.

It was impossible for him to leave the Bo Mansion.

Pei Xuan's heart was filled with resentment towards his biological mother and stepmother, but he could do nothing and could only hope that his father would quickly find his damn biological mother.