I have a cub that escapes the boss

The study window was open.From the perspective of Ji Hanchuan, you can see the rolling mountains.The weather was worse than in the morning, with indescribable dampness.

After all, it is a country with a temperate maritime climate, as it should be. The sun cannot penetrate the clouds and cannot shine on people.

Owen looked at him quietly.At this moment, the young master's shadow finally stagnated and stopped moving.

The door was open, and the other maids outside saw Vera kneeling on the ground, and cried softly in concern, but did not dare to come over.The sound came to Ji Hanchuan's ears, like a feather flying by.He wondered whose voice he heard, and it couldn't be Anna.

Owen "woke up" and became the young master again.

He curled his lips, annoyed at his "cowardice" just now.Looking at Vera kneeling on the ground again, Owen said, "Okay, let's go to work."

Then the door was closed.

He took a deep breath, turned to look at Ji Hanchuan, with a bit of embarrassment in his brows and eyes.Fortunately, it's a child, even though it's a little fat man, but such an expression can reveal a little cuteness.

"Am I thinking too much?"

Owen murmured.

Ji Hanchuan said: "Fortunately, you are not yet six years old, and you are at an age where you can imagine."

Owen still curled his lips, disapproving of Ji Hanchuan's statement.But he obviously didn't get rid of all his fears. He sat back on his seat at this moment, and the shadow was obedient and swayed with his movements.He took a sip of milk and was in a daze.

Ji Hanchuan looked at him and didn't make a sound for a long time.In the end, Owen said: "Teacher, I am a little afraid to go on. Although I was thinking too much just now, what if..." What if something really happened?

Ji Hanchuan told him "considerately": "Then don't say it, Owen. But I hope you know that if you encounter difficulties or have sad things you want to talk to, you can come to me. Of course, I mean, while I was working here."

Owen listened, showing a shrewdness even more out of his age.He asked, "You mean, if you can't stay, you won't hear me complain?"

Ji Hanchuan looked at him and smiled, "Owen, you have to be reasonable—if I don't 'stay', then of course I'll 'leave'. In this situation, how can I listen to you?"

The little fat man sat on a chair with milk in one hand and biscuits in the other, lost in thought.

Ji Hanchuan added: "However, there is another situation. Although I am not your teacher, I can be your friend. In this case, you can often invite me to be your guest."

Owen couldn't help laughing when he heard this.The stagnant air in the room started to flow again, the little fat man snorted, squinted at Ji Hanchuan, and showed a look of "as expected", "I knew it, do you still want to go to the third floor? Yesterday You just asked me this after class!"

Ji Hanchuan smiled and said, "If going to the third floor is the inevitable result of 'becoming friends', then that's fine."

He firmly insisted that he had absolutely no special purpose, and that everything he did was for the young master's sake.

He wasn't curious, didn't get to the bottom of Owen's story.

Up to this moment, Owen didn't express his intention to continue talking about the story after the knock on the door, so Ji Hanchuan immediately mentioned that it is better to continue the lesson.

Owen thought about it and nodded in agreement.

At least while teaching, he was very reassuring.

Before I knew it, another afternoon passed.When dinner was approaching, Mr. Butler came to order dinner as usual.This time, when he knocked on the door, the little fat man showed a complicated expression, turned to look at Ji Hanchuan, and silently mouthed: This time it's really him.

Ji Hanchuan showed a very formulaic encouraging smile that he had practiced this afternoon.

They leave together.Before leaving the room, Owen gently said to Ji Hanchuan: "At this time tomorrow, let's continue talking about the afternoon."

Ji Hanchuan remained expressionless, and said with a smile, "Okay."

The butler interjected, as if curious, more like an old man caring for his grandchildren, and asked, "Young master, what did you talk about this afternoon?"

Owen looked at him, blinked his round eyes, and said, "Huh? This is a secret between Teacher Han and me."

The butler "sighed hurt" in a dignified manner, and turned to Ji Hanchuan and said, "Young master really likes you, Mr. Han."

Ji Hanchuan remained calm and replied, "Owen is a very good student."

Owen looked at him, still very arrogant, "huh".The housekeeper cheered and said with a smile, "Oh, what the young master meant was, 'Teacher Han is also a very good teacher'."

The three went downstairs happily.Before leaving, the housekeeper did not forget to close the door of the study.And in the room that darkened with the color, beside the bookshelf, there was a sheepskin notebook safely.

Ji Hanchuan had already prepared a reason for himself to come back in the middle of the night.

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During dinner, Anna still did not appear in Ji Hanchuan's field of vision.He remembered what Owen said earlier about "the maid is sick", and after a little weighing, he simply said to the butler in front of the young master: "Mr. Cook, I actually have something I want to ask."

The housekeeper bowed politely and asked, "What's the matter, Mr. Han?"

Ji Hanchuan thought for a moment before saying, "That maid at noon yesterday. Actually, I...dream about her. Mr. Cook, this is the sinful dream I told you about in the morning. After this day, I've been thinking about it. , I still feel very guilty towards her. So, I want to do something for her."

Owen showed interest, and interjected: "Mr. Han, what is a 'sinful dream'."

The housekeeper frowned, and looked at Ji Hanchuan with a bit of condemnation, as if complaining about his bad influence on the young master.But Ji Hanchuan remained calm and said, "When you grow up, you will know."

Excited by this sentence, Owen picked up the knife and fork angrily, and began to cut the bacon for tonight.He condemned Ji Hanchuan with his eyes and attitude, as if to say: You treated me as an adult before, I am very happy.But now, like them, you see me as a child after all.

Ji Hanchuan had never seen it before.

He was very insistent and looked at the butler.The housekeeper hesitated, and asked: "Mr. Han, this... How do you plan to 'compensate'?"

Ji Hanchuan: "I want to apologize to her face to face. Besides," I was a little embarrassed, and lowered my voice, "I hope to give my first month's salary to Anna for free."

Owen complained: "Are you sure now that you can do it for a full month?"

Ji Hanchuan looked embarrassed, and said gently: "Owen, it's up to you. I don't know the answer, and I can't be the one who makes the decision. But if I can't, I will go to work elsewhere and find a way to save enough money." A month's salary. You know, I'm really, really guilty."

Owen looked at him for a while, then sighed: "What a strange person."

Mr. Butler seems to have the same attitude.But he is an adult after all, he knows how to save face, and he will not express his personal opinion on Ji Hanchuan's determination

At the end, I just said: "Well, if Mr. Han insists, I will tell Anna about it. But whether she wants to come to see you or not, she has to make her own decision."

Ji Hanchuan blinked his eyes.

make up your own mind...

In other words, Anna is not "dead"?

Maybe half-dead, but she "remains" in the game anyway.

Although there is a possibility that the housekeeper can fool Ji Hanchuan, it doesn't matter, he still has the next patch.

Ji Hanchuan thought for a while, thinking that this moment is a good time, "Actually, I'm very curious. Did I really miss every figure of Anna all day long, or did she really not appear here?"

Ji Hanchuan looked careless, and he always spoke with a three-pointed smile.But after he spoke, he fixed his eyes on the butler, not missing every change on the butler's face.

The butler sighed, embarrassed, and said, "I actually wanted to hide it."

Ji Hanchuan felt the long-lost heartbeat.

Butler: "That's it..."

He spoke slowly.The sound was like a stick of melted butter, greasy and sticky.

The housekeeper told Ji Hanchuan: "Anna is sick. She has been lying in the annex all day today."

He was embarrassed and said: "I didn't want to tell Mr. Han at first. Mr. Han, you said you dreamed of Anna, and you said that you felt ashamed because of this dream. But today, something happened to Anna by coincidence. Stand From my point of view, I know that Anna's condition has nothing to do with you. But when I heard what you said, I was very worried, afraid that you would think too much."

Ji Hanchuan quieted down.

In front of him is a long dining table, almost enough for dozens of people to eat together, but now, only the author Ji Hanchuan and Owen are sitting beside him.The other end of the dining table has been engulfed in darkness.It is dusk outside, and the sunset glow is like silk, spreading across the sky, embracing the sun.

"Sick?" Ji Hanchuan asked, "How could it be? What symptoms does she have?"

The butler hesitated and glanced at Owen.Owen is dissatisfied with being "specially cared for".He said, "Hey! Don't look like that! Well, I'm going back to my room."

There is not much time left until the sun goes down.

Owen swallowed the last piece of bacon on the fork, and went back to his room with a "boom boom".Ji Hanchuan didn't think it before, but now he thinks, it seems that if you walk in the castle in the middle of the night, you have to be more careful not to let your voice come out.But there is something to give, and he can endure it, but he doesn't know if the visitor who always visits at midnight can easily suppress the movement.

Seeing Owen leave, the butler was relieved.He still seemed very embarrassed, but still told Ji Hanchuan: In Moulton Manor, a strange disease has been circulating for many years.This disease did not appear until after Madam passed away. Everyone guessed that there might be too many doctors who came to see Madam at that time, and a certain doctor accidentally leaked the virus here.

Ji Hanchuan showed appropriate surprise: "There is such a thing?"

The butler sighed, "Yes." Then he asked, "Did the young master tell you?"

Ji Hanchuan thought: Could it be that the second half of Owen's story is here?Not right, judging by Owen's reaction this afternoon, the "smart score" route is a certainty.In this way, the housekeeper and the little fat man may give two versions of the story.

He happily said: "The young master mentioned it to me, saying that the husband cares about his wife very much, and he wholeheartedly wants her to recover from her illness."

The housekeeper murmured, "That's right."