Seeking Recommendation Tickets and Monthly Tickets
Five chapters today (3/5)
Chen Xiaojun looked around the slightly empty courtyard and asked, "Where is everyone else?"
Zhu Wuneng picked up the question. "That kid A Fu can't sit still, so he went to help deal with the toxins left in all sorts of corners. Cuilan and Sister Xinyue are both helping Mistress and the healers, so busy their feet barely touch the ground. As for Seventh Young Master and Eighth Young Master, Fifth Master dragged them off as labor."
Chen Mu cut in then, looking at Chen Xiaojun with an expression that said they were fellow sufferers. "Sixth Child, do you think everyone can be like you, our young lord, lying down and getting two full days of peaceful sleep? We all have to start from the bottom and claw our way up! It's been chaos these past few days. Old Seven and Old Eight weren't badly hurt, so they went out with the people from the Intelligence Department."
"And even someone like me, with my shoulder hurt and wrapped in bandages, hasn't been idle these past two days. I've been helping Uncle Hezhi the whole time, sorting files, checking name lists, counting supplies, arranging defenses, working until my head was spinning. Meanwhile, you slept like a log!"
Zhu Wuneng chuckled. "Fifth Young Master, those are all core affairs. Especially that supply count. Plenty of fat to skim there."
Chen Mu rolled his eyes so hard the whites showed. "Do I, Fifth Young Master, lack those scraps?"
Chen Xiaojun could not help smiling. "Heh, looks like you really are getting the hang of things under your father. Improving at divine speed. That hardworking spirit is worthy of praise."
Provoked by his sarcastic remark, Chen Mu spat irritably. "Bah! Divine speed, my