Chapter 42: Chapter Thirty-Eight: Annoying
Translator: 549690339
Regardless of the little boy’s troubles – after all, it wouldn’t be right for a brother to ask a girl to go easy on him just because she turned the boy into a punching bag.
So, as a brother, the only thing he could do was to get some medicinal ointments from the medicine hall for the little boy, and while applying it, teach him how to deal with the ferocious attacks from the tigress, hoping it might provide some help.
The training in the cultivation fields was divided into two sessions: maneuvers were usually practiced in the morning, while after lunch, the Martial Hall would give students ample time to practice their skills. However, the First Cultivation Ground was different from the rest.
Due to the strict standards for clan descendants, they had to complete group training in the afternoon after practicing martial skills in the morning.
As for the Cultivation Ground N0.7 that Tang Luo was in charge of, it was empty all afternoon, presumably because the teenagers preferred to cultivate their skills in a quiet studio, instead of sitting in an open field.
“Since it’s so leisurely, time to go home and find a steward,” Tang Luo muttered to himself, looking at the empty cultivation field.
After all, his duty was too relaxed. Anyone who could read could probably be a steward.
No sooner said than done, Tang Luo immediately left the Martial Hall and went home.
Actually, even as a teaching staff, one was not allowed to freely enter and exit the Martial Hall, but Tang Luo was also the son of the Sect Head, so the stewards tended to turn a blind eye.
This time he wanted to pick a steward from the house boys. He had a candidate in mind, the one who used to tell him stories when he was bedridden. But for a moment, Tang Luo couldn’t remember his name.
Well, what does it matter? He just needed to recognize him. Tang Luo was in a good mood and planned to find the boy when he got home.
He was too embarrassed to ask his mother for a steward, but there was no pressure for him to ask for a house boy.
Thinking about this, he returned to the Tang Mansion, but as soon as he walked through the door, he saw a graceful figure floating towards him from a distance. If it wasn’t his mother Xu Shuhui, who else could it be?
It was like seeing a ghost, Tang Luo thought with a look of horror.
Sometimes he couldn’t understand, as the mistress of the third house of the Tang Clan, was Xu Shuhui really that idle? All day long, she either played with her son or her daughter. She didn’t practice martial arts or manage business. What a laid-back attitude! My mother!
While grumbling in his heart, Xu Shuhui’s figure had already arrived in front of him.
“My precious son, you’re home! Mommy’s missed you,” She was as clingy as ever. Somehow, she always knew when Tang Luo arrived home, ready to greet him with open arms.
Blah.
Tang Luo was helplessly hugged. Could you really expect someone whose cultivation level was not even at peak Mortal Realm, to escape a hug from a Transcendent realm-level? You thought too highly of him. In fact, he couldn’t possibly resist.
Tang Luo, who was still not fully grown, was held in Xu Shuhui’s embrace while she played with his hair like he was a little puppy.
After a while, Tang Luo finally managed to extricate himself from her embrace and put some distance between them.
“Darling son, why did you come home today? Did you miss mommy?” the expectation in Xu Shuhui’s eyes was hard to miss.
“Not really, Mother!” Tang Luo responded coldly, feeling aggrieved, “I just want to take a house boy to act as a steward for my business.”
Upon hearing that her son didn’t come home because he missed her, Xu Shuhui was especially disappointed. She looked near tears.
Oops, I probably said the wrong thing! Tang Luo instantly remembered his purpose.
“I’m sorry, Mother. Actually, I’ve missed you so much!” he quickly corrected himself, bowing to Xu Shuhui.
First, he couldn’t resist his mother’s gaze. Secondly, looking at the situation, if he couldn’t prove he came back because he missed his mother, he probably wouldn’t get the house boy he wanted.
No need to doubt, Xu Shuhui is full of possessiveness when it comes to expressing affection. If her son came back because of the servants, and not her, there would be no servants. But if he came back because he missed her, all the servants would be his.
Tang Luo understands his mother quite well.
So when Xu Shuhui heard Tang Luo change his words, she immediately wrapped her arms around the young man’s neck with a wide smile, proudly claiming, “I knew it, you’re just stubborn. Quick, tell me, am I not your favorite person?”
With his neck in a stranglehold, Tang Luo sincerely expressed that the person he loved most in his life was his mother, his mother held an unparalleled position.
After all, when someone asks if you love her while gripping your neck, you seem to have no other answer to choose from.
Just like that, mother and son walked into the mansion, maintaining this peculiar stance.
Xu Shuhui dragged Tang Luo into the garden and teased the Ling Beasts with Little Nuannuan for a while, before instructing the steward to take him to choose his servant.
Finally, he was relieved. Tang Luo took a deep breath.
It wasn’t that he was unwilling to be close to Xu Shuhui, but she always treated Tang Luo like a child, showing physical affection. This was too much for a teenager with a middle-aged person’s mentality to accept. Even though he was youthful in spirit, she shouldn’t belittle his manliness.
He had mentioned this to his mother a couple of times, but her memory seemed to be as fleeting as a goldfish’s, barely remembering for a day or two before forgetting the next time they saw each other. Thus, Tang Luo had somewhat resigned himself to this treatment, as he knew he couldn’t resist.
Following the steward, Tang Luo moved toward the servant’s quarters of the Tang Mansion. The conditions there were far from poor, with two large courtyards inside the mansion that were no different from the other buildings.
The quarters themselves were designed to house a dozen or so people in one room.
Since the Tang Mansion only had five people in Tang Luo’s branch, they didn’t need many servants. Most of the servants in the Tang Mansion were dedicated to taking care of the numerous Ling Beasts.
Since Ling Beasts eat a lot and their diet is quite complex, much preparation work was needed. Plus, everyone in Tang Luo’s family had excessive cleanliness habits, they all loved cleanliness and disliked dirty things, so the Ling Beasts in the Tang Mansion needed to bathe regularly.
Bathing themselves was not something the Ling Beasts were willing to do, so the task fell onto the servants. This made the servants, who hadn’t even reached the mortal realm yet, feel like they were living on the edge of death every day.
If a Ling Beast got upset or rash, even if a martial warrior in the Mortal Realm was present, one could cross over to the other side in an instant.
Therefore, the servants of the Tang Mansion were divided into two groups: those who served the Tang family, were the ones living in “heaven”, as the masters of the Tang Mansion were all very reasonable. However, there were too few masters, not enough to go around.
The remaining group lived in “hell”, mainly serving those Ling Beasts. Knowing that these Ling Beasts, under magic control, wouldn’t harm people randomly, but they didn’t understand how to restrain their own might; thereby, even from a distance, when the servants spotted a Ling Beast, their frail hearts would tremble non-stop until their service was over and they left the locations of the Beasts. Their hearts would still palpitate for a long time.
When Tang Luo came, it was during the servants’ lunch break. Only the maids were greeting customers in the front courtyard, so Tang Luo thought he could find the servant who narrated the story to him.
He planned to go straight into the room to see if he could find the servant, but under the steward’s interdiction, the plan changed to having all the servants lined up in front of Tang Luo.
However, my servant, he’s not here.
Tang Luo was a bit stunned and asked, “Are all the servants here?”
“To answer the young master, all the idle servants are here in the courtyard. Some buying servants and those taking care of the Ling Beasts might be in the garden. Should I bring the young master there to have a look?”
“Hmm, okay. Let’s look somewhere else. You all go back to rest.” Tang Luo waved at the servants, intending to try elsewhere.
After dispatching the servants, Tang Luo and the steward were about to head out when they noticed a few maids peeking at them from another courtyard. Upon spotting Tang Luo, the two parties locked eyes.
Tang Luo was delighted. He immediately pointed at one of the maids and said, “You, yes you, come over here.”
The maid who was pointed at lowered her head in fear, and hesitantly made her way over to Tang Luo..
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