Urban Sims

On the way back, Zhou Ming was a little confused.

How did the fat pig-like son of Butler Bruno become Edward's attendant?

It's not that Zhou Ming is envious or jealous, but he is thinking about why Baum, the son of the butler Bunold, who was also born as a commoner, was able to defeat the second sons of nobles who were more outstanding in other territories and become the person that everyone dreams of. Knight squire?

What are the abilities of Steward Brunod’s son?

Or is it Brunoder's own sycophancy?

Or is there something in Edward's head that would rather choose a teammate who is like a pig than a partner with more ability?

"Perhaps it is out of an inexplicable vanity and absolute confidence in his own strength that Edward would rather choose a servant who can serve others and flatter himself than choose a talent who is useful to him. ..."

"This will definitely become Edward's fatal weakness..."

Zhou Ming, who has been a human being for several lives, has a very clear insight into human nature. As long as the opponent's obvious weaknesses are exposed, Zhou Ming will have the confidence to defeat him with his own mind!

"It's good. After Bruno's son becomes a knight's squire, at least Bruno's thoughts will no longer be on punishing and abusing me. His top priority now is to raise a large amount of money to give him My son Baum has purchased a set of knight equipment. These equipments are valuable and he won’t deliberately cause trouble for me in the short term.”

Zhou Ming knows the knight profession very well. Each knight is made with money. The land required to support a knight alone requires 4,500 acres, not including a fine war horse that costs thousands of silver coins. , a set of armor worth hundreds of gold coins with amazing defensive capabilities, as well as spears, heavy swords, shields, crossbows... all cost a lot of money.

Of course, the cost of purchasing equipment for a knight's squire is much smaller, but you still need to buy a good horse, a sword, a set of leather armor, and a shield. The total cost is about 80-100 gold coins. Based on the income of the butler Bunold , I guess it's a bit choking.

However, to Zhou Ming's expectation, within a week, Brunoder's son Baum was wearing a leather armor with a layer of iron shoulder pads over a coat, holding a medium-length sword in his hand, and riding a horse. The tall gray horse appeared in front of all the people of Glen Territory in high spirits.

"Corruption. Apart from corruption, I never imagined that a baron's domain steward could raise so much money in seven days."

Zhou Ming concluded that the housekeeper Bunold, a dirty guy, must have taken a lot of money and enriched his own pockets in the process of managing Glenland's income and expenses.

However, whether Bunold has been corrupted or not has nothing to do with Zhou Ming. He will not foolishly go to the lord to report it. After all, Bunold's attention is no longer on him. In recent weeks, he I don’t deliberately embarrass myself anymore, this is enough. I am not afraid of offending the gentleman, I am afraid of offending the villain, and I am afraid that the villain will miss me.

Not only that, in order to stop villains like Bunold from "thinking" about him, Zhou Ming also started another plan.

…

evening.

Under the dim yellow oil lamp, on the warm dining table.

According to the usual one-third portion of dinner, Zhou Ming chewed a piece of bread slowly, clapped his hands, and left the bowl without drinking his favorite goat milk pea soup.

"Brother, why have you eaten so little these days? Have you lost a lot of weight recently?"

Seeing that her brother only had so little for dinner, Alice felt a little distressed.

These days, my brother doesn’t know what’s going on. Although there is still so much food at home, he suddenly reduces the amount of breakfast by half and the amount of dinner to one-third of the usual amount. He deliberately doesn’t eat enough. I don’t know why. for what?

My brother's originally handsome face has become a little thinner these days.

"Alice, don't worry, my brother will take good care of his body. If he is hungry, he will definitely eat more."

"If you are not hungry, brother, why have you lost so much weight recently? Your face is not as beautiful as before."

"Brother is not thin, he is losing weight. Don't you think that my muscles are too eye-catching in this town? They can't be so eye-catching anymore. Brother has to lose weight. Otherwise, your brother's I've suffered a lot." Zhou Ming explained.

"It's not eye-catching. It's called good-looking. I don't want you to reduce it. It won't look good if you reduce it." Alice pouted and sulked.

"It just doesn't look good."

Zhou Ming sighed, touched Alice's head, walked to the backyard, and picked up the birch pole with a deep dent in the handle and a shiny oily shaft. In the night with only a little starlight, Facing the vague human-shaped wooden target, today's spear sprint training began.

…

Time flies, two months have passed.

Now Zhou Ming can no longer see his original appearance.

I lost more than thirty kilograms!

Now, all the muscles in his arms, thighs, chest and abdomen have disappeared, and the pads on his butt are much thinner.

Instead, there was a shriveled face that could almost see through the eye holes and exposed cheekbones. There were ribs on the chest, and a thin layer of paper could be seen on the belly. The delicate body seemed to be blown away by a breeze.

And, in daily life, his zombie-like state...

"Little Ryan was completely destroyed. Brunoder was so cruel that he wouldn't even let a child go..."

"The devil has corrupted little Ryan's mind, and the devil is sucking his life away. If little Ryan can't get over that blow, maybe we won't be able to see him for a long time."

"Hey... If only the parents of this child were here, he wouldn't suffer so much."

Even the housekeeper Bunold, who often ridiculed Little Ryan at the field, gradually ignored this little person. Slowly, in Bunold's eyes, Little Ryan was almost the same as those skinny, malnourished farmers. It's not worth it for him to go out of his way to sarcasm and target him, and he doesn't think it's interesting to tease such a poor person.

However, when Zhou Ming returned home from work every day, his lifeless eyes suddenly shot out a stern light, and his truest side appeared in front of him.

"In the past two weeks, when I was doing weekly work, the number of times housekeeper Bruno ridiculed me was 0, punished me 0 times, and even talked to me almost 0 times..."

"Yesterday, when Edward rode out to hunt, he no longer stared at me with contempt and disgust, only indifference..."

"The nicknames of 'Smart Little Ryan' and 'Lucky Little Ryan' are no longer heard by the children in the town..."

"The former clever and lively little Ryan, who repeatedly performed miracles and was very self-motivated, has almost died in their hearts, right?"

hehe.

Isn't this exactly what he wants to achieve?

Using only 30 pounds of flesh that can grow back at any time, it is a very cost-effective thing to replace yourself in the impression of others that you "died once".

Besides, only the original self "died", didn't those "memories" of hatred, ridicule, ridicule, and sarcasm dissipate along with it?

but……

Only Zhou Ming himself understands that he has always been alive, but in a different way, in a way that others cannot guess, but will eventually surprise them.

Moreover, it will make "them" pay a heavy price!