Shi Hai took into consideration that he was born on a good day and doted on him. After he was born, he was raised under the name of his wife and was treated like a legitimate son. He was the one who had the final say in the mansion.

"Third Young Master!"

Yin Jie suppressed his anger and bowed politely.

"Oh! What bad luck! He's always such a coward. It's boring."

Shi Zhendong flicked his sleeves and walked away in a swagger.

The front yard returned to peace and the servants continued to sweep.

Yin Jie sighed secretly and continued walking towards the northwest corner, but his thoughts kept drifting away. His eyes were not focused on this luxurious mansion.

Marquis Zhenguo, Shi Hai, was born a butcher in his early years.

The previous dynasty was in turmoil and strife, and he could not support himself and his family by killing pigs and selling meat, so he joined the army and was assigned to the imperial city defense camp. With his brute force, he worked his way up to the position of head of a thousand households.

At that time, Yan Rui, the Minister of War of Beiyan, chose to rebel instead of fighting at the last moment.

Shi Hai followed the team, and relying on his fighting spirit and courage on the battlefield, he was promoted on the front line and was appointed as the general. After the four countries formed a tripartite situation, he led his troops to garrison the eastern border, and his opponents were none other than Baili Xian and his son, the Dong Bo Hou of Dongcang.

After the establishment of Beiyan State, Shi Hai transformed himself from a butcher into a general with a large army, which attracted the attention of the new court officials.

During a banquet at his home, Lu Ming, the Minister of Personnel, introduced his eldest daughter Lu Xian to him.

Shi Hai, who was drunk, did something good with Lu Xian in a daze.

Afterwards, he reached a consensus with Minister Lu and proposed to marry Lu Xian, the eldest daughter of the Lu family, in a high-profile manner. She became the mistress of the General's Mansion, and in the following years, she was promoted to the lady of the Marquis' Mansion.

Madam Lu was extremely jealous and was in charge of the backyard alone. She treated the concubine brought in by the Marquis from outside very harshly. Except for the maid she had trained and sent to the Marquis as his concubine, all the children born to her were under her control.

Shi Haifu had three sons and five daughters.

The eldest son, who was born to a legitimate wife, got food stuck in his throat when he was two years old and suffocated to death. Madam Lu cried her heart out, so she beat and killed more than ten maids and old women who served her. As a result, people in the mansion began to fear the madam.

The second young master was born to his aunt. When he was three years old, Madam Lu became jealous and resentful because his aunt was favored by the marquis for several nights in a row. She strangled the aunt to death in front of the child, causing the second young master to be overly frightened and become mentally retarded and speechless. He has been kept in a remote courtyard ever since, and his life is even worse than that of a guard dog.

The third son is Shi Zhendong. He was born on a good day when the Marquis was young. His biological mother was Madam Lu's personal maid. After he was born, he was taken to the Madam's courtyard. His biological mother also served the mistress very carefully and let him grow up well. He became a playboy. He has neither literary nor martial arts skills. He spends his days in debauchery and is surrounded by a group of playboys. He is also a well-known figure in the royal capital.

All five daughters were born out of wedlock. The eldest daughter married early and never set foot in her mother's home again because her biological mother had been tortured to death.

The second daughter, the third daughter and the youngest daughter all died before they reached the age of 15.

Some died of illness or accidents, and no one investigated the cause of death. They were hastily buried without leaving any trace of regret for the living.

The only one still in the mansion is the fourth young lady. Her biological mother is also a maid who was trained by the madam, so she still has a chance of survival in the mansion.

However, her marriage was not smooth. Less than two years after she married, with her daughter still in her arms, her husband accidentally fell into the water and died.

She didn't want to move far away with her husband's family, so she returned to her parents' home and lived in a corner of the backyard of the marquis's mansion, where no one cared about her.

Yin Jie is a person of a different surname in the mansion. Although he is the adopted son of the Marquis, he is not recognized by the Marquis. He can only live in the most remote small courtyard in the front yard, with no one paying attention to him.

As far as he can remember, Yin Jie remembers that there was a very gentle woman by his side, and he called her mother.

Not long after, my mother was taken away by a man.

After he woke up, an old woman told him to wait patiently, because he and his mother would go to live in a wealthy family soon.

After that, he waited day after day until the old woman died of illness two years later. The four or five-year-old boy had to live by begging and was subjected to abuse and beatings.

He was poorly clothed every day and had never had a full meal until he was seven years old, when he found a blacksmith shop as an apprentice. Later, he was spotted by a master who was dressed in very expensive clothes and taken away to the imperial city of Beiyan, the royal capital he had heard of.

He had only walked through the tall gate of the Marquis Zhenguo Mansion once, when he was led in by the master.

The square-faced master, known as the Marquis, adopted him as his son and asked him to call him foster father.

Sitting next to him was a thin, vicious-looking woman with a gloomy face.

The Marquis asked him to call her his stepmother.

He called out in a low voice but got no response. From then on, he never dared to address this person casually again. Until now, when he occasionally met her, he would just respectfully call her "Madam".

The Marquis's Mansion gave him a home where he was no longer beaten or scolded, and where he could have enough food to eat and a place to stay. He was very grateful.

The Marquis personally taught him martial arts, but he was not gifted. Even though he worked harder than ordinary people, his progress was small and his performance was only average.

However, begging for food and making a living from all kinds of people since childhood taught him to read people's expressions and be cautious. He was adept at gathering information and helped the Marquis to gather a lot of information, often gaining his recognition.

When he was a teenager, he traveled back and forth between Beiyan and Dongcang, searching for the information that the Marquis needed, until he helped the Marquis accomplish the important affairs of the Dongbo Marquisate. He was also appreciated by His Majesty, who appointed him as an independent spy for Beiyan, directly under the management of the Marquis of Zhenguo.

Over the years, he used the Qianmai Palace's system to transmit a large amount of information to the Marquis of Zhenguo, which made him highly valued by His Majesty and he received continuous rewards.

"Sir, you're back. You weren't away for very long this time."

As he was reminiscing, he instinctively walked to the most remote courtyard in the mansion. A woman in simple clothes and without too many accessories on her head came out of the main house, holding the hand of a little girl of about four or five years old, who was wearing a goose yellow cotton jacket.

"Why are you here in broad daylight?"

Yin Jie looked displeased.

He subconsciously looked around. There were very few people passing by here, but he still frowned.

"Master, I didn't know you were coming back today. I just washed some of your clothes and sent them over without anyone seeing it."

The woman was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, with a square face and a slightly tall and strong build. At first glance, she looked about five or six points like the Marquis Zhenguo.

The girl she was holding hands also had a square face, small eyes, and a silly expression, and she looked about 70% like the woman.

Yin Jie is now thirty-four years old and has been living in the Marquis Zhenguo Mansion for many years. No one cares about his marriage.

The Marquis only regarded him as a spy and only asked about news. In addition, he had been hiding in Dongcang for many years, so naturally he had no chance to start a family in Beiyan. On weekdays, he just met his needs in the Honglou brothel and had no intention of settling down a home for himself.

"Ruosu, take the child back quickly and don't let anyone see him. Otherwise, it will be difficult for both of us to live in this mansion."

Yin Jie pushed the woman out of the hospital.

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