Du Zhong slowly woke up, feeling a splitting headache and soreness all over his body. He slowly opened his eyes and looked around, and was surprised to find himself in an unfamiliar stable.

"Where is this? How did I end up here..." Du Zhong muttered to himself, trying to recall what happened before. He remembered that he was punished by the sect leader to clean the stables! Later, he was knocked unconscious by Du Heng.

He got up from the ground while rubbing his temple and cursing. At this moment, a groom he had never seen before came in, looked at Du Zhong, and said loudly: "Newcomer, what are you still standing there for? Hurry up and pick up all the horse manure in the stables! I heard that the kitchen has made crispy chicken and eight-treasure duck today. When you finish your work, we can go and enjoy the delicious food together!"

Du Zhong took the shovel from the groom with a suspicious look on his face, wondering in his heart: How could this master give away all the gold and still have such abundant financial resources to enjoy the food? Could it be that he had another way to make money?

Just when he was puzzled, the groom showed a smug look on his face and explained with a smile: "Hey, you don't know, our Pavilion Master is a master at making money! Look, he just successfully earned a full 20,000 taels of gold!"

Hearing this, Du Zhong's face suddenly changed, and he asked in astonishment: "Wait! What did you just say? Pavilion Master? I...where am I now?"

Before he finished speaking, he heard a clear and pleasant female voice beside him, as beautiful as a yellow oriole singing in a valley: "Hey, big stick! Aren't you in Dragon Bone Mountain? This is the stable of Dark Moon Pavilion!"

As soon as Du Zhong saw Ying Twelve, he couldn't help but feel a surge of anger in his heart, and the corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably: "Eagle Twelve, Eagle Twelve! I didn't expect you to be so despicable and shameless! You took advantage of me when I was unconscious and abducted me here!" He glared at this former acquaintance in front of him, his eyes full of resentment and unwillingness.

However, Ying Twelve didn't care about Du Zhong's accusation. He just glanced at him calmly and sneered, "Come on! Blame it on yourself! It was Xiao Bangchui who sold you to our Dark Moon Pavilion to do odd jobs! Here, this is your indenture! If you know what's good for you, just go to work!"

After saying that, Ying Twelve waved his hand and a yellowed paper fell in front of Du Zhong. Du Zhong looked carefully and saw that it clearly stated that he had been sold to Dark Moon Pavilion. He was so angry that he trembled all over and his teeth were chattering, but he could do nothing. Facing such a situation, Du Zhong knew that he had no choice at this time. He could only endure it temporarily and look for an opportunity to escape from the predicament.

Eagle Twelve took a few steps forward, but quickly retreated back to where he was, shouting in a calm tone: "Big Stupid! Don't even think about escaping! The entire Dragon Bone Mountain is filled with traps carefully laid out by the Pavilion Master. If you try to escape, not only will you fail to escape successfully, but you may even lose your life!"

Inside the Soul-demanding Gate, Xi Ruming was concentrating on checking Xueying's pulse. After a moment, he looked puzzled, "Young Master, judging from your pulse right now, it is steady and strong, with no signs of poisoning. However, what is puzzling is why your whole body is limp and you can't move at all? I am really at a loss as to what to do about this!"

Blood Shadow's body radiated chills. He gritted his teeth and said angrily, "That sinister and cunning woman, Dark Moon Fairy, was inferior to others in skills, so she resorted to such despicable means and actually poisoned me!"

Xi Ruming stroked his beard and said thoughtfully: "Young Master, from what I have seen, it does not seem to be caused by poisoning! If you are still unable to recover your ability to move by this time tomorrow, then we will have no choice but to rush to Dragon Bone Mountain and demand justice from them!"

Xueying felt a suffocating anger rising in his heart, making it almost impossible for him to breathe. He stared at the distance fiercely, gritting his teeth and said, "Next time, I will never have any mercy on her! I will definitely capture her alive, tie her up tightly with ropes, and then beat her mercilessly to vent my hatred!"

Xi Ruming, who was standing by, was secretly surprised when he saw this. His cloudy eyes turned slightly, as if he was thinking about something. According to the young master's personality in the past, if he encountered such a thing, he would definitely take the life of Dark Moon Fairy directly. However, this time, the young master actually said such words, which really surprised him.

Xi Ruming gently stroked the beard on his chin and advised earnestly: "Young Master, we still have more important things to do right now. Why bother to get too entangled with such scum? It will delay our important business." He knew that Xueying was impulsive and irritable, but at this moment, he had to stabilize the overall situation.

Shang Lu came in to report to Xue Ying, only to see Xue Ying's face gloomy and coldly looking ahead, seemingly not hearing Shang Lu's question. Shang Lu frowned and raised his voice slightly to ask again: "Master, Du Zhong has been sold to Dark Moon Pavilion by Du Heng! Should we go and rescue him?"

Hearing this, Xueying felt annoyed and could not help but shouted angrily: "Let him fend for himself in the Dark Moon Pavilion! That nagging and stupid guy will only bring us trouble. Who knows, he might even make the Dark Moon Pavilion a mess and make everyone in it restless!"

Du Zhong was shoveling horse manure in the spacious but slightly dark stable of Dark Moon Pavilion. Time passed by minute by minute, and before he knew it, a long time had passed. When he stood up, the sun was already high above his head, and it was already lunchtime.

Du Zhong, who was starving, clapped his hands, turned around and left the stable, and began to look for the dining room of Dark Moon Pavilion. He walked through corridors and turned corners, but he still couldn't see the shadow of the dining room. He couldn't help wondering: "Where is the dining room of Dark Moon Pavilion hidden?" After a hard search, he finally found a half-open door with a shabby sign hanging on it, and the words "dining room" could be vaguely seen.

After pushing open the door, Du Zhong walked in with great expectations, but the scene before him disappointed him greatly—there was no trace of food on the empty table, and even the rice bucket that was supposed to be filled with food was cleaned up. Could it be that everyone here has finished lunch? Du Zhong muttered to himself.

Unwilling to give up, he went to the kitchen again, hoping to find some leftovers to fill his stomach. However, when he walked into the kitchen, he saw a ridiculous scene: several cooks were sitting around a table, happily gambling with dice; while the cooks were sitting leisurely on the side, cracking melon seeds and laughing from time to time. No one cared about Du Zhong, a poor man who was starving.

Du Zhong frowned and asked anxiously, "Where is the food? I've been so busy that I only have time to come over for a meal now!" As he spoke, he glanced around, hoping to find some trace of food.

At this time, a fat cook came over slowly, the fat on his face trembling slightly as he walked. He glanced at Du Zhong and replied lazily: "It's past dinner time. How come you, a newcomer, don't even know this? But you can ask Miss Twelve. She may have some leftovers." After saying that, he patted his round belly, as if to imply that he was full.

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