Quick wear: cannon fodder is a bit strong

After everyone left, Nan Xi took a sip of tea and looked at Xia Zhu.

Xia Zhu also looked at Nan Xi.

The master and servant looked at each other, and Xia Zhu knelt down with a plop: "Please give your instructions, Miss."

She wasn't stupid. The eldest lady had specifically asked her to listen and had specifically kept her, so she must have some plans for her. She had long been aware of the personnel changes that had occurred over the past few days.

Although she didn't know what the young lady wanted to do, she had a vague feeling that it was a good thing. However, the young lady didn't tell her, and she didn't dare to ask.

I don't know what the eldest lady wants her to do. But she will do it well anyway!

Nan Xi looked at Xia Zhu, sighed, and reached out to help her: "You get up first."

Among the original owner's four maids, three were family-born children, and only Xia Zhu was bought by the original owner herself when she was 6 years old.

Xia Zhu's real name was Li Qiya, the daughter of a farmer in the suburbs of Beijing. Li Qiya's mother had given birth to six daughters, all of whom were drowned by the family. When she came to her, her mother changed her mind, thinking that if she didn't have a daughter, a son wouldn't come, so she saved her life.

Surprisingly, the next child was a younger brother, and then two more followed. This solidified her reputation as someone who had prevented her younger brothers from being reborn. So, Xia Zhu not only had to wash diapers and care for her younger brothers at home, but also endured beatings, scolding, and starvation. At the age of six, Xia Zhu, unable to endure any more, took advantage of an ox cart arriving to harvest vegetables and secretly climbed aboard to hide.

She was so thin and small that the driver didn't notice her. Then the ox cart happened to be delivering winter vegetables to the general's mansion, and the carriage pulled the sleeping Li Qiya into the backyard of the general's mansion, and naturally she was discovered.

When they tried to chase her away, the starving Li Qiya took advantage of the situation and grabbed a steamed bun, stuffed it in her mouth, and started running. A group of people chased her. Li Qiya, biting the bun, looked up and saw the original owner strolling around the mansion.

The original owner was wearing gorgeous clothes, and her skin was as white and tender as a piece of jade. Li Qiya thought she saw a fairy, so she rushed over, knelt down and kowtowed, biting her steamed bun and shouting incoherently: "Little fairy, help me! Sister fairy, save me!!"

In fact, the original owner was only five years old at that time, one year younger than Xia Zhu.

The original owner, who grew up in a pile of gold and jade, had never seen such a "strange" child: dark yellow skin, big eyes, barefoot and ragged, with not a pound of flesh on his body.

Out of curiosity, I kept her.

The General's Mansion gave Xia Zhu's family fifty taels of silver and signed a contract to sell her body. With the General's Mansion involved, the family dared not say a word and were secretly happy that the girl had been sold for a good price.

The original owner changed her name to Xia Zhu. Because the original owner was interested in her, she made an exception and became his maid.

Perhaps due to her hardships, Xia Zhu remembers things from a very early age. She began learning to read and study alongside Chuntao, Qiutong, and Dongmei. Gradually, she learned the identity of the young lady and realized she wasn't some fairy. But what she never said was that in her eyes and heart, the young lady had always been a beautiful, kind fairy.

Over the years, she watched the young lady grow from a soft and cute little dumpling into a pretty young girl. In her heart, the young lady was not only a fairy, but also a sister who needed to be protected and her only relative.

As she grew older, Xia Zhu became quiet and reserved, and the original owner wasn't as "interested" in her as she had been when she was little. But she didn't mind. She diligently learned accounting, arithmetic, embroidery, and anything else she could learn in the mansion. She figured that the more she learned, the more she would be able to do for the young lady in the future.

When the young lady married into the Zhao family, Xia Zhu was initially happy for her because her husband was elegant and suave, and treated her with gentleness and courtesy. However, in the days that followed, Xia Zhu watched helplessly as the young lady quickly withered like a delicate flower in the Zhao family, and watched Dongmei develop an affair, and she hated herself for being unable to do anything...

Nan Xi looked at Xia Zhu, who seemed to be lost in some emotion, and did not disturb her for a while.

The original owner didn't take this incident to heart, it was just a childish impulse. Nan Xi, however, remembered Xia Zhu's fate in the original world: she had always suspected the cause of her death, even after she was sold to a brothel. She was eventually discovered by Min Rouer, who hired a few thugs to impersonate her patron and kill her.

In this life, Nan Xi wants to fulfill Xia Zhu's wishes.

Moreover, Nan Xi hates the ancient idea of "preferring sons to daughters" the most. She believes more in the doomsday code: "The strong are respected."

Although she was just an outsider who came to carry out a mission and had no intention of changing the world or promoting gender equality in ancient times, it was still easy to help Xia Zhu.

In other words, she wanted Xia Zhu to help her. She wanted her to leave this small world, spread her wings, and be herself.

With the blessing of the Loyalty Pill and Xia Zhu's loyalty to begin with, Nan Xi decided not to beat around the bush with her.

"Nine nine nine..." Nan Xi suddenly remembered something.

[I'm here, host. I'll be at your service.]

"No need to be polite anymore." Nan Xi said, "You promised me the newbie gift pack, why haven't I seen it yet?"

[This...] The kitten seemed a little embarrassed and stammered:

[Yes, there is a host.]

Nan Xi knew something was wrong the moment she heard it: "What happened? Did you eat it? Did you secretly give it away?"

[How could this be? Host-sama…]

That's right, because when the previous host was a novice, he coaxed away all the good gift packs. Now the last one left is really a bit embarrassing.

"It's okay, let me take a look."

[Okay, Master Host]

随后南汐就在识海里看到一个悬浮的礼包，点开了里面有：大力丸5枚、健体丸5枚、美白丸5枚、解毒丸5枚；生子丹3枚、生女丹5枚、多胎丸5枚、绝子丹5枚；金条10根、乌金匕首一把。

And then...gone?

[Yes, that's all, Master.] I'm so sorry, even it thinks these are a bit useless. [Master, don't be angry, that dagger is still very useful. And there are many good things here, I can give them to you later.]

Okay, it's better than nothing, but it's really useless. But "Why are you, a cannon fodder system, giving away these 'son-birth pills' and 'daughter-birth pills'?"

It made her wonder if she had a child-bearing system tied to her.

【Hehe... doesn't anyone want these? 】

Jiujiujiu said embarrassedly:

"But who knows, Master Host. Didn't the original owner of our little world want to have children?"

[What if…what if…some small world is truly unable to reproduce due to various reasons, then…hehe…]

Okay, seeing how timid the little kitten was, Nan Xi was too lazy to argue with it.