Chapter 79

To be honest, Ye Shiyuan was really stunned when he saw Lin Xiaodong raise his hand.

But he quickly reacted and asked, "Xiaodong, what do you want to exchange?"

"That." Lin Xiaodong pointed to the corner of the wall.

Everyone looked in the direction of his fingers and was disappointed to find that it turned out to be a wooden easel with some paints, brushes and other things beside it.

Ye Shiyuan knew that Lin Xiaodong liked to draw, but he still didn't expect that a teenager would exchange such a precious seal for such an insignificant thing, after all...

He calmed down and asked again, "Are you sure?"

"Sure." Lin Xiaodong said firmly.

Lynch let out a loud sneer from his nose: "A fool is a fool."

At the corner of the second floor, a black-haired man was sitting in a wheelchair, silently looking at the resplendent hall below.

His legs were covered with a thin blanket with delicate embroidery. Although he was not good at work, the clothes he wore were very ironed, and his back was always straight. He didn't have the slightest depressing temperament.

On the contrary, it was those dark and cold eyes that made one's heart feel cold at a glance.

A subordinate who was pushing a wheelchair behind him sighed: "There are sixteen children in total, and it seems that only twelve are quite smart."

The man was silent.

His gaze stayed on Lin Xiaodong who was holding the easel for a few seconds, and after a while, he retracted his gaze without any fluctuation.

"Nothing to see, let's go back."

As if feeling the gaze from above, Lin Xiaodong frowned and raised his head thoughtfully, but saw no one.

The sixteen children were taken to their quarters in the castle. Lynch glanced at the easel in his hand with disgust, and he didn't know what to think, and a look of impatience appeared on his face. But soon, his little thoughts were shattered by the supervisor who distributed the room keys-

"Lynch, turn left in the first room."

"What about him?" Lin Qi pointed at Lin Xiaodong and asked reluctantly, "We came together, he is my cousin, shouldn't he live in a room with me?"

At this time, he called his cousin, Lin Xiaodong rolled his eyes and took his key from the supervisor.

"You don't live together. Lin Xiaodong, turn left and go straight, the room at the end of the corridor." After a pause, the supervisor added, "Your room is closer to the stairs, the castle is too big, and there are often forests Animals came in to steal food. Remember not to wander around the castle at night, and don't come out casually no matter what you hear."

"understood."

Lin Xiaodong wondered if this place is still haunted? That's kind of interesting.

After a day's ride in the car, he was also tired. He entered the door and looked at the room. In addition to a large bed, there was a desk, a European-style sofa with two pillows, and a small coffee table. On the coffee table was a piece of A4 paper with a dozen rules of the castle written on it.

For example, it is not allowed to violate the curfew, disobey the teacher's orders, and do not damage other people's property or fight within the surveillance area... But because he was too sleepy, Lin Xiaodong just glanced at it quickly and put it down without reading it.

He moved the easel to the window, lifted the corner of the curtain and glanced out. It was facing the artificial lake. After the lights on the lawn went out, the desolate garden felt a little more mysterious in the night.

"It does look a bit like a haunted house." Lin Xiaodong said to himself.

But this is impossible. He has asked the system. There is no strange and chaotic factor in this world. It is a pure and pure modern society.

He lowered the curtains again, put on the pajamas prepared by the Lin family, fell on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

Early morning.

Lin Xiaodong, who was lying on the bed, was suddenly awakened by a sudden movement.

He opened his eyes and stared straight at the ceiling above his head.

Just like what the previous supervisor said, there was a low, strange sound like a beast panting/breathing from his ears.

Lin Xiaodong thought that it was a wild boar in the deep mountains that came in to steal food, turned over and put a pillow over his head, ready to continue his sleep.

Unexpectedly, after more than ten minutes, the sound not only did not stop, but intensified, and it was accompanied by the harsh scratching sound of fingernails scratching something - this is not a wild boar.

"Depend on!"

The boy who had been disturbed by his clear dream had a messy head of hair and sat up with a face full of resentment.

Shaking the goose bumps on his body, he jumped out of bed aggressively, found the distribution basin from the room, removed the long plastic rod of the broom, pressed the plastic basin against the ceiling to act as a loudspeaker, and held the rod vigorously. Poke up five or six times.

"Do you have a sense of public morality? The ghost crying and wolf howling in the middle of the night, this is the time for normal people to sleep!"

In the dead of night, the youthful shouts resounded through the castle.

There was an instant silence in the master bedroom on the second floor.

The family doctor and nurse standing by the bed looked at each other, wondering who would have the guts to yell at Lin Pei; and Ye Shiyuan, who knew the inside story, broke out in a cold sweat instantly.

He complained a lot in his heart. At first, he saw that Lin Xiaodong was stable, and he was the oldest among them, so he arranged for him to live directly under the master bedroom, and specially instructed the supervisor who distributed the keys to make the boy feel better.

Unexpectedly, Lin Xiaodong not only did not listen to him, but also started to do things on the first night of coming to the castle!

Because of its remote location but beautiful scenery, this castle has become a place used by successive generations of the Lin family for recuperation and vacation in modern times. And since Lin Pei's legs were disabled, he was so annoyed by the endless visits and hypocritical inquiries, so he simply moved his office here.

However, because the old injury has not healed, every night, the man will always toss and turn due to pain and sleepless, and even wreak havoc in the room because of his irritability and depression, so he will make those sounds similar to those of beasts.

"Patriarch, it's my fault that the child is ignorant." Looking at the pale and gloomy man leaning against the bed with clenched fists, Ye Shiyuan immediately apologized, carefully observing his face, "I'll let it go. He lives in a room with his cousin...or are you planning to send him home directly?"

In fact, this is not a bad thing for Lin Xiaodong.

Ye Shiyuan knew very well that although Lin Xiaodong's parents used to have a high prestige in the family, they died like a lamp, not to mention that both of them had been dead for so many years.

He had also vaguely heard about the inheritance. Although he sympathized with him, as an outsider, Ye Shiyuan could only sigh.

Lin Pei closed his eyes, was silent for a moment, and said in a hoarse voice, "No."

Ye Shiyuan quickly said, "Then I'll go downstairs and tell him..."

"Stop." The man lifted his eyelids, stared at him coldly, twitched the corners of his mouth sarcastically when he saw the cautious expression on Ye Shiyuan's face, and swept around the doctors and nurses in the room, "No one is allowed to tell Did you hear him?"

"......Yes."

The three present were a little confused, and in the end they could only attribute it to Lin Pei's self-esteem.

After all, it is a generation of heroes, from a high-spirited young talent, the head of a big family, to a disabled person who can only be pushed around in a wheelchair... This gap can be imagined.

As a result, their attitude towards Lin Pei became more cautious.

And Lin Xiaodong downstairs, after waiting for a while, found that the sound finally subsided, and was very satisfied.

He has always been big-hearted, and he didn't bother to think about what other people next door would think when they heard his voice. After putting things back in their original positions, he got back into the bed and fell asleep after a while.

the next day.

The big clock on the top of the castle rang at seven o'clock on time. The sixteen children, with their sleepy eyes wide open, went to the east and west bathrooms to wash up in two teams, and then sat down at the long table in the dining room under the leadership of the supervisor. Waiting for breakfast at both ends.

However, there was no bread, eggs and milk as they imagined. The canteen chef in charge of the children's meals just wiped his hands calmly and put a menu in front of them.

A piece of toast - worth a medal;

Three eggs - worth one medal;

A glass of milk - worth one medal;

A grilled lamb chop - three medals of value;

...

............

As soon as this menu came out, all sixteen children were dumbfounded.

I thought it would be like this before, but I was worried about why the price was so high, and the children who exchanged the medals for toys last night were basically panic-stricken, trying to count their remaining points. Enough for a few loaves of bread.

"Mr. Supervisor," the younger sister raised her hand again, "I want to ask, what if we run out of medals, but we are hungry to eat? We won't just starve to death, right?"

"Of course not," the supervisor said indifferently. "You can also give us credit, which is to borrow medals to exchange for food."

The younger sister frowned and said, "But if there are no restrictions, what's the point of the medal?"

"Yes," the supervisor gave him a gentle smile, "the medals we loaned out did not come out of thin air, but randomly selected the corresponding number from the medals of everyone at present and issued them to the borrowers - so please, please Use this feature with caution to avoid conflicts between peers."

Hearing this, everyone became nervous, and their eyes became much more cautious when looking at each other.

Lin Xiaodong said to the system in a low voice, "Isn't this a small society? It seems that Lin Pei really wants us to compete with each other."

There are also those so-called regulations that cannot be violated, which seem very reasonable, but in fact they are not strict at all. For example, it is a normal rule not to damage other people's finances and fight, but a premise must be added - it must be within the scope of monitoring.

This means that as long as you find a location where there is no surveillance, or you can destroy surveillance without being detected, you can do anything recklessly.

"It seems that Lin Pei is indeed mentally ill because of his disability." Lin Xiaodong sighed, queuing up to exchange for three eggs and a piece of bread. Anyway, there is an unlimited supply of water, and the eggs can be stored for a few days.

System: "How do you say?"

Lin Xiaodong hummed and took a bite of the bread.

"Heirs selected/selected like this," he said, "just like Lynch in the profile, ninety-nine percent is a psychopath/madman who has plunder, competition and cruelty carved into his bones. So after the heir takes the throne, the first person to kill is Lin Pei, the old wolf king himself. Doing so is basically equivalent to chronic suicide/suicide."

However, Lin Xiaodong couldn't help thinking, maybe, this is Lin Pei's real purpose?