They managed to get through the rest of the day relatively unscathed, although Chu Yun sequestered himself in a suit of rooms he called his "offices" citing some book he had been meaning to read. In truth, Xiao Zai was well aware that his only intention was hiding from the white kitten, now terrorising the entire estate.
Xiao Zai was happy to give Chu Yun his space, and spent a pleasant enough day in his own company. There was a small, sad-looking plot of tilled land near the back of the estate that used to serve as the servant's vegetable garden. He amused himself by asking for some seeds and fertiliser and trying to make it grow again.
He was now a member of the unemployed nobility, whose ranks swelled every day under his father's rule. Without an official post either in a civil or military capacity, there was nothing much for Xiao Zai to keep himself busy with.
