The beloved baby has a space

Chapter 177 Shanyang Village is too busy to care for itself

Little Ayu had no idea that not far from them, people from Shanyang Village were being brutally beaten.

After finishing her meal, before it was completely dark, Xiao Ayu excitedly ran to the edge of the pond and leaned over to watch the fish inside.

The little lamb is chasing the magic mouse around. Now, the magic mouse has become Old Wang's pet. Next to the little lamb's food bowl is the magic mouse's food bowl.

For the little sheep, this magical rat was not easy to tame. In Hu Family Village, it was the only sheep leader, and it had to be taught how to be a little rat brother.

"Little lamb, don't knock Ayu down," Liu called out from afar.

"Baa!" the lamb called out in response.

Wang Wulang leaned closer: "Sister Ayu, what are you looking at?"

Little Ayu said, "I'm looking at the fish in there, but there are so few! What a big pond, and such small fish."

“This fish looks different, it’s golden, and I haven’t seen any for sale in town,” Wang Wulang said. “How about we go catch some in the river during our holiday?”

In addition to the official holidays, they now have a one-day weekend every ten days. Time is tight, so going back to their hometown is not worthwhile. They can only go to the nearby river.

Dachang has abundant waterways, including rivers and lakes, and a large sea along its border. As a result, most areas rarely experience droughts, but floods are more frequent.

"Okay!" Little Ayu started counting on her fingers, "I'll invite Brother Ayou too."

Wang Wulang muttered to himself, "Your brother Ayou is always involved in everything we do. Why doesn't he side with you?"

Little Ayu tugged at Wang Wulang's sleeve, grinning, "But I haven't forgotten Fifth Brother either!"

As she spoke, she patted Wang Wulang's shoulder like a little adult and imitated Old Wang's tone, saying, "Fifth Brother, you have to be more generous. You have many brothers, but you only have one sister, Ayu. So Ayu is very busy too!"

This left Wang Wulang speechless, both amused and exasperated.

At this moment, Wang Dalang was talking to the Wang family about the affairs of Shanyang Village.

Because this involved a lot of people, we didn't tell the other children; we just let them go play nearby.

Old Wang frowned deeply upon hearing Wang Dalang's words: "Their Shanyang Village is truly rotten to the core. They only think about getting something for nothing, and now they've even come up with an even more vicious plan!"

A cold glint flashed in Wang Chuangui's eyes: "Their punishment in the past was already lenient; they must have had connections in the county government. Now, instead of repenting, they still want others' sympathy?"

Previously, when people from Shanyang Village came to cause trouble, Wang Chuangui could only lie at home because of his leg problems, but he could hear the commotion outside very clearly.

Everyone says that the Wang family are honest and kind people, but Wang Chuangui is not.

Despite being paralyzed for many years, and despite the fact that no one in the Wang family ever showed any disdain for him and took good care of his mental well-being, people who have been paralyzed always tend to overthink things.

Lying in bed all day with nothing else to do, how can one not start to ponder things?
Old Wang said, "Why don't we go find Lord Zhang? It was Lord Zhang who issued the order to punish Shanyang Village last time."

“Lord Zhang must be very busy, would he care about our affairs?” Wang Chuangui was not optimistic. “Why don’t we go find their relatives in Shanyang Village?”

Every village has its roots, but some roots are in the village itself, while others are in other villages. They share the same clan and lineage, and their root systems are vast.

In fact, while villagers have a sense of awe for officials and other officials, they are more afraid of people from their own village and clan. Currently, many of the laws of the Great Chang Kingdom only apply to ordinary people, but there are some vague concepts that the law cannot punish.

For example, the law does not specify how one should be punished for eating one's own child.

No normal person would think of this, so how could it possibly be written into the law?
Similarly, when people from Shanyang Village came to their steamed bun shop to cause trouble or ask them for money, even if the officials came, they would only drive them away.

It's only a temporary solution, not a fundamental one, and won't have much effect; it will only negatively impact their shops.

“Even if we go to their clan, they probably won’t pay any attention to us,” Madam Ma said, not very optimistic.

Even oxen know how to protect their calves; people of the same clan will definitely protect their own. Wang Chuanyuan and his wife now live in the shop, while Cai Niu, because he lives far away, sleeps on the floor in the storeroom. Sometimes, when business is good, they will open a few baskets of steamed buns in the afternoon and won't come back for dinner. At this time of discussion, the three of them were not present.

Just as they were preparing to rest, they suddenly heard a commotion outside.

Wang Chuanyuan immediately jumped up from the bed.

"What are you doing?" Little Zhang asked, somewhat displeased. "You're so jumpy, you scared me to death."

Wang Chuanyuan started getting dressed: "There's some noise outside, I'll go check it out, you go to sleep first."

Before it gets dark, let's go see what's going on.

"Alright, go ahead and come back and tell me." She was really too tired; making steamed buns was much more tiring than she had imagined.

Fortunately, I can still earn money and eat steamed buns and mantou every day, which is my only consolation.

When Wang Chuanyuan went outside, he found that Cai Niu was also there.

"Brother Cai, did you hear what they're saying outside?"

Cai Niu clapped his hands: "Hey, I actually heard it. It sounds like a group of villagers were causing trouble and got beaten up by some righteous people."

"what?"

The town is quite safe, so why would anyone cause trouble?

Wang Chuanyuan loved watching a good show, so he immediately opened the small door and crawled out to watch.

The main gate of the steamed bun shop was made of wooden strips pieced together. Fortunately, there was another small door in another part of the shop; otherwise, it would have taken most of the time just to open the door.

Once outside, you'll see a lot of people pointing and talking around a certain spot.

There were also people wailing and lamenting.

There were even people who looked like servants carrying sticks.

Wow, that's quite a show of force!

Wang Chuanyuan casually tugged at someone's sleeve: "Brother, what happened? Tell me about it."

The man, seeing that it was the owner of Wang's Steamed Bun Shop, excitedly shared the news with him.

"I don't know which village's people came to cause trouble, but they ran into a brick wall and were caught by the young lady of the Zhang family. Alas, they were beaten so badly!" the man sighed. "They probably wanted to extort money. They lay on the ground groaning for a long time and refused to get up, insisting that the Zhang family compensate them."

Wang Chuanyuan's eyes widened: "That must cost a lot of money, right? Otherwise, what will happen if they report it to the authorities?"

"Why would you report them to the authorities? The Zhang family are big landlords, one of the top families in our Nanhe Town. Who would dare to report them to the authorities? They'd be asking for trouble!"

The man shook his head as he spoke: "It's better if they don't cause trouble. Miss Zhang loves to get into trouble, and the Zhang family usually settles things with money. But if they are unreasonable, the Zhang family won't be a pushover."

The man also told Wang Chuanyuan some things about the Zhang family, so Wang Chuanyuan felt great sympathy for the family.

After hearing a bit of gossip, Wang Chuanyuan was finally satisfied.

When I got back, I shared this with Xiao Zhangshi. Xiao Zhangshi yawned and mumbled sleepily, "What's there to ask about? It has nothing to do with our family. Go to sleep, we have to get up early to make steamed buns tomorrow morning!"

The Wang family was unaware that Shanyang Village, which they were so worried about, was already preoccupied with its own problems.

(End of this chapter)