The beloved baby has a space

Chapter 40 Shopping

At 3:45 PM, when Liu returned home with her children, Old Wang was leading his sons in making a new bamboo fence.

"Dad! Grandpa! Uncle, Third Uncle!" Little Ayu called out happily when she saw them from afar.

Hearing the voice, the group looked up and saw Xiao Ayu, and they all greeted her with smiles.

It's so much better to have a daughter; she greets everyone when she comes home. Those brats never greet anyone when they come home.

Both Mrs. Feng and Mrs. Ma were tidying up inside the house. Hearing the commotion outside, they both smiled.

With a baby girl in the family, things are definitely different; everyone is much happier.

Wang Wulang couldn't contain himself any longer. As soon as he stepped into the yard, he excitedly shouted, "We caught pheasants! Three of them!"

As she spoke, Liu put down her basket. Her basket wasn't very big; she could barely fit three pheasants inside, with the wild vegetables she had dug up on top.

It's early spring, so there aren't many wild vegetables, and they haven't grown very tall yet, but you can still cook a big pot of them by combining all the different kinds.

The Wang family had no time to look at the wild vegetables; they were all staring at Liu's basket. When they saw Liu take the pheasant out of the basket, their eyes widened.

"It really is a pheasant?!" Wang Chuanman strode forward, picked up the nearest pheasant, weighed it in his hand, and exclaimed happily, "This pheasant must weigh about 2 pounds."

Compared to domestic chickens, pheasants usually weigh only two or three pounds each. Especially now that winter has just passed, it's already quite good for a pheasant to weigh two pounds.

Old Wang was also extremely happy. His family had just received grain from the imperial court, but no one was willing to eat it. They basically shared a portion of it as seeds.

Compared to ordinary grains, the effect is naturally much worse, but they have no other choice but to make do with it.

"How did you catch the pheasant? Did you find its nest?"

Wang Dalang was very excited. At 16 years old, he still had a childlike heart, but due to his responsibility as the eldest grandchild, he couldn't go along to play.

Wang Wulang was extremely excited when this was mentioned.

"It's a long story. We were originally planning to go find Aunt Si, but a pheasant suddenly flew out on the way, so we quickly went to catch it."

At this point, Wang Wulang kept everyone in suspense: "Guess how we caught the three pheasants?"

"How did you catch it? Wasn't it caught by hand? Oh, did you set a trap?" Wang Sanlang was also very curious.

In the past, after the busy farming season, they would go out to catch pheasants, but they were lucky to catch one out of ten times.

Pheasants are exceptionally agile and very difficult to catch. Unlike rabbits, which at least walk on the ground, pheasants can fly when startled. Since they don't have wings, how can you catch them?
"This is all thanks to my Ayu!" Wang Wulang exclaimed, gesturing wildly. "You wouldn't believe it, when we went to catch that pheasant, Ayu and Xiaoyang caught two! Isn't that amazing?"

"How can it be?!"

Seeing his older brothers staring in disbelief and looking shocked, Wang Wulang felt extremely satisfied.

He continued, "I think our little sister Ayu is a very lucky person. When have we ever caught pheasants so easily in previous years? And when have we ever caught three? It's all thanks to little sister Ayu!"

Not to mention Wang Dalang and his group, even Old Wang and his friends were stunned by what they heard.

What? Ayu can actually catch pheasants?

"Fourth brother's wife, is what Wu Lang said true?" Old Wang was really curious.

Otherwise, he would not normally move around and talk to his daughter-in-law.

Liu quickly said, "They had already caught them when I arrived, and I didn't see them clearly."

Actually, Liu didn't really believe it either.

How old is Ayu? She looks like a two-year-old. Can a two-year-old catch a pheasant?

That's a joke!
Wang Erlang scratched his head, puzzled, and said, "Sister Ayu is already very powerful. Didn't she kill the giant python for us before?"

In Wang Erlang's eyes, Ayu was probably some kind of deity reincarnated, and was naturally powerful.

Wang Erlang's reminder brought back memories of that terrifyingly large python. Yes, their Ayu was indeed quite different.

He couldn't help but look at Xiao Ayu, his eyes filled with curiosity.

Little Ayu blinked, even more confused than the others. Why were they all staring at her?

Wang Chuanman walked up to Xiao Ayu and asked her, "How did you catch it?"

And that little lamb, it only has four hooves and hasn't even grown horns yet, how can it catch pheasants?
Upon hearing this, Little Ayu stretched out her two little hands, made a hugging gesture, and then pulled them together.

"That's how you catch it!" Little Ayu demonstrated, hugging Wang Chuanman's leg tightly, tilting her head back, and said, "Daddy, that's how you catch it!"

Isn't that too easy?

"They're probably some pheasants that didn't go out for the winter, and they're frozen stiff and haven't recovered yet."

That's the only way people can comfort themselves.

Meanwhile, in Yongding County, Old Mrs. Wang and the villagers had also prepared their testimony. Based on the facts ascertained and the testimonies, the county magistrate made a judgment on the spot.

The practice of exchanging children to eat in Shanyang Village violated human ethics and caused panic in the area. Because the children's relatives did not pursue the matter, the local gentry, village head, and village chief were only urged to supervise the villagers who engaged in this practice, and if they committed the same offense again, they would be punished more severely.

In addition, Shanyang Village led the disturbance, and all the villagers of Hujia Village were found not guilty. Shanyang Village was responsible for the cost of medicine for all the injured in both villages.

At the same time, after the spring tax was waived, Shanyang Village was responsible for Hujia Village's autumn tax this year, as well as all corvée labor before June, and also compensated them with a certain amount of grain and money.

The village chief of Shanyang Village was dismissed from his post, and his entire family is prohibited from serving as village chief for ten years. Villagers who were paralyzed by snake venom and those who participated in the disturbance but were not poisoned by snake venom were also sentenced to imprisonment.

Considering the busy spring season and the lack of manpower in the village, they were allowed to be detained and imprisoned after the spring season, and they were also allowed to work in lieu of imprisonment.

"They got off too easy!" The villagers of Hujia Village were not very satisfied with the result, but the county magistrate had already handed down the sentence.

Those people from Shanyang Village have been punished where they deserved to be, and they have to pay the compensation they were owed. There's nothing more to say about that.

He was just angry and wanted to beat up the people of Shanyang Village, but fortunately, Village Chief Hu kept calming him down.

The verdict was delivered at 5:15 PM. The sky was still dark, but it wasn't early either.

It's impossible to get back to the village now.

They couldn't afford to stay at inns or restaurants.

He simply squeezed into a pile of thatched roofs in an alley outside the county government office and spent the entire night there.

Early the next morning, shops in the county town opened one after another, and the calls of vendors from various stalls rang out one after another.

Village Chief Hu said, "I'll go to the rice shop to see if they still have any grain seeds for sale, because we don't have enough at home."

He brought several taels of silver with him when he came.

Old Mrs. Wang also brought some silver, which was given to her by Dr. Hu's family when they bought snake gallbladders.

“Village chief, if you see it, bring us 20 jin as well, and we’ll pay you back when we get back.”

Village Chief Hu nodded: "That's easy to say."

It's just a matter of convenience.

The other four villagers also expressed their desire to buy grain seeds and asked to borrow some money from Village Chief Hu, so Village Chief Hu took them to a rice shop.

Grandma Wang went to another street, intending to buy something for Xiao Ayu to take back.

As soon as they reached the street corner, they saw Zhang Zhan carrying two packages. When he saw Old Mrs. Wang, he strode over.

"Sir, please wait a moment."

My darlings, I wasn't satisfied with the two chapters I updated yesterday afternoon around 4 PM, so I completely rewrote them. The version I updated at 11 PM last night is the final one. If you're looking at the previous version, remember to go back and read those two chapters!
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