The beloved baby has a space

Chapter 47 Begging for mercy
"Lord Zhang, which Lord Zhang?" Old Master Hu and the others hadn't gone to the county town, so they naturally didn't know that Zhang Zhan was an official. Village Chief Hu said, "It's Zhang Zhan who came to distribute disaster relief grain to us before. I don't know what kind of official Lord Zhang is, but I saw that the county magistrate treated him quite gently, so I guess he's probably similar to the county magistrate."

Everyone thought to themselves, "Oh, that's probably a county magistrate from another county."

In any case, they were officials who were more powerful than yamen runners and constables.

Grandma Wang was too lazy to explain much and said directly, "Lord Zhang said that he helped investigate Ayu's background and found out that Ayu was maliciously abandoned by her family, who said that her eyes were ominous."

"Pah! They're probably just feeling guilty and blaming the child!" The Ma family patriarch spat upon hearing this.

Although their village often talks about gods and spirits, they have never lost a child for such a reason, let alone lost them in the deep mountains after a blizzard.

This is like wanting the child to die, or rather, to die a gruesome death!

What a terrible thing to do!

Grandpa Hu also shook his head: "The Master did not speak of strange phenomena, physical prowess, disorder, or spirits."

"They just abandoned Ayu like that?" The elder of the Hu family was most puzzled. "If you ask me, Ayu is more like a lucky star. Think about it carefully. If it weren't for Ayu, how many people would our village have lost? We might have become the second Shanyang Village!"

When Ayu was found, every household was already tightening their belts, and they could only hold on for two more days before they collapsed.

If it weren't for the giant python alleviating some of the famine, they might have really been dragged into the ravine by Shanyang Village.

"In short, Lord Zhang said that Ayu's original family wanted her to die." Without looking at anyone else, Old Lady Wang said directly to Village Chief Hu, "Ayu was already young and petite. We reported her as two years old, and the registrar there didn't say anything wrong with it."

If you try to change it now, people will inevitably ask why you got the child's age wrong, and then bring up the issue of finding or adopting a child.

What if their original family finds out? And if they're even more heartless, they might come after them demanding the child back and abandon him in some remote mountain forest...

Everyone realized this and couldn't help but shudder. They had seen the evil in human nature before.

"If that's the case..." Old Master Hu didn't finish his sentence.

The elder of the Hu family stroked his beard and said, "What do you mean 'picked up'? Wasn't that child your fourth daughter-in-law's own? Logically speaking, she's been married for three years now, and her daughter is two years old. That's just the right age, isn't it, Old Ma?"

The elder of the Ma family standing next to him froze. Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him, he opened his mouth again and again, but couldn't utter a single word.

Finally, he simply stood up, turned around, and left.

Clan Chief Hu followed behind and asked, "Grandpa Ma, what do you think of this—"

"What do you mean, 'what do you mean'? What happens to Old Wang's granddaughter is none of my business!" Old Ma said angrily, quickening his pace and leaving in the blink of an eye.

Village Chief Hu: "..." You might as well just say that Ayu is Old Wang's biological daughter!

After he left, Grandma Wang asked Dr. Hu, "Can all doctors tell exactly how old a child is?"

"That's not entirely true." Dr. Hu was, after all, just a country doctor with limited experience, so he could only say cautiously, "The old doctor who taught me once said that most people who have formally studied medicine will also learn how to assess bone age. However, once a child is over 7 years old, bone age is not so easy to measure and cannot be accurately determined."

Old Mrs. Wang remembered these words and didn't ask any more questions. Instead, she gave Doctor Hu a small amount of silver and said to him, "Our Ayu is a little weak. Can you prescribe some medicine to help her recover?"

After receiving the loose change, Dr. Hu was about to go home to write a prescription.

He didn't intend to make more money off the Wang family; he simply calculated the cost price and prescribed a medicine for Ayu that was effective but not too expensive. Fearing the child might find it bitter, he added some licorice root.

When Xiao Ayu ran home, she found that the steamed buns had only just been put in the steamer and were still quite a while away from being cooked.

She planned to ask her mother for some food to take to her grandmother, but Wang Wulang ran back from outside.

"Ayu, there's a lot of plowing today, let's go collect loaches!" Wang Wulang called to her with a grin. Before little Ayu could answer, a strange voice suddenly asked, "Are you Ayu?"

Little Ayu turned around and saw people standing outside the bamboo fence, two of whom were adults.

A man of about thirty, with a little boy standing next to him, and a small baby tied up on his back.

The other one, who looked only fifteen or sixteen, had a round belly and was supporting his waist with one hand and the bamboo fence with the other.

Little Ayu looked at them again and again, but they didn't look familiar at all.

[Baby, run! This is a stranger!]

If you encounter a stranger, do not speak; look for an adult.

This is something Tuanzi often says to her.

Xiao Ayu turned and walked away, bumping into Wang Wulang who was following her, and the two of them fell to the ground.

"Ouch! Ayu, are you alright?" Wang Wulang, ignoring his sore knee, rushed to help little Ayu.

Hearing the commotion, the people inside came out to see what was happening and found several people standing outside.

Seeing a number of people leaving Old Wang's house one after another, the two women had obvious fear in their eyes.

The young woman even considered leaving immediately.

The older one, however, knelt down directly in front of everyone, his forehead slamming into the ground with a "thud," startling everyone.

What happened?

"Sister, you—"

As soon as Liu opened her mouth, the older woman began to sob, repeatedly pleading, "Ayu, please, please spare our family! Please, have mercy on us and let us go!"

The elderly woman banged her head hard on the ground, and pulled the little boy next to her to kneel down as well.

The little boy was extremely unwilling, and his eyes were filled with resentment as he stared at Xiao Ayu, who was struggling to get up.

The young woman also knelt down slowly, leaning against the bamboo fence, tears streaming down her face before she could speak. Looking at Ayu, she said, "Ayu, please spare us for the sake of my unborn child."

【What's going on?】 Not to mention Xiao Ayu, even Tuanzi was confused.

What kind of operation is this?
Little Ayu was a little frightened and turned to run to Liu's side, saying, "Mother, I'm scared!"

These people frightened her.

Seeing that his daughter was frightened, Wang Chuanman stepped forward and chopped at the dead tree root next to him with his machete.

"Are you here to cause trouble in our house? Where did you come from? What are you doing here? What are you saying to our Ayu? Speak!"

The older woman was startled and stopped speaking, but tears continued to flow.

Anyone who didn't know better would think that the Wang family had done something to her.

After a long pause, the young woman finally said, "We are from Shanyang Village..."

(End of this chapter)