Zhao Hu's face was gloomy. "Auntie, how can you be so good at accusing others? You know that someone bullied Goudaner without asking anything?

"You just don't believe me and my niece. Master Jiu and Master Youde are still here. Why don't you ask them?"

Chen hugged Goudaner in her arms, and after a few words of comfort, she asked in a harsh tone, "What happened? My Goudaner is the most well-behaved child!"

Uncle Chen Jiu said coldly: "Your most well-behaved Gou Daner wanted to steal the malt sugar from the kid, but he ran too fast and fell on the ground. His teeth were knocked out by himself.

"You can't blame my hard ground, right? Besides, his tooth was almost falling out anyway."

Chen was speechless.

Feng Youde cursed, "You damned old woman! You're just talking nonsense without asking any questions! Why don't you take Goudan out with you?"

Chen was dissatisfied and glared at An An fiercely: "You are just a worthless little brat! Why don't you give the candy to Gou Daner?"

He wanted to curse again, but he choked back on a mouthful of spit and couldn't help coughing violently. In just a moment, his face turned purple and he couldn't stand up straight.

An An looked calm and said, "You deserve it. Who told you to have ill will towards me?"

Zhao Hu stood up holding An An and said coldly to Feng Youde, "Uncle, I'm leaving first. I know your attitude."

"Hey, hey, hey," Feng Youde quickly reached out to pull him, "Why do you take this ignorant old woman's nonsense seriously?"

He pushed Chen hard again, "Stop showing off here! Get out now!"

Chen held her breath, and her vision went dark. With this push, she fell face down to the ground.

Zhao Hu hugged An An and jumped to the side, shouting, "Master Jiu, testify, this has nothing to do with us!"

Feng Youde was also startled, and quickly let go of Zhao Hu and changed from pushing to pulling, grabbing Chen's arm.

Only then did Chen breathe a sigh of relief. Her face was covered with snot and tears, and her head was buzzing.

"Nephew, is your niece-in-law sick?" Uncle Chen Jiu said hurriedly, "Help her into the house and let her lie down for a while. Give her some hot water!"

Then he gave Zhao Hu a wink, and Zhao Hu quickly carried An An away.

Feng Youde couldn't care less about him at the moment and hurriedly helped Chen into the house. Chen's appearance of being on the verge of death was truly frightening. As for Gou'er, who had been crying loudly, he was frightened and dared not cry anymore. He just stood there sobbing in grievance.

But when Zhao Hu and his nephew walked a distance, Zhao Hu couldn't help laughing. "Tsk, tsk, tsk, this is karma! Serves you right!"

An An also laughed and asked innocently, "Uncle, what is 'retribution in this life'?"

"Hey! Don't ask such questions, little kid!" Zhao Hu said briskly. "Let's go trap sparrows! Catch a few and have your mother fry them for us. I tell you, they're delicious!"

An An slurped his saliva: "Great, great!"

After returning home, the two men used short wooden sticks to prop up a bamboo sieve in the yard, tied ropes to the sticks, and sprinkled a little bit of chaff under the sieve. The uncle and nephew then hid behind the straw curtains of the mushroom shed, with only two heads, one big and one small, showing through the gap.

Soon a sparrow landed, looked around, and hopped under the bamboo sieve to eat the chaff. While eating, it looked up vigilantly.

An An hurriedly urged: "Uncle, pull the rope quickly!"

"No hurry, no hurry," Zhao Hu said very experiencedly, "Wait a little longer."

Seven or eight sparrows soon gathered under the bamboo sieve. Zhao Hu then pulled the rope around his hand hard, and the wooden stick was pulled down. The bamboo sieve fell down, and except for one sparrow that had escaped by chance, the rest were covered.

The two of them ran out excitedly, took out the sparrows from under the bamboo sieve, put them into a small cloth bag, and then went to the backyard excitedly.

An An rushed straight into the main room, while Zhao Hu went to the kitchen to wait.

Soon, An An dragged Aunt Zhao into the kitchen.

"You two are so naughty," Aunt Zhao scolded as she went to the stove to light the fire. "How much meat can that little sparrow have? It's not even enough to fill our stomachs. Do we need your meat?"

Zhao Hu chuckled: "Isn't this just a change of taste?"

"Grandma," An An shook her arm and acted coquettishly, "I haven't eaten yet!"

Qin Ying came in through the curtain and asked Zhao Hu, "How's it going? What did Master Youde say to you?"

Zhao Hu recounted the story, pouting, "How can there be such shameless people? They're so eager to reach into other people's pockets to take food, and then they blame them for not giving it to them!"

Aunt Zhao's face also turned cold: "Otherwise, how did their family have so much money in the past?"

"Master Zhou is here," Qin Ying said calmly, "They can't be so arrogant."

Zhao Hu pouted and said, "Sister, they want to enter the rabbit farm, don't agree!"

"Bah!" Aunt Zhao spat. "Do you really think I'm a pushover?"

Qin Ying smiled faintly: "Don't worry, it's not like these people who have returned are completely unable to enter the rabbit farm, but forget about any of Feng Youde's family members."

Xu Xia's voice came from the front yard. Zhao Hu jumped up and said, "Looking for me, I'll go and take a look!" Then he ran out.

Seeing that he was in high spirits, Xu Xia smiled and said, "The master is looking for you. Come with me."

"Brother Xu, what's up?" Zhao Hu asked with a smile, "Does the master have an errand for me to run?"

"Probably not," Xu Xia said, "It's freezing cold, what can we do?"

As they were talking, they arrived at the next yard and entered Zhou Yu's study. Zhao Hu bowed to Zhou Yu in a formal manner. Zhou Yu nodded and motioned him to sit down and talk. Xu Xia brought in two cups of hot water and then left.

Zhou Yu then asked, "I heard Feng Youde wanted to talk to you? Did you take An An with you? Did you suffer any loss?"

"No," Zhao Hu chuckled and recounted what happened. "It's hilarious!"

Zhou Yu's eyes flashed with a hint of coldness, "Okay, I understand. I will take care of the placement of these people.

"Go back and tell your sister that no matter who comes to you for help, just give in for now and wait for my news."

Zhao Hu quickly agreed, then turned bitter, "Sir, to be honest, Feng Youde is a bully in this village.

"The Feng family is a wealthy local family with a strong sense of unity. In the past, no one dared to provoke them, and if they were bullied, they had to endure it, otherwise they would suffer the consequences.

"Someone in their family is a high-ranking official outside...

"It's fine while you're here, but you can't stay in Tongshu Village forever. If that happens, I'm afraid everyone's life will be the same as before."

He sighed, feeling deeply worried: "By then, the rabbit farm will also have to be named Feng, the pigs in the pigpen will also have to be named Feng, and the livestock working the fields will still have to be named Feng...

"Who knows, our Zhao family might even be driven out of the village!"

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