Farming with kids: My deceased husband returns and I spoil him rotten.

"Meng Zizhou, you'd better behave yourself. I'm doing this for your own good!"

After yelling at him impatiently, Meng Fengzhu ordered the constables, "Go, take him away right now. I don't want to see this brat!"

The constables had no choice but to cautiously approach and invite him.

Meng Zizhou knew he was powerless to change the outcome, and since he wasn't particularly opposed to it, he acquiesced.

Sure enough, the constable, accompanied by Meng Zizhou, rode at full speed and intercepted Gu Yu on his way back to the village.

Seeing Meng Zizhou again was something Gu Yuji was extremely unwilling to do.

But the kid grinned at him and said, "Master, I behaved well the past few days. Can you be nicer to me from now on? Don't work me to death, okay?"

Gu Yu's face darkened, and the constable, seeing this, spoke in a gentle tone: "It's like this, Young Master Zhao, this is also Lord Meng's idea. He was thinking of having you take care of the young master for a few more days. It just so happens that things aren't quite peaceful in the village right now, and he was thinking of having the young master take this opportunity to help out."

When Gu Yu led Meng Zizhou back home, Shang Qing wasn't particularly surprised.

As soon as Xi'er saw him, she immediately skipped and hopped towards him, even begging him to hold her.

"You little rascal, you seem to be quite popular with our Xi'er. She cried her eyes out when she heard you left this morning. We finally managed to calm her down, and then you showed up."

Lao Zong teased him.

Taking advantage of the situation, Meng Zizhou softened his tone and said to Shang Qing, "This time I came to help because my father told me to, not to do hard labor for you. Don't try to work me to death."

Shang Qing couldn't help but chuckle: "Although I don't really want to embarrass you, I want to say something fair. Actually, the work you did yesterday, which you think is a lot, is the daily workload of a normal young man in our village. Because of your status, Cheng Cai didn't dare to assign you any too difficult work."

Meng Zizhou looked a little embarrassed, but he quickly regained his usual arrogance.

"Of course I'm different from them, don't compare me to him!"

Shang Qing smiled but didn't say anything.

Just then, Pan'er and Nian'er returned from picking vegetables on the mountain.

"Mom, do you know what? Our vegetables have been stolen!"

Pan'er was furious, and her little face turned bright red.

Nian'er put the basket in her hand on the ground and muttered, "We didn't have much of this vegetable left, and a lot of it was stolen, so we only picked this little bit to bring back."

Shang Qing's face remained expressionless; he simply told the two of them to carry the vegetable baskets to the kitchen.

Meng Zizhou got anxious: "Who would dare? Who would dare steal our vegetables? This is ridiculous. How come people steal vegetables these days? Don't we all grow our own?"

Lao Zong couldn't help but tease him: "You live in our village, yet you don't even know what's going on in our village."

Shang Qing frowned slightly and said, "With your intelligence, you must know why they're stealing vegetables, right? Why don't you think about it carefully?"

After pondering for a moment, Meng Zizhou came to a general idea of ​​the current situation in the village.

"Oh, I see! It's a time of food shortage right now, and my dad told me that this morning too."

This child's reaction is quite slow.

However, this also reflects that he has always been well-off, a situation he may never experience in his life.

So Shang Qing didn't say anything about it, but simply agreed with his statement.

Lao Zong was also quite helpless: "I know everyone is having a hard time right now, but even if it's tough, you can't do something like this, right? If you don't have any food, you can just come to our house and say so, and we won't stop you from taking it. Stealing is just annoying."

Isn't that exactly the point?

Suddenly, Lao Zong said mysteriously, "Hey, do you think it might have been Jiang Yingyue who did it?"

Shang Qing retorted, "That's not necessarily true; it's hard to say for sure about these things."

"I'll go door to door right now and maybe I'll be able to recognize them!"

Meng Zizhou was about to leave when Gu Yu grabbed him.

Lao Zong burst into laughter: "Young master, you're really funny. Do you think you can find them like this? All these vegetables look exactly the same. How are you going to find them? Do you have names written on your vegetables?"

Shang Qing stroked his chin and thought for a while before suggesting, "How about this, brother, let's go up the mountain together later and build a fence around those vegetables. That way, it'll keep them out a bit."

Lao Zong and Gu Yu nodded in agreement at the same time, and Meng Zizhou followed them.

Before going, Shang Qing logged into the system and bought some electric fences. Fences alone wouldn't be enough to stop them, but with electric fences, it would be a different story; they'd be caught every time.

After Gu Yu and Lao Zong finished their work, Meng Zizhou looked at the low fence in front of him and said with suppressed laughter, "Are you guys kidding me? How can such a low fence possibly keep people out?"

Without saying a word, Shang Qing set up the electric fence that he had prepared beforehand.

"This was given to me by Boss Jin. He said it can deter thieves. It's electrified. When someone passes by and touches it, it will discharge electricity. I heard that Boss Jin found this from a very far place, and it has helped him catch quite a few thieves."

Fortunately, all three of them believed her and didn't think too much about it.

After the electric fence was installed, Meng Zizhou volunteered, "Here's what we'll do: you all go back first, I'll guard this place alone. That guy will definitely come back to steal again when he sees we're not pursuing it, and then I'll catch him all in one fell swoop!"

Seeing his confident demeanor, Shang Qing agreed, but also cautioned, "Stay away and don't come near me out of boredom. I won't be responsible if you get electrocuted."

Meng Zizhou, however, was quite confident in himself: "Just you wait and see. After I catch him, I'll send him home. I even prepared a sack when I came."

After giving him repeated instructions, Shang Qing finally felt relieved and left with Gu Yu and the others.

So Meng Zizhou stayed there and waited. He first played with the flowers and plants around him out of boredom, and then hummed a little tune. But after nearly an hour, no one came.

Finally, just as he was about to fall asleep, he heard a noise.

Just as he was about to get up, he heard several cries of agony coming from the fence not far away.

When he got close enough, before the person lying on the ground could react, Meng Zizhou simply put the sack over his head and dragged him all the way home.

Once they got home and entered the courtyard, Meng Zizhou looked at Shang Qing triumphantly and said, "Look at me, I've brought this person back for you. Aren't I amazing?"