ushernet Chapter 177 During the Ancient Escape, Do Not Disturb 2
Chapter 177 During the Ancient Escape, Do Not Disturb 2
After using the calming incense, I slept soundly without any dreams.
Zhou Fengping and the three children, who had been woken up by hunger, walked out of the house.
Another new day.
Before dawn, Zhou Fengping pretended not to see the old bundle at the base of the wall in his house.
This was thrown in by Lin Qiuniang last night.
Inside were a letter, a few pieces of cloth, "duck biscuits" from Hope City, several silver rings and earrings, and a half-new water sac.
In the dead of night, as Granny Yi carried Lin Qiuniang into Wangshan Village to deliver things, Zhou Fengping was also busy outside.
He sprinkled a little diluted spiritual spring rain into the deep mountains.
Overnight, a lot of mushrooms and wild vegetables sprouted.
Fearing that Zhou Fengping would refuse to take them out, Zhou Tian spoke first.
"Dad, let's go find something to eat together today..."
"Second Uncle, Brother Datian is right, it'll be better if we go together, there will be more people."
The original owner was exploring the mountain a few days ago, which is why he didn't bring anyone with him, which led to these kids misunderstanding.
"Alright, we'll go together this time, but you can't sneak out on your own. There are wild animals in the mountains that will eat people if they get hungry."
After patting each of them on the shoulder, Zhou Fengping put his eight-year-old son, Zhou Mai, into his basket and quietly led his men away.
The bundle will be discovered when someone returns.
Then I can tell the child about Lin Qiuniang and Liu Fang.
When the original owner had silver coins, he even took his nephew to find a middleman to inquire about his sister-in-law's whereabouts.
The middleman didn't try to fob him off with a few copper coins, but instead told him directly that the master wouldn't release the man anytime soon.
After all, Liu Fang was bought to work, cook, and give birth to a son.
Without thinking further, Zhou Fengping led his men out the door quietly.
When it comes to grabbing things, you always have to be there before others.
With a child on his back and two teenagers by his hand, he finally arrived at the place where he had artificially rained the night before, just as dawn broke.
Without needing any instructions, Zhou Tian and the others immediately started digging for wild vegetables.
The tonic that Zhou Fengping secretly gave someone in the middle of the night wasn't wasted.
As for why the original owner wasn't brought home yesterday, they've already come up with a reason: it must be because they arrived late and there were too many people in the woods.
Or maybe it didn't rain yesterday, so the vegetables didn't sprout.
It's definitely not a problem with my biological father/second uncle.
That's great. Zhou Fengping loves family members who have such vivid imaginations.
Zhou Fengping didn't go digging for wild vegetables, but he didn't let himself be idle either.
Sure enough, he looked down and found wild eggs in the grass. He found five of them, which would be perfect for breakfast.
Hey, when doing tasks, you have to learn to arrange your own benefits.
He mentally gloated as he started a fire to roast the eggs.
It made Zhou Mai, who was not far away, drool.
When Zhou Gu bent down, all his drool dripped into the basket. He reached out to tidy it up and realized that something felt wrong.
...
While the eggs were baking, Zhou Fengping watched the farce unfold at the home of the man who had reported Zhou Shusheng at the foot of the mountain.
Psychological suggestion is quite effective.
The family that planned to file a complaint with the county government was surnamed Niu.
After waking up, the Niu family members collectively became hysterical and would easily ignite, fighting each other at home until they were bruised and swollen.
The one with the least severe injuries is estimated to be able to get out of bed in three days.
As for Zhou Shusheng, he had a prophetic dream in which he was burned to death, and his widowed mother and younger sister were sold to some unknown place by the villagers.
He couldn't stand staying in Wangshan Village any longer.
Thinking about that dream made him feel like his whole body was covered in blisters and aching.
With the wind blowing hard, it's best to pack up and leave with your family beforehand.
All I can say is that Zhou Shusheng has a really good attitude.
I dreamt that I was burned to death, but when I woke up, I simply ran away and didn't even think about rushing to take revenge.
He only regretted telling the villagers about Hope City. He hadn't harmed anyone but himself, and he had also harmed his mother and younger sister.
I must never do such a thing again.
Zhou Shusheng was rational and clear-headed.
Unfortunately, it was destroyed by the plague-stricken beasts of the Niu family.
Their reason for reporting him, besides the reward, was that Zhou Shusheng had refused to lend his primer to the Niu family's grandson.
To describe taking something for free in such a refined and elegant way...
However, his family did not live a good life even after receiving the reward.
Two days after Zhou Shusheng was burned to death, the villagers divided up Zhou's family's wealth, and then the Niu family was scouted and robbed clean, including the few old books that were secretly taken from Zhou Shusheng's house.
They went back to poverty overnight.
The county magistrate's subordinates are truly capable and hardworking.
The village elders and the head of the village guessed who was behind it, but following the villagers' lead, they said it was the work of local thugs from the county government.
In any case, whether it's local thugs or the henchmen of officials, the Niu family doesn't dare to mess with them.
The reason for using burning at the stake was simply because the allure of Hope City was too great for the common people.
Population loss also affects political performance.
The county magistrate was too lazy to bother finding someone to give a lecture.
It would be much easier to just burn them to death. Killing the chicken to scare the monkeys would also frighten those peasants and prevent them from causing trouble for themselves by not having enough to eat.
It's just a random judgment anyway.
After all, the county magistrate was extremely busy, trying to curry favor with his superiors in hopes of getting a promotion.
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After eating the wild eggs and extinguishing the fire completely, Zhou Fengping led the three down the mountain.
More and more villagers are coming out to dig for wild vegetables.
It was obvious that it had rained in the mountains; the air and soil were damp. Early risers didn't care whether there were man-eating wild animals deep in the mountains.
Carrying a basket on his back, he headed into the deep mountains, afraid that if he was too slow and arrived too late, he wouldn't be able to grab a single hair.
Didn't you see that Zhou Fengping had already finished digging and gone home?
If we wait for the villagers from the neighboring village to dig over as well, they might start fighting.
Let's finish grabbing the loot and go home as soon as possible.
Zhou Tian and his two companions were a little nervous. As they walked home, they pursed their lips and gripped their hoes tightly in their hands, worried that the lazy bums and scoundrels in the village might rob them.
However, it's possible that the original owner's fierce fighting spirit yesterday still lingered.
No one came over to join the fun right now. The weather wasn't so dry that there was no food, and it wasn't worth risking your life to grab wild vegetables.
...
After leaving his basket at home, Zhou Fengping went out again, this time taking Zhou Tian and Zhou Gu to the fields to harvest grain.
It's really hard to fetch enough water for farming from the stream at the village entrance now. This has led to several fights between Wangshan Village and the neighboring village over this issue.
Seeing Zhou Fengping and his family busy at work, some villagers murmured that none of the Zhou family members had any experience and dared to mess around with farming.
Ignoring what others said, Zhou Fengping simply led his two sons to work in silence.
Zhou Mai was assigned to stay home and guard the house, so she didn't have any free time.
Like a spinning top, he kept going around and around the house until he spotted a large bundle at the base of the wall. He went over, picked it up, shook off the dust, and then opened it.
Upon seeing a letter inside the bundle, I stopped opening it.
Instead, it was placed in a prominent place to wait for the father to return.
Only his father in the family could barely recognize a few characters with missing limbs.
Lin Qiuniang, who was delivering the bundle in the middle of the night, sneezed one after another, while her sister-in-law Liu Fang, who was as cheerful as ever, was beside her.
However, she was still a little worried.
"Should we just leave a letter and not wait for them?"
Lin Qiuniang, however, spoke bluntly.
"Given our current status, who among us, men, and children could accept this? Let's just pretend we're men working hard outside. I've already sent quite a bit of stuff to the Zhou family..."