When Zhou Yongkang left the Xu family, his old face was all wrinkled from smiling so much that many people on the street asked him what was wrong.

He only said it was a good thing, a great thing, but he didn't specify what it was.

However, just a few days later, someone from the government came to the Xu family and said that they were being rewarded for the waterwheel. Only then did the villagers realize that the Xu family's waterwheel was so powerful that it not only benefited the crops but also earned them a reward from the government.

Of course, that's all in hindsight; today, the Xu family is in complete chaos.

Yang originally planned to go to the Xu family's house first to wait for Xu Genshan and the others to return, and then help them out by looking at the recipe for making braised food.

When he arrived, the Xu family's door was ajar. He pushed the door open and called out several times, but no one answered.

"That's strange, where did this person go?" They went to the main room and the kitchen, but there was no one there either.

However, she did not immediately back out because of the people. At this moment, an idea suddenly came to her mind: since no one from the Xu family was home, it was a good opportunity to look at the braised food.

Thinking this, she went into the kitchen again. It was just like an ordinary family kitchen, but when she saw the few pieces of meat hanging on the bamboo pole, Yang couldn't help herself.

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She remembered the meat that her family had been forced to take that day, and she was determined to take two pieces with her later.

Finding nothing in the front yard, she closed the gate slightly and prepared to go to the back yard, but unexpectedly, this scene was seen by Wang Erni, who had just run over from outside.

She jogged to Fu Man'er's side, where Fu Man'er was helping Lu Sheng wash wild vegetables by the stream. Ever since they met in the back mountain, she had been sticking to him whenever she saw him on the road.

"Man'er, Man'er, your house has been robbed!" Wang Erni shouted as she ran.

"Huh?" Fu Man'er stood up abruptly and ran towards Wang Erni.

"I... I just saw someone lock your gate, but it wasn't someone from your family," Wang Erni said, breathless from running.

"What should I do? My parents and grandma aren't home, and Brother Xu and the others haven't come back yet." She was startled when she saw it and didn't know what to do, so she ran over to find Fu Man'er.

"Let's go catch the thief!" Fu Man'er, emboldened by some unknown source, picked up a small wooden stick from the ground and ran home.

Wang Erni was stunned for a moment, then ran over too. Catching a thief—it sounded really exciting.

Lu Sheng, who was not far from them, hurriedly packed the wild vegetables into his basket, not caring that the vegetables were still dripping with water, and went to catch up with Fu Man'er and the others.

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As Fu Man'er ran, she called over all the children playing by the roadside, and soon there were more than a dozen children gathered around the Xu family's door.

"Man'er, shall we go in?" Wang Erni asked beside her, her eyes burning with rage. As soon as Fu Man'er spoke, she would rush in.

"We'll be quiet." Fu Man'er made a shushing gesture to everyone, and went to the door first. She looked through the crack in the door and saw that there was no one in the courtyard.

She skillfully and deftly pushed the door open without making a sound, then entered the yard, followed by the children.

He chased after them, afraid something might happen, and even told the adults he met before rushing over.

Yang did find a makeshift hut in the backyard, but it was locked and she couldn't see anything, so she returned to the front yard dejectedly.

With those few pieces of meat on her mind, she decided to go and take them down first, putting them in her own hands. When the Xu family returned, they would have no choice but to give them to her. Once something was in her hands, she couldn't take it back.

Just as he was feeling smug, he stepped out of the kitchen and saw a group of children standing in the yard. "Catch the thief! Catch the thief!" Fu Man'er, who was in the lead, shouted the loudest, and the children behind her shouted along with her.

Madam Yang's expression froze for only a moment before returning to normal. "You brat, what are you saying? I'm your second grandmother." She had thought these little brats were playing some kind of game.

The children in the courtyard were stunned. "Man'er, this is your second grandmother, not a thief." Wang Erni never expected that the thief she thought was Yang Shi was actually her.

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Fu Man'er said with a serious little face, "No, you're not my second grandma, you're a thief, you stole my meat." Her uncle had told her that taking something without asking is stealing.

The children all saw the meat that Yang was carrying. "It's true! She's a thief. She stole meat from Man'er's house."

Yang's face was sour. "You wretched girl, if you keep talking nonsense, I'll tear your mouth apart." As she spoke, she reached out towards Fu Man'er's face. Looking at the chubby little girl's face, she had wanted to pinch her for a long time.

Fu Man'er dodged away with a slight movement, shouting incessantly, "Thief! Thief! Catch the thief! Catch the thief!"

As soon as she shouted, the children shouted back, making a lot of noise. Yang felt a little flustered, but she couldn't bear to part with the two large pieces of meat in her hands.

She planned to take the meat away before the others arrived, shouting, "Get out of here, get out of here, you brats!"

These children were all quite small, and her plump body kept bumping around, almost knocking them away. Fu Man'er couldn't let anyone escape.

"Sister Lusheng, go and call my grandfather!" Fu Man'er called out and went up to pull on Yang's trouser leg. "You're not allowed to leave. You stole my things."

Yang didn't take her seriously and tried to kick her to shake her off, but she couldn't lift her leg, as if a stone was tied to it.

Looking down, she saw Fu Man'er tightly hugging her legs with both little hands, her little face full of stubbornness.

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"Let go, you brat!" Madam Yang was anxious and reached out to pull Fu Man'er's hand, but the hands were clasped together and Madam Yang had pulled them until they were red and raw, and she couldn't pull them apart.

Seeing this, Wang Erni reached out and slapped Yang's hand, saying, "You're a thief, I won't let you leave."

Her few slaps were like tickling Yang Shi, and Yang Shi even pushed her away. Wang Erni, pathetically, shed tears.

Fu Man'er called out to her, "Erni, go and call all the adults around here."

Upon hearing this, Yang was furious. Unable to pry Fu Man'er's hands off, she pinched her face. Fu Man'er was in pain and tears welled up in her eyes. Suddenly, the children around them gathered around.

For a moment, Yang was like a tree covered with monkeys of all sizes. In order to deal with these monkeys, she even stopped taking the meat, just to free her hands.

When Fu Man'er saw the meat thrown aside, her eyes immediately welled up with tears. It was meat from her family's meat, the meat her mother had said she would make dumplings for her today.

Enraged, she began to exert force in her hands, and Yang felt not only pain in her legs, but also pain in her bones.

The pain made her irritable. At the same time, the adults nearby arrived. Seeing the situation, they didn't care about asking any questions. The most important thing was to remove the monkey from Yang's body.

The children cried and shouted, and for a while the yard was filled with noise, but at least the children came down.

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Only Fu Man'er held onto Yang's leg the whole time, but despite weighing nearly 200 pounds, she couldn't lift her leg.

"You wretched girl." Before anyone else could take Fu Man'er away, Madam Yang grabbed Fu Man'er's hair with one hand and pinched her face with the other, her eyes filled with malice.

"Stop!" A shout suddenly came from the doorway.