As expected, Hu Yongcai's family did not disappoint Fang Yan. Overnight, the whole village knew that Zhang Weicheng had eaten in Fucheng.
"That Fucheng, is it the best-looking restaurant in our county?"
"Yes, that's the restaurant. I heard that if you order stir-fried vegetables with only three or five slices of meat and a bowl of rice, it costs ten yuan."
"My God! Isn't the Zhang family so poor that they can't afford meat even once a week? How could Zhang Weicheng have the money to eat in Fucheng?"
"That's right, the Zhang family is so poor that they're even trying to extort money from the third son's family, but their eldest grandson can treat his classmates to dinner in Fucheng, and he even treated two of them. How much money does that cost?"
"I heard it cost almost fifty yuan! Fifty yuan! That's really extravagant!"
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A collective gasp of pain rippled through the room, followed by a question: "It would be difficult for Zhang to come up with fifty yuan right now, wouldn't it? So where did this brat from the Zhang family get his money?"
"Hey, I suddenly feel like it's a bit strange that the kid was deliberately saying to Little Fish that his mother didn't have to work hard or get tired after eating Doni."
“Look, Xiaoyuzai and Qibei were just bitten by snakes, and he immediately had money to go to Fucheng to treat people to a meal. He went for two days in a row, and he went again today. I saw it when I passed by the entrance of Fucheng after selling eggs.”
After saying that, Hu Yongcai's wife gave a belated look, "Oh dear, look at my big mouth, I always speak without thinking. As you all know, I haven't read many books, this is just my own wild guess."
Well, it doesn't matter if it's just wild speculation or wild guessing.
The important thing is to connect Zhang Weicheng's ability to afford to eat at Fucheng with the fact that Xiaoyuzai and Qibei were bitten by snakes.
In a rural area, and not in a courtroom, why would such strictness be necessary?
Once this possibility is made clear, people will stop caring about whether there is evidence and start using their imagination to spread the word far and wide.
Fang Yan hasn't paid attention to this matter since she returned yesterday.
Because she believed that Hu Yongcai's family would definitely be able to handle this matter properly.
Yesterday, when Fang Yan returned, Chu Chun and Chu Xia hadn't gone back yet, so she settled their wages and gave them a piece of pork weighing about a pound and a small piece of chicken. "Tomorrow is the festival, so let's celebrate by adding a couple of dishes and having something nice to eat."
Pig's head meat and pig intestines, etc., are always served to them every few days.
However, since tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, Fang Yan didn't send them pig's head and pig intestines anymore, but instead sent them pork and chicken.
"Third Aunt..." Chu Chun didn't dare to raise her hand to receive it.
The main reason is that they have received far too much care from Fang Yan during this period.
Take firewood, for example; there are people in the village who specialize in selling firewood.
But Fang Yan never bought from them; she always insisted that she and her brother go up the mountain to collect firewood and sell it to her.
The firewood she and her brother collected was clearly not as good as the firewood sold by professional firewood sellers.
But Fang Yan paid the market price.
Early spring and early summer knew that this was Fang Yan taking care of them in her own way.
"Take it. My business will definitely grow bigger and bigger in the future, and I'll need more and more firewood. I'll also need your help with more and more work. You two need to take good care of yourselves so you can help me, right?"
Fang Yan stuffed the wages and meat into her hand.
She had considered whether to sponsor their education for a few years.
Later, I learned that because their family was so poor, they were both teenagers, but they had never even stepped into a primary school classroom.
Moreover, Chu Chun is preoccupied with her thoughts, and Chu Xia is too active and lively, not the type of person who can settle down to study.
She simply didn't mention it.
Within my own capabilities, and without raising these two innocent children to harbor any wolfish ambitions, I will help them as much as possible.
"Thank you, Third Aunt!"
Chu Chun accepted the money and meat, and together with Chu Xia, thanked Fang Yan, saying, "If you're too busy, just come and call us anytime."
On the way back, Chu Xia looked at the pork and chicken in her hands and said to Chu Chun, "Sister, I think we are so lucky to have met such a good person as Third Aunt. Now we can still eat meat every two or three days. If we hadn't met Third Aunt, I don't know what kind of life we would be living."
"If it weren't for my third aunt, we would probably only have one bowl of porridge a day. We wouldn't be full, but we wouldn't starve either."
“I also think it must be like that, so I am especially grateful to my third aunt,” said thirteen-year-old Chu Xia gratefully.
Since their parents passed away, Fang Yan wasn't the only one who helped them, but what others gave them were things they didn't need or things with defects.
Of course, there are good things occasionally, but such cases are rare.
Moreover, the pitying looks in their eyes when they gave her things always made Chu Xia feel very uncomfortable.
Chu Xia had never been to school, and he couldn't explain what the bad feeling in his heart was.
However, he never had such feelings with Fang Yan's help.
Fang Yan's help made him feel very comfortable, that kind of comfort...
How should I put it?
It's a very open and honest feeling.
"Sister, we must remember that Third Aunt helped us!"
Chu Chun turned to look at her younger brother and earnestly instructed him, "Zhang Chuxia, no matter how well or poorly we live in the future, remember what you said today. Third Aunt is a good person, and we must remember her kindness."
Fang Yan had no idea that the siblings had been muttering to each other all the way back.
In early spring, I helped her clean all the pork and intestines, and we had lunch in Fucheng.
Once Fang Yan has coaxed the baby to sleep, she can sit down and properly sort out the information she has gathered today.
Getting your little one to take a nap is simple: lie down with him, have a contest to see who can keep their eyes closed and not say a word, and whoever speaks first loses.
In less than ten minutes, the little guy was fast asleep, soundly sleeping like a little piglet.
Looking at her sweet sleeping face, Fang Yan leaned over and kissed her, then got up, went into the kitchen, found a piece of paper and a pen, turned around and went back to the room, sat down, and began to write down the jumbled information in her mind, one by one...
First, Gao Meijiao and Li Ermei came one after another to remind her to take good care of Xiaoyuzai.
Later, after meeting Fang Baishuang at the police station, Fang Yan believed that Gao Meijiao and Li Ermei's reminders were deliberately meant to divert her attention, focusing on Xiaoyuzai while ignoring other things or people.
In reality, they were trying to mislead the enemy.
Even now, Fang Yan still believes that her thoughts at the time were not wrong.
But the truth is, Little Fish and Qibei were lured up the mountain and bitten by snakes.
Zhang Weicheng, who led them up the mountain, was wealthy and frequented the high-end shopping district of Fucheng at will.
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