"The Zhang family is a bunch of scoundrels!"
Hu Yongcai's family member was talking animatedly as they recounted to Fang Yan what had happened in the village the day before...
“When the news of your arrest spread back to the village, the Zhang family immediately jumped out and said that you were a heartless and vicious woman who beat Zhang Weicheng up like that for no reason.”
“And then there’s Old Zhang’s stepmother,” Huang Hongmei was not well-liked in Gouzi Village, and no one wanted to give her a respectful title. “At first, she also came out to scold you, and the things she said were really nasty.”
"Later, someone came and took Zhang Laowu away. Then someone else came and took Li Ermei and Gao Meijiao away as well. She then started cursing you, saying you were a jinx, and that the Zhang family was incredibly unlucky to have married you."
"Aunt De, Aunt Wang, and a few of us, all of us went together and cursed those two families until they dared not utter another word."
"What rubbish! Everyone in the village knows about Zhang Weicheng's situation!"
He's only a teenager, yet he dares to rob people from his own village. If he grows a few more years older and becomes taller and stronger, he might even dare to kill people, let alone rob them.
This kind of person should be sent to jail this time! It'll save him from continuing to harm the people in our village.”
After tomorrow, Fang Yan did indeed plan to send Zhang Weicheng to prison.
However, Zhang Weicheng is not yet eighteen years old, so it's uncertain whether he can be convicted.
I vaguely remember that the Law on the Protection of Minors was enacted in the twenties.
So Zhang Weicheng should be imprisoned for at least a few years, right?
This child's mind has already gone astray; if he continues to stay at Old Zhang's house, he will only become more and more warped.
Hopefully, after a period of government education, he can be brought back to the right path.
"Hey, third brother's wife, Mid-Autumn Festival is over now, when are you going to take Zhang Weicheng to the police station?" Hu Yongcai's wife asked again.
We'll have to talk about it tomorrow.
However, Fang Yan did not say that. Instead, she said, "Yesterday at the police station, I already spoke with the police. I believe they have made arrangements and are just waiting for a suitable opportunity to arrest him."
Sure enough, after she said that, Hu Yongcai's family stopped bothering her with endless questions.
Most people in the village are still kind-hearted, and everyone is concerned about what happened yesterday.
So on the way back, Fang Yan didn't have a moment's rest, patiently telling them again and again what had happened yesterday.
Back in the village, as soon as Aunt De heard them return, she immediately ran out of the house.
She ran straight to Fang Yan, hugged her, and cried, "You're finally back! It's so good you're back! It's so good you're back!"
She had learned the whole story from Zhang Zongde and knew that Fang Yan had really had a stroke of incredible luck this time!
If Fang Yaojin really sells Fang Yan into the mountains, who dares to imagine the consequences!
"Are you alright? Let me see."
Women can better understand the hardships women face. Moreover, Aunt De almost treated Fang Yan like her own daughter, so her sense of relief that Fang Yan had escaped a disaster was even stronger.
She had previously heard from Zhang Zongde that Fang Yan and the child were not injured.
So just now, he hugged Fang Yan and vented his emotions.
I just remembered this, so I'll double-check.
Fang Yan felt incredibly lucky to have met such a kind couple as Zhang Zongde and Aunt De, who were not related to her by blood or marriage.
"I'm fine, I'm not hurt."
From yesterday's incident to today, at most this morning, Fang Yan, who was somewhat affected by Aunt Zhu's emotional outburst, found her eyes reddening as well. "No one was injured."
"Good, good, good!" Aunt De said "good" several times in a row, and wiped away her tears. "People get old and can't take a scare. You really scared me to death yesterday."
Aunt De said this as a sigh, not expecting Fang Yan to respond.
Then she continued, "I went to the temple and got some talismans for you. I've also prepared some water for you. You and Xiaoyuzai should wash up before going inside."
Huashui is unique to the Gouzi Village area.
It consists of five kinds of flowers and herbs, plus a grain of rice, five grains of salt, and five red threads about the length of a finger.
If you have consulted the gods, then add the talisman given by the gods, burn it, and dissolve it in water.
To ward off bad luck and ensure peace.
To be honest, Fang Yan didn't believe in this, but she couldn't refuse Aunt De's kind offer.
I gave myself and the little fish a perfunctory wash, and even wiped the kibbles a couple of times.
"Aunt De, I'm sorry to have worried you."
After washing, Fang Yan said to Aunt De.
"It's good that you and the child are alright."
Aunt De didn't care. "How can people be so bad? It's one thing to want to steal your money, but to want to sell you off? People like that should be taken to the execution ground, that's too good for them. They should be sold off to some kind of hard labor place, made to suffer and tortured to death to be truly satisfying."
The fact that this kind old lady was so angry that she said those words shows that she was really, really angry.
She had just sat down when her daughters-in-law came in as well.
Then, one after another, Aunt Wang and a few others came over to check on them.
After we had treated everyone well and seen them off, it was already past three in the afternoon.
Fortunately, just now, Sister-in-law Zhang brought over a large plate of steamed taro. Fang Yan and Xiao Yu ate a few pieces with white sugar, and that was their lunch.
Dinner must be a good meal.
"Third Aunt." A voice filled with joy and tears came from behind.
Fang Yan turned around and saw Zhang Chuchun and Zhang Chuxia, a brother and sister, standing in the corner, looking at her happily and crying.
"Why are you crying?" Fang Yan waved to them.
Chu Chun and Chu Xia, the siblings, ran up to her and cried loudly, "We thought you would never come out again."
Aside from Fang Yan's help, which enabled them to start living a life where they had enough to eat and wear, they genuinely liked Fang Yan very, very much.
Upon hearing that Fang Yan had been arrested, the siblings were terrified and at a loss, not knowing how to help her. All they could do was desperately inquire about information in the village.
They finally found out that Fang Yan had returned, so they lay outside her door until everyone else had left before daring to come out.
"Silly child, I'm out here perfectly fine, aren't I?"
Fang Yan was filled with mixed feelings. She wasn't a particularly emotional person, but unexpectedly, she found so much genuine affection in Gouzi Village, a poor village.
That's really quite rare.
"Gurgle..."
The atmosphere, which had been quite touching, was suddenly shattered by a deafening clap of thunder in an empty city.
Chu Xia covered her stomach embarrassedly, "I clearly ate porridge at noon."
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