When Yu Chengyuan and his wife returned home, they had just sat down to have a cup of tea.
The village chief walked in, his face full of anxiety. "Chengyuan, something's happened! You'd better come with me right away!"
"Uncle Zhou, what happened?"
Yu Chengyuan and his wife asked at the same time.
“A child fell into the fishpond that you and Ping An contracted.”
Someone from Ping'an has already gone over there, let's hurry over and check on them!
Zhou Jianguo didn't know the specifics either; he only heard about it from the villagers who came to report it.
Yu Chengyuan was shocked when he heard that a child had fallen into the pond.
He immediately said, "Uncle Zhou, what are we waiting for? Let's go right away!"
"Chengyuan, let me go with you!"
Liu Sulan was also a little worried; it would be terrible if someone drowned.
"Chengyuan's wife, you'd better not go. It's not a good place to take the child."
Zhou Jianguo immediately said.
"Honey, you can stay home and take care of the kids, don't worry!"
It's fine."
How could Yu Chengyuan possibly let his wife take the child to that place?
There must be a lot of people gathered there right now. It would be very dangerous if something happened.
"Uncle Zhou, how come a child fell down there?"
Nobody usually goes there.
Yu Chengyuan asked, puzzled.
People avoid that place; they won't go there.
Let alone children.
Parents at home would always tell their children not to go to that place.
Who knows!
"Things just happen to be this way, Chengyuan. You're probably in trouble this time."
Zhou Jianguo frowned and said.
"Uncle Zhou, why do you say that?"
Could it be that the child drowned?
Yu Chengyuan asked worriedly.
You should know that the fishpond is very deep, at least two meters deep. If a child falls in and can't swim, they could really drown.
Although he won't go to jail for the drowning, it was still their family's fishpond, so they still have to bear some responsibility for what happened.
Losing money doesn't necessarily guarantee a good outcome.
If someone really died, the two brothers would feel guilty and ashamed for the rest of their lives.
"Hey, I heard that the one who fell was Brother Chunyan's son, Wang Dazhuang."
Wang Chunyan's elder brother, Wang Erniu, had held a grudge against the Yu brothers because of Chunyan's affair. Now that his son was in real trouble, how could the couple possibly let Chengyuan and his brother off the hook?
If the pond hadn't been contracted out to the two brothers, even if Wang Erniu's son had fallen in and drowned, there would be no way to blame them.
I don't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing that I gave the fishpond to those two brothers because I was soft-hearted.
When Yu Chengyuan heard that it was Wang Erniu's brat Wang Dazhuang, he thought he was doomed.
He prayed silently: Wang Erzhuang, please be alright!
"What was Wang Erzhuang doing running off to the fishpond for no reason?"
Yu Chengyuan found it very strange.
"I don't know either. You can ask them when we get there!"
Zhou Jianguo shook his head and then said, "Could it be that he was herding cattle for his family and then unknowingly ended up there?"
"Why choose that particular place to graze cattle when there are plenty of other options? Is it really just for herding cattle?"
Yu Chengyuan remembered that Wang Erniu's son should be about six years old, right?
"Wang Erniu's son, Dazhuang, has always been mischievous; who knows!"
The two quickly arrived at the edge of the ghost pond, where they saw a number of villagers gathered in the open space outside the pond.
The sound of wailing and lamentation could be heard coming from inside.
Yu Chengyuan's heart skipped a beat. Could it really be that he's dead?
He quickly pushed through the crowd and went inside.
When Wang Erniu's wife, Li Cailian, saw Yu Chengyuan, she pounced on him to hit him.
"Yu Chengyuan, you bastard, you son of a bitch, you'll pay for my son's life!"
Yu Chengyuan dodged to the side, and Wang Erniu threw another punch, which Yu Chengyuan also dodged.
"Yu Chengyuan, you little bastard, you killed my son! What are you hiding for? How dare you hide?"
Li Cailian, acting like a madwoman, lunged at him again.
The village chief stopped her and told her to calm down.
"Li Cailian, Wang Erniu, calm down. It wasn't the two brothers who pushed Dazhuang down."
How can you shift the blame onto those two brothers?
The village chief sighed inwardly; just as he had guessed.
Li Hehua and her husband ignored the village chief's orders and cried out that the two brothers should pay with their lives.
They were also criticized for not contracting this treacherous pond.
“Village chief, I know that your Zhou family has a good relationship with the Yu family, but even if you have a good relationship, you can’t just take lives like that.”
Isn't my son's life a life too?
My only precious son! Now that he's dead, how are my husband and I supposed to live?
With a look of grief and indignation, Li Cailian finished speaking, then squatted down, hugged her son, and cried. She then continued speaking.
"Village chief, you cannot protect these two murderers."
It was because they contracted this haunted pond that they angered the water ghost, who dragged his son down to be their scapegoat.
Otherwise, how could my son have fallen down?
The villagers were also discussing it and believed what Li Cailian and her husband had said.
“What Li Cailian said makes sense. Is it because the Yu brothers really angered the water ghost?”
"That child who drowned before might really be looking for a scapegoat!"
"This pond hasn't had any accidents in a long time. I never expected that people would die after those two brothers took over the contract."
Yu Pingan walked over and told his younger brother with a dejected look, "Chengyuan, I rescued the person, but he wasn't breathing after I rescued him."
Yu Chengyuan could tell that his elder brother was feeling very upset and guilty, and probably regretted it a little.
"Brother, don't worry, let me check on the child first."
Yu Chengyuan knew that a brief shock did not necessarily mean death.
Li Cailian rushed forward to block Yu Chengyuan and pushed him away, saying, "My child is already like this, what more do you want?"
Today I demand that you pay for my child's life.
She looked around and spotted a wooden stick about the thickness of a fist. She ran over, picked it up, and was about to hit Yu Chengyuan.
Yu Chengyuan grabbed the wooden stick from her hand and threw it far away.
Then he said coldly, "Wang Erniu, Li Cailian, I know you must be feeling bad about what happened."
"But if you continue to obstruct me, your son will truly be beyond saving. Even if Hua Tuo were alive, it would be of no use."
Li Cailian wanted to continue cursing, but her husband, Wang Erniu, stopped her.
"Wife, let him see the child..."
Wang Erniu thought to himself that if he could save the child, then so be it.
If he cannot save him, he will make him pay with his life.
Li Cailian stopped her foolish behavior and stepped aside.
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