Chapter 429 Someone secretly took the Zhou family's rice
Three days ago, Aunt Tao learned that her youngest daughter had committed a serious crime in the capital. She was heartbroken and cried for a whole day and night.
After she finished crying, she realized that of her four children, only Tao Yaofang, who married into the Zhou family, was living a peaceful life.
So he secretly took his old man to Tao Yaofang to get money.
However, the couple was driven away by Zhou Quan before they even entered the house.
They had already signed a letter severing ties, so even if Zhou Quan drove them away, they had nothing to say.
Later, Zhou Quan kept a big yellow dog in front of his house, and whenever the Tao family came, the big yellow dog would bite them.
Tao Yaofang was able to live a peaceful life from then on.
As Zhou Quan protected his wife, he became more and more like a man.
Du Wanchun laughed and said, "No wonder I noticed a big yellow dog at your door."
Dahuang is a very smart dog. He will obediently stay at the door when he is not on a leash.
Today, Tao Yaofang followed Du Wanchun to the rice shop, where the little yellow dog was guarding nearby.
Tao Yaofang pulled Du Wanchun and pointed out the big yellow dog to her.
Du Wanchun smiled at the big yellow dog.
The big yellow dog immediately stood up, wagging its tail wildly, looking very happy.
Just then, two drunken, burly men staggered toward them.
There were still a few meters to go before Du Wanchun's rice shop.
The big yellow dog immediately rushed over, barking loudly and showing its sharp teeth at the two drunkards.
The drunkard was so frightened that he quickly left the area.
Tao Yaofang laughed and said, "Sister-in-law, look, I don't know where Zhou Quan found this big yellow dog, it's really obedient."
As she spoke, she quickly waved to the big yellow dog.
The big yellow dog ran over happily, wagging its tail at Du Wanchun and Tao Yaofang.
Du Wanchun squatted down, stroking the big yellow dog's head as she said, "We used to have a dog like this at home, but it was black."
Tao Yaofang asked in surprise, "Big brother also keeps a dog?"
Du Wanchun smiled and shook her head, saying, "No, my parents raised me before I got married."
Tao Yaofang suddenly realized and nodded.
Du Wanchun stroked the big yellow dog's head and continued, "There's also a gray wolf."
Tao Yaofang found it very strange, "Your family keeps wolves?"
Du Wanchun stood up and replied, "Yes, a beautiful female wolf."
Tao Yaofang laughed and said, "Sister-in-law's family is really interesting."
Du Wanchun did not continue speaking. Most people only knew that her mother had died early and her father had married a vicious stepmother.
The dog and wolf she mentioned earlier were her home before she was born, and also the home of her biological parents.
She got up and went inside, took a large chicken leg from the shop's kitchen, and tossed it to the big yellow dog.
The big yellow dog really loves chicken legs, and he was holding one and munching on it.
Du Wanchun took out the recent account books from the counter and looked at them; the family's silver was growing larger and larger.
After deducting the silver allocated to Zhou Zhao to expand his army, there were still at least 200,000 taels of gold left.
She calculated that she would buy some better quality padded jackets for everyone after winter arrived.
Just as she was about to put away the ledger, a shop assistant rushed over and said, "Manager Du, we went to Huyang Village to collect rice, but the villagers all said that our people had already collected the rice! But we didn't go to collect it at all."
Du Wanchun frowned slightly and asked him, "Has all the rice in the village been taken away?"
The man nodded. "That's right."
Du Wanchun stood up and said, "Come on, take me to see it."
"Yes, Manager Du." The shop assistant quickly replied and went to collect the carriage.
Du Wanchun invited Tao Yaofang to go to Populus euphratica village together.
Before leaving, Tao Yaofang also took the big yellow dog with her.
When they arrived at Populus euphratica village, some villagers were still causing trouble.
"You Zhou family, you said you would give us money after you took our rice, but you took the rice and didn't give us the money."
Du Wanchun has been distributing rice seeds to the villagers and then harvesting the rice for the past year or two.
The villagers of Huyang Village have long since built new houses and are now able to eat hot rice thanks to the Zhou family.
But today, they are causing trouble here indiscriminately.
Du Wanchun got off the carriage.
Those men tried to rush towards her.
The big yellow dog leaped forward and barked loudly at them.
The villagers dared not go forward and could only take two steps back.
Despite the large number of villagers causing trouble, they are actually just two families surnamed Lu and Ding.
Du Wanchun said to them sternly, "We only sent people to collect the rice today. You say you handed the rice over, but who did you hand it over to?"
As she spoke, she called over the shop assistant who usually came to collect rice from her shop.
"Is it them?"
The eldest brother of the Ding family glanced at them impatiently, "No."
As she spoke, she raised her voice, her face full of resentment, and said, "Confrontation is useless; it was your Zhou family who took it!"
Du Wanchun sensed something was wrong and then asked the other villagers, "Did they come to collect it?"
The villagers all shook their heads.
Du Wanchun slowly took out the Zhou family's token from her bosom and handed it to them, asking, "Did they bring this with them when they collected the rice?"
The villagers nodded in agreement.
The eldest brother of the Ding family said sternly, "Manager Du, stop wasting your breath here and give us the money!"
Du Wanchun ignored him and slowly walked up to a more amiable villager, handing him the token to look at. "Take a closer look and see if this is the token."
The Zhou family collected a lot of rice, so to prevent anyone from impersonating them and collecting rice from farmers, they specially made tokens. The Zhou family members had to use the tokens to collect rice, and the farmers would only give them rice after seeing the tokens.
The villager looked at it for a long time and said, "It's the same. They use this token to collect rice."
Du Wanchun turned the token over and saw the words "Zheng Yuan" on it.
The villagers exclaimed in surprise, "No, not this one! I saw that the token that man brought didn't have those two words on it."
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