"Old Zhang's family! Old Zhang's family! You'd better hurry and go see! Your son and Old Li's youngest son are blocking the road and robbing us. They've been knocked unconscious and are saying they're going to take them to the county magistrate!"
The woman was in a panic, shouting loudly from a great distance.
It was midday, and almost everyone in the household was at home. Hearing the woman's shout, apart from those cooking or taking a nap, many people, young and old, came out to watch the excitement, some holding bowls, others holding steamed buns.
"What?! Send him to the county government?! Good heavens! This brat can't stand not doing his homework for a day, and now he's really messed up!"
From the brick house at the far west end of the village, a woman around forty years old came out, cursing and swearing as she wiped her hands with the hem of her clothes. Then she shouted towards the yard:
"Brother, your son has done his homework again, and now he's gotten himself into trouble at the county office. They've even brought him to the magistrate's door. He's probably going to jail now."
On the west side of the yard, a man who was squatting by the latrine scooping rice and excrement into a bucket lost his grip on the ladle and fell into the latrine.
He quickly stood up, ignoring the excrement on his clothes, and hurried to the front door. His voice trembling, he asked the woman who had brought the news:
"Auntie, what are you saying? My eldest son has been taken to the county government office?"
"Yeah, if you hurry, you can still catch up. Just plead with her properly; that girl seems like an honest person. Alright, hurry up and go after her. I still have to go to Old Li's house; his youngest son has been tied up with you."
After the woman finished speaking, she hurriedly left to deliver the message to the next household.
The man, disregarding everything else, hurriedly ran towards the edge of the village.
Several other spectators followed. They were all from the same village. Although the two kids did nothing right all day, they had watched them grow up. They couldn't just stand by and watch the two kids go to jail, could they?
Moreover, if two prisoners were to emerge from the village, it would be difficult for the children to find husbands in the future. After all, no one wants their son to marry a woman who has a relationship with a prisoner, and no one wants their daughter to marry a young man from a village with two prisoners.
The village is close to the official road, and it only takes about ten minutes to run there. Even if the woman who bought the donkey was delayed for a while, it would only be a little over half an hour. At this time, although Yue Jiuyue could see the city gate of the county town, there was still a distance of one or two thousand meters.
Even so, it was only because Yue Jiuyue dangled a carrot in front of the stubborn donkey; otherwise, she would probably still be dawdling on the road right now.
She faintly heard someone shouting something behind her, and it sounded like there were quite a few people. Yue Jiuyue didn't dare to turn around. Holding the branch with the carrot hanging from it, she pulled on the reins and tried to run, shouting loudly:
"Help! Help! Someone is robbing us! Their accomplices are catching up! Sir, please help!"
Stubborn donkey provided the voiceover for her, "Uh—ah—uh—ah."
The soldiers at the city gate were dozing off, and they didn't hear anything from that distance.
Even if they did hear it, they probably only heard a donkey braying.
Adding to the stubbornness, the donkey's temper flared up again, and she couldn't pull it away. She had no choice but to abandon the donkey and run forward as fast as she could.
Huh? Why am I running in the same spot the whole time?
Looking back, she saw it was that stubborn donkey, her nemesis, biting her clothes and refusing to let go!
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