After Shao finished selling the golden ears, she came over and showed the silver in her hand to her mother-in-law: "I sold it for seven and a half taels."
Tang was pleasantly surprised and said with a smile, "Go back and keep the money. It will be your private property from now on. Don't spend it if you don't have anything else to do. Anyway, food and clothing are paid for by the public account. Don't lend it to others. Yao'er will have many places to spend money when he grows up."
"I understand, mother." Shao smiled at Yingbao, took her son back from her mother-in-law's arms, and went home with her.
Yingbao watched the mother and daughter leave, feeling an inexplicable pity for them.
Because next year Tang's son will return from the battlefield with a broken leg and die soon after.
Grandma Tang died within two months due to excessive grief, leaving the mother and son in the Chen family.
Patriarch Chen is prestigious outside, but not very fair at home.
After his second wife passed away and his youngest daughter-in-law was a widow, he could not interfere in the affairs of the fourth wife. Therefore, the fourth wife, Shao, and her son lived under the care of the first wife, and their life was not good.
After the great flood, Yingbao never saw them again.
Yingbao jumped off the railing, let her two younger brothers come down, and took the deer for a walk outside.
Yoyo nudged Yingbao with her head, signaling her to ride on it.
"There are three of us, you can't carry it." Yingbao patted its neck and took it out.
Xiaojie and Xiaowu are both very active. Once they are outside, they are like wild horses that have broken free from their reins and even dogs can't catch up with them.
"Slow down! Don't run too far, or I won't take you to play next time!" Yingbao had to use her trump card to threaten them.
Sure enough, the twins ran back obediently.
"You must be Yingbao, right?" An old woman came out from behind the haystack and asked with a smile.
Yingbao turned her head and was startled.
It turned out that Chen Changping's mother came over at some point.
Behind her followed Han Ju Niang.
Yingbao looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to this side, so he called his two brothers to his side and asked cautiously: "Do you want to take a picture of Hanako?"
Chen Feng's expression froze and she quickly waved her hands: "No, I am..." She thought about it and didn't know how to introduce herself appropriately.
Han came forward with a fake smile on her face, "Yingbao, I am your mother, and this is your nanny..."
Before she could finish her words, Yingbao started crying out loudly, "Daddy! Mommy! Someone is beating Hanako!"
Chen Feng was shocked, and Han was also panicked, and hurriedly tried to cover Yingbao's mouth.
When the two twins saw someone dare to bully their sister, they rushed forward and pushed and hit them, crying loudly, "Bad guy! Bad guy!"
Jiang Sanlang had already rushed out of the house, followed by a group of villagers.
“What are you doing!”
Jiang Sanlang rushed over, hugged his daughter and son in his arms, and shouted angrily: "It's the West Village again! Are you jealous of our East Village? Come with me to the head of the village, and we'll have a good talk."
Last time, Chen Ergou's wife stole a child and threw it into the river. The woman was eventually sentenced to exile, and now no one knows whether she is dead or alive.
At this moment, the old wife and second daughter-in-law of Chen Ergou's relative Chen Laoshuan came again. They must be having a conflict with Jiang Sanlang.
"Yes! Taking them to the head of the village is outrageous. I think the people in West Village have gone crazy. Why do they like stealing children so much?"
"That's right, if Ruoli Zheng dares to tolerate them this time, we will file a complaint with the county government and demand an explanation."
"Tie them up! If beggars come to our village, who will dare to go out next time?"
The villagers were talking in a flurry of indignation, and some even rushed over and kicked Feng and Han hard.
Feng was almost paralyzed with fear, and kept saying, "No, I didn't steal the child, we..."
Jiang Sanlang did not give her a chance to explain. He stuffed the children into Chunniang's hands, and together with several villagers, tied up Feng and Han, stuffed rags in their mouths, and dragged them away.
Jiang Dalang, Jiang Erlang and Old Man Jiang also wanted to go with them, but were stopped by Jiang Sanlang, who told them to go back and look after Zhou Mao and the others.
Just like that, a large group of people from Dongcun went to the town in a big way and found Sun Lizheng.
Sun Lizheng was worrying about how to collect the remaining tax money, but then he got into trouble with the case of a child being stolen. When he asked, he found out that the child was from Xicun again.
"Asshole! Go call Nishimura Muramasa! And call the owners of these two women as well."
He wanted to see if this was an attempt to rebel!
Then Chen Changsheng came, Chen Sanyou also came, and also Chen Fengshi's husband Chen Laoshuan.
When Chen Feng saw her husband, she quickly called out, "Dad! Come and save me! My arm is almost broken..."
Chen Laoshuan looked unhappy and said to Sun Lizheng: "Jiang Sanlang misunderstood. How could my wife steal a child?"
A villager angrily asked, "If you weren't going to steal the child, why did you go to East Village? And you strangled Yingbao's neck, did you want to kill her?"
Chen Laoshuan quickly looked at his wife and asked what was going on.
Chen Fengshi shook her head repeatedly: "I didn't, I didn't pinch her neck, I just wanted her to stop screaming..."
"Haha, you finally told the truth?" Jiang Sanlang sneered, "Why didn't you call her? And you said you didn't want to steal the child. How could it bother you if she called out at the door of her own house?"
Feng was speechless and her words became more and more incoherent. "Because she said we were beggars... We are not, so we can't let her call us that..."
Jiang Sanlang clasped his fists towards the head of the village and said, "Head, you heard it, my daughter thinks they are a bunch of scoundrels."
The head of the village said sullenly, "In that case, let's send him to the authorities tomorrow morning."
Chen Laoshuan was startled and quickly explained: "That's not the case, Jiang Sanlang, you misunderstood...you misunderstood."
If Feng and Han were sent to government offices, his second son would never be able to take the imperial examination.
Han who was standing by suddenly said, "That Yingbao is my biological child. We are going to acknowledge the child, not to steal the child."
The crowd was shocked.
Brothers Wang Ke and Li Dayong were the most angry.
"How shameless! If you can't take advantage of Hanako, then just say Yingbao is your child. Why are you so arrogant?"
"You crazy woman, are you sick? I think you have delusions."
Jiang Sanlang sneered: "How come my daughter is your biological child?"
Sun Lizheng also said with his hands behind his back: "Yes, Han, if you say the child is yours, then it is yours. You have to have evidence for everything, understand?"
Han pinched herself secretly and squeezed out a tear, "Village head, Yingbao is indeed my biological child. If you don't believe me, ask everyone if Jiang Sanlang picked up the child."
Chen Sanyou sneered, "You are such a weird woman. Everyone in the village knows that Yingbao was picked up by Sanlang, but not everyone can claim Yingbao as their own child. Put away your dirty thoughts. Do you think everyone doesn't know what you want to do?"
Everyone laughed: "Yeah, since you can't give birth to a son, do you want to snatch Yingbao back to give you a son?"
Everyone in the village knew that Yingbao was the reincarnation of a fairy boy. But Chen Laoshuan and his family were really bold to come to their East Village to snatch the child.
Li Dayong pouted, "How shameless!"
Han's face flushed, and tears finally fell, "No, Yingbao is really my biological child."
Chen Laoshuan, who was standing by, couldn't hold back his face anymore and said to the head of the village: "Brother Sun, that child is indeed from my Chen family."
Even if it wasn't, it must be now. Otherwise, he would lose face.
"Is the moon in the sky yours?" Jiang Sanlang sneered, "Everyone wants to claim my Yingbao as their biological child. You are already the eighth one."
“…” Chen Laoshuan was suddenly speechless.
Sun Lizheng found a chair and sat down, stroking his beard, and said slowly: "I will say it again, everything must be based on evidence. Chen Laoshuan, do you have evidence to prove that the child is yours?"
Chen Laoshuan was stunned and turned his gaze to his wife Chen Fengshi.
Chen Feng blinked and looked at her second daughter-in-law, "Han, you gave birth to the child. Do you have any evidence?"