Travel to ancient times and become rich women with your bestie

Chapter 122 Lifting a 4-jin stone mill

The children gathered around again, with admiration in their eyes.

"Mom, auntie, can you tell us more about the time when Fu Sanda beat up the scholar?" Sizhu came over like a flatterer.

He now announced that his mother and his aunt were the heroines who punished evil and upheld justice as described by the storytellers. They were even more powerful than the heroines because they were not afraid of the county magistrate.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin were confused. Dashu and Erhe must have used exaggerated rhetoric, otherwise how could there be such a strong light in these children's eyes.

Not to mention, they felt quite comfortable seeing the children's admiring eyes.

"Didn't your elder brother and second brother already tell you?"

The two did not want to talk about it again. They always felt ashamed to talk about how wise and powerful they were. It would be quite nice if others talked about how wise and powerful they were.

"No, what my eldest and second brothers say is not interesting. I want to listen to mom." Sizhu acted coquettishly.

Erhe grabbed him and patted him on the butt: "Boy, why didn't you tell us that our story wasn't interesting enough when you were pestering us to tell it again just now?"

"Mom, help! My second brother is going to hit someone!" Sizhu shouted exaggeratedly.

The family watched them quarreling with a smile and did not get involved in the lawsuit between the two people.

It is impossible to tell the story again, but the work in the fields still needs to be done.

The family went to the fields, playing and laughing, and greeted familiar villagers when they met them.

Looking at their laughing and noisy backs, the villagers sighed and said that things were really different.

In the past, these two old women would be considered in a good mood that day if they didn't say hello or curse at them, otherwise they would look gloomy every day as if someone owed them hundreds of taels of silver.

The family went to the field on Duan Minmin's side. Zheng Yuan's field had already been tended, and now it was their turn.

It’s not very hot today. The thick clouds in the sky block the scorching sun, making it a very suitable weather for work.

The family was working hard when suddenly the surroundings became noisy. Looking up, they saw a group of noisy children running towards them, followed by a number of adults.

Seeing his little friend running closer, Sizhu dropped the grass in his hand and climbed up the ridge of the field.

"Daniu, Xiaorong, why are you here?"

"Sizhu! The officials are here to look for your mother and Widow Duan! Did your mother and Widow Duan commit any crime? Are they going to be arrested and put in jail? Run away!" Da Niu ran up and pushed Sizhu anxiously.

At this time, Widow Zheng and Widow Duan, who were named, looked up from the fields with confused looks on their faces.

"Yes! Sizhu, run quickly. I have an egg here. My mother cooked it for me this morning. I couldn't bear to eat it, so I gave it to you. Sizhu, take care of yourself!"

Xiao Rong stuffed an egg into Sizhu's hand and almost cried, partly because his partner was going to jail, and partly because the egg he had finally managed to eat was now used as dry food for his good brother.

Sizhu was panicking. What was going on? Didn't my brother say that my mother and my aunt were killing people in court? How could they be arrested and put in jail?

Sizhu turned around helplessly and saw the two mothers standing there. They were not panicked, but their faces seemed to twitch a few times. He also calmed down.

Since mother and Aunt Duan are not panicking, everything must be fine.

The two friends who didn't know the situation saw that he didn't move, so they pushed him desperately to let him go. Sizhu said that he was fine and he just didn't move. The two were almost crying. The police came to arrest him personally, how could he be fine.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin watched the brotherly love between these little rascals, and their mouths twitched. No, guys, spreading rumors is illegal, don't you know?

Although you are very loyal, isn't it a bit too much to spread rumors that two of us old and powerless widows are going to go to jail?

The two men washed the mud off their hands and feet in the field, went up the ridge, put on their shoes, and waited for the officials to arrive.

The policeman thought that they were here to give them compensation money, but unfortunately they didn't take it seriously at all and just stood in the field in a dirty state to receive the money.

"Sir, those standing on the ridge of the field are Duan and Zheng." Zhao Shoucheng, who led the way, nodded and snorted at the two officials with a flattering look on his face, then turned around and looked at Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin with a gloating look.

The officers came closer and they turned out to be two yamen runners named Yang Dapeng and Dachun.

The two men walked forward and bowed.

"Thank you for your hard work, my two lords. What's the matter with coming all the way here?"

Although I have already guessed it, I still have to pretend to ask.

Yang Dapeng stepped forward, took out a purse and handed it to Zheng Yuan: "We are ordered to deliver the compensation money that Lord Ma sentenced yesterday to you."

"Hey~ Thank you for your hard work, both of you! Lord Ma is such a good official!" Zheng Yuan took it with a smile.

The purse looked bulging. It seemed that Magistrate Ma had indeed given fifteen taels of silver. He was really a good official.

What? Sending money?

Aren’t you here to arrest them and put them in jail?

After hearing the conversation between the two, the surrounding villagers had different expressions on their faces.

These two women are so powerful? The official personally sent them money?

Zhao Shoucheng, who had just looked gloating, now had a constipated expression on his face.

"Aunt, your village is really far away. It took us an hour to ride here on horseback." The yamen runner named Dachun fanned the air casually with his hands.

"That's right. On weekdays, we have to take a two-hour ox cart to go to the market. And we encountered such a terrible thing. Fortunately, you enforced the law impartially and gave us justice! Our family was able to escape this disaster this time. We should really thank the two adults and Master Ma."

"Hey~ don't talk about these things. These are what our county government should do. Since the silver has been delivered, let's go back." Yang Dapeng waved his hand and was about to go back.

Zheng Yuan hurried forward to stop the two of them: "You two adults sent it to us at noon, at least you should go home to drink a bowl of water and eat a simple meal before leaving."

"I didn't eat the meal. Instead, I asked my aunt for some water to drink. I was in such a hurry to leave that I forgot to bring the water bag. I'm thirsty all the way." Dachun scratched his head embarrassedly.

"Yes, yes, yes! Please follow me, my two adults. Tao'er, you go back with us to cook. Dashu, you and your brothers and sisters will be back in half an hour. Got it?"

As soon as they left, the villagers who had come to watch the fun became excited and surrounded the children to ask questions.

"Dashu, what did your mother do with that sister-in-law Duan that made the government officials come to her house to give her a reward?"

"I've lived for so many years, but I've never seen an official come to my house in person!"

"Yes, that purse seems quite heavy to me!"

"Dashu, Erhe, can you please tell us what you and your mother did in town yesterday?"

"Yes, tell me now!"

......

Most of the people in the village came to watch the fun, and they surrounded Duan Minmin's field with a chattering voice. The children felt like they were about to faint from the noise.

Just as Da Shu was about to speak, Si Zhu jumped excitedly on the ridge of the field: "Brother, let me tell you! Let me tell you!"

When Sizhu thought about so many people knowing how brave and powerful his mother was, he was so excited that he almost jumped up.

It just so happened that Dashu and Erhe had talked about it several times in the morning and didn't want to continue, so they just let Sizhu talk about it himself.

Who knew that Sizhu was even more boastful than the two of them, and he was quite normal at the beginning, until Sizhu said that his mother lifted a 400-jin stone mill and beat Fu San in court, and even became sworn brothers with the county magistrate.

"Cough cough cough..."

The other children were nearly choked to death by Sizhu's outrageous remarks.

Dashu quickly stopped Sizhu's wild imagination and gave a brief account of what had happened.

But everyone seemed to be more interested in the version told by the Four Pillars, and they gathered in groups of three or five to discuss it animatedly.

Of course there are those who are jealous and contemptuous, but there are more who are envious and admiring.

In this way, the rumor about the two killing people in court spread at an uncontrollable speed in the field and became more and more intense.

"Sizhu, your mother is so awesome!" Daniu looked at Sizhu enviously.

Xiao Rong, however, pulled Sizhu's hand, who looked very proud, and took the egg back.

Sizhu looked at the eggs that were still hot and said anxiously, "Xiaorong, didn't you give them to me? Why are you taking them back?"

Xiao Rong tightly guarded his eggs: "This is for you to eat when you escape. If you don't even have to escape, what else can you eat!"

Sizhu was helpless, but when he thought that his mother had gone back to prepare something delicious, he became happy again and decided not to eat the egg.