Arriving in front of the temple, Zhang Sanchun was shouting for business, sweating profusely as he weighed roasted goods for people.
Chu Xun walked over, called out "Older Brother," and began to reach out to help.
Seeing his younger sister and brother-in-law arrive, Zhang Sanchun imdiately revealed a simple and honest smile, habitually scratching the back of his head, "Your sister-in-law is watching the shop in town."
Every year during the temple fair, Lin Qiaoxi wouldn't co, but every year he would repeat this once.
Especially this year, Lin Qiaoxi had movent in her belly again, making it even more inconvenient to show her face in public.
Chu Xun smiled and said, "I wonder if Sister-in-law will have a boy or a girl this ti. What does Older Brother want?"
Zhang Sanchun smiled honestly, "Both are good, both are good."
Zhang Anxiu listened from the side, secretly glanced at Chu Xun, and quickly lowered her head again.
anwhile, at the Sanchun Roasted Goods Shop in Pingshui Town.
Lin Qiaoxi sat on a stool covered with soft cloth, one hand supporting her belly that was several months pregnant, and the other hand waving a cattail leaf fan.
The weather was very hot, and the fan only brought hot wind, which was very uncomfortable.
She only wished the sun would set earlier so it would be cooler, and her husband and son could also co ho earlier.
Little did she know that three figures had already arrived in front of the shop.
A few crows squatted on the eaves, looking downwards.
Wang Erlai, whose head was patchy white and gray with barely a few strands of hair left, smiled cheekily at Lin Qiaoxi, "Yo, isn't this the Zhang family's younger sister-in-law? Why are you here alone? Is your man not around?"
Liu Er and Sun Laoyou followed, chuckling. They ca up and grabbed a handful of lon seeds and roasted peanuts, cracking them while stuffing them into their pockets.
"Helping younger sister-in-law taste the flavor, to see if it's fragrant or sweet."
The Lin family had been exterminated to the ninth degree, but the three scoundrels didn't care in the slightest.
They only saw that Lin Qiaoxi was good-looking and hadn't done hard labor. Although her skin couldn't compare to a young girl's, it was boundlessly better than ordinary rustic village won.
They wondered what this delicate and tender eldest miss would taste like.
It was really too cheap for that simpleton Zhang Sanchun!
How could Lin Qiaoxi not understand their teasing words.
Knowing these three were nothing good, she ignored them.
But her yielding made the three scoundrels think she was afraid.
Wang Erlai chuckled and walked into the shop, "Younger sister-in-law, your older brothers have been so poor lately we can't even afford to eat. How about you give us so relief? We and your brother-in-law are of the sa clan!"
Lin Qiaoxi stood up and looked at him warily, "What sa clan, you are nothing but my younger brother-in-law's tenant farrs!"
"So what if we're tenant farrs, we're still our own people, aren't we." Wang Erlai continued walking, reaching out his hand to touch Lin Qiaoxi's face, "Look at you sweating profusely, let older brother help you wipe it."
Lin Qiaoxi retreated again, reaching out to grab the ter-long wooden-handled roasting ladle nearby, "Don't co over, or I won't hold back!"
But how could Wang Erlai be afraid? He glanced at the blackened roasting ladle in her hand and even leaned his head over, "Co, co, co, smash it on older brother's head. If you break it, you'll have to pay silver."
Lin Qiaoxi gripped the wooden handle of the roasting ladle tightly, really wanting to give him a vicious strike, but she lacked that ruthlessness.
Seeing this, Wang Erlai chuckled and was about to reach out.
Lin Qiaoxi subconsciously swung the roasting ladle, but it was snatched from her hand and thrown to the ground.
Her face instantly turned deathly pale. She didn't expect this scoundrel to dare act so recklessly in broad daylight.
Just at this mont, the few crows on the roof suddenly flew over and began pecking fiercely at Wang Erlai.
Wang Erlai was pecked so hard it hurt terribly, his scalp scratched until it bled. He waved his hands wildly to drive them away, but it was useless.
The crows were usually docile, but when they beca ruthless, they were no weaker than ordinary birds of prey.
Especially since these were crows that grew up freeloading on Chu Xun's spiritual rain since they were young. Their size, speed, and even the sharpness of their claws far exceeded ordinary ones of their kind.
Liu Er and Sun Laoyou hurriedly stepped forward to help, grabbing wooden sticks, but accidentally hit Wang Erlai on the head, hurting him so much he almost fainted.
By the ti the three scrambled out of the shop in a flurry, people from nearby shops had all co out to watch the fun, pointing at them and snickering secretly.
These three scoundrels usually freeloaded everywhere, and almost everyone in the town had been taken advantage of by them.
Report to the governnt? They weren't afraid at all. So what even if they were beaten with boards.
Before the wounds on their buttocks even healed, they would sit in your shop, wailing and howling to the heavens.
Want to do business properly?
No way!
With no other choice, everyone could only endure and suffer, hoping for the heavens to open their eyes and take away these few scoundrels sooner.
Seeing the crows vent their anger for them today, soone imdiately clapped and cheered.
It just so happened that the constable responsible for public security in Pingshui Town was also nearby. Knowing the habits of these three, he scolded them and told them to get lost.
With the constable present, no matter what, Wang Erlai and the other two didn't dare to act rashly and could only leave dejectedly.
Caw—
A crow cawed, stared at the backs of the three, and then flapped its wings to follow them.
"Is younger sister-in-law alright?" The middle-aged constable nad Jiang Baiye poked his head in and asked.
He was originally the head of the punishnt departnt in the county office, considered an unranked minor official.
When the Lin family was exterminated to the ninth degree, the County Magistrate Zhang Zhizhong was also implicated, and his entire family was executed.
From the County Defender, to the Registrar, and then to the managers of the six departnts of the county office.
Those who should be killed were killed, and those who should be caught were caught.
Jiang Baiye was considered lucky. He had never done anything offensive to heaven and reason, and he never touched corruption or perversion of the law.
His popularity in the county office wasn't good; he barely managed to get the position of punishnt head entirely by relying on his old father-in-law spending silver.
After Zhang Zhizhong was killed, he was also demoted to a constable.
When Tang Shijun arrived and saw that he was upright and unyielding, he sent him to Pingshui Town to be responsible for maintaining public security.
Because he handled matters fairly and was forrly the punishnt head, many people would respectfully call him "Master Bai" when they saw him.
Lin Qiaoxi shook her head, "I'm fine, thank you Master Bai."
Jiang Baiye waved his hand and said, "I was just passing by. If you want to thank anyone, you have to thank these crows. Tsk tsk, what did they eat to grow so big."
Lin Qiaoxi looked up at the crows that had flown back and landed on the eaves, naturally feeling grateful in her heart.
If not for the crows' help, who knows what would have happened today.
This gave her a burst of lingering fear. With a big belly, if any mishap occurred, it would be a matter of life and death.
Fortunately, fortunately.
The three, Wang Erlai and his companions, who left dejectedly, cursed all the way.
It wasn't until they were far away that Wang Erlai suddenly stopped his steps and cursed, "Motherfucker, we can't just let it go like this!"
It was clearly him who took the initiative to find fault, but he made it seem as if he had suffered a loss.
Liu Er ca up and asked, "What do you want to do?"
"These sons of bitches have so much silver they can't even spend it all, yet they don't know to give us so relief. Then why should we give them any face? We might have to learn from the martial arts heroes of the pugilistic world and kill the rich to help the poor!"
Liu Er was startled hearing this. Kill the rich to help the poor?
Sun Laoyou also hurriedly said, "We can't act recklessly, killing soone requires paying with your life."
Wang Erlai glared at the two of them, "Look at how cowardly you are, you can't accomplish anything big!"
Liu Er and Sun Laoyou didn't care about that. Although they didn't have a good reputation in town, they were unwilling to bear such a heavy cri as murder.
Wang Erlai wasn't stupid either. He could distinguish between having one al and having als every day.
His eyes rolled, he pulled the two closer, and said in a low voice, "Let's kidnap Zhang the Simpleton's son and ask them for a ransom. I won't say too much, but they must have a few hundred taels of silver."
"Besides, there's also the Great Philanthropist Chu. Doesn't he like doing good deeds? If his eldest nephew suffers a disaster, he can't just ignore it, right?"
"Once the silver is in our hands, we'll break that child's arms and legs and sell him to the human traffickers in the big city to beg on the streets. That's another sum of money! Calculating it all together, a thousand or eight hundred taels is out of the question!"
Liu Er and Sun Laoyou's eyes lit up hearing this. They had done their fair share of petty theft and shady deeds.
Kidnapping children and selling them to human traffickers was also sothing they had done, so it wasn't unfamiliar.
It was just that after coming to Pingshui Town, they had restrained themselves quite a bit.
These past few years, they had land but didn't farm, relying entirely on acting like scoundrels to get by.
Watching others drink, gamble, and visit brothels in the city, they had long been unable to hold back.
Now hearing Wang Erlai's words, their hearts imdiately itched unbearably.
"But Zhang the Simpleton's child never runs around wildly, I'm afraid he won't be easy to kidnap, right?" Liu Er asked.
Wang Erlai snorted, "Tonight, the three of us will cover our faces and bring knives. As long as we don't make a sound, no one will recognize us. We'll just take him away by force. Would Zhang the Simpleton dare to fight us?"
"That's true." Liu Er licked his cracked lips and chuckled, "Then wouldn't it be better to loot his house clean while we're at it, and then ask for the ransom?"
Hearing this, Wang Erlai praised, "You're still the smart one, we'll do it just like that! And his woman, motherfucker, I must cop a feel tonight, I'm dying of urgency!"
"I see you don't just want to cop a feel, you also want to execute her right in front of Zhang the Simpleton, right?" Sun Laoyou laughed weirdly.
Wang Erlai asked, "You don't want to?"
Sun Laoyou also licked his lips, the aning self-evident.
Such a beautiful woman, how could they not want to.
The three muttered to each other, discussing where to get a few pieces of black cloth to cover their faces, and then steal a few sharp knives.
If Zhang Sanchun didn't resist, they would just take the money and leave.
If he resisted, they would definitely give him three knives and six holes, teaching him a long lesson!
The three squatted under a tree plotting, completely unaware that a crow was squatting in the branches above, hearing all of this clearly.
Its round eyes rolled a few tis, and then it flapped its wings and flew away.
Wang Erlai looked up, then touched his still-aching head. Feeling a hand full of blood, he couldn't help but curse out loud, "Damned beasts!"
[End of Chapter]
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