Chapter 142
142 Falsify
They’d gone out at dawn. When they went to town to sell candied hawthorns, they encountered Grandma Zhou and chatted with Murong Run for a while. Actually, it did not take long.
The round trip took 5 hours. When they arrived home, it was not time for dinner yet.
Compared to the last time they went out, they received a warm welcome this time.
Because he saw that they had returned so early, Wang Chuanman, who had been guarding the village entrance, hurriedly asked, “How is it? Are they all sold out this time?”
“That’s right, they’re all sold out!” Wang Dalang said.
However, he did not look very happy.
When everyone arrived home with Wang Chuanman, Wang Dalang told everyone what had happened in town.
Wang Chuanman was so angry that he immediately stood up. “What? You were actually stopped! If I had known, I would have followed you to town!”
The last time, Wang Chuanman followed them to town. Seeing that the children had begun to chat with the surrounding people, he secretly left.
Then, on the way, he secretly waited for them without letting the children know.
This time, Wang Chuanman was not so meticulous. In the end, he did not expect that something would go wrong with the children the moment they went out alone.
Old Madam Wang immediately thought that it must be that Grandma Zhou playing tricks.
For the past two days, Old Madam Wang had not been idle. She had roughly found out who was behind this and had also obtained some information about Grandma Zhou.
She was a ruthless character. It was said that she had defeated several matchmakers back then to obtain the chance to be a matchmaker in the county city.
After going to the county city, she despised her husband and did not return home all year round.
In Nanhe Town, Grandma Zhou’s reputation was very bad.
In today’s society, women who appeared in public and rarely returned home would never have a good reputation.
Matchmaking was also a lowly profession. Although marriage required matchmaking, as long as there was a choice, the children of good families would not let a matchmaker interfere.
“Mother, didn’t you say that Lord Zhang already wants to intervene in this matter? Why is that person still so arrogant! She actually hired someone to capture our child!” Liu Shi felt a lingering fear when she heard this. If not for the help of a kind person, would Little Ah Yu have been captured by now?
Why was Little Ah Yu’s fate so complicated?
Why were these people always making things difficult for her? She was just a child!
Old Madam Wang: “Lord Zhang is very busy every day, and he always has other things to do. It’s impossible for him to settle everything in a day or two. But that Grandma Zhou is indeed too arrogant. Don’t go to town for the next two days.”
It would have been fine if something had happened around the village. Since they were going to Nanhe Town, it was a place beyond their reach.
After all, they were only outsiders. They barely had a foothold in Hu Family Village and had nothing to do with Nanhe Town.
“That won’t do. Big Brother Murong is still waiting for us. We still have to go to town tomorrow!” When Little Ah Yu heard that they shouldn’t go to town, she was anxious. They had promised him.
Wang Erlang hurriedly said, “That’s right. This is the second thing we want to talk about. Young Master Murong Run, who bought all our fruits previously, wants to buy our new fruits again.”
Previously, they had only told them about Grandma Zhou. Now, they accounted the matter about Murong Run.
Everyone’s attention was on the fruit. What kind of fruit was it?
Was it the ones that Little Ah Yu usually ate?
Although no one had seen 100 taels of silver before, they still looked at it curiously.
Could this thing be exchanged for 100 taels of silver?
Oh my god, that was 100 taels!
They had never seen so much money before.
Even when Mother sold the truffles, the money did not reach them.
Speaking of truffles, they thought of Doctor Hu, who even helped sell the Paris polyphylla.
The Paris polyphylla was priceless. They had seen Doctor Hu look for Old Madam Wang again, but they did not tell everyone how much the Paris polyphylla was sold for.
The Wang family had also guessed that it would be less than the truffles.
After all, it was impossible for all the herbs to be so expensive.
Old Madam Wang had no intention of telling them.
“Alright, go do your things. I’ll handle this matter.”
Old Madam Wang chased everyone away without any explanation and pulled Little Ah Yu into the house.
Old Madam Wang asked, “Ah Yu, tell Grandma, did you give away the fruits from that place?”
Little Ah Yu nodded. “That’s right. Big Brother Murong is a good person. Ah Yu wants to share the fruits with him.”
Seeing Old Madam Wang’s serious expression, Little Ah Yu asked belatedly, “Grandma, did Ah Yu do something wrong? Should I not give the fruit to others?”
Actually, Little Ah Yu also knew that she could not take out the things in the spatial pocket casually, but the fruits were different. They were gone after eating.
It shouldn’t be anything serious.
Little Ah Yu naturally could not think of a deeper problem.
“It’s alright, so be it.” To be safe, Old Madam Wang still communicated with Meatball through Little Ah Yu.
She mainly wanted to know what the attitude of the Guardian God was.
After communicating, Old Madam Wang said to Little Ah Yu, “Put the fruits in Grandma’s room… Forget it, enter the mountain with Grandma later.”
Old Madam Wang’s thoughts were very simple. She wanted to bring Little Ah Yu to a further place in the mountains, especially a place that no one had been to. Then, she would get Little Ah Yu to take out the wild fruit vines from her space and plant them, pretending that they were originally growing in the mountains.
Actually, it was not impossible to take out the wild fruits directly and trade with Murong Run behind the Wang family’s back.
However, Old Madam Wang was a little cautious. She was afraid that this matter would still be traced back to the source, so she might as well put on a good show from the beginning.
Little Ah Yu naturally listened to Old Madam Wang. While the family was busy cooking dinner, the two of them went to the mountains. Little Ah Yu took out a few wild fruit vines from her space.
Old Madam Wang dug a hole with her hoe and planted them. Then, she plucked all the fruits from the vines and placed them in the basket.
Looking at the already bare wild fruit vines, Old Madam Wang’s heart ached.
These wild fruit vines belonged to the public now. In the future, others could pluck them when they saw them.
However, for the sake of Little Ah Yu’s safety, they had no choice but to do this.
Otherwise, Little Ah Yu’s spatial pocket would be exposed.
In any case, not everyone in the village had a chance to walk into the mountains. Coupled with the previous incident with the divine rain, everyone tacitly agreed that some strange plants would appear in the mountains. They would not be surprised to see this in the future.
[Kid, you still have to plant some in your land. Only then can you complete the mission.]
Meatball reminded her in time.
Hence, Little Ah Yu followed Old Madam Wang to their field and planted a few more wild fruit vines.
Then, they removed the fruits on it because this mountainous area was filled with all kinds of wild fruits. Some of them were even red.
The mutated wild fruit vines looked no different from other wild fruit vines, so it was very easy to disguise them.
The next day, Old Madam Wang brought her three sons and two grandsons to Nanhe Town valiantly.
For safety’s sake, Little Ah Yu did not go.
However, four hours later, Meatball said to Little Ah Yu in the spatial pocket.
[Kid, good news! The progress of your mission has increased greatly! You’re only 200 taels away from completing it!]
Meatball could not believe it. It was originally worried that it would take a few years to complete the mission. Now, in less than a month, she had actually completed half of it.
Only Little Ah Yu was curious. What did Grandma and the others do in town?