Unlimited Resources: Raising a Minister with a Space Supermarket-Chapter 482 - 432: Madam Feng Entrusts Her Orphan

Yu Xiaolian didn’t expect Zhao Chunyu to have sold herself to Zheng Yuanfeng; Zheng Yuanfeng had never mentioned this to her.

"Auntie, do you know if my grandparents are still alive?" Yu Xiaolian finally asked the question she’d been longing to ask. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Mrs. Feng replied straightforwardly, "Your grandparents are dead. Your third uncle stole your grandmother’s money and ran away with the Qi Family’s member. I heard they fled south with the Qi Family.

Your grandparents initially went to escape the famine with your uncle, but later he returned alone and said your grandparents died on the way.

Your uncle stayed here for two years after his return. Later, your cousin Yu Zishu came back and took him away, probably to enjoy a good life. Your cousin was driving a carriage, all dressed up nicely."

Speaking of this, Mrs. Feng sighed deeply, feeling that life is like a drama. In just a few years, poor families are ruined, struggling to fill their stomachs, while the rich continue to live in luxury and stability.

The heavens are truly unfair.

Upon hearing that the old Yu and the old Madam Yu were dead and Yu Changfu had been taken away by Yu Zishu, Yu Xiaolian felt the task her father entrusted to her was no longer necessary.

With Yu Changfu at Yu Zishu’s place, there’s no way he’d lack food or clothing. As for her third uncle Yu Ziyi, no one knows where he escaped to. The south is so vast she can’t find him, nor does she want to.

"Madam, those people are coming with torches, it looks like they want to burn the house!"

Cao Gen suddenly rushed into the room and told Yu Xiaolian, "If the thatched house catches fire, it’ll fall apart in no time. Should we go out?"

Feng hurriedly pushed Zhao Ping and Yu Xiaolian out, "Go quickly, you must leave!"

Yu Xiaolian took Zhao Ping and was about to leave, but Zhao Ping didn’t want his mother to be left behind, waiting to be burned alive. He kept struggling, so Yu Xiaolian simply had Cao Gen carry Zhao Ping out.

As soon as Yu Xiaolian stepped out of the Zhao Family’s yard, Ma Dashan, with dozens of villagers, surrounded the Zhao Family’s gate completely.

"You’re not allowed to hurt my mother, or burn our house. Otherwise, when I grow up, I’ll kill you all." Zhao Ping continued to struggle in Cao Gen’s arms.

"Rest assured, they won’t dare!" Yu Xiaolian tried to soothe Zhao Ping’s agitated emotions.

"Who are you? What are you doing in our village?" Ma Dashan and the others all had thick coverings over their faces, with their noses and mouths tightly covered. They stood far away from the courtyard gate, not coming close at all.

Yu Xiaolian took out her handmade waist badge, walked a few steps forward to show it to Ma Dashan, who, as the village chief, could read.

Once Ma Dashan read the words on Yu Xiaolian’s waist badge, he was so frightened that the torch in his hand nearly fell to the ground.

"Yu Xiaolian?" Ma Dashan’s mood at the moment could no longer be described as mere surprise.

"It’s me!" Yu Xiaolian put away the waist badge, "I reckon you can see clearly now that I’m the emperor-appointed Seventh-rank Scholar Officer. Though I’m a civil servant, I can’t directly oversee village chiefs or the likes of you, my husband is the new County Magistrate in Yangcheng. I advise you not to act recklessly, otherwise, I’ll have my husband capture each of you as laborers to build fortifications and do hard labor."

Ma Dashan pointed a finger at Mrs. Feng inside the house, "But Mrs. Feng has the plague; it’s going to infect the whole village. Today, it doesn’t matter what kind of official you are, Mrs. Feng has to die. Other villages have burned quite a few people recently too, and the Government didn’t arrest them. Some villages managed to stop the epidemic effectively using this method, and I heard the Government even praised them!"

"Yes, if you prevent us from burning Mrs. Feng, you’re trying to have the whole River Bay village buried along with her, that’ll never do. Mrs. Feng must die today."

"Yes, Mrs. Feng must die. Over at South Bay, the Zheng Family’s daughter-in-law caught the plague, and the Village Chief couldn’t bear to burn his daughter-in-law. Eventually, the whole village got sick, and now, the government officers have surrounded South Bay for over three months. I heard there are more dead than alive in there, and the Government is just waiting until they’re nearly all dead to burn the village!"

"Yes, whoever tries to stop us is useless; Mrs. Feng must die. We can’t let her implicate us!"

The villagers chimed in one by one, making Zhao Ping even more emotional, while Cao Gen efficiently tapped Zhao Ping’s pressure point, immobilizing him.

"Killing privately is against the law. Even a County Magistrate needs three presentations before deciding on executing a criminal.