Chapter 23 Inciting the Bear Child to Teach the Evil Servant a Lesson

The woman’s son looked to be about eight years old. His voice wasn’t loud, but many people still heard him.

“What kind of person is this? He wants to buy someone else’s child just like that!”

“Shh! Keep your voice down, he’s the young master of Wan’s Wine Shop.”

“Wan’s Wine Shop? The number one restaurant in the county?”

Hearing these voices, Shen Nian immediately pricked up her ears.

“I heard that this Young Master Wan is the old son of Master Wan, a lawless little ancestor. His elder sister is the most favored concubine of the county magistrate, and she spoils him rotten!”

“Last time, Young Master Wan took a fancy to a fighting cock and had his guards steal it! This time, he took a fancy to a little girl, wouldn’t he be trying to force a sale?”

Everyone couldn’t help but cast a sympathetic look at Shen Nian.

What a good child!

Shen Dong and Shen Nan heard these voices and were so angry that their eyes were blazing. They fiercely looked towards the carriage. The woman’s son was still struggling and refusing to get on the carriage.

Seeing them looking over, Madam Wan immediately crossed her arms and glared, “What are you looking at? My son wants the doll in your hands…”

Before she could finish, Shen Dong and Shen Nan, holding Shen Nian, turned and ran.

Madam Wan: “…!?”

Young Master Wan was the first to react and ordered the guards beside him, “Chase after them, bring my maid back!”

He hadn’t even bought her yet, and he was already calling her his maid. He was so arrogant!

The guards were about to chase after them, but Madam Wan was furious and said, “What are you chasing after? Get back here.”

Could they go and snatch someone else’s child in broad daylight? Would the Wan family’s face be left?

…

The Wan family had over a dozen guards. Although Shen Dong and Shen Nan were good fighters, they were outnumbered. They were carrying a child, so it wasn’t a good idea to fight. They ran as fast as they could.

The two of them had been running in the mountains for years, and they were as fast as wild monkeys. They held Shen Nian and darted into the crowd, disappearing without a trace.

After a long time, they were sure that no one was chasing them, so Shen Dong and Shen Nan took Shen Nian to a small noodle stall to eat noodles.

“What bad luck! We didn’t look at the almanac before we left, and we ran into someone with a screw loose!”

“He wants to buy Nian Nian to be a maid, where does that little brat get the nerve.”

Shen Dong and Shen Nan were both furious. They didn’t expect that their first trip to the county with Nian Nian would encounter the unreasonable Wan family, a tyrannical bully!

Shen Nian asked, “Dad, Second Uncle, is the Wan family very powerful?”

Shen Dong said, “Powerful? They only dare to be tyrants in our small county. Nian Nian, remember, if you ever encounter that Young Master Wan, fight if you can, run if you can’t.”

Shen Nian nodded and thought about it. She asked a few more questions about the Wan family.

The noodles came quickly, and the three of them buried their heads in eating. One bite, and it wasn’t good.

Shen Nian muttered, “It’s not as good as Grandpa’s.”

But even these not-so-delicious noodles cost four copper coins a bowl.

She glanced at the bustling street. The location was good, even if the taste was mediocre, people would still come.

The county was indeed more suitable for doing business than the town.

After eating noodles, the three of them went to the market to buy some lard, flour, peanuts, and other ingredients to take home.

When buying pork, the butcher saw that Shen Nian was intelligent and beautiful, and praised her. He said to Shen Dong and the others, “Several children have been lost in the county these days. Everyone says it’s the work of kidnappers. Those children haven’t been found yet. It’s said that every child is very beautiful. Your little girl is so cute, you have to keep a close eye on her, don’t let anyone with bad intentions target her.”

Shen Dong thought to himself, she’s already been targeted, by that little brat from the Wan family.

After buying the pork, the three of them were about to go to the county gate, but before they left the market, there was chaos ahead.

“You shameless woman, you cheated on me, and you even wanted to sell my son. I’ll beat you to death, you shameless poisonous woman!”

“Ah! Stop hitting me! I don’t even know you, give me back my son!”

“You stinky woman, you dare to pretend you don’t know me, I’m your man!”

“Son, I told you this woman is restless, now you see her true colors!”

In the chaotic crowd, a man and an old woman snatched a boy from a young woman, beating and scolding her, while the people around pointed at the woman, none of them went to help.

The boy was only two or three years old, and he was crying his heart out in the man’s arms.

The woman cried miserably, “I don’t know him, give me back my son, help! They’re kidnapping a child!”

But no one believed her.

Shen Nian saw this familiar and vicious routine and immediately understood what was going on: “Dad, go help that aunt, the little brother is going to be taken away!”

Shen Dong was in a dilemma: “Nian Nian, that’s other people’s business, we shouldn’t get involved.”

The man had finished beating her and threw a piece of paper at her: “This is the divorce paper, get as far away from me as possible!”

Then he picked up the boy and left, the old woman following close behind.

The woman wanted to get up and chase after them, but she didn’t have the strength. Seeing her son being taken away, her eyes were filled with despair.

“Lei’er!”

The man had run a few steps and was about to blend into the crowd with the old woman when Shen Dong stopped him.

Shen Dong didn’t say a word, he quickly snatched the child from the man’s hands and kicked him in the stomach: “You bastard, you dare to beat a woman in the street, you’re a real piece of trash!”

The man clutched his stomach, his face contorted in pain, and he curled up on the ground.

The old woman was startled: “Who are you? Why are you hitting my son? Give me back my grandson! You’re kidnapping a child!”

Shen Dong didn’t care if she was an old woman, he kicked her: “You old hag, you dare to cry wolf! Is that woman really your daughter-in-law? Is this child really your grandson? You and your son should take a look in the mirror, with your ugly faces, could you give birth to such a beautiful child?”

He shouted to the people around him: “Don’t be fooled, this is a scam, these two are kidnappers!”

The woman crawled over, crying and shouting: “Lei’er, my son! Everyone listen to me, these two are not my husband and mother-in-law, my husband’s family name is Zhang, my husband is also in the county…”

“Wife, where are you?” A familiar voice suddenly came.

The woman was overjoyed and shouted, “Husband, we’re here, come quickly! Someone is kidnapping our son!”

Hearing this, the man and the old woman who had just gotten up from the ground turned pale and ran away, disappearing into the crowd in a blink of an eye.

The onlookers were finally enlightened.

“Those two really had something to do with it!”

“My goodness! They really are kidnappers? That’s terrifying!”

“Move aside, let me in!” A man squeezed through the crowd, saw the woman on the ground and was shocked: “Wife, what happened to you? Who hit you?”

The woman got up from the ground: “It was two bad guys.”

Shen Dong stuffed the sobbing boy into the woman’s husband’s arms: “You’re just in time, watch your son, don’t let him be kidnapped again.”

The woman’s husband was confused: “What’s going on?”

The onlookers immediately started chattering.

After understanding the situation, the woman’s husband was both self-blaming and regretful.

“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have let you come to buy vegetables alone with the child.”

“These villains are so lawless, they dare to commit crimes in broad daylight!”

“By the way, where is the benefactor?”

The woman’s husband wanted to thank Shen Dong, but when he looked around, he found that Shen Dong was gone.

Shen Dong went to find Shen Nan and Shen Nian. When he got there, he found that Shen Nan was unconscious and lying on the ground, and Shen Nian was nowhere to be seen.