Chapter 72: Quickly Stop Them
“No more noise, no more noise, Wanwan can still buy, still buy.”
Hearing her words, the border army immediately relaxed.
Qin Wanwan: “I’ll buy it when I go back to Father Xie Chong’s.”
Shang Wuyang: Heh… This little one is thinking of leaving after only a few days of recognizing a father.
Feeling displeased, he directly picked up the child and held him under his arm.
Qin Wanwan was upside down, but it didn’t feel uncomfortable.
“Daddy, you have to do good deeds.”
Shang Wuyang said nothing.
“City Lord Shang, why are you holding the child like that? Aren’t you going to give him to us!”
The people from the City Lord’s Mansion immediately came forward to block them: “Miss Wanwan hasn’t said anything, why are you all worrying so much?”
This kind of argument happened almost every day.
The potatoes bought from the mall had not yet sprouted, so Shang Wuyang had people place them in a moist area to encourage sprouting.
They also notified people to collect and identify livestock.
As for the pasture grass Qin Wanwan mentioned, since there was none, other grasses would be used as a temporary substitute.
Qin Wanwan remembered many methods for making fertilizer.
When describing them, she spoke quite simply. A child’s language system is not very rich, so she stammered.
Keke helped by explaining some of the words Shang Wuyang didn’t understand.
For example, fermentation.
After Shang Wuyang recorded everything with a brush pen, he had someone take Qin Wanwan to bathe.
He then handed the prescription for making fertilizer to the butler.
“Have people follow this.”
Leaning back on a chair, Shang Wuyang held a fan and habitually tapped his palm rhythmically with it when thinking.
“A three-year-old child knows far too much.”
But judging by Qin Wanwan’s appearance, she didn’t seem to understand very well; it was more like someone else had told her.
However, a three-year-old child’s memory shouldn’t be so clear.
Everything about Qin Wanwan and Keke was a mystery.
But Shang Wuyang had no intention of investigating further; instead, he would cover for the little ones.
After all, no matter what, she called him Daddy.
“Uncle Wen.”
Uncle Wen, who was the butler, came over.
“City Lord.”
“Notify people in all regions, especially those in disaster-stricken areas today, to distribute porridge and good deeds.”
Upon hearing this, the butler was surprised why Shang Wuyang suddenly wanted to distribute porridge and good deeds, but he didn’t ask further.
As servants, they only needed to carry out the matters ordered by the City Lord.
“Yes.”
That night, while Qin Wanwan was fast asleep, countless carrier pigeons flew out of the City Lord’s Mansion.
Before long, the people of Shangyang City, spread across various locations, would receive the news and begin doing good deeds, and Qin Wanwan’s merit points were about to see a significant increase.
In the time that followed, Shang Wuyang became busy, and Qin Wanwan could only see him at night.
However, news of Daddy being assassinated again reached her ears every few days.
Qin Wanwan went from being nervous and worried at the beginning to completely numb later on.
Yin Yuanli even sighed, “City Lord Shang’s life is more exciting than my Imperial Father’s.”
Everyone knew that being an emperor was a profession where one was often poisoned and faced assassination.
But the profession of City Lord Shang seemed even more dangerous.
The days in Shangyang City quickly passed with Qin Wanwan looking for Daddy every day and playing with fuzzy creatures.
It was time for them to leave.
It was also time for Yin Yuanli to return to Shangjing.
That day, the border army received a carrier pigeon.
‘Arriving at noon.’
Upon seeing this message, Colonel Lin and the others were so happy their eyes widened.
If the General didn’t come soon, they were afraid they wouldn’t be able to take Miss Wanwan away.
Now that Miss Wanwan called the City Lord Shang “Daddy” and spent her days dressed beautifully and eating delicious food, could she still be taken away?
It was troublesome; they could only hope the General would try.
After all, he was also Miss Wanwan’s Daddy.
Qin Wanwan didn’t know her Father Xie Chong was coming soon; at the moment, she was playing with a large group of animals by the stable.
The little red horse she had bought was in much better spirits; now that it ate and drank well every day, it was gaining weight.
The groom who specialized in raising horses had examined it. This little red horse was not yet an adult, but its skeleton was already large, almost as large as an adult horse’s skeleton. This was a fine horse!
It was just unlucky to have encountered someone ignorant who had mistreated it terribly. It would need to be well-cared for in the future.
Qin Wanwan remembered all this and wanted to buy some pasture grass for Father Shang to plant as well.
The horses would definitely grow better eating that pasture grass.
But she didn’t have enough merit points; they had been used to buy milk fruit.
“Little Red, be sure not to use your injured leg when you walk now.”
With a bone injury that lasted all day, Little Red’s bones had been crookedly set.
If Qin Wanwan hadn’t brought it back, and its crooked bones had healed that way, the horse would have been ruined.
After mixing fodder for Little Red, Qin Wanwan led a string of fuzzy creatures back.
The Great Lion also followed by her side.
Now, this Great Lion spent more time with Qin Wanwan than with Shang Wuyang.
On its big head sat a fluffy ball of goslings, and three little wolf pups scurried around.
The fox was well-behaved but particularly good at acting spoiled.
It whimpered with a limp, and Qin Wanwan, unable to bear it, picked it up.
This always provoked angry glances from the other animals.
Keke even cursed loudly, “You green tea fox spirit!”
The little fox was unfazed. It was a fox, after all. What was wrong with being a fox spirit? Wasn’t that a compliment?
As Qin Wanwan walked back, she encountered a group of people anxiously looking for her.
As soon as her soft, smiling face appeared, she raised her small hand, and before she could even greet them, Colonel Lin, who had rushed over, scooped her up.
“Miss Wanwan, the General is here, let’s go quickly!”
Father Xie Chong is here!
Qin Wanwan was also beaming with joy.
But…
“Wait, wait a moment.”
Seeing Uncle Lin and the others run out of the City Lord’s Mansion with her, Qin Wanwan began to struggle anxiously.
The border army soldiers’ hearts skipped a beat. Did Miss Wanwan really not want to leave?!
Qin Wanwan: “I have things, Wanwan’s things haven’t been taken.”
Hearing this, everyone immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
“No, the goslings, wolves, and fox are all with us.”
Qin Wanwan became anxious: “Treasures, treasures that Daddy gave Wanwan.”
Given by Shang Wuyang? That must be valuable.
This indeed could not be lost.
A group of straightforward big men ran back again.
Qin Wanwan returned to her room and laboriously carried out a small box containing the treasures.
That’s right, Qin Wanwan’s small pouch for her little treasury could no longer hold everything, so Shang Wuyang found her a small wooden box.
Stepping out of the room, she saw the border army and the City Lord’s Mansion’s guard army fighting.
Although they were all fighting bare-handed, the sound of their fists hitting people was painful to hear.
Qin Wanwan’s little mouth widened.
What… what happened?
“Miss Wanwan, come here quickly!”
Colonel Lin shouted loudly, used brute force to break through the encirclement, ran to Qin Wanwan’s side, hugged her, and under the cover of his comrades, he ran wildly.
“Quick, stop him!”
The butler was extremely anxious, to the point of slapping his thighs.
They absolutely couldn’t let Miss Wanwan escape!
Yin Yuanli and Wang Dequan were leisurely waiting at the entrance of the City Lord’s Mansion, and no one stopped them.
