After hearing this, Chen Mi’s face turned dark with anger.
“That thief better not fall into my hands; if they do fall into my hands, then I will chop them into bits,” Chen Mi clenched his fists and cussed angrily.
Fang Chi, on the other hand, looked at Yu Dong and asked, “Dong Dong, do you suspect someone?”
Yu Dong pursed her lips and said calmly, “Many. But I cannot go ahead and point someone out without any evidence, can I?” She pursed her lips in a smile and lightly snickered, “Anyway, we don’t need to think too much. The one who stole Little Goat and the rest of the cattle must be someone who hates the guts of our family.”
Xiao Hua snorted when he heard her words. “They are too much. Just because they hate your family, they brazenly stole Little Goat and the cattle. Do they ever stop to think whether or not this was even necessary? I mean, what kind of person would do such a thing?”
“That’s the thing,” Shen Li spoke sagely. “People like these are so blinded by their own hatred and anger that they do not see anything else. In their eyes, maybe our family owes something to them and it was only right for them to steal Little Goat and the cattle to cause trouble for our family.”
He smiled lightly before adding, “If they thought carefully, do you think they would have stolen Little Goat and the cattle?”
“But what should we do now?” Chen Mi asked worriedly and the rest of the mers turned to look at Yu Dong, who pursed her lips and said to him, “First of all, we will call the Yamen officers.”
She sighed when she thought about how the Yamen officers had to run back and forth because of her and her family.
“With how many trips those poor Yamen officers had to make, I might as well make a separate building for them in this village.”
And as much as they believed that Yu Dong was going too far with her joke, they had to admit that what she said did make sense. With the number of trips that the Yamen officers made, it was better for them to open a branch of Yamen in the village as well.
“But what are we going to do after calling the Yamen officers?” Grandma Yu asked with a worried expression. “Can they even find Little Goat without any evidence or traces?”
Yu Dong smiled when she heard her grandmother’s words. She turned to look at the elderly woman and smirked, “Do you think that I only left a few mammies to guard around the village?”
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone frowned, causing Yu Dong to chuckle as she whistled and a second later, three to four shadow guards who followed her and the mer husbands appeared in front of her, out of thin air.
“Oh my!” Chen Mi gasped as he stepped back and looked at the four women who were dressed in complete black. “Who are they?” he asked while staring at the women in front of him.
“They are the shadow guards who protect our family when I am not here,” Yu Dong replied. She had finally gained control of these guards; in the past they were more loyal towards Li Wan and Qiao Sha but after she dealt with Shu Ying for Qiao Sha, that woman had let go of these shadow guards.
Now they answered her completely.
“Do you have an order for us, Madam?” the leader of the shadow guard asked.
“Yes,” Yu Dong nodded. “Go and track down the ones who captured Little Goat and the cattle. I don’t think that they might have already transported the cattle out of the village and must be biding their time.”
“Yes,” the shadow guards clasped their hands and then disappeared.
On the other hand, the people who were hiding in the back of the mountain couldn’t help but curse their luck.
“If I had known that such a thing was going to happen, I would have never agreed to come here.” Yu’er looked at the villagers and the mammies who were standing in the middle of their path.
All of them were busy searching for the cattle that were stolen and if this continued, then Yu’er and the rest were worried that they would be beaten black and blue by the time they escaped from this village.
The others agreed with her as well. If they had known that such a thing was going to happen, then they would have refused to come here.
“What nonsense are you talking about?” A haughty woman glared at the women whom her mother had hired. “Are you saying that you are going to leave these cattle here? I am telling you that there is no way you can leave without taking these cattle with us!”
Her mother had gone through so much to get her hands on these cattle; how could they leave just like that?
Yu’er turned to look at the woman and said to her angrily, “What do you mean by taking these cattle along with us? Do you think that we can do such a thing, Miss Zheng? The entire village is searching for these cattle; if we try to move them, then we will be caught.”
“I don’t know anything about it!” Miss Zheng snapped angrily. “All I know is that I want to get these cattle out of the village.”
Yu Dong had caused a lot of damage to their mill in the city. Not only did she refine an oil that was better than the one that they were selling but she sold it to Li Wan.
They couldn’t even snatch the formula from her now with the magistrate backing her. If not for Yu Dong, nothing like this would have happened to their family. Since she did such a thing it was only right for them to snatch her business as well. Who asked her to steal from them?
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