Becoming wealthy by raising furry animals

Chapter 34: Taking Back Xiaobao’s Custody (2)

As soon as Ban You ran into the yard, he saw Li Yiyi holding Xiaobao in her arms, and Zheng Laocai, with a red face, pulling Xiaobao's arm. Xiaobao grabbed Li Yiyi's clothes tightly and refused to leave with Zheng Laocai.

Seeing this, she ran forward and used all her strength to separate Zheng Laocai and Xiaobao. Then she squatted on the ground and held Li Yiyi and Xiaobao in her arms.

"Zheng Laocai! If you have something to say, go talk to an adult. Why are you pulling Xiaobao? Can't you see how hard he's crying?" Ban You said with anger in his tone.

"Bah! He's my son, he should go back with me. If it weren't for this damn woman giving me a tael of silver each time, I would never have let them meet."

"Since my sister gave you the silver, why did you come here to cause trouble?"

"Bah! She's the boss's wife now! One tael of silver is not enough! If you want to see the child, you have to give me ten taels of silver every time!"

"Ten taels!" When Ban You heard Zheng Laocai's exorbitant asking price, she was so angry that she stood up and pointed at Zheng Laocai and started cursing!

"You still dare to ask for ten taels of silver? Do you deserve it? I'm very kind to give you one tael of silver for Xiaobao's sake. Before the divorce, you were always greedy. After the divorce, do you still plan to suck my blood to support your family? Are you shameless? How can you be a man with no future and still rely on a woman to support you? Look at yourself, what you wear and use now, even your concubine's food and clothing, which one was not bought with my money? How dare you come here to ask for money? Do you have the nerve?"

Zheng Laocai was furious at Ban You's conversation and retorted directly, "You little bitch, this is my business, stop meddling in other people's business and get out of here right now. Otherwise, I'll beat you up too!"

"You dare!" Ban You stood in front of Li Yiyi with his arms open.

"The laws of the Great Zhou state that anyone who intentionally assaults another person will be punished with twenty strokes of the cane. If you dare to touch me today, I will file a complaint with the county government!"

"You!" Zheng Laocai was so frightened by Ban You that he didn't know what to do for a moment. He could only swear, "Just wait, I'll make you pay one day!"

He left in a rage after making these harsh words, and the people around him dispersed one by one.

Aunt Wang had been stopped by Cuicui all the time. Now that she saw Zheng Laocai leaving, she rushed out, hugged Li Yiyi and Xiaobao and started crying.

Ban You's eyes were red when she saw this scene. Judging from her current condition, she could not return to You'an Hall, so she called Cuicui over.

"Cui Cui, please go to You'an Hall and tell the staff to let one of them stay in the store today. I have something to do today, so I won't be going back."

"Eh."

Ban You turned to look at Li Yiyi and the other two and whispered comfortingly, "Get up first. Let's go back to the house first. Don't stay here. The ground is cold."

After she finished speaking, she helped the others back to the main hall.

Li Yiyi wiped her tears and stopped crying, then told Ban You what had happened.

After hearing this, Ban You slammed the table hard: "He actually hit Xiaobao after drinking. How dare he do that!"

"Xiaobao is under his care now, so why wouldn't he dare?" Li Yiyi started crying again. "I only now realize that he took Xiaobao away so readily just so he could use him to extort money from me later. I feel so sorry for my Xiaobao."

"Now that Mr. Zheng has been unable to find work since his divorce from me, he's been using Xiaobao to extort money and even forbidding him from attending private school. If Xiaobao hadn't come and told me today, I wouldn't have known what had happened to him."

Ban You felt very sad when he saw Li Yiyi crying.

"Sister, don't worry. There's always a way. Now we should think about how to get Xiaobao back from Zheng Laocai."

"There's nothing I can do. I asked him, but he refused to give Xiaobao to me no matter what. He even brought up the law. My laws are really strict now, and I don't know where he heard that from. He just insisted that Xiaobao belong to him and refused to give Xiaobao to me no matter what."

"Sister, since he said the law has something to say, do you have a complete copy of the Great Zhou Law that you can lend me to take a look at?"

Li Yiyi shook his head: "We are all illiterate common people, how could we understand those things? Even what we know on a daily basis is what we heard from others."

Ban You thought about it and had some ideas in his mind.

After she finally comforted the three of them and they fell asleep, Ban You began to think about how to bring Xiaobao back.

But she thought about it for a long time and couldn't come up with any good solution.

Just as she was about to fall asleep, the door was suddenly pushed open.

"Miss Ban, something happened at You'an Hall!" "What!"

When Ban You arrived at You'an Hall, he saw that the front and back yards were both burned. Although the fire had been put out, it still showed signs of gradually expanding.

Seeing this, Ban You wanted to run in, but was stopped by someone nearby.

"The fire is still going on. It's too dangerous. You can't go in now!"

"My children are in there! How can I not go in! Let me go!" Ban You looked at the man who stopped him, his eyes red and glaring.

The man was also frightened by her eyes and gradually loosened her sleeves. She suddenly shook him off and rushed into the fire.

When she arrived at the place where the little ones lived, she found that the doors and windows were broken, and the little ones were no longer inside.

"Laicai! Heiqiu! Fubao! Where are you?"

Ban You shouted, but there was no movement from the little ones!
At this moment, Ban You felt like the sky was falling.

"Xinbao! Xuezhao! Jinzi! Yinzi! Where are you?" Ban You searched for a long time but couldn't find them. As the wind blew, the fire gradually spread, but she still couldn't find them.
As time passed, her heart gradually grew colder.

Just then, Zhou Heng appeared out of nowhere, picked her up and ran out.

"Let me go! What are you doing!?"

"Are you crazy? There's such a big fire, why don't you leave? What are you doing?"

"They're gone! They're gone! I need to find them!"

"I'll ask someone to help you find it, now hurry up and leave with me!"

"Let me go! I haven't found them yet! I don't know whether they are alive or dead, how can you let me leave!"

Zhou Heng had no choice but to search with Ban You.

"Okay! If you want to find it, I'll accompany you!"

At this moment, Zhou Heng, with his sharp ears, heard some noises near the pool. He pulled Ban You over there and saw several little guys hiding in the pool, while Xinbao was standing aside to guard them.

"Scabbard!"

Duo Shao hurriedly ran in with his men, picked up the little ones without saying a word and ran out.

"Go quickly!"

They moved very quickly and before Ban You could react, they had already run out with the little ones in their arms, not even letting go of the fish in the pond.

Zhou Heng also helped Ban You run out.

Outside on the street, Aunt Wang and Li Yiyi were also waiting anxiously with Xiaobao. When they saw Ban You coming out, they were about to go to greet him but were stopped.

"Liu Xian, I'll take her to Zuixianlou first. You go talk to them and send someone to send them back."

Zhou Heng said, looking at Ban You: "Your pets have been taken to Zuixianlou. I will take you there now."

Ban You's mind was blank now. He only heard Zhou Heng say that he took the little ones to Zuixianlou, and then he left with Zhou Heng.

　New chapter is here.

　　Modified a little bit.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)