The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 218 Asking for help
The General's Residence, Guest Courtyard.

The baby-faced boy proudly showed off his newfound prize to his buddies: "You tell me, isn't she well-behaved?"

The group of spoiled brats were stunned by the fact that this kid had stormed into their door and only managed to snatch back a baby.

A horse was traded for a baby?

She's an excessively beautiful baby.

She has a head of shiny black, soft curly hair.

It was about five or six inches long and very fluffy.

It looks like its head is a size bigger than that of a typical baby.

On her fair and chubby little face, there were still red marks left from when she slept.

She yawned out of boredom.

Her petal-like little mouth opened into an O shape.

The young nobles were completely charmed by her adorable gesture, their hearts melting and feeling soft and tingly.

Even Zhao Rui's hands, which were tucked into his sleeves, involuntarily reached out.

Which family doesn't have nieces, nephews, or half-sisters?
They used to only glance at these puppies that looked like they were only a few months old.

It's impossible for someone to hug you on their own initiative.

Even those with no common sense know that babies are spineless and will fall to the ground if not held properly.

But the baby-faced playboy carried him the whole way and still can't bear to put him down.

He even boasted to everyone:
"The little one is so fragrant and soft all over, without a trace of poop or pee! So clean and smells so good, and didn't cry or fuss when Ang held her! If Ang's future children are all this well-behaved, Ang would be happy to raise ten daughters!"

Hearing him say that, the rich kids became even more eager and crowded around, wanting to get a closer look at the doll.

"Come on, Ang wants to try it too!"

"Wow, was she laughing just now?"

"Hey, hey, do you even know how to hold a baby? Don't use so much force!"

Zhao Rui, who was on the outside of the circle, got anxious: "Stop arguing, bring him over here!"

Everyone: "."

I never imagined that even the eldest son of the Marquis's mansion could be so smitten with this little baby.

Not to mention how spoiled rich kids competed to hold and play with the children.

Take the Luo family's side for example.

After the baby-faced playboy and his entourage left, she struggled to her feet.

Her tailbone was injured again, and the pain was so bad that she couldn't straighten her back.

She endured the pain and slowly made her way to the gate of the courtyard. Her cries for help were so loud, yet not a single neighbor came to her aid.

In crucial moments, we still have to rely on our in-laws!
An hour later.

Gan Minglan was still dealing with cow, horse, and sheep manure at the Junma Mountain Valley Ranch when her father, sweating profusely, came looking for her.

Gan Minglan was completely bewildered by her father's hurried and frantic speech.

With a "thud," the manure shovel in my hand fell to the ground.

She picked at her ear and asked incredulously, "Dad, what did you just say? Those spoiled brats came to my house and forcibly took Yuanyuan away?"

Was it because she didn't break enough of the dog's legs with the stick that day?

They went to my house in broad daylight to snatch my child!

Gan Hongzhen wiped his face with his sleeve: "Your mother-in-law came to tell us that the reason those playboys came to our door was that the marmot that Fatty was playing with bit off the leg of their black horse, which was worth three hundred taels of silver. They came to our door to demand compensation for the horse, and they saw Yuanyuan when they came into your house to rob you."

"Ha!" Gan Minglan was so angry at this powerful reason that she laughed.

She didn't believe that King Atu would bite the other party's horse leg bone for no reason.

She was certain that King Atu, who was protective of his cub, would only intervene when the cub's personal safety was threatened.

Being able to control the mount and not kill it directly is already a great act of restraint.

Immediately, Gan Minglan handed over the ten fat sheep she had selected earlier that day to her father, and then rode her wild horse, Ma Wang, back to the city.

For some reason, Deputy Commander Xiong's right eyelid started twitching early this morning.

I rubbed it for a long time but it didn't work.

He even caught his personal guards and asked, "The old saying goes, 'Left eye twitching means good fortune, right eye twitching means bad luck,' or 'left eye twitching means bad luck, right eye twitching means good fortune?'"

The personal guard looked up at his commander's incessantly twitching right eye and answered firmly:
"A twitching right eye means good fortune, a twitching left eye means disaster! Didn't the letter the Marquis sent back yesterday say that he had secretly captured the leader of the Po Jun army? It seems that he has completely taken control of Xijing City!"

The capital city of Xijing is far more prosperous than their remote northwestern border prefectures.

The two were happily counting on their fingers how much military pay and grain they would receive this time.

A servant from the General's mansion burst in, wailing, "Vice General Xiong, save me! Vice General Xiong, please save our young master!"

As Zhao Muyun's right-hand man, Deputy Commander Xiong's heart jumped into his throat when he saw that the person was a servant from the Commander's Mansion:
"What happened to your young master?"

"That one, that big one, it's that Jade-Faced Rakshasa, she just broke into the General's mansion and broke the arms and legs of the eldest young master and more than a dozen other young masters!"

The servant dared not recall how, just a quarter of an hour earlier, that woman, so beautiful she seemed otherworldly, had entered the general's mansion and, without batting an eye, had broken a leg or an arm with a single blow of a wooden stick.

On the spot, he made more than a dozen young masters who had never suffered since birth faint from the pain.

"Tell me, how did you all provoke Captain Gan?" The flames shooting from Deputy Commander Xiong's eyes made the servant tremble.

"That's it, that's it."

The servant described it timidly and haltingly.

Young Master Wang's horse from Huaiqing Prefecture suffered a great loss at the gate of Courtyard No. 36.

When we went to the other party's house to demand compensation, the old woman made all sorts of excuses.

In the end, having no other choice, young Master Wang had to take the family's child to pay off the debt.

"We really didn't know that the chubby boy was Captain Gan's eldest son, let alone that the baby was Jade-Faced Rakshasa's little daughter. And then, Young Master Wang just carried that baby back to Huaiqing Prefecture half an hour ago."
From beginning to end, our young master didn't lay a finger on the child! It wasn't even his idea to take the child away; he even gave the child a can of milk powder so the child wouldn't go hungry on the way! How could Jade-Faced Rakshasa punish everyone involved? Shouldn't it be a matter of assigning blame to the perpetrators?

As the attendant helped his young master find a remedy, he cautiously observed the livid face of Deputy Commander Xiong.

The other person squeezed out a sentence through gritted teeth: "So, Captain Gan's little daughter was snatched away by your young master's friend?"

"Is it robbery? No, it's not robbery! It's to repay the three hundred taels of silver! You be the judge, what kind of baby is worth that price?"

"Alright! Now get out of here, get as far away as you can!"

The attendants dared not leave, and instead clung to Deputy Commander Xiong's leg, wailing and howling.

His eldest son's wound needs to be treated by a good doctor.

The eldest son's grievances still need to be addressed by Deputy Commander Xiong.

No matter how hard-working and meritorious the Jade-Faced Rakshasa was, there was no reason for her to cripple the young masters of the noble families of Huaiqing Prefecture.

The more spoiled a child is, the more pampered they are at home.

Only those who are loved can act without restraint.

(End of this chapter)