Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 1041: Greed Is Never Satisfied (2)

Chapter 1041: Chapter 1041: Greed Is Never Satisfied (2)

"Mmm, Shengsheng isn’t scared, not scared..."

Under the comfort of her two elder sisters, Shengsheng gradually forgot her previous fear, and her little head drooped bit by bit, obviously feeling at ease; she started to doze off.

Mo Yan, seeing her drowsy state, scooped her up and walked into the house, "Go to sleep, tonight you’ll sleep with your sisters."

Upon hearing this, Shengsheng completely relaxed, her two little hands clutching Mo Yan’s neck, and she tilted her head and confidently fell asleep.

Mo Yan smiled faintly, gently placed the little one on the bed, and covered her with a thin quilt. After doing all this, she said to Xin Er, "It’s almost dawn, you should also hurry back to sleep."

Xin Er dawdled and didn’t want to leave, hugging her elder sister’s arm and acting coquettishly, "Sister, let me sleep here tonight as well. Otherwise, if that scary noise comes again, it might really scare me to death."

Speaking of this, she remembered the scream she heard in her sleep and asked belatedly, "Sister, what exactly was that sound? It sounded like someone was screaming!"

Mo Yan, amused, tapped her younger sister’s forehead and got up to take a thin quilt from the wardrobe and spread it on the bed, "Don’t worry about what that sound was, just get some sleep."

Xin Er, hearing this and knowing her elder sister must be aware, let out a sigh of relief and, chuckling, kicked off her shoes and hugged the quilt, rolling on the big bed, "I won’t worry, then. As long as you don’t send me away, it’s settled."

Worried she would wake Shengsheng, Mo Yan patted her sister’s restless legs and warned, "If you don’t go to sleep, I’ll have Mao Tuan take you back to your own room."

Xin Er shrank her neck and quickly buried herself in the quilt, leaving only her head out, "I’m sleeping, I’m sleeping. Please don’t call that guy over."

Besides being as gentle as a kitten with her elder sister, that big guy was downright hostile to everyone else. If it were to escort her, half her life would be at the mercy of its claws.

Seeing her younger sister settle down, Mo Yan no longer bothered with her and stood up to walk to the outer room, planning to take a bath in Space before sleeping. But someone knocked on the door again—it was Xianglan.

Thinking Mo Yan unaware of a thief sneaking in, Xianglan briefly recounted the incident before asking for Mo Yan’s opinion, "County Lord, Grandpa has already awakened that bad man, but it seems there’s something wrong with his mind; he can’t even clarify who he is. Grandpa sent me to ask the County Lord how to deal with him."

Something wrong with his mind? Mo Yan’s brows furrowed. Could it be that the Golden Beast had frightened the person into stupidity?

Considering the possibility, Mo Yan felt uneasy and asked Xianglan with a glimmer of hope, "You all don’t recognize that person?"

Xianglan shook her head, "There’s only the Chen Family Village nearby, and we recognize all the villagers. We have never seen this person before."

After a moment of thought, Mo Yan said to Xianglan, "Have your Grandpa continue to interrogate him. I will come over shortly."

"Yes, I’ll go right away." Xianglan bowed to Mo Yan and immediately headed for the front yard.

Mo Yan quickly went to where the Six Beasts were sleeping and asked the Golden Beast what was the matter with that person. Even the Golden Beast seemed confused, having only rushed out when it sensed disturbances outside the courtyard. As to whether it had frightened the person into fainting, it didn’t know and just kept shaking its head at Mo Yan.

At that moment, Xue Tuanzi’s voice appeared in Mo Yan’s mind, "Don’t worry, I’ve checked just now. That guy wasn’t scared silly by Xiao Jin. He sneaked into the yard because he was egged on by a few tenants from Chen Family Village. Their goal was to test you and see if you were easy to bully."

Upon hearing this, Mo Yan’s expression darkened.

A few days prior, those tenants had come to pay their rent, attempting as before to privately deduct one tenth of the produce and pay rent with just nine-tenths of the remainder. Zhao Dafu had exposed the matter on the spot, demanding them to surrender the privately held rice or else he would report truthfully to the new master of Tianzhuang.