The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law

"Madam Gu, please don’t say that. No matter what, Youyou still bears the Gu surname. She has been taken care of through many years of illness, and now that she has recovered, you will still enjoy her blessings in the future!"

"Humph... enjoy blessings? Forget it, this old woman doesn’t have such luck. I just hope that debt-collecting ghost stops plaguing us!"

After a good deal of bustling, everyone finally settled down.

The village chief arrived, and the villagers who had been working in the fields also returned.

For Lotus Village, this was not just about Gu Youyou being kidnapped by the wild man; it also concerned the safety of everyone in the village.

The village chief was a man in his fifties, who spoke with a strong and powerful voice.

"Now it’s one person who has been taken, but this wild man, though he carries the word ’human,’ is much like the beasts in the mountains—wolves, tigers, and leopards—he lacks humanity. After taking one, there will be a second, a third, countless more. This wild man in the mountains threatens the safety of our entire village. If we don’t take action now, he will surely intensify his actions and come to kidnap more people.

So we must form a team to comb the mountains, and even if we can’t catch that wild man, we need to scare him, right? We can’t let him think we have no way to deal with him. Isn’t that right?"

Below, a hunter quickly responded: "Yes, many men from our village go hunting in the mountains during the slack farming season. If there’s always a wild man snatching people there, how can we continue to hunt?"

Organizing a hunting party to deal with the wild man was met with unanimous response, and soon several teams of men from Lotus Village were ready to head into the mountains while the sky was still light.

Jin Zijin was in the mountains and only realized something had happened when he heard the collective shouting from below upon his return.