Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 361 - 358: A Life Worth Less Than Grass

Living in this chaotic place, the laborers just want to survive the best they can, without looking or speaking too much. Simply being alive demands all their effort, and they have no leisure to get involved in the fights of the world.

Today might be the death of these ruffians, tomorrow it could be traders; there are always those destined to die, and it’s not a big deal. Those ruffians who hang their lives on their belts don’t care, and the laborers who are uninvolved naturally care even less.

Among these ruffians who lost their lives, apart from Fu Ergou who was personally sent off by Lin Wanwan, the rest met their end at the hands of the merciless Kun Lun.

Daoist priests are compassionate, so they did not strike fatally, only beat the opponents to the point of serious injury. Yet whether those injured ruffians can recover well under the medical conditions of the Great Tang is uncertain.

Lin Wanwan naturally cares little about this.

Since they wished to take her life, they should have been prepared to lose their own; she feels no burden from it.

The thugs who dared to strike at her surely have innocent lives under their belts. In modern times, they should have faced justice long ago, but in the Great Tang, they could run rampant for so long.

In a way, Lin Wanwan is enforcing justice.

Last year, in the courtyard at Lin Family Manor, Lin Wanwan witnessed eight twisted bodies of thieves, which greatly changed her mental state from when she first arrived in the Great Tang.

On a night at Lin Family Manor last year, the Lin Clan Leader used the blood of eight thieves to teach Lin Wanwan the rules of survival in this world. Mercy to the enemy is cruelty to oneself.

By three quarters past noon, all goods from the warehouse had been loaded onto the ship, and Hua Nong had also vacated the guest house courtyard before going to the Daoist Temple to redeem Lin Wanwan’s hairpin with a gold ingot.

Shortly after Yang Fan set sail, a group of unsavory characters stood at the bustling harbor, looking around.

They wanted to find Fu Ergou but returned empty-handed.

For some reason, they felt the air at the harbor today bore a faint scent of blood. Yet, grabbing some laborers to question yielded no answers as everyone claimed they were busy working, paying no attention to anything else.

Fu Ergou’s rampant behavior at the harbor was, of course, encouraged and supported by these unsavory characters in secret.

Since the court doesn’t tax merchants, these unsavory characters, by nature, cannot openly ask for money, but seeing the many plump merchants coming and going, how can they resist extortion?

Relying solely on their meager monthly wages is far from a happy life, so fostering bullies to collect reasonable protection fees from passing traders is one of their perks in managing this harbor.

"Something must have happened to Fu Ergou. That Village Lady of Le’an has already departed by ship, but the protection fee from Fu Ergou still hasn’t been delivered," one of the unsavory characters said with some fear as he looked out at the sea.

"That’s understandable. After all, she’s a Secondary Fifth Rank Village Lady. How would she care about the lives of ruffians?"

"I’ve long said, it’s better not to mess with official people."

"It seems that Village Lady of Le’an is not easily provoked. If Fu Ergou is gone, so be it. Once that territory is reassigned, we’ll see whom to support next."

"Wise words, brother."

With just a few words, they settled the matter. Without Fu Ergou, there would soon be countless lackeys like Zhang Ergou and Chen Ergou appearing, making them indifferent.

At this moment, Lin Wanwan was sitting in the well-ventilated cabin, wholeheartedly brewing tea.

Though the tea of the Great Tang did not suit her taste, she still enjoyed the process of brewing tea. Ever since she seriously studied the tea ceremony with Old Cao Xian, Lin Wanwan fell in love with the art of tea brewing.

Completing this smooth and fluid tea ceremony not only was visually delightful for others, but it also helped Lin Wanwan achieve inner peace, more effective than anything.

Therefore, even if she didn’t drink it, Lin Wanwan occasionally took out her tea set for brewing; at these times, Hua Nong, Kun Lun, and others had the pleasure, for they loved to drink tea.

Ordinary servants could not enjoy such privilege; it was only them who got to drink personally brewed tea by their mistress, made with high-quality tea leaves and spices, akin to the life of nobles.

After serving two servants, Lin Wanwan put down her tea set and went to the window, gazing at the white waves below with a tranquility now restored.

The discomfort from dealing with bullies today gradually subsided, and all her thoughts were now filled with longing for her family.

To Qingyu and others, Lin Wanwan had only been away for four days, but for Lin Wanwan herself, it felt like half a month since she last saw little Qingyu!

This was the first time since she found little Qingyu that Lin Wanwan had been apart for so long!

Honestly, sometimes it’s not that children can’t do without adults, but that adults can’t do without children.

Having a soft, loving child by her side is truly comforting. Lin Wanwan wasn’t used to not having little Qingyu cuddling and reporting the morning at her ear every day!

Thinking of little Qingyu, an unconscious smile appeared on her face.

This was Lin Wanwan’s chosen family, allowing little Qingyu to experience all the beauty in the world, not because Qingyu herself demanded it, but Lin Wanwan using Qingyu to heal her own heart.

Although her grandparents treated her very well, the demolition money was taken by her uncle, and the elderly couple barely managed with a villa and meager agricultural insurance.

There was a time Lin Wanwan remembered they only had a few coins at home, relying on the vegetables grown in their yard. Her grandmother gave her fifty cents as pocket money, which she saved for three months and still hesitated to spend, eventually exchanging it for a bowl of wine for her grandfather.

In her childhood, Lin Wanwan had no freedom to choose clothes, let alone freedom with fruits.

Even though her grandparents bought fruits but refrained from eating them themselves, saving them for Lin Wanwan, it still wasn’t enough. From an early age, Lin Wanwan envied the picky-eating neighbor kids being chased by their parents, fed cut fruits—a joy she never experienced.

A child fully loved by their parents is the happiest in the world.

Every time Lin Wanwan reminisced about her childhood, there were many regrets. Now having someone so much like herself, like little Qingyu, she especially wanted to fill these gaps through him.

While Lin Wanwan was thinking of little Qingyu aboard the ship, at the same time, little Qingyu stood at the harbor, looking far out at the sea, eagerly awaiting Lin Wanwan’s return!

Aunt Yun Shang took good care of her, but she couldn’t compare to a mother.

Even though they agreed it would be just three or four days, why wasn’t she home yet?

Little Qingyu stared at the horizon, unconsciously pouting.

Besides little Rongrong and ten Attendant Students next to her, there was a line of animal troops, all their eyes fixedly on the horizon.