Chapter 454 - 435: Just Deserts

When Yun Jiao returned to Bailong Village, she happened to see all the villagers running in the same direction.

She glanced over. Heh, wasn’t that the direction of Cai Jinhua’s house?

So, she gleefully trotted along after them.

’I have to get in on this commotion. I wonder what expressions Cai Jinhua and Yun Dan will have on their faces when they see me.’

"Jiaojiao, where have you been?"

She ran into her brothers on the way.

Yun Jiao said, "Let’s go watch first. I’ll tell you guys after it’s over."

’Otherwise, there’ll be no show to watch once that couple gets arrested.’

Fair enough.

By the time they arrived, Cai Jinhua’s house was already surrounded by a massive crowd, three layers deep.

From inside the house came the sound of Cai Jinhua wailing like a banshee.

"We don’t know! We don’t know anything about any enemy agents! It has nothing to do with us!"

"Yes, yes! We were tricked! We didn’t know he was an enemy agent! We have no connection to him!"

The couple tried their best to explain, but they were still mercilessly arrested.

"Even if you didn’t know he was an enemy agent, it’s a fact that you helped him capture Yun Jiao from this village."

Upon hearing this, the onlookers’ eyes all widened.

"What? Jiaojiao was captured?"

"Cai Jinhua and Yun Dan captured Jiaojiao and handed her over to an enemy agent?"

Yun Jiao heard her mother’s sudden cry erupt from the crowd.

Sobbing, Shen Yunlian rushed forward, grabbed Cai Jinhua by the clothes, and started slapping her wildly.

"Cai Jinhua, you heartless monster! Where’s my Jiaojiao? Where is she?!"

Yun Linhai and the others, their eyes red, pinned the couple to the ground and started beating them. The soldiers standing by tried to reason with them, but it was no use.

She quickly scrambled up onto Fifth Brother’s neck.

"Mom! Mom, I’m here! I’m okay, I’m right here!"

Hearing Yun Jiao’s voice, everyone immediately turned to look.

"Yun Jiao’s here! She’s okay!"

Someone shouted, and Yun Linhai and his family, who were in the middle of beating the couple, instantly looked over.

Seeing Yun Jiao perched on Yun Xiaowu’s neck, they abandoned the couple and rushed over, scooping her up into their arms.

"Jiaojiao, are you alright? Let me see, were you scared? Are you hurt?"

"You scared us to death!"

Yun Jiao obediently tilted her little face up, letting them check her all over.

"I’m awwight."

"I’m back now. All those enemy agents have been caught."

The bruised and swollen Cai Jinhua and her husband stared at Yun Jiao with wide eyes, as if they’d seen a ghost.

As they were being hauled away, they even tried to ask Yun Jiao for help.

Yun Jiao rolled her eyes at them. ’Do I look like some kind of saint? To save people like them?’

After the two were taken away, everyone crowded around Yun Jiao, asking all sorts of questions.

They all wanted to know what had happened.

Shen Yunlian and her family shielded Yun Jiao. "Our Jiaojiao just got back from being kidnapped. She’s had a scare and needs to go home and rest. You can ask your questions another day."

Hearing this, the others couldn’t really object.

When they finally got home, everyone immediately asked Yun Jiao what happened.

A little sheepishly, Yun Jiao told them the whole story from beginning to end.

"I was afraid you’d worry, and I was also afraid of tipping him off, so I didn’t tell you."

"Oh, you child. You scared us to death."

Shen Yunlian held Yun Jiao and cried for a while, then started cussing out Cai Jinhua’s family.

"I’m sorry, Mom."

"What does this have to do with you? It’s all because of those black-hearted people with their evil intentions. Our Jiaojiao has suffered."

Yun Xiaowu and the others were even more furious. "You should have told us so we could go beat them up!"

Yun Jiao shook her head. "No, you couldn’t. They had guns."

"And you were still so brave even though you knew it was dangerous."

Yun Jiao stuck out her tongue playfully.

But in the end, the result was a good one. The enemy agents who meant Yun Jiao harm were all caught in one fell swoop. It was much better than leaving such a potential danger lurking, not knowing when they might try to grab her again.

For the next few days, Yun Jiao went to the military garrison first thing in the morning.

It wasn’t that she enjoyed running over there, nor was it because Mr. Lin and the others had asked her to come.

The main reason was that the villagers were far too interested in the incident. The day after, she woke up to find herself surrounded by a crowd asking all sorts of questions.

She, who usually loved a good commotion, was a little scared this time. ’Maybe I’ll pass on being the center of attention,’ she thought.

So she quickly slipped away. No one would come looking for her at the garrison.

When Lin Bin returned, he saw Yun Jiao lying in his courtyard, gnawing on a cucumber, and couldn’t help but smile helplessly.

"Hiding out here again, are you?"

Yun Jiao stuffed the last bit of cucumber into her mouth.

"Uncle Lin."

"It’s been several days. Why are they still so curious about what happened?"

Lin Bin said, "Don’t worry. The interrogation is almost complete. When it is, everything will be announced, aside from a few classified details."

Yun Jiao nodded. "That’s good."

’Once it’s announced, people will stop coming to find me, right?’

Just as Lin Bin had said, the matter of the enemy agents was announced the next day. Naturally, what Cai Jinhua and her family had done was also made public.

The two were arrested and sentenced to life in prison.

In this case, they were suspected of child trafficking, as well as contacting enemy agents and actively providing them with assistance.

Therefore, they were given a heavy sentence.

When Yun Dan’s parents heard the news, they felt as if their world had collapsed.

They sat at home, wailing and crying their hearts out.

In response, not a single person in the village felt any sympathy for them.

"It’s a good thing Pandi and her sisters left, or they would have been dragged down too."

"Isn’t that the truth. Except for Laidi, Pandi, and the other girls, no one in that family is any good."

"Serves them right! To get involved with enemy agents and try to kidnap Yun Jiao... they’re a disgrace to our village."

The village chief was also furious. With a family like that around, the village’s reputation was ruined.

He wanted to kick them out, but these weren’t ancient times; he couldn’t just drive them away.

But soon, the village chief cheered up again.

Because Yun Jiao’s commendation came through.

Everyone also learned about how Yun Jiao had helped the navy round up the enemy agents.

Instantly, everyone looked at Yun Jiao with fervent gazes.

This was truly bringing honor to one’s ancestors.

It was another day of envying Yun Linhai’s family.

The village chief squeezed to the very front, his gap-toothed mouth breaking into a wide, happy smile.

"Excellent, excellent! Well done, Jiaojiao, well done!"

With Yun Jiao around, the village’s reputation, which had been tarnished by Yun Dan’s family, was now saved.

"Jiaojiao is so outstanding. All the other kids in our village combined probably can’t compare."

"Who says girls are inferior to boys? Look at our Jiaojiao! Isn’t she so much more brilliant than any boy?"

"Yun Linhai’s family never looked down on girls; they like girls. That’s why they adopted Yun Jiao back then. Look at them now—their family is doing better than anyone else’s."

Yun Linhai’s whole family stood tall, their chests puffed out with pride. Jiaojiao had brought them great honor.

"Speaking of which, I’ve seen that enemy agent before!"

At that moment, an old woman in the crowd slapped her thigh.

"The man said he was visiting relatives. I remember thinking that I’d never seen him before. He was carrying a lot of stuff on his back, too. Back then, I even wondered how a stingy family like Cai Jinhua’s could give a relative so many things."