TFWYH – Chapter 378 Muramasa’s Worries

The village head stood in the courtyard until everyone outside had left. Only then did he shake his head and turn back into the house.

Aunt Liu was busy packing things.

When the village head saw her wrapping up the last two pieces of meat and then starting to slaughter a chicken, he immediately grew anxious. “You wasteful woman — what are you doing?”

Food was incredibly precious during a disaster like this!

And the chicken she was killing was a hen — they only had two hens left, and he was counting on them to lay eggs.

Aunt Liu slit the chicken’s neck to bleed it, not even looking up as she said, “What am I doing? Taking it to my daughter-in-law, of course. I don’t know how those two kids are doing in the city. My daughter-in-law’s in poor health — I’m bringing this to help her recover.”

As she spoke, her eyes reddened.

A few days ago she had gone to the city to see the two of them. Even though her son still wasn’t very warm toward her, at least he no longer refused to let her in the door.

As for her daughter-in-law, she was a good one — surprised and grateful when she came by, not blaming her at all, which only made Aunt Liu feel more guilty.

If she had known disaster would strike, she shouldn’t have come back.

Who knew how those two children were doing now?

If something had happened to them…

No — it couldn’t be!

Aunt Liu desperately reassured herself that her son and daughter-in-law were good people, and Heaven would surely treat them kindly.

The village head felt terrible inside. He had already prepared himself for the worst.

The disaster this time was too severe — he truly couldn’t guarantee their son’s safety…

“If the child…” Old Shen began, but couldn’t finish the sentence.

Aunt Liu stopped what she was doing and turned to look at him quietly, her eyes dull and numb.

“Of course I’ll do my best to find our son, but I’m only a village head. There’s a new magistrate at the county office — I’ve never even met him. I know you’re worried, but how could I not be worried too? We… we only have this one son…” Tears streamed down the village head’s face.

The earthquake had struck, and their son lived in the slum district — the houses there must have collapsed.

If the two children were still alive, where could they be now?

In such a vast sea of people, where could he even begin to look?

Ask at the county office?

But the magistrate had just been replaced, and with the disaster, they must be extremely busy — who would pay attention to him?

He might be a village head, but at the county office level, that meant nothing at all.

Old Shen was very clear about his own standing.

Aunt Liu wiped away her tears and forced herself to calm down, not sure whether she was comforting him or herself. “It’ll be alright. We can go find Young Master Yu. Last time I went to town, our son said Young Master Yu is now working at the yamen as an advisor. If we speak to him properly, for the sake of being from the same village, he’ll definitely help.”

“What? An advisor? Young Master Yu from the Ling family’s second branch?” Old Shen was stunned — he clearly hadn’t heard this news.

Aunt Liu said, “Yes! He’s working as an advisor at the yamen. Our son told me himself.”

Old Shen fell silent.

It hadn’t even been that long — and he was already a yamen advisor?

While feeling complicated emotions, Old Shen also let out a huge sigh of relief.

If their son was still alive, he would surely go ask Young Master Yu for help.

That was wonderful — truly wonderful!

They weren’t wrong.

The Shen boy and Madam Liang were indeed still alive.

On the day the earthquake struck, he hadn’t gone to work yet and was at home applying medicine to Madam Liang.

The medicine Tang Wan prescribed had a noticeable color. Every time he applied it, the young couple were so embarrassed they wished they could crawl into a hole.

If he hadn’t seen his wife improving day by day, the Shen boy would have thought Tang Wan was messing with him.

Madam Liang had said she could apply it herself, but he worried she might only pretend to follow instructions, so he insisted on doing it personally every time.