The daily life of a space tycoon raising children, doting on his husband, and farming.

Chapter 40 is like tofu pudding.
Lu Chengjing hadn't heard what these people were arguing about at all. He was staring at Shang Wan's skirt, lost in thought. When he was suddenly called, he looked up with a hint of confusion in his eyes.

Last night's clothes were dirty and wrinkled, and Shang Wan was unwilling to make her vase suffer, so she secretly took out a set of moon-white robes from her space, pretending that she had dug them out of the house before the rain yesterday, and made Lu Chengjing change into them.

Lu Chengjing was already good-looking, and with his moon-white dress and his long black hair loosely tied back, he had an elegant and otherworldly air about him, looking like a celestial being descended to earth.

When he appeared today after changing his clothes, he dazzled the eyes of many young wives and young women. Even some men were secretly thinking that it was fortunate that this Scholar Lu was already married. Otherwise, with Scholar Lu as a shining example, how could the girls in the village possibly look at them?
Shang Wan found Lu Chengjing's bewildered expression rather endearing. She deliberately leaned close to Lu Chengjing's ear and whispered back what Shen Qi and Old Man Luo had said.

Before she could finish speaking, Lu Chengjing's ears turned red again.

Shang Wan chuckled to herself, finding it amusing to tease this person.

"The law states that anyone who obstructs officials from handling cases shall be punished with caning and imprisonment for minor offenses, and beheading, hanging, or slow slicing for serious offenses, depending on the severity of the circumstances."

Lu Chengjing spoke in a gentle tone, but the moment he uttered the words "death by a thousand cuts," everyone trembled and broke out in a cold sweat.

The Luo family was terrified. Luo Da and Luo Er turned to look at their father, waiting for him to speak.

Old Man Luo's gaze shifted between Shen Qi and Lu Chengjing. "Scholar Lu, do you really mean what you're saying?"

“The law is clear,” Lu Chengjing said, his calm black eyes fixed on him. “Uncle Luo, are you really going to ruin your whole family for a good-for-nothing son?”

Old Man Luo's face was grim, his teeth were clenched, and the struggle and hesitation in his eyes were clearly visible.

Wang pinched her son, and the fat boy cried out in pain, "Grandpa, Grandpa, I won't go to jail, I won't get beaten!"

When Luo's two children heard that Big Fatty Brother was crying, they also opened their mouths and started to cry.

Fourth Uncle always bullies them. They don't like Fourth Uncle and don't want to help him get beaten up.

Upon hearing the cries of the three children, Old Man Luo froze, and the hesitation in his eyes lessened considerably.

"Father, I can give my life for the fourth son, but the children are still young." Luo Da knelt down before his father, Luo Da, a tall man who had never shed a tear even when injured, but now tears streamed down his face.

Father said that the fourth son was born at Mother's risk, and that he and the second son protecting the fourth son was protecting Mother. After hearing this, no matter what outrageous things the fourth son did, he never said a harsh word to him.

But his children don't owe the fourth son anything!

Old Man Luo closed his eyes, then turned to look at Luo Er, "Second Brother, what about you?"

Luo Er immediately knelt down, his neck stiff, and said, "Father, I am the same as my eldest brother."

Old Man Luo then looked at his two daughters-in-law, "And you two?"

Liu immediately pulled her two children down to kneel, saying, "I will do whatever my husband says."

“The daughter-in-law too.” Wang also pulled the child down to kneel.

Seeing this scene before him, Old Man Luo's withered lips twitched twice, and finally a deep sigh escaped his lips.

Qinniang, I really can't save this fourth child.

His barely straight body hunched over, and Old Man Luo shakily walked to the side, making way for Luo Si, who was struggling to grab him from behind.

"Dad! Dad! I won't go to jail, I won't go to jail!" Luo Si crawled over and grabbed his father's clothes, tears streaming down his face. "I was saved by my mother's life, Dad! Think of my mother, think of my mother, Dad!"

Luo Si's voice cracked as he called out "Dad," but Old Man Luo clenched his fists tightly without looking down at him.

"Useless trash! You murderer!" Luo Si was furious. "You killed my mother! Now you want to kill me? I won't let you get away with this! I'll kill you! I... Ah!"

Luo Da kicked him away, his last shred of affection for his younger brother extinguished. "You...you unfilial son!" Old Man Luo was so angry he could hardly breathe, his face turning purplish-blue. Luo Er hurriedly stepped forward, picked him up, and ran while shouting for Doctor Yuan to save him, without even glancing at Luo Si on the ground.

Even the deepest brotherly affection can be worn away by the passing days. If it weren't for their father still being alive, Luo Er would have long since given up on caring for his younger brother.

Luo Si knew his family didn't care about him anymore, so he quickly crawled towards Shang Wan, crying, "Madam Shang, heroine, please save me! I promise I won't do it again!"

Before he could crawl to Shang Wan's side, Shan Dajun stepped on him, saying, "Now you know you regret it? Where were you before? With your ugly appearance, don't offend Shang's wife's eyes."

Luo Si was bound up like a caterpillar with hemp rope, and his mouth was gagged, so he couldn't make a sound.

The villagers escorted Shen Qi and his companion to the village entrance, where the horses they had ridden were leisurely grazing.

Liu Hu and Luo Si were thrown onto the horses. The villagers watched them ride away before turning back.

Everyone had gone far away, but Xiao Huan stood still, her eyes watching the two riders gradually disappear into the distance.

Shang Wan reached out and patted her, "What are you thinking about?"

"Sister, what will their sentence be?" Xiao Huan wiped away the tears that suddenly welled up in her eyes, sniffed, and asked, "And what about Chen San? Will he be arrested too?"

“These two have committed many crimes, and no one reported them before. Now that they have been arrested, Lord An will not give them a light sentence. They will be exiled at the very least,” Shang Wan said. “As for Chen San, he died yesterday.”

"Dead?" Xiao Huan's eyes widened in surprise. "How did he die?"

Shang Wan said, "A stone fell and hit him on the head, cracking his skull open. I heard his brains splattered all over the ground, like tofu."

Xiao Huan couldn't help but turn around and vomit. She would never be able to look at tofu pudding the same way again.

"Alright, forget about the uncomfortable things." Shang Wan put her arm around Xiao Huan's shoulder and led her towards the village, her voice gentle. "A person can only remember a few things in their lifetime, don't waste your brain capacity."

Although she didn't understand what "brain capacity" meant, Xiao Huan guessed it was similar to memory. She smiled and said, "I know you'll definitely remember your brother-in-law."

Shang Wan nodded in strong agreement. It would be hard not to remember such a face, wouldn't it?
"Sis, there won't be any more earthquakes, right?"

"How can you say for sure? But there shouldn't be a major earthquake in the short term, at most some aftershocks."

Xiao Huan sighed, "The house collapsed, where are we going to live?"

"So what if it collapsed?" Shang Wan glanced at the cracked ground not far away and casually comforted him, "Think of it on the bright side, we won't have to demolish the old house ourselves when we build the new one, which will save us a lot of trouble and labor costs."

Xiao Huan: That seems to make sense.

However, "Sister, we don't have enough money to build a new house."

"It will be ready soon." Shang Wan smiled.

Xiao Huan turned to look at her, wondering why her sister seemed to be in a particularly good mood today.
Xiao Huan wasn't mistaken; Shang Wan was indeed in a particularly good mood today because she discovered this morning that her superpower had quietly leveled up.

However, what made her happy was not the upgrade of her superpower, but the appearance of a spiritual field in her space as her superpower upgraded.

Lingtian, that's what gave her the power to roam freely in the apocalypse.

With spiritual fields in hand, how far away can silver be?

(End of this chapter)