Mr. Zhuang remained very composed, and after sipping his tea, said, "Don't worry, these people are slippery, and they don't dare to overstep with families that have lived here for generations; nor do they dare to be too aggressive towards tenants with many able-bodied men..."
Mr. Zhuang was right. When the neighboring guards searched, they flipped through their registry and recognized it was a home that had always been there.
Although they broke a few things during the search and casually took some items, they didn't dare to go too far.
And the neighbors, adhering to the mentality of spending money to avoid disaster, tolerated it, sending the people off was the end of it.
Manbao and the others, listening over the wall, knew they had left, so they immediately set up a ladder to climb over the wall and asked the neighbor, "Is your family alright?"