Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

Every time she thought of the family, except for the eldest sister Lin Dahua, whose name was very earthy, the four sisters below, Zhao Di, Zai Zhao, and Hao Zhao, made her speechless. She gritted her teeth in hatred, and she wanted to change the names of the few people as soon as possible.

God knows how much she wanted to throw her head to the ground every time she heard someone shout "do it again".

Simply.

Lin Zhaodi took a breath. She was tired and thirsty, and her throat was so dry that it was about to smoke. Facing Miao's worried eyes, she licked her cracked lips and said, "It's okay, I can still bear it. You all stay in the car. Don't think too much, mother is counting on you to take care of Xiao Si and Xiao Wu and cook for us during the day."

"Xiao Cao, don't think too much. My third sister and I don't know how to drive, so we can't drive the mule into the ditch." Lin Zhaodi took a breath, took the water bag handed to her by Xiao Cao, unscrewed the lid and took a big gulp. She was tired and thirsty, and she felt so satisfied when she drank the sweet and moist water.

Miao felt sorry for her daughter who was sweating and panting while pushing the shopping cart. But what Erya said was also true. Apart from Xiaosi and Xiaowu, neither she, Erya, or Sanya knew how to drive. The only child in the family who knew how to drive had a broken leg. He could stretch his legs when sitting at the back of the cart, but not when sitting on the front frame.

It’s really... worrying.

Seeing that Xiaocao was just standing there doing nothing but getting anxious, Miao sent her to find a clean place to spread out a mat and sleep for a while.

After enduring a whole night, although he was driving the cart and did not have to leave the field, he not only had to be careful not to let the mule go off the road, but also had to be on guard against robbers jumping out from the roadside. His energy was greatly consumed.

Xiaocao hesitated for a moment, then followed Miao's instructions and went to find a place to sleep.

Seeing Xiaocao sleeping not far away, Lin Zhaodi chatted quietly with Miao, "Mom, I thought you didn't like Xiaocao, but I didn't expect you cared about her."

"Go away, what nonsense are you talking about." Miao slapped Lin Zhaodi's arm in annoyance, but was afraid that she might use too much force, so when the slap was about to fall, she quietly withdrew her force and pushed, "Do you think your mother is blind?"

With a sigh, Miao simply sat down and took off Lin Zhaodi's shoes and socks. Seeing the blood staining the socks red, as a mother, she felt so sad.

"Xiaocao is a child with a hard life. She has no parents and now she is abandoned by her uncle's family. I don't know whether her uncle's family is alive or dead. If someone doesn't care about a child, he must be a cruel person."

Lin Zhaodi was so tired that she didn't want to move her fingers. She just let her mother fiddle with her. She just closed her eyes and listened to her mother's chatter in a half-awake and half-dazed state. "This person, although he stayed, anyone can see that Xiaocao is not at ease. I'm afraid he is worried about being abandoned by us. Poor thing, otherwise how could he compete with us for work everywhere.

Although she never complains about being tired or suffering, we can't be so cruel as to mistreat her. This child is so sensible that it makes us feel sorry for her.

If you ask me, since we have kept her, we should treat her well and not let her live in fear and anxiety all day long.

I don't know what to do on this road in the future. These days with no end in sight are really frustrating... How about letting her become our godparents? That way, we can look after each other on the road."

"Hiss~" Lin Zhaodi didn't know whether it was because of the pain from Miao picking at her blisters, or because she heard her mother's soft-heartedness coming back. She was stimulated by her mother's words, which made people unable to resist. "Mom, you can't do this. We don't know how long we will be walking on this road. What if we find a few more poor and helpless people, you can't just pick one up and recognize them as your relatives."

We have just started, and haven't even left Wuyue Town yet, but her mother is already rushing to claim to be a relative? What will happen if we continue on this journey?

Besides, San Ya's temper is only good to her family. When it comes to outsiders, she is either so cold that it can freeze people to death, or she directly teaches them a lesson.

Her mother's thoughts were impulsive. She didn't explain it clearly to San Ya in advance, so the girl got angry and kicked him without even getting started.

Although the mother and daughter tried to keep their voices down while talking, the area was empty and there was no other noise, so their conversation could be heard intermittently by Xiaocao, who was lying not far away with her back to the crowd. She was so nervous that her heart was lifted up. She could not help but clutch the corner of the quilt tightly, holding her breath and listening with her ears perked up.

Just as Miao said, she was the only outsider in this group of people who was picked up. When she was with them, she was always worried about being abandoned by them, so she desperately snatched work to let them see that she was not a freeloader.

She envied the Lin family for being able to live together as a whole, and she also wanted to have a father and a mother, but... her aunt said that she had a bad fate and would bring misfortune to her relatives, and that her father was killed by her...

When her mother was taken away by her maternal grandparents, she wanted to go with them. Without her father, she didn't want to lose her mother as well. She didn't want to be called a wild child without a father or a mother by others.

However, she heard her mother and grandparents say that they did not want to stay at home and raise young Xiaocao alone, as it would be too tiring and hard. She did not want to stay and be pointed at, discriminated against, or hear those rumors and unwarranted condemnations anymore. She wanted to leave the Chen family, leave Xiaocao, and start a new life in a place where she could not see those ugly faces...

At that time, she was shocked, scared, and even more painful.

Her mother was not crazy, she was fine. She just pretended to be crazy and stupid to force her maternal grandparents to take her mother back. She frightened the villagers into being afraid of her, so they went to her maternal grandparents' house to call for help and took her mother back.

Her mother left because she didn't want to be criticized or live in the prejudice and malicious slander.

But her mother never thought about her. She was an orphan and only six years old. A little girl who should have lived in the palms of her parents' arms and grew up carefree, suddenly lost the protection of her parents. How would she live?

She didn't blame her father for leaving her, didn't blame her mother for abandoning her, didn't blame her uncle and aunt for scolding and beating her, didn't blame her cousins ​​for bullying her, she only blamed herself for being unlucky and having a miserable life, and for having bad luck in her fate, which brought misfortune to her loved ones.

However, she was trapped under the rubble when the earthquake happened. She clearly saw her uncle and aunt carrying her cousins ​​and running away. She was trapped under the rubble and she cried desperately, begging them to save her and give her a hand...

She saw them turning back, but... they just looked at her deeply, then left her behind and ran away without looking back.

They don’t want themselves anymore…

She was all alone again...

The ground was still shaking, things above her head were falling, it was so cold under the ruins, she was so scared..., at that moment when she was surrounded by darkness, she thought she would die, and she thought she would soon see her loving father...