Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

Hearing this, Ergou's expression changed drastically and he looked at his mother anxiously.

But his mother could not hide her disappointment in him at this moment. She did not want to look him in the eye. She turned her face away, covered her aching heart, and raised her hand to wipe away the tears that could not be restrained from falling from the corners of her eyes.

Yes, ever since Ergou's father passed away, she, as a woman, had to play the role of both mother and father, and raised her son with great difficulty. No matter how much bitterness and hardship she experienced, she gritted her teeth and never told anyone a word, and kept it all in her stomach.

It's not that she doesn't want to teach Ergou a good lesson, but her son is as innocent and soft-hearted as his father. She can't bear to see her only blood relative face all kinds of malice in the world. She only hopes that she can do her best to protect him during her lifetime, so that he can be safe and enjoy a simple and happy life.

But in the end, things don't always go as planned.

A great disaster struck, chaos arose, the common people were displaced and hungry, and it was no longer possible for her to protect her son and lead a simple and safe life.

But she couldn't bear to teach her son a lesson. Now, although this incident dealt a heavy blow to Ergou, she, as a mother, couldn't bear it.

Miss Lin was right. She couldn't protect her son forever. She could only hope that others would help her son wake up from the blow as soon as possible. Otherwise, what happened today would happen again in the future. By then, would they be able to survive the chaos and see it through?

Seeing Ergou in a daze, he collapsed to the side weakly, his eyes full of confusion and helplessness.

Lin Xiaoyue knew that after this incident, he would either wake up and stop living in a muddle, or he would be devastated and completely fall into a puddle of mud, beyond redemption.

But no matter what, this was all she could do. She was not Ergou's mother, and if she cared too much, she was afraid that she would die early and not live to see the day of her death.

But Lin Xiaoyue wanted to let Ergou go, but Xiaocao refused.

She forced Chun Xing and Erya Lin Zhaodi to join her and instigated them to turn the house upside down.

Finally, they found evidence in the cellar that this heinous family had cooked and dried people.

In addition to large chunks of dried meat, there were also several cleanly picked bone racks. I guess the couple kept them for making soup.

The girls were quite skilled and courageous. They suppressed their great fear of the flesh and bones left behind by the dead, dragged them all out, and angrily threw them in front of Ergou, forcing him to open his eyes and take a good look to see clearly who was the good guy and who was the bad guy.

Ergou had nothing more to say, but when he saw the irrefutable evidence in front of him, he was still stunned.

He was completely desperate and didn't know how people could be so bad. He thought that Lin Xiaoyue's murder was a heinous crime, but the evidence before him silently accused this family of cruelty and injustice, and of committing heinous crimes that could not be tolerated by heaven.

Then what does it mean that he... was just speaking up for this family?

Er Gouzi was on the verge of collapse. He didn't know how much more he would have to face in the future. With the evil and disasters like today, he didn't know if he would mistake good people for bad people again... He felt that he really needed to think about it seriously... Maybe his mother was right, he couldn't live so naively anymore.

Faced with the mountains of dried meat and bones, the rest of the people could not help but feel horrified and could no longer stay in this house that was like hell on earth.

But after all the trouble, as dawn was about to break, everyone had no choice but to leave the house and look for a place to stay temporarily in the village.

Before leaving, Lin Xiaoyue set a fire and burned all the combustible objects in the house.

The weather was dry and the fire grew stronger with the wind. It spread quickly and soon became more and more intense. The flames that shot up into the sky illuminated the red eyes of a man on the hillside in the distance.

"Dad and Mom, wait for me. I will make those people pay the price and make them kowtow to you in the underworld. If you are still alive, please watch over your son and avenge you."

Sangui, who escaped, had hateful eyes. He slammed his knees heavily on the ground and kowtowed three times. Finally, he looked in the direction of home, and with a heart full of hate and embarrassment, he resolutely turned around and left the place.

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After leaving Sangui's house, the group led the animals and pushed the carts, and wandered around in this silent and empty village.

They walked for a long time, and at first they were very cautious and careful, keeping an eye out for any noise coming from the dilapidated houses they passed by. But gradually, they found that the village was quiet, with only the sounds of them and the wheels of the carts.

Chun Xing and Lin Zhaodi bravely jumped onto the half-collapsed walls of several houses and looked inside. They found that several houses were empty.

Lin Xiaoyue looked around and found two houses that were better preserved and less dilapidated, and climbed into the yard to check. She found that the stove was covered with dust, the water tanks and wooden barrels were dry, and the houses that had not collapsed were all covered with thick dust, and broken objects were scattered all over the floor, silently announcing that no one had lived here for a long time.

Ergou's mother, Miao and Doctor Qiao formed a team and ran to the fields in the village. They found that there was nothing to eat and even the fields were cracked. So they didn't delay any longer and returned to where everyone was gathering.

After checking the situation, one person communicated with each other and believed that the people in the village should have fled, and those who did not flee were buried under the rubble. The three nobles who led them into the village were likely to be indigenous people.

Although it is not known why their family did not escape with the survivors, this family, even if they stayed in the village until they ran out of ammunition and food, refused to leave. Instead, they turned their targets on innocent refugees passing by, eating their flesh and sucking their bones. How hateful!

Soon, the sun came out and the temperature rose sharply, and soon the ground became hot.

Although everyone felt that the deserted village was desolate and the silence was terrifying, the temperature outside was terribly high in the daytime, which was not suitable for traveling at all. In addition, except for Ergou who ate and slept for a while, everyone else was tense and endured the night.

So, at Lin Xiaoyue's insistence, everyone chose a room in the two houses she had inspected to rest.

It is still better to let Old Man Lin, Mrs. Miao, Doctor Qiao, Ergou's mother and other older elders rest first.

Because they had inspected it beforehand, they were basically sure that this was a deserted village. So, Lin Xiaoyue yawned, said hello to Lin Zhaodi and Xiaocao who were on guard, and then pulled Chunxing, who was sitting there nodding her head and almost losing her mind, and picked up the two little snoring kids in her left and right hands and went to find a room to rest.