Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

She found a lot of fruit jelly candies, cheese sticks, and some unopened food toys from the space. Even Lin Xiaoyue didn't know what toys were inside. She packed them all in two small backpacks and gave them to the two little ones. She told the two little ones to be obedient, not to run around, to drink the granules given by the "god" for prevention, to follow the second sister or her wherever they go, and to take protective measures, etc.

Lin Xiaoyue never knew that she had so many things to say. Anyway, when she saw the two little ones crying, her heart felt like it was hit hard by someone and it hurt.

Doctor Qiao mainly treated Doctor Li, so Lin Dahua and her son were handed over to Chun Xing for acupuncture. Fortunately, Chun Xing had traveled with Doctor Qiao all over the country, and was also Doctor Qiao's most talented student, so it was not a problem for her to treat Lin Dahua and her son.

In the afternoon, the mother and the child woke up after three acupuncture treatments. Dahua saw that her daughter was so thin and had bruises all over her body. It was obvious that she had been tortured by the people in the old house during this period. She hated her and felt distressed.

Xiao Maizi hadn't been hugged by her mother for a long time. As soon as she woke up, she smelled a familiar scent. Her little body kept burrowing into her mother's arms, shouting "cool... cool..." over and over. Hearing this, Lin Dahua felt so distressed that she hugged the child tightly in her arms and kept crying.

It was not until a long time had passed, when Xiaomaizi was rubbing against her chest for food, that she finally remembered to feed her little girl.

But, not to mention that her milk stopped not long after she finished her confinement, she had been relying on the excuse of getting milk from the wives who had just given birth to feed Maizi. In the current situation, it is extremely difficult to find food and drink for Maizi. Otherwise, how could she have stayed in the old house with gritted teeth when it was obvious that she was being abused and mistreated? Wasn't it just to get food for Maizi?

But she kept silent about it, and in return she received even more severe humiliation from everyone in the old house.

When she learned from Uncle Dashan and Uncle Niu that her family had left the village group and returned alone to look for her, she wanted to turn around and go back the way they came with the wheat.

But it was too late. Old Lady Lin and the aunts from the first and second houses had seized the wheat and hidden it away, so she couldn't see her daughter at all. No matter how much she begged them to return the wheat to her, they ignored her. They even threatened her that if she dared to run away alone, they would cook the wheat and eat it as food.

Lin Dahua was shocked by the evil and terrifying faces of everyone in the old house. She didn't dare to gamble with Maizi's life. She could only grit her teeth and endure their endless torture, struggling to hold on with one breath, just to wait for the day when mother and daughter would be reunited.

Until last night, she was so hungry that her hands and feet were weak, and she was beaten by several cousins ​​in turn, and finally she couldn't hold on and passed out. I don't know how long it took, but when I was dazed, I saw my aunt holding a hemp rope around her neck. Her hands and feet were so painful and weak that she couldn't resist at all. I thought she would die in the hands of her aunt, but I didn't expect that there would be a day when she would wake up.

What surprised her most was that after waking up, not only did her poor little Xiaomaizi return to her side, but even her parents and sisters, whom she had been looking forward to day and night, were also by her side.

Lin Dahua once thought she was suffering from delusions, but when her mother and sisters hugged her tightly and their tears soaked her clothes, she suddenly came to her senses and realized that she was not dead, but was really reunited with her family.

She didn't know if this was what the old saying goes, "after bad times come good times". She only knew that she and Maizi survived, as did her parents and sisters. The whole family was together, not a single one was missing, and they were all alive.

The Lin family reunited after a long separation. They hugged each other and cried bitterly, with mixed feelings.

She kept crying until Maizi finally couldn't stand the hunger anymore and burst into tears in her mother's arms. Then everyone hurriedly found food to feed Maizi.

Lin Zhaodi got up and hurried to take the big jar that Lin Xiaoyue had left for Xiaomaizi, saying that the powder in it should be mixed with water and given to Xiaomaizi to drink, which would be both filling and nutritious.

After she mixed it according to Lin Xiaoyue's instructions, she found that the milky white water had an indescribable sweetness. Not to mention Maizi's little nose twitching as she sniffed the fragrance in the air and kept calling out in her direction, even she herself was so tempted by the fragrance that she almost couldn't help but drink it secretly.

While Lin Zhaodi was feeding Xiaomaizi, Miao also took the hot rice porridge and large steamed buns handed to her by Xiaocao, and asked Lin Dahua to eat something to fill her stomach first.

Lin Dahua hadn't seen such clean and warm food for a long time. She was more energetic when she smelled the fragrance. Seeing her daughter being fed by her second sister, she could not just stare blankly. She took the rice porridge handed to her by Miao and swallowed hard. She didn't have time to think about when her family was so well-off that she could drink such sweet rice porridge. She couldn't help but drink a mouthful first, and then she widened her eyes and said with tears in her eyes, "Good, so good, mother, this porridge is so delicious. It's good to be alive and drink such delicious porridge."

"Sister, how did you get together with the people in the old house? We went back to Hexi Village several times to look for you, but we couldn't find you. How did you get ahead of us? Where are my brother-in-law and the others?"

When Lin Dahua had almost finished drinking, Lin Zhaodi began to ask her what had happened.

Lin Dahua was drinking porridge, and suddenly tears started to flow down like a faucet with a broken string. Whenever she thought of what she had experienced during this period, she couldn't help but feel sad.

Sure enough, just as Lin Xiaoyue and Lin Zhaodi thought at the beginning, they went astray from the very beginning.

From Lin Dahua's story, we learned that the disaster began on the night of the earthquake, and most of Hexi Village collapsed and was almost completely destroyed. Countless villagers died under the collapsed beams of the houses. Lin Dahua's husband fled with his son and parents-in-law as soon as possible, but left his wife and daughter trapped under the rubble.

Looking at the man holding the child, dragging his parents-in-law, and running away without looking back, no matter how Lin Dahua begged and cried heartbreakingly, they all turned a deaf ear to her.

Lin Dahua did try to ask for help from the villagers who were in a panic, but the whole village was in chaos at that time. The ground was shaking, houses were collapsing, the earth was torn apart, and dust was everywhere. People were terrified, and cries and screams echoed in the air. Everyone was in danger, and they were too busy trying to save their own families to care about others.

Until the Hexi Village went from a scene of panicked screams to dead silence, and everyone who could run had run away, Lin Dahua's voice was too hoarse to make any sound. She could only sob and hold her little daughter, who had already cried herself to sleep, in her arms, and grit her teeth to move out of the gap in the ruins bit by bit.