Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

This is just what can be seen at a glance. What is not visible is that the boy led everyone around to the trough where the animals drank water. The place should have been blocked by a haystack, but when they passed by, the haystack had obviously been moved away, revealing a half-open wooden door underneath.

Everyone was startled when they saw this, looked at each other, clenched their weapons, and let the boy lead the way, leading them down to find out what was going on.

At this moment, the boy was more worried than anyone else. He was afraid that bandits would come early and take away the treasures and food. Then his life and the lives of the remaining children would be in danger...

Everyone was terrified and cautious as they walked down the stairs. The cellar was dug very deep, and the lights in the two niches extended all the way to the depths of the long tunnel. As they followed the path, they saw the treasure cave, the soldier cave, the grain cave, the "mutton" cave...

It was cold in the cellar, frighteningly cold.

If the first few holes only made everyone marvel at the bandits' collections, then the last "lamb" meat hole made people's faces change drastically and their heartbeats accelerated.

Here, they not only saw the small bridge that had left the team without permission and fainted on the ground, but also the huge chopping board that was covered in blood and exuded a pungent smell, the pieces of meat that had long lost their original shape, and the "two-legged sheep" that was hung high up with a butcher's hook, gutted and cut in half...

"Ugh, vomit, vomit..."

Everyone stood there in a daze for two seconds, then they turned their heads to the corners and vomited wildly, almost vomiting out all their internal organs...

When everyone was pale from vomiting, Doctor Qiao wiped the corner of his mouth with his hand, squatted down and felt Xiaoqiao's pulse, and told everyone that Xiaoqiao was just having a convulsion due to excessive stimulation.

After hearing this, everyone noticed that Xiaoqiao did not have any signs of being knocked unconscious or dragged. What did this mean? It was self-evident.

They were fighting to the death in front and almost lost their lives, but Xiaoqiao slipped in here when no one was paying attention...

The head of the village narrowed his eyes and asked the man who followed him to tie up the man and throw him into an empty hole next to him. He left two people to guard there and wait until the man woke up to find out the situation before making a decision.

When saying this, Li was looking at the Niu couple. After all, they had promised Old Man Qiao that they would take care of his orphans.

The Niu couple swayed slightly and almost fell down. It was Niu Tietou who lowered his head and supported them without saying a word.

The couple looked at each other, both of them looked as if they had swallowed a mouthful of fly shit, their faces were ugly. They tried their best, even after Xiaoqiao's father passed away, they tried every means to take care of her and accommodate her, but the little girl's attitude was better except for the first two days, after that, she made trouble in all kinds of ways under everyone's noses, openly or secretly.

To be honest, they were not so accommodating and tolerant towards their own son Niu Tietou. They thought they had done their best to take care of a girl who had lost her only relative. However, the girl seemed to feel that they owed her something...

Oh, never mind, never mind, they can’t do anything about it.

The Niu couple waved their hands, turned around and left the cellar, leaving all matters to the village head.

The head of the village nodded, understanding what the two meant, and asked Xiaocao and Lin Zhaodi to stay and watch over the people, and discuss the matter after they woke up. The others first moved the food, treasures, weapons and other supplies upstairs and found a house to store them, so as not to have to come down again and see the horrific scene in the "mutton" cave, which was terrifying.

Lin Xiaoyue felt uncomfortable after hearing this, and she thought that the village head and others must feel even worse. Of course, the ones who felt the worst were probably the Niu couple.

Lin Xiaoyue felt sorry for the Niu family.

What is the picture?

After all, no one wanted the tragedy that night to happen. But it happened, and people died. If someone really had to take the blame, Lin Xiaoyue felt that the person who kept watch should be punished.

Neither of them kept watch carefully and neither of them took it seriously, which led to the tragedy. Aren’t the headwoman and Xiaoqiao the culprits that night?

The village head's wife has paid for her mistakes, but what about Xiaoqiao? Ever since her father paid for her mistakes, she has always regarded herself as a victim, or even a "hero's family member", and has never reflected on what she did wrong that night?

Even if his father died trying to save the Niu couple, she should not have taken advantage of the Niu couple's protection for her, making trouble out of nothing, and provoking Luo Qianqian openly and secretly, causing the relationship between the two families, who had originally intended to get married, to break down after the accident and become even more precarious.

Even she occasionally received inexplicable cold eyes from Xiaoqiao, but as long as she did not suffer any substantial harm, Lin Xiaoyue just let Xiaoqiao go.

Anyway, in her opinion, they were just strangers who traveled together for a while, and they would go their separate ways when they reached the provincial capital. It didn't matter whether the other party disliked her or not, as long as they didn't do anything to harm her and the Lin family, it would be fine.

But last night, when everyone was putting on makeup, they found that Xiaoqiao had disappeared. At first, they were worried about her reckless behavior, but when the hunter couple told them that they were attacked from behind in the swamp, everyone was shocked.

The Niu couple even tried to excuse Xiaoqiao, thinking that the hunter couple didn't catch anyone on the spot, and couldn't produce any substantial evidence to prove that what they said was indeed done by Xiaoqiao, and they shouldn't have shown such great malice towards a little girl and made such wild speculations.

But no one expected that after speaking for others at the beginning, they would be slapped in the face so quickly that everyone's face was slapped.

……

After resting outside, the others also gathered around one after another after learning that Lin Xiaoyue had woken up. However, there were too many people and they couldn't all squeeze into the house at once. They could only look through the window, stretching their heads and waving to greet her.

Lin Xiaoyue looked up and saw that everyone was grinning with joy. She raised her eyebrows and simply got off the kang, sat outside the yard and chatted with everyone.

"Third girl, you may feel better after a good sleep." Lin Baotian was the first to speak and greet her.

"You are so awesome, that's it." Lin Xiaoshan gave her a thumbs up while speaking.

Lin Xiaoyue took the small stool that Xiaocao brought, with a faint smile on her face, and listened to everyone talking about the spoils counted in the morning and what happened during her rest.

Little did they know that Xiaocao was so quick-witted, and they had already told her the general idea.

After everyone had finished talking, the village head slowly spoke up and asked what Lin Xiaoyue thought.

Unfortunately, the old man still didn't understand Lin Xiaoyue. What opinion could she have when he asked her? As soon as the head of the village started talking, she waved her hands to indicate that she didn't care about the matter.

There are so many people sitting here who are older than her and have so many ideas. What opinions can a junior like her make?

Don't ask her, if you ask her, she will say "Anyway, it's just a relationship of walking together for a while. If it's compatible, then walk together. If it's not compatible, each of us will go our own way. The road is wide open, we can each go our own way, what's there to be entangled about."