Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

The women's actions were too open and aboveboard, and their excited expressions were impossible to ignore. Lin Xiaoyue twitched her lips, and felt that the burning gossip fire of people in ancient and modern times was hard to resist no matter where they were.

But, just watch it, everyone is already very depressed anyway, just treat it as a form of entertainment.

From afar, you could hear the lively sounds coming from the barn. The men from each family were coaxing their own livestock, talking to them, tickling them, and doing all kinds of other things.

Only the Lin family's mule stayed in the corner, with its head facing the wall, panting, and its butt facing everyone, looking like a proud and unsociable person.

The mule had good hearing and could recognize the footsteps of the ferocious two-legged beast from a distance. It shuddered and all the hair on its body stood on end.

But the mule gritted its teeth and refused to turn its head or turn around, pointing its butt at Lin Xiaoyue. This time it was really angry. If the two-legged beast didn't coax it well, forget it, it would compromise.

Humph, I can’t be appeased without two, no, three big red apples.

I have to say, imagination is beautiful, but reality...

A bucket of well water splashed towards it, and the mule instinctively looked back.

As a result, bucket after bucket of water was poured over and over again, until it was soaked all over. Water dripped down from its body, and its fur stuck tightly to its skin. It looked so miserable.

This is not the end yet. After watering it thoroughly, the next wave of grass comes, one bunch after another, which keeps falling on it.

It didn't hurt, but she was just very nervous. The mule kept whining louder and louder it got, the harder Lin Xiaoyue hit it. It wasn't until the mule realized something was wrong and shut its mouth that Lin Xiaoyue stopped. She snorted coldly, shook her long hair, and stomped away.

Only a few people were left to watch the fun. The people who were handing buckets of water and fodder to Lin Xiaoyue looked at the mule that was about to cry due to grievance. They tried hard to hold back their laughter, held their stomachs, and shrugged their shoulders.

Mule: ...What sin has it committed? It just wanted to have a meal. Why did it become like this? ? ? Someone come and save it.

Here, after Lin Xiaoyue packed up the mule, she went back to find Old Man Lin and assigned him some work.

It just so happened that Old Man Lin was also very frustrated. He could only watch others work while he could only sit there and do nothing.

Honest people can't sit still, and they feel very uncomfortable.

Lin Xiaoyue came over holding a pile of leftover ironware from everyone else, and dumped them all on the ground. She took out two pliers that she had taken out from the space in advance, and sat down with Old Man Lin. Under Old Man Lin's twitching gaze, she broke the leftover ironware into several pieces with her bare hands.

Then, he took out one of the sections for demonstration. He tore four slits in the iron sheet along the diagonal line, and then held a pair of pliers in each hand and began to twist the piece in opposite directions.

Until it is twisted into a triangular cone, with each angle between the sharp claws being about 130 degrees, a copycat version of a horse-drawn nail with no aesthetic appeal is created.

While doing this, Lin Xiaoyue talked to Old Man Lin about the uses of the horse nails invented by Mr. Zhuge.

Although her copycat version is not the same as the one unearthed in Hanzhong, Shaanxi, which was cast with copper and iron at high temperature and used in the battlefield between the two armies. But the hardware facilities are there, and they can only be screwed out slowly with tools.

I won’t talk about whether it’s ugly or not. The key point is that if you are attacked by surprise in the future, just throw down a handful of horse nails, and the other party will definitely step on them and fall to the ground in pain, screaming in pain.

Old Man Lin was so shocked by his daughter's bizarre idea that he was speechless. Although he thought that scattering nails to harm people was not a good idea, when he thought about the two times he almost died when he encountered bandits, he gritted his teeth, took the work handed over by his daughter, and started working on it by candlelight.

Seeing that Old Man Lin had found something to pass the time, Lin Xiaoyue smiled with a smile on her face. She sat next to him and continued to break the iron sheet with a "click, click" sound. After breaking it, she tore off a hole and put it aside for her old man to twist.

……

The night is like a curtain, the moon is dim and the stars are sparse, shining through the clouds, casting a quiet silver light.

However, in a mountain village in a valley far away from human habitation, a dim light was faintly visible from several connected stone houses.

Here, the father and daughter sat on one side of the room, one bending and the other twisting, and their cooperation became smoother and smoother; on the other side, Miao, with several daughters and adopted daughters, was threading the needle, using old cloth found in the bandits' den to cut and sew backpack covers.

The other families were also busy packing their bags.

It has to be said that the bandits' lair had everything they needed. Although the sandstorm had blown away all their belongings, they had recovered them all here.

It’s really hard to say what happens due to fate.

The group of people here were busy as hell, and as time passed, no one had the heart to sleep.

On the other side, the bandit children also couldn't sleep all night. More than a dozen children did not live in their own rooms, but gathered in one room, shivering and sobbing, huddling together for warmth.

Some children cried until their eyes were swollen like walnuts. They kept rubbing their eyes, crying and choking, "Brother..., will they really let us go? I sneaked to the back this afternoon and saw them burn our parents, uncles and aunts in one fire..., will they burn us too?"

"No, I don't want to die, I don't want to die." The younger girl's tone was filled with deep anxiety and fear.

“Wuuuu..., they are all bad people, they killed my father and mother..., I will kill them when I grow up, and avenge my father and mother..." An eight-year-old child said viciously with hatred in his eyes and clenched his back teeth.

"I...I also want to avenge my mother. When my father comes back, I will tell him that those two-legged sheep dared to kill Uncle Bald and my mother. I will let my father avenge them."

"Yes, kill them all, kill them all, leave no one alive."

Several children held their heads and cried, with hatred in their eyes. They wished that their father and uncle who were away would come back as soon as possible, tie all those "two-legged sheep" into the cellar, and become human animals kept by their parents.

The disfigured boy sat quietly on the kang, with cold eyes and no words. He just watched indifferently as his brothers and sisters around him cried and cursed, all of them were filled with righteous indignation and looked bitter and resentful. He couldn't help but sneer in his heart. This group of people were still as bad and vicious as in his previous life.

Yes, the disfigured man was reborn.

Yesterday at noon, he ate an extra steamed bun and his cousin told his second uncle about it. His second uncle then whipped him severely and locked him in the room without giving him any water or food.

In fact, he didn't eat anything secretly. He clearly saw his cousin feeding the ants in the back hill with steamed buns, but his cousin grabbed his clothes and threatened him in a vicious tone that if he told his father, he would punish him severely.