Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

He didn't want to cause any trouble and just wanted to move aside, but his cousin, in order to show off his power in front of other playmates, actually let him crawl under his crotch.

How could he agree?

He was only entrusted to his uncle's house for care for a while because his father was worried that no one would take care of him while his father was leading the team out.

The uncle took him from the father with a friendly face, and accepted the money and food given by the father. However, as soon as the father left, the uncle began to find ways to criticize him and instigated and condoned his cousin to bully him in various ways.

It’s not that he didn’t try to resist, but the price of resistance was often withholding food, assigning him adult work, or double the bullying.

He knew that his uncle wanted to use him to establish his authority. Because of the poor harvest, life in the village was much worse than in previous years. Many people were dissatisfied with his father for not being able to bring more benefits to the people and wanted to replace him.

As the only blood relative of Daddy, his uncle is also the second in command of the village. On the surface, he is obedient and fawning to his Daddy. But in fact, in the dark corners where Daddy can't see, he stirs up trouble and does some shameful plots to try to pull his Dad down from the position of the head.

It's not like he hadn't told his father about this, but his father didn't care and always said, 'We are all brothers. Even if our bones are broken, we are still connected. Just turn a blind eye and don't fall for others' tricks. There will never be any quarrels between brothers between him and his uncle.'

Doesn't exist? It's just my father's wishful thinking. My second uncle obviously doesn't think so.

Now, the reason why my second uncle dared to bully me so blatantly after my father took people out to cut the trail was simply because he relied on those people he had colluded with privately, indicating that they would nominate him to sit in the top position this year.

The second uncle felt that he had won and wanted to find fault with him, and vent his resentment for being suppressed by his father all these years. And he was just a ready-made target that happened to fall into his hands.

In their previous life, their village was uprooted last night, and the other party left them a way to survive just like in this life.

However, after those people left, he was imprisoned by his cousin and a group of children who had luckily survived, and he only survived on the little meat and bones left over by them every day.

Later, they all left, leaving him alone. Without food or water and on the verge of death, he could only smash the stools in the dungeon and use the broken chair legs to dig out a tunnel leading to the outside world bit by bit.

Finally, God took pity on him and gave him a chance to live.

After he came out, he endured the dry throat and rushed to the well to fetch water to drink, but the water he fetched was full of stench. He lay down beside the well and looked down, and saw a pile of rotten and smelly intestines floating in the well.

As if he had thought of something, he dragged his heavy body, lay on the ground, and crawled with difficulty towards the secret cellar next to the cattle shed.

But when he finally climbed to the entrance of the cellar with great effort, he saw that some of the supplies had been taken away by those people, and the rest that could not be moved were burned black by his companions...

No one could understand how angry he was at that moment. Those people, those brothers and sisters who grew up with him and whom he regarded as brothers, did not leave him any way to survive.

He hated them for being so ruthless and heartless that they not only imprisoned him but also tried to starve him to death. In order to prevent him from escaping one day, they even destroyed the well and burned the cave, completely cutting off all his chances of survival.

The friendship of those years, those so-called brothers... were ultimately just wishful thinking on his and his father's part.

However, it seemed that God was unwilling to accept him. During the year of great disaster, he suffered countless hardships and became neither human nor ghost. Finally, when he was on the verge of despair, he met the noble person who was destined to be his life.

That person did not despise him for his lowly birth and ugly appearance, and let him stay with him. He also gave him the opportunity to become famous and rise to prominence, and to carve out a path to heaven with his blood and flesh.

When he finally stood in a high enough position, he sent people with several portraits drawn from memory to find those "brothers" who had tried to strangle and destroy him.

However, after they left that year, they did not live out the life as they had imagined, full of vigor and ambition.

When those people were brought before him one by one in a miserable state, knelt at his feet, cried and begged him to let them go, he could not even have the slightest thought of killing them.

It was probably retribution. Before he could take revenge, those people had already fallen into the mud. Each of them was as dirty as a rat in the gutter. Not only did they stink, but they were also missing limbs.

According to their own accounts, not long after they left the mountain village, they were targeted by refugees with red eyes from hunger, who rushed over and robbed them of all the food and property they had brought with them.

Even in the horrific memories of cannibalism and bones exposed in the wild, in order to allow the refugees to eat them for a longer period of time, the refugees kept them in a pen like "two-legged sheep" and took turns cutting a piece of meat from them every day to satisfy their hunger...

He sat at the head of the table, listening to the confessions and pleas for mercy from those people with an expressionless face, his heart was calm. He waited until he had silently finished the last sip of tea in the cup in his hand before ordering people to drag them out and deal with them.

He had avenged his previous life, but he still owed the noble man a great favor, which made him regret for the rest of his life.

Unexpectedly, God took pity on him and gave him a chance to start over, bringing him back to the turning point of his destiny.

After waking up, he was in a trance for a moment, then he immediately jumped up from the ground and rushed out of the house where he was imprisoned without thinking. He ran around in the chaotic mountain village, looking for the other party, telling them the location of the secret cave truthfully, and in exchange for a glimmer of hope.

It was not because of those heartless people, but because he knew that after those outsiders left, they would leave enough supplies for these children to survive.

He was waiting. After those people left, he would be able to spur his horse and rush to his benefactor as quickly as possible to protect him from the most dangerous catastrophe in his previous life.

At this moment, he stood as a bystander, looking coldly at the group of ignorant people who were still talking nonsense. He just felt that these lowly ants were so ridiculous.

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In the cellar, Xiaoqiao, with her hands and feet tied behind her back, was already so hungry that her hands and feet were weak. It was not that Lin Xiaoyue and the others did not give her food, but that she herself refused to eat.

Thinking of Niu Tietou coming to her with a cold face to bring her food after nightfall, she was already scared out of her wits by the Lin sisters. When she saw Niu Tietou, she immediately squirmed her bound body, rubbed against his feet, and humbly begged him to let her go. She cried bitterly, tears streaming down her face, thinking that this could arouse the other party's sympathy.

Unexpectedly, Niu Tietou only frowned slightly and coldly rebuked her for repeatedly provoking trouble, inexplicably stabbing others behind their backs, and attempting to hurt people's lives. He was simply extremely vicious.