Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

As she spoke, Lin Xiaoyue paused to wipe away her tears, glancing at the angry faces of Grandpa and Mrs. Lin, and continued, "It is said that family disgrace should not be made public, but I won't say much about how everyone in the old house, including grandpa and grandma, and even my eldest and second uncles, treated our family. I just hope that the head of the village can help us and completely sever our ties with the Lin family's old house."

Do I need to say anything sensational?

Which of the villagers watching the scene didn’t know about the dirty things that had happened in the old Lin family house over the years?

Lin Xiaoyue sobbed and narrated the sadness of these years with deep emotion, bringing the neighbors who were watching her down with a wave of memories that made those who heard it sad and those who saw it shed tears.

The old lady from the Yue family next door, who always fought with old lady Lin, was even more dramatic at this time. She cried and shook her head, slapped her thighs, and cried a lot, as if Lin Xiaoyue's family were her dear children and grandchildren who had been separated for decades. She was heartbroken.

Lin Xiaoyue didn't care how genuine the crying of Old Lady Yue was. Anyway, with such a good group of actors working together, the play would be more joyful, right?

"You bitch, haven't you said enough? You ate my food and drank my drinks, and now you dare to throw dirty water on me. You don't want to die, do you?"

Old Mrs. Lin was indeed the most aggressive person in the village. She was just scolded by the head of the village, but she was furious again within a quarter of an hour.

Although Mr. Lin did not express his opinion, his face looked extremely ugly, and Yan Ran also looked like he disagreed with breaking up the relationship.

The head of the village snorted coldly at Old Lady Lin, and said solemnly to Lin Xiaoyue, "Third girl, breaking off the engagement is a serious matter, and it is not something that a girl like you can decide. Even if you want to bring up such a major matter, your parents must come forward!"

"But Grandpa Lizheng, you have seen what my parents are like now! Doctor Li just said that my father's head injury is very serious. It is hard to say whether he can wake up or when he will wake up."

"To put it bluntly, if my father never...never wakes up again...wuwu...does our family have to continue to endure the cruelty of the old house?"

Lin Xiaoyue interrupted the headman before he finished speaking, wiped her bloody face, and pointed out the drawbacks and possible risks in a deep voice, "Besides, even if they don't sell us sisters anymore, will those so-called relatives in the old house really let us live?"

"No! In their eyes, all of us in the third house are just slaves and servants driven by the people in the old house, free laborers, and they can beat and scold them at any time and place to vent their anger, or even beat and kill them at will."

"The feeling of having a sharp knife hanging over our heads and ready to drop and kill us at any time has made our family unable to sleep or eat in peace. We really don't want to live in fear of death any longer!"

As she spoke, Lin Xiaoyue secretly pinched her thigh.

The kind that is absolutely ruthless.

Lin Xiaoyue was in so much pain that tears immediately flowed out.

Lin Xiaoyue, who was so thin that she looked like just a bag of bones, lowered her head, covered her face with her hands, shrugged her shoulders, and burst into tears.

Lin Xiaoyue's thin and desolate figure made the villagers feel sad.

The two little kids, with tears in their eyes, hugged Lin Xiaoyue's thighs helplessly and pitifully. Even Lin Zhaodi, who was wrapped in white cloth and looked haggard, came over at the right time. The four sisters stood together, some with injuries, some bleeding, some with pale faces crying softly, hugging each other and crying loudly. Their miserable appearance was so pitiful that the villagers' eyes turned red and their noses were sore when they saw it.

Even the village head, who was always strict and upright, was moved.

"Girl! The village head will watch over your grandparents and will not allow anything like what happened today to happen again. Don't be afraid! Besides, most of the villagers in our village are kind-hearted and will take care of each other."

It is said that older people tend to be soft-hearted towards children, and Lin Xiaoyue seized on this point to make the village head relax. As a modern person, she has seen too many examples of the fickleness of the world, and she also understands that once you are too strong, no matter how right you are, people will think you are aggressive.

Moderately playing the victim and using softness to overcome hardness are the wise ways to deal with the current predicament.

"Grandpa Lizheng, you can't protect us all the time. The villagers in the village also have their own chores to take care of, and there will always be times when you can't take care of us. And no one can guarantee that what happened today won't happen again in the future. As long as the relationship continues, the people in the old house will always find ways to make our family restless. So, Grandpa Lizheng, please help us break off the relationship!"

"Please, Grandpa Lizheng, help us break up the relationship!"

Lin Zhaodi and Xiaosi and Xiaowu also begged in unison.

The atmosphere around was so depressing that it was suffocating. The villagers were clearly divided. They became increasingly dissatisfied with the practices of the Lin family's old house and condemned and exiled them.

Old Madam Lin's head was filled with blood. "You little bitch, I worked so hard to raise you, and this is how you repay me? You are such a hopeless wolf cub. God should send down a thunderbolt to kill you, little beast!"

Lin Xiaoyue asked back in a cold tone, "I, this little beast, was born by my father, so what are you who gave birth to my father? An old beast? And, grandma, how have we, the third room, lived in the old house these years? Can't you see or hear? Why did my father split up the family? Because you never treated him as a son. From top to bottom, inside and outside the family, the third room eats the worst and does the most work! On weekdays, the whole family eats in the upper room, but only our third room can only squat by the door to eat. The upper room drinks porridge, and the third room drinks thin soup. We could only see the bran at the bottom of the bowl. Even the pigs at home ate better than us. However, when the busy farming season came, each family would either get sick, have a headache, fall asleep, or hate the sun. In the end, all the work in the fields was done by the third family. Even the three-year-old fourth and fifth children had to go to the fields. If we didn’t, you, my aunt, and my second aunt would scold us for being freeloaders. Later, the fourth and fifth children came back from the fields and got a heat stroke. My parents begged my grandparents to call a doctor and give them two doses of medicine. What did you say? "

Lin Xiaoyue paused, took a deep breath, put one hand on her waist and pointed the other hand, and vividly performed the abusive posture and mean face of Old Lady Lin in her memory. "I remember it very clearly. What grandma said at that time was: 'Aren't they just two rags, and they are too expensive, like young ladies in the city. They just hum when they have nothing to do. Don't they just want to not work? They are really freeloaders. Why don't they just die?' Grandpa and grandma, this is what you said at the time, do you remember? Are you really my father's biological parents? Are you really our legitimate grandparents?"