Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

Similarly, Old Man Lin, who was stimulated by Lin Xiaoyue's brutal means, developed a high fever overnight. His eyes were sunken, his breathing was weak, and he was groaning. He lay there unable to move, breathing out but not in. Everyone in the old house was so scared that they almost abandoned him.

But after all, they had been married for decades, and Old Lady Lin would not allow anyone to abandon Old Man Lin no matter what. She insisted on letting the first wife take the imperial examination. If they abandoned her old father, if the old lady was lucky enough to survive in the future, she would definitely report their actions to the government, deprive them of the title of student that they had worked so hard to obtain, and cut off all the escape routes of the first wife.

As for the second wife, Old Lady Lin held on tightly, saying that if she abandoned them, all the money they had saved throughout their lives would be given to the first wife.

In this way, the lifelines of both the first and second wives were controlled. Even if they were unwilling, they could only hate it in secret.

It's not that the two families hadn't thought about finding a chance to steal the old lady's hidden coffin and then abandon her. But they searched several times and couldn't find the place where the old couple hid the money, which was strange.

As for the claim that the old lady didn't hide any silver at all, that is absolutely impossible.

The old lady was a shrewd person. Not only had she tightly held on to the public treasury's money over the years, she had also coaxed and deceived her daughters-in-law into taking away a lot of their dowries. So if someone said that the old lady had no money, no one would believe it.

Where did the old lady hide her money?

Of course, it is hidden at the old girl Lin Xiaolian's place.

Speaking of which, Lin Xiaolian was also a smart person. The old lady hid the silver with her, so no matter how her brother and sister-in-law tried to get information from her, she would fool them with her own tricks.

To be honest, she was not really filial to the old couple. However, she was also worried that if her brother and sister-in-law abandoned the old couple, she would be the next one to be abandoned, with no one to rely on.

Even if her brother and sister-in-law didn't abandon her now and took her with them, she didn't think that they could keep doing this for long and tolerate a freeloader like her.

In the end, they either ran out of ammunition and food and had to hand her over in exchange for food, or when they got to the place, they sold her to a brothel for money without any care.

And how deep is Mrs. Lin’s affection for Mr. Lin?

It's really not.

The first and second wives were all born from her belly. Just look at her and you can tell that these descendants will not be able to poop well.

She was afraid, too. She was afraid that the people from the two houses would throw away their own offspring without blinking an eye. If they were to throw away the old man, would they be far from throwing away an old woman with disabled legs and feet?

That's why the old lady was so cruel and was determined to protect Mr. Lin at all costs.

It has to be said that, except for Lin Lao San, everyone in this family has a lot of ulterior motives.

In the past, they had the Third House to do whatever they wanted, but now, without the Third House as their common punching bag, they can only frame each other, attack each other, and trip each other up. Therefore, if they don't stay alert, they will be eaten up sooner or later.

In this way, due to various reasons, the seriously ill and dying Mr. Lin luckily escaped the fate of being abandoned. With the two families taking turns to carry him forward, he managed to make it to the state capital in a half-dead state.

However, can the two families really go on without any grudges and support each other all the way since that bloody battle?

Really thinking too much.

Everyone in the second house remembered that the first house broke their brother Lin Changjiu's legs, forcing them to abandon him to fend for himself.

The instigator, Lin Xiaoyue, is not here. Even if she is, they can't afford to offend her, and naturally they don't dare to seek revenge on her. So doesn't the first wife become the target of hatred of the second wife?

Later on, their food became increasingly scarce, and everyone faced an increasingly severe survival crisis. Lin Jinbao, who was relatively well taken care of by the first wife and the old couple and still maintained a plump figure, became the target of the second wife.

Taking advantage of the cold moonlit night, when it was the turn of the second house to keep watch, several people from the second house covered each other and took the opportunity to steal Lin Jinbao out by covering his mouth while everyone else was asleep, and exchanged his son for cannibalism with others.

However, there is no airtight wall in the world.

On the second day, the second wife's behavior was discovered by the first wife. The first wife and the old couple were extremely sad and angry. The two sides started with fierce verbal abuse and then physical pushing, and finally it turned into a fierce fight.

During the fight, both sides almost beat each other to pieces, but because the noise of their fight attracted many refugees waiting to take advantage of the situation, they stared at them with eager eyes. In the end, both sides restrained themselves and neither risked their lives to fight to the death.

The main reason is that they are afraid that no one will end up well, and that other refugees will take advantage of the situation and eventually become food for others.

However, after this battle, the first and second wives had become enemies. Although they did not split up and went their separate ways, the two families kept a close eye on each other, waiting for the slightest flaw in the other party, and then they would pounce on it and tear it into pieces, crushing it to dust.

Lin Taohua, the daughter-in-law of the first wife, could not bear the thought of her son being buried in another woman's womb, and she was unable to kill the culprit of the second wife to vent her anger. Grief and anger intertwined, tormenting her day and night.

Eventually, poor Lin Taohua's spirit gradually collapsed and she became crazy. She often called Jin Bao's name in her dreams. After waking up, she burst into tears. Her eyes became empty and dull, as if she had become a puppet that could only breathe and walk.

Lin Changgong also became more and more taciturn, but thinking that he would need the financial support of Yue family to support him in passing the imperial examinations in the future, he could only hypnotize himself to numb himself, and struggled to reach the provincial capital with his unconscious wife.

It can be said that this family was lucky to be doomed. After experiencing a series of setbacks, they unexpectedly met a team sent by a wealthy family to look for people.

One of them accidentally fell in love with Lin Xiaolian, the old girl who was pampered by Mr. and Mrs. Lin. He brought her back and presented her to the master's family, and she became the master's nineteenth concubine.

The people in the old Lin family were also brought into the city. However, because the hostess despised their filthiness and vulgarity, she gave them some money and sent them away, asking them to find a place to stay in the town or village below.

After many twists and turns, by chance, the Lin family and the people in the old house met again unexpectedly in the state capital thousands of miles away.

I really don't know whether to say that enemies meet on a narrow road or that it is God's will. Anyway, they couldn't avoid it. Seeing that Lin Laosan's family was living a good life, the people in the old house came to stick to them.

They also claimed that Mr. Lin was seriously ill and dying, and had a sudden realization before his death, and hoped that his descendants could put aside their past grudges and shake hands in peace.

After hearing this, the sisters of the Lin family couldn't help but sigh to the sky. The old house of the Lin family really made them feel like a toad was crawling on their feet. It didn't bite, but it was disgusting.

But if they wanted to suck their blood in the same room again, there was no door or even a window.