Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

Two years ago, after the third wife was kicked out of the house, she settled in a shabby hut at the end of the village.

Over the past two years, the family lived frugally and worked diligently to build a few thatched huts. The family of six lived in the thatched huts and survived. Their tight days were only slightly better than those of the disaster victims.

There are two elders in the family, one is foolishly filial, and the other is soft-tempered and can be manipulated by others. Some small edges and corners have not been smoothed out, and there is still some blood in their bones, but they are all children after all, and no one is willing to listen to their opinions.

In addition, the people from the old house jumped out from time to time, making the already miserable life of this family even worse. That's why when Lin Xiaoyue came over, the first thing she saw was Miao's haggard and thin face, which was totally disproportionate to her actual age.

During the half month when she was ordered to stay in bed to recuperate, Lin Xiaoyue also met the 'legendary' Old Man Lin.

Oh, when it comes to this foolishly filial and stubborn man, Lin Xiaoyue really feels speechless.

As early as the day after Lin Xiaoyue woke up, she thought, after all, she had taken over the original body's family, and it was she who proposed the matter of breaking off the engagement, so she couldn't let her second sister Lin Zhaodi take the blame. She thought about going to see Father Lin, to test his words, to feel out the other party's thoughts, so as to take further action.

As a result, after begging her second sister for a long time, she was finally allowed to go to the upper room. As soon as she entered the room, the first thing she saw was Old Man Lin's cold and silent protest.

The man was about thirty years old, tall and thin, with a slightly hunched back, and one of his broken legs was suspended in the air with a wooden board.

If this age group were put in modern times, he would definitely be a middle-aged uncle in the prime of life. But now, Father Lin has a square face with frowned brows, a purple face, a gloomy complexion, and a few strands of white hair in his black hair. He looks fifteen or sixteen years older than his actual age.

Of course, it is not an original product anyway, so when facing Old Man Lin’s cold face, Lin Xiaoyue was not afraid at all.

After waking up, Old Man Lin learned that while he and his wife were unconscious, Lin Xiaoyue was so bold as to take the children to find the head of the village to break off the engagement. Upon hearing the news, Old Man Lin was completely stunned.

It was like a bolt from the blue, shocking him to the point of being burnt both inside and out.

He thought that the most daring thing he had done in his life was to ask his family to split up the family property, but he never expected that his child, Lin Sanya, would be so bold that she actually dared to ask the head of the village to sever the relationship on behalf of her father!

Old Man Lin was so angry!

But he himself couldn't tell whether he was angry at the heartless relatives of the Lin family or at Lin Xiaoyue's unfilial behavior.

As a man who put filial piety first and was honest and simple to the core, after he scolded his wife Miao and three children for the first time and smashed the few remaining things in the house, he didn't know how to vent the anger in his heart, and finally could only choose to keep it all back in his heart.

Lin Xiaoyue saw all of Old Man Lin's unwillingness, helplessness, anger, and heartache, but she did not try to persuade him. Because for some things, the more others talked about them, the more he would get stuck in a dead end. Only when he figured it out could he let it go.

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Early in the morning, just as the sky was getting light, Lin Xiaoyue was finally allowed to step out of the room. She was so happy that she wanted to cry.

She was forced to be locked in the room for more than half a month, facing four walls every day. Except for occasionally chatting with Lin's mother and the two little kids to kill time, she really felt like she was in prison. The frustration and depression made her almost hit her head on the ground. It was so miserable!

As soon as Lin Xiaoyue walked out of the room, she took a deep breath of the original ecological atmosphere without any industrialization. There was a slight wisp of freshness in the air, which made people feel comfortable all over. Every pore was wide open, as if cheering.

That’s great, this is a new life!

After stretching her muscles, Lin Xiaoyue took a walk in the yard and found that the small courtyard of the Lin family was not small. In addition to the master bedroom of Lin's father and mother, there was also a side bedroom, a main hall, and a small kitchen for cooking. These were all made of mud walls and thatched roofs. It was estimated that if there was a typhoon, it would be very bad, and the thatch on the roof would be blown away by the strong wind.

There is a jujube tree in the front yard, but now it is the Grain Rain season, the weather is getting warmer, and the jujube tree has entered the initial budding stage, waiting to bloom and bear fruit.

There was a stone mill under the tree, a simple wooden cart parked next to it, and a small pile of firewood in the corner not far away.

A vegetable plot was also cleared in the backyard, where various vegetable crops were planted, and the entire yard was simply surrounded by a fence.

Overall, Lin Xiaoyue's first impression was: poor! This family is really poor!

Lin Xiaoyue whistled in a gangster way and walked into the thatched house that she used as a kitchen in her memory.

After entering the small kitchen and looking around, Lin Xiaoyue first walked to the stone jar in the corner and opened the lid. As expected, there were a few millet grains lying scattered at the bottom of the jar.

After digging into the original owner's memory, Lin Xiaoyue learned that Linjia Village was located in the north, the crop was wheat, and the staple food was steamed buns. It was extremely difficult to eat rice.

Before the family split up, even though wheat was planted in the old Lin family house, the amount of flour that Lin Laosan's family could eat every year was pitifully little. They usually ate various grains or flour made from grains.

Lin Xiaoyue scratched her head, thinking in great distress about what excuse she could find to take out the huge pile of rice and flour in the space and fill it into this incredibly poor home.

Oh my God~~, this family is really so poor that she wants to help them, but she can't even find an excuse!

At this time, footsteps were heard outside.

Lin Xiaoyue looked in the direction of the sound and took a closer look, only to see her second sister Lin Zhaodi going out early in the morning to fetch water from the only well in the center of the village.

Lin Xiaoyue saw her second sister Lin Zhaodi's thin and shriveled body, struggling to carry two full buckets of water on a shoulder pole. Both ends of the pole were bent due to the weight of the load, and Lin Zhaodi's little face turned red from the effort.

As soon as she stepped into the door, she saw Lin Xiaoyue. She was slightly startled and her movements slowed down for a moment.

Lin Xiaoyue hurriedly stepped forward to take the two buckets of water she was carrying, picked up a bucket in each hand, quickly walked to the water tank at the kitchen door, and poured the two buckets of water into the water tank one after another.

I glanced at the full water tank and figured that my second sister Lin Zhaodi must have gotten up very early and walked back and forth three or four times to fill the water tank.

So he kept mumbling: "Second sister, let me do the work of fetching water in the future. I have recovered and it is time to exercise. Besides, you are not as strong as me, and it is too strenuous for you to fetch water."

Lin Xiaoyue was not exaggerating. Not to mention that she had the power mutation and could lift two full buckets of water like a piece of cake. Even before she came, all the heavy work in the house was done by the original owner. Now, if she hadn't been injured and forced to rest by Doctor Li and her second sister, these jobs that were originally hers would have been temporarily taken over by Lin Zhaodi.