Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

Everyone knew that the two sisters hurried back because of Lin Dahua's matter, so they didn't try to persuade them much and just told them to be at ease.

After all, who wouldn’t feel uncomfortable if they had such a terrible in-law?

The sisters Lin Xiaoyue and Lin Zhaodi were not disgusted by the Chen family.

As soon as the two sisters returned to the farm, they pulled Lin Dahua into the room without saying a word, locked the door, and locked Miao, Old Man Lin, and the fourth and fifth children outside. The three sisters were the only ones left in the room, talking in whispers.

Lin Xiaoyue didn't beat around the bush and went straight to the point, telling Lin Dahua about her encounter with Chen Youtian's family in the town.

And, tell Lin Dahua that Chen Youtian now has a charming and seductive concubine. And her eldest son, who was born after ten months of hard pregnancy, still clings to that vixen and calls her mother. I'm afraid he has already forgotten his own mother.

Lin Dahua's face darkened when he heard this.

For her eldest son (Dabao), she can be said to have poured all her love and care into him.

However, probably because of the influence of his mother-in-law, Dabao was not close to Lin Dahua. He thought his mother was just a "servant" bought by his father at a cheap price of one tael. Not only was she servile all day long, old and ugly, but she also restricted him in every way.

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When Lin Dahua thought of her son's attitude towards her, her heart was broken and she couldn't stop crying.

Lin Xiaoyue repeatedly asked Lin Dahua what happened during the earthquake in Hexi Village and why she escaped alone with Xiaomaizi.

She had to understand everything that happened during that period, because it was very likely that Chen Youtian would come to Zhuangzi soon.

After all, it seems that Chen Youtian's family has settled in Wanbao Town. The journey from the town to the outside is only a few hours. Chen Youtian will sooner or later find out that they live in a farm on the outskirts of the city.

It's not that she was too cautious, but judging from the confrontation with the Chen family today, given the nature of the Chen family and the famine everywhere, it would be strange if they didn't rush to make trouble.

The only reason for them to blackmail him was undoubtedly Lin Dahua.

Therefore, Lin Xiaoyue was eager to know everything that happened after the earthquake when Lin Dahua escaped alone with Xiaomaizi and until they reunited.

Miao lowered her head and pondered. She had been avoiding what happened during that period. Those things, like a nightmare, tightly entangled her, making her feel extremely painful and suffocated.

Although, when she reunited with her family, Lin Dahua had already told them that she was abandoned by her husband's family after the earthquake in Hexi Village, and that she and Xiao Maizi escaped with difficulty.

However, she did not mention a word about the hardships that occurred along the way.

At that time, her family thought she was just indulging in sadness and unwilling to face it, so they didn't want to force her to reveal her scars.

Lin Dahua kept her mouth shut and didn't want to mention it or say anything about it. She just pretended that it had never happened and she had never experienced it. All those things were just a nightmare that made her want to escape far away from those bloody and horrible days that were like purgatory on earth.

She wanted to deceive herself and completely forget the past that she couldn't bear to recall. However, today her second and third sisters came back from a trip to the town, pulled her into the room, and pressed her step by step, forcing her to dig up the scars and tear them again.

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Grandpa Lin and the others who were locked outside looked at each other, wondering what had happened. Outside the gate of the manor, the others who had gone to the town together came back nearly half an hour late, so Miao and the others hurried to ask everyone what had happened in the town.

The group was urgently questioned by Miao and all looked embarrassed, not knowing how to respond.

Upon seeing this, Grandpa hurriedly asked everyone to come in first, sit down in the front hall, and sort out what had happened in the town.

in the room

Lin Dahua's frail body leaned against the darkness, and with a trembling voice, she spoke word by word about the past that she had tried so hard to hide.

Recalling that after the earthquake, the buildings in Hexi Village collapsed and she was trapped under the collapsed houses.

It was obvious that Chen Youtian could have pulled her out of the ruins and saved her by just reaching out his hand. But Chen Youtian just looked at her deeply, and then resolutely took his parents-in-law and eldest son, and without looking back, he cruelly abandoned her under the ruins, leaving her to cry bitterly and shed tears...

When she and Xiaomaizi escaped from the rubble, she immediately stumbled back to Linjia Village and tried to seek help from her family.

However, Linjia Village was already deserted at that time, with only the sound of wind and falling leaves weeping in the ears.

In the desolate village and the dilapidated tile-roofed house, Lin Dahua and Xiaomaizi stood in front of the deserted ruins, hunched over and crying. Under the cold moonlight, the frail figures of the mother and son looked particularly desolate and bleak in the darkness.

Even though she was heartbroken, Lin Dahua knew she couldn't fall down. Maizi was still counting on her. If she couldn't hold on and fell down, what would Maizi do?

She just let herself cry for one night. At dawn the next day, Lin Dahua took the wheat, the little food, water, earthenware jars, and dirty quilts that she had collected from the ruins of Linjia Village that night, and staggered out of Linjia Village.

Perhaps because there is no one to rely on around her, Lin Dahua, a strong mother, can only grit her teeth and move forward.

The world was vast, and it seemed as if only the mother and daughter were left. Lin Dahua did not wander around blindly, but held the wheat tightly, paying attention to the footprints on the road as she walked, and walked forward in the direction of the footprints.

This direction was exactly the direction that everyone from Linjia Village left. If nothing unexpected happened, as long as they were heading in the same direction, they would meet sooner or later.

The road of life is full of twists and turns. Many disaster victims have gathered on the official road, but Lin Dahua did not dare to get too close to those groups of people, because after just a few days on the road, some of the disaster victims bullied the weak and robbed the food of the elderly, the weak, women and children.

Lin Dahua had been robbed a few times, but perhaps she was not starving to death at that time, and seeing that she was carrying a child and had little food, the robbers would automatically ignore her.

Sometimes, she joked to herself that she was in such a miserable state that it would be a thankless task for those people to rob her, and it would be a waste of their time and energy, so they let her go.

But even so, the food she picked up from the ruins of Linjia Village was really pitifully little. If she really ate to her heart's content, she would have eaten up all the food in less than two days.

In order to save food and leave some for wheat, Lin Dahua began to look for edible grass roots and tree barks on the roadside while traveling. Sometimes when she was so hungry that she couldn't bear it anymore, she even ate cockroaches and insects.

As long as she wasn't starved to death or poisoned, she would accept anything and stuff it all into her mouth.