Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

"This is so cold-blooded. Everyone was panicking when the earthquake happened. My family was also running around in panic. We didn't care about other people. We just wanted to save our lives, okay?"

"You can't blame her uncle's family for that. After all, they raised her. They can't turn their backs on them just because they didn't save her once. That's too heartless."

"Little girl, you live in such a nice house now, but your uncle's family doesn't even have a place to stay. You should at least take them in for a while."

"That's right. His uncle just said that he would only stay for a while and move out when he found a place to stay. This girl is really unreasonable. She won't even let him stay."

"Stay for a while? I believed my uncle's lies before, and as a result, all the properties, lands and savings my parents left me were taken away by my uncle's family. Rutian even had the nerve to come to me and say he would stay for a while. Haha, a while, I'm afraid it's a lifetime."

Amid the discussion, Xiaocao's rebuttal seemed so weak and pale. No one was willing to believe the words of a child who was only less than ten years old. Instead, they felt that the voice of his uncle's family was closer to the truth.

Just when everyone was enjoying the fun and eating melons, Lin Xiaoyue forcefully pushed aside the group of people blocking the door of her house, causing everyone to point fingers at her overbearing behavior.

"Xiao Cao, who are they?" Lin Xiaoyue walked through the crowd, pulled Xiao Cao to her side with an unhappy look, and stared coldly at the four people opposite her who were in tattered clothes and had disheveled hair.

"You, who are you?" The four people were obviously surprised by Lin Xiaoyue's sudden appearance. They didn't expect that there was someone here who knew Xiaocao and was willing to protect her.

Lin Xiaoyue carefully checked Xiaocao's body from head to toe. After finding that Xiaocao was not injured, she felt relieved and turned around to respond coldly, "Who am I? I am the owner of this house. What do you think?"

"What? Are you the owner of this house?" The four people obviously didn't expect that Lin Xiaoyue was the owner of this house.

Although they had been observing this family from the surroundings, they only saw Xiaocao coming in and out and did not notice anyone else.

It was no wonder they hadn't noticed. Lin Xiaoyue went out to the blacksmith shop early every day and didn't come back until late at night. So, they kept watching during the day but never noticed that Lin Xiaoyue and Xiaocao lived under the same roof.

At this time, one or two women and children in the crowd also spoke up, "Hey, I remember this girl, she seems to live here too."

"Yes, yes, yes. I've run into her a few times before, but she always went out early in the morning, and I don't know what she was doing. Anyway, she left this little girl at home to watch over me."

Perhaps because they saw that Lin Xiaoyue was not very old, Uncle Xiaocao's family rolled their eyes around twice, and then their surprise turned into a flattering smile.

"Oh, I was wondering, how did this girl suddenly have enough money to live in such a nice house? It turns out that she met a kind-hearted family who took her in. Thank you so much for taking our girl in. I am Xiaocao's uncle. This is my wife, Xiaocao's aunt. These two are Xiaocao's cousins."

"My little girl, I can tell from the first glance that you are a kind-hearted person. You are so kind that you are willing to take in Xiaocao from our family. We have just arrived in Wanbao Town and we don't have a place to stay yet. You see, we know Xiaocao, so can we stay at your house for a few days and move out when we find a house? What do you think?"

After Xiaocao's uncle finished speaking, his aunt immediately raised her voice sharply, laughed in a weird way, and reached out to pat Lin Xiaoyue's shoulder to get closer to her.

However, Lin Xiaoyue dodged sideways. Her hand, which was dry and rough, with black dirt under the nails, was opened like a chicken claw and froze in mid-air, about to fall. Aunt Xiaocao's face froze, and changed from red to purple, and from purple to black, changing back and forth, which was very beautiful.

Xiaocao was afraid that Lin Xiaoyue would suffer a loss, so she pulled her sleeve from behind, but Lin Xiaoyue grabbed her hand and patted it gently, with a very comforting tone.

"I don't like others touching me. Watch your hands." Lin Xiaoyue's cold eyes swept across Xiaocao's aunt fiercely, causing her to shudder all over, as if an invisible sharp blade was scraping back and forth on her back. The feeling of danger made her hair stand on end, and she instinctively hurried to retract her hand that was hanging in the air.

Lin Xiaoyue raised her eyebrows and looked at Xiaocao's so-called uncle's family with a half-smile, "Since you are Xiaocao's uncle, then it's easy to talk. When I pulled this girl out from the rubble, she was covered in blood and dying. If it weren't for my grandfather Qiao who fed her handfuls of various precious ginseng and blood lotus, the little girl would have died long ago. You are her family, and you came just in time. Let's settle this account properly."

"What...what?" Uncle Xiaocao's family's faces turned pale with disbelief, and their voices suddenly became stuck. They just wanted to get something for nothing, but didn't expect to lose money at all.

Seeing Uncle Xiaocao's family was stunned, Lin Xiaoyue burst out laughing. What kind of fool is this? Do they really think that she is young and easy to fool?

She did not forget how she rescued Xiaocao and how Xiaocao later confessed her family situation.

She remembers it clearly.

Xiaocao's father went hunting in the mountains and encountered a wild beast, and he didn't even leave a complete body.

Her mother couldn't bear the shock and pretended to be crazy and stupid and was taken back by her parents.

As for this so-called uncle's family, haha, on the surface, they took Xiaocao to their home to take care of her, but in fact, they openly occupied the house, land, and even all the savings left by Xiaocao's father. Not only that, they also drove Xiaocao to live in a pigpen, where she ate and lived like a servant, and completely treated Xiaocao as their family's free labor.

It's a pity that they still have the nerve to recognize Xiaocao and want to take advantage of her. Even if there is no mirror, you will always pee. Why don't you look at yourself and have the nerve to jump in front of her?

"You are not lying, are you? Not only do you not want to let us live in here, but you even made up some story about precious ginseng and blood lotus to rescue the people. Who are you trying to fool?" Xiaocao's cousin's face turned red with anger. She pointed at Lin Xiaoyue and started to criticize her without thinking.

It must be said that Xiaocao, this cousin, has a standard little white flower face, non-aggressive, and pitiful, making people want to protect her. Unfortunately, she is a female and has no interest in her own kind. However, her words aroused the sympathy of many teenagers and middle-aged men in the crowd around her, and they all became her mouthpieces.