Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

The little girl was holding a chubby boy about seven or eight years old, who was wrapped tightly.

The mother and her two children stood by the door and watched a group of people getting off the car. There were five men and three women in total. Although they looked a little dishevelled, it was obvious from the clothes and cloaks they wore that they came from a wealthy family. At least, it was much better than the simple clothes worn by their peasant family.

Several people got out of the car, nodded slightly to the mother and her two children, and followed the girl named Fubao into the house.

There were many of them, but considering safety concerns they only stayed in three rooms.

Needless to say, the three girls lived in one room; Doctor Qiao, Doctor Li and the mute medicine boy lived in one room; Er Gouzi and Di Qing lived in one room.

After they looked around the house and found it fairly clean, Chun Xing and Xiao Cao smiled and asked Miss Fu Bao where the kitchen was. They gave her some money for firewood and planned to use the kitchen to cook some food after a simple clean-up.

Di Qing walked around the yard and found that the family did not raise any livestock, so they had no feed, so he limped to several nearby households to see if he could buy some feed to feed the horses.

After Lin Xiaoyue and her group were busy, the mother and her two children went into the room and talked in whispers.

Chuanzong pouted and complained, "Mom, why do you let these people stay at home? I don't like having outsiders at home."

Although Fubao didn't say anything, the corners of her lips, which were pursed into a straight line, slightly curved downward, showing the little girl's displeasure. Daddy went to work in the town, and there was no one in charge of the family. What if a bad guy came in?

The woman patted the two children's arms, her face full of excitement, "Silly children, these people gave us two taels of silver for staying overnight."

Speaking of silver, the two children's eyes lit up. Two taels of silver could last the family for a long time.

Fu Bao was still a little worried, "Mom, who are they to be so generous?"

The woman's face was full of excitement. "Silly girl, why do you care who they are? Didn't you see they have a carriage? Not to mention what valuables are in the carriage, the horse alone is worth a lot of silver. Anyway, it's just a place to stay for one night, just pay the money. Hey... Such a good thing, I wish I could come every day."

Fubao and Chuanzong looked at each other, their eyes flickered, and they couldn't help but have some thoughts.

As the night deepened, Lin Xiaoyue and her group finished their evening meal and went back to their rooms to rest.

Today was really exhausting. Not only were Doctor Qiao and Doctor Li bumped around by the carriage, with bruises all over their heads and faces, but even Lin Xiaoyue and the others fought desperately with the bandits, and each of them suffered varying degrees of injuries.

After this rest, everyone fell asleep quickly.

It was freezing cold, late at night, and heavy snow was falling.

In the silent night, with the cold wind blowing, two dark figures, one big and one small, walked on tiptoe and tiptoed, but the thick snow still made a creaking sound when they stepped on it.

Even though the other party tried to be careful, Lin Xiaoyue, who was alert in the room, opened her eyes immediately.

"what--!"

A shrill scream pierced the night sky, waking up the people in the entire village.

The villagers lit candles and held torches to see what had happened.

When the orange-yellow firelight illuminated Miss Fubao's face, which was distorted with pain, she covered her injured arm and groaned in agony.

Unknown to everyone, another small black shadow had already escaped before they arrived.

Lin Xiaoyue walked forward with a torch and saw that there was a crossbow arrow stuck in Miss Fubao's arm. The blood had seeped through her thick cotton jacket and soaked half of her body. It was obvious that she was seriously injured.

"This...Isn't this the girl from the Zhao family? How did she get hurt?"

"Oh my god, why are you bleeding so much? Fubao girl, what happened to you?"

"That's right, how did it become like this? So much blood has been shed, but where is Zhao's wife? Why is there no movement?"

"Oh, the lazy woman of the Zhao family eats and sleeps all day long. How can she get up without the sky falling and the earth collapsing? Hurry up and call a woman in to wake her up."

"That's right. I've never seen a mother like this. Her child was injured so badly, but she didn't even come out to take a look."

Here, a group of villagers were surrounding Miss Fubao. Seeing her grimacing in pain, they were anxious but unable to help. They could only turn around and call her mother.

As a result, after a round, they found that Fubao's mother was not there. Based on the past situation, everyone guessed with their toes that this notoriously lazy woman was probably asleep again.

The village chief quickly asked the woman to go into the house and call out Fubao's mother.

The person did come out, but she was half-sleepy. When Fu Bao's mother saw the injuries of her daughter, she grimaced in pain and fell to the ground covered in blood. She immediately started screaming.

With a loud scream, he staggered forward, grabbed Fubao's shoulders and shook her hard, completely unaware that he had pinched the part where Fubao was injured.

Fubao was hit by an arrow and was already groaning in pain. Then, her mother pinched her hard, causing her to grimace in pain even more.

However, she had lost a lot of blood and was dizzy and very weak. Then her mother pinched her with her strong iron hand, causing her to gasp in pain and her head to buzz.

No one knew what Fu Bao Niang was thinking. She suddenly jumped up from the spot as if she had resurrected from the dead, pointed her finger at the tip of Lin Xiaoyue's nose, and cursed without any reason, "Okay, you bastards, I took you in out of kindness, but you hurt my daughter. I don't care, you have to pay compensation, if it's not fifty... no, one hundred... no, two hundred taels, I will never let you go."

Lin Xiaoyue was just about to break the finger that was pointing at her nose, but before she could make a move, a blur appeared in front of her eyes.

Er Gouzi took the first step and kicked the man hard out.

The villagers nearby didn't know the whole story, but now Mr. Zhao was away working in the town, leaving only his wife and two children at home.

No one knew where Chuanzong had gone, but the girl Fubao was injured, and her mother was beaten by strangers. The onlookers were in an uproar and surrounded Lin Xiaoyue and her group of outsiders and attacked them.

"Hey, who are you? Why are you hitting people?"

"That's right, you can't just talk nicely, you have to use your hands and feet. You're a grown man, what's the point of bullying a woman?"

"You are from outside, right? Why are you acting so arrogantly in our village? Are you bandits?"

"I think so. You didn't see that man's ferocious look. The Zhao family's wife was just talking to that girl for a few words when she was kicked away by that man. I don't know if she suffered any internal injuries."