Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

After a long while, Miao couldn't help but turned around and asked Lin Xiaoyue awkwardly, "How...how is your father now?"

"…Ah?! Mom, what did you say? I just fell asleep."

Miao: ...

"You kid, now even your mother is making fun of you, right?" Miao was furious. She pinched Lin Xiaoyue's face and poked her with her elbow. This kid is really something. He knew that she was worried, but he still kept her in suspense.

Lin Xiaoyue teased Miao for a while, but thought that she shouldn't tease her too much, otherwise if she got really angry, she wouldn't be able to handle it.

"Don't worry, mother. I have placed someone beside father. He will have some troubles living with everyone in the old house, but his safety is guaranteed."

Lin Xiaoyue has always felt that as long as one is alive, it doesn't matter if one is missing limbs. After all, she has seen too many people missing limbs and barely surviving in the apocalypse. What is more important than life? !

Miao didn't know that what Lin Xiaoyue meant by life safety was only about saving his life. She thought that her daughter would send someone to look after her father, and she would never watch her father get into trouble, so she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

But after all, he started thinking about it, so he asked Lin Xiaoyue how her father was doing and that... that woman.

Lin Xiaoyue knew who the woman was that Miao Shi was hesitating about and couldn't say. She knew that she couldn't let go of Father Lin, but these two people, for the sake of their children and various external factors, had no choice but to be put on the fire and embark on the road of righteous separation.

After thinking about it, Lin Xiaoyue carefully told Miao about what she saw when she visited the old house that day and night, but she concealed the tragic scene of herself releasing the snake and seeing Old Man Lin being beaten so hard that he vomited blood by Old Lady Lin.

It was only briefly mentioned that Father Lin was not welcomed in the old house and was bullied and ostracized by those people. But even so, Miao could still imagine the miserable life of Father Lin in the old house.

As for Qing Liu, she was not like when she lived in Linjiazhuang, trying every possible way to stick to Lin Lao and show her kindness and play tricks. After all, living under those wolves in the old house, being enslaved and tortured from morning to night every day, she had already exhausted all her energy. How could she have extra energy to torture and seduce Lin Lao?

Upon hearing this, Miao couldn't help but recall the dark days she had lived in the old house. Thinking about it, it was indeed true, and she couldn't help but feel relieved.

Lin Xiaoyue could clearly feel that Miao was no longer as distracted as before, and no longer had lost direction in life, living in a daze and numbness like a walking corpse.

This is the change she hopes to see, which is better than being devastated.

"Mom, if you can't let go, why did you go to the point of breaking up with Dad?"

In the darkness, Miao was obviously stiff. Although there was no response for a long time, Lin Xiaoyue could sense Miao's tension from the way their arms were pressed tightly together.

"Sure enough, is it still for my inane reputation?"

Miao choked and didn't know what to say.

"What if I tell you that the old man went back to the government office to accuse me of releasing the snake, and it's true?"

Miao was shocked again and sat up, "How can you be so brave? If someone finds out, will you still have such a good reputation?"

When she recalled the rumor that Old Lady Lin and her first and second wives had jointly sued Sanya Lin for releasing a snake to murder them, her face changed drastically and she was terrified. If the case had not been closed at that time, Miao would have rushed to the state capital without hesitation.

There is no other reason. With Lin Xiaoyue's bold and reckless personality, she is really capable of doing such a thing.

She was not worried about the safety of everyone in the old house, but she was concerned about whether her own fierce daughter would be pulled apart and bitten off by everyone in the old house.

Now that she had broken off all ties with Lin Lao San, she had completely drawn a line between herself and the old house. She herself was soft-hearted and could tolerate any bullying from the people in the old house, but if they dared to stretch their claws in front of her daughter again, she would chop off their claws with a knife.

"Look, it's all right now." Lin Xiaoyue smiled and pushed Miao back onto the bed, tucking the quilt for her. "Don't worry, mother. Your daughter has a plan in mind. Besides, I have the protection of the gods. Even if you don't believe in your daughter, you have to believe in the gods."

Miao was stunned for a moment and blinked, it seemed that was the case.

"But you can't do this. She is your biological grandmother after all. If someone sees her and spreads the news, your reputation will be ruined. If you kill someone, you will feel uneasy."

Lin Xiaoyue sneered and said disdainfully, "Mom, none of the people over there treat us as their own family. They all want to treat our whole family like slaves and torture them to death. Do you think they treat us as their own family?

Besides, I was just trying to scare them. The snake's teeth had all been pulled out, so I was just trying to scare them."

"Even if you want to scare them, it won't work. Otherwise, they will be fine and you will end up in trouble. Look at the people in that old house, each one is more evil than the other. They are not easy to deal with. If they really catch us, I'm afraid that troubles will come one after another."

"So, mother, you broke off your relationship with father in order to stop the old man from harboring evil intentions towards us, mother and daughter. Or to be more precise, you did it for the sake of my reputation as the village chief."

Miao's heart tightened. She had not expected her daughter to be so sensitive. She clenched her fists nervously, turned her face away and said nothing. Most importantly, she did not know what to say.

The reason why the couple acted out this was indeed for the sake of San Yatou's title. Of course, it was also to completely cut off the evil intentions of everyone in the old house.

Lin Xiaoyue looked out through the crack in the window at the cold night. She couldn't help but grit her teeth and felt a little unhappy.

It would be too easy for those people to just release snakes in the old house. They should have added some centipedes, scorpions and so on. If they can't scare those scum to death, they should at least be frightened into paralysis.

After a long time, Miao said in a low voice, "San Ya, don't blame your father. In fact, it's good like this now, isn't it..."

What's good about it? It's not good at all. If I had known that I would have found a chance to destroy the dregs in the old house on the way to escape the famine, it's really a pity.

The consequences are endless.

The mother and daughter were silent for a long time. Lin Xiaoyue felt uncomfortable, so she changed the subject and mentioned that the shops in the state capital and Wanbao Town would open at the same time in a few days, and asked Miao to bring her family to the shops to pick out some things to play with.

Miao was in a heavy mood at first, but later she seemed to have really let it go. She gradually calmed down and immersed herself in the light-hearted topic that Lin Xiaoyue had intentionally brought up.