Traveling through the 1940s, the whole village was massacred at the beginning

"Is this Miss Dong's voice?" Jiang Wenming walked towards that direction in confusion.

When they stepped into the main house, they saw a man lying at Dong Duoyu's feet, and a man, a woman and two elderly people lying on the ground next to her.

There were four other children huddled in a corner against the wall, trembling all over and not daring to move.

Looking at the chairs on the other side of the room, there were three people sitting upright. Their faces were as pale as wax and their bodies were thin.

Judging from Xu Fan's appearance, they should be his parents and sisters.

"These are my parents and elder sister." Xu Fan introduced them to everyone.

Jiang Wenming, Jiang Jiyuan and Jiang Jiyun quickly stepped forward and greeted their elders with respectful faces.

Jiang Jiyun's gaze never left the Xu family. She looked at these skeleton-like faces and wondered if the Xu family's life had become so difficult?

Her eyes then swept over the people who were knocked to the ground by Dong Duoyu.

At this time, Xu Fan pointed at the people on the ground and said, "The one Xiaoyu stepped on was my brother-in-law. The man and woman standing beside him were his younger brother and sister-in-law. As for the two old guys, they are his parents, and the children are all from his younger brother's family."

"Then why are they all at your house? Even if they are marrying into your family, it is not necessary for the whole family, young and old, to come to your house? What happened?" Jiang Wenming asked with a puzzled look on his face, his eyes fixed on the scene in front of him, trying to find a clue from this chaos.

Hearing this, Father Xu's face instantly turned gloomy. He clenched his fists, glared at the uninvited guests angrily, and shouted with gritted teeth: "It's all because of our incompetence! We actually let the wolves into the house, giving these guys the opportunity to come in and bully us!"

Jiang Jiyun silently observed the family and saw that although Xu's father spoke with righteous indignation, he actually did not take any substantial action to retaliate against those people.

Xu's mother kept her head down, not even daring to look up at the people and things around her, as if she wanted to hide herself completely.

As for Sister Xu, her eyes revealed a sad and sorrowful expression like Lin Daiyu, making people feel that she was a person who liked to feel sad about the passing of time.

Seeing such a father, mother and sister, Jiang Jiyun thought to himself: incompetent father, cowardly mother, weak sister, and a broken him.

How did Xu Fan manage to put his mind at ease and resolutely leave here to join the army? Wasn't he afraid that something might happen to the family of three?

Xu Fan said with a look of regret and heartache, "I thought Zhang Youwei was an honest bastard, but I didn't expect that I was wrong. He is an ungrateful person!"

Jiang Jiyun looked at Xu Fan, who was heartbroken, and said, "They didn't think you were dead out there, so they wanted to wipe out your family, right?"

Father Xu looked at those people and said, "Fan'er has often sent letters back. They were not so blatant before, but due to the natural disasters and man-made disasters in the past six months, food and water have become scarce, so they all came to our house."

Jiang Wenming looked at Xu's father and asked, "This is your home, why can't you defeat these people? Ask the guards at home to throw them out!"

"By the time I realized what was happening, all the guards at home had been replaced by that bastard Zhang Youwei. He and his men took control of my home, and we had no way to resist," explained Father Xu.

Jiang Wenming and the others turned to look at Xu Fan and saw him covering his face with his hands and taking another deep breath.

Dong Duoyu said, "You shouldn't have given so much power to him in the first place. Most people are greedy and always want to possess things that don't belong to them."

"But he...he is my man." Xu Fan's sister said in a low voice.

Xu Fan frowned, staring at his sister who was still stubborn, with a hint of helplessness and confusion in his tone: "So, you would rather endure it silently, or even die in their hands, than stand up and resist?"

When Sister Xu heard her brother's question, her body trembled violently. She looked up at Xu Fan in horror and explained with a trembling voice: "It's not like that... He just gave us a little less food because of the natural disaster and there was very little food left at home, but he definitely didn't mean to let us die!"

Jiang Wenming, who was standing by, could no longer suppress his anger. He widened his eyes, pointed at Sister Xu Fan, and shouted angrily, "Are you out of your mind? Open your eyes and take a good look at yourself and your parents. You are so skinny that you look unrecognizable! Look at the rest of the family. They are all well fed and well-fed. How can they not look like they are short of food? Can't you see the trick here?"

Seeing that the situation was not good, Jiang Jiyuan quickly reached out and grabbed Jiang Wenming, persuading him, "Uncle, calm down quickly. After all, this is Xu Fan's family affair. As outsiders, it is better for us not to interfere too much."

However, Jiang Jiyun did not hide her admiration for her uncle. She looked at Jiang Wenming and secretly sighed in her heart: My uncle is so powerful, he dares to say anything!

Xu Fan listened to Jiang Wenming's words, not only did he not get angry, but he nodded in agreement, and echoed: "My uncle is right, my sister does have some problems with her brain. What era is it now? The Qing Dynasty has fallen, and the outdated concept that women must regard their husbands as their heaven should have been abandoned long ago!"

"Xiao Fan, you...you also say that I'm mentally ill?" Sister Xu looked at her brother in disbelief.

Xu Fan looked at her coldly and asked, "Isn't it? You only want to obey your husband, so why did you follow Zhang Youwei to his Zhang family? Why did you bring people back to the Xu family? Can't you see that he embezzled the Xu family's property in the name of taking care of his parents? Xu Xing, have you changed over the years, or have you always been like this?"

Xu Xing looked at her indifferent brother with tearful eyes, tears rolling down her face one by one.

When Xu's mother saw how heartbroken her daughter was, she reached out and gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.

Mother Xu turned around and looked at her son with resentful eyes, choking with sobs and saying, "Son, you have been working outside these years. Although you would send letters back every year to let us know that you are safe, there is chaos and war outside, and many people die every day. Your father and I are worried all day long, and it is all thanks to your sister who stays by our side and takes care of this family!"

Xu Fan listened to his mother's words with a sullen face. After a moment of silence, he raised his head, looked directly into his mother's eyes, and asked in a heavy tone, "So, mother, are you blaming your son for not being able to stay with you and fulfill your filial duties?"

Upon hearing this, Xu's mother trembled slightly, but did not answer. She just lowered her head silently, not daring to look her son in the eye.

Seeing this scene, Xu Fan couldn't help but get furious. He clenched his fists tightly, and his knuckles had turned white due to excessive force.

His voice began to tremble, and he shouted with indignation: "If everyone thinks like you, only seeking temporary comfort and reunion, and ignoring the national justice and the danger of the nation, then we would have long been reduced to slaves of other countries, bullied and trampled upon! By then, not to mention ourselves, even our descendants will probably have to kneel on the ground for generations, living in shame and never be able to raise their heads as human beings!"