In my 40s, the trading system took me flying

"Mom, we're here!"

Xu Dazhu shouted outside the yard, and as soon as he entered the yard, he was slapped by Old Lady Xu.

"There's a fire at home, and instead of trying to put it out, you're trying to burn us old people to death?"

This was a bit unreasonable, but Old Mrs. Xu said it anyway.

Xu Dazhu slumped to his knees in front of Old Lady Xu, his face filled with shock. "Mom, I'm not here! I was just chasing after thieves!"

Old Mrs. Xu's face was covered in black dust, and she didn't bother to clean it. She glanced around with the light from the fire in the house, and sure enough, she didn't see Aunt Xu.

I have a rough idea in my mind.

"Where's Dad?"

Xu Dazhui still thought that Old Man Xu was in the house and had not come out, especially when he saw that the roof was burned through.

Old Mrs. Xu waved her hand: "Go out too!"

She didn't let Xu Xiaoya release the person to avoid attracting attention.

I only found out what happened from the stories told by Xu Dazhuo and his brothers.

It turned out that they heard some noise in the middle of the night. The brothers got up and saw that there were thieves in the house, and there was more than one person, who would definitely not let them go.

If your house was robbed in the deep mountains, you would definitely be laughed to death.

So Xu Dazhu and Xu Erzhu chased after him, and Xu Sanzhu was left behind just in case.

But the daughters-in-law were worried and followed them out.

The wives of the mountain people are all very strong and are not just for show.

So they chased after the thief, and when they were about to catch up with the thief, they saw a fire in the direction of the house. They knew something had happened and didn't care about the thief rushing back.

After hearing this, Old Mrs. Xu went to the room where the youngest Xu slept, but found nothing inside. It seemed that Aunt Xu had already run away.

Just as Old Mrs. Xu was cursing, a child came out of the kitchen.

"Grandma, I'm scared!"

The heroine was not taken away by Aunt Xu.

Old Mrs. Xu didn't have a good impression of Aunt Xu, so the girl brought back by Aunt Xu naturally didn't receive any good treatment either.

"Why are you still here?"

Old Lady Xu spoke in a bad tone, and the heroine burst into tears: "I'm scared, I'm scared!"

There were quite a few people in the yard, and all the neighbors came over.

"Who is this child?"

The village chief of Huaishu Village came over and was curious when he saw the heroine.

There are a lot of children in the village, and everyone knows who the children are, but the heroine is a girl that I don’t recognize at all.

Old Lady Xu pointed at the heroine and said, "My eldest sister-in-law brought her here and said she wanted my youngest son to adopt her. She's not very smart!"

The old village chief nodded. Although he was the village chief, he actually knew the situation of the Xu family. Even if a girl was adopted, it would be the eldest son's family that adopted her.

"It's better not to have this relative!"

After learning that the fire might have been set by Aunt Xu, the old village chief sighed.

Old Lady Xu nodded: "Definitely not. According to the Xu family's rules, adopted daughters are not included in the family tree and are not considered relatives!"

To put it bluntly, it is just doing good deeds in order to be able to summon a little girl into the Xu family.

The Xu family would not forget the rules of their ancestors, but they did not treat their adopted daughter as a non-human being. They even treated her well. They treated her the same way as the other children at home and did not treat her like a maid.

There was no mention of treating adopted daughters as child brides. They were all married off at the appropriate age.

They have been a kind family for generations, and they never expected that Aunt Xu would be such an ungrateful person.

"Mom, what should we do?"

The main house burned down, but since it was a separate house, it did not affect other houses. Even in the middle of winter, it was not suitable to repair the house.

Old Lady Xu snorted coldly: "Since she is not a good person, then let her have her way!"

Xu Sanzhu ran to Old Lady Xu in a panic and said, "Mom, my aunt really stole the wild ginseng!"

It turned out that Xu Sanzhu stayed at home and saw Aunt Xu and her son sneak into the ancestral hall, climb onto the beams of the ancestral hall, and take away the wooden box placed on it.

Inside is the wild ginseng that is regarded as a treasure by the Xu family.

Old Lady Xu waved her hand: "She has the life to snatch it away, but she has no life to enjoy it!"

The things inside had been replaced long ago. The real wild ginseng must be in Xu Xiaoya's space, but no one knew about this except Old Lady Xu.

Everyone in the village knows about the Xu family's wild ginseng. Over the years, everyone has benefited from it to some extent. If anyone in the family has an emergency, they will come to ask for a single root.

Villagers who are familiar with the situation know that even if the Xu family has any wild ginseng left, there is only half a root left now, and the rest has been used by the villagers.

"Damn it, how can you be so heartless!"

The village chief's wife spat and cursed Aunt Xu.

Old Mrs. Xu waved her hand: "Old sister, his aunt stole the wild ginseng to give to the Japanese. What a traitor and bastard! Our Xu family will never coexist with them!"

Upon hearing this, the old village chief cursed, "Little devils? How dare she do that? She actually tried to curry favor with those beasts?"

Everyone in the village knows about the Japs. They have had a hard time recently, all because of those Japs. I heard that in the north, those Japs are burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil.

"Mom, you really don't care?"

Xu Dazhu wished he could go into the city and chop the man into pieces right now.

Old Lady Xu shook her head: "We'll have to think about this matter over time!"

At this time, the fire was almost out.

Everything that could be moved inside was in Xu Xiaoya's space. What was burned was just a shell. There was stone underneath, which could not be ignited. In other words, only the doors, windows and roof were burned.

At this moment, Old Lady Xu looked at the smoking house and asked the villagers to go home first. It didn't matter whether the fire was put out or not.

After such a long time, everyone was exhausted. Old Mrs. Xu asked her sons to arrange for them to rest first, but she was in trouble when it came to the heroine, as no one wanted to take her with them.

Maybe when you see the heroine, you think of the burned house. The key is that no one knows how much she is involved.

"This child is with the third son's wife. Keep an eye on her and send her away tomorrow!"

Old Mrs. Xu would never keep such a person at home. Don't underestimate any child. In this era, any child who can speak may become a tool to be exploited by others.

The third daughter-in-law nodded and followed her mother-in-law's arrangements.

"Mom, where are Dad and the youngest couple?"

Xu Dazhu was still worried, so he followed Old Lady Xu to the room of the youngest Xu and asked anxiously.

Old Mrs. Xu said, "Don't ask about their affairs. They will definitely be back tomorrow morning!"

Xu Dazhu was stunned. "What do you mean? Nothing's going to happen to Dad and the youngest couple, right?"

Old Mrs. Xu waved her hands: "You don't understand! They're fine!"

"Could it be that the ancestors appeared and took them away?"

After Xu Dazhu finished speaking, he was chased away by Old Lady Xu, who closed the door and said, "Go back to sleep, don't anger me here!"

After sending her son away, Old Lady Xu asked Xu Xiaoya to release Old Man Xu and the other two. Seeing that the three still had their eyes closed, Old Lady Xu put her hand under their noses and paused for a while.

"not dead!"

The breath that had been hanging in the air finally relaxed. Old Mrs. Xu was really scared. She had no way out at that time, and she never had another chance later. Now that she had finally released the man and saw that he was unconscious, she felt relieved.

It’s not that they don’t want them to know about their granddaughter’s space, but they are afraid that too many people will spread rumors. The more people know, the easier it will be to expose Xu Xiaoya.

In today's world, if those Japanese devils knew Xu Xiaoya's abilities, who knows how they would use her to do bad things.

If she was caught, she could be confident enough to die without saying anything, but what about the others?

If one of them can't bear it, Xu Xiaoya will be pushed into the fire pit.

"Girl, remember, no matter who asks, don't tell them about your abilities!"

Old Lady Xu held Xu Xiaoya in her arms and gave her another word of advice. Xu Xiaoya nodded obediently. She didn't quite understand how treacherous people were, but she knew that it was right to listen to her grandmother.

"Your parents can't tell you that you won't be their only child in the future!"

This is the wisdom of Old Lady Xu. She really doesn't dare to bet on anyone's humanity.

Even Old Lady Xu herself didn't want so many people to know that Xu Xiaoya had the ability to exchange things, but the whole family already knew about it. She could only restrain the whole family from separating, for fear that if they let the secret slip, it would bring trouble.

Fortunately, Xu Laoyao is the only one in the family who can lead the team. He is also Xu Xiaoya's biological father, so he will not ruin Xu Xiaoya.

Xu Xiaoya hugged Old Lady Xu's waist and said, "Grandma, I know, but if I find out that the wild ginseng is fake, I will definitely come back!"

As for the fact that Xu Xiaoya became so precocious beyond her age after she learned to speak, Old Lady Xu attributed it to the spirit of her ancestors, and did not treat her as a child who knew nothing.

"There's no chance she'll come back, let's go find her!"

Xu Xiaoya was stunned. She didn't expect Old Lady Xu to say that.

"She dared to do this this time because she had considered all the consequences. She only knew that the Xu family had been hunters for generations, but she hadn't considered why only the eldest son stayed in the mountains to guard the ancestral hall. Where did the other descendants go?"

There was murderous intent in Old Lady Xu's cold tone.

Xu Xiaoya had not thought about this problem either, mainly because the plot in the book did not explain it, and the heroine only used the twelve cousins and did not mention other people in the Xu family at all.

Now listening to what Old Lady Xu said, Xu Xiaoya always felt that things were not that simple.

"This time we'll go to the city to settle the score with her!"

Old Mrs. Xu made up her mind, but Xu Xiaoya reminded her: "Grandpa and uncle will definitely not agree!"

Old Mrs. Xu hummed: "So take your father with you!"

Xu Xiaoya: ...

It seems that Old Mrs. Xu has already thought about it.

"Your eldest uncle, second uncle, and third uncle combined are not as smart as you. Your father still has half a brain. At least he is familiar with the provincial capital. It's better for the others to stay in the mountains!"

Xu Xiaoya: ...

If these people were not born by Old Lady Xu, Xu Xiaoya would have thought that her grandmother was scolding them, and the kind of scolding she used was very dirty.

Fortunately, Old Lady Xu knew that she didn't think much of her sons. She coughed lightly and said, "Clean up, let's go to bed. The world is big, but sleeping is the most important thing!"

Xu Xiaoya: ...

As a child, he had no right to refute. Old Lady Xu took him to wash and comb his clothes, took off his dirty outer clothes, took out the bedding placed in the space, and actually fell asleep.

What they didn't know was that Aunt Xu, who caused this series of troubles, did not leave the mountains smoothly.