Thanos's biological daughter in period fiction

Seeing her like this, Xia Yutang reached out and touched her face. Since she couldn't speak, he couldn't comfort her, so he could only touch her.

"Mom knows my Tangtang is the best girl. Tangtang, sit here quietly. Mom will go and put the grain away first, and I'll make you some white flour dumplings tomorrow morning. In the little vegetable garden in the backyard, the small plot we got is where Mom planted the bok choy. It's so tender right now..." Liu Fangmei rambled on. As she talked and packed her things, she didn't notice that her little girl had already fallen asleep on the kang (a heated brick bed).

She was currently wondering where to hide the two bags of grain. The room was so small, and the cabinets weren't big enough to hold 100 jin of grain.

When Xia Jixuan returned home, the oil lamp was still on. He could do what he was thinking about while they were eating.

Upon entering the house, Xia Jixuan saw his wife still mending clothes on the kang (a heated brick bed). He quickly removed the stone, said nothing, and directly pulled his wife's hand over, stabbed it, and squeezed out a few drops of blood.

Place the stone on it, just like the little girl had done. Amazingly, the blood was absorbed, but not as much as it had been absorbed by him.

But the stone gradually faded in color, and eventually vanished completely. Xia Jixuan was terrified, thinking the item was gone, and quickly closed his eyes to check.

He soon found himself back in that magical place. He knew that when he came in to get something before, his body was outside. This time, he wondered if he should bring his wife to try and see if their bodies could come in.

Since the stone can absorb my wife's blood, she must be able to get inside. Even if she can't get in, she should be able to take things out of it.

As long as he can take things from here, that's fine. He can rely on the fact that he's going to the army so that he doesn't have to worry about not having food at home.

"Wife, close your eyes first." Liu Fangmei closed her eyes at her husband's instruction. A little while later, she didn't hear her husband tell her to open her eyes, but when she opened them, she was no longer on her own kang (heated brick bed).

"Brother Xuan, where is this? Is that grain? There's so much..." Liu Fangmei felt very unfamiliar with the place, but that feeling of unfamiliarity disappeared immediately after she saw the vast expanse of grain outside. She ran to the wheat field and reached out to touch a handful of the golden wheat.

After being hungry for so long, Liu Fangmei's mouth watered at the sight of such a large amount of food.

“This is a magical place, it should be like the Qiankun Sleeve of an immortal, like the stone in our house.” As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Jixuan was not surprised to see his wife’s mouth wide open, and he quickly helped her chin up.

"Does that mean this grain belongs to us? Were those two bags of grain on the kang taken from here? And was the rice porridge we ate also taken from here?" Liu Fangmei was completely dumbfounded. If this belonged to her family, then she had so much grain!

"Yes, this is ours. Come on, honey, I'll show you the kitchen. It's really well-equipped there. All the pickles are in there, and there's a lot of cooked meat, but I was worried your stomachs wouldn't be able to handle it, so I didn't take the meat out for dinner." He felt that he, a grown man, couldn't manage all the kitchen utensils properly, so he had to let his wife take a look.

"Come on, come on, the white rice porridge smells so good tonight, and so do those pickles. Don't bring out the meat yet, we haven't had any proper food in so long..." They've been eating soup made from tree bark and grass roots for months, and even the wild vegetables were brought over by some of her girlfriends when they came to visit her today.

"Is this why you're in such a hurry to move?"

“Yes, I’m afraid they’ll cause trouble for you after I leave. I’m even more afraid they’ll try to steal the food after I hand it over. Let’s go to a more secluded place. I’ll build the walls higher and make the gate sturdier. That should be fine.” This was the only way he could think of to keep his wife from going with him to the army while still ensuring their safety.

"Okay, you've been gone for so long, have you found someone to buy the house? By the way, are there any other livestock or people in here? It's so quiet, not a sound at all." Liu Fangmei felt it was too quiet in here, not even the sound of chickens crowing.

“There is a livestock shed over there, but there are no livestock. I need to think of a solution.” Time was of the essence, and Xia Jixuan had no time to think about anything else.

"Tonight I let the three chickens from the old house in. Every year I hatched them, but they were slaughtered and eaten when they were almost ready, and none of us got any. My two sons and daughter caught insects to feed them." When there were no insects, they had to dig up wild grass and vegetables. They were never free, and they still got scolded and disliked.

With this precious child, she wouldn't give them any chance at all. After all, they were the ones who raised her.

When people had no food to eat, those three chickens were like precious treasures. Her two sons were constantly called to feed them. If people had nothing to eat, chickens were even scarcer. Other families hadn't even seen chicken droppings for a long time, let alone chickens.

The first and second wives wanted nothing more than to devour the chicken alive, but the old woman fiercely protected it, all because her daughter wanted to eat an egg.

The Xia family still has one precious daughter who hasn't married yet—Grandma Miao's youngest daughter, who is only 19 years old this year. Originally, she was betrothed to a family in the village, but Grandma Miao was worried that if she married far away, she would be bullied and she wouldn't be able to protect her.

Xia Jixuan frowned, but relaxed his brows after hearing what his wife said.

"No, those skinny chickens, what's so good about them? They don't lay eggs anymore. I'll go into the mountains in the next couple of days after I finish the house. We have so much grain here, I can't bear to see the uncles and elders in the village go hungry. Honey, I've thought about it. I'll go into the mountains in a few days, find a plot of land, and bury some potatoes and sweet potatoes here. Then we'll tell Uncle Dafu that I found them. With this credit, you'll get better treatment in the village." Xia Jixuan thought of those chickens; they were really skinny, how could chickens that thin still lay eggs? Forget it.

"Honey, let's go check the storeroom and see if there are any eggs. Once we move them over there, you can try hatching the eggs from here. When I go up the mountain, I'll look for some wild chickens. Even if they're skinny, we can raise them here; they'll definitely fatten up quickly." Xia Jixuan still didn't want to hear his mother scolding his wife because of those few skinny chickens.

His family was not well-liked. The moment the chickens went missing, Old Xia's family would definitely suspect his wife. Even without concrete evidence, they would still make his wife suffer.