She had no intention of accepting the compensation or letting Song Dazhi spend 15 days in jail. Since a harsher sentence was impossible, she would do it her own way.

Of course, she wouldn't openly seek revenge against the Song family. She had already planned to use underhanded tactics, such as putting someone in a sack and hitting them with a club. She was willing to do anything she could think of to them.

No one knows how desperate she felt when she saw her unconscious daughter, covered in blood. Neither she nor her husband held any preference for sons over daughters, especially their little girl, who was premature and had some developmental delays. At over three years old, she still spoke in short, one- or two-word phrases, and didn't like to communicate or move around much. This little girl was very well-behaved; aside from being sick more often than others, she had no other problems.

How did her well-behaved daughter become a thorn in someone else's side? The Song family is simply insane.

"Tangtang, you're still young. From now on, you have to tell your mother or your two brothers where you're going. Don't go into the village alone, so you don't run into that crazy old Song family again." Although their family lives in a relatively remote area, it's still in the village. A village isn't that big, and you'll see each other all the time. She didn't want her daughter to run into them again when she was alone.

This time she was lucky to run into her husband when he came home. What about next time?

"Okay, then I'll stay home from now on." She felt that she was small and weak on rainy days, and if her two older brothers and mother were not around, she would definitely suffer again. So she planned to stay at home when her mother went to work.

Anyway, she's not bored at home, which saves her mother from worrying about her safety while she's at work.

"Okay, my Tangtang is such a good girl. I got you a little ladder so you can get off the kang (heated brick bed) by yourself. Now you can go anywhere in the house whenever you want, but you have to be careful. Don't touch anything you can't lift or anything that might tip over, understand?" Ignoring the stares behind her, Liu Fangmei led her daughter home, chatting and laughing.

The mother and daughter had just returned home when they saw that their two older brothers had already carried the things they had brought down from the mountain that day and had just put them in the woodshed.

"Mom, the water is boiling in the kitchen, and the woodshed is full. We'll collect more firewood tomorrow. It's too cold in winter, and Tangtang isn't well, so we need to store more firewood." That way, Tangtang can stay at home and have enough firewood to heat the kang (a traditional heated bed) all day.

"Okay, be careful going up the mountain. There's not much food left in the mountains now, and I'm worried about wild animals running out." These two kids are only 10 years old and they run around in the mountains all day, so she's bound to worry about them.

"Okay, Mom. Tangtang, I'm sorry, brother didn't mean to forget you." They really didn't mean to. When they brought lunch over, some of their friends were also helping with the work in the fields.

Later, one of the friends said he was going up the mountain to collect firewood, so everyone went with him. We forgot about it for a while and left my sister at the threshing ground.

But forgetting is forgetting, even if it's an excuse. So they won't make excuses, they'll apologize, after all, she's their sister. They just feel they need to pay more attention to her in the future.

"It's alright, Fifth Grandma is here..." Xia Yutang knew that her two older brothers were trying to help their mother lighten her burden, so she didn't blame them for forgetting her.

The children in the village don't need anyone to watch them. Everyone in the village knows each other, and they can run around the whole village during the day without worrying about getting lost.

They can actually move around the village on their own without worrying about getting lost; the real concern is that the Song family might cause trouble. Then there's the Xia family, his eldest cousin and aunt.

These two are like reincarnated starving ghosts. He's not the only child in the family. If they see you holding food, they'll never let you eat it.

Both Xia Qingshu and his brother thought their little sister was too well-behaved, so neither of them was angry and they didn't take her out to play.

"Mom, we've fixed the glass in the wall, can you take a look?" It was the first time the two brothers had ever done this, and they weren't sure if it was sturdy. Nobody in the village had done this before, mainly because they didn't have many neighbors in the area and their house was backed by mountains, so they thought of using broken glass to fix the top of the wall.

There are only a few houses at the foot of the mountain, and each house is a certain distance away. Just sixty or seventy meters directly in front of their house is the brigade headquarters and the brigade warehouse.

The brigade headquarters was separated from the village headquarters by an alley, about three meters away. There was a family that shared a room with Fifth Grandma. Xia Jixuan called the male head of the household "Uncle Tang".

This family has good character. Xia's uncle was also a soldier who fought against the Japanese. He was away for several years, but he was injured and lost an eye and a leg before he was discharged and returned home.

Although he was called Xia Jixuan's cousin, he wasn't much older than him; he was just of a higher generation. His children were also playmates of Xia Qingshu and his brother.

Sure enough, the siblings were playing in the yard when they heard a knock at the door. The voice calling out was from their uncle's family; it was Xia Kangyun, the youngest son who is nine years old this year.

"Stone, stone..."

"What are you doing? Uncle Kang Yun, it's so late, why are you out here?" Although he is younger than them, an uncle is still an uncle. Even though the children don't understand the concept of seniority, they still have to call him that.

As soon as they opened the door, they saw Xia Kangyun standing outside with a small basket, so they quickly pulled him inside. It was already dark outside, and it wasn't safe for them at the foot of the mountain.

"My uncle made these fish balls himself. My mother asked me to bring some over to Xiaotangtang." Xia Kangyun opened the cloth covering the basket and took out the bowl containing the fish balls.

"Uncle Kangyun, wait a moment, I'll go to the kitchen and clear out a bowl for you." They've lost count of the things Uncle Kangyun's family has given them over the years. Before, when they lived in the old house, they would go to Uncle Kangyun's house to eat, but after he came here, they would bring the food home.

He knew that if he took it back to the kitchen, his mother would definitely give him a gift in return, so he took the basket with him.

Looking at the fish balls in the bowl, Liu Fangmei took a large bowl, put the fish balls into her own bowl, and then scooped out a large bowl of pickled cowpeas as a return gift.

After seeing Xia Kangyun off and having dinner, everyone went back to their rooms. Xia Yutang wanted to go back to her space. Life was no different from being a salted fish; other people's time-travel novels were all about fighting against awful people or slapping scumbags in the face.

All she did was steal the female lead's cheat ability and give it to her parents; she didn't do anything else. This female lead is so useless; she couldn't even make a splash with her antics.

Thinking about it, maybe she's still too young. The little girl is only three and a half years old this year. What can a three-and-a-half-year-old do? I'm overthinking it. Time for bed...

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