Thanos's biological daughter in period fiction

Miao Xiaoni limped home and the first thing she did upon entering was to rush over and grab Song Jianguo's wife's hair.

"You wretched woman, you ran away as soon as you saw me get beaten, do you want me to die out there..." In less than a minute, the entire courtyard of the Song family was filled with Miao Xiaoni's angry curses and Liu Chunmei's screams.

Because of Liu Chunmei's children's involvement, the farce didn't end until dinnertime. Almost the entire village gathered in front of Old Song's house with their dinners to watch the spectacle, and not just watch, but also discuss it.

The area in front of Old Song's house was as bustling as a vegetable market. Although Song Jia had closed the door, it still couldn't block out the very penetrating voices of Old Mrs. Song and Liu Chunmei.

Of course, there was also one character on the wall that was taller, watching the chaotic scene of chickens and dogs running around in the yard. Xia Qingshu and Xia Qingyan both went. When they got home, they knew that it would be a while before they could cook. They originally planned for one of them to stay home and help with the cooking while the other went out to watch the excitement and gather information, and then come home to tell them. Who would have thought that their mother would make them both go?

It's just cooking a meal; we don't need so many people. The steamed buns are ready; we just need to steam them. Actually, Liu Fangmei's main goal was for the two of them to go out and find out about the Song family.

Her main concern was whether Song Dazhi's affair had come to light. With one or two more sons gone, it would be easier for her to go back to Qingyu Residence to cook.

Actually, the two kids were also really curious about whether the incident had actually happened, so when they heard that they didn't need help cooking, they happily went out to find out more.

They ran as soon as they stepped out the door, since their house was quite a distance from Old Xia's—one at one end of the village, the other at the other—it usually took four or five minutes to walk there. When they reached Old Song's house and could see it, the first thing they noticed was that it was surrounded by a crowd of onlookers. Hearing the particularly piercing screams and angry curses, and seeing their friend clinging to the top of Old Song's wall, the two of them squeezed through the crowd.

When his friend saw that it was the two of them, he quickly made room for them. Because many people were talking about it, his friend lowered his voice and told them about the good show that happened at the Song family's place.

The two listened for a while but didn't hear anything about Song Dazhi, which made them a little puzzled. After all, they had put the sack in Song Dazhi's clothes a day ago, and today made it two days, so why didn't the Song family seem to have any reaction?

Xia Qingshu looked around the Song family's yard and, not seeing Song Dazhi, asked his friends.

Xia Zhou, a friend, said: "I didn't see him. I only saw him once when he came back from town that day, and I haven't seen him since. I've passed by Lao Song's house these past two days and haven't seen him come out either."

"Why are you staying at home now that you've come back?" Xia Qingyan wondered if anyone in the village had seen Song Dazhi leave the village.

"How could that be? That afternoon he said he went somewhere and got injured on his way back. He asked his mother for money and left, and hasn't been seen since." This aunt lived two doors down from Old Song's house. She didn't see Song Dazhi asking for money, but she heard Liu Chunmei muttering something when she came out to carry firewood.

Since Song Lao Er returned, Liu Chunmei's family of five hasn't left the house. They're afraid that if they go out to work, all the grain in the house will be gone when they come back.

Song Fubao doesn't count; she can't guard the grain or call for help, so Liu Chunmei didn't include her in the list of people currently helping to guard the grain.

So for the past two days, Liu Chunmei and her two sons have been keeping watch over the family of five, as they still have to cook and do housework during the day. Song Jianguo and one of his sons are on night watch, afraid that his mother might take the money and secretly give the food to his younger brother.

In fact, Song Jianguo still didn't understand Old Lady Song. Of the three sons, the most important one should be Song Dazhi, because he was sweet-talking and often made Old Lady Song forget her own surname.

Song Lao Er is just average, but a big reason for his success is that he can bring back 10 yuan a month. Who wouldn't be tempted by that?

Of course, when the harvest was good in the past, giving them some grain would suffice, but that's not possible now. In Old Lady Song's eyes, the grain is now more important than her life, so the five men in Liu Jianguo's family are superfluous. Even if they don't guard it, Old Lady Song still has to stand guard at the granary door, just in case Song Lao Er and his wife take the grain away when she's not looking.

Song Fubao didn't get involved in these things because she knew that her family wasn't without food; it was just that her grandmother had hidden it away.

She had brought a lot of things home before, and I even gave her a warning before I saw it. The old lady had secretly bought a lot of food and stored it away.

Don't let the old woman's usual stinginess fool you; if Song Lao Er gives her money, she might give him some grain. However, normally, even if she took the money at the beginning, she wouldn't give much grain. There were still a few months without any grain, and if the old woman hadn't come to make a scene, she probably wouldn't have received any at all.

This time, she spent most of her savings to buy grain and stored it in a cellar in her house. She and her husband dug this cellar after receiving a warning from Song Fubao. It was a large cellar, enough to store grain for one or two years.

However, she had no intention of giving anything. The village had indeed distributed grain to many people this time, but in a time of starvation, she didn't want to give food even if she were offered money. But she was going to keep the money; in her eyes, the money her son gave her was all hers, and once it passed through her hands, it was gone forever.

She hasn't been going to work these days, not because she doesn't want to, but because her second daughter-in-law is too capable. She's afraid that her eldest daughter-in-law and two young children alone can't protect her grain.

The others seemed to have heard Song Dazhi's name as well, and began to discuss him.

Xia Qingshu and Xia Qingyan were both a little confused. Including today, it had been two days. Could those two or three people still not be found? What if they starved to death or something happened to them?

"Brother, you stay here. I'll go back and talk to Mother first..." Xia Qingyan felt that he should talk to his mother about this first, but he didn't want to give up the excitement here, so he left his brother here.

“Okay.” Xia Qingshu also felt that things were getting serious. The Song family didn’t know where the other two good-for-nothings were. Didn’t any of their family members look for them?

Before leaving, Xia Qingyan squeezed his brother's hand to reassure him.

When Liu Fangmei saw her son running so fast, she thought something had happened at Old Song's house.

"What's wrong? Did the Song family find out?" After all, if they knew that Song Dazhi had become like that, they might cause a family war.