Thanos's biological daughter in period fiction

"Mother, why didn't anyone in the village save them back then?" Xia Qingshu frowned and asked curiously.

After all, the old landlord had helped them, so why didn't anyone step forward to save them?

"It's not that no one helped, but those people were too crazy. They shouted that anyone who went to help would be considered an accomplice of the old landlord and dragged out for criticism. Back then, class background was very important. If you were considered an accomplice of the landlord, your future would be difficult, and it would also implicate your family." In fact, those who went to help collect the bodies knew that there were still three people alive in the old landlord's family, but those people had been secretly sent away by the current village chief's father.

More than a decade has passed, and I wonder where those people are now? Will they ever come back?

"Are these people crazy? Didn't the old landlord distribute grain to them and help them through their difficulties? Why are they acting like this?" Xia Qingshu was still young and had no idea how much jealousy could fester in people.

"That's because those people were jealous and envious of the old landlord's wealth. They had no conscience and thought that if they forced the old landlord's family to their deaths, they could get their things from the old landlord's family..." Liu Fangmei had also secretly come to see it at the time. Actually, she wanted to take the old landlord's granddaughter back to her own home.

It was raining heavily that day. Wearing a raincoat, she made her way to the old landlord's house with great difficulty. But when she opened the back door, she found her good friend lying in a pool of blood, her body covered in blood, looking pitiful.

She took off her raincoat and draped it over the little girl, intending to carry her away, but she was only 10 years old at the time and couldn't lift a little girl who was about the same age as her.

The little girl held her hand, only managing to tell her to go, and to ask if she could help her older brother or sister if they met. She breathed her last after saying just that. The little girl's eyes were wide open, her dying expression pitiful.

Even now, Liu Fangmei can't forget what that adorable little girl looked like. Tears instantly welled up in her eyes and fell.

“Friends…” Xia Yutang looked at her mother who was crying, and suddenly grasped something, and these two words just came out of her mouth.

“Yes, she is my friend. I secretly ran away that day, intending to take her away. But the rain was too heavy, and I'm not from this village. By the time I got here, it was too late. Over the years, I've gone up the mountain every year to secretly burn some paper money for them and tidy up the grass growing on their graves. Actually, I go mostly to visit my friend…” Speaking of her friend, Liu Fangmei’s tears flowed uncontrollably again.

"Mother, did you go to that house again later?" Xia Qingyan wanted to know if his mother had ever gone to the old landlord's house again.

“She told me to leave, so I left. I knew she was afraid those people would hurt me. I didn’t go too far; I hid under a tree outside the backyard wall. So when those people went out, they were struck by lightning. I saw the scene, and after everyone was gone, I went back in. The old landlord’s family members had already been beaten so badly they couldn’t get up. The women in the house all died with their eyes wide open in disbelief. At that time, the old man begged me to go to the room and get them new clothes. I went and got them, and I even helped a few girls change their clothes…” While changing the clothes, she didn’t know how many times she cried. Anyway, when she came out of the old landlord’s house, her eyes were so swollen that she couldn’t see the road clearly.

When she arrived the next day, she heard villagers saying that the old landlord's family had all hanged themselves, and that they all died with their eyes wide open.

She went in to help collect the body, and her friend helped her carry her into the coffin. She couldn't lift it herself, so the current women's director helped her.

"Mother, don't cry. We'll go with you this year to pay respects to your friends..." Xia Qingyan wiped her mother's tears with her sleeve, determined to accompany her when she went up the mountain this year.

"Mother, they have gold in their cellar. In a few years, Song Fubao will take it away." These things were the capital Song Fubao used to start her business after the reform and opening up. In addition, she had a space to help her in the original book, and she made a name for herself all the way.

In just five years, she built a business empire and then married a third-generation military man, bringing her wealth with her.

Among these items was an antique that later became an important piece in helping her husband reach the summit. The book only vaguely describes it as something she acquired from a landlord in her hometown.

In other words, as long as he gets these things now, he can cut off Song Fubao's path to her business empire and her man's path to the top.

You should know that the man wasn't a good person either. Knowing that his family had a grudge against Song Fubao, he spared no effort in suppressing his father's and his two brothers' businesses.

So for the sake of their family's future, she decided to let her mother take these things for now. Of course, the owner of these things was her mother's friend, so when the three siblings returned from their trip, they could return the things to their friend.

"How did they know? Wait, Song Fubao's grandfather? But if it was Song Fubao's grandfather, he would have taken it long ago. Why would he wait several years?" The Song family certainly isn't that patient. Did they only find out years later?

"It wasn't her grandfather; she discovered it herself. Because she took the stone, she can hide many things without anyone knowing..."

Upon hearing her little girl's words, Liu Fangmei immediately understood. If her little girl hadn't discovered that her stone was missing that day, none of them would have remembered it.

The stone then fell into Song Fubao's hands. It was a very secretive item; if she took it secretly, no one else would know.

He didn't have time to think about how his little girl found out.

"Let's find some time to sneak away and take these things away first. It doesn't matter who they're given to, but I don't want them to go to Song Fubao." These things belonged to her friend, and even if they were handed over, she didn't want Song Fubao to get them.

“We’ll go with Mom.” It’s always better to have someone with us than to go alone; after all, they’ve heard plenty of tales about that place.

“Alright, it’s been so many years, Mother, I’m a little scared to be alone.” Liu Fangmei made up her mind to get things done quickly. She was good friends with Qiao Xiaofang and Qiao Xiaolan, the daughters of the old landlord, and she knew how many cellars the Qiao family had. There were many cellars for storing grain, but only one for storing vegetables.

It's still in the backyard. When they come out through the back door, they'll see it in the corner on the left side of the backyard after walking a short distance inside.

Normally, there would be some firewood piled up there, and the entrance to the cellar would be covered by the firewood, because this place is not usually needed in the summer.