Thanos's biological daughter in period fiction

Liu Fangmei had already received a large group of children this morning. She didn't have any candy at home, but she did prepare some roasted melon seeds and peanuts.

Everyone knows that there's not much good food during the Spring Festival. It's just a formality, with people making merry at one house and playing around at another. But we didn't expect to find sunflower seeds and peanuts at Shi Tou's house.

Stone's mother wasn't stingy; she grabbed a handful for each of them, which made the whole group of kids incredibly happy.

After the crowd had dispersed, Liu Fangmei noticed that Song Fubao was also there. Liu Fangmei hadn't seen Song Fubao for quite some time; he had been very busy lately, practically running around.

She still hasn't found out the specifics of why Song Dazhi was arrested for having illicit affairs, where he was sentenced, or how long his sentence will be.

The old village chief's wife brought him some things early this morning; they were some welfare benefits that the village had distributed earlier. Originally, she was supposed to bring them over yesterday when Uncle Qiao delivered the furniture, but the old village chief's eldest granddaughter-in-law was giving birth, and she, as an elder in the family, couldn't leave, so she could only come over today when things were a bit more stable.

"Auntie, since you're here, could you please take some things for me? I'm too lazy to go to the old house and argue with them. I was too busy to go before, so I didn't give them any New Year's gifts. You'll be passing by there later anyway, so could you please take these over for me? When I went to help out here before, they gave me some brown sugar and a few eggs, which I'll consider as gifts for my wife and children in Xiaocheng." These holiday gifts are usually casual; no one will say anything if you don't give them. It's just that they do give gifts to the elders in their family during holidays.

Of course, she couldn't be stingy. Although she hadn't paid much attention to Xia Jixuan since he was a child, it was still Xia Jixuan's parents who gave him some gifts, so everyone would look better.

“Alright, I’m going that way anyway. If you want brown sugar, I’ll pay for it. It’s been so long since anyone in our village has given us brown sugar. It’s a precious thing.” The old lady didn’t want to take advantage of Liu Fangmei.

"What are you saying? This is for my great-nephew. How can I, as his aunt, not give him a gift?" Liu Fangmei took a basket and put in two catties of pork, six eggs, a small bag of about two catties of brown rice, and a piece of tofu that she had made yesterday.

I gave the old lady a small basket with half a pound of brown sugar, eight eggs, a piece of meat weighing about a pound, and a bunch of fresh chives.

Two identical cloths covered the basket; the gray one was for the old house, and the red one was for the old village chief's family. She deliberately chose these bright colors, since it was a joyous occasion for the old village chief's family, and red was just right.

The old lady carried the basket and felt its weight, but she had no idea how much Liu Fangmei had put inside.

When I passed by Old Xia's house, I knocked on the door, and Xia Baozhu answered it. Seeing what the old lady was carrying, I reached out to take it, but when the old lady saw it was me, she didn't want to give it to me at all.

That girl is ruthless and heartless. Who knows how much of this stuff she'll keep once she gets to the main room? She should just take it in herself.

"Aunt Chen..." Xia Baozhu called out reluctantly, opening the door to let the old lady in.

"Where's your mother?"

"My aunt brought some things over, and everyone in the family is here in the main room right now." Although Xia Baozhu was reluctant, she was still a little afraid of the old lady's imposing presence. She walked obediently in front of the old lady, just like a schoolchild before a teacher, answering questions honestly.

"Jun Cai's family, the third son's family asked me to bring some things over. Come and take a look." The old lady shouted loudly, and all the neighbors heard it. The village chief's wife helped the third son's family by delivering a gift to the old house.

So although I didn't come to offer New Year's greetings, I still sent a gift.

Upon hearing that the gift came from Xia Laosan, Xia Baozhu immediately ripped off the cloth covering it. Neighbors peered over the wall, and the first thing they saw was a large, flat piece of fatty meat lying right in front of them. A gasp of excitement erupted – meat! And such fatty meat at that! How long had it been since they'd seen anything like it?

Now, even the sight of raw meat makes my mouth water. And look at the few white eggs placed next to the meat; to those who haven't seen meat in a long time, these are a delicacy.

Then people started discussing where Xia Laosan's family got their meat from. After all, there hadn't been any meat for sale in town for a long time. Of course, some people also raised this question, thinking of asking the village chief's old lady for help.

"Don't ask anymore. Didn't we buy grain at that dilapidated house at the village entrance? The person who sold the grain is Xia Jixuan's friend. He helped out a few days ago when the crops were falling off the market. This meat was given to us by him, not bought by Xia Laosan's family. They didn't give us much, so we cut half of it to give to our parents-in-law. Alright, alright, it's New Year's Day, everyone can go home now..." The old lady waved her hand to confirm that she had handed the things over to the Xia family before she picked up her basket and left.

The old lady had been gone for a long time, and the crowd still hadn't gone up to her. They stared at the Xia family members like wolves and tigers, as if they were about to pounce and bite them.

Grandma Xia shuddered in fright and quickly took the things back to her room. Everything in her room was locked, so nothing was as safe as keeping them in the cabinet in her room.

Although she was holding the gifts from Xia Laosan's family, Old Mrs. Xia was still muttering and grumbling. This immediately plummeted everyone's already poor impression of her. At her age, to still be able to offer such good things to her parents was already quite remarkable.

You should know that the other two brothers in the Xia family are still sucking their parents' blood.

The news of having meat quickly spread like wildfire, and the whole village knew about it. When Grandpa Qiao heard this gossip, he clutched his own meat and decided to find a safer method: cook all the meat thoroughly, freeze it, and then cut it off little by little later.

Cut a little bit each day, and these two pounds of meat will last a long time, and can also help nourish the whole family.

The old village chief's family was simple and straightforward; this meat was something his eldest grandson had gone to several black markets to buy for his wife to nourish her body. They had a new mother in the family, so what was wrong with her eating a little meat?

With the brown sugar water, the baby stopped crying from hunger, and the whole family didn't touch a single bit of meat. They stewed it all up little by little and saved it for the new mother.

Because of the lack of food, this Spring Festival was quieter than last year. Apart from the firecrackers on New Year's Eve and early morning on New Year's Day, there was nothing else.

Because Liu Fangmei had no family to rely on, she took several children and some belongings and went up the mountain early on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

I plan to take my children to see my good friend, and also bring some treats and burn some paper money for him.