Thanos's biological daughter in period fiction

Because this matter could not be made public, they set off early in the morning and climbed the mountain from the foot of the mountain behind their house.

Since they didn't need to appear in front of others, they didn't have to worry about being seen. Once they reached the halfway point up the mountain, they were able to walk freely.

As Xia Qingshu and Xia Qingyan walked, they suddenly felt that the road looked so familiar.

"Big brother, isn't this the way to your secret base?" Xia Yutang felt that he had a good sense of direction. He found the road not long after he started walking. His older brother had led him there before.

"Hey, I knew it! It looked so familiar. It's the way to the secret base." Hearing his sister say that, Shi Tou realized that this was the way he had taken his sister up the mountain before.

"Wait, Mom, your good friend isn't buried at our secret base, is he...?" Xiaoyu looked at his mother with some horror, afraid that the place she mentioned would be unacceptable to him.

Although they are fearless now, they still felt somewhat frightened when they discovered that 17 skeletons were buried beneath the place where they often visited the Ta tribe.

"No, it's just the same road, but their location is even more remote. Back then, the old village chief's father didn't even dare to put up tombstones so that those who were struck by lightning wouldn't be implicated in their graves. Your so-called secret base isn't a secret at all. It's just in the foothills; anyone passing by can see it." I just don't understand why they're so insistent that that small valley and cave is a secret base.

Hearing that it wasn't a corpse buried underneath, the two brothers breathed a sigh of relief. They didn't want to have worked so hard to grow so many things only to end up not daring to eat them because there was a corpse buried underneath.

“You really don’t need to do this. When there’s nothing to eat, what can you eat? Come on, come on, we need to walk faster, otherwise we won’t get there until noon.” They had been thinking of choosing a relatively secluded place, a spot suggested by the village’s former hunters, a place that most people wouldn’t go to, in a mountain hollow.

She remembered that she was jogging behind, and she even drew a mark under every tree on the beautiful road, just a mark that she recognized.

For the first few years, she relied on these marks to find the place. After a few years, she no longer needed those marks; now she could reach the place simply by climbing the mountain.

It took the mother and her three children an hour and a half to reach their destination, a journey that truly involved overcoming numerous obstacles. In just one year, the withered vines and branches had become rotten and blocked the path, forcing them to cut through the undergrowth as they walked to reach their destination.

What should have been a journey of less than an hour took them an hour and a half to finally arrive. When they reached the spot, all they saw was a desolate little hill.

They stood side by side, forming a circle. The idea was that these elders could protect the younger generation during the competition, so all the elders were buried in the outer circle, while the younger family members were buried inside the inner circle, protected by their elders.

The family of four sat on a nearby rock to rest for a while, then put on gloves and began pulling up the dry grass and cleaning up the trash. Actually, there wasn't much trash in the area; it was just that branches and leaves had been blown over by the wind and piled up here.

Liu Fangmei brushed the snow off her clothes and took out a bottle of wine, a bottle of juice, and 17 glasses from her personal space. The elders in the outer circle were offered wine, while the children in the inner circle were given juice.

“Jiaojiao, another year has passed. I’ll be 30 after the New Year, and you’re 28, two years younger than me. Today I’ve brought my daughter and son to visit you…” Liu Fangmei set out some offerings, toasted with a cup of wine, and then chatted on and on with her good friend.

After she finished her rambling, she called the three siblings over to kowtow. After they kowtowed, she called the three siblings to offer wine to each of the grave mounds.

This ordeal took nearly three hours, and before they even reached the bottom of the mountain, heavy snow began to fall again. The snow was so heavy that it quickly accumulated to ankle-deep.

"Come on, have a cup of hot tea before you go. Shitou, open your umbrella. Don't bother collecting firewood. You won't be able to burn it anyway. Besides, we have plenty of firewood in our woodshed. We won't run out even if we need to cook in the spring." Liu Fangmei didn't know why these two kids were so enthusiastic about collecting firewood.

Even though the woodshed at home was still full, these two rascals just wouldn't stop and wouldn't let anything go untouched whenever they encountered it.

They walked back, gathering firewood along the way, and occasionally digging around for anything they saw under the snow.

Because they had previously searched for frozen pheasants in the snowdrifts, they were extremely enthusiastic about the leaves in the snowdrifts, and would run to rummage through them as soon as they saw them.

Liu Fangmei was speechless. Were there really so many good things in this freezing weather? Would they even get a chance to get any?

Looking at their new clothes, it's no surprise they'll be so filthy they're unwearable once they get home.

Thankfully there's space; otherwise, in this weather, it would take forever for a set of clothes to dry completely. Although he's usually quite well-behaved, a child this age can be quite mischievous and uses up clothes very quickly.

The old clothes they used to wear were patched upon patched, but the most patched places were their buttocks, knees, and elbows. I don't know how they did it, but their knees and buttocks were torn and patched layer upon layer, and you couldn't see the original fabric at all.

If it's not Chinese New Year, these two rascals won't wear their new clothes. They only changed into their new clothes after taking a bath on New Year's Eve. Yesterday, they went out and played all day and were already very dirty. Today, they changed into another set of clothes, but after a trip up the mountain, it was practically trampled in a ditch.

After finally making it home step by step, everyone's clothes were soaked through. There was no other way but for the whole family to go back to the Jade Space to take a bath.

"You two, you can't just throw your shoes, socks, and clothes into the washing machine. You have to rinse them twice in water first to wash away the dirt before putting them in, otherwise you'll break the washing machine." Liu Fangmei was genuinely worried that they would throw their clothes into the washing machine right after showering.

These days, nobody knows how to repair washing machines. Don't break them, or you won't be able to use them anymore.

"Okay, Mother." The two boys noticed that they were dripping wet and had made a mess of the floor as soon as they came in.

"Alright, you two go back to your rooms first. I'll mop the floor." Looking at the puddle of muddy water dripping on the wooden floor, Liu Fangmei sighed helplessly, put the little girl back in the master bedroom, and prepared to find a mop to clean the floor so that the water wouldn't damage the wooden floor.