Transmigrated into a seven-year-old child, my fate is in my own hands, not in the heavens.

"Waaaaah~" Li Chunhua covered her face and cried bitterly: "Master, I have been obedient and dutiful all these years of marriage to you, and I have not dared to make the slightest mistake. I even gave birth to a son for you. You just want to abandon me like this. How cruel you are!"

He Qing spat in her face and sneered, "Pah!! Serves you right! You abandoned my brother like this back then, and even when he begged you, you didn't turn back!"

"You are the one who brought this upon yourself. Don't blame others; you can only blame yourself."

Seeing that Qiao Tai was determined not to leave her, and that He Qing was kicking her while she was down, Li Chunhua blamed everything on Zhao Lian.

"It's all your fault, you jinx!" Li Chunhua pulled out a dagger and charged at Zhao Lian with gritted teeth.

"Ah~"

This all happened so fast, and the lighting wasn't very bright, that it wasn't until Li Chunhua was almost in front of Zhao Lian, and the dagger she was brandishing gleamed with a cold light, that everyone realized what was happening.

"Be careful, Zhao Lian!"

But it was too late; Li Chunhua had already raised the knife and was about to stab Zhao Lian.

In that split second, Zhao Lian dodged the dagger Li Chunhua was thrusting at her chest, then quickly snatched the dagger and held it to Li Chunhua's neck.

This happened so fast that everyone was stunned.

They thought it was Zhao Lian who was injured, but unexpectedly, the knife was held to Li Chunhua's neck.

Zhao Lian pressed the dagger in her hand down, her face cold: "Li Chunhua, I think you're tired of living."

Li Chunhua screamed in terror, "Ah!!! What do you want to do? Don't do anything rash!"

In a panic, Li Chunhua looked at Qiao Tai: "Master, Master, save me."

Qiao Tai turned his face away: "What a stupid woman, utterly foolish!" At this moment, he wanted to slap himself hard. How could he have ever fallen for such a stupid woman?

Li Chunhua was stunned when Qiao Tai didn't care about her at all. She started crying, "Master, do you really not want me anymore? I might as well die."

Zhao Lian raised an eyebrow: "Want to die? That's easy! Close your eyes, just slit your throat, and I'll send you on your way!" With that, Zhao Lian tightened her grip on the dagger.

The dagger was very sharp. Instantly, Li Chunhua felt a pain in her neck and was terrified: "Ah~ Let me go!"

"Didn't you want to die? I'm helping you."

"Waaaaah~" Li Chunhua burst into tears, "Let me go! I don't want to die!"

"Wow wow wow~"

Hearing Li Chunhua's cries, Qiao Zhen, still in his swaddling clothes, was terrified and burst into tears.

"Zhen'er, be good, Zhen'er, be good~" Ling Yun carried her son and walked back and forth.

Seeing her son crying louder and louder, Ling Yun quickly went to a corner to avoid the crowd, lifted her clothes and breastfed him.

Smelling the familiar milky aroma, Qiao Zhen, hungry, sucked on the pacifier and immediately stopped crying.

But after sucking for a while, probably because there was no milk, the baby let go of the nipple and started crying loudly again.

Looking over here, Yan Guihua, fearing that Zhao Lian might cause a death, quickly frowned and said, "Zhao Lian, stop this! This is a matter of life and death! Put the knife away!"

"Hmph! Li Chunhua, I'll spare you today only because my grandmother pleaded for you." With that, Zhao Lian released the knife from Li Chunhua's neck.

Only when Zhao Lian removed the dagger from her neck did Li Chunhua feel like she had been given a second chance at life.

After this commotion, Qiao Dun was unwilling to stay with Li Chunhua, and Zhao Fu returned to He Mu's side. Qiao Tai even threatened to divorce her.

Li Chunhua could only sit in another corner and wipe away her tears alone. She was filled with regret. It was all her fault. Why couldn't she have held back?

Although they had roofs to shelter them, no one could sleep that night, each preoccupied with their own thoughts.

The next morning, just as dawn was breaking, Zhaolian woke everyone up.

The Liu brothers returned the earthenware jars, and the rest of the family went up the mountain to dig for kidney ferns.

Based on her memory, Zhao Lian quickly found the patch of Nephrolepis cordifolia.

"Zhao Lian, is the food you gave us last night something you dug out from here?" Sun Shangxiang couldn't believe that there was something edible hidden underneath this thing.

“Yes, that’s right!” Zhao Lian said with certainty.

"Mother, isn't there a lot of this on the mountain behind our house? I didn't expect it to be edible!" Zheng Xiuzhen recognized it; this kind of grass grew on the mountain behind their house.

This grass is quite coarse and tough; who would have thought that there would be something edible underneath?

"It really is this thing!" Yan Guihua nodded. She was so old that she didn't know that such an egg could grow under this thing. Not only was it edible, but it was also sweet and delicious.

This kind of grass grows a lot on the hill behind the house. Everyone thought that this grass was hard and inedible, so no one knew that there was something edible underneath.

Without delay, everyone started digging. Those with knives used them, and those without used sticks. Even the children joined in the digging.

"It really is true, there really are these eggs hidden down there." Jiang Si proudly waved the things she had dug up in her hand, each one about the size of a quail egg.

Seeing that Jiang Si had unearthed something, everyone became excited and began digging more diligently. The more they dug, the more energetic they became, as there were various sizes of this object hidden underneath.

As dawn broke, Liu Jinzhu and his brothers placed the earthenware jars and joined the excavation.

Li Chunhua and He Mu followed along, and seeing everyone digging for this thing, they naturally didn't want to be left behind.

Everyone put what they had dug up into their pockets. After digging for about half an hour, the area was completely cleared out. They searched the surrounding area again and found more items.

The sun grew brighter and brighter. After circling around, they found that the digging was almost complete, and then everyone went down the mountain.

This time, everyone had a great harvest. Zhao Lian dug up a small cloth bag, which weighed a full five or six pounds.

After digging up the fern, everyone sat and rested on the mountain for a while, ate some kidney fern, went back to get their supplies, and continued on their way.

After traveling for several more days, the situation was getting worse and worse, and everyone was running out of food.

Walking along the road, one could see dead bodies everywhere, and everyone was filled with fear. They were so focused on getting on their way that they were covered in dust, exhausted, and spoke less and less.

By noon, the sun was getting stronger and stronger, making everyone's heads buzz. When they reached a fork in the road, another large group of refugees arrived. Afraid of being separated, everyone stayed close together.

Da da da da da~

Suddenly, the sound of rapid hoofbeats came from behind, and dozens of soldiers riding tall horses arrived, each wielding a sword.

Upon seeing the soldiers, the crowd panicked, unsure of what was happening and fearing arrest. Chaos erupted as many ran forward, some falling and being trampled in the chaos.

Fearing they would be separated by the crowd, Zhao Lian quickly grabbed Zhao Di tightly with one hand, but unfortunately, wave after wave of people surged in, and they were still separated.