"Mom, why are we hiding? It's not like we're in the wrong." Gao Liang grabbed his mother's hand, preventing her from going any further.

"Gao Liang, why don't you go to Pinghe Village too?" Hu Lingling said to Gao Liang, looking at Pinghe Village in the distance.

Gao Liang didn't understand. "Mom, what are you saying?"

Hu Lingling: "Last time I went to your sister's place, I heard that several families in their village were looking for sons-in-law to live with them. I'd like you to give it a try."

Gao Liang touched his mother's forehead. "She doesn't have a fever. What nonsense are you talking about?"

Hu Lingling: "You've seen our family's current situation. As long as your aunt is in Gaojia Village, our family will never have peace. Even if there are good girls, they won't be able to marry into our family. Since that's the case, you can only marry out like your sister."

Gao Liang refused to accept this arrangement, saying, "I'm not going because I look down on live-in sons-in-law, but because if I leave, what will you do alone?"

Gao Liang immediately thought of another solution, "I'll go find my cousin later. Even if he arranges for us to move to the back mountain, that's fine. I'll take you with me to move, and we won't get involved with them."

Hu Lingling shook her head. "I'm not leaving. If I don't keep an eye on them, those two siblings will cause trouble for you sooner or later."

During this period, she became completely heartless. The cold-bloodedness in Gao Zian's bones became more and more apparent. Every time there was danger, he only cared about himself and never considered his mother and son.

Gao Shuzhen had even gone to the Liu family to cause trouble some time ago as their aunt, but fortunately, I got wind of it and managed to kick her out.

Gao Liang said, "Then I definitely can't leave. If my aunt and the others keep attacking like this, you'll be at a disadvantage if you fight them alone."

Hu Lingling looked at her son with relief, "Only if you leave and take as much of what we have with you as possible, without those worldly possessions, can the two of them cause any trouble."

Gao Liang was so angry at his mother's idea that he laughed. "If I take everything with me, how will you live?"

“Fool, our two families live so close now. Every time it’s mealtime, your aunt shamelessly comes over. Over time, she’s already found out from your father what our family’s assets are now. Even if we guard against her day and night, we might not be able to stop her. We might as well just cut off her hopes.”

Hu Lingling dared to run away with her son now because she had locked everything in the cellar, and they wouldn't dare to openly steal anything for the time being.

But people always have moments of drowsiness, and you never know when it will erupt.

Gao Liang never expected that during this period of working hard from early morning to late at night for his family's future, he would actually have a useless teammate who dragged him down.

Gao Liang said, "Let's go find my cousin and his family now. Anyway, we don't have any land to farm here, so we might as well stay with them for a while."

Hu Lingling shook her head. "It's no use. Their village has a unified policy: they won't let outsiders stay. Let's not make things difficult for your cousin and his family."

Hu Lingling never had this idea from the beginning. Although she was related to the Yun family in two ways, there should be a distance between relatives. She was not struggling to make ends meet, so she did not need to go to the Yun family for help.

Seeing that all his ideas had been rejected, Gao Liang grabbed his mother's hand and headed towards Pinghe Village.

"What are we going there for?" Hu Lingling asked when she couldn't break free from her son's grasp.

"Two heads are better than one. Let's go and get an idea. I refuse to believe that with so many of us, we can't come up with a perfect solution." Gao Liang continued walking forward without looking back.

Si Cheng and Yun Qi looked at the completely stunned Yun family parents, and then at Gao Liang and his mother, and felt that they were worrying unnecessarily.

Yunqi reminded them, "Haven't you noticed that the sky has been gradually getting brighter lately? Maybe the weather will return to normal soon."

Seeing that everyone still didn't understand, Yunqi pointed to the sky outside, "Although it only changes a little bit every day, isn't the sky much brighter now compared to last month?"

Yunqi had already explained it so clearly, and only then did everyone carefully observe the changes outside.

Yun Zhiming said, "You know what, it has become much brighter. Before, the texture on the stone bench in the courtyard was just a gray mess, but now you can actually see the marks of being hammered on it."

Those stone benches were painstakingly hammered out by Si Cheng with a stone awl, and then vigorously rubbed against them, making them appear very smooth from a distance.

The fact that I can see the hammer marks from such a distance means that the visibility has improved a lot.

When the others heard him say that, they tried to recall the forms in which they had seen everything before, and compared them with the current state, there was indeed a big difference.

"Is the weather finally going to return to normal? It's been years since we've seen the sun. I wish we could see it again." Gao Liang forgot the purpose of his visit and started looking around.

Although Yunqi and the others knew that the world would gradually return to its previous cycle, they couldn't say it out loud at this moment. "We can't rule out that possibility. The sky is slowly getting brighter, which means that the situation is gradually improving."

Highlighted: "What if it's another disaster?"

No sooner had he finished speaking than his uncle, who was standing next to him, smacked him on the forehead, saying, "Can't you hope for something better?"

Gao Liang touched his forehead. "This is just my guess, and we really don't know what will happen next."

Yun Zhiming said, "Since it's just a guess, you should guess the best. Why are you hoping for a worse life instead?"

"I was just saying, things will definitely get better and better." Seeing his mother and aunt glaring at him, Gao Liang, who was about to say something discouraging, immediately changed his mind.

As the clouds rose, he thought, "The sky is getting brighter and brighter. If the natural weather changes also follow suit, then this drought will be resolved."

Yun Zhiming said, "If that's really the case, then that would be wonderful. Since the earthquake, we haven't seen the sun for many years. If this continues, I'm afraid the seeds will lose their vitality due to the lack of sunlight."

Si Cheng also knew that the harvest had been getting lower and lower in the past two years, which was probably related to the lack of sunshine. But there was nothing that could be done to change it. He could only hope that these days would pass quickly, and then the purified air would give back to everyone a pure natural oxygen bar!

"We don't know when the weather will get better, but we need to come up with a solution as soon as possible, otherwise who knows what kind of trouble they'll be going to cause in the coming days?" Gao Liang still remembered the purpose of his visit, and seeing that everyone was changing the subject, he reminded them.