Song Liyun has enjoyed and received these benefits, and she should also give back.

Song Liyun was startled when she bent down and picked up Song Zhang'an from beside the woodpile.

My ten-year-old brother is frighteningly light; holding him feels like holding a toy. He's also only one meter tall, like a five or six-year-old.

Her small, sallow face was pale and sickly, her eyes were unfocused, and her body was limp. If it weren't for the soft sobs she could hear, Song Liyun would have thought she was one of the starving corpses she had seen at the beginning of the apocalypse.

Seeing that his younger brother was frightened by Song Liyun, Song Zhangping quickly took Song Zhang'an from her and leaned him on his shoulder, soothing him in a low voice as if he were comforting a baby.

Neighbor Aunt Zhang came over to help: "Xiao An is too timid. Zhenping can't spoil him."

Several more people gathered around, chattering amongst themselves, all saying how immature Xiao An was, and some even sighed: "This child is doomed!"

Song Zhangping's eyes were slightly red, and he clenched his teeth without uttering a sound, only holding Song Zhang'an tightly in his arms.

Song Liyun felt a growing sense of doubt and her mood became increasingly heavy.

This child is not normal!

Over there, Song Zhangping hugged his younger brother tightly, then looked up and glanced elsewhere.

In the courtyard, Song Li was sternly reprimanding Song Defu, one after another, with several village elders.

Normally, when the village head and a few others manage the villagers, they have to sit inside the house to dismiss any idlers before doing anything else, to save face for the villagers.

He was furious today, and he unleashed all the things he had said over the past few decades, cursing Song Lao Er until his face turned red and white.

Seeing that his second uncle was too busy to pay attention to this, Song Zhangping quickly reached out and pulled Song Liyun aside, whispering, "Yun'er, hurry up and leave, don't come back!"

This is the sentence that Song Zhangping says most often when the brother and sister meet, and he said it again at this moment.