Xia Xiao was stubborn, looking at the tall and thin man standing beside him, as if asking him to prove himself. The man was frightened by Xia Xiao's momentum and nodded quickly, which made Ah Zhu feel a little ashamed, but he snorted and said he didn't believe it.

"A man's mouth is a lie!"

Xia Xiao chased after him and wanted to fight back, which made Azhu quickly hide behind the door curtain. However, such a cheerful atmosphere did not make the man happy.

After entering the room, Xia Xiao probably knew why the man had such a bitter face. In addition to a woman of the same age as him, there were seven children in the room. The children were big and small. The oldest was about the same height as Xia Xiao, and the youngest still needed breastfeeding. With so many mouths to feed, it was really hard for the man to take care of them.

Seeing Xia Xiao coming in, the woman squatting by the stove looked even gloomier. She dropped the iron spoon in her hand and turned her face away. The children were frightened and sat on the ground, not daring to move. Ah Zhu was still a child. What happened to her sister who was so gentle just now? She was not stupid, and she quickly understood that one pot of porridge could not feed so many people.

"Excuse me, where are our backpacks? There should be some food in them."

After Xia Xiao said that, the man went to pick it up. He was quite honest and didn't get angry at the woman's behavior. He didn't open Xia Xiao and Ah Zhu's backpacks. He didn't dare to rummage through the backpacks he had never seen before. In fact, it was just a zipper or a few buttons. But that kind of behavior symbolized being a thief.

Xia Xiao and Ah Zhu endured such a violent whirlpool in the sea, but the backpack was not wet. It was really ironic, as if Que Dan was deliberately torturing them. There were indeed some biscuits in it, but they were a little damp, but the woman's eyes lit up, obviously wanting to eat. Xia Xiao gave them all to them. Compared with these chaff, a life is too light.

We were all poor people, so as long as we didn't die from the food, there was no point in complaining. The children and women ate heartily, but the man was also hungry, yet full of melancholy. He sat in a corner, holding his bowl and taking a few sips of porridge, without making a sound.

"Brother, I still don't know your name?"

"Wudi."

"Brother Wu, why don't you eat?"

Wu Di was about to speak, but the woman interrupted fiercely:

"Leave him alone, he's a busybody and only deserves to eat the leftovers!"

Compared to Wu Di's humility, the woman seemed like a shrew, with a sharp tongue and hurtful tone. Xia Xiao and A Zhu, two outsiders, were annoyed when they heard it, but Wu Di said nothing. He was used to having his self-esteem trampled on.

Some men are weak because they have no strength, some show weakness because of love, Wu Di is neither, because he did something wrong. But he didn't say anything, only the woman ate cakes and drank porridge, with a sarcastic mouth, and glanced at him from time to time, all with contempt and disgust.

"Our Wu Di is a good man. Look at these seven children, none of them are his. He takes care of them when no one is around, and he is the first to rush into anything. I don't know when he died. But it's better that he died. Such a man is a good man outside, but a bastard at home. When will he consider his family?"

"Humph! You just act like a big shot outside. You share your food with others when you don't have it. You even hide your backpacks when you get back. You're afraid I'll search for them. You'd be blind to marry someone who doesn't trust me so much."

Ah Zhu had something to say, and he was very angry. Isn’t this kind of person a good person?

Before she could speak, Xia Xiao had already grasped her wrist and signaled her to shut up when they looked at each other. Ah Zhu looked at him, aggrieved, and wanted to ask why he didn't let her speak. No matter what, Brother Wu Di had saved her, so she should speak for him.

Xia Xiao understood what Ah Zhu meant and shook his head again. Every family has its own problems, so it's better not to get involved in such matters. Ah Zhu was very obedient, but Xia Xiao didn't expect that there were such men and women in every country.

This meal was destined to be unpleasant and ended in silence, but Xia Xiao and Azhu were accustomed to earthquakes and had experienced oppression as heavy as a mountain, so they remained calm.

When facing rude people, the best way is not to argue, but to ignore them, just like the woman at this moment, she was very excited at first, it didn't matter where the two people in front of her came from, anyway, no one would pay attention to this broken place, the messengers on the altar would only offer sacrifices to the gods, not the people, as long as they were from Yun Country, they could complain. But Xia Xiao and Azhu's gradual indifference made the woman shut up, their momentum was like an iceberg and snow cliff that Yun Country had never seen before.

Wu Di drank up the last bit of leftover porridge, stood up and said:

"I'll go check out the traps outside of town."

"Go ahead. You go every day anyway. I'm not stopping you. But you, when will you learn from your neighbor Zhang San and Li Si? They bring home more food than you do."

This is what a resentful woman would say. The man glanced at Xia Xiao and Ah Zhu, and his remaining self-esteem made his tone cold. He rarely retorted:

"Even if I'm incompetent, I won't let you starve to death."

After the man finished speaking, he lifted the door curtain and left, leaving the woman behind him shouting at him to get out and never come back.

Seeing this momentum, Xia Xiao and the others looked at each other and couldn't help but be curious. Although there were not many records about the Cloud Country, it was said that above the clouds was the place where the elves who didn't care about the worldly things lived. Now it seemed that these people were no different from the ordinary people in the secular world, and they even complained more than them.

From the woman's constant cursing, Xia Xiao and Azhu heard something. The barrier where Yun Country was located was managed by the gods. They controlled everything, but they never came here because this was the most remote place in the entire Yun Country. But because of the barrier, Xia Xiao should run into them soon. Before that, Xia Xiao asked the woman:

"What ferocious beasts are there outside the town that you need to set up traps to deal with?"

"Um...you are not from Yun Country?"

“I don’t know much about things here.”

Xia Xiao fooled the woman casually, and she immediately believed him. After all, they were not from Yun Country, and they could not enter the barrier. Moreover, they knew very well how remote this place was.

So far, there has been no precedent of outsiders breaking in, so the woman thinks that these two guys should be the heirs of a big family, and they fled in a hurry because they didn't want to become God's messengers. But what's wrong with being God's messengers? It's just that you will lose love and be lonely for the rest of your life, but you will have wealth and power, isn't that wonderful?

If she had the talent, the woman would definitely climb up to the altar of the God's Messenger, but she was thinking too much. She could only stay here and starve for the rest of her life. Now facing Xia Xiao's question, she answered everything in detail:

"When we ascended to heaven, there were some minor problems with the barrier, and we were excluded, but somehow we were included again. But because of the previous mistakes, we were separated from the people in other regions by a huge forest. There are countless wild beasts in that forest. The strong men and practitioners who were sent out at the beginning all died. Only a hundred of us are left here to live in fear, and we must be prepared to resist the wild beasts or be eaten by them at any time. The gods have not taken care of us over the years. Maybe they will come because of you this time, but they still won't help us."

"Why?"

"Because of the rules."

"What rules?"